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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 74 Side Story 7 Part 4 (Side Story FINAL)

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 74 Side Story 7 Part 4

The opening scene of the movie was shot by drone. It showed the sports field during the school sports meet, with a long take of the red and white runway and green grass.

At the sound of the referee’s gunshot, the male lead and several other boys dashed out from the starting line. Cheers came from the bleachers.

The male lead was well ahead of the other runners. As he was moving closer and closer to the finishing line, the camera moved to show a close-up of the female lead who had fixed her eyes on him from a corner on the bleachers.

The female lead was holding a pen and a drawing board; she was doing a sketch.

The sound from the shouting and cheering on the bleachers weakened, while the rustling sound of the female’s pencil scratching over the paper grew louder, to the point of shaking the eardrums.

The girlfriend next to the female lead asked at the top of her lungs: “What are you drawing?”

The lips of the female lead curved up slightly and she cunningly said: “Move your ear closer.”

The scene suddenly slowed to x0.2 speed and the background sound also slowly quieted down. The whole world was still listening to the female lead’s answer: “It’s– –a secret.”

The story thus started.

( — — — End of Side Stories — — —)

( —  — — Post-Credits Scene  — — —)

The after-credits scene excited the audience in the theater. Many of them began to look around to see if the the real male and female characters were among them inside the theater

Ruan Yu and Xu Huaisong didn’t expect to see the clip create such an effect. The crowd was bustling about and many young girls held their cell phones to search around as if they would dig them up from the ground.

Someone at the front began to say: “The author had posted on Weibo before the premiere. Their tickets were a couple seats!”

Xu Huaisong and Ruan Yu, who had already gotten up from their seats in the last row, held their breaths.

No one inside the movie theater had left. At this point, whichever couple left the theater would be proof that they were the main characters in the movie.

Ruan Yu hid her hand with the wedding ring behind her back and pretended to be looking around as well. She said to Xu Huaisong: “Geez, couple seats? Could they be in our row?”

Xu Huaisong cleared his throat and tugged her sleeve to tell her not to give herself away.

Indeed, a girl at the row in front of them heard Ruan Yu and looked over: “Whoa, that couple looks like them!”

Xu Huaisong was just about to palm his forehead when he suddenly saw Zhao Yi grab Xu Huaishi’s hand and dashed out of the theater.

The audience’s attention shifted: “Ahhh, it could be that couple!”

Ruan Yu was dumbfounded and saw Zhao Yi turn his head to give Xu Huaisong a glance as if to say: brother, I can only help you this much!

        — The End  —

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 74 Side Story 7 Part 3

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 74 Side Story 7 Part 3

Zhao Yi got into a third tier college, about two km from Xu Huaishi’s Hang University. He could take Xu Huaishi to her school on the way back to his.

Ruan Yu looked at Xu Huaisong.

Xu Huaisong slightly raised his chin, indicating to continue her questioning..

Ruan Yu continued: “Your dorm will be closed when he drives you back after the movie.”

“No worry, I’m on good terms with the auntie in charge of our dorm. Every time I have something good to eat, I’ll share it with her.”

“You know you’ll be back late and already prepared for it?”

“How can that be? It’s because I’ve already gotten back late several times before.”

Xu Huaisong entered the conversation: “What had you been doing staying out so late at night?”

“Nothing special, just hanging out with classmates. We’ll go sing, eat and what not. Zhao Yi’s with us every time. Ask him if you don’t believe me.”

Xu Huaishi looked very innocent. She didn’t know that in her brother’s eyes, Zhao Yi was the dangerous one.

Zhao Yi, nonetheless, understood the hidden message. He sighed and frustratedly said: “Song Ge, Yu Jie, you can ask directly too, why bother going about a big circle like this? We’ve never checked into any hotel. If you don’t believe me, you can go check whether I have any booking records.”

Xu Huaishi was speechless. What kind of brother-sister relationship did she have with her brother that they had to test each other out like this.

Ruan Yu laughed to smooth out the atmosphere: “Hehe. Trust between people is still quite necessary.”

Her cell phone vibrated as she finished speaking. It was a message from the movie producer, Zheng Shan: [If it’s convenient, make a post on Weibo showing your wedding rings and movie tickets to foreshadow our behind the scene clip.]

Ruan Yu took the opportunity to change the subject and asked Xu Huaishi for the movie tickets. Then she turned to Xu Huaisong: “Can I borrow your left hand?”

Xu Huaisong gave her his left hand with the wedding band. 

Ruan Yu put the tickets on her lap, adjusted her cell phone to a perfect angle to catch their two hands with interlocking fingers, then clicked. She blurred the part of the picture that showed the movie theater information, then posted it on Weibo with the caption: [See you in a little while.]

