You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 38 Part 2

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

You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 38 Part 2

Ruan Yu should understand by now.

Why her story outline wasn’t stolen.

Why his bank payment password was 309017.

Why he knew that she was afraid of heights.

Yet it was still hard for Ruan Yu to take it all in.

The only thing that could match all these short messages was her own memory. However, at that very moment, all of her memories had become remote and blurry, it all seemed somewhat unrealistic.

Everything she remembered about her high school days was now split into two versions by these short messages.

Two completely different versions, one which belonged to her and the other that belonged to Xu Huaisong.

If all these messages were real, why didn’t she have any clue about it back then? How could it be possible that she didn’t notice any of it?

Ruan Yu sank into the couch and flipped through the three hundred plus drafts back and forth like a patient eagerly searching for a cure. She tried to find one draft that could serve as evidence that proved that Xu Huaisong liked her back then.

Finally, she saw one particular draft: [There wasn’t a page for me when you distributed the yearbook pages to my class. When they were collecting the pages back, I inserted my own page into it. If I’m lucky, you’ll see it.]

The yearbook……

Ruan Yu abruptly stood up, put down her cell phone, and ran into her bedroom.

The items she had retrieved back from the old trunk in the old house included her diary and some random things, the yearbook was one of them.

It was a thick book with loose leaf sheets. She had taken the various colored sheets of paper and handed them to other people who wanted to leave her a message.

She certainly didn’t give one to Xu Huaisong at the time. She thought that he didn’t really know her. She had passed those sheets to classroom 10 simply because she had some extra sheets.

Before graduation, yearbook sheets were everywhere. After writing in too many sheets, people became careless about it. They would begin to randomly draw a smiley face and write halfhearted words like “remember me.” Given all that, Ruan Yu didn’t really read through the pages carefully after she collected them all back.

She was planning to read them through later. But Xu Huaisong didn’t show up for the graduation trip and ever since then, she had thrown all the high school memorabilia into that trunk. She purposely tried to avoid thinking about it.

Ruan Yu ran into the bedroom, took out the yearbook, and hastily flipped through its pages as she squatted on the floor.

The colorful pages made a swooshing sound until she came across a white sheet. Her hand paused in midair.

This piece of paper was different from all the other sheets of the yearbook. There was no space for filling out information such as name, zodiac, blood type, and hobbies on this sheet.

There was only one line written on this sheet. The line was neatly written with firm strokes.

She recognized the handwriting.

He wrote: “Wish you are as happy as a lark in all of the splendid tomorrows to come, even if I won’t be able to see any of it.”

Ruan Yu collapsed on the ground, tears welling up in her eyes all of a sudden.

At ten o’clock that night, Ruan Yu sat by herself in the brightly lit living room, spaced out with a cellphone held in each hand.

At this hour, Xu Huaisong should have already landed. But he didn’t send her any message and she didn’t contact him either.

Somehow she felt that they were both anxious right now.

Even though Xu Huaishi had sent over her brother’s old phone on her own, Ruan Yu figured that Huaishi probably had informed her brother ahead of time or at the very least she must have told him after she sent it.

He had to know that she had found out about the truth the moment he got off the plane.

Time ticked away, it was already 10:30 pm.

What was he afraid of? Afraid that she would blame him?

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