You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 49 Part 4

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 49 Part 4

The attempt to change subjects didn’t work well.

Xu Huaisong quieted down again because another one of his secrets was about to be exposed again.

Ruan Yu got up looking for the remote for the air conditioner, but Xu Huaisong pulled her back down.

Xu Huaisong gritted his teeth to say: “Don’t bother. It’s at 18 degrees, it's low enough.”

“Then why do you……”

Ruan Yu stopped herself halfway through her question.

What else could it be? She would be too dumb to keep asking.

There was no need to spell out the answer between them.

In the quiet room, the two hearts were bumping at the same rate, as if they were trying to race each other.

But neither of them let go of the other from their embrace.

In the end, Xu Huaisong won the race.

Ruan Yu worriedly asked: “Your heartbeat, will it cause sudden death?”

“......”

Xu Huaisong lightly tapped on Ruan Yu’s forehead: “Can’t die from it.”

Ruan Yu hissed and felt that he seemed quite tense, probably didn’t feel very comfortable. She said: “Maybe I should just go back to my room?”

“Have you ever seen a rabbit being released after it entered the wolf’s den?”

“But the wolf’s not doing anything to the rabbit, isn’t that a waste of food?”

Xu Huaisong almost choked: “Don’t talk nonsense.”

Ruan Yu was a little surprised when she heard Xu Huaisong sigh and say: “The wolf doesn’t have utensils with him.”

The shock from hearing “doesn’t have utensils” stayed with Ruan Yu till day break. Then she was woken up by the ringing of her doorbell.

She opened her eyes and semi-consciously pushed Xu Huaisong who was next to her: “Is that someone ringing the doorbell?”

Xu Huaisong moved a little, but couldn’t open his eyes, who knows how late he had stayed up. He frowned and said: “Hrm.”

Ruan Yu rubbed her eyes, pulled the covers off to get out of bed while saying: “Who could it be this early in the morning?”

Xu Huaisong in the end struggled to get up and stopped her: “I’ll go.”

He put on slippers and went out of the room. After checking through the peephole, he turned to call Ruan Yu: “The girl from the 15th floor.” He opened the door as he spoke.

Ruan Yu hurriedly came out to see Sun Miaohan standing outside the door with dark circles under her eyes. Sun Miaohan noticed that Ruan Yu and Xu Huaisong were bleary-eyed and apologetically nodded: “Sorry to bother you two.”

Ruan Yu shook her head and invited her to come in: “Have you decided about what to do?”

Last night Ruan Yu had asked Sun Miaohan whether she wanted to report it to the police, or keep staying at Global Filming, or leave there. Sun Miaohan said at the time that she needed time to think it over.

Sun Miaohan didn’t sit down after entering the apartment but spoke directly to Ruan Yu: “I’ve made up my mind, Jiejie. I didn’t suffer any actual harm so there’s no use reporting to the police.”

Ruan Yu took a look at Xu Huaisong.

He looked back at her and indicated that Sun Miaohan was right.

“Then what about afterwards?”

Sun Miaohan cast her eyes down: “I feel that I’m probably not suitable to stay in the entertainment business. I don’t plan to sign any contract with Global Filming and I’m not going to stay in Hang City either. I plan to go back to my hometown.”

Ruan Yu was quiet for a moment and looked like she felt sorry about her decision.

Sun Miaohan smiled: “Don’t feel sorry for me. A film published by that kind of person probably won’t earn a good reputation anyway. I’m probably better off not being in the film.”

Ruan Yu couldn’t quite understand what she meant: “Hrm?”

“Last night I heard Mr. Wei tell the director that he had hyped up the plagiarism incident for that ip. Later on, he plans to continue using the incident as a publicity stunt together with Li Shican.”

Ruan Yu was dumbfounded. What did it mean that Wei Jin had hyped up the plagiarism incident?

Ruan Yu blinked her eyes in a daze, then looked over at Xu Huaisong who also frowned after hearing it.