Comments began immediately appearing under the post. It was full of messages like “see you in a little while” and asking Ruan Yu when she got married.

To help the movie production team, she replied to one of the comments: [You’ll find out after seeing the post-credit clip.]

The four of them made it to the viewing room two minutes before the movie started. The lights went dark right after they sat down. The pre-movie commercials were still playing.

Somehow, Xu Huaishi was a little nervous and reached over the partition to search for Ruan Yu’s hand.

Ruan Yu felt fine originally, but she also got a little tense as the movie started and tightly grabbed Xu Huaishi’s hand.

Xu Huaisong and Zhao Yi, who were sitting right next to them, asked frustratedly at the same time: “Do you two want to switch seats?”

Neither one of them answered. Their eyes were fixed on the big screen.

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 74 Side Story 7 Part 2

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 74 Side Story 7 Part 2

Xu Huaisong laughed and pulled Ruan Yu back. He kissed her earlobe and hinted: “We really don’t have enough time now, but we still have the whole night after the movie.”

Ruan Yu’s ears burned and she pushed him away with her elbow: “Who’s going to do it with you the whole night!” As she was speaking, she walked into the bathroom and closed the door.

Xu Huaisong smiled and turned to go into the other bathroom. After showering, he went to brew some honey tea to sober up and saved one cup for Ruan Yu as well. He brought the cup to Ruan Yu after she finished showering and then helped her blow dry her hair.

Ruan Yu checked Weibo posts on her cell phone as she drank. There were many posts tagging her; most of them were her readers who were posting their location and images of their movie tickets. They were saying that they were about to watch the premier and asked her whether she would be there as well.

Ruan Yu didn’t disclose whether she would be there or not but clicked like on all of them. When her hair was almost dry and she was about to put her cell phone away, she received a call from Xu Huaishi: “Sister-in-law, you are still at home? Zhao Yi and I have already picked up the tickets and we’re driving over right now.”

Xu Huaishi had purchased their tickets for them. She bought four tickets for two sets of connecting seats[1] next to each other.

Xu Huaisong couldn’t drive since he had been drinking and was planning to use the bike from a bike share to get to the theater, which wasn’t too far away. They were supposed to meet Zhao Yi and his sister there. He didn’t expect the two youngsters to be so considerate.

Ruan Yu replied: “Alright.” Then she got ready and went out with Xu Huaisong. They got into the backseat of Zhao Yi’s car. Xu Huaishi who was in the passenger seat turned her head to caution them: “Be sure to fasten your seatbelts, new driver on the road.”

Zhao Yi unhappily tsked: “I got my license almost two months ago.”

“That’s right.” Xu Huaishi humphed: “I’ve had my life in your hands for two months now. It’s like having my life hanging in the balance everyday!”

“Isn't your life hanging there quite securely?”

“That’s because I’m tough, but my sister-in-law is getting ready to get pregnant. She can’t get a single scratch at all!” She turned to take a look at Xu Huaisong after speaking and tentatively asked: “Right, Ge?”

Xu Huaisong gave her a glance: “Who gave you this mission?”

It looked like her bickering with Zhao Yi had been scripted beforehand in order to find out when her brother and Ruan Yu were going to have kids.

Xu Huaishi couldn’t continue and turned to look at Zhao Yi: “See, I told you that my brother would see through it.”

Ruan Yu laughed: “You can just ask. You don’t need to go about circles like this.”

“Grandma told me to pry about it. But you two don’t have to feel any pressure, just like my mom said– – ‘it’ll depend on their own decision.’”

Xu Huaisong and Ruan Yu looked at each other and said: “We’ll let nature take its course.” That meant they weren’t going to avoid it.

Xu Huaishi giggled: “Then it should happen rather quickly.”

Xu Huaisong, Ruan Yu: “......”

They were wondering whether their little sister seemed to know too much? Why would she sound like an old hand in this matter?

Zhao Yi lightly coughed, trying to dissipate the doubt he could sense coming from the backseat. But it didn’t seem to work and he coughed again.

This time, it was Ruan Yu’s turn to pry: “After the movie, what are you two going to do?”

Xu Huaishi turned her head: “Hrm? We’re certainly going to go back to our schools.”

[1]: In China, there’s movie theaters with seating for couples where you buy the two seats with the middle armrest missing as a unit.

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

You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 74 Side Story 7 Part 1

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 74 Side Story 7 Part 1

Ten seconds before time was up, Liu Mao, who had never lifted up a girl’s skirt in his life, braced himself as he went forward and got down in front of the bridesmaid. He lifted up a portion of the hem of the skirt and untied the shoe from her calf.

