You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 66 Part 2

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

You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 66 Part 2

Ruan Chengru seemed surprised by Xu Huaisong’s answer. He shook his head to indicate that it wasn’t the case and said instead: “It’s because he’s a lawyer.”

“......”

Ruan Chengru looked at him baffled: “What’s wrong?”

Xu Huaisong shook his head: “Nothing, please continue. Why a lawyer?”

Ruan Chengru nodded and continued: “Because at the time Yuyu happened to need the help of a lawyer.”

Xu Huaisong frowned: “You mean?”

“The incident where people were slandering her.” Ruan Chengru smiled: “She thought she had been keeping me and her mom totally in the dark. Actually, we’ve known her pen name for years and have been secretly following her as well. We know everything. It’s just that she didn’t want us to know those bad things were happening to her. Since she didn’t want to tell us, we just pretended that we knew nothing about it.”

Xu Huaisong was taken aback.

“Our daughter has grown up and knows to be considerate to our parents. She wouldn’t tell us when she runs into difficulties. What can we do? We can only hope to find someone who can take care of her for us, to protect her, shelter her, and won’t even blink once no matter how hard and difficult it turns out to be.” He pointed at the empty cup in front of Xu Huaisong when he finished talking.

Xu Huaisong quietly nodded.

Ruan Chengru asked: “Another cup?”

Xu Huaisong lifted the liquor bottle and filled the cup to the brim. When he was about to pick up the cup, he suddenly heard Ruan Chengru say: “Yuyu said that you have some stomach problems.”

“Uhm.”

“If that’s the case, then you should only act according to your own capability.” Ruan Chengru pointed again at the liquor in Xu Huaisong’s cup: “Gallantry and bravado can’t make you a shelter for her. Most importantly, you have to protect yourself well before you can take good care of her.”

Xu Huaisong put down the cup: “You’re right.”

Ruan Chengru took the cup in front of Xu Huaisong away and replaced it with a new cup. He picked up the water pitcher to fill the new cup with warm water: “Drink this then.”

Xu Huaisong drank half of the cup and heard Ruan Chengru ask: “Water tastes much blander, right?”

“Yes.”

“It’s bland so a lot of people, like you, will give up on it after drinking only half of it. But in our daily lives, how would you find so many fiery events like the taste of this distilled spirit?  Most of the time, our lives are as bland as this cup of water. It’s no big deal to withstand fiery events. It’s better when you can withstand the plainness of life.”

Xu Huaisong understood what his teacher was trying to tell him and drank the rest of the water in the cup.

Ruan Chengru smiled: “Alright, you’re my student whom I know well. I trust you. Go upstairs.”

Xu Huaisong nodded towards him: “Teacher, thanks for the lesson today.”

“If you want to thank me, then hurry and get to the point where you don’t have to call me teacher.”

Xu Huaisong laughed: “I’ll try my best to hurry up.”

While Ruan Chengru was patiently instilling “chicken soup for the soul” to Xu Huaisong, Ruan Yu was making the bed upstairs and worrying at the same time: “Mom, you and dad misunderstand. We know what we’re doing……”

Qu Lan gave her a look: “I know. We know you too well just by looking at you. How can we not know?”

At the beginning, they were shocked indeed. But later on when they saw Ruan Yu’s reaction as she walked out of the bathroom, she and Ruan Chengru knew that they had overreacted and misunderstood her.

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