You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 175 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 175 Part 1

The LPL region had always been considered second place, right behind the LCK. Because of that, not only CK but Tong Yao and her teammates all put in more effort studying Koream teams than European and North American teams…… They now found that they didn’t know how to handle a team like G4.

They suddenly realized that though LCK teams were the leaders in discipline, technique, and executing standard tactics; in terms of movement and the diversity of tactics…… they had to learn from LCS regions.

The play style of the LCS players corresponded to their ethnic traits, spontaneous and optimistic. For them, the entertaining aspect of even professional competitions was as important as winning the game. Therefore, they would use some high risk, high reward tactics from time to time which shocked the audience…… During this competition, teams from these two LCS regions often used unorthodox champions which no one had used before in any official competition. For those new champions in the current patch of game, it seemed to always be the LCS regions which developed new tactics for those new champions and start using them in real games-- --

Though they might not be very skilled in playing those champions, their surprise moves might very well catch other teams by surprise and defeat teams better than them.

…………………………….At present time, CK could be the one to face defeat.

G4’s mid, Bigboom, was a veteran player who had played from S2 all the way to S6. His career stretched over almost the entire span of the history of League of Legends. His deep champion pool and understanding of the lanes and Summoner's Rift were also unsurpassed-- --With such a mature player as the core of the team, G4 showed off the spirit of the LCS regions for the fans on this day.

-- --Four different tactics were used in four different rounds.

The choice of mid champion in every round could change G4’s overall game plan. In all four rounds, except the second one, CK almost had no strategy to counter G4’s ever changing tactics! CK only won the second round because they could tell that G4 was playing with a double carry lineup for that round and Jian Yang stayed put at mid pinning the enemy mid to the lane and helped the team win through a rough round.

During the third round, Bigboom took Lulu to secure the safety of his own mid lane and also used Lulu’s strengths to support the top lane on several occasions, helping his team gain an advantage at top…… Their bot took the recently reworked Ziggs, nicknamed “turret destroying devil” as his AD champion, to create an unusual lineup-- --25 minutes into the game, G4, with Ziggs as its core, split into two groups, with 4 players in one and 1 player by themself. CK lost turrets in no time and quickly lost the economic advantage they had created in the early game.

Jian Yang originally had the advantage, with three kills, but at this point he was pinned down and couldn’t initiate a fight even though he was still at a slight advantage left…… CK kept losing ground in the jungle and even let G4’s jungler, Arun, have total control of it.

By this point, G4 had total control of the tempo of the game. At last, at the 45th minute, CK lost its nexus after a hard battle…… Amidst the wild cheering of the audience, Tong Yao could clearly see the dazed expressions on the faces of the five CK players who had just taken off their headphones.

In the fourth round, CK’s overall condition…… Or to put in another way, the morale of the players had been crushed-- --Before this match, CK was considered to be one of the stronger LPL teams that could take down G4, 3:0. Now facing mounting pressure, CK seemed to not know how to relieve the pressure.

Tong Yao took out her cell phone to check Tieba. The fans all thought CK had the best of luck in the quarter-finals to go against an European team. Now faced with the fact that CK was about to lose this match, the fans were all moaning and groaning-- --

[Wait for a 3:1 loss…… I thought CK would defeat G4 3:1. Never thought CK would be the one to be defeated 3:1.]

[This time LPL will have three teams stopped at quarter-finals again. Very well, really strong.]

[When did European teams become this strong? ? ? Unconventional strategies one after another! Even using Ziggs!]

[What a joke. LPL, the best second region, was crushed by European nooby…… Oh, no, it’s not a European nooby, a European daddy?]

[Hahahahaha, just buy them. LPL is the richest, go ahead and buy foreign helpers. How about we buy Bigboom over next year! The only thing is we don’t know whether he’ll be willing to come here like the Koreans to earn RMB instead of US dollars.]

[LPL is always like this; copying Korean’s macro, copying Europe’s tactics, but forgetting that we’re a fighty region. At last, we end up with teams with mishmashed playstyles-- --No wonder we stop at the quarter-finals every year.]

[I see Butterfly and Old Wang look quite confused. This fourth round is probably a goner as well.]

[......I thought we had put the ‘nooby’ hat on those European teams already. Didn’t expect them to put it back on us at the quarter-finals!]

Tong Yao: “......”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 174 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 174 Part 2

Tong Yao and her teammates sat at the designated area in the arena to watch the match between CK and G4. There were loud cheers for G4 from foreigners but cheers for CK in Chinese were also audible……

Chinese are present anywhere one goes.

And at critical moments, they could also show solidarity-- --

When it was time to show their presence and the volume of their cheering, they wouldn’t shy away from it.

The two commentators for the match seemed a little surprised to hear people cheering in Chinese. After a few moments of silence, one of the commentators couldn’t stop himself from giggling. Commentator T: [Uh oh, hrm, don’t keep thinking you’re in the home court and then find out that the Chinese in the audience are not to be outdone.]

Commentator G: [I hope next time we can be even louder when we cheer. They can’t distinguish passports when they're selling tickets. We can’t be outdone on our own turf.]

Someone in the audience shouted out as if in protest to what the commentators had said: “Go CK. Long live LPL.” The audience burst into laughter and the players of this match stepped onto the stage-- --

Commentator T: [You know what’s the most annoying thing here? The most annoying thing is that they can understand what we say here but we can’t understand a single word they’re saying.]

Commentator G: [Hahahahaha!]

While the commentators were chatting, the first match began with the ban & pick phase. Tong Yao and her teammates could also feel the same nervousness as the players on stage…… G4 wasn’t a favored team, so there shouldn’t be any problem for CK to defeat them since CK had defeated OP before?

Tong Yao thought to herself.

Then the game officially started and she found out that it didn’t go as she had anticipated-- --

The way the European and North American regions played the game was different from the China and Korea regions. They would usually come up with strange line up in comparison to the LPL and LCK teams. Champions like Amumu, Ziggs, Anivia, Aurelion Sol, Katarina, and Yasuo seldom appeared in official competitions in the LPL and LCK regions. But European and North American teams would take them without hesitation-- --

In addition, they didn’t have the same kind of stress to win.

G4 was from the second seeded pool. Before the competition, the media didn’t think the team was favored to win. Therefore losing the match, though regretful, wasn’t a big concern of the players.

In the first round of the match, G4 took Varus and Jayce, two champions that had a strong poking ability and could quickly push lanes. Though this line up didn’t have any advantage in lane during the early game, it was fast at taking turrets and agile in the jungle. They would stay away from fights and keep stealing resources to fuel their own development……

In the mid game, CK started to get bogged down and the economic lead they had been enjoying began to get narrower-- --

Then CK carelessly lost two outer turrets and two drakes.

During the team fight at the 25th minute, they lost three players in exchange for only one enemy.

In the midst of commentators’ exalted shouting and the passionate cheering from the audience, G4 advanced smoothly. At the 37th minute, they pushed into CK’s base. Varus used three arrows to shoot down CK’s ad. CK had no choice but to retreat. On their way back, their mid, Xiao Hua, also died. Without both of their carries, they could only watch in despair as their nexus exploded.

When the first round was over, G4’s players had beaming smiles on their faces. In contrast, CK’s players were drinking water from their water cups with stone faces…… Tong Yao got hold of Lu Sicheng’s hand. She had suddenly had an ominous premonition.

Lu Sicheng probably sensed the temperature of her palm and he turned his hand over to cover her hand and lightly patted it: “Don’t panic, it’s alright.”

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

You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 15 Part 1

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 15 Part 1

Ruan Yu squatted at the corner of the balcony like a mushroom, holding her cell phone tightly trying her best to deal with the sudden wave of anxiety.

Xu Huaisong said on the other side: “Usually, under the circumstances, it shouldn’t be criminals like you’ve imagined. Even if they were, they wouldn’t break in like this. Now, you need to do two things. First, send me your location and the phone number of the management for your apartment or the security guard. Second, take the cell phone with you to go check through the peephole in the door.”

His instructions came quickly and clearly. Ruan Yu did what he said in a fluster. After sending out the information, she stood up and heard the doorbell ring again. This time it rang twice.

Xu Huaisong also heard it. He said: “Don’t make a sound. If you see any suspicious people outside the door but they aren’t doing anything yet, don’t lock the door from inside. Back away about seven meters from the door. Turn on the speaker, call out my name loudly, say that you’re washing clothes and for me to go open the door. Understand?”

He had purposely given the instructions in short sentences so Ruan Yu could follow him even though she couldn’t think straight at the moment: “If, after calling for me, they still haven’t left. Lock the door from inside and call the police immediately.”

Ruan Yu nodded, forgetting that Xu Huaisong couldn’t see her. She arched her back and walked lightly across the living room to the door. She cautiously looked through the peephole, holding the gasp at the bottom of her throat.

There was a tall and lean man standing outside the door, wearing a black mask, peaked cap, and black clothes. He was looking down dialing numbers on his cell phone, looking like he was calling his accomplice to come up.

