You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 31 Part 4

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

You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 31 Part 4

“Eh, twe…..twelve floors.”

“Too tired to walk up?”

Ruan Yu paused, then said: “Uh, I can walk up.” With pursed mouth, Ruan Yu walked towards the staircase. When she passed by Xu Huaisong, Xu Huaisong unexpectedly squatted down.

Startled, she heard him say: “Get on, I’ll carry you.” Seeing her standing there in confusion, he said again: “Hurry, I need to go back to prepare for a video conference.”

Why would he act so domineering even when offering to carry her? Couldn’t he speak nicely?

Ruan Yu irritately climbed up his back and decided to make him exhausted.

But once he stood up, Ruan Yu regretted her decision.

It seemed too intimate with the position of her chest pasting to his back……

She slightly raised her upper body: “It’s better if I get down……”

“Don’t move around.” Xu Huaisong turned his head to glance at her: “It’s very tiring with you raising your body like that.”

Listening to his tone of voice, Ruan Yu firmed up her determination to make him exhausted. When he turned his face back, she made a face quietly.

Xu Huaisong seemed to have sensed it and turned his face back again. Ruan Yu was startled and cautioned him: “Why do you keep turning your head back. You…… you watch the stairs!”

Xu Huaisong lowered his head and smiled. Then he started to climb the stairs steadily. It seemed rather easy for him.

Ruan Yu gradually overcame the discomfort of bodily contact and lowered her head to say next to his ear: “You’re quite good at this, you must have carried a lot of girls on your back.”

Xu Huaisong turned his head to give her a glance: “I’ve only just carried my dad.”

Ruan Yu was originally joking to pry into his past romances. She didn’t expect an answer like this. She didn’t know what to say and was quiet for some time before asking: “Is your father doing alright right now?”

Xu Huaisong walked up step by step while answering: “The same. He has caretakers to look after him in the US, but it would be hard for him to recover his intelligence. As long as he doesn’t have a stroke again, there won’t be any major problems.”

Ruan Yu frowned and asked the question which she had wanted to ask for a long time: “I’ll ask you a question, it’s alright if you don’t want to answer……”

“They’re divorced, my parents, ten years ago.” Without Ruan Yu asking the question, Xu Huaisong had already answered it in one breath.

Ruan Yu said “en” in a low voice. Then she heard him start panting after answering her.

They had reached the tenth floor.

Ruan Yu very slowly pressed down her body and tightened little by little of her hands around his neck.

The movement felt like a comforting move.

Xu Huaisong looked down to take a glance at her hands and curved the corner of his lips up, but didn’t say anything.

Finally, they had reached the twelfth floor.

They walked out of the door of the staircase and immediately saw the elevator doors slowly open up. Ruan Yu’s landlord couple walked out of the elevator.

Ruan Yu was surprised and asked without thinking: “Gee, didn’t we have a power outage?”

The wife of the landlord couple was also surprised and explained: “Power outage was from 6:30 to 7:30 this morning. A lot of people are at home in the evening, they wouldn’t work on the power system at this hour.” She continued while smiling: “Isn’t the lights in the lobby downstairs on? So are the lights in the hallways.”

“......” Oh, right. Then it must be that she was too tired and misread the time on the notice?

The landlord couple entered their home while laughing.

Ruan Yu was frozen on Xu Huaisong’s back: “You……you also misread it?”

Xu Huaisong turned his head and asked in reply while laughing: “What do you think?”

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