You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 11 Part 1

Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com.

You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 11 Part 1

Ruan Yu seemed eager to learn from Xu Huaisong.

Xu Huaisong looked at her, with locked fingers and straight back, and began to list some tips: “The first thing you need to do to get a valid telephone recording is to let the person identify herself. You have to seize the first moment when she picks up the phone.”

Ruan Yu nodded and asked: “Then what?”

“The recording is to be handed over to the court and can not be edited. But there’s only limited time during a trial, therefore you need to be mindful of the length of the conversation. Try to go directly to the main subject without arousing the person’s suspicions.”

In other words, since they highly suspected that Cen Sisi had, with malicious intent, hired paid spammers and paid money to boost posts so that they began trending, Ruan Yu had to entice her to confess in doing so.

Ruan Yu frowned: “Will there be anyone who’s dumb enough to admit it?”

“Under normal conditions, no. So that’s the difficult part.” Xu Huaisong said and took a glance at Ruan Yu’s empty hands.

Ruan Yu instantly understood the gesture. She quickly grabbed the memo pad and pen on the table, then looked at him attentively: “Please continue, Mr. Xu. Please continue.”

*

Half an hour later, the memo pad was filled with densely packed characters. Noticing that Xu Huaisong had finished speaking, Ruan Yu asked: “Should I call her now?”

Xu Huaisong shook his head: “12 noon Beijing time.”

At that time, most people would’ve just finished their lunch and there would be less blood going to the brain. The other person would have a reduced ability to think and would therefore be less likely to be suspicious.

“But, won't my own IQ be lower at that time?”

Xu Huaisong almost choked. He wondered why he didn’t find out before that she could be a little goofy sometimes……

He looked up: “Can’t you eat your lunch a little earlier?”

“......” Why didn’t she think of that?

Ruan Yu covered her forehead, a little embarrassed, then she remembered something and suddenly raised up her head.

She found Xu Huaisong fixing his eyes on the screen.

Ruan Yu was taken aback and about to ask him what was wrong. Then she noticed that his right hand seemed to be scrolling on the mouse. It looked like he was checking on some file.

He wasn’t watching her.

Ruan Yu was secretly abashed. She cleared her throat and called him: “Mr. Xu.”

Xu Huaisong nodded. It seemed that he didn’t bother to speak but gestured to her to speak her mind.

“Later on, when I’m doing the phone recording, I don’t know whether there’ll be some unexpected situation which I can’t handle. So……” She pointed at the camera: “Can you keep the video chat on?’

In Ruan Yu’s mind, the request was out of the trust of a professional like a patient to the doctor. But her dependence on him made Xu Huaisong feel differently.

He replied with an en, then he turned his head to sip some coffee, trying to ease that different feeling at the bottom of his heart.

Ruan Yu felt relieved and started to practice the conversation she was going to have quietly in her mind. Almost an hour later, she heard Xu Huaisong knocking on the table.

“It’s 10:30.” He said.

“Then I’ll go cook something for myself.” She put down the memo pad and pointed at the screen: “Should I end the video chat?”

“No need. I’m going to eat too.”

Ruan Yu was surprised.

It was already 7:30 at night over in San Francisco and he hadn’t had dinner yet? And he was drinking coffee with an empty stomach?

While Ruan Yu was lost in thought, Xu Huaisong had already gotten up and left. Ruan Yu didn’t feel right to shut down the video chat on her own, so she also turned to go into her kitchen. She opened the refrigerator to see what she could make for herself.

She didn’t really have an appetite, probably because she was nervous. She took out a cup of yogurt and added some fruity cereal to it. Then she brought the yogurt with her back to the computer.

She wanted to get more practice in since Xu Huaisong wouldn’t be there anyway.

As she was thinking, her eyes locked with a pair of eyes on the screen.

“......”

“......”

Xu Huaisong was eating pasta right in front of the computer.

Ruan Yu’s eyeballs slowly rolled in a circle.

Didn’t he say he was going to have dinner? Why did he bring the dinner over to the computer? Was he trying to snoop around while she wasn’t there?

As Ruan Yu was standing still in front of the computer, Xu Huaisong seemed rather at ease. After a short pause, he resumed eating gracefully while checking the files next to his hand.

So, he was eating while working at the same time.

Realizing that she was flattering herself again, Ruan Yu awkwardly sat down. She opened her memo pad while slowly stirring the yogurt with her other hand. 

Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com.