You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 21 Part 1

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 21 Part 1

Ruan Yu made plans to accompany her mom to visit the old house in Su City before the court date.

Two days before the trip, she received a call from Liu Mao. Liu Mao told her that he needed to go to Su City for a case and asked her whether they would like to go with him.

Ruan Yu knew right away that it was her father who was trying to get her and Liu Mao closer but she couldn’t refuse him though she truly wanted to.

Liu Mao explained that the invitation was because of her mother’s health condition since it would be too tiring to travel by high speed train.

Therefore, even if Ruan Yu didn’t care to travel with him, she had to be considerate to her mother.

On the day of the trip, Liu Mao came to pick up Ruan Yu and her mother, Qu Lan, early in the morning. He focused on driving along the way and didn’t talk too much to them except for the initial greeting when they first met up.

After they got off the freeway and entered the Su City limit, Ruan Yu gave him the location of her old house. Liu Mao said: “Your place is quite close to Haisong’s grandma’s place.”

Ruan Yu didn’t expect that he would even know the address of Xu Huaisong’s grandma. She was a little surprised and subconsciously turned to take a look at her mom.

Qu Lan was a teacher at First High School of Su City back then as well. Before the class was divided into liberal arts and science classes[1], she had taught one semester of Chinese language for Xu Huaisong’s class. 

Qu Lan didn’t give much of a reaction when she heard Xu Huaisong’s name. It looked like she didn’t remember this student. Ruan Yu quickly replied: “Oh, really? What a coincidence. Hehe.”

Ruan Yu soon forgot about this incident. She accompanied her mother as they walked around the neighborhood of their old house and took a few pictures. At lunch time, she asked her mom where she wanted to go for lunch.

Qu Lan said since they were nearby, why not go back to the First High School for a visit and eat in the cafeteria there.

Ruan Yu got nervous all of a sudden.

It was a Tuesday and Xu Huaishi would for sure be at school. If they happened to run into her at school and she told Xu Huaisong about it, then Ruan Yu would be very close to exposing herself.

But, was there any reason she could refuse to go there?

There was none.

Around 12 noon, Ruan Yu and her mother arrived near the school cafeteria.

Qu Lan didn’t let any of her old colleagues know about her visit and deliberately avoided going to the teacher’s lounge. But they happened to arrive at the peak of the students’ lunch hour.

Ruan Yu watched students, wearing the blue and white uniforms, coming and going here and there full of vigour and vitality. She couldn’t help but become sentimental.

She looked down at the dress she was wearing and felt quite out of place here. She told Qu Lan: “It’s so nice to be young, mom, look, I’m old already.”

Qu Lan took a glance at her: “If you’re old already, what about mom?”

“I’ll go borrow a uniform to let you put on. Then someone can ask you ‘fellow student, could you tell me how to get to the arts building’.”

“You’re talking nonsense.”

Ruan Yu smiled and put her arm around her mom’s arm and kept walking. When they were close to the cafeteria, there were a row of buckets to dump leftovers. She heard one girl asking another girl: “You didn’t even finish eating this chicken drumstick. Isn’t that too wasteful?”

The girl being questioned gave the other a stare and said: “What do you know?”

Ruan Yu’s mind suddenly driftly off.

What the other girl didn’t understand, Ruan Yu felt, she probably knew.-- --Chicken drumsticks tasted good but if the boy she had a crush on happened to be in the cafeteria as well, then all the good tasting chicken drumsticks could only go to waste.

She was like that before.

Back in those days, she had a pair of radar-like eyes, searching for him all the time. But once she found him, she had to quickly turn her head away and pretend that she didn’t see him. Then she had to make sure every movement she made would be perfectly lady-like.

“Chicken drumsticks are indeed my favorites. Xu Huaisong is also my favorite. When I can’t have both at the same time, I’ll discard the chicken drumsticks for Xu Huaisong.”-- --Thinking back, Ruan Yu felt her crush at the time was so simple and pure.

The most romantic thing was placing the ladder near the school back gate for him to climb over the wall. The most fervent show of her feelings was being willing to give up her most favorite food for him.

And all the romantic gestures and feelings didn’t need to be responded to. She didn’t even need him to recognize her.

[1]: In China, students have to decide between a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) track or a liberal arts track at the start of their 2nd year of high school (which is 3 years total).This’ll decide the coursework they’ll take in their 2nd and 3rd years of high school.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 185 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 185 Part 3

Amidst all the bullet comments, the game ended by the 35th minute after TAT upgraded their items and took down ZGDX’s base. TAT had taken one foot away from the edge of the cliff with Li Mintai’s two kills at critical moments and a brilliant performance at bot-- --

When the game was over, [reverse sweep] was the most common comment on all the forums around the world.

When the dark faced Lu Yue walked into the break room, his first words to Tong Yao was-- --

“You jinxed it.”

Tong Yao sat next to a table using one hand to support her head while flipping through her little notebook: “I’ve told you to be careful this round. When I left the stage last round, I saw Li Mintai grin at me like the King of Hell and I knew he was going to……”

Lu Yue grabbed a chair over to sit down next to Tong Yao and took over the notebook to see what was in it. He read it out while reading it-- --

“ ‘4’ 30’’, Lu Yue’s Ekko died under the turret, the other side flashed out of the turret with barely any health-- --I’ve said, a woman’s sixth sense. Ah, pa pa’......” Lu Yue put down the notebook and stared at Tong Yao: “What do you mean pa pa, is it applause or slapping someone’s face?”

“..................The first pa is for slapping your face, the second pa is still for slapping your face. How could I applaud the enemy?” Tong Yao grabbed the notebook back: “I’ll go on for the next round?”

Lu Yue disgustedly waved his hand: “You’re on, you’re on. It must be your Leblanc that irritated him…… I can’t defeat him, I admit it.”

Tong Yao: “Oh.”

……

Tong Yao was on for the fourth round.

ZGDX didn’t ban Leblanc this round. Later the result of the game proved one thing: Tong Yao’s Leblanc could defeat Li Mintai and Li Mintai’s Leblanc could also defeat Tong Yao.

Forty-two minutes later, Tong Yao pushed open the door to the break room. 

When her eyes met those of Lu Yue who was sitting behind the table with arms crossed and looking at Tong Yao without much expression. Tong Yao grinned at him and touched her nose tip embarrassingly: “I can’t defeat him either. What to do?”

Lu Yue rolled his eyes.

Lu Sicheng lightly pushed Tong Yao from behind: “We shouldn’t have let Li Mintai get Leblanc. If I believe your words next time, ‘my Fizz is really good at defeating Leblanc’, I’ll hang myself up on stage with my mouse.”

Tong Yao: “......”

The other teammates couldn’t stop themselves from laughing as Lu Sicheng complained about Tong Yao with a dark face. When Xiao Rui pushed open the door, he was confused when he saw everyone in the room laughing: “Did I make a mistake about the last round? It wasn’t TAT who won it? What’s going on with all of you being so happy here-- --So there’s really tens of millions of money into our account already so you guys can’t even fake being sad?”

Tong Yao: “Mindset, mindset is very important. We have to be optimistic.”

Xiao Rui: “You must be getting dumb from the beating you got from them? ? ? ? You think I didn’t notice that when you were being hunted down by Leblanc and Ashe, your face was written all over with ‘I’m going to curse’...... Optimistic? Like hell. Next time, if any of you bet with the other side before the match and let the monster loose, they’ll get a whole year’s pay deducted!”

Tong Yao: “......”

At 11 pm US time that day, during the semi-finals of the S6 world competition, after ZGDX won the first two rounds of the match, TAT caught up with two wins of their own-- --

Fifteen minutes later, they would be at the most important final round of the match.

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 20 Part 2

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 20 Part 2

Ruan Yu put down the washed fruits and told the Xu family that she would be going.

Though Tao Rong and Xu Huaishi all asked her to stay a little longer, Ruan Yu left anyway since it was rather awkward for both sides to have an outsider in their family reunion.

After Ruan Yu left, Xu Huaishi immediately became nosy: “Ge, did you come back so suddenly because of Ruan Xuejie?”

“What nonsense are you talking about?” Xu Huaisong gave her a look then turned to take a look at Tao Rong who was totally unaware of the situation.

Xu Huaishi made a face at her brother and turned to hug Tao Rong’s arm: “Mom, let me tell you, Ge is chasing after that jiejie.”

Xu Huaisong coughed with a frown.

Tao Rong was surprised and a mist quickly covered her eyes: “Huaisong…… you’re planning on coming back?”

Xu Huaisong cast down his eyes: “I don’t know yet.”

“Oh……” Tao Rong smiled but abruptly stood up: “I’ll go to the bathroom.”

Xu Huaishi released her hold on Tao Rong’s arm. After Tao Rong was out of the room, she whispered: “Ge, did I say something wrong?”

Xu Huaisong gave her a stern look: “Good, you’ve noticed.”

“But what I said is true. If you aren’t planning to come back, why bother chasing Ruan Xuejie? You want to trick her into going to the US with you? Mom really wants you to come back, why not give her something to look forward to!”

“Why should I give her hope when it might not come true?”

