You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 26 Part 4

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

You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 26 Part 4

Ruan Yu showed the chat log she had with Xu Huaisong to Shen Mingying as she was washing clothes: “What does he mean?”

“He means that he’ll help you move. Don’t get flustered over nothing. You’re still being threatened by the defendant, in other words you’re still his client. He’s just being responsible.”

In the end, Ruan Yu decided to enjoy being his client one more time since she had to admit that Xu Huaisong was rather trustworthy in handling various situations and she was truly worried that she was still in danger: “Then I’ll have to trouble you again tomorrow. What time would be convenient for you?”

Xu Huaisong: “Eight thirty.”

Ruan Yu came down from Shen Mingying’s place at eight thirty the next morning.

Shen Mingying wanted to go along and help, but was stopped by Ruan Yu.

Ruan Yu was afraid that Shen Mingying would carelessly expose her or Xu Huaisong might recognize Shen Mingying was someone from his high school.

As Xu Huaisong was waiting for Ruan Yu to come down, he kept playing in his head what Liu Mao had told him a couple days ago: “Do you remember how she tactfully kept her distance from me in the beginning? Just because she detected my interest early on, she deliberately wore very plain clothes, didn’t sit in the front seat when riding in my car, and even lied to me that she had solved the plagiarism problem…… If you don’t want to become the next me, you better take it easy. Don’t scare her away.”

Xu Huaisong at the time only smiled at Liu Mao’s advice. But as he was waiting to meet Ruan Yu again, he couldn’t help but carefully review what Liu Mao had told him.

Then he saw Ruan Yu coming from afar. She was wearing a t-shirt and jeans, dressed rather plainly.

Xu Huaisong immediately locked the back door of the car. When Ruan Yu was near the car, he pointed at the seat at the passenger side.

Fortunately, Ruan Yu only hesitated a bit but didn’t refuse him.

They greeted each other after she got in the car. Then they drove to her old apartment. To be on the safe side, Xu Huaisong accompanied her up and sat in her living room, waiting for her to finish packing.

Ruan Yu poured a glass of water for him before heading into the bedroom. She decided to start packing all her clothes.

Since she stayed at home most of the time, she didn’t have a lot of clothes. The larger items were her winter coats which would need to be packed with vacuum bags.

She took out all her heavier clothes from the closet and set them on the bed. As she was about to go get the vacuum bags, her knees scraped against the edge of the bed and an overcoat dropped to the floor.

With a rattling sound, something fell out from the overcoat’s pocket.

Ruan Yu looked down at the item and did a double take.

It was a white USB.

It was the USB which had all the outlines of her novel and the one she thought she had lost in the coffee shop.

Dumbfounded, she bent over to pick it up. She put the USB in her palm, but couldn’t take her eyes off it.

Then she recalled what had happened.

That day when she went to meet Shen Mingying, it was raining and unusually cold in Hang City. She had put the overcoat on before going out the door.

Then her mother suddenly came to visit her and she had to leave the coffee shop in a hurry. She must’ve placed the USB into her coat pocket in a fluster.

After that day, the weather got warmer and she had stuffed the coat into the closet. She hadn’t worn it since that day.

It had been five months since she had been accused of plagiarizing. She hadn’t thought about searching the pocket of that coat all this time and had mistakenly thought that the USB was lost.

In other words, the outline of her story had never been stolen.

Ruan Yu stood at the same spot, shocked. Then she heard knocking on the bedroom door.

Xu Huaisong asked from outside: “What’s wrong?”

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