You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 159 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 159 Part 1

After Tong Yao went back to her room, Lu Sicheng remained on the first floor of the base like nothing had happened. The team next door came back after the stepladder match and the team’s boss was standing outside their base passing out red envelopes again. It looked like they had won the last ticket to the S6 tournament.

Lu Sicheng congratulated their neighbor in his heart.

He sat down on the couch and from time to time, peeked at the closed door upstairs. Xiao Rui noticed that he seemed to be preoccupied with something and asked him what was wrong. Lu Sicheng paused for a moment and then lazily replied: “This morning, she had a low fever when she got up. There’s no thermometer at base so I went out to buy one for her so she could check if she has a fever.”

His tone was quite normal with no flaw at all.

Xiao Rui: “Oh!”

As he was talking, Lu Sicheng couldn’t stop himself from looking at the closed door once again. After sitting there for a while longer, he realized that he would get sanpaku eyes if he kept sitting there…… After the realization, he stood up and walked over to his computer. He sat down on his chair and started to play a game.

He chose Kalista as his champion. Kalista was his best champion and the champion he had become famous for playing. The reason he chose her wasn’t to try to win or create a better line up for the team. He simply felt that it made a lot of sense to use this special champion at a special moment like this…… When he locked the champion in, he felt like a hero about to go in a life or death battle to defend his honor and he was going to play the game on a grand and spectacular scale.

However, the match wasn’t spectacular as he had expected.

-- --Because Lu Sicheng wasn’t as calm as he was showing outwardly.

It was the first time in his life that he found Summoner’s Rift to be so complicated that he got lost in it. As he stared at the screen and mechanically took the buff for the first time in the match, he looked up and found the mid in his team had already typed a series “? ? ?” in surprise. Shocked, Lu Sicheng blinked and found the circle under his champion’s feet was blue, not red.

…...As the ad of the team, he was supposed to take the red buff, not the blue buff from the poor mid.

Lu Sicheng’s lips twitched and typed “sry.” To apologize to the mid, he went to gank at mid and helped their mid to kill the enemy so the enemy’s blue buff would be passed to their mid……

But this was the only highlight of Chessman’s performance for this match. After helping his team steal the enemy blue buff, he went back to aimlessly wandering Summoner’s Rift-- --

He was absent-minded throughout the whole match, missing numerous minions. He would wander around and walk under the enemy’s turret and get hit for no reason, or walk out position and into the enemy team during team fights, or not use his ultimate when it was available. His support, Alistar, became desperate. At first he kept pinging Lu Sicheng. After noticing that there was no response from Lu Sicheng’s side. He began typing in three different languages, Chinese, English, and Korean-- --

Alistar: [What’s wrong, what’s happening? (Chinese)]

Alistar: [Is ad really Chessman! (Korean)]

Alistar: [fake Chessman?]

Alistar: [Fatty, let go of Chessman’s id. Don’t mess up your ad’s id. (Chinese)]

Alistar: [Don’t move up, don’t. (Korean)]

Alistar: [b! b!]

Alistar: [I’m going crazy.]

Alistar: [You fake Chessman! ! ! fuck! ! gg!]

Lu Sicheng never knew who this Alistar was till the end when their base was finally destroyed-- --He assumed that this person must be a professional support that was playing for a professional team in the major league who was fluent in all three languages…… Lu Sicheng checked his own stats which wasn’t any higher than the jungler in damage dealt. He laughed and said to his support who happened to walk by behind him: “I just drove a support crazy.”

Little Fatty stretched his head over and took a look at the Alistar’s id: “Gee, this id looks like the captain from next door.”

Lu Sicheng: “......”

Just as Little Fatty finished, they heard Liangsheng shouting, the captain of the team next door, out in the yard: “Fuck, damn you Fatty, are you using Cheng Ge’s id to make me lose elo! Even using Kalista, you think you can become Lu Sicheng just by taking Kalista, who are you trying to fool! Walked right into the enemy during team fights! Even took the mid’s blue! It hurts my eyes!”

Little Fatt took a look at Lu Sicheng after hearing Liangsheng. Then he walked over to the window to shout back: “To hell with it! It’s Cheng Ge who’s playing as himself! He just wants to crack you so you can’t go on to S6! How’s that! Isn’t it vicious!”

