You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 44 Part 3

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

You’re My Belated Happiness 

Chapter 44 Part 3

Xu Huaisong had set the volume of his phone to the max, thus Ruan Yu had overheard practically the entire conversation between him and his sister. She tried not to laugh and said: “Just go over there this time.”

Then she mouthed to him: Li Shican.

Obviously, Ruan Yu thought the reason for Xu Huaishi’s classmate’s fight might have something to do with the news about Li Shican.

If there were rumors floating around in her school, Xu Huaisong should definitely head over and take care of it.

Xu Huaisong replied with an “en” to Ruan Yu, then said to Xu Huaishi: “Let me know the time.” He hung up the phone and sighed: “I’ll be at Su City the whole day the day after tomorrow. What do you feel like doing tomorrow?”

Ruan Yu blinked her eyes a couple of times. Why did she feel like he was officially asking her for a date?

Ruan Yu sniffled and said: “I have a meeting to go to Global Filming tomorrow.”

Xu Huaisong was quiet for a while before saying: “Then go with me to Su City the day after tomorrow.”

Ruan Yu wondered why he had become so clingy. Since she didn’t have anything planned for the day after tomorrow, agreed to go along with him to First High School at Su City.

The parent meeting was in the afternoon. Since all the classrooms would be used for the meetings, most of the students were hanging around in the dorms.

Xu Huaisong went to the meeting. Ruan Yu went to the dorm to look for Xu Huaishi where she bitterly complained that her cell phone had been confiscated by her mother, seemingly unaware that there was gossip going around about her. Ruan Yu felt a bit relaxed.

Ruan Yu had brought a watermelon for Xu Huaishi’s roommates. Xu Huaishi shared the watermelon with her roommates, then pulled Ruan Yu to the side and whispered: “Jiejie, you’ve saved my life this time. I’ll rely on your help from now on. My brother only listens to you.”

Ruan Yu smiled and tactically asked: “What happened to your classmate that day?”

“He got reprimanded and that’s that.”

“Was he hurt?”

“Hrm.” Xu Huaishi replied after biting into a watermelon slice: “He got bruises, but nothing serious. But the way his mother looked at me was like from those Korean dramas– – ‘I’ll give you five million, leave my son alone.’ Is that fair? I still don’t even know why he started the fight with those guys. The people who got punched said it was because of me. How could I believe them?”

“Didn’t you ask him directly?”

Xu Hauishi shook her head: “I did, but he wouldn’t tell me. I’m sure I’m just the scapegoat.”

Ruan Yu lowered her head trying to figure out how to continue the conversation. Suddenly, she felt someone poke her back. But when she turned her head to check, all the girls were eating watermelons behind her.

Ruan Yu was trying to figure out what had happened when she saw one of the girls winked at her and raised her chin to point outside.

Ruan Yu understood the message and made an excuse to leave the room. She waited at the end of the corridor. After a while, the girl who winked at her came towards her: “Jiejie, how are you? I’m from Huaishi’s top bunk. Does Huaishi’s family know about that news?”

Ruan Yu frowned: “You know it too?”

She nodded: “Huaishi didn’t see the Weibo post because her mother confiscated her cell phone. But some of our classmates had seen it. Since she had told us that she had met a big star in Hang City over the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, we guessed that it must be her in those pictures. There was some gossip floating around in our class, but before it became viral one of the boys in our class had……”

“Had what?”

“Suppressed it by force……”

Well done.

Ruan Yu laughed: “People in the other classes didn’t talk about this?”

“There shouldn’t be any now. The people who gossiped about it got punched by that boy from our class and no one has the courage to say anything anymore.”

“Can you tell me what’s that boy’s name?”

“Zhao Yi.”

Ruan Yu felt the name sounded quite familiar. Then she remembered that it was the boy she had met at the sports field last time when she visited the school with her mother.

Before she left the sports field that day, she remembered she had stuffed a note inside the pocket of the boy’s jacket, saying: During your graduation trip, make sure you confess to her.

“Yi with che and shi?”[1]

“Right, Yi with che and shi.”

Ruan Yu blinked her eyes and looked through the window at the end of the corridor at the sports field at the far end. In that instant, she understood everything.

[1]: Mentioned in Chapter 21 Part 3. This is common in Chinese when speaking about how to spell something. His name is 轶 (yì) and to let her understand which yi character, they mention the characters 车 (chē) and 失 (shī) which are the two parts that form the character yi.

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