Ruan Yu’s heart was pounding fast. Just as she was about to back away from the door, the cell phone in her hand suddenly vibrated.

It was coming from an unfamiliar number.

Her voice call with Xu Huaisong was interrupted and the noise from the vibration probably could be heard from outside the door.

She was exposed.

Ruan Yu suddenly felt like her brain didn’t have enough oxygen. The next moment she heard a male voice coming from the other side of the door: “Xuejie, are you at home?”

“......”

The voice was?

Li Shican?

Ruan Yu startled. Then she heard laughter from the man, though he kept it low, his voice was rather special and penetrated through the door rather clearly: “Open the door for me, I’m afraid of getting photographed.”

Ruan Yu was certain about who he was by now. She opened the door and was surprised: “Why are you here?”

Li Shican blinked his eyes a couple of times and said rather innocently: “Haven’t we agreed to meet at the usual place the day before yesterday? I tried to contact you downstairs but your phone was disconnected. I just put in some money for you before I could call you.”

Hrm, if there was any “usual” place between the two, then downstairs of the apartment building could truly count as one.

During the last semester of Ruan Yu’s senior year, she seldom lived on campus. Li Shican couldn’t find her at school and would come to the apartment from time to time. He would usually buy a cup of Ruan Yu’s favorite milk tea to put in the milk box downstairs. Then he would send her a message saying “get the milk tea at the usual place” despite whether Ruan Yu would go get it or not.

Ruan Yu was still quite confused about his visit: “Didn’t you make the call to me just because you were streaming?”

“You know that I stream?”

A surprised expression flashed by his eyes. Ruan Yu didn’t know how to reply.

At the time, she was just going along with him to play his game. Then she heard that he had clearly stated that he wouldn’t keep the appointment. Therefore, Ruan Yu didn’t take the whole thing to heart.

Seeing that Ruan Yu was at a lost for words, Li Shican twitched the corner of his lips and murmured: “Make sense, otherwise why would you agree to meet with me.”

Ruan Yu couldn’t say anything and only smiled wryly.

Li Shican didn’t seem to be embarrassed at all: “Since I’m here, you won’t even ask me to come in?” Without waiting for an answer from Ruan Yu, he hurriedly added as if afraid that she would refuse him: “I’ve turned down an engagement in Hai City to come here, to talk to you about Cen Sisi.”

Despite the fact that they hadn’t had any contact for many years, the shock made Ruan Yu forget the unfamiliarity. Ruan Yu blurted out: “You two know each other? How do you know about this thing?” As she was talking, she stepped away to let him in.

Li Shican closed the door and took off the mask and cap while saying: “Do you have any iced water? Let me have some water first, Xuejie.”

Ruan Yu was a little uneasy with a man in her apartment, especially since this man was a big star: “Oh.” She put down her phone and went to get iced water for him. Li Shican glanced over the slippers on the floor near the doorway.

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

You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 174 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 174 Part 1

The quarter finals of the S series was a best of five, the first team to win three out of five rounds advances. It was going to be held four days after the group matches, on October 17 in the city of Chicago.

Among the eight teams in the quarter finals, three were from the LPL, three from the Korean region, Taiwan LMS region’s Team C and the only team from European region, LCS’s G4. Overall, the fans of the European and North American regions were quite disappointed at the result-- --

First off, the fans of the European region didn’t think their team, G4, would be able to defeat CK.

Then, the fans of the North American region simply gave up on their own region and picked their other favorite teams from other regions to support for the rest of the S competition…… Otherwise they would be left with no team to root for the next half of the month.

On the night of October 13, after the match, Tong Yao and her teammates carried their luggage, which their team staff had packed for them, to the airport-- --The organizer had already arranged a training location and hotel for the eight teams in Chicago. At the airport, they met players from CK and YQCB. After passing the security check, they could see TAT’s Ah Tai, with an expressionless face, standing not far from the security check area with his teammates. OP’s mid Jin Yuguang was next to him, laughing while saying something……

The two of them seemed to sense that they were being watched and looked up. They saw Lu Sicheng and both of them politely nodded as greetings-- --Ah Tai even slightly bowed. When Lu Sicheng was still TAT’s Chessman, he was Ah Tai’s senpai afterall.

After Tong Yao came through the security check, the first thing she saw was that her two biggest nemesis of this year’s S competition were cordially greeting each other with Lu Sicheng. She tugged on Lu Sicheng’s sleeve and asked: “Why are they here too?”

Lu Sicheng slightly turned his head over: “What nonsense are you talking about? Are they going to swim from San Francisco to Chicago?”

Tong Yao pretended to be calm: “Oh, I passed the security check and happened to see you fraternizing the enemy. I’m just using the question to sugarcoat my warning.”

Lu Sicheng could tell that Tong Yao was intimidated by the two mids. He curved up his lips as he teased her: “You can’t beat those two guys whether I’m fraternizing them or not. So don’t mind them too much…… Ay, why did you hit me?”

“I want to hit you to death.” The hand that had slapped his back began pinching him: “I’m going to play against Jin Yuguang at the quarter-finals and you’re still boosting their morale here. What if I really can’t fight against him……”

“If you really can’t fight against him, then I’ll carry you.” Lu Sicheng laughed while reaching over to hug her shoulder. As he was talking, he lazily raised his hand to wave to those two top Korean mids. “You’ve carried me, a senior, for so many matches already, it’s time for me to show you what the saying ‘an old steed in the stable still dreams of galloping 500 more kilometers’ means......”

Lu Sicheng hugged Tong Yao. She could smell his scent, a mixture of cologne and a faint smell of sweat…… She had to admit that his embrace was solid and warm and gave her a sense of security somehow.

Though the way he said such a solemn idiom sounded like a flirt…… Tong Yao figured that was probably the specialty for a rascal like him.

Tong Yao, while ridiculing him in her mind, reached over to hold his waist, trying to enjoy the last moment of peacefulness-- --Little Fatty, Lu Yue, Old K, Old Cat, and Ming god had gathered together to review videos of the other group matches in the past few days…… The vibe of the team was rather serious and anxious, unlike the time before they boarded the plane to fly to the US with Little Fatty playing mobile games on his cell phone.

For ZGDX, the quarter-finals were the real beginning of their trip to the world competition. They had to be on their toes when facing OP-- --

From the perspective of the players of both the China and Korea regions, the quarter final match between the two telecommunication teams from both countries was truly a preview of the finals. It would be a match between highly skilled players.

…...

Four days later, on October 17, the quarter-finals began. The first day of the competition, only one team from the LPL had a match. It was CK against G4-- --Though no one thought G4 had a good chance to win, they nonetheless enjoyed a sort of home court advantage…… Both European region and North American region were called LCS. Though they were competitors before, now as the only team in both LCS regions that made it to the quarter-finals, the audience was cheering for G4!

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

You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 14 Part 3

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You’re My Belated Happiness 

Chapter 14 Part 3

Ruan Yu clicked the screen lock and put the cell phone in her pocket. She took a look at the laundered clothes waiting to be hung dry. She carried the basket full of clothes to the balcony. The moment she picked up the fork pole, the cell phone in her pocket vibrated twice.

Vibrating twice didn’t seem like Xu Huaisong’s style? She took out her phone and sure enough they weren’t from him.

10086: [Disconnect reminder: Dear subscriber, how are you……]

10086: [Overdue reminder: Dear subscriber, how are you……]

Her phone was disconnected because her phone charge was overdue. She noticed that the wifi was still working and she could still receive WeChat messages. She ignored the overdue reminder for now and continued to hang her clothes to dry. After she finished, she heard her cell phone vibrate again.

This time it was from Xu Huaisong: [No time to type.]

What was the difference between “no time to type” and “no time”? 

The very next second, Ruan Yu received a request for a voice call.

“......”

Ruan Yu accepted the call. Before she could greet him, it sounded rather hectic on the other end. There were men and women talking, in English, as if they were in a heated debate about something.

She quickly said: “Mr. Xu, the thing I want to talk about isn’t that important. If you’re busy……”

The next moment, it all quieted down on the other side.

All the noise disappeared completely.

Ruan Yu looked at the screen in confusion, bad connection?

On the other side of the phone, seven or eight people in the conference room with baffled expressions and some with their mouths half open were looking at Xu Huaisong who was making a “stop” gesture.

Xu Huaisong didn’t make a sound but stood up to write on the white board behind him: urgent call.

Everyone closed their mouths.

“Go ahead.” Ruan Yu heard his relaxed voice.

Oh, so it was still connected.

With her hand holding onto the window sill, Ruan Yu weighed her words: “The thing is, Mr. Xu, the defendant had run into me in a shopping center once. I’m not sure whether it was a coincidence or on purpose. If it was on purpose, I’m worried that the extent of leaking of my personal information is far worse than I’ve imagined. Besides, after recording our conversation the other day, she even sent me a somewhat threatening message……”

Since she had imagined all sorts of frightening things that could happen, she had difficulty expressing herself and seemed to have missed the point of what she was trying to convey.

