You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 66 Part 1

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

You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 66 Part 1

Xu Huaisong and Ruan Yu stayed in the bathroom staring at each other, unsure of what to do. One touched the nose and looked up at the ceiling and the other looked down at the tiles on the floor with tightly knit eyebrows.

Finally, Xu Huaisong hesitatingly opened the bathroom door.

Ruan Yu peeked out from behind him. She saw her parents were engaging in a heated discussion with their heads right next to each other. When they heard the opening of the door, they quickly separated as if they had been shocked. They continued to cook food in the hot pot as if nothing had happened and even turned their heads to smile amiably at Xu Huaisong and Ruan Yu.

It was the kind of smile a teacher would have when he caught a student having a romantic relationship and wanted to guide the student without hurting their feelings too much.

Xu Huaisong cleared his throat lightly.

Ruan Yu followed him back to the table and gave her parents a hollow laugh: “I’m alright now. I rode in the car for too long today and was feeling a bit dizzy……”

Xu Huaisong moved his foot to touch Ruan Yu without moving his upper body to stop her from continuing with her explanation which seemed to make the situation even worse.

Ruan Yu was annoyed and gave him a glance: What?

Xu Huaisong was about to give her a hint with his eyes when he saw Ruan Chengru across from him bend down to pick up a bottle of distilled spirit from under the table and set it down on the table with a thud.

“......”

Ruan Yu was stunned by her father’s action: “Dad, you……”

“You just keep eating.” Ruan Chengru gave her a glance and interrupted her. Then he looked over to Xu Huaisong and earnestly said to him: “Huaisong, come, have a few cups with your teacher.”

Xu Huaisong sat up with a smile, nodded, and picked up the bottle, pouring the liquor into the cup.

Ruan Yu swallowed before saying: “Dad, you see, his stomach……” She stopped herself mid sentence realizing that she shouldn’t be too protective of her boyfriend in front of her father and hurriedly changed tactics: “......why are you so slow at pouring the liquor. Let me do it, let me.” She pulled the bottle away from Xu Huaisong’s hand as she spoke and carefully filled a third of the cup.

Xu Huaisong looked at her and used his fist to cover the smile on his lips. When he looked up though, he saw Ruan Chengru’s serious face and quickly wiped away the smile. He passed the cup of liquor to his teacher instead: “Sir.”

Ruan Yu still wanted to try to get him out of it: “Wait, wait, aren’t you going to be driving under the influence if you take a sip of this?”

Ruan Chengru replied for Xu Huaisong: “There's an empty room upstairs.”

“With such a high alcohol content, it’s possible that when he gets up tomorrow morning, he’ll still……”

Qu Lan cleared her throat and gave Ruan Yu a look: “Come, come with mom so we can get the bed ready upstairs.”

Ruan Yu: “Oh.” She slowly got up and gave Xu Huaisong a meaningful look before leaving the table: Take care.

Xu Huaisong clinked cups with Ruan Chengru and drank the whole cup of spirit without even blinking his eyes.

Ruan Chengru took a look at the direction of the stairs and suddenly blurted out: “Huaisong, I heard that Xiao Liu is your colleague. Then, do you know why I introduced Xiao Liu to Yuyu in the first place?”

Xu Huaisong quickly recalled the exchanges he had with Ruan Yu on the day of Mr. Ho’s birthday party.

– – “Then do you know why my father liked Mr. Liu?”

– – “Because he’s a lawyer?”

– – “It’s because he’s trustworthy and well-behaved, has a kind heart, never plays any tricks nor is he showy and wouldn’t take advantage of others. His actions speak louder than his words.”

Xu Huaisong recited what Ruan Yu had said about Liu Mao word by word.

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