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 49 Part 3

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 49 Part 3

Xu Huaisong had just sat down on the bed and turned on the lamp on the nightstand. Before he could ask anything, he saw Ruan Yu take a deep breath, close the door, and rush over to jump onto his bed.

Xu Huaisong was taken aback: “You can’t sleep?”

Ruan Yu nodded.

“Then what to do?”

She had already gotten onto his bed, what would he think about doing?

Ruan Yu was determined to go through with this and took a deep breath to say: “Aren’t you going to invite me to go under the covers……”

Xu Huaisong moved to the side a bit and lifted the covers up.

Ruan Yu slid in.

Xu Huaisong asked: “Then you can sleep like this?”

Ruan Yu nodded and lied down.

This was the first time that the two of them had shared the same bed and same covers. But Xu Huaisong, after turning off the lamp, kept about half of an arm's length distance from her.

Ruan Yu hesitated, pondering how to start the conversation. After a little while, she said: “Do you know what happened to the girl on the 15th floor?”

Xu Huaisong: “En. I pretty much have figured it out. You did good.”

“Then do you know who the guy is?”

Xu Huaisong was surprised at the question. He turned his head over: “Someone I know?”

Ruan Yu shook her head: “I haven’t mentioned it to you before. He’s the publisher of my film.”

Xu Huaisong became quiet. Ruan Yu couldn’t see that his eyebrows were furrowed.

Before, he thought this was just a brave act of hers and which had already ended. Now, he realized that the whole thing might be more complicated since this guy is the publisher of her film.

Ruan Yu, however, didn’t share his concerns.

She explained: “Last time Li Shican rushed into the break room was because I was on the same floor as that Mr. Wei. He reminded me to not get too close to this person. So when I encountered the same situation today, my first instinct was to call him to ask him about Mr. Wei.”

“I thought he knew Mr. Wei, so maybe he had a way to stop him. Otherwise I wouldn’t have called him.”

Xu Huaisong’s hands under the cover slightly quivered, then they tightened into fists. He turned to the side to face her: “Why didn’t you tell me earlier that such a dangerous person was around?”

The tone of his voice became a little bossy. It looked like he had gotten over whatever was bothering him.  

Ruan Yu thought “finally” and twitched her mouth: “You were in the US. If I told you, wouldn’t it just be bothering you for nothing? I’ve been very careful not to get close to him. You see, before today, nothing had happened. And from now on, you’ll be here.”

Xu Huaisong closed his eyes for a moment, as if he still felt some lingering fear about it. After a short while, he pulled her into his arms: “In the future, you have to let me know right away about things like this no matter whether I’m in the US or Siberia. You have to let me know right away.”

Ruan Yu lowered her head to bump into his shoulder: “You’re going to Siberia as well?”

“......”

Xu Huaisong lifted up her chin and seriously said: “I’m just giving you an example. I’m serious about this.”

Ruan Yu giggled as she circled around his neck: “Mhm, got it. Then, are you still upset?”

Xu Huaisong quieted down since Ruan Yu had seen through him.

Noticing that Xu Huaisong didn’t respond. Ruan Yu realized that all men liked to save face and quickly changed the subject: “Is the air condition not working right in this room? What have you set the temperature to? Why are you so hot?”

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 49 Part 2

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 49 Part 2 

Ruan Yu walked over to take the blow dryer from Xu Huaisong’s hand. He didn’t let go of the blow dryer but instead said: “Sit down.”

Ruan Yu sat down on the chair and asked looking up: “Are you going to dry my hair for me?”

Xu Huaisong: “En.” He turned on the dryer with his right hand, adjusting it to medium temperature, and used his left hand to straighten out her hair strain by strain.

Ruan Yu comfortably squinted her eyes and leaned her head against Xu Huaisong’s arm, just like the cat when he was taking care of it.

Xu Huaisong continued to fiddle with her hair without saying a word.

When the noise from the dryer finally quieted down, Ruan Yu opened her eyes and looked up to say: “Xu Huaisong.”

He still didn’t look like he was in a good mood: “Hrm.”

“You’re so nice.”

