You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 39 Part 2

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

You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 39 Part 2

A piano prince suddenly turned into the hot pot boy, there was more than just a little disillusionment.

Ruan Yu disgustedly gave Xu Huaisong a look.

Xu Huaisong frustratedly said: “You were the one who wanted to reacquaint each other.”

“What if someone came by when you guys were having hot pot?”

“I would provide cover by playing the piano.”

“......”

So all the piano pieces she eavesdropped over those years were all tainted with the smell of hot pot?

Ruan Yu sighed with a smile: “I want to go back to being 16 again.”

“What for?” To warn her 16 year old self to sharpen her eyes and see that Xu Huaisong wasn’t a male idol at all?

But Ruan Yu’s reply was: “To hang out with you.” She giggled as she took a glance at him: “My high school days were too boring, no fun at all. If I were with you, I would have had fried chicken and hot pot, it would be fun.”

Xu Huaisong gave the thought a serious consideration: “It would be fun if we don’t get killed by your father.”

They both broke into laughter.

After a short while, Ruan Yu continued with the topic: “If my parents weren’t teachers of our school, I might really……”

She stopped in mid sentence, yet Xu Huaisong understood what she wanted to say.

What she wanted to say was that she wouldn’t be so well-behaved and she might’ve someday mustered enough courage to confess to him before graduation.

It became quiet in the kitchen.

Both of them seemed to start imagining that “if.”

Xu Huaisong felt that he could leave the country when he didn’t know about her feelings towards him. But if she had confessed to him, could he still walk away just like that?

He shouldn’t be able to do that.

The sizzling sound of the heated oil interrupted Ruan Yu’s imagination. She turned on the exhaust fan, prepared to fry the chicken wings, and told Xu Huaisong to stay away.

Xu Huaisong didn’t move away. By the time Ruan Yu had finished frying all the chicken wings, his shirt was saturated with the smell of grease.

At first, they didn’t notice it. It was after they finished their night snack, when all the fried chicken wings were gone but the smell of fried chicken wings remained in the room.  The cat, Xu Pipi, who was supposed to be sleeping, started to constantly rub itself on Xu Huaisong’s body. Ruan Yu knew then what the problem was.

She sat across from him and watched the orange cat trying to “eat” him. She said: “Now, that’s truly what the aroma of cooking is all about.” 

Xu Huaisong smiled while holding the cat in his arms: “Then, invite me to take a shower here.”

Ruan Yu was a little taken aback and suddenly realized something: “You were purposely just now……” She paused half way through.

She was sure that it must be one of Xu Huaisong’s schemes to get the smell of fried chicken all over him. But, once she exposed his intention, she was actually the one who got nervous about it.

Based on common sense, taking a shower here means he’s going to stay here for the night?

Ruan Yu became anxious and stammered to say: “You, you don’t have any change of clothes with you……”

“I have.”

Ruan Yu looked around. It couldn’t be true; she clearly remembered that when he hugged her, he didn’t have anything in his hands.

“In my car downstairs.” Xu Huaisong explained.

So he actually had two plans; if she accepted him, he could go down to get his clothes any time, on the other hand, if she didn’t, it wouldn’t make him look like he was too rash either.

Something flickered in Ruan Yu’s eyes.

Seeing that Ruan Yu didn’t turn it down directly, Xu Huaisong put down the cat and got up to walk towards the door: “I’ll go get them.”

“Hum……” Ruan Yu tugged on his sleeve when he walked by her. She looked up and said in a muffled voice: “Does this mean that…… you’re going to stay for the night?”

Xu Huaisong lifted up his other hand which was free to move and put the index and middle fingers together and lightly flicked Ruan Yu’s forehead: “What are you thinking about?”

“No, nothing.” She straightened up her body: “If you’re going to stay for the night, I’ll have to get the guest room ready.”

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