You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 62 Part 1

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

You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 62 Part 1

The next day, Xu Huaisong brought Ruan Yu with him to meet with Cen Rongshen so they could negotiate with Global Filming to add an addendum to the contract. The addendum would, in accordance with Ruan Yu’s wishes, allow her to participate in casting and in the filming and post production of the film after completing the script.

Wei Jin’s initial plan for the project was to start filming before the end of the year, before the hype about the controversies surrounding the original novel disappeared from people’s minds. Everyone involved, including the director and actors, had all made arrangements to be available for the filming.

Now, Cen Rongshen had begun picking up all the pieces, though it was meant to be a form of compensation to Ruan Yu, as a businessman he wouldn’t overlook the profit aspect and certainly wanted to avoid paying the huge sum for breaching the contracts.  Therefore, he asked the production team to make up the lost time and start filming as scheduled.

The whole production team was thus caught in crunch mode.

Ruan Yu was forced from an idle person into a workaholic. She had no time for Xu Huaisong as he prepared for another phase of the lawyer exam.

She stayed in the Global Filming meeting room everyday. She had meetings during the day and worked on the script at night. When it was time to go to sleep, she would fall fast asleep as soon as her head touched the pillow.

Xu Huaisong had become a display piece. When he went to bed after studying and wanted to chat a little with Ruan Yu, all he would hear was the sound of Ruan Yu’s steady and heavy breathing if he paused for a couple seconds.

The next morning, Xu Huaisong didn’t have the heart to point out that she had ignored him the night before and remained silent about it. He would take her to Global Filming before going to the law office.

People in the law office hadn’t seen Ruan Yu for quite a while and began to suspect that there was some problem between the two.

But they soon noticed during lunchtime that Xu Huaisong would pick up his cell phone as soon as it vibrated while he was eating as if he was afraid of missing something. Then, he would put down the cell phone with a dark face only after receiving reminders from China Mobile about his data limits.

In addition, the time he went off work had nothing to do with his work progress or study plans. Everyday, he would pick up his jacket as soon as he received a phone call to leave the office without any delay.

To clear the rumors for him, Liu Mao tactfully sighed right after Xu Huaisong left the common office area: “How does it feel when your girlfriend is busier than you? Just look at our Lawyer Xu.”

Ruan Yu’s script wasn’t finalized until the weather had cooled down and it was late autumn, one day in early November.

On the day the script was finalized, Ruan Yu only had a half-day meeting. There was a cold front coming to the city that day and the temperature suddenly dropped. It was very cloudy that morning and by noon, it was windy with heavy rain.

The weather was so bad that Ruan Yu went back up after coming down from the meeting room. She planned to wait till the rain lightened up a little before leaving. The producer, Zheng Shan, happened to see her and stopped her to ask whether Ruan Yu wanted to ride with her.

The place Zheng Shan was heading to was in the opposite direction to Ruan Yu’s apartment, but it was on the way to Zhikun Law Firm.

Since Xu Huaisong would be at the office this time of the day, Ruan Yu took the offer to get in the car with Zheng Shan and got off right across from the law office.

The rain was still pouring down. Ruan Yu had great difficulty opening the umbrella up against the wind.

Zheng Shan turned to tell her to be careful on the road.

Ruan Yu replied: “Ok.” She shut the car door. After Zheng Shan drove away, a sudden gust blew the umbrella out of Ruan Yu’s hand and it rolled across the road all the way to the front door of Zhikun.

Ruan Yu was still in the middle of the road, but the umbrella had already arrived……

Ruan Yu was soaked from top to bottom. She raised her bag up on top of her head and briskly walked to the other side of the road.

Xu Huaisong was in his own office on the third floor. He had just finished a conference call with people in the US. Chen Hui came by to deliver a box lunch to him. He walked by the window and noticed Ruan Yu was crossing the street outside.

Chen Hui pointed outside the window in surprise: “Hrm, isn’t that Ruan Jie?”

“You think every woman on the street is your Ruan Jie?” Xu Huaisong didn’t expect Ruan Yu to come to his office and opened the lunch box without even bothering to check.

Chen Hui thought he must have been mistaken. Then, the office phone started ringing. Xu Huaisong answered with the speaker on. Both men heard the front desk lady saying: “Lawyer Xu, Ms. Ruan’s here. You may have to come down now.”

Xu Huaisong took a glance at Chen Hui, whose expression seemed to say “see, I told you so and you didn’t believe me.” Xu Huaisong put down the chopsticks and briskly walked out of the office. He went down to the lobby and saw Ruan Yu completely drenched by the rain.

The front desk had given Ruan Yu some napkins which she was using to wipe the water off her face.

No wonder the front desk asked him to come down.

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