Liu Mao looked up, the bridesmaid remained quite calm but Liu Mao’s face had turned dark red.

Everyone burst into laughter and said “it’s done, it’s done.” It wasn’t clear whether they were talking about completing their task to fetch the bride or that matching a new couple together had occurred.

Xu Huaisong and Ruan Yu chose to have a traditional wedding. They took wedding photos outdoors in the afternoon and held a banquet inside at night. By the time the banquet was over and all the guests had left, it was well past seven o’clock at night.

They went back to their new house and Ruan Yu, who had changed into seven sets of wedding gowns in one day, collapsed on the couch: “It’s too exhausting getting married. Fortunately it’s only once in a lifetime……”

Xu Huaisong brought their luggages into their bedroom and came out to sit on the couch. He let Ruan Yu rest her head on his lap and massaged her shoulder as he said: “We have to go out again after a short rest. There’s only one premiere also.”

Ruan Yu immediately opened her half closed eyes and said “ah” in a low voice.

Indeed.

When the two families decided early this year to set the wedding day on the National Day holiday, they didn’t expect that Ruan Yu’s movie would decide shortly after to set the premiere on the same night of their wedding at 8:30 pm.

They only had about an hour left to get to the premiere.

“I remembered it this morning, but almost forgot about it after being busy for the whole day.” Ruan Yu turned to make herself more comfortable and looked up at Xu Huaisong to say: “This time around, you haven’t colluded with the film crew to pull some tricks on me?”

Xu Huaisong laughed: “You think I wasn’t busy with the wedding? How would I have time to collude with anyone?”

Besides, last time the movie production crew wasn’t helping him propose on the movie set for free. The film company wasn’t a philanthropic business, they wouldn’t just do whatever he asked. The reason why they went along with it was out of commercial interest in them. The production company planned to shoot the proposal into a short clip to put into the movie as the post-credits scene and used the behind-the scenes story as one of the promotional highlights.

If the movie was a box office hit, it would be a win-win situation for both Global Filming and Ruan Yu. Therefore, Cen Rongshen agreed to work with Xu Huaisong on the proposal.

Ruan Yu also thought about it and asked: “Should we wear face masks when we go? Otherwise, we might get recognized by the audience once the clip is shown.”

Xu Huaisong lightly tapped on her forehead to indicate that she was worrying too much: “The clip was shot by drones. They can only see the top of your head. Besides, won’t wearing face masks make us even more conspicuous?”

Ruan Yu: “Oh.” She checked the time and struggled to get up from his lap and said: “I smell of alcohol, I have to take a shower.”

Xu Huaisong also got up after her: “I’ll take one too.”

During the banquet tonight, Xu Huaisong drank half of her share of alcohol for her. Though he didn’t flush after drinking, he was actually up to his alcohol intake limit..

Ruan Yu heard him say that he was going to shower too and turned, pointing her index finger at him, and warned: “Don’t follow me in or we’ll be late for the premiere.”

Xu Huaisong looked quite puzzled: “Geeze, Mrs. Xu, if I remember correctly, our home has two bathrooms. Why do I have to squeeze in the same one with you?”

Ruan Yu was speechless.

She thought: see, this was what happened when they got the marriage certificate early and started living together before the wedding– –On the first day of their marriage, her husband had already lost interest in her body.

Ruan Yu humphed and walked towards the bathroom without looking back at Xu Huaisong.

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

You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 73 Side Story 6 Part 3

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 73 Side Story 6 Part 3

They finally reached the bride’s room on the third floor. Xu Huaishi blurted out the moment she saw Ruan Yu, who was sitting on the bed wearing a red wedding gown: “Wow. Sister-in-law, how can my brother marry such a fairy like you!” 

Ruan Yu looked at Xu Huaishong who was carrying a bouquet in his hand and stood straight up, then laughed to say: “He hasn’t married me yet, has he?”

Shen Mingying got busy again: “That’s right. If you want to fetch the bride, find the bride’s shoes first!” She took out her cell phone to start counting while she was talking: “Both shoes are inside this room. You have five minutes.”

All the groomsmen dispersed to search different corners of the room.

Only Xu Huaisong stood right in front of Ruan Yu’s bed without moving a bit.

Shen Mingying gave him a look: “You’re so indifferent, don’t you want to marry Yuyu?”

Xu Huaisong gave her a faint smile: “They’re searching with their hands, I’ll use my eyes.”

Ruan Yu was annoyed by the sureness he displayed: “Then, I dare you to try to find them in two minutes?”