Xu Huaishi fully understood now: “Oh, you mean you’ll come back only if you’re successful in pursuing Ruan Xuejie? Then, you’ll see, mom will want her to be her daughter-in-law for sure.”

Ruan Yu didn’t know that she had become a daughter-in-law candidate to the Xu family. She was actually glad that Xu Huaisong’s mother and sister had come just in time to save her from being tortured. She secretly swore to herself, she would not show up in front of Xu Huaisong again before the court date.

Three days later, Liu Mao had good news for her. The defendant seemed to have totally given up; she didn’t even file an answer to the court. The court had decided the court date for the case, it would be a week from now.

Ruan Yu felt more relaxed now that it seemed that the case would be resolved pretty soon. She decided to visit her parents in the suburbs.

Both of her parents were retired teachers. They had taught in various remote areas in their younger days. They had suffered a lot of difficulties but devoted many years teaching in those places before returning to Su City to teach at the First High School. Ruan Yu was born after they had settled down at Su City. After Ruan Yu graduated from high school, they applied for early retirement so they could enjoy a more relaxed life as they were getting old. They moved to Hang City with Ruan Yu.

Hang City was a city where people could live comfortably, especially in the suburbs. Ruan Yu was planning to move in with them after graduating from college as it would be a perfect place to focus on writing. But her dad made her move out, saying that she was too young to live like that or was she going to be a buddhist nun?

Ruan Yu then rented an apartment in the city to live by herself.

When Ruan Yu went back to her parents’ place, her mom was busy in the kitchen and her dad was wearing his reading glasses, carefully pruning the flowers and plants in the yard. He called her over: “Yuyu, how are you getting along with Xiao Liu lately?” He handed over a pair of pruning scissors to her.

Ruan Yu put down her purse and took the scissor to help while saying: “He’s a nice guy.”

The eyes of her father, Ruan Chengru, brightened up, then he heard her continue: “He would be a nice friend.”

Ruan Chengru’s eyes turned dark. Then he hinted: “Law is a good profession. If someday you run into some trouble, he can take care of it for you.”

Ruan Yu had never told her parents her pen name because she didn’t want them to worry over any trouble she might encounter in the web novel circle. One of her parents had problems with the legs and the other had heart problems.

Yet her father’s words made her feel like her father seemed to know everything.

She pretended to not notice anything and tried to gloss it over: “You’re looking forward to having your daughter running into trouble?”

Ruan Chengru changed the subject as he continued pruning: “Your mom and I are thinking about going back to Su City for a visit in the next few days.”

“It’s going to be the rainy season soon. It’s not good for your arthritis. Why bother traveling back and forth?”

“The old house is going to be torn down next month. Your mom is looking at the old pictures every day so I suggested that we go back for a visit since it’s not that far away.”

“Then I’ll go back with mom. You can stay home.”

Ruan Chengru didn’t agree or disagree with his daughter’s suggestion, but asked her to take good care of all the flowers and plants in the yard. Then he turned to go back into the house while massaging his back. He went to the kitchen and told Ruan Yu’s mom in a small voice: “Yuyu said that she’ll accompany you to go back to Su City. Do you think we should contact Xiao Liu so he could take the opportunity to get closer to her?”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 185 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 185 Part 2

Twitch, stealthed, crept up to attack Lu Sicheng. Lu Sicheng fought with him as he retreated with Little Fatty-- --Little Fatty’s Braum stayed in the front to take 80% of the damage. He drank two health potions after retreating back under the turret…… While Little Fatty’s health was low, Lu Sicheng had no choice but to give up a small portion of the minion wave and stay safe under the turret. He moved the camera to take a look at the mid lane: “Where’s our mid? You aren’t going to come down to bot?”

Lu Yue: “Your mid is playing safe as usual.”

Lu Sicheng switched the camera back, not willing to look at mid anymore: “You’ve taken Ekko and decided to play safe against Viktor? It’s better if you told me you’re offline so I won’t get so annoyed.”

Lu Yue: “This Ah Tai is quite aggressive this round. He keeps poking like crazy, I’m afraid.”

Lu Sicheng: “You’re like a turret, what do you mean you’re afraid……”

Lu Sicheng just finished speaking when something terrible happened. 

Ekko walked out of the range of the turret and cast some abilities but he dealt a little less damage than he expected. At this moment, a wave of enemy minions pushed forward and the weakened Viktor counterattacked with a Q, basic attack, E combo, instantly triggering the Thunderlord's Decree mastery skill. Ekko was dead right under the turret-- --Viktor’s protective shield soaked up the damage from the first shot from the turret. Lee Sin came over to give him a shield and Viktor flashed out of the turret’s range while Lee Sin remained to tank the second shot from the turret. Their teamwork was perfect!

First blood!

Commentator D: [Alright, alright, I’ve never seen such a bold tower dive! Perfect teamwork from the mid and jungler, working together. We’ve seen the desire to kill from TAT’s mid!]

Commentator F: [And it’s only been five minutes into the game! First blood has arrived! TAT’s mid performed a preemptive strike to create advantage for his team!]

Usually, a first blood was just a 400 gold difference. But to Ekko, it was the beginning of his collapse-- --Since Ekko was at a disadvantage in his own lane, he was unable to support other lanes. Ekko was locked down in mid and could only farm there…… Once the game reached the middle and late stages, Ekko was far less powerful than Viktor in team fights. It was exactly what Lu Sicheng had said: it would be better if mid said he was offline which would be less annoying!

The first blood at the fifth minute of the third round had decided the tempo of this game. For the rest of the game, Viktor was free to roam all over the place. At the 8th minute Viktor reached level 6 and killed Ekko again.

Around the 12th minute, Viktor teleported to bot to get a double kill there and took down the first turret of the game and the first drake-- --

At the 20th minute, the economic difference between the teams had reached 4000 gold because both mid and bot lanes were doing badly and at top, Old Cat’s champion was a tank which couldn’t deal much damage during team fights in the mid game!

[Li Mintai is too strong…… He’s set the tempo for the whole team.]

[If you ask me, it doesn’t make much sense for Lu to take Ekko if he wants to play safe! If he really wants to play safe, he should take a champion who’s good at developing, why Ekko-- --Hasn’t he learned from Smiling to play Diana, why didn’t he use her?]

[6666666. Has TAT woken up? Or should I say, Li Mintai has woken up. Him deciding to roam around bot was really brilliant-- --On the other hand, it looks like ZGDX has fallen asleep. Lu Sicheng hasn’t done anything with Ashe.]

[Losing two rounds then catching up in the next three rounds? Is it going to happen again?]

Tong Yao saw all these comments on the streams back home and anxiously rubbing her hands-- --

At the 30th minute, the fight over Baron began. Ekko flew into the crowd trying to stun the other side’s jungler so his team’s jungler could get Baron, but he failed. He didn’t even have the time to cast R before he was hooked by Thresh’s E ability. Then Viktor used Q, basic attack, R, and E plus ignite to kill Ekko-- --

Originally, Elise was going down the arena to fight for Baron. But since Ekko failed to stun the opponent, Elise had also become easy prey. The moment Elise landed, she died!

TAT took down Baron and with an additional two kills. ZGDX was behind in economy and, given the circumstances, had to retreat. TAT went directly to ZGDX’s base and took down the first inhibitor of the game!

[? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ]

[Where’s Ekko’s R? He didn’t use it at the 8th minute and didn't use it again now!]

[GG.]

[Nevermind, it’s a waste of time. What are they going to do to turn it around?]

[? ? ? ? ? ? ]

[I figure he didn’t have the time to click it. Li Mintai is really tough.]

[I feel that Lu Yue lost his confidence when he died the second time. Next round, if my wife isn’t dead, please bring her on.]

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 185 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 185 Part 1

The commentators were still talking on stage after the players had gone back to the break room-- --

Commentator D: [To be honest, I’m a little surprised about this match so far-- --It’s probably somewhat improper to say so as an official commentator, but I have to say: originally, I thought it would be a reverse of what we’re seeing now.]

Commentator F: [Hum. My friend, I don’t blame you. It’s all because the impression everyone has of LCK has always been so…… You know, TAT always has an outstanding performance record even in their own region’s regular competitions. That’s why everyone calls LCK regular competitions: The Clash of the Titans.

Before this year’s world competition, someone even jokingly asked me: Hey, buddy, are you going to do commentary for the LCK fall season?]

Commentator D: [It’s good, I mean, we always need some surprises at an occasion like this-- --Thanks to LPL. Thanks to ZGDX……]

Commentator F: [Hey! Hey! The match isn’t over yet. Why are you doing the post-game remarks now……]

Commentator D: [Aw, sorry, I just feel like saying it, that’s all-- --Fans of LCK region, don’t worry. Just as my buddy here is saying, TAT only has one foot at the edge of the cliff and they totally have the opportunity and ability to make a miracle happen…… On the other hand, we’re wondering which mid of ZGDX will be up for the next round since both mids are in excellent condition……]

……

The commentators were guessing on stage while ZGDX had already made their decision. Lu Yue would be playing the next round because Lu Sicheng was obviously the carry in the last round, they worried that TAT would decide to target bot next round. Therefore, they put Lu Yue on and plan to have him take a support type mid champion to give Lu Sicheng more protection.

