You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 51 Part 3

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 51 Part 3

Xu Huaisong looked at Jiang Yi and asked after a long while: “How have you been these years?”

Jiang Yi picked up the plastic bag and said: “Fine, I’m fine. How’s your father?”

Xu Huaisong answered after a short pause: “He’s also fine.”

Someone outside the market threw an empty can into the trash bin with a clank. Jiang Yi heard the noise and turned his head. Then he hastily nodded to Xu Huaisong and ran out to pick up the can.

Xu Huaisong stood still with lips tightly pressed together and was silent for quite a while.

Ruan Yu and Chen Hui remained silent. They heard the voice of a middle aged woman at a fish stall across from them: “See that! The killer is doing fine and the lawyer who helped the killer is also doing fine. What has this world come to!”

As the woman was speaking, she picked up the plastic washbasin which she had just cleaned fish in and splashed the water inside towards the three.

Xu Huaisong hurriedly pulled Ruan Yu behind him.

The bloody water splashed onto the tip of his shoes. He didn’t say anything and told Chen Hui: “Let’s go. We’ll continue.”

When they were out of the market, it was already dark outside. Xu Huaisong and Chen Hui had completed their tasks but Zhang Ling was having some difficulties with the victim’s relatives. She was only able to contact one of the relatives the whole day and hadn’t come up with anything useful.

Chen Hui said: “I’ll take Song Ge and Ruan Jie back to Hang City and come back tomorrow to pick up Zhang Jie.”

Xu Huaisong took a look at Ruan Yu: “Want to spend the night at my home?”

“Will Auntie be at home?”

“Yes.”

Considering it would be too troublesome for Chen Hui to drive back and forth and equally awkward to go to Xu’s family house, Ruan Yu said after giving it some thought: “Let’s just find a hotel then?”

Xu Huaisong nodded and asked Chen Hui to go with Zhang Jie. He then, together with Ruan Yu, picked a place to have dinner. They started searching for a hotel after dinner and discovered one within a few hundred meters of the restaurant. They walked towards the hotel.

It was in a quiet neighborhood and no one was around them. Ruan Yu finally had the chance to ask him: “Was the person we met at the market the accused killer ten years ago?”

Xu Huaisong had been somewhat down ever since meeting Jiang Yi. He answered with a low voice: “En.” After a while, he continued: “He’s only 35 years old. When it happened, he just graduated from Su City Business College. He could have had a bright future.”

Ruan Yu was shocked.

Looking at the person, Ruan Yu would have believed that he was already 45.

How could a young man age to this extent in ten years?

Who would believe that he was doing fine?

Ruan Yu frowned and asked: “What exactly was that case about?”

“Rape and murder.”

Ruan Yu gasped.

Xu Huaisong patted her head: “Let’s not talk about it. I don’t want to scare you.”

They went to the nearby hotel to get a room.

They were both absent-minded as Ruan Yu followed Xu Huaisong up the stairs after he got the room.

It was only after they swiped open the room door that both of them discovered that the hotel seemed a little unusual. – –The wall of the bathroom was made of clear glass, there was a huge mirror hanging on the ceiling, and there were various furnishings that looked like exercise equipment in the room.

They seemed to have……walked into an intriguing place.

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