You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 64 Part 2

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

You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 64 Part 2

Ruan Yu was already asleep when Xu Huaisong returned home. Ruan Yu had gone to bed early that night since she had an early morning meeting at Global Filming the next day to prepare for her film’s booting ceremony.[1] She woke up in a daze when Xu Huaisong came into the room and found him sitting next to her on the bed and holding her injured hand.

Stunned, Ruan Yu asked: “You’re back?”

Xu Huaisong pulled away some stray hairs on her forehead and said: “En. Sorry to wake you up. Go back to sleep. I’ll go take a shower.” As he was talking, he turned off the lamp on the nightstand which he had just switched on.

Ruan Yu nodded and covered her mouth to yawn. Then she belatedly recalled that the moment she woke up, she seemed to have an itchy sensation on her left ring finger as if the finger was circled by a thin string.

But, as she looked down on her finger now, there wasn’t anything nor any mark on it.

Ruan Yu felt sleepy again and quickly went back to sleep. When she woke up the next morning, Xu Huaisong had already gotten up and was putting his shirt on.

Ruan Yu was fully awake and got up from bed: “I’ll put on the tie for you today.”

Xu Huaisong stopped and laughed: “I’m not the defense counsel.”

Ruan Yu got off the bed and with an expression that screamed “the first day my son joins the Young Pioneers of China, certainly the mother has to help him to tie the red scarf,” she said: “Nevertheless, this is the first day you enter the Chinese courtroom as a lawyer intern.”

Standing on her tippy toes, Ruan Yu intently put on the tie for him.

Xu Huaisong watched and noticed that she was quite skilled at it. He asked: “When did you learn to do this?”

“When you’re working at the office.”

Xu Huaisong slightly lifted the tail of his eyebrow: “Then, who’s the model that you practiced on?”

Ruan Yu had successfully put the tie on him and pointed behind Xu Huaisong: “Who else, that coat rack over there.”

Xu Huaisong laughed: “Alright, go wash up.”

Ruan Yu nodded and turned to go into the bathroom. During breakfast, she asked him while biting into the sandwich: “Today’s meeting will be about deciding several alternative names for the movie. Do you have any good ideas?”

“Isn’t the original one pretty good?”

“It might not be approved in the end. The producer said ‘Whisper in Your Ear’ is a bit obscene……” Ruan Yu annoyingly drank a mouthful of milk: “Why are people these days so impure in their thoughts? The name obviously means – – ‘I Really Want to Tell You a Secret’.”

Xu Huaisong paused in the middle of biting into his sandwich as if he had misunderstood something all along. He nodded to show that he agreed with Ruan Yu: “Yeah, they are really impure.”

After breakfast, Xu Huaisong drove Ruan Yu to Global Filming. She went up to the seventh floor as usual for the meeting. She ran into Sun Miaohan, who she hadn’t seen for a long time, when she stepped into the elevator.

About a month ago, Sun Miaohan had been cast as the female lead of the movie. Besides Ruan Yu’s recommendation, it was mainly her own disposition that fit perfectly with the character in the novel.

The two had exchanged calls but hadn’t had any opportunity to meet in person. Sun Miaohan was quite surprised to see Ruan Yu: “Jiejie, you and me are meant to meet in elevators every time!”

Sun Miaohan subconsciously blurted out. Her facial expression changed after saying so and paused for a moment.

Obviously, she hadn’t fully recovered from the trauma which Wei Jin had created for her.

Ruan Yu patted Sun Miaohan’s back: “It’s all over. This time I’ll be there at the set the whole time and I promise that kind of thing won’t happen again.”

Sun Miaohan nodded: “Jiejie, you truly are my guardian angel.”

Ruan Yu smiled: “Why are you here today?”

“Mr. Cen asked me to come. He said he’d buy me and Shican Ge lunch so we can be familiar with each other as soon as possible. It’ll be helpful after we start shooting the movie.”

The elevator stopped at the seventh floor as she finished.

Ruan Yu waved goodbye to her and walked out of the elevator.

To accommodate Xu Huaisong to get to the court on time, Ruan Yu had arrived especially early today. There were only a few people inside the meeting room and were busily chatting. As she was walking into the room, she happened to hear a female voice excitedly say: “Then Jacky Cheung[2] has a qualified successor now!” 

[1]: The Chinese is 开机仪式 (kāijī yíshì). 开机 meaning “boot up” or “start up” and 仪式 meaning “ceremony.” It’s a common ceremony done by film crews when they begin filming to ward off bad fortune and wish that the film will be popular.

[2]: 张学友 (zhāngxuéyǒu) or Jacky Cheung is a famous Hong Kong singer.

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