You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 26 Part 3

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

You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 26 Part 3

The phone call was from Lawyer Xu.

Ruan Yu had forgotten about him again!

She hurriedly answered the phone and quickly said: “I’m here, I’m here! I forgot to tell you……”

“Then, I’ll get going.”

So he hadn’t left yet?

Surprised, Ruan Yu rushed into Shen Mingying’s home, opened the window on the balcony to look down, and met Xu Huaisong’s eyes which were looking up her way.

He had come out of the car and looked up at the building. It looked like he was planning on heading up since he hadn’t heard from her.

Ruan Yu heard over the phone: “Don’t reach out too much.”

Ruan Yu drew her head back in.

Shen Mingying, out of curiosity, stuck her head out to take a look and met Xu Huaisong’s eyes.

Ruan Yu was afraid that Shen Mingying would cry out Xu Huaisong’s name and cut the phone call without saying a word.

The next second, Shen Mingying did cry out: “Ahhh.” She looked down downstairs in a daze until the Porsche Cayenne disappeared from view. She then turned her head back and said: “May I swear?”

Ruan Yu knew Shen Mingying was too surprised to contain herself. She puckered her mouth and said: “Go on……”

“Shit! The one who stayed in the same room with you was Xu Huaisong!”

Ruan Yu started a half an hour long confession on the couch at Shen Mingying’s home.

After hearing Ruan Yu’s detailed description, Shen Mingying was lost in thought. Then she said slowly: “The aloof male god suddenly walked off his altar overnight, for what?”

Ruan Yu, hugging a pillow, got closer and said: “If I’m flattering myself, could it be……”

Shen Mingying crossed her hands to repudiate Ruan Yu’s hypothesis: “Nothing happened between you two back in the three years of high school and the past month or so. Now, all of a sudden, without any reason he falls for you? Could it be possible?”

Ruan Yu tightened her eyebrows: “Right, it’s not possible. If I wrote something like this in the novel, the readers would definitely criticize me for writing the transition too awkwardly.”

“Stop. I think it’s because you've written too many novels that you get obsessed with your own imagination.”

“But, why was it for?” Ruan Yu touched her own shoulder and couldn’t stop wondering: “He even held onto my shoulder……”

“It’s simple, let me analyze it for you.” Shen Mingying cleared her throat: “See, within the past 12 hours on all the occasions where he acted weirdly, weren’t you all in a vulnerable situation?”

Ruan Yu nodded: “Right.” She was, no matter whether it was Cen Sisi’s suicide, or her running a fever, or the elevator malfunctioning.

“Then, we have the answer now. When a capable man sees a woman, especially a beautiful woman, in trouble and being vulnerable, wouldn’t he become more protective? Besides, he’s also a lawyer who has dedicated his life to saving people from distress.”

Ruan Yu answered with a long “ohhhh.” Shen Mingying continued: “To prove this point, we’ll just wait and see when you aren’t in a vulnerable situation and see how he acts then.”

Ruan Yu thought Shen Mingying was spot on with her analysis and quickly stopped mulling over this matter. Instead, she focused on looking for other apartments. But in the following two days, she didn’t find another place more suitable than the apartment in that 20-story building.

She thought the elevator malfunction wasn’t a big problem. Since it broke down once, the property management would probably pay special attention to it from now on and it should be even more safe than before.

That afternoon, Ruan Yu sent a message to Xu Huaisong: [Mr. Xu, I’ve decided to move but haven’t received any news from Mr. Cen. You think it’s safe for me to go back to my apartment to pack?]

Xu Huaisong: [I have time tomorrow morning.]

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