Tong Yao had no objection to the arrangement-- --Actually, when everyone was discussing this matter, she was rather inattentive, her mind was elsewhere…… Before Lu Yue was ready to go on stage, Tong Yao called him and cautioned him to be careful, make sure to ban Leblanc.

Lu Yue was confused. He couldn’t understand why Tong Yao looked so worried when they were winning……

Tong Yao: “Don’t ask. A woman’s sixth sense.”

Lu Yue looked rather surprised: “You’re a woman? How come I don’t know that?”

Tong Yao wasn’t annoyed. She slightly raised up her chin with her legs crossed: “You’ll know when Li Mintai kills you.”

Lu Yue rolled his eyes and reached over to pat Tong Yao’s head. Tong Yao picked up the notebook next to her hand to throw at the door as it was being closed-- --

It made a loud thud.

……

The third round of the match was about to begin.

All the players were at their seats and putting on their headphones. The streams back home were covered with bullet comments of wishful thinking “3 : 0”. The viewers were brainwashed by the comments of “damn, this is really the most hopeful year for the LPL”-- --

For the third round, Lu Yue took Ekko as his champion, Leblanc was banned, and Li Mintai took Viktor.

TAT had chosen the combination of Twitch and Lee Sin while ZGDX had Ashe and Elise. In terms of aggressiveness, the other side seemed to be better than ZGDX-- --It matched Lu Sicheng’s prediction during the break. After his performance in the last round, TAT was finally paying their respect to him and not treating him like a transparent figure.

…...But, the respect seemed a little too much.

At the fourth minute, TAT’s Twitch was behind in farming. Lee Sin was sure that Lu Sicheng would initiate fights once he reached level 4 ahead of his opponent and went down to bot to help Twitch-- --Once Lee Sin placed a ward at bot triangle bush, he saw ZGDX’s Elise hiding in the bush. Without hesitation, Lee Sin went up to give Elise a kick. Elise had no choice but to join the bot duo……

Old K: “Aiya, this Lee Sin has a dog’s nose! Fuck, I tried to hold my breath already but he still knew I was there!”

Little Fatty: “Maybe you didn’t hold your fart in?”

Old K: “I’m going, I’m going.”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 184 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 184 Part 3

TAT’s jungler flashed right into the drake arena and cast smite to grab the inferno drake before using the escape ability, leaving the crowd behind-- --At the same time, Little Fatty, with only a sliver of health left, also used flash to escape the enemy Kennen. Lu Sicheng stayed behind to kill Kennen with just three hits but also had to leave with a sliver of health!

During the fight, all Tong Yao was focusing on was the Azir who had stayed behind on the other side-- --She remembered how her Leblanc had been crushed by Azir during the skirmish-- --She used W to move in suddenly, tap Q to fire a chain in an attempt to lock him down. Azir was forced to back away. Then she turned around to kill the other side’s AD. Azir waited till his cooldown time was over and returned, trying to attack again. Yet Tong Yao was waiting for the moment Azir turned around-- --

She used Q, basic attack plus ignite and R, copying her Q ability, to kill Azir, then returned to her original position with W!

Then she turned to use flash to get out of the drake arena and ran away!

Though ZGDX lost the second inferno drake in the team fight, Tong Yao’s counterattack had turned the engagement in favor of ZGDX, which lost one player in exchange for three TAT players-- --ZGDX continued to pushing turrets, take down drakes, and initiate team fights to widen their economic advantage, killing two enemies, then turned around to take Baron and continuing to demolish the turrets in the enemy base……

It was a familiar tempo for ZGDX!

In the 27th minute, ZGDX successfully killed two of enemies and went to take down Baron again. The gap between the two sides had reached 6000……

In addition, ZGDX wasn’t a team which would make enough mistakes to let their opponent easily turn the game around-- --

ZGDX, as a team, has grown more and more mature with each game that they played to get to the point that they are now.

Their teammates worked well together; they would take turns in the front line, tower dive, slay an enemy, team fight, and split or support…… In any case, they always performed well.

Whether it was Lu Yue or Tong Yao playing, the five players on stage were playing like a single person controlling Summoner’s Rift with ease!

……

At the 39th minute, the victory in the last team fight brought this best of 5 match to 2 : 0. Tong Yao was relieved, let out a long breath and stood up-- --

It seemed somewhat simpler than what she had imagined?

-- --The legendary invincible LCK.

-- --TAT, the team which hadn’t lost a single round in S5 last year and didn’t let a single team from the six regions lay an eye on their own base.

“......”

As she listened to Little Fatty and Old K chat, Tong Yao walked towards the break room. From the corner of her eye, she happened to notice that the five TAT players were still sitting in their own seats. Everyone of them had a grim face and deeply knotted eyebrows…… Their support was talking in a low voice with their AD while looking at the stats……

The young man next to the AD was looking downwards, biting his nails.

He seemed to sense the look from Tong Yao at the moment and suddenly paused. Then he leaned backward a little, turned around, looked up to cast a sidelong glance at Tong Yao while giving a grin.

His gleaming white teeth were showing.

Tong Yao stopped walking-- --

His expression didn’t look like an expression from someone who had just been defeated.

There was excitement in his eyes, some crazy emotion in the eyes as if he couldn’t wait for something to happen……

It was slightly disturbing to Tong Yao.

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 20 Part 1

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 20 Part 1

Ruan Yu turned her head and saw Xu Huaishi.

Ruan Yu knew that Xu Huaisong wasn’t the only child in his family, but she didn’t know before how young his sister was. Now noticing the high school uniform of Su City on Xu Huaishi, she realized that his sister was about 16 or 17 years old.

Ruan Yu didn’t have a good feeling about it.

The archive at the First High School of Su City seemed to have her picture there. Could it be that Xu Huaishi happened to be a student there?

Ruan Yu smiled at Xu Huaishi: “I can do it by myself. You don’t want to talk to your brother?”

“What’s there to talk about.” Xu Huaishi mumbled: “This is too much. He even asked a guest to wash fruits!”

Ruan Yu was wondering about that earlier too but now she had figured it out.

Xu Huaisong must’ve wanted to talk to his family in private but seeing her standing there, he deliberately sent her away.

So in his eyes, she was such a person who couldn’t pick up on social clues? She was planning to leave already.

Xu Huaishi followed her to the coffee room, put down her cell phone and pulled up her sleeves.

Ruan Yu happened to glance over the screen of the cell phone and discovered that the wallpaper was a picture of Li Shican, lean and tall, wearing a basketball jersey while standing at the three-point line and holding an orange ball in his hand.

Noticing that Ruan Yu was looking at that picture, Xu Huaishi introduced: “My boyfriend.”

Ruan Yu was a little shocked but then realized, through her giggling, that she was Li Shican’s fangirl.

Xu Huaishi helped Ruan Yu take the wrapping off the fruit basket and began to wash the apples and plums.

Ruan Yu noticed that she was quite at ease doing all this and asked: “You do housework often?”

“Yeah.” Xu Huaishi nodded: “Forced by my brother.”

Ruan Yu was surprised: “Wasn’t he in the US before?”

“He always has ways to force me.” Xu Huaishi sighed and lowered her voice: “Remote control, like a devil.”

Ruan Yu gave her a smile and a sense of danger arose again when she glanced over Xu Huaishi’s uniform. She asked: “What high school are you at?”

“The First High School of Su City.”

Xu Huaishi answered without thinking but secretly screamed in her mind after the words left her mouth. Did this count as against her brother’s warning of “keeping your mouth shut”?

Xu Huaishi carefully looked up at Ruan Yu but found Ruan Yu seemed even more uneasy than herself.

Nevermind, perhaps it was because they both had the misfortune of being dominated by her brother. Neither of them was doing any better than the other.

Xu Huaishi felt even more sorry towards Ruan Yu by now: “Jiejie, has your case been resolved?”

“It should be soon, we’re waiting for the court date.”

“Have you run into any difficulties?”

“We’re missing one piece of evidence that’s supposed to be there. But it doesn’t matter too much.”

Xu Huaisong said oh in a very low voice.

The missing evidence was the one she was supposed to present to court for the purchase of the outline. But the purchase never existed and she couldn’t make up a transaction record. Xu Huaisong also strictly forbade her from committing perjury.

Therefore she could only say that it was inconvenient for her to provide the evidence.

Fortunately, her brother had obtained a phone record as a substitute. In addition, Ruan Yu had found that the main problem was with Su Cheng not her and stopped pursuing her.

Xu Huaishi couldn’t apologize to Ruan Yu outright and could only say: “Don’t worry. Just let my brother handle all the troubles. He’s quite good.”

Ruan Yu nodded. On the way back to the room, Xu Huaishi couldn’t control her curiosity and asked: “Jiejie, you’re so good looking, do you have a boyfriend?”

Ruan Yu shook her head: “No.”

“Then what kind of boyfriend do you want to find?”

Ruan Yu hesitated for a moment, then half jokingly said: “Someone who could sweet talk like you.”

Xu Huaishi’s heart skipped a beat.

Oh no, her brother would be out of the picture then.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 184 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 184 Part 2

Amidst the exclamation of amazement from the audience, Caitlyn now had two marks that Kennen had placed on her. If she got another mark, Caitlyn would be stunned and would definitely die-- --The only thing Kennen needed to do was cast a Q ability to stun Caitlyn then use a basic attack!