The supports from both teams began shouting back and forth. Lu Sicheng stood up, pushed his chair away, and walked upstairs.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 158 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 158 Part 2

Lu Sicheng settled Tong Yao down at her own seat, then turned around to get breakfast and heat up some milk for her. When he came back, he saw Tong Yao sitting cross legged on her chair and the two cats, with a total weight of probably 12.5 kg, sitting on her legs. Her computer was on with a game on screen. The corner of Lu Sicheng’s eye twitches a little, he thought about it, then asked quietly: “Radiation?”

Tong Yao looked quite calm: “Oh. You’re going to buy a lead plate to stuff inside my clothes over my tummy?”

Lu Sicheng raised his brows: “I’m serious.”

Tong Yao: “I’m also serious. We’re going to have training, radiation or not. How much radiation can a computer have? Aren’t you a college student!”

Lu Sicheng slapped her head lightly and didn’t say anything further. He reached over to pick up the two cats and looked at them. He decided to put them into their cages and let Little Fatty take them to get a bath and vaccinated. Then he turned around getting ready to go to the drug store nearby to buy pregnancy test kits……

Tong Yao asked as he was about to go out of the door: “What were you thinking when you stared at my cats just now? You aren’t thinking of releasing them, are you?”

Lu Sicheng stood at the doorway: “......I’d prefer releasing you and put you squarely back where you come from.”

Tong Yao: “Where?”

Lu Sicheng: “The trash can.”

He closed the door and went to the drug store.

The disadvantage of looking tall and handsome was that the salesperson in the drug store looked at him with a rather meaningful expression. When the salesperson handed over the test kits, the expression on the person’s face seemed to say: Weren’t you just here to buy the morning after pill and now a month later you’re here to buy test kits. They can’t be for the same girl?

It was the first time in Lu Sicheng’s life to know what it was like to be embarrassed. He grabbed the kits and paid for them, walked out of the drug store, and swore to himself that he would never come back to this store again.

Before he returned to base, he took the kits out from the packaging and threw the packaging into the trash can far away from the base, like a thief. Then he put the kits into his pocket and pretended as if nothing had happened to knock on the base’s door-- --Tong Yao came to the door. The two of them, one outside the door and the other inside, looked at each other. While they exchanged a look, Lu Sicheng suddenly felt like one thief had turned into two thieves.

Lu Sicheng handed over the kits to Tong Yao at the door way.

Tong Yao’s hand shook and the kits fell to the ground.

Lu Sicheng quickly picked them up while breaking out in a cold sweat and handed them back to Tong Yao.

Tong Yao sounded like she was about to cry: “I’m nervous.”

Lu Sicheng still didn’t have any expression on his face: “I wasn’t this nervous when I called to check my college entrance exam results back then. Go do it.”

Tong Yao wiped her palms on her clothes and licked her lips: “How do you do it?”

Lu Sicheng: “It tests your urine. Afterwards, let it sit for a while. If it shows two lines, then it’s the 8 carat diamond ring. If it shows one line, then I’ll give you a good beating.”

Tong Yao became alarmed: “Why do you know about this?”

Lu Sicheng calmly looked at her as if she was an idiot: “Because I read the directions.”

Tong Yao: “......”

There was quite a difference between a diamond ring and a good beating. When Tong Yao walked upstairs, she felt even more nervous now. She couldn’t tell which result she was looking forward to…… When she got to the top of the stairs, she looked back down and Lu Sicheng was still standing next to the stairs. He was also looking at her earnestly, his dark brown pupils seemed to be at peace.

He looked quite at ease, as if to say “there’s always a solution to any problem.” 

Tong Yao relaxed a bit and mouthed to him: I’m going now.

She saw Lu Sicheng slowly nod.

Tong Yao returned to her room, went into the bathroom, closed the door, and took a deep breath facing the toilet. She had never had such a complex feeling towards the toilet before. She felt that the future of her life all depends on this toilet now. 

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 6 Part 2

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 6 Part 2

Liu Mao was confused, had he and Ruan Yu invited Xu Huaisong to lunch with them?