Something flickered in his eyes: “Perhaps others are also quite nice, they just don’t have this kind of chance to be nice to you.”

Ruan Yu frowned and was about to ask what he meant by that, but Xu Huaisong put down the blow dryer and said: “It’s getting late. Go sleep.”

She was truly tired. She yawned and said: “What about you?”

“I’ll take a shower and go to sleep too.” Xu Huaisong pointed at the guest room: “I’ve just gotten that room ready.”

Ruan Yu looked over, following his fingers, surprised by his decision. She became somewhat distressed when he turned to go into the bathroom.

Ruan Yu went into the kitchen to warm up a glass of milk and handed it to him when he came out of the bathroom: “Are you upset about something? Did something happen in the US?”

Without waiting for his answer, Ruan Yu already knew the answer to her question should be no.

He only started acting weird after she went up to the 15th floor, then it should have nothing to do with anything that happened before that.

Xu Huaisong ruffled her hair and smiled: “No, just tired from flying.” He took the milk and walked to the guest room: “Don’t stay up late.”

Ruan Yu turned to go back to her own bedroom. She got into bed and still felt frustrated. She scratched her hair, knitted her eyebrows and had trouble falling asleep. She searched for her cell phone on the nightstand and unlocked it.

The first thing she saw was that there were 17 missed calls.

They were all from Li Shican.

Ruan Yu was dumbfounded.

She took a look at the timeline of missed calls and checked the call records. Then she uttered in a low voice: “Ahh.”

When she came down from the 15th floor, Xu Huaisong was in her bedroom and just at that time Li Shican made a flurry of calls.

She finally knew what was going on.

She gave an annoyed sigh and grimaced.

She should have thought of it.

Ruan Yu sat on the bed for a while and felt that she shouldn’t let this just go by.

She couldn’t expect a man who would write 327 short messages but not say “I like you” to ask her about the calls on his own.

But if she let this just pass by, he would have suffocated himself first, then begun suffocating her as well.

She braced herself to get off the bed, but stopped herself right before she was going to open the bedroom door.

He had just gotten off a long flight, helped her to deal with the fire alarm mess, and then cleaned the living room. Would he be so tired that he had already fallen asleep?

She slowed down her movements and quietly walked over to the guest room to paste her ear on the door.

She couldn’t hear anything inside the room. She was debating whether she should wait till tomorrow to talk about it. Suddenly, the cat came by her foot and made a long “meow”.

She immediately gestured “hush” but Xu Huaisong had already heard it and asked: “What’s wrong?”

Ruan Yu cleared her throat and asked: “May I come in?’

After receiving an affirmative answer, she turned the door knob.

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 49 Part 1

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 49 Part 1

In the quiet room, all the passion suddenly disappeared. There was only the sound of their panting that intertwined and echoed with the sound of dripping water in the living room.

After a moment of stillness, Xu Huaisong moved his hands off Ruan Yu and stepped back a little.

Losing the support of Xu Huaisong’s hands, Ruan Yu’s knees buckled and almost slid down to the floor along the wall. Xu Huaisong held her up.

Ruan Yu didn’t know why Xu Huaisong suddenly lost control of his emotions. But from just this short minute of intimacy, she realized that– –they were no longer the teenagers from eight years ago.

They had passed the age when they would be satisfied with simply strolling hand in hand when they were together.

Or perhaps it had already happened earlier, starting with the kiss before he left for the US, the kind of affection of the adult world had already been brewing.

Since they had been physically apart for almost a month, they had forgotten the feeling of physical contact. Ruan Yu hadn’t had the chance to adjust her mindset when they got together again and so she had subconsciously pushed back when faced with the sudden intimacy.

She didn’t feel nervous until now and belatedly felt a tingling in her body.

Her face turned bright red and she didn’t know where to look. Finally, her eyes landed on her own nose tip.

She didn’t know what to do with how Xu Huaisong was looking at her and the loosened buckles on her back.

Just as Ruan Yu was debating whether she should reach behind her back and fasten the buckles, Xu Huaisong moved first and raised his hands to reach over her back.

