You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 15 Part 1

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

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.