You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 21 Part 4

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

You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 21 Part 4

Ruan Yu and her mother left the school after Qu Lan finished catching up with her old colleagues. Ruan Yu accompanied her to a nearby shopping center to wait for Liu Mao to come pick her up after he finished his business. By the time they met up with Liu Mao, it was already almost dusk.

Qu Lan wanted to go back with Ruan Yu by high speed train, but she thought that after they arrived at Hang City, she would have to trouble her daughter to take her back to the suburb. Therefore, she agreed to let Liu Mao take her back. Before she left with Liu Mao, she told Ruan Yu to stay safe and keep in touch.

Ruan Yu promised she would. Just as she was about to get a ride to the high speed train station, it started to rain.

She had given her umbrella to her mother. She decided to go buy an umbrella for herself since she’d be exposed to the weather on her way back. By the time she came out of the market with the umbrella, it was raining even harder, the umbrella wasn’t of much help keeping her dry.

The rain poured on her umbrella and very quickly the road was filled with puddles of water.

The sky was getting darker. Ruan Yu stood at the roadside using a ride sharing app to get a ride. After a little while, she received a phone call from Qu Lan: “Yuyu, the rain’s getting heavier. Have you gotten a ride yet?”

“Don’t worry, mom. I bought an umbrella and I’ve got a ride too.”

She finished saying that when a sports car flew by her. The tires of the car splashed up some muddy water onto the hem of her white dress.

She bit her tongue, stopping herself from crying out loud, because she didn’t want to make her mother worry. After hanging up the phone, she didn’t know what to do while holding her cell phone in hand.

With the weather like this, no one was taking her request for a ride.

She rested the umbrella on her shoulder and took out some tissues to wipe the hem of her dress. She kept refreshing the app page while worrying that she wouldn’t make it to take the high speed train in time. Suddenly, she saw a Porsche Cayenne coming her way at a high speed.

With the earlier experience, Ruan Yu immediately backed away. To her surprise, the car slowed down all of a sudden near those puddles and eventually came to a full stop right in front of her.

The backseat window rolled down and Xu Huaishi stretched her head out: “It’s really you, Ruan Jiejie! Why are you here?”

Ruan Yu was stunned and saw Xu Huaisong in the driver’s seat.

She replied: “I’m getting a ride to the high speed train station.”

Xu Huaishi told her: “Then, get in. We’ll take you!”

Ruan Yu was hesitating. The front window was also rolling down. Xu Huaisong spoke without any expression: “I can’t stop here.”

Ruan Yu hurriedly said: “Oh, oh.” Then she took down the umbrella and walked over to the back door. Xu Huaishi waved her hand: “There’s no room back here!”

Ruan Yu had no choice but to turn to get in the front passenger seat.

The car was brand new. Ruan Yu noticed it the moment she opened the car door. After sitting down on the seat, she felt that she couldn’t put the dripping wet umbrella on the car floor. The water on the umbrella all dropped onto her dress.

Xu Huaisong started the car while taking a look at her: “Just drop the umbrella anywhere.”

Ruan Yu: “En. Thanks.” Then she carefully put down the umbrella right next to her feet. She heard him again: “The seatbelt.”

Xu Huaishi suddenly reached forward: “Ge, in novels usually the gentleman character would help the female character buckle the seatbelt at a moment like this.”

Xu Huaisong, Ruan Yu: “......”

Ruan Yu thought that wasn’t a gentleman’s gesture but probably had some indecent intentions.

Ruan Yu awkwardly laughed: “I can do it myself.” She pulled over the seat belt as she spoke.

Since she knew why Xu Huaisong is in Su City, she didn’t ask why they would be here. After a short while, she saw Xu Huaisong put one hand on the steering wheel while using the other hand to open the storage compartment and pull out a clean white towel to hand it over to her.

Ruan Yu paused before taking the towel over and thanked him again. Then she slowly wiped the mud and water stains on her dress.

Xu Huaisong: “En. I’ll take Huai shi home first.”

Since they were giving her a ride, Ruan Yu didn’t feel she was in any position to say anything against it. But if they would take Huaishi home first, she would miss her train. She figured that if she missed it then she could rebook another train.

Xu Huaisong drove his sister home and helped her get all her stuff off the car from the back seat. When he came back to the driver’s seat, Ruan Yu heard him say: “Not going to the train station. We’ll drive to Hang City directly.”

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