Yet Xu Huaisong understood quite well: “You’re worried that the defendant will be a threat to your personal safety?”

“En……”

Ruan Yu laughed wryly. The tone of his voice seemed rather indifferent. Ruan Yu thought the next thing he would do was question her-- --Do you have delusions or suffer from a persecution complex?

Without waiting for him to continue, Ruan Yu immediately said: “Of course, it should be that I’m thinking……”

She suddenly paused before she could say “too much.” Her eyes were fixed on a white van parked in front of her apartment building.

Most of the van was blocked by two big trees with lush foliage. She couldn’t see the windshield and the license plate. But she could faintly see the body of the van was covered with mud and the side window was tinted black.

The van looked very much like the car kidnappers used in TV dramas……

Ruan Yu stopped talking. Xu Huaisong asked: “What’s wrong?”

Ruan Yu was so frightened that she didn’t notice that the tone of Xu Huaisong’s voice sounded a little anxious.

Ruan Yu squatted down to hide and stammered to say: “There…… there’s a van parked downstairs. It wasn’t there when I started washing my clothes a while ago……”

“What kind of car?”

Ruan Yu’s brain went blank: “It…… it’s the kind suitable for kidnapping people!”

“Stay calm.” Xu Huaisong certainly was much more calm than her. As he was about to ask her to describe it more in detail, he heard the doorbell on the phone.

At the same time, Ruan Yu gasped and sounded like she was about to cry: “My doorbell rang, what should I do……”

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

You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 173 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 173 Part 3

After TANK’s mid died and missed two and a half waves of minions, the team started to fall apart, not even their top could do anything to save it. Their bot could only stay under the turret. Except for their top, TANK’s other two lanes obviously didn’t know how to continue playing the game……

In the 11th minute, Tong Yao once again killed the opposing mid.

At the same time, Lu Sicheng worked together with Little Fatty’s Braum at bot to kill the enemy support, Thresh-- --

ZGDX took down the first enemy turret at bot and the first Infernal Drake.

Killing the Infernal Drake decided the direction of how the match would play out. After taking her first blue buff, Tong Yao worked with Old K and began invading the enemy jungle. They walked freely around TANK’s jungle and challenged any enemy they met there-- --All of TANK’s players, except their top, were taking turns dying to Tong Yao……

At the 22nd minute, Tong Yao killed the enemy jungler. ZGDX fought Baron as a group and successfully killed their first Baron-- --With the Baron buff, they were able to take down three of the enemy's outer turrets. During their defense of the top part of their base, TANK gambled on a teamfight when their jungler respawned. The first second Ekko moved in, Old Cat’s Mega Gnar slapped him into the wall. Lu Sicheng’s Kog’Maw kept spitting out slime. When the enemy all had a foot in the grave, Tong Yao’s Ahri arrived to reap the kills!

From that second onward, captions constantly appear with an image of Ahri at the center of the screen-- --

Double kill!

Triple kill!

Quadra kill!

-- --Penta kill!

Ace!

In the end even the commentators jumped up from excitement. They shouted in celebration of the first penta-kill in this year’s S series competition. On the screen, one last caption appeared next to Ahri’s image: “Godlike”.

Commentator D: [This LPL! The region famous for picking a fight! Today we’ve seen the tempo we’re familiar with. In the past four years (the LPL region didn’t participate in S1), we’ve called this: LPL tempo! ! ! ]

Commentator F: [This isn’t the ending the North American region would like to see. As we can now see a resigned expression on Crazy Horse (top of Team TANK)......]

Commentator D: [Let’s congratulate the LPL! Congratulations to ZGDX! They won the match with the sudden team fight around the 27 minute mark and aced TANK. They will secure first place in B group!]

……

ZGDX played the last group match with TANK quite smoothly. When they destroyed TANK’s base, the audience was jumping up and down in excitement-- --

About an hour later, the optimism ended.

After all the groups finished the group matches, the eight teams that qualified drew lots to decide on their opponent in the quarter-finals-- --The results of the other LPL teams in the group matches were: CK had defeated OP twice and qualified for the quarter-finals as first in their group like ZGDX; YQCB lost to TAT and qualified for the quarter-finals as the second place in their group.

Before the drawing, fans were quite happy. LPL had two teams that were first in their respective groups! They were tied with the Korean region! 

After the drawing, fans couldn’t be happy anymore because the result of the drawing was-- --

CK would go against the second place team in D group, European region’s G4.

ZGDX would go against the second place team in C group, Korea’s OP.

YQCB would go against the first place team in D group, Korea’s RP.

After the drawing, the atmosphere on Tieba was miserable and gloomy-- --

[(Subject) Be optimistic. At least we have three teams qualifying for the quarter-finals, much  better than last year.]

[(Subject) Be reasonable. CK’s in such a good condition. It shouldn’t be too hard to defeat G4 to go to the semi-finals?]

[(Subject) ZGDX has used up all its luck in the group matches. Damn, how can YQCB get OP, ahhhhh!]

[(Subject) How will Smiling compare to Jin Yuguang? Her game with Ahri today makes me optimistic that they’ll probably have a four to six chance……]

[(Subject) Very nice, very exhilarating. It looks like even if CK was second in the group, they would’ve drawn TAT…… Hrm, have the finals started early? I’m looking forward to it.] 

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

You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 173 Part 2

Hello Everyone,

I figured that putting our announcements at the start of the chapter would be more visible to our readers than making a separate post. (I'll be copying this same announcement to every chapter we release this week).

We've been seeing a large influx of readers, most likely because of the You're Beautiful When You Smile live action drama was released (called "Falling Into Your Smile" if you aren't aware).

And as such we've noticed an increase in comments about navigation. I understand that the blog format is not very conducive to reading a story unless you've kept up with it from the start. And I've gotten rather lazy updating our project pages (it's quite a tedious thing and the links seem to keep breaking for some reason).

Anyhow, I've recently just updated our You're Beautiful When You Smile project page with links to all the chapters: click here to go to the project page. This should make it easier for users.

Our project index page can be found here. It links to the individual novel project pages.

Another option is to go to novelupdates.com which automatically links our new chapters for all of our stories. The project page for Beautiful When You Smile is right here. This is what I personally do when reading fan translated novels.

Also to address a few things:

(1) for those requesting prev/next chapter buttons, I'm sorry but we have no intention of adding those as we have to add it manually and it's extremely tedious. Novel Updates already tracks our chapters.

(2) I realize that on mobile, the release schedule is not visible for some reason, but is visible on desktop (I guess it's just how Blogger decides on rendering widgets). Beautiful When You Smile comes out every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. You're My Belated Happiness releases on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

I just want to remind our readers that we do this for fun and provide the fan translations for free. So I hope everyone can be patient with our schedule. We appreciate your understanding. Please enjoy the next part in the story below.

Thank you.

- Somesingman

You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 173 Part 1

Hello Everyone,

I figured that putting our announcements at the start of the chapter would be more visible to our readers than making a separate post. (I'll be copying this same announcement to every chapter we release this week).

We've been seeing a large influx of readers, most likely because of the You're Beautiful When You Smile live action drama was released (called "Falling Into Your Smile" if you aren't aware).

And as such we've noticed an increase in comments about navigation. I understand that the blog format is not very conducive to reading a story unless you've kept up with it from the start. And I've gotten rather lazy updating our project pages (it's quite a tedious thing and the links seem to keep breaking for some reason).

Anyhow, I've recently just updated our You're Beautiful When You Smile project page with links to all the chapters: click here to go to the project page. This should make it easier for users.

Our project index page can be found here. It links to the individual novel project pages.

Another option is to go to novelupdates.com which automatically links our new chapters for all of our stories. The project page for Beautiful When You Smile is right here. This is what I personally do when reading fan translated novels.

Also to address a few things:

(1) for those requesting prev/next chapter buttons, I'm sorry but we have no intention of adding those as we have to add it manually and it's extremely tedious. Novel Updates already tracks our chapters.

(2) I realize that on mobile, the release schedule is not visible for some reason, but is visible on desktop (I guess it's just how Blogger decides on rendering widgets). Beautiful When You Smile comes out every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. You're My Belated Happiness releases on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

I just want to remind our readers that we do this for fun and provide the fan translations for free. So I hope everyone can be patient with our schedule. We appreciate your understanding. Please enjoy the next part in the story below.

Thank you.

- Somesingman

You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 14 Part 2

Hello Everyone,

I figured that putting our announcements at the start of the chapter would be more visible to our readers than making a separate post. (I'll be copying this same announcement to every chapter we release this week).

We've been seeing a large influx of readers, most likely because of the You're Beautiful When You Smile live action drama was released (called "Falling Into Your Smile" if you aren't aware).

And as such we've noticed an increase in comments about navigation. I understand that the blog format is not very conducive to reading a story unless you've kept up with it from the start. And I've gotten rather lazy updating our project pages (it's quite a tedious thing and the links seem to keep breaking for some reason).