Right at the moment when Kennen raised his hand, Lu Sicheng used flash from underneath the turret, barely dodging Kennen’s Q ability. He circled to go behind Kennen, used three consecutive abilities, E, Q, A. Combined with the damage from the turret, he killed Kennen!

Double kills! ! ! ! 

Just as everyone thought Lu Sicheng would die, he counterattacked and got a double kill based on his keen observation and precise predictions!

Little Fatty: “I’m dumbfounded.”

Old K: “See that! Without us, our captain can still do very well-- --Very nice, a self-serving type of player!”

Old Cat: “I thought you all were going to be killed, didn’t even bother trying to teleport. Hahahahaha!”

Tong Yao: “6666666. I’ll probably have 1.2 billion more love rivals with that performance.”

Lu Sicheng stood in the bush to show off his team’s tag (*nicknamed flashing their dog tag; every player from each team has one chance to emote their team logo during each round of a match. There’s no practical meaning in doing so, it’s purely for fun or to taunt the other side)...... Then he walked another two steps before hitting the B key to go back.

Commentator D: [OH-- --MY-- --God! I’ve already said this to ZGDX so many times, but I still want to say it out loud again: OH-- --MY-- --God!]

Commentator F: [A totally unexpected counterattack. Just as all of us thought ZGDX was about to lose, Chessman snatched a double kill out of the blue…… It messed up their opponent’s tempo and saved his own team from peril!]

Tong Yao: “I haven’t felt the handsomeness of our captain for quite a while. Today that feeling is overwhelming.”

Lu Sicheng: “Am I awesome?”

Tong Yao: “Awesome.”

Lu Sicheng: “Can you see my desire to win?”

Tong Yao: “I see it.”

Starting from the double kill, ZGDX accumulated a 2000 gold advantage by the 11th minute of the game, though that advantage basically rested with Old K and Lu Sicheng who both had acquired kills earlier……

The whole team’s morale had a boost.

While Lu Sicheng was doing his counterattack, the deadly period for ZGDX, because their mid lost both of her summoner’s skills, was counting down-- --

In the end,  ZGDX survived the cooldown safely and soundly. Tong Yao regained use of her two summoner skills. She breathed out a long breath of relief: “Thanks to everyone.”

At the 18th minute, ZGDX initiated the fight for drakes after pushing the minion waves at both mid and bot lanes to the opponent’s turrets. They started the fight for the second inferno drake. Knowing that if ZGDX added this inferno drake to their kills, this round would end far earlier than anyone would expect. TAT initiated a team fight despite the fact that the items their AD and top had were more inferior to ZGDX’s! 

Tong Yao: “Here they come!”

Lu Sicheng: “I want them to come. Old K, drag the drake this way more, hurry rush the……”

Before Lu Sicheng finished giving his order, the other side’s Azir had already rushed over. Azir used his ultimate to divide the battlefield, separating Lu Sicheng from Old Cat’s Rumble and Little Fatty-- --Azir was well developed and used three attacks to kill Old Cat’s Rumble. With one player down, ZGDX’s formation had become disrupted!

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 19 Part 3

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 19 Part 3

Xu Huaisong frowned at the computer.

“What’s wrong?” Ruan Yu asked.

“It’s too long. My eyes hurt.”

Wasn’t he in the hospital for some stomach problem?

“Then, read it after you take a good rest.”

“You read it.”

“?”

Ruan Yu had to rub her ears: “What did you say?”

Xu Huaisong closed his eyes and pulled up the blanket a little to lay half of his body down on the bed: “I roughly remember the original text. You read it once over and I’ll make sure there’s no problem, then our work will be done.”

“......”

He would have no problem with it but Ruan Yu would have a lot of problems with it.

Ruan Yu couldn’t even fake a smile now: “I’ve gone over it, there’s no problem with this chapter.”

“During the second World War, the British and American forces wanted to reinforce the structure of their fighter planes. They investigated the damage on all the surviving fighter planes and concluded that they should reinforce the areas that had taken the most hits. But statisticians pointed out that they should pay more attention to the areas where there were less direct hits. Because if those areas suffered heavy damage, then it’d be almost impossible to fly the plane back. People tend to overlook those statistics.” Xu Huaisong told the story with his eyes closed.

“......”

A writer like her wouldn’t have the kind of imagination to link a comparison column to World War II.

Ruan Yu couldn’t find anything to say as a rebuttal and took out her cell phone instead.

Alright, she thought, she’ll just let him fly a fighter plane.

It was just a short piece of exotic writing. Weren’t we all adults?

Ruan Yu went to close the door, put down the thermal box, picked up her cell phone, and put her left hand over her right wrist to steady herself. Then she cleared her throat and used a mechanical voice to read: “Chapter 23……”

Before she couldn continue, someone knocked on the door.

Ruan Yu paused and Xu Huaisong also opened his eyes.

The nurse outside the door said: “Mr. Xu, there’s a Ms. Tao here who says she’s your mother and was asking about your room number at the information desk.” 

A minute later, Ruan Yu, who didn’t have the chance to slip away, was face to face with the mother and sister of the male lead in her story.

When the door opened, all three females were looking at one another. Tao Rong and Ruan Yu almost nodded at one another at the same time as a greeting.

Xu Huaishi was quite surprised and looked all over Ruan Yu from top to bottom. She seemed to have recognized Ruan Yu: “Aiya……”

“Xu Huaishi.” Xu Huaisong straightened up and gave her a glance with a dark face: “It’s Friday today. You’re skipping class?”

Xu Huaishi forgot what she was going to say and pulled on Tao Rong’s arm: “How can I? Mom gave me permission! Look, you don’t come back to Su City after you return to the country, so we’ll just have to make the trip to come over.”

Tao Ron lightly patted her hand: “Your brother’s busy.” She also took a look at Ruan Yu who was standing there: “And this is?”

Ruan Yu then realized that she was still in a position with her cell phone tightly gripped in her hand. She made the move to introduce herself: “How are you? I’m Mr. Xu’s client. I’m here to discuss my case with him.”

Xu Huaisong didn’t have any objection to her introduction. He called on Tao Rong and Xu Huaishi to sit down and said: “I’ve told you I’m alright. It’s just that I haven’t gotten used to the climate here.”

“You even had to check into the hospital……” Tao Ron’s eyes turned reddish but stopped from continuing, probably because there was a stranger in the room.

Ruan Yu immediately sensed that her stay there had interfered with the family reunion. She was planning to leave but noticed that Xu Huaisong was looking at her: “Wash some fruits for my mom.”

She replied with an “oh” and turned to pick up the fruit basket on the stand next to his bed. After she had walked out of the room, she seemed to feel that there was something not quite right.

He told her to wash fruits for his mother? Why did it feel weird somehow?

As she was wondering, suddenly she heard a crisp voice coming from behind: “Jiejie, let me help you wash!”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 184 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 184 Part 1

After being attacked by Tong Yao, TAT’s mid only had a sliver of health left and chose to go back.

Commentator D: [We can tell that Smiling’s quite aggressive today. It looks like she truly wants to kill Azir-- --She cast her abilities so fast just now. It’s the kind of Leblanc play you can only see in a world competition.]

Commentator F laughed out loud: [Too bad the damage was still a little off. With the infernal drake buff and ignite, under normal circumstances, Smiling should’ve been able to deal enough damage with the items she has now. It looks like Thei’s ruby crystal gave him the extra health to barely survive-- --In any case, Smiling failed to kill the opponent and used her own flash in the attempt….. Though she did send Azir home, her teammates came to give support very quickly-- --It looks like they don’t plan to hand over the mid turret this early in the game.]

Commentator F was quite right. With Smiling back at base, ZGDX’s AD, which had just respawned, came straight to the mid lane leaving only the support at the bot. At the same time, the jungler also arrived at mid-- --

Commentator D continued: [The trouble now is that Smiling has used her flash and for the next four and half minutes, ZGDX won’t have a chance to initiate a team fight to kill the other side’s back row-- --At a moment like this, with TAT’s top, Kennen, already has his ultimate, ZGDX needs to be really careful not to let the other side initiate a fight……]

Commentator F: [But their opponent is TAT. The reason TAT seldom loses is because they can always seize any of their opponents’ mistakes and exploits any opportunity with deadly force…… ZGDX must watch out.]

The commentators were saying exactly what the five players of ZGDX were thinking.

Tong Yao: “Everyone, watch out. If the other side starts a team fight now and gets even a kill with no loss, I’ll be the one who takes the blame-- --Then I’ll announce to the whole world right after this round that my captain told me to attack Ah Tai to boost our morale. I have to listen to the captain's command.”

Everyone: “......”

Lu Sicheng smirked: “Your captain didn’t tell you to attack then turn around to run away with flash. You ran even faster than the western reporters.”

Tong Yao: “I would be dead if I didn’t use flash.”

Lu Sicheng: “Then, you’re really good at it.”

Tong Yao earnestly nodded. She spoke while taking her time fighting for the blue buff: “That’s right. From the summer competition finals to S6, you know what I have learned-- --When it’s time to run, run, don’t hesitate. It’s only a possibility in the future that they’ll initiate a team fight, but it’ll be an irreversible fact if I get killed.”

