You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 36 Part 4

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

You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 36 Part 4

With the arrest of the suspect, the area surrounding the building returned to being a quiet neighborhood within half an hour.

Remembering Xu Huaishi, Ruan Yu made a phone call to Li Shican. She was told that Xu Huaisong had remotely arranged for Liu Mao to take Huaishi back to Su City already.

After Ruan Yu sent a message to Xu Huaisong to let him know that they were all fine, she left with the police so the police could take a statement from her.

Ruan Chengru and Qu Lan were taken to the hospital to do a check up to make sure they weren’t hurt.

By the time the three of them were taken back home by the police, it was already four o’clock in the afternoon.

Noticing that both Ruan Yu and her mother were still shaken from what had happened earlier, Ruan Chengru laughed and said: “Aiya, if someone didn’t know what had happened and saw what you two look like now they’d probably think that I hadn’t been rescued!”

“You old man, what nonsense are you talking about?” Qu Lan gave him a sharp look.

“Why can’t I talk, even if I’m blind, that’s not being mute?”[1]

Ruan Yu hugged her dad with her left arm and her mom with her right arm in an attempt to make peace: “Aiya, alright, don’t fight! It’s the holiday, what are we going to eat tonight?”

Though she tried not to bring up the drama from the earlier afternoon and sounded quite casual, both her parents could tell that she actually hadn’t gotten over it yet.

Qu Lan said: “Since you were planning to come over, I bought a lot of food. I’ll go make dinner for you right away.”

“Never mind, don’t bother with it. I want to have some instant noodles.” Ruan Yu giggled and pushed her mom and dad to their room: “You two get some rest. I’ll cook the noodles with eggs at five. I’m going back to my room to make a phone call now.”

Ruan Chengru gave her a glance: “Who are you calling? Xiao Xu? He’s in San Francisco, it’s one AM over there!”

“I know……” Ruan Yu said with a pout.

“Aiyo, you old man.” Qu Lan glanced at Ruan Chengru: “What if it’s one AM? He’ll have to take the call from our Yuyu even if it’s three or four AM!”

“That’s right!” Ruan Yu returned to her room with her cell phone and dialed Xu Huaisong’s number while leaning against the door.

As she was calling his number, she remembered what he had told her over the phone at noon time that day.

He didn’t tell her how to solve the problem but told her instead to trust the police just like she trusted him.

Distant water can’t put out a nearby fire. He was just a lawyer, not a god or superhero. At a moment like this, the only way to solve the problem was to completely trust the police and cooperate with them.

He said that if the police wanted to take her to the scene, it wasn’t to let her help save her parents but to save Zhou Jun instead. In a hostage situation, the police must have ways to rescue the hostage but it would very likely be at the expense of the life of the suspect.

Her presence would be to protect the suspect.

Therefore there was no need for her to be afraid of the suspect.

The other side picked up in two seconds. Ruan Yu mumbled while dragging her words: “Xu Huaisong……”

It was late at night in the hospital, so Xu Huaisong spoke in a very low voice which sounded especially gentle. He asked: “Why, after being a heroine for once, have I become Xu Huaisong from Huaisong?”

His joke eased her weariness and lingering fear. Though Ruan Yu couldn’t laugh it off, his voice nevertheless made her feel good: “En. Say some more.”

“Say what?”

“Anything will do.”

“Anything will do?”

Ruan Yu thought that shouldn’t he say something sweet to comfort her?

Ruan Yu lost her patience and began urging him: “That’s right, say something.”

Xu Huaisong laughed: “I haven’t been talking? What’s going on?”

“Ah, can’t you tell?” Ruan Yu sighed: “It’s that I miss you.”

[1]: This is a play on words. “Nonsense” here is 瞎说 (xiāshuō) which literally means “blind talk.” Ruan Chengru is basically saying that even if he was blind, he should still be able to speak.

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