First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 14 Translation

014. My wife, your daughter in law

An Ran gives Su Yi Cheng the address. During the ride, the atmosphere became quiet and a little strange. Lin Xiao Fen closes her eyes and leans on to Gu Heng Wen’s shoulder, her mouth purses up, carefully looking, and slightly trembling, as if she was suppressing her innermost thoughts. Beside her, Gu Heng Wen’s face becomes unreadable, he firmly holds his wife’s hands, not saying a word.

When the car was half way to the destination, in the end An Ran wasn’t able to endure it, and asks, “Mom… You know that person from before?” Actually, there was no need to answer. An Ran already knew what the answer was. Because their silence confirmed it.

Lin Xiao Fen’s closed eyes suddenly opened, and after a while, she closes it again, having no power in her voice, she says, “No, I don’t know him.”

Seeing this, An Ran doesn’t ask anymore. She turns and looks out the window, looking at the speeding streetscape, distancing her train of thought.

Arriving at the Gu house, Gu Heng Wen guides Lin Xiao Fen into the house. Su Yi Cheng was also planning to go in as well, but when they alighted the car, he got a call from home again. It’s a call from his mother. He was going to say that he would come home tonight, and since he hasn’t returned, his mother immediately erupted.

An Ran looks at him, and says, “If something came up, you can go ahead first. There’s no need to come in.”

Su Yi Cheng looks at his cellphone, and nods. Not forgetting to say before leaving, “If there’s anything, call me.”

An Ran nods. Her mind is full of worry, as she has never seen her mother like this.

Su Yi Cheng looks at her, advances to hug her, and says, “Go on. I’ll give you a call tomorrow.”

An Ran gawks at him, nods, and turns around to head into her home.

By the time An Ran enters the house, Lin Xiao Fen was already in bed. An Ran quietly goes in, and only sees Gu Heng Wen carefully tucking her in.

“Dad.” An Ran whispers.

Gu Heng Wen turns around, makes a gesture to quiet her, and then turns An Ran around to leave the room.

In the living room, An Ran looks at her father and asks, “Dad, mom knows that man, right?”

Gu Heng Wen looks into her eyes, and starts to say, “An Ran, there are some things that dad and mom don’t want to tell you, because the suffering and unhappiness is too much to bear. Mom and dad never wants you not live happily, do you understand?”

“Dad….” An Ran looks at him.

“Don’t ask about this anymore, and especially, don’t ask this in front of your mother. There are some matters that are hurtful, not because there isn’t enough time for the wound to heal. If you ask her again, you’re only reminding her of the pain from that time. The wound is quite deep.” Gu Heng Wen pats her hand, saying so.

An Ran nods her head, not imploring any further. An Ran was not able to catch any sleep for the following night. She knows that her father has also spent the night in the living room by himself. She doesn’t know what kind of grudges and animosity lies in between her mother and that man, but these things are not that important. What’s in the past is in the past, and she will not press on the matter anymore. She will wait for her mother to forget that pit-in-the-stomach injury and pain.

Upon returning to the Jun Qu* courtyard, Qin Yun sits in the living room waiting for his return, her expression hard. Su Yi Cheng rubs his nose outside, and enters, calling out, “Ma, you’re still up.”

*Jun Qu= a military district of the PRC

Qin Yun doesn’t look at him, and in a coldly tone, says, “So you still know that you have a mother, I thought that you’d completely forgotten. Don’t know who gave birth to you.”

Su Yi Cheng smiles, not taking her words to heart, as he knows that she has a temper right now. To pour oil in the fire would lead to a dead end. He takes off his jacket and sits opposite to her, grabbing the military publication on the desk and looking through it, not speaking any further.

Seeing that he is not saying anything, Qin Yun actually cannot sit still. She pulls out the publication in his hands, and with some anger still not yet appeased, says, “I’m talking to you. How can you be so rude.”

Having heard what was said, Su Yi Cheng sits upright, and looks at her earnestly.

Qin Yun was caught off guard, thinking that he would say something, but even after waiting a while, he still hasn’t said a word. She can’t help but ask, “What are you up to?”

Su Yi Cheng coughs lightly, and in quite a conscientious manner, says, “Modestly listening to Mother DaRen’s instruction.”

Qin Yun jokingly slaps her son, “Che, how improper. If you really want to listen to my words then that’s good, not to mention instructions.”

Su Yi Cheng laughs, wraps his arms around his mother’s shoulders, and says, “I really was thinking of coming home for dinner. It’s just that just then, it so happens that something came up, so I wasn’t able to walk away from that.”

“You’re just trying to dodge me. You haven’t came home once, when is there a time where you could walk away from a matter.” Qin Yun replies unhappily.

Su Yi Cheng rubs his nose, not speaking, but quietly thinking, Indeed!

“Can’t say a word huh.” Qin Yun looks at him, and smiles coldly.

Si Yi Cheng was in the wrong, and quickly switched to another topic, asking, “Where’s dad and grandpa? They already asleep?”

“Your grandpa’s already sleeping, your dad’s in the study room. They were quite happily waiting for you to come home and eat together. You really disappointed them, just calling once to say that you’re not coming, you made grandpa unhappy the entire evening.” Qin Yun complains.

Hearing what was said, Si Yi Cheng gets up and heads towards the study room. “I’m going to see grandpa and dad.”

“Hey, wait a minute.” Seeing that he was about to leave, Qin Yun hurriedly pulls him, and says, “Sit first. I have something to say to you.”

“What?” Si Yi Cheng asks, having an ominous premonition.

“Yesterday, chief of staff Jun Qu Li’s wife specially came here saying that she would like to introduce you to someone. The girl is a graduate student of her’s. She’s been said to be especially pretty and neat.. So you see, when should we arrange a time, you should find some time to put aside so you can see this girl, dine with her and so on.” Qin Yun says quickly.

Su Yi Cheng sighs. Even though it wasn’t far from what he expected, it’s only her that would beat around the bushes. His mother definitely wants to introduce him a potential partner. This is why, yet again, he really was afraid to come home.

           

“Well? How about this, tomorrow I’ll go instead of you and set up a time with her to meet?” Qin Yun pushes.

“Don’t, mom.” Su Yi Cheng really was afraid of his mom, quickly shaking his head and continues,  “You don’t have to concern yourself with my marital matters. You also don’t need to introduce me to each and every young lady. I want to go tomorrow, but I have a trip to S city and I won’t be back until the day after tomorrow. How about this, the day after tomorrow, or possibly Monday, I’ll bring you to meet someone.” He was going to bring An Ran to meet her, so she can save her old worries about weddings.  

“Someone? Who?” Qin Yun asks unphased.

“My wife, your daughter-in-law.” Su Yi Cheng laughs mysteriously and turns to go to the study room, leaving a stunned Qin Yun behind. 


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