Ruan Yu was also wondering: “Did you two have a lunch date already?” Was that the reason why Xu Huaisong would assume he was invited to lunch with them?

Liu Mao was about to shake his head. But, for some reason that he couldn’t understand himself, he nodded instead and said: “Yeah, maybe we’ll do lunch next time then.”

Ruan Yu pointed outside of the door: “But he went down already.”

Liu Mao: “It’s alright.” After they went downstairs, Liu Mao explained to Xu Huaisong that he wasn’t going to have lunch with Ruan Yu and asked him to wait at the office till he came back from taking Ruan Yu home.

Xu Huaisong took a look at Ruan Yu behind Liu Mao, then turned to ask Liu Mao: “Is there a bed here?”

The question caught Liu Mao off guard. It felt like something wasn’t quite right even though it might’ve been because Xu Huaisong was suffering from jet lag: “You’re going to sleep at this hour?”

“En. Find me a hotel.” Xu Huaisong added: “I don’t have a driver’s license.”

It was obvious that he wanted Liu Mao to be his driver.

“Then, we’ll take Miss Ruan back first?”

“En.”

The three of them walked to the parking lot. Liu Mao’s Land Rover was gleaming, it looked like he had just had it waxed.

Liu Mao opened the door to the front passenger seat for Ruan Yu, but she hesitated.

On a non-business occasion, especially when Liu Mao had been her blind date, sitting in the front passenger seat seemed to suggest that there was something more to their relationship.

Ruan Yu wasn’t sure whether Liu Mao was doing this on purpose or not. She backed away one step and said to Xu Huaisong behind her: “Mr. Xu, you first?”

Xu Huaisong gave her a look, then looked to Liu Mao who stiffened. Xu Huaisong curved up his lips and mouthed to Liu Mao: Thank you, Mr. Liu. Then he quickly changed to a cold face and got in the front passenger seat.

Ruan Yu had already turned to go to the back seat and didn’t see Xu Huaisong’s petty act.

Liu Mao’s cheek twitched, however.

The car slowly drove out of the parking lot. Ruan Yu said after hesitating for a moment: “Mr. Liu, I’m not going back to my apartment, I’m going to my friend’s place. Would that be alright?”

The two men in the front seemed surprised. Ruan Yu thought her request might be a little too much for them. She hurriedly explained: “It won’t take any more of your time. The place is actually closer.”

Liu Mao also hurriedly said with a smile: “No problem. Send the address to my WeChat.”

Ruan Yu sent the location over.

The three of them remained silent the rest of the way. There was only the female voice of the GPS inside the car: “After 600 meters, turn left to……”

The car stopped at a red light. Liu Mao relaxed his hands on the steering wheel and turned to take a look at Xu Huaisong.

Xu Huaisong seemed to sense it and looked back at him with his chin slightly raised up.

When Liu Mao looked over at him again, he frowned and saw Xu Huaisong make a fist at an angle that the person in the back seat wouldn’t notice.

Liu Mao took a breath and looked in the back view mirror to check on Ruan Yu. Ruan Yu was looking outside of the window and didn’t notice the men in front. Liu Mao then mouthed: Rock, scissors, paper.

Then he did scissors while Xu Huaisong maintained his fist.

Liu Mao had lost. He softly coughed and took a look at the back view mirror: “May I ask which friend’s place is Miss Ruan going?”

Xu Huaisong gave him a look. -- --It seemed too direct.

Liu Mao looked back at him. -- --Then how should I ask?

Ruan Yu didn’t discover the “game” the two men were playing. She turned her head back after hearing Liu Mao’s question.

Xu Huaisong immediately straightened his back and the temperature on his face turned to zero again.

Liu Mao was wondering in his mind what had happened to this man today and why was he pretending to be aloof and serious all of sudden?

Before he could figure it out, he heard Ruan Yu’s voice: “Mingying, do you know her too? She’s the one who arranged for me to contact Zhikun through her friends.”

“Oh.” Liu Mao nodded: “I know. It’s Miss Shen.”

Liu Mao took a look at Xu Huaisong again, who was acting like he had nothing to do with this.-- --Alright, I asked, it was a female friend.