His palms were burning hot, making her shiver, but his movements were quite gentle.

In contrast to his aggressiveness earlier, Xu Huaisong now gently touched her back over her shirt trying to find the buckles so he could fasten them back on.

Ruan Yu never thought that a man would, in such a situation, stay put to try to pick up “the slack” and not turn away in a hurry to go to the bathroom to “calm down.”

His movement was clumsy but gentle.

Ruan Yu felt her heart melt.

She thought her reaction earlier must have hurt his feelings. She suddenly reached over to embrace him as he was still fighting to fasten the buckles back.

Xu Huaisong stopped and lowered his head to look at her.

Ruan Yu mumbled in a small voice: “You can’t buckle them this way……”

Xu Huaisong didn’t release his hold on the buckles: “What?”

“You can……” She buried her head in front of his chest. Her voice was stuffy and a little blurry: “You can reach in……”

Xu Huaisong’s Adam’s apple rolled a little and responded with an “en.” He reached under her shirt again but tried to avoid touching her smooth skin. He attempted to fasten the buckles with just one precise try.

But it wasn’t an easy task. He seemed afraid of making close contact with her again, afraid of being turned away again. He hesitated.

In the suffocating silence, Ruan Yu’s heart was pounding. She gritted her teeth and said: “You can also touch me……”

Xu Huaisong swallowed again. He said “en” after a short pause, then started fumbling around.

The moment they touched skin, both of them shuddered.

Xu Huaisong refastened the buckles, moved his hands out of her shirt, but didn’t offer any explanation for his earlier actions. He lowered his head to say: “You go take a shower first. I’ll clean the living room. Water will seep downstairs if it's left there for too long.

Ruan Yu nodded and turned to go away.

By the time she came out of the bathroom, the once messy living room had become tidy again.

Xu Huaisong was using a blow dryer to dry a stack of papers with lots of notes on them on the coffee table.

He noticed that Ruan Yu had come out of the bathroom with wet hair. He turned off the blow dryer and shook it in his hand.

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 48 Part 3

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 48 Part 3

Xu Huaisong also started cleaning after he returned to Ruan Yu’s apartment.

There was water all over the living room. Most of the furniture was damp. It was going to take some effort to dry them all.

As he was using a towel to soak up water from the couch, he heard the sound of a vibrating cell phone in the bedroom. He went to take a look and found Ruan Yu’s phone, which was charging at the moment. The phone screen showed that it was a call from Li Shican.

Xu Huaisong didn’t answer it. Soon afterwards, the phone started ringing for a second time.

When the phone rang for the third time, Xu Huaisong had to pick up the call. As the call connected, he could hear Li Shican saying while puffing: “Finally you answer the phone. Are you going to scare me to death……”

Xu Huaisong paused and wasn't able to utter “hello”.

Since there was no response, Li Shican hurriedly said: “What’s the situation over there now? I’m downstairs at your apartment.”

Xu Huaisong finally answered: “She’s alright now.”

It became dead quiet at the other end of the phone.

It took at least ten seconds before Li Shican, who was standing in front of the elevator at the lobby, could make a hollow laughing sound and asked to make sure: “Lawyer Xu?”

“En.”

“It’s good that everything’s fine. She gave me a call earlier but it was cut off before we finished talking. I was worried, so……”

“En.”

“Then, I’ll head back.”

“En.’

Xu Huaisong slowly put the phone down after hanging up.

He didn’t need to check the phone record or ask any more questions.

The battery was running low when the whole incident happened, but the last person Ruan Yu called wasn’t him but Li Shican.

Xu Huaisong looked down to see that there were 17 missed calls. At the same time, he recalled the scene the other day when Li Shican rushed into the break room because he thought something had happened to Ruan Yu.

For a whole ten minutes, he stood in the dark bedroom without moving until the apartment door opened.

Ruan Yu called him from the living room: “Huaisong?”

He opened his mouth but no sound came out of it.

“Are you in the bedroom?” Ruan Yu put on slippers and waded through the water on the ground to go into the bedroom. Before she could see anything clearly, she was pulled over and forced to the wall.