Anyhow, I've recently just updated our You're Beautiful When You Smile project page with links to all the chapters: click here to go to the project page. This should make it easier for users.

Our project index page can be found here. It links to the individual novel project pages.

Another option is to go to novelupdates.com which automatically links our new chapters for all of our stories. The project page for Beautiful When You Smile is right here. This is what I personally do when reading fan translated novels.

Also to address a few things:

(1) for those requesting prev/next chapter buttons, I'm sorry but we have no intention of adding those as we have to add it manually and it's extremely tedious. Novel Updates already tracks our chapters.

(2) I realize that on mobile, the release schedule is not visible for some reason, but is visible on desktop (I guess it's just how Blogger decides on rendering widgets). Beautiful When You Smile comes out every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. You're My Belated Happiness releases on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

I just want to remind our readers that we do this for fun and provide the fan translations for free. So I hope everyone can be patient with our schedule. We appreciate your understanding. Please enjoy the next part in the story below.

Thank you.

- Somesingman

You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 172 Part 3

Hello Everyone,

I figured that putting our announcements at the start of the chapter would be more visible to our readers than making a separate post. (I'll be copying this same announcement to every chapter we release this week).

We've been seeing a large influx of readers, most likely because of the You're Beautiful When You Smile live action drama was released (called "Falling Into Your Smile" if you aren't aware).

And as such we've noticed an increase in comments about navigation. I understand that the blog format is not very conducive to reading a story unless you've kept up with it from the start. And I've gotten rather lazy updating our project pages (it's quite a tedious thing and the links seem to keep breaking for some reason).

Anyhow, I've recently just updated our You're Beautiful When You Smile project page with links to all the chapters: click here to go to the project page. This should make it easier for users.

Our project index page can be found here. It links to the individual novel project pages.

Another option is to go to novelupdates.com which automatically links our new chapters for all of our stories. The project page for Beautiful When You Smile is right here. This is what I personally do when reading fan translated novels.

Also to address a few things:

(1) for those requesting prev/next chapter buttons, I'm sorry but we have no intention of adding those as we have to add it manually and it's extremely tedious. Novel Updates already tracks our chapters.

(2) I realize that on mobile, the release schedule is not visible for some reason, but is visible on desktop (I guess it's just how Blogger decides on rendering widgets). Beautiful When You Smile comes out every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. You're My Belated Happiness releases on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

I just want to remind our readers that we do this for fun and provide the fan translations for free. So I hope everyone can be patient with our schedule. We appreciate your understanding. Please enjoy the next part in the story below.

Thank you.

- Somesingman

You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 14 Part 1

Hello Everyone,

I figured that putting our announcements at the start of the chapter would be more visible to our readers than making a separate post. (I'll be copying this same announcement to every chapter we release this week).

We've been seeing a large influx of readers, most likely because of the You're Beautiful When You Smile live action drama was released (called "Falling Into Your Smile" if you aren't aware).

And as such we've noticed an increase in comments about navigation. I understand that the blog format is not very conducive to reading a story unless you've kept up with it from the start. And I've gotten rather lazy updating our project pages (it's quite a tedious thing and the links seem to keep breaking for some reason).

Anyhow, I've recently just updated our You're Beautiful When You Smile project page with links to all the chapters: click here to go to the project page. This should make it easier for users.

Our project index page can be found here. It links to the individual novel project pages.

Another option is to go to novelupdates.com which automatically links our new chapters for all of our stories. The project page for Beautiful When You Smile is right here. This is what I personally do when reading fan translated novels.

Also to address a few things:

(1) for those requesting prev/next chapter buttons, I'm sorry but we have no intention of adding those as we have to add it manually and it's extremely tedious. Novel Updates already tracks our chapters.

(2) I realize that on mobile, the release schedule is not visible for some reason, but is visible on desktop (I guess it's just how Blogger decides on rendering widgets). Beautiful When You Smile comes out every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. You're My Belated Happiness releases on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

I just want to remind our readers that we do this for fun and provide the fan translations for free. So I hope everyone can be patient with our schedule. We appreciate your understanding. Please enjoy the next part in the story below.

Thank you.

- Somesingman

You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 172 Part 2

Hello Everyone,

I figured that putting our announcements at the start of the chapter would be more visible to our readers than making a separate post. (I'll be copying this same announcement to every chapter we release this week).

We've been seeing a large influx of readers, most likely because of the You're Beautiful When You Smile live action drama was released (called "Falling Into Your Smile" if you aren't aware).

And as such we've noticed an increase in comments about navigation. I understand that the blog format is not very conducive to reading a story unless you've kept up with it from the start. And I've gotten rather lazy updating our project pages (it's quite a tedious thing and the links seem to keep breaking for some reason).

Anyhow, I've recently just updated our You're Beautiful When You Smile project page with links to all the chapters: click here to go to the project page. This should make it easier for users.

Another option is to go to novelupdates.com which automatically links our new chapters for all of our stories. The project page for Beautiful When You Smile is right here. This is what I personally do when reading fan translated novels.

When I find the time I'll also be updating the other project pages this week as well, but I felt that updating the project page for Smile would help the most amount of people.

Also to address a few things:

(1) for those requesting prev/next chapter buttons, I'm sorry but we have no intention of adding those as we have to add it manually and it's extremely tedious. Novel Updates already tracks our chapters.

(2) I realize that on mobile, the release schedule is not visible for some reason, but is visible on desktop (I guess it's just how Blogger decides on rendering widgets). Beautiful When You Smile comes out every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. You're My Belated Happiness releases on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

I just want to remind our readers that we do this for fun and provide the fan translations for free. So I hope everyone can be patient with our schedule. We appreciate your understanding. Please enjoy the next part in the story below.

Thank you.

- Somesingman

You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 172 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 172 Part 1

Since Little Fatty still had diarrhea, he was forbidden from eating any cream. He watched Xiao Rui take all the cream off his slice of cake then sent it all into his own mouth. He mumbled: “I’ve never been this healthy my whole life, not even able to have any cream……”

Xiao Rui stuffed a piece of cake into Little Fatty’s mouth: “Keep having diarrhea then! All you know is to eat!”

Little Fatty grabbed the cake and carefully picked up the cake in small pieces with a fork: “Huh, Tong Yao, why didn’t you say it’s your birthday? When Cheng Ge walked in, I was shocked. I thought the roses were for me and almost peed on my pants-- --”

Tong Yao: “......”

No wonder Little Fatty looked so shaken up when Lu Sicheng walked in the room.

He even came up with things like “In me the tiger sniffs the rose.”

Tong Yao: “Very well, the fear of being out of the closet made you into a poet.”

Little Fatty: “Bah! I’ve always been very cultured. If I didn’t play professionally, I’d have been able to go to either Peking University or Tsinghua.”

Tong Yao was sitting on Lu Sicheng’s lap as Little Fatty was talking-- --Lu Sicheng was quite relaxed at the moment since he had successfully completed his duty as the “good man.” He held on to Tong Yao with both of his arms on her shoulder while checking the notes that Tong Yao had written in her notebook about how to be a support. When he heard the conversation between Tong Yao and Little Fatty, he lazily said: “Those flowers should be given to Little Fatty. Look what you put me through…… If it wasn’t for the fact that I took out your id card to take a look, I’m afraid that 60 years later you would still tell our grandson: ‘The first year when your grandpa and grandma were together, your grandpa didn’t celebrate my birthday.’”

As he was speaking, his voice was right next to Tong Yao’s ear and Tong Yao’s back could feel the vibration in his chest which lightly tickled her with each word…… Tong Yao laughed, patted the man’s big hand, and tried to grab the notebook back. Lu Sicheng mumbled: “Sheesh, don’t move, I’m checking your homework. If it isn’t good, you have to cough up the cake.”

Tong Yao stopped fighting for the notebook but held his wrist: “I really didn’t mean to keep my birthday a secret. All I could think of today was how well I played support and we’re in a foreign country, so in the end, I’ve forgotten it myself.”

Lu Sicheng: “I don’t believe it.”

Tong Yao: “Alright, you don’t believe it. Then, we’ve been together for quite some time now, why haven’t you asked when my birthday is?”

Lu Sicheng: “......”

Tong Yao: “See, isn’t this asking for trouble? I said it doesn’t matter, you have to say it matters. Now I start to care about it and you don’t know what to say……”

“He probably can’t even remember his own birthday.” Lu Yue, who was sitting on a sofa playing a game on his cell phone, said without even looking up: “It’s not that I'm trying to get him off the hook. If you two have a fight about this and break up, that’d be so nice. I won’t have to listen to you two for the rest of my life-- --But, the problem is, in our family no one celebrates birthdays except my mom. She would start talking about her birthday three days beforehand which effectively avoids the embarrassment of her birthday being forgotten by the family……”

Tong Yao pointed at Lu Yue: “When’s yours?”

