You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 25 Part 3

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

You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 25 Part 3

Xu Huaisong stepped aside and gestured as he introduced her: “Ruan Yu.” Then he said to Ruan Yu: “My colleague in the US. Lu Shenglan, Ms. Lu.”

“How are you?”

“How are you?”

The two women nodded at each other as a greeting. A strange feeling flashed in Ruan Yu’s mind.

By business etiquette, the sequence of Xu Huaisong’s introduction seemed to have reversed the closeness of their relationships to him?

Xu Huaisong, however, didn’t seem to notice it. He asked Lu Shenglan like there was nothing unusual about the situation: “What’s up?”

Lu Shenglan lifted a medicine paper bag in her hand and shook it: “I heard from the front desk that you had asked for some fever-reducing medicine.”

Xu Huaisong didn’t take it nor did he refuse it. He turned to ask: “Do you want to take some medicine back with you?”

“There’s no need. Thanks.” Ruan Yu shook her hand.

Xu Huaisong nodded at Lu Shenglan.

Lu Shenglan smiled: “Then you two go ahead. I’ll be back in my room working.”

Xu Huaisong nodded again. He closed the door and walked towards the elevator while explaining to Ruan Yu about those papers in her hand: “It’s necessary for you to move. I contacted Liu Mao last night and asked him to recommend some apartments for rent. Here are two that we’ve picked so far.”

Ruan Yu was a little surprised and thanked him after a short pause. Xu Huaisong continued: “They aren’t too far from here. If you are not tired, we can go take a look now.”

She certainly needed to move as soon as possible. She was feeling fine right now and also didn’t want to disappoint the two lawyers who had picked apartments for her in the middle of the night. She agreed to go check them out now.

The standard set by Xu Huasiong was quite stringent. He had already done all the research and now Ruan Yu only needed to choose amongst the two apartments he had selected.

The first one was located in an eleven-story high building. The facilities and the surroundings were all quite well. The cost-effectiveness of the apartment was especially high in this location in Hang City. The only thing that was a concern was that the male landlord seemed very inhospitable, as if they owed him a black card.

Ruan Yu wasn’t too concerned about the landlord’s attitude. But after politely touring around the apartment briefly, Xu Huaisong told her to leave.

After they were downstairs, Ruan Yu asked curiously: “I think the apartment is pretty good. Isn’t it a good thing that the landlord isn’t too overly enthusiastic?”

Xu Huaisong raised his eyebrows: “Didn’t you see that it was because I was there?” He opened his cell phone to show Ruan Yu: “The landlord didn’t act this way last night.”

Ruan Yu got closer to see the chat history. She found out that Xu Huaisong was dealing with the landlord the whole time as if he were her-- --a “single female”. At that time, the landlord was very passionate to the point of even sending out an emoji.

Ruan Yu kept nodding her head, as if to say “you’re right.” The next second, a new message from the landlord popped up on Xu Huaisong’s cell phone: [Miss, my apartment is specifically renting to single females. I’m afraid that a young couple like you would do something out-of-line. Didn’t you tell me last night that you fit the requirement?]

It looked like that it was only the landlord’s excuse to turn her down.

Xu Huaisong silently sneered and typed: [Sorry about that, I just stopped being single early this morning.]

Landlord: [Then come back when you’re single again. I’ll save the place for you.]

Xu Huaisong: [Thanks, in the next life.]

Ruan Yu: “......”

Why was Xu Huaisong acting so strangely from last night up till now?

He spoke a lot more all of sudden and had become unusually nice to her.

Ruan Yu kept silent for a while, then raised her head to look at him sincerely: “Mr. Xu, may I ask you something?”

“What?”

“Are…...are you being……” She paused, it seemed too hard to speak the words: “I mean, is there any possibility that you……”

Something flashed in Xu Huaisong’s eyes and his heart began thumping heavily.

He had made up his mind last night to start to learn how to be more straightforward and he would be forced to confess today?

Just as his thumping heart was at the brink of exploding, Ruan Yu closed her eyes and continued in desperation: “......have been possessed[1]?” 

Xu Huaisong: “......”

[1]: When she says “possessed” what she’s saying in Chinese is 魂穿 (hún chuān) which literally translates to “soul pass through.” More specifically it’s the term commonly used in a genre of popular Chinese novels where the character’s soul is sent into the body of someone from the past. (the concept is somewhat similar to isekai/transmigration). Essentially, a person in the past has their body possessed by someone from the future.

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