In the darkness, a familiar male body scent washed over her and Xu Huaisong’s lips landed on hers.

Ruan Yu jumped and wanted to ask “what’s wrong”, but Xu Huaisong misinterpreted her open mouth.

Xu Huaisong kissed her, forcefully, direct, and without reservation, as if he wanted to consume her.

He pushed her against the wall, his body tightly against hers.

Ruan Yu passively received his kisses, with the vague feeling that Xu Huaisong seemed to be trembling.

He was trembling despite being so aggressive.

He was aggressive, but seemed to be afraid of something and wanted to be reassured from the intimacy.

Ruan Yu was having a hard time breathing easily and tried to push him away.

But Xu Huaisong didn’t stop.

His burning palms began to move around her back as if he was trying to find an emotional outlet but couldn’t find it.

He left her lips but moved to kiss the back of her ear and at the same time, his right hand reached under her top and began to move upwards

Ruan Yu shook: “Huaisong, Huaisong, what’s going on with you……”

Xu Huaisong stubbornly moved his hand to unbuckle her bra. Ruan Yu jumped and tried to pull his hand off.

Xu Huaisong paused and was suddenly still as a statue.

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 48 Part 2

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 48 Part 2

On her way to go downstairs, Ruan Yu met her landlord’s family who had just gotten out of the elevator.

The kind lady landlord came up to Ruan Yu and said with a smile: “Fortunately it wasn’t a real fire. It’s alright, the alarms in the building have gone off like this before. We just treat it like we’re doing an exercise. It’s just like a fire drill; if there’s a real fire, then won't we all know what to do and to evacuate even quicker?”

Ruan Yu knew she was comforting her and appreciatively nodded: “Sorry to cause trouble for you.”

The lady landlord shook her head to show that she didn’t really mind it and asked: “Is that your boyfriend downstairs?”

“En.”

“Quite a nice young man.” She smiled: “When we were all evacuating, he was the only one who went the opposite direction to go up. He wouldn’t listen when people tried to stop him and kept saying– – ‘my girlfriend’s still up there’.”

Ruan Yu felt a lump in her throat. Her eyes, which were reddish from the smoke, began to moisten.

After the landlord’s family went back to their apartment, Ruan Yu walked up to the window on the hallway to look down. She could still see a few residents lingering downstairs. They probably wouldn’t let the incident go quietly and were still circling around someone from management demanding an explanation.

Under the streetlight, Xu Huaisong seemed to be apologizing to them. He bowed deeply at 90 degrees to each one of them.

Ruan Yu turned to run into the elevator. When she arrived at the first floor, she saw Xu Huaisong walking into the building from outside.

Even though it was in a public place, Ruan Yu went up to embrace him and bury her head in his chest: “Sorry to put you through that.”

Xu Huaisong touched the back of her head and lowered his head with a smile: “Put me through what? It wasn’t a real fire and there’s still a chance to apologize, isn’t that good?”

Ruan Yu sniffled and tightened her grip on him.

Suddenly, a female voice came behind him: “I’m sorry……”

It was the voice of Sun Miaohan.

Ruan Yu quickly released Xu Huaisong and turned to look at her. Sun Miaohan’s eyes were reddish and her hair was a mess. Ruan Yu went up to her to ask: “You alright?”

Sun Miaohan shook her head and tears started to stream down.

Ruan Yu patted her shoulder to comfort her and asked: “Where’s he?”

“He’s gone……” Sun Miaohan replied while sobbing: “When the alarm sounded, I ran down the stairs with neighbors while it was chaotic and saw him drive away.”

Ruan Yu: “En.” She thought for a moment and turned to tell Xu Huaisong: “I’ll take her up first.”

She thought it was inconvenient to ask Sun Miaohan too many details in front of a man. Ruan Yu waited till they were back in Sun Miaohan’s apartment to ask: “What exactly happened?”

As she was asking, she saw the living room was in a jumble, an overturned floor lamp, broken glass, torn apart pillows……

It didn’t look like a casting couch situation.

