You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 37 Part 1

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

You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 37 Part 1

It took almost eleven years for Ruan Yu to finally utter the words “I miss you” at the end of a traumatic day.

It wasn’t because her temperament had changed but after witnessing a mishap that would make a person regret for the rest of his life, she suddenly realized that she shouldn’t dwell on fairness or who’d come out on top in a relationship.

One shouldn’t calculate who had the upper hand, or who expressed their feelings first, or who yielded to the other.

Because it was impossible to know, while you were doing all those unnecessary calculations, whether an unexpected disaster would completely separate the two of you forever and no longer have the chance to calculate anymore.

Given the moment when she could still say “I miss you” to him, she had to let him know.

Even if she was on the losing side, it didn’t matter anymore.

The moment she finished speaking, it was so quiet over the other end of the phone that it seemed that the world had stood still, there wasn’t any sound.

Ruan Yu blinked a couple of times. Just as she was about to move her phone away to check on the signal she heard Xu Huaisong say: “The call hasn’t been cut off.”

Xu Huaisong leaned against the railings in the hospital hallway. He raised his head in the warm, yellow halo and slowly straightened up his body.

The call hadn’t cut out, his brain had short-circuited.

He abruptly said: “Wait for me for a while.” Then he hurriedly walked toward the end of the hallway to go down the stairs.

Ruan Yu was baffled. After a long while, she could hear over the phone that the footsteps had stopped and a slightly panting voice said: “So do I.”

“What?” Ruan Yu had almost forgotten what they had been talking about earlier.

“I also miss you. Or…… I probably miss you more than you miss me.” Xu Huaisong uttered the words one by one, then subconsciously held his breath.

His tensed body didn’t relax until he heard Ruan Yu’s laugh. He started to pant again.

When he had caught his breath, Ruan Yu asked: “Why do you have to say it after running for such a long distance?”

He was speechless before answering: “I was outside the hospital room earlier. There were nurses on duty in the hallway.” That was the reason why he, though he could tell that Ruan Yu wanted him to say something to comfort her, played dumb and didn’t say anything too intimate.

“What’s wrong with that? They understand Chinese?”

“......”

That’s a good point, he had forgotten about that.

Xu Huaisong lowered his head and laughed: “It’s been an exhausting day, I’m probably getting a little silly.”

“Why are you exhausted?”

He made a frustrated face: “What do you think?”

Ruan Yu mumbled: “I don’t know, that’s why I asked you.”

Xu Huaisong grit his teeth and was forced to make it clear: “Worrying about you.”

Ruan Yu laughed again.

See, it wasn’t that hard to say it straight out.

She hesitated a little before saying: “But, when we talked over the phone, you were very calm and said that the police would protect me and that there wasn’t anything to be worried about.”

“That’s to comfort you.”

He didn’t trust the police that much. Besides, even with a one in ten thousand chance that she would be hurt, it was enough to make him be on pins and needles.

She would never know that this was the second time he had heard some bad news about her when she was thousands miles away, nor how helpless and suffocating he had felt. He was only pretending to be calm so as to comfort her.

He moved the phone away from his ear and opened the webpage with his airline ticket reservation. He sent the screenshot over to her.

Ruan Yu received the screenshot and found that the reservation was for a flight at 11 pm, flying from San Francisco to China.

He had bought the ticket within five minutes after receiving her phone call at noon. He didn’t go to the airport to catch the flight only because of the message she had sent to him that afternoon to let him know that she was alright.

A lump came to Ruan Yu’s throat. She took a deep breath as she was on brink of tearing up.

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