Lu Yue thought about it: “It seems to be around May Day. It’s passed.”

Tong Yao moved her body and turned to cup Lu Sicheng’s face. She gave him a kiss on his nose tip: “Then how about yours? You’re a Scorpio, your birthday hasn’t come yet.”

Lu Sicheng used the tip of his nose to rub her and said in a deep voice: “I’ll go check my id card. I’ll celebrate my birthday this year; I want presents.”

Tong Yao giggled. Everyone in the room looked the other way in embarrassment, like they had seen something they shouldn’t have.

They stayed a while longer to keep Little Fatty company. At around midnight, Xiao Rui cleaned up the cake and started to rush them to leave. He said that because of their visit to Little Fatty, he had to cancel the scheduled skirmish with CK tonight and CK’s manager was pissed off-- --If Little Fatty couldn’t get out of the hospital, he should find a trash bin somewhere to throw himself in……

Finally they left the hospital.

The hospital staff watched them leave with a confused look on their faces. They couldn’t understand why the visitors didn’t bring anything for the patient but on their way out, it was one of the visitors who had a large bouquet of red roses in her hand……

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

You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 171 Part 4

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

You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 171 Part 4

“Make a wish, make a wish!”

“Cut the cake, cut the cake!”

“Are we going to sing the Happy Birthday song…… Ahhh, Xiao Rui, hold on to the cake, don’t let it fall!”

“May I ask, have you two had kissed enough? I’m really hungry, I want to eat cake.”

……

Amidst the bustling laughter, Tong Yao backed away with a red face…… Lu Sicheng reached over with his hand to gently pull her hair behind her ears. He took a look at her and laughed: “Crying again.”

“I didn’t plan to celebrate it, it’s already the next day back home……” Tong Yao rambled: “Actually, it’s alright whether I get to celebrate it or not. But now, I feel it isn’t bad to celebrate it.”

“You go by the time where you are now.” Lu Sicheng used his rough thumb to press the corner of her eye: “Happy Birthday.”

“En.”

Tong Yao nodded, her nose tip was a little reddish. Then she gave a silly smile.

She sat in the chair with a smile watching Little Fatty and the others noisily cut up the cake. She was holding Lu Sicheng’s hand and wouldn’t let go-- --All she could think of was “how can he be this nice” “What did I do in my previous life”...... Suddenly there was a cooling sensation on her neck. She was surprised and looked down, there was a necklace on her neck. While she was spacing out, Lu Sicheng had taken out an aqua blue box from his pocket and pulled out a simple styled silver colored necklace, with a slightly curved pendant on it…...

Little Fatty: “What’s this?”

Lu Sicheng: “Necklace.”

Little Fatty: “......”

Tong Yao looked at the shape of the pendant: “A horseshoe?”

Lu Sicheng: “Why are you so cheesy as well?”

Tong Yao: “......Speak nicely, I’m the birthday girl today.”

After putting the necklace on her, Lu Sicheng patted Tong Yao’s head and slightly squatted down to check how the necklace looked on her. He nodded with satisfaction: “Looking good.”

Tong Yao stood up, trying to find a mirror to take a look for herself. Lu Sicheng followed behind her. As they were looking all over the room, Lu Sicheng slowly said: “For your twentieth birthday this year, I’d just give you a necklace. Next year when you turn 21, it’ll be a diamond, accompanied by a marriage certificate.”

Tong Yao happened to find a mirror as he was talking. She held the mirror in hand looking this way and that way. Then she looked up at the man behind her: “Does it look good?”

Lu Sicheng lowered his head to kiss her right between her eyebrows: “Looks good.”

Tong Yao giggled.

Now she had concluded that not only had she saved the whole universe in her previous life, she must have also built the temple of the match-making god brick by brick with her own hands.

……

Later on Tong Yao would find out why Lu Sicheng would say that she was cheesy and how true it was-- --Within roughly an hour, Lu Sicheng not only got the standard roses and cake ready, he was also able to find the jewelry store to buy the most fitting necklace for her. It truly wasn’t an easy task.

She had found out from Jinyang that this simply designed necklace was actually quite famous.

It even had the same name as Tong Yao’s game id-- --Smiling.

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

You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 13 Part 3

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 13 Part 3

Ruan Yu didn’t join Shen Mingying. She was still going over Weibo posts, immersing herself in a world of verbal abuse. She got so irritated that she copied down several profile names onto a small notebook and then asked in the chat group: [Mr. Xu, can I add a few more names?]

Xu Huaisong: [It’s up to you.]

Ruan Yu’s fighting spirit soared after receiving an affirmative answer. She continued focusing on picking out those trolls.

From Shen Mingying’s cell phone, Li Shican’s voice could be heard again: “Dial the number of the 7th person on the contact list of my cell phone, tell the person ‘I’ll see you at the usual place in the morning the day after tomorrow’? Woa, that’s tough……”

“It’s not easy to be a star!” Shen Mingying sighed like a mother. Shortly after her words, Ruan Yu’s cell phone started to ring.

The soft sound of the piano piece from her cell phone exactly matched the ringtone which could be heard on the stream.

Shen Mingying was stunned. Before she had fully understood what was going on, Ruan Yu had picked up the call: “Hello, how are you.”

In the stream, everyone heard “Hello, how are you” as well.

Shen Mingying jumped up with a start.

Ruan Yu had picked up the call simply because it was a Hang City number, though she didn’t recognize the number on the screen. Now she seemed to realize what had happened. She stiffly turned her head to look at Shen Mingying and mouthed: Me?

Shen Mingying nodded with a shocking look on her face. She hurriedly plugged the earphones into her phone.

Ruan Yu was dumbfounded for five seconds, then was called back to her senses by the voice in the phone: “Is this Xuejie? I’m Shican.”

Ruan Yu steadied herself then said: “It’s me……”

Li Shican seemed to have smiled: “Don’t be nervous. I’m bored so I’m just calling to see how you’ve been.”

How could Ruan Yu not be nervous, there were more than a hundred thousand people listening to the call?

Ruan Yu looked straight at Shen Mingying and her palms were all sweaty. She replied: “How have I been? I’m doing pretty good.”

“Are you still living in the same place?”

Ruan Yu had overheard some of the conversation in the stream and guessed that Li Shican was trying to lead the direction of the phone call. In order to end the call sooner, she said: “Yes.”

“I would like to meet you to talk about the old days. Can we meet at the usual place in the morning of the day after tomorrow?”

Ruan Yu was quiet for a moment, then she decided to work with him to play the game since there were so many people listening: “Alright……”

“Then, I’ll see you. Bye.”

“Bye bye.”

Ruan Yu hung up the phone. Shen Mingying screamed in surprise: “What’s this? Wasn’t he the one who blocked you at the time, how does he still have your number?”

Ruan Yu had calmed down somewhat and said: “You’ve asked me, whom do I ask for the answer?”

Shen Mingying continued to watch the stream.

The bullet comments had covered the whole screen.

[Whoa, it’s a girl with such a nice voice!]

[Cancan, you can’t go meet her in the usual place!]

[Who made the request, come out!]

Shen Mingying had goosebumps on her arms from all the fangirl chatter. Then she saw Li Shican start laughing on the screen and said: “ You just know how to make trouble for me. Later, after the stream’s over, remind me to apologize to her. Otherwise, it’ll be too rude if I stand her up.”

“Tsk, he really knows how to talk.”

With just a few sentences, he had shown to his fans in a roundabout way that he wouldn’t be going to meet her, making those hundred thousand fans happy.

“Why didn’t he talk you into being with him back then?” Shen Mingying commented, then she noticed that Ruan Yu’s eyebrows were deeply knotted while clutching her cell phone in hand. Shen Mingying didn’t know what she was looking at: “What’s wrong with you? Still looking at what those trolls wrote? Don’t go looking for pain, alright?”

Ruan Yu shook her head to indicate that she wasn’t looking at those hurtful comments. She said: “I’m looking at Li Shican’s main page.” She frowned even more after saying so: “SC, these initials look really familiar. Where have I seen it before?”

Shen Mingying blinked confusedly: “SC? Hey, isn’t that Su Cheng?”

Ruan Yu abruptly looked up.

Shican is SC, Su Cheng is also SC?

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

You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 171 Part 3

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

You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 171 Part 3

After she sent the message, Tong Yao stuffed her cell phone back into her pocket. She took a look at the time. It was 8:50 pm US time and already the next day back in China.

Hrm, the birthday wish she received from her boyfriend was: I have a feeling that my sexual orientation is subtly wavering.

-- --Tong Yao by now had accepted the scenario that her 20th birthday would go by in such an odd vibe.

……

Tong Yao refocused on learning to be a better support. She didn’t feel it was a big deal spending her birthday like this and concentrated on discussing with Little Fatty where to put wards and how to do so throughout the night……

When it was almost 11 o’clock, Lu Sicheng came back-- --

Tong Yao was quite familiar with the sound of Lu Sicheng’s footsteps. She knew he had come back when she heard the footsteps outside the door. She didn’t look up when she heard the door open, instead she was looking down on her notebook marking a red dot on a map of Summoner’s Rift she had drawn based on instructions from Little Fatty to show that “at this time there should be a ward here”......