This was a scene of attempted rape.

For a moment, Ruan Yu felt like she was suffocating, like there was a load in her chest.

She didn’t even have the courage to ask for the details anymore.

Sun Miaohan wiped her tears and said: “He’s at the top of management at Global Filming. The other day he saw my performance and told me that he liked my acting and would make me the female lead of the film. Tonight, he took me to have dinner with a director and said he would take me home afterwards……”

“I’m so stupid and didn’t even understand what he actually meant. I thought he was just going to see me home. It didn’t dawn on me until we were in the elevator and he started to touch me……”

Sun Miaohan didn’t continue, probably not wanting to remember or felt too embarrassed to talk about it. She picked up the broom to start cleaning the broken pieces of glasses.

Ruan Yu also knelt down to help her pick up the floor lamp. She asked: “You’ve avoided him tonight, but what do you plan to do in the future?”

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 48 Part 1

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 48 Part 1

Seven minutes later, the alarms in the hallways sounded in Ruan Yu’s building. The piercing noise was accompanied by the sound of doors opening and closing. The whole building was roused from its previous quiet.

The residents were shouting in the hallways: “Is there a fire? Where’s the fire?”

“Run down the stairs, quick. Don’t take the elevator!”

“Take the emergency exit. Come here!”

A chaotic jumble of footsteps began heading towards the exits.

In the whole building, Ruan Yu was the only one staying still. She stood on top of the table in the living room, with a smoking pot in hand aimed directly at the smoke detector. She used the other hand to cover her mouth, coughing and tearing up at the same time.

A minute later, the intercom of her apartment 1201 started ringing.

Ruan Yu’s heart was racing. She took a look at the direction of the intercom and quietly counted in her mind.

She couldn’t let the alarm go on for too long. If it went on for too long, the fire engine might come. It would not only cause havoc for her neighbors, but also be a waste of fire fighting resources.

She quietly counted to 30 and was just about to cover the pot with the lid to stop the smoke from coming out when the sprinklers above her head suddenly turned on automatically. Water began pouring down on her.

Ruan Yu was stunned as the water drenched her. She jumped down from the table after a few seconds and ran to answer the intercom.

A male voice began rapidly speaking from the intercom: “This is the fire control room! Is there a fire in your place?”

Ruan Yu was coughing hard and could barely speak. She said in a faint and hoarse voice: “I burned my food while cooking……”

The man on the other side seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and turned to tell other people in the room: “Turn off the alarm! Notify the residents! The sprinkler system at 1201 has turned on, turn it off manually, quick!”

The whole building quieted down instantly. The sprinkler system in Ruan Yu’s living room was still on and had flooded the room despite being on for less than a minute.

It took some time for them to manually shut down the sprinkler system. Ruan Yu managed to salvage her laptop in time. She was soaked when she heard someone knocking on her door.

To be more exact, someone was pounding on her door.

Ruan Yu waded through the water on the ground to open the door. She assumed it was someone from property management at the door. She hurriedly said as she was pressing down on the door knob: “Sorry, sorr……”

She saw Xu Huaisong standing at the door.

Two buttons on his shirt were unbuttoned, strands of hair stuck to his forehead. Noticing that Ruan Yu was safe and sound, Xu Huaisong closed his eyes, put his hands on the door frame, and started to pant.

Ruan Yu was shocked to see him and momentarily lost the ability to speak.

Before the two of them could say anything to each other, two people from property management also arrived at the door. One of them went inside the apartment to fix the sprinkler system and the other stayed at the doorway to ask for details.

Ruan Yu anxiously asked: “Have all the residents in the building been evacuated downstairs?”

The property management guy seriously nodded: “Ms. Ruan, please explain in detail what happened. We have to give all the residents downstairs a reasonable explanation.”

Ruan Yu was a bit nervous and stammered: “Sorry, I was cooking at home, the pot caught fire……”

The guy took a look inside and doubtfully asked: “Smoke from the kitchen could indeed trigger the smoke alarm but the sprinkler system would only activate by high heat. Are you sure you were just cooking?”