Yet Xu Huaisong didn’t look back at him this time. Instead, he turned to look outside the window with a lot of emotions at the bottom of his eyes.

Shen Mingying, he was surprised that he still remembered this person.

She was Ruan Yu’s best girl friend in high school. After so many years, he thought he had gotten over the past. But in the end, he didn’t even forget the name of her friend.

No one had said anything in the car until Ruan Yu got out of the car.

She pulled open the door and said thanks to the two men inside the car. Then she went up to Shen Mingying’s apartment and rang the doorbell in a rush.

Shen Mingying thought something had happened to her and said: “What’s wrong? The case didn’t go well?”

Ruan Yu, though she had tried to be calm all the way here, had totally lost it by now. She said with a crying face: “Mingying, do you know who I met?”

“Liu Mao? He’s confessed to you?”

Ruan Yu went up to pull on Shen Mingying’s sleeve and almost cried: “It’s Xu Huaisong…… I’ve met the three-dimensional Xu Huaisong!”

*

Liu Mao restarted the car and drove slowly out of the area. Then he stepped on the brake.

Xu Huaisong knew that Liu Mao finally couldn’t stand it anymore.

The very next second, Liu Mao turned to ask him: “You told someone to call me while we were in the office? You deliberately sent me away?”

Xu Huaisong chuckled: “It took you long enough to figure it out. What kind of lawyer are you?”

Liu Mao almost choked and it hurt in his lung. Baffled, he asked: “Your ex-girlfriend?”

Xu Huaisong seemed to have been surprised by how Liu Mao addressed Ruan Yu. The term “ex-girlfriend” went through his brain a few times. He turned his head to look at the tree-lined street outside and his eyes landed on a red telephone booth at the end of the road.

After a little while, he laughed and shamelessly said very slowly: “How do I put it……”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 158 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 158 Part 1

“Anyway, let’s make sure first.” Lu Sicheng patted Tong Yao, who was still wrapped in the blanket in his arms: “Don’t panic, what’s there to be so panicked about. If you’ll have a daughter at this early age, she can go shopping with you in the future and the saleslady would say you two are sisters…… Wouldn’t you like to hear such flattering lies?”

Tong Yao sniffled and imagined that it would be quite a nice scene. Finally she spoke without tearing up: “......You seem to have experience with this.”

Lu Sicheng gave an indifferent laugh: “I’ve heard it so many times when growing up that my ears developed calluses. Last time when I went to Japan with my mom, the saleslady asked my mom whether she was Angelababy and my mom was ecstatic…… All you women are so easy to fool.”

Tong Yao: “......”

She thought her future mother-in-law seemed too easily fooled if she fell for these kind of flattering lies.

Tong Yao moved a bit in Lu Sicheng’s arms: “But I’d like to have a son. When my younger brother was little, he was so cute and followed me around calling me jiejie in his baby voice. And he even danced the elephant dance for me-- --”

Lu Sicheng raised his eyebrows: “Does your brother still dance the elephant dance for you?”

Tong Yao lifted her hand to slap his chest: “He’s a college student now and your little fan.”

Tong Yao was ready to get off the bed since the conversation seemed to have gotten sidetracked. She bent over to check the floor next to the bed and paused-- --Lu Sicheng asked her what was wrong. Tong Yao humphed: “My slippers.”

Lu Sicheng jumped off the bed with only his underwear to get the slippers back from the other side of the room. He watched her slide down from the bed and get into her slippers. He couldn’t help but tease her: “Look how pretentious you are.”

“I’m going to have a baby boy, can’t catch a cold.” Tong Yao put on her slippers and glanced up at him: “Before, you wouldn’t even let me touch cold water when I was having my period. Now you think I’m pretentious. We haven’t even gotten our marriage certificate yet and I’m already the ex-wife now?”

Lu Sicheng: “No. I also especially appreciate that you have such a strong awareness of keeping yourself safe and healthy.”

Tong Yao turned to look at him as he opened her drawers and pulled out oversized shorts and a t-shirt to put on himself. Tong Yao didn’t even know when he had put those clothes into her drawers. She asked, confused: “Are you praising me?”

