You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 39 Part 1

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

You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 39 Part 1

Ruan Yu believed that Xu Huaisong must have asked the question deliberately.

Through reading all 327 messages, Ruan Yu had concluded that Xu Huaisong was a man who was actually much gentler at heart than how he presented himself outwardly, but he was also much cunning than how he looked.

70% gentleman and 30% rogue, the perfect combination to steal the heart of any young lady.

Ruan Yu wondered what details he had in mind at this point? Were they going to discuss how they should embrace each other in such a way that was more fitting for the shape of the human body, then practice it over and over?

She twitched her nose at Xu Huaisong and purposely avoided the question. Instead, she said: “There is a detail which I can’t figure out that we need to discuss.” She turned to pick up the outdated cell phone on the table: “I’m curious, before it was rediscovered, how it could’ve survived for eight years with the battery inside without corroding?”

Since he had tricked her so many times before, when she asked the question, there was obvious doubt in her eyes, as if she was suspicious that he was still hiding something from her.

Xu Huaisong gave a frustrated smile: “It certainly is because I removed the battery eight years ago.”

No cell phone could survive for eight years with the battery left inside of it. Before he left for the US, he took the battery out of it and put it into a box.

“Then where did this battery come from?” Ruan Yu didn’t understand.

“When the old house was scheduled to be demolished, my mom removed the house phone. Then, one day, when my grandma was packing up the remaining stuff in the old house, she found that her cell phone wasn’t working and couldn’t get ahold of my mom. She found my old phone and put the battery from her phone into mine to see whether the old phone was still working.”

Since his grandma’s phone was also an old phone model, the battery worked in his old phone with no problem.

“Don’t tell me that your grandma then bought a new phone and just left the battery in this old phone. Then, Huaishi found it while packing up things in the old house.” Ruan Yu said with amazement.

Xu Huaisong nodded.

The reason that he rushed back that time wasn’t just because of the secret inscriptions on the wall of piano room 301, it was more for the unbelievable odds of anything like this to happen. It seemed that it was their destiny.

Such a miracle was too wild to seem believable.

After getting over her amazement, she felt a wave of relief and laughed.

They indeed had encountered a miracle.

The City leaders who issued the order to demolish the old neighborhood; Grandma Xu whose cell phone broke down; Xu Huaishi who rewrote the drafts into a novel; and Cen Sisi who made havoc in the plagiarism incident; all of them played indispensable roles for this miracle to happen.

But what was the start of this miracle?

The start of this miracle was the fact that Xu Huaisong had taken the battery out before he stored it. It saved the cell phone. Subconsciously, he must’ve subconsciously kept a sliver of hope about her when he was about to leave the country.

The start of the miracle was that he didn’t let her go.

Ruan Yu stood silent at the same spot for a long while. In the end, she decided not to fixate her attention on it anymore. She pointed at his stomach: “Aren’t you hungry after talking so much?”

She then turned to go into the kitchen.

Xu Huaisong followed her with a smile: “I had eaten on the plane.”

“Then, I don’t have to do the night snack?” She lifted the plate to show him; the plate was filled with chicken wings which were well battered and coated with bread crumbs.

Xu Huaisong for a short moment was lost for words. Knowing what she was going to cook for him, he smiled and said: “Do it, I’ll eat.”

Ruan Yu put on her apron, and sighed, holding back a laugh: “There were more than 20 drafts among the three hundred plus that mentioned fried chicken. Why was it all you can think of back in high school?”

Xu Huaisong lightly coughed: “It’s because the food at the school cafeteria was really bad.”

“Wasn’t the fried chicken a little too greasy when you had too much of it?”

“That’s why we would also get some hot pot takeout.”

Surprised, Ruan Yu asked as she washed her hands: “Where did you eat it?”

“At the Arts building.”

Ruan Yu was amazed that they would choose such a sacred place and contaminate it with such a worldly smell. No wonder Xu Huaisong tried so hard to prevent her from knowing his true self.

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