Ruan Yu wiped away the sweat on her face: “I took the pot to the living room, therefore……” She bowed to the guy: “I’m truly sorry about that. I’m willing to take full responsibility for it, go down to apologize to everyone, and if it’s necessary, pay compensation to everyone.”

Xu Huaisong frowned and moved right in front of her to say to her: “You go wipe yourself dry and put on some dry clothes. Stay here, I’ll go handle this.” As he was talking, he turned to go downstairs with the guy.

Ten minutes later, the man from property management fixed the sprinkler system and left after setting up a time for follow-up maintenance.

Xu Huaisong hadn’t come back yet. Ruan Yu took her cell phone which had already automatically shut down into the dry bedroom to charge. As the phone was charging, she made a phone call to Xu Huaisong but found that his cell phone was also off. She changed her clothes and went out of her apartment to go downstairs.

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 47 Part 3

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 47 Part 3

It wasn’t until the elevator made a “ding'' sound and stopped at the 15th floor, which was Sun Miaohan’s floor, that Ruan Yu realized that she had forgotten to push the button for her floor, the 12th floor.

Wei Jin walked out of the elevator with his arm around Sun Miaohan’s waist.

Ruan Yu lifted her hand to push for the 12th floor. Suddenly she saw Sun Miaohan stiffly turn her head and give her a look.

When her eyes met with Sun’s, the elevator door began to slowly close and the elevator started to move down to the 12th floor.

Ruan Yu walked out of the elevator, rummaged for the key in her purse, and unlocked the door to her home with a shaky hand.

In the darkness, the look that Sun Miaohan had just given her seemed to float in front of her eyes.

If she understood the look correctly, the meaning of that look– –seemed to be fear and a plea for help.

Ruan Yu distractedly turned on the light in the living room and stood with her back to the door for a long while. Then she took out her cell phone to call Li Shican. She greeted him with a slightly shaky voice when the call connected.

Li Shican immediately noticed the unusualness in her voice and said: “What’s wrong, Xuejie?”

“You told me not to get too close to Mr. Wei last time. What exactly did you mean by that?”

Li Shican was silent for a moment: “Has anything happened to you?”

“No, it’s not me……” Ruan Yu felt her throat dry and swallowed before answering: “Can you tell me more clearly, is it like a casting couch situation or something else?”

“It’s more than a casting couch. It’s only too normal to have mutually consensual unspoken rules in this business. I’ve heard some rumors that he has a tendency to be violent……” Li Shican seemed to have some difficulty continuing: “In that respect, it’s probably…… his sexual disposition.”

Ruan Yu didn’t know what to say.

“I heard that he had badly hurt an actress before. But that actress’s family didn’t have the ability to pursue him and he used money to keep the family quiet.” He paused a bit: “What exactly happened to you? Tell me.”

“I…… saw Mr. Wei go into Sun Miaohan’s home. She didn’t seem particularly willing to……”

Li Shican became quiet. He said after a while: “Don’t get involved. You don’t have the ability to intervene.”

“Do you have any……”

“There’s nothing I can do either.” Li Shican sighed: “Xuejie, I could rush into the breakroom for you but it’s impossible for me to get myself into this mess for an actress I don’t even know. What I just mentioned is just a bad incident. It’s more than likely that nothing will happen. Can you just pretend that you didn’t see anything?”

Ruan Yu’s phone automatically shut down because it ran out of battery just then.

But Ruan Yu had heard enough.

Ruan Yu tightened her grip on the phone till her nails bit into the flesh. The look Sun Miaohan gave her flashed in front of her eyes over and over.

The look in Sun Miaohan’s eyes looked like a drowning person desperately trying to get ahold of their last lifeline.

Time was slipping by.

Li Shican said there was nothing he could do.

Xu Huaisong wouldn’t be here for another 20 minutes. He probably wouldn’t have any way to handle the situation anyway. Even if he did, it wouldn’t do any good by the time he got here.

Ruan Yu closed her eyes.

Pretend she didn’t see it.

Could she pretend she didn’t see it?