Lu Sicheng calmly and seriously answered: “Yes.”

Three minutes later, Xiao Rui and Little Fatty, who were sitting at the first floor of the base eating their breakfast oatmeal, looked up to see Lu Sicheng and Tong Yao walk down the stairs side by side-- --Lu Sicheng was holding Tong Yao’s arm, like an eunuch propping the Empress Dowager.

Little Fatty surprised everyone with a frightening look on his face: “You’re pregnant?”

Tong Yao missed a step. Lu Sicheng was quick to hold on to her waist-- --The two of them looked at each other. Both of them broke into cold sweat on their backs. Tong Yao steadied herself and stared at Little Fatty. Xiao Rui slapped down on the table and burst into laughter: “Pregnant is good, the kid would have a bunch of godfathers once he’s born. One pack of diapers from each one of them would last a whole month!”

Little Fatty: “It can’t be. We’ll be six people at the world tournament, does that count as a foul?”

Xiao Rui: “ZGDX mid lane becomes a two people lane. The mystic sixth person at the world tournament, that’ll scare them to death.”

Little Fatty: “Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!”

Tong Yao: “......”

Tong Yao was speechless watching the two having fun with their own imagination…… Only Lu Sicheng was very serious about it. He looked down at Tong Yao’s slippers: “I’ll get you a pair of antiskid ones in the afternoon. But, your cerebellum is underdeveloped, even with a pair of hedgehogs under your feet you can still fall down. What to do about that?”

Tong Yao rolled her eyes: “Then you can just carry me around everywhere?”

Lu Sicheng: “That can be done.”

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 6 Part 1

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 6 Part 1

When Ruan Yu declared that she wasn’t going to file the suit, she didn’t even look at Xu Huaisong. Instead, she fixed her eyes on Liu Mao as if he was her life-saving straw. -- --As long as she could get a look of approval, then she could take to her heels.

Xu Huaisong, who was sitting across from Ruan Yu, seemed unconcerned. He lowered his head after hearing Ruan Yu and started to send some messages on his phone.

Ruan Yu assumed that he meant “you two chat, don’t mind me.”

Liu Mao became even more perplexed about the pressure being put on him. He hadn’t even made sense of what exactly was happening in this room, but Ruan Yu seemed to have given him the discretion to make the decision. He was confused and could only ask: “Miss Ruan, have you thought this through?”

Before Ruan Yu could reply, she was interrupted by a ringtone from her cell phone: “Ah, romance in the rain, the world is only in your eyes……” 

“......”

Liu Mao coughed lightly: “Sorry, I have a phone call.” He turned to leave the room right afterwards.

He had left the room and closed the door behind him. Ruan Yu became even more uneasy. She stood in front of the sofa, awkwardly chuckled and said: “Mr. Liu has a good taste.”

Xu Huaisong was quiet, then glanced up at her: “En.”

Time seemed to go much slower now. Every second was a torture to her. She could only find some random things to continue the conversation: “Last time I met him, it wasn’t this ringtone.”

Xu Huaisong looked up again. This time he lightly pushed his glasses: “Last time?”

Ruan Yu hesitatingly nodded. But he seemed to quickly lose interest in the topic. He stretched out his hand to gesture for her to sit down, then lowered his head again to flip through a stack of papers regarding the law firm’s public relation issues.

Ruan Yu’s legs failed her following his gesture and bent down to sit on the sofa.

Xu Huaisong pointed at the side table, indicating that she could put her file folder there. Then he continued to look through the documents without looking at her again.

Ruan Yu felt a little at ease and put the file on the table as if it was a “hot potato” which weighed a ton.

Liu Mao hadn’t come back for quite a long time. There was no one trying to lighten the atmosphere in the room. The consultation room seemed to become too uncomfortable for any consultation at all.

Ruan Yu looked around the room for a while. Her eyes unintentionally landed back at the man across from her. She had calmed down by now and gradually accepted the fact that she had met Xu Huaisong eight years after graduating from high school.

However, the man in front seemed to look like Xu Huaisong, yet in some respects, he didn’t look like him.