“......What you’ve learned isn’t running away.” Lu Sicheng flatly said: “It’s more like weaseling? …...Let’s separate and farm for 4 minutes. Why gather at mid to wait for a team fight?”

Lu Sicheng made a lot of sense and the rest of the team all went back to their own lanes to farm-- --Tong Yao moved her lips but before she could say anything, trouble occurred!

TAT was a team which would never give up any chance to get a kill. Even their support would chase the enemy and attack the enemy's top. As Tong Yao was without both of her summoner skills at the moment, it was impossible for them to let the chance slip away-- --

TAT’s Kennen, who already had his ultimate, teleported to bot. He worked with the team’s AD in a pincer attack from the front and back at the same time. Little Fatty’s Tahm used his shield to try and fight with Kennen for a while so he might be able to at least take down one of them. What Little Fatty didn’t expect was for the other side’s Gragas to suddenly burst out of the river bank and use his E ability immediately after a flash to blow Little Fatty out of the range of the turret, killing Little Fatty!

TAT got the first kill this round!

After the kill, Gragas turned around to find Tong Yao working with Old K to steal TAT’s red buff. He pinged mid and left-- --At this time, Lu Sicheng’s Caitlyn, only at half health, was facing the other side’s Ezreal and Kennen at bot. Caitlyn had already used her heal!

Commentator F: [We can see that the ambush at bot was quite effective. Facing Kennen and Ezreal, Chessman’s obviously doomed and it’s possible that he’ll lose the turret to TAT as well…… Oh, wait a minute!]

TAT’s AD thought he had his chance to get even with Lu Sicheng now and went across the turret into minion wave without giving it much thought. Lu Sicheng played cat and mouse with him under the turret. The moment the AD entered the turret, he stepped on Caitlyn’s trap, then was hit by Caitlyn and the turret. Lu Sicheng was able to kill him instead!

Commentator D: [Chessman! !  ! ! Chessman’s going to create a miracle again! ! ! ! ]

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 183 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 183 Part 3

The game began.

Tong Yao looked all over the screen then said something that surprised everyone: “Where’s my cursor? I can’t find my cursor!”

Lu Sicheng sighed. Despite having already loaded the game, he lifted his hand off the keyboard to put it on Tong Yao’s hand which was randomly moving her mouse around. Her hand felt quite cold-- --

“Cursor’s here, here, see it?” He held her hand: “Keep your cool, be calm. It’s just Ah Tai. You’ve been defeated by him so many times, what does one more time matter? When you took his challenge, weren't you in high spirits and eager to do it……”

Tong Yao threw away Lu Sicheng’s hand: “Is this your way of comforting people?”

Lu Sicheng smiled and sat back straight in his seat. His hand was back on the keyboard…… Tong Yao took a deep breath and moved to her lane, Azir was already waiting for her at the other side.

Azir was a champion that developed at a steady pace and could resist pressure. Leblanc, at level one, also needed to stay put to farm and quietly develop. Therefore, both sides were rather calm at level one and stood behind their own minion waves. Occasionally, when the other side moved a little closer, they would randomly attack the other and deal some damage-- --

When both sides reached level two, Tong Yao began to use Q, W to hit her opponent…… She was successful twice but missed once. Ah Tai played Azir very well and Azir was as slippery as an eel. It was hard for Tong Yao to get a hold of him! On the other hand, Azir struck Tong Yao several times. If it wasn’t for the fact that she had used a health potion beforehand, she probably would be dead by now!

Usually, with Azir in the lineup, it would be hard to take down any of the turrets in mid. Therefore, ZGDX didn’t plan to do too much in the mid lane in the early game…… Around the fourth minute, ZGDX’s top and jungler, Old K’s Nidalee and Old Cat’s Rumble, teamed up and tower dived, taking first blood when they killed the enemy top, who had moved too far ahead!

“Fuck! You look down upon the blue collar top and I’ll just use Rumble to kill you!” Old Cat cursed as he took the 400 gold while cleaning up the minion lane. Then he hid in the bush to return to base: “If you dare, ban my Rumble. If not, then I’ll take Rumble and kill you. What about it?”

“......” Tong Yao sulkily said: “You’re also quite irritated. Today our team is all hotheaded.”

Little Fatty: “The rage of the blue collar laborer, hahahahahahahahahahaha!”

Lu Sicheng: “I’m getting old. I don’t understand your young people’s passion.”

As he was talking, he pinged and Little Fatty’s Tahm flashed over to swallow the enemy AD. It happened so quickly that the AD didn’t even realize what had happened. Little Fatty turned to slowly waddle back, then spat out the AD at Lu Sicheng’s face-- --

At the same moment, Old K’s Nidalee came over. The enemy AD was struck by Little Fatty’s exhaust and Nidalee placed a trap right on top of him. He had no choice but to use flash. But his landing position happened to be the place where Lu Sicheng’s Caitlyn’s trap had landed. He died instantly!

Both the top and bot lanes had kills!

Old Cat: “Nice!”

Old K: “Nice!”

Little Fatty: “Nice!”

Lu Sicheng: “Drake.”

Old Cat: “Mid, watch Azir, don’t let Azir and their jungler come over……”

Lu Sicheng checked the stat: “0/0/0 in five minutes and missed 5 or 6 minions…… Mid? You offline?”

Tong Yao: “You’re so vain. Don’t you talk.”

Lu Sicheng: “You have Leblanc but play like Lu Yue. Come, after the fight for drake, find a chance to get him. Even if you can’t win, it’ll be alright, just 300 gold. I’ll get it back for you.”

Tong Yao: “......”

Little Fatty: “This is the finals of a world competition of professional leagues. It’s not some entertainment match where you play with girls at Bronze back home. You two, behave yourselves.”

When he finished, Tong Yao reached level 6. QRWE, ignite, then Q again at Azir. Azir had a sliver of health left. Azir pushed Leblanc back and Leblanc instantly flashed-- --

Old K: “Aiyoo!”

Old Cat: “Aiyoo!”

Little Fatty: “Aiyoo! That was truly a quintessential flash-- --It fully reflects the lesson our mid has learned after being bullied by OP’s Jin Yuguang, that one should cherish one’s life. Killing them with counterplay? No way.”

Tong Yao: “................ He has a ruby crystal, what’s going on? Is he testing my ability to do arithmetic? The damage was a little off. Next time I meet him, I’ll be able to kill him. Now I’ll just run away!”

Lu Sicheng: “Playing acrobatics.”

Eight minutes into the game, ZGDX was temporarily in the lead with 1000 more gold, had taken the first infernal drake, and their mid hadn’t died. Their prospects were looking quite optimistic.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 183 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 183 Part 2

It was quite ironic that ever since Tong Yao started playing professionally, she had gotten through a pay deduction, a suspension, and intimidation by blade and dead cockroaches, but in the end the only true “nightmare” for her was that skirmish with TAT.

The origin of that nightmare was sitting at this moment on the stage about 10 meters away-- --In the past few days, people had caught some clues from Tong Yao’s interview and the trash talk. They had started to talk about her and Li Mintai being in a love-hate relationship or fated archenemies. Every time Tong Yao saw comments like that, she felt disgusted……

…...To hell with it! This wasn’t some novel about bossy CEOs! Besides, no matter how good looking he was, Li Mintai was the downright villain in the story!

…...He was the villain that she had to defeat!

A lot of thoughts went through Tong Yao’s head but she remained expressionless-- --

Her mind wandered off.

She felt someone touch the headphones on her arm and looked up. The next second, the headphones were placed on her head. The noise from the audience and the commentary from the commentators disappeared instantly……

Tong Yao was a little taken aback.

She turned to look at Lu Sicheng. He pointed at the headphones then put his own headphones on as well-- --The other teammates hadn’t put on theirs yet. There were only the two of them on the chat channel. She heard his calm and low voice: “Close your eyes, take a deep breath, relax…… It’s alright even if you can’t take him down, I’ll carry you to victory.”

His gentle voice was like a shot in the arm for Tong Yao which calmed her restless heart……

Tong Yao followed his words and lean back in the chair and closed her eyes to take a deep breath-- --

When she opened her eyes again, the uncertainty and uneasiness in her eyes had dissipated, like magic.

……

The second round had entered the ban & pick phase. The two teams took turns to ban champions. The audience was watching with great anticipation after being reminded by commentators that this round wasn’t just a match but a battle over the honor of a particular title……

The audience was in commotion every time the ban wasn’t Leblanc, no matter which team was doing the ban…… When TAT chose Zilean as their last ban, the audience went wild-- --

All six bans, none of them was Leblanc. Leblanc was free to be picked by both teams!

The audience was amazed by the outcome. They stretched their necks in anticipation of ZGDX, the blue side, to lock down Leblanc as their first pick……

Not only was the audience excited, even the commentators almost jumped up from their seats!

Commentator D: [Smiling got Leblanc! Smiling got her Leblanc! This is the first time she hasn’t been banned when Smiling was playing ever since the group matches!]