She gritted her teeth. When she opened her eyes again, she happened to see the white smoke detector on the ceiling.

Something flashed in her eyes.

She remembered that Xu Huaisong had mentioned to her when they were video chatting that once the fire detector triggered, the alarms in the entire building would activate.

She hesitated for half a minute, then rushed into the kitchen.

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

You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 47 Part 2

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

You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 47 Part 2

As Ruan Yu was moving her neck around, she pulled on something in her neck and cried out in pain, “aiyo.”

“What’s wrong?” Xu Huaisong sounded rather nervous.

“I twisted……”

As she spoke with a pained expression, the door behind her suddenly opened from the outside.

Ruan Yu turned to look in surprise and saw Li Shican standing there dumbfounded. He met eye to eye with the slightly stunned Xu Huaisong on the cell phone raised high up in Ruan Yu’s hand.

It was a meeting across the ocean; despite being a quiet moment, it was an international meeting of such magnitude to move heaven and earth.

Ruan Yu wondered why Li Shican always ran into moments like this……

Ruan Yu felt quite embarrassed and didn't know whether to put the arm which was holding the cell phone up or down.

Which of these two men could save her from her embarrassment?

Neither of them did anything to save her. They looked at each other without saying a word, as if they had developed some sort of precious camaraderie.

All she could do was keep her posture and say to Li Shican: “Hehe. My bad, taking up the whole break room. Do you need something?”

Li Shican also regained his composure. He shook his head and explained: “No, nothing. I happened to hear noise coming from here and thought you might be in trouble…….”

What trouble could there be? Ruan Yu wondered. Then she remembered what Li Shican warned her about Mr. Wei earlier and her cry of pain from inside the break room with the door shut. She suddenly understood.

Ruan Yu was about to say something, but Li Shican nodded towards Xu Huaisong in the cell phone screen: “Sorry to interrupt.” He then backed out of the room and closed the door.

Ruan Yu turned back to look at Xu Huaisong on the cell phone.

He didn’t look too happy about what had happened.

But he didn’t say anything more about the encounter. Instead he told Ruan Yu: “I’ll be back on Friday next week. I’ll go to your place that night.”

It was only Monday now and it was almost half a month till Friday next week. However, Ruan Yu was busy with the script and barely noticed the passage of time.

It was August already. On that Friday night, Ruan Yu finished her script meeting at Global Filming at 9 pm. She wasn’t able to catch the last bus and had to get a ride home.

Xu Huaisong happened to call her at that moment, telling her that he was off the freeway and would be at her place in an hour. When he found out that she was in a taxi by herself, he told her not to hang up the phone.

They spoke all the way till Ruan Yu got off the taxi half an hour later. Her cell phone had only 5% battery left.

She told Xu Huaisong: “We’ll see each other soon. I’ll stop talking now. I’m going into my building now. You can concentrate on driving now.”

Xu Huaisong said “en” and hung up the phone.

Ruan Yu walked into the lobby and noticed that the elevator door was about to close. She hurriedly walked up to push the up button and prepared to apologize to the people inside the elevator. But just as she opened her mouth, she stopped out of surprise.

She knew the man and the woman standing inside the elevator.

They were Mr. Wei, Wei Jin, of Global Filming and Sun Miaohan.

Sun Miaohan widened her eyes when she saw it was Ruan Yu who walked into the elevator. She seemed somewhat terrified.

Wei Jin on the other hand didn’t seem to have recognized Ruan Yu. He leaned against the handrail with one hand around Sun Miaohan’s waist and the other hand on his lips. His eyes were slightly squinted and he looked at ease.

Ruan Yu, after a short pause, stiffly walked into the elevator. She quietly stood at a corner of the elevator, also pretending not to recognize the two of them.

The atmosphere inside the elevator was suffocating to Ruan Yu.

But perhaps it was only Ruan Yu who felt this way. From the corner of her eye, she saw Wei Jin tilt his head, putting the tip of his nose on top of Sun Miaohan’s head to smell her hair. He didn’t seem to mind that there was another person in the elevator at all.

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