Little Fatty was babbling: “No matter whether the game is going well or not, if there’s no ward here after 25 minutes, then the round will be over and they’ll all blame the support.” He suddenly stopped talking……

Tong Yao was baffled and looked up at Little Fatty. Little Fatty was looking at the person who had just entered the room dumbfoundedly. Tong Yao blinked and turned her head, ready to say: “What took you so long?” The words stuck in her mouth after she just said “What took you,” she wasn’t able to finish the question-- --

The man standing at the door looked like he had run all the way back.

A few buttons on his team shirt, which was usually all buttoned up, had been unbuttoned probably because he had gotten hot while running. The shirt was a little wrinkled and moved slightly up and down with his breathing……

The look in his eye was still nonchalant as usual.

It was a sharp contrast to the big bouquet of red roses in his hand-- --Just imagined if someone placed a huge bouquet of bright red roses right next to a coffin. Wouldn’t that look bizarre? That was how bizarre Lu Sicheng looked right now……

“What’s this?” Little Fatty looked baffled: “In me the tiger sniffs the rose?”[1]

Lu Sicheng didn’t even bother giving him a look. He paused a bit then started to walk into the room-- --Tong Yao then discovered that there was a huge cake box in his other hand. He walked straight to Tong Yao, put the cake box on her lap, and stuffed the roses into her arms: “Happy twentieth birthday. From now on, no one can say that I’ve fooled an underage girl.”

Everyone: “......”

Tong Yao: “......”

There were a few seconds of silence in the room.

Little Fatty was the first one to make a sound: “Whoa.” He widened his eyes, probably feeling that it wasn’t a bad deal to trade crackers with a cake…… Tong Yao at first went blank from the overpowering fragrance of the roses. She looked up at the face behind the flowers and stammered to ask: “How, how, how did you know?”

Lu Sicheng bent over to give her a kiss on her lips: “Your id card is in your wallet. I took it out to take a look. I was just seeing how ugly your picture looked.”

Tong Yao: “......................................................”

Tong Yao, with flowers in arms, still didn’t fully comprehend what had just happened.

Lu Sicheng took the chance to give her another kiss: “Happy Birthday.”

His lips were a little cool, but his breath was scorching hot and a little unsteady from running all the way back here…… Tong Yao blinked and finally realized that Lu Sicheng didn’t go back to the hotel, but, after seeing her id card, had hastily gone to buy all these things for her birthday.

The surrounding teammates also realized it was Tong Yao’s birthday. They stood up to wish their temporary support a happy birthday. Lu Sicheng took the flowers from her hand and opened the cake box for her: “Fortunately I ran fast, otherwise the store would’ve closed-- --”

Before he finished, the person who was standing next to the cake reached over with both arms, circled them around his neck, and offered her warm and soft lips…… Lu Sicheng was slightly dumbfounded at first, then a faint smile appeared on his expressionless face. The corners of his eyes softened and he deepened the kiss-- --

[1]: This is a line from the poem 'In me, past, present, future meet' by Siegfried Sassoon 1886-1967, an English poet and writer.

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

You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 13 Part 2

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 13 Part 2 

The next second, Ruan Yu was surprised by all the Weibo profile names filling up the whole screen. They were coming from Xu Huaisong. It looked like a list of people waiting for their execution.

Xu Huasisong: [List them in the statement.]

Though this was business, Ruan Yu was moved by the gesture nonetheless. She typed: [Mr. Xu, thanks for your effort!]

There was no response. Ruan Yu turned off the chat then heard the doorbell ringing.

It was Shen Mingying at the door.

After she quit her job as an editor at Jinjiang, Shen Mingying worked together with her boyfriend to run an online shop. She, like Ruan Yu, didn’t have to work from 9 to 5 and had come to visit Ruan Yu.

The first thing Ruan Yu said to Shen Mingying was: “Don’t try to comfort me. I probably have gotten used to it, I’m feeling alright.”

“Don’t flatter yourself.” Shen Mingying walked straight towards the living room: “I’m here to gossip about Cen Sisi.”

Ruan Yu had told Shen Mingying yesterday about Cen Sisi.

Once she thought about it, Cen Sisi would probably count as Shen Mingying’s “nemesis.”

After Ruan Yu started her writing career, she recommended Shen Mingying to Jinjiang to work as an editor for ancient romance novels since she couldn’t find a suitable job after graduation. Ruan Yu wrote modern romance novels for two years and got tired of it. She switched to writing ancient romance stories and Shen Mingying happened to be assigned as her editor.

While the story was in progress, somehow the relationship between the two was exposed by someone in the forum anonymously. That person kept complaining the editor was unfair and always saved the best spot on the recommendation list for her best girlfriend.

After making a few inquiries, Shen Mingying had found out that this person was “Su Cheng”, in other words, Cen Sisi.

The accusation caused quite a stir at the time. Though Shen Mingying hadn’t abused her editorial power to favor Ruan Yu, it was hard to convince other writers and readers. In the end, she resigned from Jinjiang.

Ruan Yu was also looked down disdainfully by many. Her writing was affected by the incident since she felt guilty about Shen Mingying losing her job. She hastily ended the ancient romance story.

Later on, Ruan Yu started a new story but there were people who kept bringing up the incident. She forced herself not to be influenced by those comments and struggled to finish the story. Afterwards, she had fallen into writer’s block and couldn’t come up with anything for eleven months.

This past incident was the reason why both of them insisted on filing the lawsuit since this was the second time Cen Sisi had stirred up trouble for them.

Wasn’t putting up with her once already too much?

Shen Mingying said: “It seems that she knew all along who you were. What exactly have you done to offend her in college that she would keep going after you after all these years?”

Ruan Yu sighed: “If I knew, I wouldn’t be in this position now.”

“You took a scholarship away from her?”

Ruan Yu shook her head.

“Took a quota from some sort of recommendation from her?”

Ruan Yu shook her head again.

“It can’t be that you took her man away?”

This time, Ruan Yu didn’t need to shake her head. Shen Mingying repudiated it herself: “Impossible. You’ve been single since birth, you don’t want any man even if they came on to you.”

Shen Mingying remembered that during Ruan Yu’s senior year there was a freshman in her department who kept chasing after Ruan Yu. The whole department knew about it but it didn’t work out.

It wasn’t because the freshman didn’t look good. He actually became a movie star later and had a lot of female fans.

Shen Mingying had called Ruan Yu “blind” many times because of this.

“Speaking of it, what’s that xuedi of yours doing now?”

“I haven’t followed him.”

Shen Mingying’s mind began to get sidetracked from Cen Sisi. She took out her cell phone to search: “What’s his name, Li something? Oh, is this his Weibo?” She lifted up her phone: “SC Li Shican.”

Ruan Yu glanced at her phone and nodded.

Something flashing by in Ruan Yu’s head with that glance.

SC? Why did the initial look somewhat familiar?

“Yo, he happens to be streaming now.”

Shen Mingying hopped onto the stream. A slightly hoarse voice came out of her phone: “Alright, I lost this round. I’ll take Dare. Come on ‘I love to eat rabbit’, speak up.”

“Didn’t expect a big star could be this easy going, even playing Truth or Dare with fans on  stream?” Shen Mingying mumbled as she opened a pack of preserved plums, while she watched the stream with interest.

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

You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 171 Part 2

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

You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 171 Part 2

Seeing Little Fatty’s pitiful expression, Tong Yao didn’t have the heart to blame him for bending her boyfriend. She sat on the chair next to the bed and tried to cheer him up: “You’ve always been dying to get his affection, who knew that all you needed was to miss one match and you’ve bent our captain…… It’s like in those romance novels, the male lead finds out who his true love is after losing his current loved one-- --”

She didn’t get to finish her sentence. A big hand reached over from behind and covered her mouth. The hand was too big, it not only covered her mouth but also her nose.

Tong Yao leaned back, the back of her head touched the stomach of the man who was leaning over her. Then she heard the man’s deep voice speak in a serious tone: “Those are called BL novels. How is that romance?”

Tong Yao grabbed his big hand and pulled it off her face: “Be nice to your support!”

Lu Sicheng: “Are you talking about the one lying on bed or sitting next to the bed?”

Tong Yao: “Who do you want to be nicer to?”

Lu Sicheng: “I want to throw both of you out of the window.”

Tong Yao: “......”

Little Fatty: “I’m hungry.”

Xiao Rui: “You still want to eat? !”

Little Fatty wasn’t easily deterred: “The hospital food is far from enough for me! Damn, if I stay here any longer, I’ll die from hunger before I get well. You’ll all end up with a Silver support all through the competition, aren’t you scared of that-- --Can I just have some crackers? It’s not against the law to have some crackers, right? Buy me some crackers! ! ! !”

