You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 27 Part 1

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

You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 27 Part 1

Ruan Yu recovered from her shock at seeing the USB. She opened the door and showed Xu Huaisong the USB in her palm: “The USB which has my novel outlines wasn’t lost. What does this mean?”

Xu Huaisong looked down at it and couldn’t move his eyes off it.

For a short moment, he was thinking of taking off his mask with his own hands.

Actually, this wasn’t the only moment he had considered it. He had thought about it when he asked on purpose how she would know he was from Su City and the time when he deliberately read out the segment about the “dream” in her novel in front of her.

He thought if she finally couldn’t act as if she didn’t know him any longer, he would give up acting as well.

But Ruan Yu kept up the act, concealing the fact that she knew him, and his lies were like snowballs, gradually growing bigger and bigger. Whenever he thought about revealing himself, he would also think about the frightened expression Ruan Yu would have once she knew the truth and his almost morbid, coldly calculated actions.

In Xu Huaisong’s silence, Ruan Yu continued to search for any possible answer herself.

She asked: “Is it possible that some hacker had hacked into my computer without me knowing it?”

“In theory, it’s possible.”

“But, in reality?”

Xu Huaiong didn’t want to make up more lies, so he decided to be honest: “Who would bother to do that?”

“Cen Sisi would.” Ruan Yu didn’t take Xu Huaisong’s rhetorical question as a negative answer. She could only think about how Cen Sisi was able to dig up her address and even stream her own suicide to strike back at her. If she was willing to do that, then anything could be possible.

Xu Huaisong swallowed back the confession he was ready to utter.

No wonder she couldn’t guess the truth.

Who would be able to connect the dots so easily when this whole incident was so absurdly coincidental?

Xu Huaisong lost the opportunity to speak his mind again.

The hands resting next to his body clenched tightly, then relaxed, then clenched again. Eventually, he turned around and walked back to the living room.

Ruan Yu didn’t notice his odd behavior, still immersed in the scenario she had created herself.

If the outline was stolen by Cen Sisi, then what role did the author of “Her Eyes Can Smile” play in this whole incident?

If the author, Poem Writer, was an accomplice to Cen Sisi, then why would she provide the information to Liu Mao on her own?

Ruan Yu couldn’t figure out the reason for the contradiction. After she had packed her stuff and taken it to her new apartment, she called Li Shican after Xu Huaisong left.

Li Shican had called her the day before and mentioned the progress of his team’s PR damage control. He told Ruan Yu that since streaming one’s own suicide was too controversial and had been quickly blocked, the after effect wasn’t too serious to handle. His damage control efforts had gone along smoothly and his team had basically taken care of everything by now.

Ruan Yu was truly grateful to him this time and asked him on the phone if there was anything she could do.

Li Shican said that it was unnecessary for her to do anything. She could just buy him dinner as pay back for the favor.

Ruan Yu felt the favor Li Shican had done for her was more than a dinner could pay back. There certainly wasn’t any reason to turn him down. She promised that she would buy him dinner as soon as he wasn’t busy with his upcoming concert.

But before she had the chance to buy him dinner, she had to trouble him again for another favor.

After Li Shican picked up Ruan Yu’s call, Ruan Yu asked straightforwardly: “Xuedi, is it convenient for you to give me Cen Sisi’s father’s contact information?” 

Cen Sisi’s father, Cen Rong Shen, didn’t leave his phone number to Ruan Yu that night. Ruan Yu received a sum of money as compensation yesterday. The money was wired into the account she had provided to the defendant before and so she didn’t have any direct contact with the Cen family.

Li Shican asked before he answered her question: “Is there anything wrong?”

“He said a couple days ago that he would find out if there were any more threats to me from his daughter. I want to get an update on it.” She would also like to find out at the same time whether Cen Sisi had contracted anyone to hack into her computer.

Li Shican said: “I have a rough idea about it. Uncle Cen hasn’t found out any problem as they've checked the records of her outside contacts. But he’s a cautious person, so he hasn’t given you a definite answer yet. He’s planning to hire a hypnotherapist in a foreign country to have a conversation with Cen Sisi under hypnosis about her past activities in order to confirm his findings. But Cen Sisi isn’t in a good physical condition to go out of the country to receive treatment. That’s why he’s late in giving you an answer.”

In the end, Li Shican still gave Ruan Yu Cen Rongshen’s phone number. After understanding the situation, Ruan Yu was no longer in a hurry to contact him anymore. She decided to wait. She could understand that as a father, Cen Rongshen must be in a distressed state and had done all he could as the liable person in this incident.

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