Except for his facial features remaining pretty much the same, he had changed a lot in other areas. He had grown a few centimeters taller and had a stronger physique unlike in their high school days when he was as skinny as a bamboo stick. Time had made him more mature looking than back then.

He looked familiar yet unfamiliar at the same time to her.

In any case, time had treated Xu Huaisong quite well.

Some people at his age might already have balding heads and beer bellies.

She became sentimental from reminiscing about the old days, she took a breath and was about to sigh. But before she could, she heard the man across from her suddenly ask: “Miss Ruan has something against me?”

Ruan Yu almost choked.

Back when they were in school, Ruan Yu would take sneak peeks at him while the whole school was doing their morning exercise on the sports field. Every time she looked at him then, he was totally unaware of it. After a few years of being a lawyer, he had developed a much keener sense of perception.

However, Ruan Yu felt that he wasn’t in a good mood.

She hurriedly shook her hand: “Oh, no, no. Certainly not…… I’m just being sentimental about my bad luck.” She pointed at the file on the table to show that she was just worrying about her case.

Xu Huaisong moved his eyes over to look at the file.

Ruan Yu immediately sensed the danger; she used her hand to cover it and moved the file folder towards herself.

Xu Huaisong moved his eyes away and continued to look through the papers in his hands. Then through the corner of his eyes, he noticed that Ruan Yu had moved the file again about one centimeter. Seeing that he didn’t have any reaction to it, she moved it carefully another time about two to three centimeters.

Xu Huaisong wondered whether he could describe her action as pushing her luck?

He thought about it and right as she was going to move the file the third time, he abruptly looked up.

Ruan Yu jumped and her whole body tensed up. She gave him a dry smile: “What’s wrong, Mr. Xu?”

She called him Mr. Xu rather awkwardly and Mr. Xu was also feeling quite awkward being addressed that way.

The atmosphere inside the room had dropped to the freezing point.

Liu Mao happened to come back at this juncture. He apologized to the two who had been left in the room and said that something had gone wrong downstairs.

Ruan Yu was relieved to see him back. She picked up the file folder and stood up to say: “Mr. Liu, I’ve thought it over.”

Liu Mao had an apologetic look: “I respect Miss Ruan’s decision. I’ve met many clients who were hesitating just like you. However, in the end, many of them chose to take legal action after further consideration. You can take your time to think it over.”

“The clients you’re referring to were probably looking to get a divorce.” Xu Huaisong suddenly spoke while still looking downwards, surprising Liu Mao.

Ruan Yu blinked in confusion. Were these two lawyers not on good terms? Why would Xu Huaisong be so mean? Based on her impression of Xu Huaisong, he did seem to have a sharp tongue in the past.

In her memory, he was the kind of person who was aloof and wouldn’t utter a word unless it was absolutely necessary.

Ruan Yu cleared her throat to smooth out the awkwardness in the room. She said to Liu Mao: “Thank you. I’ll think it over.”

Liu Mao said: “You’re welcome.” He took a look at the sun outside the window: “It’s quite hot outside. Let me take you home.”

Ruan Yu hurriedly shook her head: “I don’t want to trouble you. You’ll miss your lunch hour if you make the trip back and forth.”

“It’s alright.” Liu Mao smiled warmly: “Aren’t there restaurants near your apartment?”

Ruan Yu got the hint and said out of politeness: “Then let me buy you lunch. Yesterday you took the trouble to help me prepare all these documents.”

As soon as she finished, Xu Huaisong stood up: “Western food?”

Liu Mao was startled: “There’s Western food restaurants over there.”

“That works.” Xu Huaisong picked up his suit jacket from the back of the sofa, pulled the door open, and walked out of the room.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 157 Part 4

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 157 Part 4

Tong Yao softly tapped on Lu Sicheng’s shoulder…… Seeing that Lu Sicheng didn’t seem to notice, she used more force and patted him-- --Lu Sicheng was holding her in his arms so she wouldn’t slip off the bed, but at the same time he was cautious not to hold her too tightly. As he was sidetracked, he was caught off guard by the force and leaned to the side.

Surprised, Tong Yao quickly retracted her hand.