The scenario Little Fatty described was terrifying to her teammates. Even Tong Yao couldn’t argue against the Silver support part-- --She missed her mid lane badly…… She turned her head to look at the man behind her as if she wanted to say something. Lu Sicheng: “What do you want to say?”

“It’s not that I don’t want to be your support, you play AD very well……”

“......I’ve played professionally for three years, been at the top of both Chinese and Korean servers numerous times, and won the league championships a few times. All of that only got one sentence from you. Would it be alright for me not to say thanks?”

Tong Yao grabbed his hand and rubbed it as if to please him: “Can you buy some crackers for Little Fatty? I feel for him seeing him so hungry.”

Tong Yao was saying it with all earnesty…… After a while, Lu Sicheng gave in to the pitiful look on Little Fatty’s and Tong Yao’s faces. He sighed and bent over to pull out Tong Yao’s wallet from her pocket.

Tong Yao: “What are you doing?”

Lu Sicheng took out a credit card from his pocket: “I didn’t bring my wallet with me. Using a credit card to buy a pack of crackers?”

Tong Yao: “Oh.” Then Lu Sicheng went to buy crackers for Little Fatty…… The other teammates all found a place to sit down. They chatted about the match for a while, then helped Tong Yao learn from Little Fatty how to be a better support. They all knew that for tomorrow’s match against Team C, if they played like today, they would be in big trouble-- --

To get prepared at the last moment is better than not at all.

With her notebook in hand, Tong Yao went over today’s match with Little Fatty in detail. Little Fatty mumbled things like: “Don’t need to place a ward here” “When Old Cat’s ward catches the jungler going down, you should place a protective ward for Lu Yue at this time since Cheng Ge has already pushed the minion lane up”. Tong Yao’s cell phone rang, she took a look and it was from Lu Sicheng. She answered the phone.

Lu Sicheng told her that he had just remembered something he had to take care of back in the hotel, so he would be going back now.

Tong Yao was baffled. She put down the phone and announced to everyone that Cheng Ge had left. The first reaction from Little Fatty was: “Then what about my crackers? My crackers? I can’t even have a bite of crackers because I couldn’t play the match?”

Tong Yao: “Let Xiao Rui go buy it for you.” She took a look at her cell phone and found out that Jinyang had sent her over a dozen messages. All the messages were asking her how she was going to celebrate her birthday, whether she needed Jinyang to go over……

Tong Yao looked through them, logged on WeChat, and replied-- --

[I played support for the German shepherd: …… Little Fatty can’t play tomorrow. I’m cramming in the hospital about how to be a support. Today we turned the game around against the wild card team, tomorrow we might go under. To hell with birthday celebrations!]

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 171 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 171 Part 1

[What a joke. LPL’s best team, after being behind in over 10,000 gold against a wild card team, snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. This is the most hopeful year for LPL!]

[The problem with mid playing support isn’t about the champion pool but the map awareness…..

Can that damn Fatty come back tomorrow?]

[I think Cheng Ge’s asking the same question-- --Fatty: After so many years, you finally realize my value? Finally I can sing about the reversal of my fate!]

[There wouldn’t be any problem giving the MVP to Old K, without Baron they probably wouldn’t be able to turn the game around? Lu Yue did well, the timing to cast Annie’s ultimate was great……]

[Will the team be able to fight the Taiwanese team, C, tomorrow in this condition?]

[......................Really, don’t let Tong Yao come out as support to hurt our eyes. Damn, are she and Lu Sicheng really a couple? Why aren’t they on the same page when playing? When I was watching the match today, I was afraid the two of them would throw down their headphones and start fighting each other in the middle of the game!]

[As said above, who knows how many couples have split up in Summoner’s Rift. The two of them were able to be together up till today because they haven’t played on the same lane. Ah, hahahahahahahahaha!]

[Cheng Ge, if your sexual orientation has wavered, consider me. I’m 181cm tall, weigh 68kg, love to play support, Master on Ionia server, senior in college…… Hrm, nevermind, I won’t go along for the ride.]

It was bustling under the official ZGDX Weibo site.

Tong Yao looked carefully over all the postings and concluded that, because of Lu Sicheng’s loose tongue during the interview, the love rivals she was having now weren’t just young ladies but also a lot of young men……

And now it was worldwide since this was an international competition.

Urgh.

However, she realized that she had played badly today; not with the maneuvering but in terms of map awareness, she obviously wasn’t as good as Little Fatty-- --Generally, the minimal standard for a support to place wards is to know what the team is going to do next then to place wards for it. What Tong Yao had done was at this level. But that kind of support was far from enough in an international competition. When Little Fatty placed wards, they were well calculated. Each of his wards were usually placed in anticipation of the next wave of attack or change of lanes.

Old Cat always liked to say: Whenever I want to teleport, I’ll discover that there are at least one to three wards on the map which I can choose from. Though it can drive a person who has problems making decisions crazy, it makes me feel at ease nevertheless as I can teleport wherever I want.

But today’s placement of wards was a flop.

Today Old Cat couldn’t teleport wherever he desired. When he needed to assist in team fights, he had to run for some distance to reach the location after teleporting. One time when he arrived, the team fight was already over……

On their way back on the bus, Tong Yao kept looking at the replay of today’s match-- --

As she was watching the overall game play as an onlooker, she could see more clearly her own performance. The more she watched it, the more she felt that she as the support was playing like an idiot, like a Silver player…… With a pen in hand and the notebook on her lap, she bent over to carefully jot down all the places where she could do better.

The cell phone in her pocket vibrated several times to remind her there were messages coming in. But she ignored them and concentrated on doing the review of the match.

-- --She was so focused that she had forgotten what day was today.

……

After dinner, they didn’t go back to the hotel. At around 8 pm, they went to visit Little Fatty in the hospital. They received bad news there. Little Fatty’s condition hadn’t improved much and he still had a low fever and diarrhea. Therefore, for tomorrow’s match, the lineup would be the same as today.

The first reaction when Tong Yao heard the news was that she was probably going to lose her boyfriend in this famous city, San Francisco.

Xiao Rui was so upset: “You guys just have to make some trouble for me. You won’t be happy if you don’t cause some trouble when it’s time for international competitions-- --Do you guys think I’ve lived too long?”

There was a flash of guilt that crossed Little Fatty’s narrow eyes on his pale face…… He had watched today’s match and knew how precarious it was for the team…… Fortunately they had turned the game around. If they had lost today, a fan would’ve probably blown up their base.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 170 Part 4

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 170 Part 4

Team Bear seemed to suddenly be at a loss on what to do next when ZGDX stole Baron. ZGDX’s Annie cast her ultimate, Volibear also used his ultimate to hold down the five Bear players in Baron’s arena, then Old Cat’s Rumble landed his ultimate inside the arena, roasting all five Bear players!

Lulu stood on the high ground overlooking Baron’s arena, turned the enemy AD into a sheep, and cast exhaust on the enemy's mid. It went by so fast that people couldn’t tell which ability she had used first!

Lu Sicheng was able to finish off four of the enemy. A quadra kill appeared on screen. While everyone was waiting for the first penta-kill of this year’s world competition to arrive, Bear’s jungler jumped up from the Baron arena and landed right next to Lulu!

Commentator D: [What is this for!]

Commentator F: [It’s like “I’ll die by the hands of your support to deny you a pentakill. Pentakill? No way.]

Commentator D: [Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!]

Tong Yao was stunned for a second looking at the Nidalee right next to her. Then she cast E and Q to take her down. She aced Team Bear and took away Lu Sicheng’s pentakill at the same time-- --

Everyone was silent on ZGDX’s chat channel.

Tong Yao: “..............................................Nidalee came to me asking to be killed. Besides, you don’t have your ultimate available. Damn, this really isn’t my fault.”

Lu Sicheng was quiet for three seconds, then he raised his hand to adjust his headphones a bit: “Go to their base.”

It would take 35 seconds for all five Bear players to respawn. ZGDX, with the help of Baron’s buff, was quickling destroying enemy turrets. They divided into three groups to push all three lanes. When Bear’s first player came out of the fountain, Annie had already destroyed Bear’s mid inhibitor.

ZGDX had quickly earned back almost 7000 gold. They were only roughly 2000 gold behind now-- --

ZGDX made a big comeback and was pushing forward!

During the following fight at the entrance to Bear’s base, Bear’s players still hadn’t gotten over their loss of the Baron plus their skill wasn’t at the same level as ZGDX’s. Bear lost the fight and one nexus turret in no time-- --

In the team fights that followed, Bear’s mid was the only one who had developed well and took the leading role, but Lulu was around to prevent him from diving and protected her team’s AD……

After 40 minutes into the game, Bear was aced once again and ZGDX rushed into their base for the fourth time. ZGDX had surprisingly turned the game around after being behind almost  10,000 gold! ! !

Finally ZGDX had won the match from a precarious position!