Commentator F: [Thei locks in Azir. To be honest, Azir isn’t the best choice to go against Leblanc…… Uh, uh, uh, wait, wait! I seem to hear that the grudge between them begins with Leblanc and Azir……]

Commentator D: [I never thought we'd see a match to settle a grudge in the semi-finals of a world competition……]

Commentator F: [Too bad that the players are all wearing headphones now. Otherwise, I would like to ask them whether they made any bet that the losing side has to call the other side either “daddy” or “mommy”?]

The commentators were chatting quite excitedly. The pick phase ended quickly and smoothly. The big screens showed that the players had all entered the game…… Lu Sicheng turned to glance at Tong Yao: “You really did make a bet with him? I thought it was just a joke.”

Tong Yao raised her hands to make a gesture of “do not enter” like a traffic police, telling Lu Sicheng not to talk to her-- --

Lu Sicheng: “What’s that for?”

Tong Yao used her hands to fan herself: [I’m nervous again. It feels like my heart will jump out of my mouth if I open my mouth.”

Lu Sicheng: “......”

Little Fatty: “The mental state of our mid isn’t all that strong-- --When you have time, you should learn from Lu Yue, he’s as steady as a veteran. He acts like a turret even more than the actual turret. He just sits tight and resists all pressure, just waiting for his teammates to win the game for him. If there’s no need for him to carry, he would never carry……”

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 19 Part 2

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 19 Part 2

Chen Hui gave Ruan Yu a smile then turned to find that the porridge in front of Xu Huaisong was a different one. He found it rather odd and made an “eh” sound.

“Get me some tissues.” Xu Huaisong interrupted just as Chen Hui was about to ask.

Liu Mao was closer to the stand next to the bed and gave Xu Huaisong the whole box of tissues. Then he patted Chen Hui’s shoulder: “Let’s go. We have business back in the office.”

Chen Hui went along but suddenly turned his head back while at the door: “Oh, right, Song Ge, I read the email you sent at 4 am. I’ll give you the information later on.”

Ruan Yu was surprised to hear that.

She was sure by 3 am this morning she had already fallen asleep. Didn’t Xu Huaisong tell her that he didn’t turn off the video chat because he had also fallen asleep around the same time? 

Then she heard Xu Huaisong questioning: “3 am this morning? Were you sleepwalking?”

Liu Mao reacted quite quickly: “Xiao Chen has gotten it wrong. That was an email from me.”

Ruan Yu: “......”

What a group of lawyers she had gotten involved with, Ruan Yu thought to herself. They couldn’t get who sent which email straight. She began to worry for their clients.

“Oh, yeah?” Chen Hui rubbed the back of his head and went out of the door, still uncertain. When they were at the parking lot, he slapped his thigh: “That’s not right, Mao Ge. It was an email from Song Ge alright!”

Liu Mao opened the car door: “You should be better at reading minds. You don’t want to work in our law firm anymore?”

Chen Hui suddenly realized something. He got in the car and said while fastening the seat belt: “No wonder Song Ge started to act strangely ever since he met Ms. Ruan. For example, the day he came back, he insisted that I pretend that Zhang Jie had run into trouble. Later on, I made a voice call to ask him when to pick him up. But he told me ‘not eating yet’ out of nowhere……”

Liu Mao didn’t know about this matter. After giving it some thought, he sent a message to Xu Huaisong: [Don’t go overboard with your tricks. If anything, don’t delay the comparison columns anymore. She has already brought over the final draft, there’s no excuse not to finalize it.]

Xu Huaisong had just finished eating the porridge. He picked up his cell phone and read the message. He was quiet for a moment then typed: [You think I want to delay it?]

They were like a lotus root[1] which had been cut into two halves, except for this case, there wasn’t any other connection between them that remained.

But Liu Mao was right, this matter should have ended by now.

Noticing that he had finished eating, Ruan Yu gathered the box and utensils and said it once again: “Mr. Xu, get some rest, I’ll be going now.”

Xu Huaisong nodded while flipping through the documents she had brought. When Ruan Yu was at the door with the thermal box, he said: “Wait a minute.”

Ruan Yu looked back with doubt in her eyes.

He said: “There’s always a chapter missing in your draft.”

Indeed, there was one missing chapter, the one in which the female lead had the exotic dream.

Ruan Yu’s heart suddenly jerked.

She tried hard to calm down: “Is there?”

Xu Huaisong didn’t give her a chance to get away with it: “Let’s go through chapter 23 to make sure.”

“Now?”

Xu Huaisong nodded.

Ruan Yu had no choice but to go back: “But I don’t have the draft with me.”

“Not even on your account on the website?”

Ruan Yu wondered why he, a lawyer, would know about the backend of a feminine literature website?

Ruan Yu took her time to log on to the website on her cell phone.

She couldn’t get away from it but at least she could find an excuse not to be face to face with him: “The network is a little laggy. I’ll send it to you on my way back then.”

“There’s wifi here, the password is four 6s four 8s.”

Ruan Yu secretly took a deep breath and gritted her teeth. Three minutes later, she copied and pasted the chapter to a file and sent it to him. Then she said: “I’ve sent it to you. Then I’ll be going.”

[1]: Lotus root is used here because when it breaks it usually has sticky silky string/fiber that still connects the pieces. He's saying that this case is the only connection he has to her now.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 183 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 183 Part 1

With Lu Yue’s steady play and Old Cat’s explosive carry, ZGDX easily won their first round of the match against TAT and the fans back home were all in tears-- --

It seemed to them that there were always scares rather than surprises whenever the LPL played the world competitions. The series of surprises from ZGDX had moved the fans to tears!

Old Cat killed Sasali all by himself! ! ! 

It was an illusion that they could only daydream about before today!

They felt like saying it again: This is LPL’s most hopeful year!

Amidst all the fans’ cheering and joyful mood, the second round began.

Smiling replaced Lu Yue to play this round following the rotation plan-- --The switch wasn't anything new to the audience.  If it were any other team that replaced a mid when the mid didn’t do anything wrong at the previous game, it would be questioned and harshly criticized…... 

Fortunately, ZGDX, as of now, had a perfect image in the fans minds after their comeback win against OP from two losses and winning the first round against TAT. As long as they could win the match, anything was acceptable-- --

Whatever the team said counts!

Whoever the team wanted to replace, it’s fine!

Commentator D: [As we can see, ZGDX has put Smiling on again. To be honest, I think this will make this match even more enjoyable to watch-- --Even Thei had said in an interview a few days ago that he wanted to see who the best Leblanc is with this match.]

Commentator F: [Whoa, hahahahahahahahahaha, I smell gunpowder! I doubt anyone would want to let either of these two mids have Leblanc.]

Commentator D: [If you’re right, then it seems that whichever team bans Leblanc first is the first to lose. I’m looking forward to seeing if they all hold their breath and not ban……]

Commentator F: [Then let me congratulate everyone, at this round, following the appearance of the top monster Riven, there will be another mid monster to be released……]

Commentator D: [-- --Will this monster be Smiling or Thei?]

Commentator F: [Welcome back to the 2016 League of Legends professional league world competition. The semi-finals match that’s about to begin now is the second round of the match between LPL region’s ZGDX and LCK region’s TAT!]

The audience cheered!

Tong Yao sat down in the mid position.

She could hear the enthusiastic cheers from the audience; some were cheering for ZGDX, some seemed to cheer for Smiling…… She took her headphones from the computer and put them around her arm. Her face was stiff and pulling on her slightly cold fingers-- --She looked over the computer at the crowd in the dark. A lot of people had led boards in their hands. But she couldn’t really tell which team or player they were for……

She’ll just tentatively believe that they were here to cheer for her?

Tong Yao took her eyes away from the audience. To relieve her nervousness, she looked around: “......Captain, you think they really won’t ban my Leblanc?”

Lu Sicheng’s voice sounded quite relaxed: “Don’t know. Even without Leblanc, you can still play with whatever you get.”

Tong Yao: “Why are you so relaxed!”

Lu Sicheng: “Because in the last round, TAT’s bot lost 20 minions in ten minutes. If I’m not relaxed, who else could be?”

Tong Yao: “..............”

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, why is his confidence so irritating, Tong Yao thought! !  !

Tong Yao had to try really hard to suppress the urge to turn her head to look at the TAT’s mid next to them-- --Before coming up to the stage, she had mentally prepared herself. But at this moment when she was on the stage and about to face her ultimate nemesis…… She couldn’t help herself but remembering a few months ago, when she had just started playing professionally and when she had the first skirmish against TAT-- --

Before the skirmish she had heard that Ah Tai was a player with a somewhat negative reputation; he liked to use other players’ favorite champions to defeat them, to demoralize his opponents completely…… It was in this particular skirmish that Tong Yao had become the team’s weakest link. She remembered clearly that she was using Azir in the skirmish but got killed numerous times by the champion she thought she was most familiar with, Leblanc-- --

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 19 Part 1

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 19 Part 1

Ruan Yu could hear Liu Mao’s voice coming from inside the hospital room as she got closer: “How would I know that you haven’t eaten lunch? You didn’t even tell me.”

“I did. WeChat.” Xu Huaisong answered positively.

Ruan Yu stopped at about one meter from the door. She looked down at the thermal box in her hand and didn’t know what to think.

Xu Huaisong’s illness must be making him confused. He did say it on WeChat, but he had sent it to her.

