You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 29 Part 4

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

You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 29 Part 4

Lu Shenglan felt like she had been in an 8 year battle ever since she met Xu Huaisong. She had to be extremely careful at every step she made because Xu Huaisong was simply too smart.

When interacting with him, she had to remain 120% alert. Whenever her action or even just a look or tone of voice carried a hint of her intention to cross the line, Xu Huaisong would use his seemingly gentle but speak in no uncertain terms to turn her down.

She had never confessed her feelings to his face since even the slightest sign would meet total rejection. She should’ve clearly known what the result would be.

Yet she originally thought that Xu Huaisong had to get married someday. For eight years, there was no other woman around him. Before Xu Huaisong’s father suffered dementia, he liked her very much and was treating her like his “future daughter-in-law.” Therefore Lu Shenglan figured why wouldn’t there be a chance he would just choose her because she was right there, even if they would only be in a marriage of convenience ?

Lu Shenglan felt that she could wait for this final “result,” until about a month ago when Xu Huaisong suddenly made a trip back to China.

At first, she thought that something had happened to his family back in China. After some probing, she learned from Xu Huaisong’s roommate, who was also their co-worker– –After Xu Huaisong’s visit to China, he often video chatted with a woman who spoke Chinese.

Lu Shenglan comforted herself that it was probably due to a case in progress that he had to chat with the client. But not too long after his first trip, she learned that he had gone back to China again. This time, Xu Huaisong asked his assistant to prepare a sum of money for him to buy a car in China and even took his US driver’s license with him.

At that point, Lu Shenglan started to panic.

Her instincts told her that Xu Huaisong’s feeling towards that woman was absolutely not just a moment of interest. She believed it was very possible that while she was indulging in a one-sided crush towards him, he was having the same kind of feeling towards another woman.

When Xu Huaisong was planning to leave San Francisco again, Lu Shenglan used work as an excuse to fly back to China on the same flight with him.

She wanted to confirm her suspicions.

Then she met that woman.

She met her outside Xu Huaisong’s hotel room, under such a self-evident situation.

Xu Huaisong didn’t even leave her any room for her to fool herself.

Xu Huaisong immediately took a stand. He introduced the woman first and addressed her directly as “Ruan Yu.” Then he politely introduced her, referring to her as “Ms. Lu.” It was obvious who was close to him and the relationship between them.

Xu Huaisong would never have made such a low-level error in social etiquette.

He was doing it on purpose.

Lu Shenglan felt so jealous that she was going to go crazy.

It was because of what had happened that day which made her feelings, which she had suppressed for 8 years, completely boil over. That was also the reason why when she saw the message from Ruan Yu she sent the fatal “B” answer back after she was sensitive enough to figure out what was going on between Ruan Yu and Xu Huaisong.

That was the first time in 8 years that she had made a stupid mistake, a stupid “B.”

It was that “B” which totally pushed her out of the picture so ungracefully.

The moment Lu Shenglan walked out of the hotel, she looked back once again.

She recalled that when she walked into the elevator, none of the floor buttons were lit. In other words, they were coming to the 15th floor to look for her.

In other words, Xu Huaisong had agreed to it; Xu Huaisong was indulging Ruan Yu and allowing her to come for her.

What was Ruan Yu coming to her for? All women who are in love should know the answer.

Lu Shenglan bitterly smiled.

She understood now that to develop an intimate relationship with a man like Xu Huaisong, there was a shortcut other than trying to be smarter than him. The shortcut was, like Ruan Yu, to let Xu Huaisong willingly become less smart because of her.

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