Xu Huaisong: “Hum.” He decided to not do anything within those two minutes and started chatting with her: “For the questions earlier, was number 7 the easiest one?”

“How would you know?”

“Because last year when you made me do those practice tests, I chose the seventh set. By common sense, I would think that you might have set up some sort of trap for number 7 and therefore avoided choosing to answer that one.”

“And what did you do this time?”

“I still chose number 7.”

So sneaky.

Ruan Yu shot him a harsh look. She turned to see Zhao Yi ask while pointing at the bag sitting on the nightstand: “Xuejie, can I search in there?”

Ruan Yu paused and blinked.

Zhao Yi understood: “I found it! There’s one in that bag.”

Xu Huaisong took a look at his wristwatch and found that only one minute and a half had passed: “Not my fault.”

Ruan Yu humphed lightly: “Isn’t there another one?”

They couldn’t find the other shoe anywhere.

They had rummaged through all the drawers and closets, even checked under the bed. But the other shoe was nowhere to be found.

Xu Huaisong looked at his watch until only 30 seconds were left and told his groomsmen: “You can all stop.”

Ruan Yu took a look at the confident look on his face and knew that she was going to lose this round again. Just as she had expected, Xu Huaisong pointed at one of the bridesmaids, who was sitting next to Shen Mingying and wearing a long bridesmaid gown, and said: “The other shoe is tied to that lady’s leg. One of your guys can go fetch it.”

Said bridesmaid wasn’t bashful after being found out and picked up the hem of the gown with a smile: “The one who fetches it will have to take responsibility.”

Zhao Yi immediately moved closer to Xu Huaishi: “Song Ge, I’m taken. It’s not convenient for me!”

Chen Hui blushed: “This, this, isn’t proper……”

Zhou Jun scratched his head: “Then, perhaps Lawyer Liu should go.”

Liu Mao was alarmed after taking a look at the face of the bridesmaid which was showing the expression saying “come get it if you dare.”

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 73 Side Story 6 Part 2

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 73 Side Story 6 Part 2

Xu Huaisong and his entourage were finally able to go up the stairs. But on the second floor landing, there was a board with questions on it blocking their way. Shen Mingying appeared wearing the bridesmaid’s gown and said: “Answer the questions first, then see the bride! Answering correctly will get you to the third floor, incorrect answers will cost you 30 push-ups.”

Zhao Yi waved it off: “You guys answer the questions. I’ll take care of all the push-ups!”

Chen Hui glanced at him: “Little brother, don’t you know how to talk? Is there any possibility that our Song Ge will give a wrong answer?”

Xu Huaisong didn’t say anything, it seemed that he wasn’t so certain about it.

Liu Mao noticed his uncertain expression and quietly tugged his sleeve: “What questions? Did she give you some hints?”

Xu Huaisong had thought about discovering what the questions were. A few days ago, while Ruan Yu was taking a shower, he was preparing to take a sneak peak of the questions in her laptop. He tried various ways before finally succeeding in opening an encrypted file on her computer. But what he saw first was a line of large bold SimSun characters: Whoever sees this line is shameful.

Xu Huaisong, being the shameful one, was condemned by his own conscience and too embarrassed to ask her for any hints.

The bridesmaids behind Shen Mingying started to urge the groom to choose a question, from number one to ten.

Xu Huaisong answered: “Seven.”

Shen Mingying turned to question seven on the board: “Groom, please tell us how many floor tiles there are from the back door of senior class room 9 of Su City First High to the front door of senior class room 10?”

Dumbfounded, Zhao Yi got on the floor in preparation for doing the push-ups.

Xu Huaisong blinked and looked over at Xu Huaishi.

“Ge, don’t look at me. Zhao Yi and I are in room 7. Besides, who would have nothing better to do than to count the floor tiles?”

Xu Huaisong blinked again and looked over at Zhou Jun.

“Oh, no, Huaisong…… even though I was in room 9, I didn’t have anyone in room 10 that I had a crush on.” 

The bridesmaids had begun counting down.

Xu Huaisong thought about it and when the bridesmaids counted down to “three”, he said: “23.”

It was Shen Mingying’s turn to be dumbfounded. She took a look at the answer and said: “How did you guess this one right?”

Xu Huaisong smiled: “It wasn’t a guess. I had nothing better to do at the time.”

Zhao Yi got up from the floor: “Then, Song Ge, why did you leave us in suspense just now?”

“If I answered too quickly, she wouldn’t have felt enough sense of accomplishment.”

“......”

Everyone present touched their arms to smooth out the goosebumps on them.

Xu Huaishi sighed and turned to Zhao Yi: “Better learn from that.”

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