She understood now why she had received a message from him after hanging up the voice chat. The message sounded like it was for a close friend and quite demanding: [Bring me a bowl of porridge at noon.]

A map and the number of his hospital room were attached to the message.

It looked like he had mistakenly sent the message meant for Liu Mao to her?

Looking at that commanding message as she remembered that he was taking care of her case while getting an infusion in the hospital, it was impossible for her to refuse his request even if it was just out of sympathy.

Now what should she do? Should she go in or not?

Ruan Yu hesitated in front of the door. Suddenly she heard Liu Mao’s voice again: “Alright, I’ll go buy it for you.” He strode to walk out of the room right after saying so.

It was too late for Ruan Yu to avoid him. She wryly smiled: “Mr. Liu.” She lifted up the thermal box in her hand while speaking: “Going to buy porridge?”

Liu Mao led her into the room.

Xu Huaisong was sitting on the bed leaning against the pillow. He was typing something on the computer. It looked like he was still working. A surprised look flashed in his eyes as he saw Ruan Yu come in.

Ruan Yu: “Uh, the door was open and I heard your conversation……” She shook her cell phone while talking: “Mr. Xu, your porridge.”

Xu Huaisong seemed a little surprised before he realized it. He looked down to take a look at his cell phone: “Oh.” Then he added after a short pause: “Sorry to trouble you.”

Ruan Yu put down the thermal box and the documents in her other hand: “Then I’ll be going now. This is the final draft of the comparison columns. I’ll leave them with you. You can look at them when you’re feeling better.”

Liu Mao stopped her: “Hum, you’ve made the trip for me on such a scorching day. I’ll treat you to something cold.”

Ruan Yu shook her hand and said there was no need for that. When Liu Mao suggested “then sit for a while and have some fruit”, Ruan Yu didn’t feel right to refuse again.

Liu Mao let her sit in a chair nearby, then put the thermal box on the small table in front of Xu Huaisong and opened the cover for him.

The fragrance of osmanthus came out of the box. It was a two-layer box with one layer of white porridge and the other with red bean paste.

Liu Mao wondered what strange way of eating porridge this is?

Xu Huaisong on the other hand seemed very familiar with it. He used wet wipes to clean his hands before slowly pouring the red bean paste over the white porridge.

A sense of loneliness from being “left out” filled Liu Mao’s heart. Filled with curiosity, he asked: “Is this a specialty from your hometown?”

He had used the plural form of your, but Xu Huaisong replied with an en without feeling anything wrong with it.

Ruan Yu jumped: “How does Mr. Xu know that I’m also from Su City?”

“I’ve looked it up.” He scooped up some porridge and replied with her own words. When he looked up, he saw her face was turning pale. He slightly bit his lower lip and added: “Your WeChat profile.”

In her profile, she did list “Su City” as her area.

Ruan Yu relaxed a bit. It was alright that he had found out they were from the same city as long as he didn’t know they were from the same school.

She changed subjects to conceal her uneasiness: “I didn’t use sticky rice since it’s hard on digestion. The texture might be a little off, you’ll just have to make do.”

“En.”

Liu Mao felt that he was being ignored even more now. As he was planning to leave the room, Chen Hui, who he had sent away earlier, happened to come back. He was surprised to see Ruan Yu there: “Ms. Ruan, you’ve also come to visit Song Ge?”

Ruan Yu thought to herself that it was actually because of a screwup but she couldn’t really say that she wasn’t here to visit Xu Huaisong. Therefore she could only nod and said: “Yeah.”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 182 Part 4

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 182 Part 4

During the laning phase, though ZGDX didn’t create much of an advantage over TAT, Lu Yue did manage to get away from TAT’s jungler’s ambushes several times like a slippery eel at mid. At bot, Lu Sicheng together with Little Fatty was very aggressive, causing the other side to miss twenty or so minions. But TAT’s Alistar and Kalista were very strong in providing protection to their teammates, Lu Sicheng and Little Fatty didn’t get the chance to kill any of their enemies……

Once the game reached the middle stage, during a fight over drake that had been initiated by TAT, their jungler Lee Sin and top Rumble actively chased after Old Cat trying to slay him. At that moment, both Lee Sin and Rumble had their ultimates already and were at full health. Everyone thought that Old Cat was dead for sure. But Old Cat let the fans all over the world  witness a different Old Cat-- --

Old Cat used his E ability to drag Lee Sin to the same position as Rumble, then in that instance used W to stun both of them! He then followed with R at Rumble, basic attack and Q to hit Lee Sin, and Q ability again dealing splash damage to Rumble, killing him. At the same time, he used A, repositioned, A again, pulled back and at the instant when Lee Sin was placing the ward, he went back to using W to stun Lee Sin and successfully killed two enemies all by himself!

It was a brilliant play!

Not only the audience but the people back in the break room were also awestruck by Old Cat’s play-- --

Commentator D: [OH-- --MY-- --God! ! ! !]

Commentator F: [I can’t believe my own eyes. It feels like I’m watching a fake game-- --Now we can see the scene being replayed again, alright, I still did get a clear view of how he did it! ! ! It’s the third time I’m watching it. We can count it together; before Lee Sin placed the ward, Cat had made at least 7 attacks!]

Commentator D: [He knows Riven inside and out. It’s impossible that this is a champion he has chosen just because he’s pissed off. He is Riven himself! If-- --I mean if ZGDX won the championship, I suggest that the championship skin for Cat has to be The Exile!]

Commentator F: [His maneuver could be one of the top three plays of this world competition-- --Let me say it again, I simply couldn’t believe my own eyes!]

In the previous matches, Old Cat always played a dull game at top most of the time, remaining low key and taking hits well. Many people were like TAT’s top and thought that Old Cat was ZGDX’s only vulnerable point, the weak link-- --until today.

In the first round of the match, Old Cat used a super carry champion he rarely used in any competition but had used while playing ranked matches. He secured two kills all by himself and became a monster that the opponent couldn’t find a way to counter till the end of the game. His performance decided the direction of how this round would end!

Until the end of this round-- --both commentators and the audience were still reminiscing about Old Cat’s play. Tieba was also filled with analysis posts. They exclaimed that his performance couldn’t possibly develop simply during ranked matches-- --

The fact that Old Cat could perform that series of actions just showed that Old Cat knew very well Riven’s damage output at every level, her ability cooldowns, and how her abilities targeted enemies. Furthermore, how cool-headed he had to be when doing all those things. If he made any mistake in any one of the attacks or he had tapped the floor an extra time when doing the basic attack, those series of actions wouldn’t have worked!

[Thanks to the world competition, it has let us witness a different ZGDX! Before, all we see are  Chang Ge and his wife. Now, we’ve discovered that we have a support god and a top god!]

[If anyone says it again that ZGDX without Lu Sicheng would be 0 to 10 against TAT, come out to have your words slapped back at your face!]

[Congratulations to TAT’s Sasali. He grabbed Rumble and trashed Old Cat before the game and successfully unleashed ZGDX’s ultimate monster hidden at top.]

[I’ve become a fan. Old Cat’s Riven play is really shocking!]

[Under the blue collar, there’s gold……………… Didn’t expect to see this kind of play. To tell the truth, I feel that ZGDX is well prepared this time. For sure!]

……

Amid all the praise, the MVP of this round was announced and as expected, it was Old Cat. The audience cheered. They shouted Old Cat’s game id in unison-- --

“CAT! CAT! CAT!”

Amidst the cheering, Old Cat pushed open the door to the break room to enter. Everyone in the break room including the staff all stood up and applauded while laughing. It was like welcoming back a victorious hero. They were welcoming back their “blue collar” top who had been willingly dormant for so long and had now displayed his talents for the first time! 

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 182 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 182 Part 3

[AD group]

ZGDX, Chessman: (in Korean) When I was fighting with Li Junhe for the starting position and eventually pushed him to the substitute seat, Xiujun was still a trainee at the time. I left the team, then it was Li Junhe’s turn, then him. Therefore, no matter what, he can’t do much in front of me.

(Switching back to Chinese) A lot of people said that ZGDX’s unlucky, facing TAT right after the match against OP. Actually, to us, it doesn’t matter when we’ll encounter TAT because our goal is the championship. To be the champion, we have to crush the whole LCK region sooner or later, no matter how bloody that’ll be.

TAT, Tyouzzr: I’ll show Cheng Ge that I’m not what I used to be!

……

[SUP group]

ZGDX, Pang: Today, between the LPL and LCK regions, one team will definitely be eliminated. I’ve decided to reserve this precious chance for the LCK region-- --Wards will be all over their jungle just like the five-star red flag all over the moon. They will light up their road as they return home.

TAT, Superman: Hahahahaha, really? He really said that? Ahh, man, he really knows how to trash talk…… I can’t stand him!

……

People back in the break room burst into laughter at Little Fatty’s “(using wards to) light up their road to go back home.” Laughter could also be heard from the audience……

Ai Jia: “That Fatty on your team is truly the king of trash talking.”