When the players stood up after the match, Tong Yao took off her headphones and found that her uniform was soaking wet from her sweat and pasted onto her back…… Though the audience was shouting [ZGDX] loudly, she reached over to wipe the sweat on her face and thought to herself: for tomorrow’s match, should we carry Little Fatty up here if he’s still alive?

The players gathered their equipment and left the stage one by one.

The MVP of this match, Lu Sicheng, was being interviewed. He still didn’t need a translator and was still quite humorous-- --

When the host asked: “In this fight against the wild card team, your team had a sudden change in the lineup. Your mid, Smiling, was moved to play support. Do you have anything to say about this arrangement? How do you feel about it?”

Lu Sicheng thought about it.

Then he replied in all earnesty: “I don’t really have anything to say. As for how I feel…… When I was robbed of the first kill and the pentakill, somehow I had this feeling that my sexual orientation was wavering ever so subtly.”

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 13 Part 1

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 13 Part 1

Ruan Yu found Cen Sisi’s logic rather odd. If the truth was revealed, then wouldn’t Cen Sisi reveal her own malicious schemes as well?

However, there was still a possibility that she would do that. She remembered the phone call Xu Huaisong had just received. He seemed to mention a retaliative incident aimed at the plaintiff by the defendant.

When faced with the mounting risk of losing the lawsuit, the defendant might incline to adopt desperate measures.

She started to search online for the name she had heard Xu Huaisong saying, “SG.”

The latest news that she could find was about the trial in court not too long ago. She didn’t find too much information about the defendant of that case, but noticed another name in the report: Hanson.

It was Xu Huaisong’s English name.

That name sidetracked her. She changed to search for his name instead. She found an article in English which was an interview. The article talked about the history between Xu Huaisong and SG.

It said that SG had been sued by a competitor for copyright infringement three years ago. The company’s stock tumbled because of the scandal and the company was facing a financial crisis.

Xu Huaisong’s father, who was a prestigious lawyer in California, was the defendant’s attorney. But two days before the case was brought to court, his father suffered a stroke. He was resuscitated, but diagnosed with “cerebral vascular dementia.”

To replace the attorney right before the court day would be like changing the general in the middle of a battle. SG would be completely crushed if they lost the case because of it. It was also implausible to delay the court date since their stock would continue to drop and the company wouldn’t survive as long as the case wasn’t resolved.

There were only two days left until the court date. The company’s board of directors were anxious and sent representatives to the hospital to consult with doctors about the possibility of Xu’s father recovering in a short period of time.

The answer was that it was certainly impossible.

In the end, Xu Huaisong stepped forward-- --At the time he had just finished the LLM program and passed the California Bar Examination to become a lawyer not too long ago.

Since he had been assisting his father in his cases, he had knowledge about the case from the beginning. SG eventually decided to take the chance and had him replace his father as their attorney.

No one had high hopes about the result of the case.

Though the case was complicated, Xu Huaisong successfully had the judge issue a judgement at the court session.

SG won the case and was back on its feet.

Ruan Yu slowly scrolled through the page till the last sentence of the article: That’s an incredible legend.

It might be talking about Xu Huaisong, or SG.

However all Ruan Yu could think of was, what happened to Xu’s father?

*

The next day, a dozen days after the incident, Jinjiang’s Reporting center had made a ruling regarding the plagiarism incident. They concluded that <Really Want to Whisper in Your Ear> had less than a 10% similarity to <Her Eyes Can Smile> and therefore didn’t constitute plagiarizing the latter.

Ruan Yu forwarded the news to the chat group to let Liu Mao and Xu Huaisong know about it.

Liu Mao replied instantly to say that with Jinjiang’s conclusion, the odds of winning the case and the amount of compensation would be even more in their favor.

However, there was bound to be a downside to good news like this. Ruan Yu typed: [But, they’re probably going to troll again on the forums and Weibo.]

Fifteen minutes later, Zhikun Liu Mao: [They sure are.]

Soft Jade: [What have they said?]

Internet bullying could be very hurtful. Ruan Yu was concerned about the public opinion but was afraid to look.

Liu Mao sent over a few screenshots.

[If this degree of similarity doesn’t count as plagiarism, then what is?]

[I knew it would end this way all along. You expect Jinjiang to cut down its own cash cow?]

[Jinjiang certainly wouldn’t. A friend of mine who works in the entertainment business told me that Global Filming has taken a fancy to this story. It’s Global Filming, ladies, of big movie projects and big productions. They can easily dole out tens of millions of royalty fees! One doesn't have to care about one’s reputation, but not the money!]

[Agreed. Black chicken, white chicken, the one that can lay eggs is the good chicken.]

The ridicule was almost overflowing out of the screen. It hurts the eyes of the people who read them.

The last post was forwarded by Liu Mao probably by accident. He realized it wasn’t proper for Ruan Yu to see it and quickly delete the message.

The next second, Xu Huaisong, who had been quiet up till now, sent over a message: [You have nothing to do?]

He sounded a bit harsh, Ruan Yu didn't dare say anything.

Zhikun Liu Mao: [Not really……]

Xu Huaisong: [Then go write the attorney statement.]

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 170 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 170 Part 3

21 minutes into the game, ZGDX was behind by 1500 gold. Then a fight broke out in jungle over the Infernal Drake-- --

Team Bear had initiated the fight against the dragon. After some discussion, ZGDX decided to join the fight. Old Cat, who was currently farming in lane, was forced to use teleport. But when Bear saw the teleportation beam, they immediately decided on giving the dragon up and left!

Commentator D: [Why! Why! Just giving the dragon to ZGDX like this! Team Bear, where’s your ruthlessness! Aren’t you from a nation with fighting spirit!]

Commentator F: [This was no doubt a fortune from heaven for ZGDX…… They took down the Infernal Drake without much a fight-- --Now, the only problem they have is the wards in their jungle.]

Commentato D: [The importance of a professional support has been fully demonstrated here-- --Smiling has no problem with positioning. In the early game, ZGDX also enjoyed an advantage in the laning phase. Yet as the game moves on, the laning phase will soon end and then macro will become even more important, the sight advantage gained by the wards have allowed Bear to gradually get the upper hand……]

Commentator D: [Nevertheless, Tong Yao has performed quite well being entrusted with the position in such a difficult time……]

Commentator F: [ZGDX returns to base after taking down Infernal Drake. Team Bear took the chance to form 4 man group to try and take the first turret at ZGDX’s mid-- --]

Commentator D: [My goodness. Looks like they’re going to lose the first turret at top!]

Commentator F: [? ? ? I just said mid-- --]

The audience was in an uproar.

They had just discovered that after tricking Old Cat to teleport out of top, Bear gave up the Infernal Drake and moved back to base while ZGDX was fighting the dragon. They quickly divided into two groups, four in one group and the fifth player working alone, to take down the first turret at both top and mid lanes on ZGDX’s side!

The gap in economy between the two teams widened to almost 3000 gold all of a sudden!

A seemingly wrong decision made by Bear had an immediate reversal!

As the game continued, Bear, with the absolute advantage that their wards had given them and the fact that ZGDX was slow at assisting each other, started to have four players initiate fights as a group and have their top push turrets all over the map. At the 30th minute mark, he was able to destroy all five of ZGDX’s outer turrets in a row!

There was now a difference of 6500 gold between the two teams in Bear’s favor!

Commentator D: [ZGDX is now hanging on simply by their players’ individual skills, but they still aren’t able to initiate a fight-- --They are pinned down by Bear!]

Commentator F: [That free Infernal Drake was obviously a trap.]

Commentator D: [Are we going to witness a miracle-- --Could it be possible for the archer from the wild card team to shoot down the giant red dragon from above!]

The audience became animated; they stood up, raised their arms high up in the air to clap and chanted [Bear!] [Bear!] [Bear!]-- --The chanting was so loud that it could almost lift up the roof of the arena! In esports, even if the team had zero fans in the beginning of the match, they could still earn cheers and applause from the audience with an excellent performance!

At 35th minute mark, ZGDX was falling behind in all lanes because Bear’s wards had pinned down ZGDX’s macro-- --Just as almost everyone thought that Team Bear would for sure win this match and in China, Weibo, Tieba, and the bullet comments on all the streaming platforms were all overtaken by [? ? ? ?], Bear initiated the fight for Baron!

At this moment, all ZGDX players were alive. Any other team, even with 10,000 gold in hand, wouldn’t be bold enough to initiate the fight for Baron right in front of ZGDX-- --This act gave ZGDX a chance; when Baron had only a third of its health left, Old K and Tong Yao rushed to the top of the Baron arena……

Commentator F: [Now this is ZGDX’s fight to win or die. Losing Baron would mean that they could lose this match……]

As Baron’s health dwindled, Lee Sin inserted a ward into Baron’s arena so he could jump down. At the same time, Lulu helped Lee Sin by knocking up the five Bear players who were surrounding Baron. Lee Sin cast Smite!

The audience cheered. 

Commentator D jumped up from his seat and excitedly shouted: [They got it! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ]

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