You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 16 Part 2

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

You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 16 Part 2

Before Ruan Yu went out the door to meet Xu Huaisong, she had rummaged through her clothes to get ready. If she remembered correctly, her clothing was strewn all over the couch in her living room now. And, there were all sorts of articles of clothing.

There’s no way she could let him in now.

The moment the door was unlocked, Ruan Yu turned around, with both of her hands tightly holding the door, to look up at Xu Huaisong and said: “Well…… could you wait here for a moment?”

He cast his eyes down to look at her and nodded.

Ruan Yu opened the door ajar and squeezed inside. Then she left the door unlatched and went into the living room to swiftly tidy up the place.

Xu Huaisong quietly stood outside the door, without looking around. Three minutes later, the door in front of him opened ajar once again and Ruan Yu’s head popped out: “......I’m ready.”

Ruan Yu asked Xu Huaisong to come in. Once he was inside the door, he glanced over the floor of the doorway, exactly what Li Shican had done before.

Ruan Yu had to explain once again that she didn’t have men’s slippers at home and asked him to come inside without changing shoes.

They went into the living room without exchanging any words. Ruan Yu felt even more nervous than having a movie star visiting her home. The “feeling of familiarity” which she had begun to have after video chatting with him was now completely gone. Everything was back to square one.

She felt like she was meeting someone she had met online for the first time.

Trying to ease the awkwardness between them, Ruan Yu randomly pointed at a desk in the living room and said: “I was at that desk when I was video chatting with you.”

She smiled awkwardly afterwards.

Xu Huaisong, however, didn’t look at the desk. His eyes instead glanced over the cream-colored sectionals at the back and landed on the section where Li Shican had been sitting before.

Then he avoided that section and chose to sit down on the other side.

Ruan Yu had totally forgotten where Li Shican had been sitting before and didn’t notice Xu Huaisong’s movement. She asked him whether he wanted some water.

“Coffee.”

“Will an instant one be ok?”

“En.”

Ruan Yu turned on the upright air-conditioner in the living room before going into the kitchen to boil water for the coffee. When she came back to the living room, she found Xu Huaisong had taken off his glasses and was leaning back on the sofa with his eyes closed. He looked rather drained.

She put down the coffee cup without making much of a sound and took a look at the time.

It was 1pm Beijing time and that would be 10pm San Francisco time. Xu Huaisong had just arrived after flying over a dozen hours and sitting in a car for a few hours.

Ruan Yu held her forehead.

Earlier she thought that she couldn’t let him make the trip in vain. But now she was thinking that she should have let him go back to the hotel to rest.

With that thought in mind, she kept quiet and carefully moved the laptop on the desk to the coffee table. Then she sat down on the sofa across from him and started to look at the files on her computer.

She would look up at him after reading for a while.

After repeating several times, she was sure that Xu Huaisong was sound asleep.

So, what should she do now?

Ruan Yu opened her mouth with the word “Xu” almost slipping out, but she swallowed it.

She wasn’t able to wake him up until the boiling hot coffee had completely cooled down.

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