You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 27 Part 2

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

You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 27 Part 2

Ruan Yu unpacked her stuff in her new apartment, which had two bedrooms, one living room, a kitchen and a bathroom. When she finished unpacking, it was already two o’clock in the afternoon. She realized that she hadn’t had lunch yet and went down to buy some food.

As she was leaving the building, she happened to see the young lady who had been trapped in the elevator with her and Xu Huaisong a few days ago.

The young lady didn’t have any makeup on today and looked much prettier without the makeup.

Sun Miaohan was surprised to see Ruan Yu: “It’s you, jiejie. Do you also live in this building?”

Ruan Yu was about to tell her that she had just moved in but Sun Miaohan held Ruan Yu’s hands tightly and said as if she had met an old friend: “You and your boyfriend are truly my lucky stars!”

Since she emphasized the “lucky stars”, Ruan Yu, before she was able to explain that Xu Huaisong wasn’t her boyfriend, first questioned: “Lucky stars?”

“Remember? I went to Global Filming for an audition that day? After I got there, I found out that my makeup was smeared and had to remove it before I could redo it. But I didn’t get to redo it before being called for the audition, so I had to go in barefaced……”

Ruan Yu guessed the result: “You got it?”

Sun Miaohan kept nodding her head: “I found out after I got the part that they’re looking for someone who would show up bare-faced.”

Ruan Yu laughed and said “congratulations.” Then she added: “What’s yours will always be yours. What does that have anything to do with me and my friend?”

“Hum?” Sun Miaohan blinked: “He’s just a friend?”

Ruan Yu confusedly nodded: “What else?”

“Even though you told me that day that you never had a boyfriend before, I thought after you two went through a moment of risis like that, that he should have confessed to you already!”

Ruan Yu laughed and was about to explain that it didn’t happen that way, but suddenly paused.

She recalled two conversations at different times.

– – “Little sister, don’t cry. Actually, I never have a boyfriend either and I’m already 26……”

– – “Do you want to have one?”

Could it be that “one” means “boyfriend?”

Then, would the next question that follows  “do you want to have a boyfriend” be “how about me” or “I’ll introduce one to you”?

The sudden realization shook Ruan Yu and left her standing in the same spot, lost in thought. She didn’t come back to herself until she heard Sun Miaohan asking: “Jiejie, what's wrong with you?”

She regained her composure and shook her head: “Not…… nothing.” Then she went out the door in a daze.

Fifteen minutes later, she found herself returning to the apartment building again but there was no food in her hands.

At this time, Xu Huaisong was working in the living room of his hotel suite with Lu Shenglan.

Lu Shenglan was handling a case about disputes stemming from overseas investments and needed to do some investigation in China for the case. She had thus returned to China with Xu Huaisong. She had encountered some difficulty and was now asking Xu Huaisong how she could get a breakthrough.

Xu Huaisong didn’t say anything after listening to her. He opened his laptop and started typing. Five minutes later, he turned the laptop to face Lu Shenglan: “Contact this person. You should be able to get the chance to do some investigation.”

Lu Shenglan nodded: “Thanks.”

“It’s alright.”

Xu Huaisong was very business-like as usual, distant and indifferent. But Lu Shenglan somehow sensed that there was something unusual. She took a look at the unhealthy color of his face and asked: “Are you having a stomach ache again? Haven’t you eaten lunch?”

He hadn't.

After driving Ruan Yu to her new apartment, it was close to lunch time. Ruan Yu wanted to buy him lunch to thank him for his help, but he was quite disturbed by the discovery of the USB at the time and told her “next time.”

After he came back to the hotel, he had forgotten about lunch altogether.

Indeed, his stomach was cramping right now.

Without waiting for his answer, Lu Shenglan stood up: “Where’s your medicine? In the bedroom? I’ll go get it for you.”

“No need.” Xu Huaisong stood up as the cramp relaxed a bit: “You go take care of your case. I’ll go get it myself.” He turned to go into the bathroom in the bedroom. He stood there using his hands to hold onto the washstand to support himself as he began to break out in a cold sweat.

Ruan Yu at the same time was also hungry, having missed lunch. She sat in front of the computer, repeatedly opening and closing the chat box with Xu Huaisong. In the end, she sent a message to Shen Mingying: [Tell me, when a man asks a woman “do you want to have a boyfriend,” does he mean “A. how about me” or “B. I’ll introduce one to you”?]

She sent the message but didn’t receive an answer right away. She absent-mindedly right clicked that message and clicked share. She was planning to ask another friend the same question.

It might be because she had kept clicking Xu Huaisong’s chat box earlier, as when she was choosing who to share, her brain short-circuited, and she clicked his name which was second on the list of contacts.

The moment she clicked “confirm”, she immediately came to her senses. She hurriedly deleted the message. The moment she saw “you’ve deleted a message”, she breathed a sigh of relief. Yet, she saw the other side had sent back a message: B.

Ruan Yu stared blankly at the computer.

In Xu Huaisong’s hotel suite, Lu Shenglan quickly deleted the messages after she typed “B” on Xu Huaisong’s computer, then she called in the direction of the bedroom: “I’ll get going. Take care of yourself.”

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