You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 25 Part 2

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

You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 25 Part 2

Ruan Yu finished the custard bun and tried to break the silence: “What is the cat called?”

Xu Huaisong was leaning against the cabinet feeding the cat. He turned his head and said: “Tiffany.”

So he was raising the cat as a girlfriend?

Seeing Ruan Yu at a loss for words, he explained: “I’m not the one who gave her the name.”

Ruan Yu suddenly remembered the question she still didn’t have an answer to.

She thought about it, then asked: “You took the cat back to China, wouldn’t the cat owner be lonely?”

Xu Huaisong glanced over at her. The aloofness in his eyes gradually turned into a smile, he said: “He still has Judy, Amy, and Nalani.”

“So many……” Ruan Yu gave a wry smile then continued to eat another custard bun. After a while, she heard Xu Huaisong’s cell phone ring.

Xu Huaisong answered the phone, he answered in English.

Ruan Yu’s ability to understand English had seriously reduced over the years. Even though she pricked her ears trying to listen to the conversation, she could only understand a few individual words.

Xu Huaisong noticed her confusion. After hanging up the call, he explained: “There’s a leak back home.”

“What to do about it then?”

“It’s alright. There’s someone at home to take care of it.”

Ruan Yu quietly drank some water.

Her guess turned out to be true. It turned out that Xu Huaisong wasn’t single and she even had that immoral dream……

Ruan Yu began to quicken the pace at which she ate breakfast. After gulping all the food down, she stood up and said: “Mr. Xu, thanks for the breakfast. I’ve been troubling you all night, I’ll get going now.”

Xu Huaisong put down the cat: “Wait for me for five minutes. I’ll take you home after I take care of the problem back home.”

“There’s no need, there’s no need.” Ruan Yu shook her hand. “I don’t have a fever anymore. I can just get a ride.” She turned to go into the bedroom to get her bag after saying so. It felt like she was fleeing the scene.

Xu Huaisong didn’t stop her. He opened the computer and made a video call.

When Ruan Yu came out of the bedroom, she happened to see a black man’s face appear on Xu Huaisong’s computer screen and the person enthusiastically said: “Hey! Hanson![1]”

It was a young man with very white teeth.

Xu Huaisong turned to give Ruan Yu a glance, then took his time to turn to face the camera and slowly said: “Where is the water leaking from?”

This time around, Ruan Yu understood what he was saying. He was asking where the water was leaking from.

So, when he said there was “someone at home”, that someone was?

Xu Huaisong turned his head back again: “My roommate.”

Ruan Yu: “Hehe, oh……”

Xu Huaisong didn’t say much in the video chat before he hung up. Then he picked up a stack of papers on the table and said: “Let’s go.”

“Aren’t you going to sleep?” Ruan Yu followed him and asked: “It’s dangerous to drive while you’re tired.”

Xu Huaisong thought that she was truly a model citizen who had a strong sense of abiding traffic rules.

“I’ve rested.” Xu Huaisong handed over the stack of paper to her: “You take a look. If there’s anyone you’re interested in, we can go check it out on the way back.”

Ruan Yu was confused: “Look at what?”

“Apartments.”

 

Then he opened the door.

Ruan Yu looked up and saw a tall woman standing outside the door with her hand up in the air.

Ruan Yu was taken aback.

The other woman also seemed surprised, but quickly regained her composure. She put down her hand and smiled at Xu Huaisong while saying: “What a coincidence, I was just about to knock on the door.”

Almost instantly, Ruan Yu recognized the voice.

This woman standing at the door, wearing a neat and clean-cut business suit, was the woman who had been talking to Xu Huaisong in that deleted voice message.

The woman turned to look at Ruan Yu after speaking to Xu Huaisong.

[1]: Italicized dialogue indicates that someone is speaking English. Unfortunately for us translators, we can’t write it in Chinese here and have it make any sense.

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