Lu Sicheng sighed, rubbed her hair, and used his big hand to pull her closer to him-- --At first, Tong Yao was still struggling, but after a while, she realized that she couldn’t match his strength and gave up the struggle.

While both of them were quiet, Tong Yao could feel his hand had moved from the back of her head down to stroke her back as if to pacify her. Then the hand landed on her hand, his fingers moved in between her fingers, his slightly rough thumb tapped her middle finger as if he was thinking about something-- --

“We’re going to have one sooner or later, why are you panicking so much? Even crying over it, what have I said that made you cry? Did I say I don’t want it? I was just asking your own thoughts about it. I’m afraid that you have concerns about going back to school or playing games. If I said let’s have it but you aren’t happy about it, then what? You would blame me. Now that you don’t have anything against it, I certainly wouldn’t either…… Tsk, anyway, we have to make sure you’re really pregnant first. If you are, let’s get the US visa first? Before the world tournament, I’ll take you to Las Vegas first. We have to wait for two more years before getting married because you’re still too young to meet the legal marrying age in this country. I plan to go get the marriage certificate the day you reach the legal age anyway. Then the anniversary day would be the same day as your birthday, we can save a cake even…… Uhr, we need to buy rings no matter what. It’s kind of rushed, I wonder whether we have enough time if we order now. What brand do you like? Though I can afford whatever you choose, I can give you some time to search on Baidu to see which brand is the most expensive-- --”

Lu Sicheng spoke randomly, jumping from topic to topic. Something didn’t feel right to Tong Yao as she listened to him.

She lifted her head up: “Who’s going to marry you?”

Lu Sicheng paused and raised his eyebrows: “You’re not going to?”

Tong Yao: “......”

Lu Sicheng: “?”

Tong Yao: “There’s no roses, no kneeling down, even the 8 carat diamond ring you have promised would come afterwards. You think I will marry you just from wrapping me in a blanket in your arms? Are you a bandit from some hill top?”

Lu Sicheng: “......”

Tong Yao frowned: “I’m not! Go away!”

Lu Sicheng raised his hand to pat her forehead: “You’re so haughty because you’ve been spoiled.”

Tong Yao shrank her neck back, looked at him for a while, mumbled something, then leaned back against him-- --It was warm and secure in his arms. His calmness and ease also influenced Tong Yao. The anxiety and doubt from earlier had somewhat dissipated by now. Tong Yao closed her eyes and reached over with both of her hands to embrace his waist.

“......So, which brand of diamonds is the most expensive?”

“I’m sorry, this is my first time getting married. I don’t know either. I’ll let you know when I have some experience?”

“......Mean.”

“Shallow.”

“......I’m telling you this doesn’t count as a proposal.”

“Alright, it doesn’t count.”

“Formality is very important. I’m a traditional woman.”

“All you're concerned about is that 8 carat diamond ring.”

“There must be roses as well.”

“What else do you want, tell me all at once.”

Tong Yao thought about it.

“Why don’t you hire a helicopter to sprinkle roses from the sky? There’s no need for a banner, it’s too tacky. Just the roses would be fine. It can sprinkle all the way from the community gate to the base and cover the roof with roses-- --”

“Tong Yao.”

“What?”

“That’s a bit over the top.”

“......Oh.”

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

You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 157 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 157 Part 3

The more Tong Yao thought about it, the more uncomfortable she became. Suddenly an idea came to mind: go to the hospital and abort it?

Once the idea came to mind, Tong Yao subconsciously clutched her tummy and her face turned pale. She was disturbed by the thought and subconsciously wanted to reject the idea-- --She didn’t even have time to wonder where her “subconsciousness” came from.

Then she began to worry about how to tell her family. She could already imagine that two hours after she told them, her parents would drive a tank over and ram through the base’s front door……

While her mind wandered, she didn’t notice that the sound of water from the bathroom stopped. Lu Sicheng came out of the bathroom with a bath towel wrapped around him. Water beads dripped down from his broad and solid shoulders…… Tong Yao looked up when she heard the door open. If it was any other time, she would probably note how attractive he looked. But now, without knowing why, a lump suddenly came into her throat and her eyes turned red. Her tears dripped down like the water beads on Lu Sicheng’s shoulders-- --

Just after exiting the bathroom, Lu Sicheng saw Tong Yao holding the small blanket and crying on the bed. He was a little baffled.