Tong Yao: “He cares a lot about the trash talk segment. Whenever we’re on the plane going to different competition sites, he uses all that time to think about how to say it-- --”

Jinyang: “What’s the purpose of this kind of segment? How does this promote solidarity and friendship? It feels like in the end no one wants to pretend anymore and tries their best at trashing the other side…… At the Olympics, at least they superficially shout out about how friendship comes first, competition second!”

Tong Yao said lightly: “The audience likes to watch it.”

She turned to look at all the YQCB players behind her: “See, look how much they enjoyed it.”

Jinyang turned to take a look. It was true and she gave them a disdainful look.

On the big screen in front of them, the trash talking had ended and the ban & pick phase had started. TAT first banned Lu Yue’s Azir, Twisted Fate, and Kalista without any hesitation. ZGDX banned Ah Tai’s Leblanc and the two favorite champions of their top, Gnar and Maokai-- --

Then TAT grabbed Rumble as their first pick.

The audience was in an uproar.

[They’ve brought their emotions from the pregame trash talk onto the battlefield now.] Commentator D said: [It looks like TAT is really going to challenge Cat’s champion pool today-- --They refused to let him take Rumble! Furthermore, they even forced ZGDX to ban Gnar and Maokai as well. At a moment like this, let’s wait and see how Cat is going to make his choice!]

Just as the commentator finished, ZGDX immediately took Riven after TAT’s choice of Rumble and instantly locked in!

The audience was quiet for a few seconds, then went wild-- --Riven, the Exile, was a champion quite popular among players in lower ranked games but was seldom used by professionals in regular competitions. The ban rate for this champion in this year’s world competition so far was: 0%!

Commentator F: [I can’t believe my own eyes.]

Commentator D: [Cat has chosen Riven-- --Either he was just that irritated by TAT or this is his special skill that he’s been hiding for so long!]

……

After the match officially began, the facts proved that Commentator D’s prophecy had unfortunately come true-- --

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 182 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 182 Part 2

Soon after Lu Sicheng and the rest of the team left the room, the video of the pre-game trash talk began to play on the screen. Tong Yao felt a little uneasy watching this segment backstage together with the players from another team…… By the time she found out that the clash between the two teams this time was worse than against OP, she was somewhat regretful that she hadn’t excused herself to go to the bathroom earlier-- --

[TOP group]

TAT, Sasali: During the skirmishes we had against ZGDX in the past, we won more rounds than we lost. You may think it was because our mid, Mintai, is too strong and their mid couldn’t fight back. But in reality, I’ve always thought their top was the weakest link in their team…… He only knows Rumble, what else? If we ban his Rumble, then he doesn’t know how to play anything else.

ZGDX, Cat (bent over, smiling): Is that what he said? He said I only know Rumble? I’m the weakest link? Very well, today I’ll let him witness what’s called a “champion sea” and what a “weakest link” really looks like.

……

Ai Jia: “If they were recording this video face to face, they probably would have started punching each other.”

Tong Yao: “If it isn’t supposed to be civilized and courteous…… all we have heard probably would be Old Cat cursing.”

Jinyang: “Watch out. It was just the players at top but you, the mid, also became collateral damage.”

Tong Yao: “......”

[JUG group]

TAT, Yo: LPL? A fake LCK. They’ve been constantly learning our strategies which might be very useful inside the LPL, but they would never beat the LCK.

ZGDX, K: Then how did we beat OP? Take you…… oh right, I can’t curse…… I can only say that their trip to the world competition will be as short as their short-sightedness.

……

Behind Tong Yao, Pope changed his sitting position when Yo said “fake LCK”. Liangsheng was trembling with laughter while hanging onto Pope’s shoulder: “Buddy, don’t feel guilty.”

Pope: “&*%#& <&> (omitting the following 300 words)......”

Tong Yao: “What did he say?”

Liangsheng: “He said not all Koreans are like that. Under most circumstances they’re quite courteous. And he doesn’t feel that LPL is copying LCK’s strategy. The characteristics of the LPL are quite distinct……”

Tong Yao: “...............................Look how we scare him.”

Liangsheng: “Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!”

[MID group]

Tong Yao and Lu Yue sat side by side.

ZGDX, Smiling: It’s like what I said before. Though I’ve been defeated, I know very clearly that Li Mintai is a hurdle which I have to overcome. There’s no way to avoid it and I won’t avoid it either.

ZGDX, Lu: Smiling only needs to stay put on the substitute seat and I’ll handle the victory.

ZGDX, Smiling (turned around to look at Lu Yue): We’re supposed to trash the other side, why are you targeting me?

TAT, Thei (pulled down his cap): I’ll make her cry again then she won’t be able to overcome this hurdle.

……

Tong Yao felt embarrassed having to spell out determination in front of everyone and covered her face with both her hands, refusing to say anything.

Jinyang kicked her: “I’m a little smitten.”

Tong Yao didn’t have any response but Ai Jia reacted quickly: “What are you smitten with?”

Jinyang: “The young lad.”

Ai Jia: “I’m one too! Why weren’t you smitten with me?”

Jinyang turned to give him a casual glance: “Three years ago, maybe.”

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 18 Part 3

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 18 Part 3

Water drops periodically fell on the awning outside the window which had quite a soporific effect.

Ruan Yu couldn’t recall when she started to have a hard time keeping her eyes open. The next thing she knew was that she was awakened by birds chirping outside early in the morning the next day. When she saw the time on her cell phone showing “05:52:00”, she couldn’t help but cry out in surprise.

Then she heard some rustling sounds coming from the other end of the phone. It sounded like a blanket rubbing against clothing. The slightly hoarse and a little annoyed voice of Xu Huaisong followed: “What are you doing?”

“......”

Ruan Yu was dumbfounded; it felt like he had woken up right next to her.

She hurriedly picked up the cell phone and explained: “It seems that I had accidentally fallen asleep last night……” Then she became curious after explaining: “Why didn’t you turn off the voice chat?”

Xu Huaisong sighed: “Then, I probably fell asleep at about the same time.”

“......”

How could they be so mindless while discussing a case? Wasn’t he the elite of this city?

Ruan Yu responded with an “oh” while feeling rather uneasy at the strange atmosphere between them. Just as she was getting ready to hang up, she heard a sudden piercing sound “du di-- --du di-- --” from Xu Huaisong’s side.

She was stunned: “What’s that sound?”

“Ambulance.”

“Why is an ambulance there?”

Xu Huaisong seemed to have turned around: “I’m at a hospital.”

It was close to noon time when Xu Huaisong was done with his infusion. The time Liu Mao and Chen Hui came over to the hospital, the nurse had just removed the needle from his arm.

Chen Hui handed over the porridge to Xu Huaisong and helped him move the laptop on the bed away. He happened to glance over the screen of the laptop and paused for a moment: “Hrm,  listening to ambulance sirens? Song Ge, why are you looking at this?”

Xu Huaisong opened the porridge container and said flatly: “Nothing, just suddenly wanted to listen to songs.”

Liu Mao took a glance at his pale face and shook his head: “Looking for ambulance music to get some excitement? Don’t look for excitement if you can’t afford it. You said you had this stomach problem back in the US?”

Xu Huaisong didn’t think much of it: “It’s just an occupational hazard.”

Liu Mao smeared: “I’m a lawyer too, why don’t I have it? Xiao Chen, you don’t have it either, right?” He added: “You know your stomach couldn’t take it and you still ate a dozen or so rice cakes and drank a row of vodka. If I were a girl, I definitely wouldn’t care for a man who doesn’t know how to properly take care of his own health.”

Chen Hui didn’t know Liu Mao was implying something else. He widened his eyes: “Mao Ge, so you have that kind of inclination?”

“Get lost!” Liu Mao gave him a glance and sent him aside. Then he asked Xu Huaisong: “So the police came by yesterday?”

Xu Huaisong swallowed some porridge and nodded: “I’m a person with a police record now.”

“I will never let you go get drunk by yourself from now on.” Liu Mao laughed so hard that his stomach hurt. “So you really knocked on a dozen or so 302 doors in the middle of the night?”

Xu Huaisong had knocked on a dozen or so 302 doors but perfectly avoided the correct building.

His drunkenness was way too dramatic.

Liu Mao calmed down somewhat and said: “Such a pity.”

A nurse happened to knock on the door and said: “Mr. Xu, there's Ms. Ruan who’s coming to see you.”

A surprise look flashed in Liu Mao’s eyes.

Xu Huaisong nodded at the nurse. After the nurse turned to leave, he answered Liu Mao: “It’s not a pity at all.”

Liu Mao suddenly understood what he meant.

What kind of lawyer was Xu Huaisong at court? He would always make a stand at every step he took and calculate the consequence of every statement. He believed that if he couldn’t hit the nail on the head, it would be a crushing defeat to him.

He could accept defeat but not a single mishap was allowed. Therefore he refused to go forward prematurely when he deemed the timing wasn’t right.

For him, pursuing love was just like in the courtroom. All the patient, delicate buildup and exaggeration were all for the final definite result.

It wasn’t the time for that moment yet, therefore he was grateful that he didn’t knock on that particular door.

Xu Huaisong put the lid back on the porridge and handed it over to Liu Mao, asking him to throw it into the trash.

In the hallway, Ruan Yu carried a thermal box with one hand and some documents on her other hand. She was walking slowly towards Xu Huaisong’s room.

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