Without getting near, he asked: “What’s going on?”

Then he realized that he was asking for trouble by phrasing it that way, so he hurriedly added: “Don’t cry, what’s there to cry about.”

Even though he was still confused, he knew he couldn’t just stand there. He walked over to the bed, used the towel to randomly wipe off the water on his body, and without bothering to put on his pants, he climbed onto the bed in his underwear. Then he tightly held Tong Yao, who had hardly cried in the past few months, but was crying like a dam had burst. He patted her back and waited till she had calmed down somewhat before carefully asking: “What did you say just now?”

Tong Yao looked up and stared at him with her reddish eyes. After a while, she spoke with a heavy nasally sound: “Pregnant, your fault.”

It was simple and direct, forceful and resonating.

Lu Sicheng: “......”

His head was much clearer now after the shower-- --He had fully woken up when he sat up in the bed earlier and now he was even more sure that he wasn’t in a dream earlier.

Lu Sicheng was quiet for a dozen seconds while all sorts of the thoughts went through his head. When he looked down again at the person in his arms, his dark brown pupils were calm and he had made up his mind-- --

Even he was surprised at how fast he had come to the decision. Everything still felt very surreal as if he was still in a dream with Tong Yao in his arms.

He was about to open his mouth but happened to glance at Tong Yao’s reddish eyes and the uneasiness in them. He suddenly changed his mind, lifted up his big hand to tidy her messy hair, and gently asked: “What’s your plan then?”

Tong Yao was terribly upset at the time and didn’t notice tenderness and accommodation in his voice. The scenes for her imagined TV drama came to mind again-- --Hearing his question, she automatically thought he was going to shirk on the responsibility. She felt like opening the window to howl and cry to the outside and pity herself for meeting a person like him!

“What does my plan mean? It’s your son and you ask me!” Tong Yao pushed Lu Sicheng away and stood up on the bed to stare at him from above: “It’ll be the closed training after two days, then, a month later, we’ll have to go to America for the world tournament. And you want me to go to the hospital to abort him? Don’t you know it’ll hurt? Haven’t you heard that you need to do the one month confinement even if it’s a miscarriage?[1] If not, you’ll have a lot of health issues later on. Tell me, how can I be playing games on stage? Do I ask the organizer to switch  drinking water to bird’s nest soup with rock sugar? But all of these things aren’t the point, the point is that it really hurts! Besides, have you heard those ghost stories about aborted babies? I don’t want to have a little ghost hanging on my shoulder whenever I take a picture in the future. The little ghost will be pitiful and I’ll be pitiful! What do you mean let me decide? Does that mean after I’ve made the decision then you won’t have any responsibility later-- --”

Before Tong Yao finished, Lu Sicheng pulled her down with one hand and used the other big hand to cover her mouth-- --When she fell onto the soft blanket in his arms, the tip of her nose bumped into his solid shoulder and her breathing was a little erratic from being so agitated……

She made a couple of wu, wu sounds and Lu Sicheng took his hand away from her mouth.

Tong Yao was dejected: “I’m scared of the pain.”

Lu Sicheng looked at Tong Yao’s head which was looking downwards. Though he couldn’t see her face, he could tell how upset she was. He was speechless at her reaction and pursed his lips and sulkily said: “No one is asking you to go to the hospital to abort it. What are you afraid of?”

Tong Yao abruptly raised her head with wide eyes.

Her eyes met those dark brown pupils.

Tong Yao abruptly lowered her head again.

Lu Sicheng: “I haven’t even uttered a word, what are you angry about?”

Tong Yao’s lips twitched and said drily: “Pregnant women are all quite irritable.”

Lu Sicheng: “......”

Lu Sicheng wanted to say that he had only heard that pregnant women were all filled with the glow of motherhood and never had he heard any nonsense about how they would be irritable…… His lips moved a bit, but eventually he decided to keep his mouth shut.

[1]: 作月子 (zuò yuè zi) or literally “sit month” is the term for the one month postpartum confinement period. The concept is still common in modern Chinese communities.

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