First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 17 Translation

017. Su Yi Jiao

Lin Li is so evil, truly evil!

Seeing the dishes on the table, An Ran has unceasingly cursed silently.

And seeing that she is hastily layering each and every dish onto her plate, An Ran squeezes her purse, and with some bitterness in her voice, asks, “You* finished yet?”  *informally

Lin Li looks at her, proceeds to struggle with the gourmet food, and, in a rather good mood, replies, “I feel somewhat different now. Right now I’m eating two people’s worth of food, and I don’t even feel worried about eating so much!” As she says this, she puts a piece of tender fish meat in An Ran’s bowl, and without reserve, says, “Here, you can have some too. This restaurant’s steamed yellow croaker is Jiang city’s best.”

An Ran looks at piece of meat in her bowl, her stomach drops. She looked distressed, her purse also looks distressed, her credit card also looks very distressed!

As they say, grief and indignation can turn into appetite. She takes a few minutes to think about that shining white silver that will soon be leaving her. An Ran, coming to an understanding, picks up her chopsticks and goes to the offensive side.

Just as she resolved herself to eat, the cell phone in her bag begins to ring. The ringtone is a song of unknown name and an unknown musical instrument, the melody carrying a faintly sad tone.

An Ran rummages through her bag for her cell phone, and sees that it’s Su Yi Cheng’s number. An Ran glances at Lin Li, late in answering the call. In fact, she doesn’t know what she should talk about with him. Even though they’re husband and wife, they are, after all, not that familiar with each other.

“Who is it, why aren’t you answering the call?” Lin Li looks at her strangely, apparently seeing through her, and guesses, “Mr. Su?”

An Ran nods her head finally answering it. “Hello.”

“Are you busy right now? Am I bothering you?” Su Yi Cheng, on the other line, kindly asks, his voice was especially pleasant to hear.

“Um, no, no. Just eating right now.” An Ran replies honestly. She wanted to say something else, yet she doesn’t really know what else to say.

“Oh.” Su Yi Cheng answers understandingly, sounding somewhat exhausted. “Since early morning until now, I haven’t eaten yet.” That manner of speaking appears to gain a lot of sympathy from others, as it carries a hint of pity.

“Huh, why haven’t you eaten yet? Is the business trip really busy?” An Ran was of course concerned.

“Yes, quite busy.” Su Yi Cheng answers softly.

An Ran doesn’t know what else to say; she’s normally the passive one, trying to find a topic to talk about has never been her strength. Thus, the two just held their phone for a good while, silently. Just as An Ran decided to say that she will hang up, she sees a beautiful woman suddenly heading towards them, following the manager’s lead.

An Ran looks distractedly, almost forgetting that she still hasn’t said a thing to the phone.

The beautiful woman was led to her by Manager Zhang. She stops in front of her, and cautiously inspects An Ran, sizing her up. The corner of her mouth carries an indistinct smiling expression. An Ran frankly feels like she’s seen that smiling expression before, yet she can’t recall where.

“Mrs. Su, this person is our You Ran Restaurant Chief Su.” Manager Zhang introduces.

The beautiful woman looks her, and nods her head. Her speech has a bountiful appeal, as she says “Mrs. Su”, these two words. Then, looking at An Ran’s face, her smiling expression becomes more obvious.

An Ran looks at the woman in front of her, beautiful and tall. Her skin is pale, her wavy hair evens out the fringes that may not look mature, but on the contrary, carries a somewhat charming and adorable allure.

“An Ran? An Ran?” Su Yi Cheng, on the other line, calls out.

An Ran quicly comes back to earth, and answers, “Yeah, here, I’m here.”

“Are you out?” Su Yi Cheng asks, as he just heard Manager Zhang’s voice.

“Yeah, I’m eating with Lin Li at You Ran.” An Ran says honestly.

“Oh, okay. Give the phone to Yi Jiao.”

“Yi Jiao? Who’s Yi Jiao?” An Ran was confused. Who’s Yi Jiao? She clearly just said that she’s eating with Lin Li!

“Sister in law, is my older brother talking about me? I am Yi Jiao.” The beauty beside her smiles tenderly.

An Ran was shocked, even Lin Li sitting in front of her was shocked, unable to react to the situation.

“Just give it to her, I want to say a few things to her.” Su Yi Cheng on the other line says.

An Ran looks Su Yi Jiao who is beside her, not saying anything, and just dazedly nods her head, clearly forgetting that Su Yi Cheng isn’t here but on the other side of the phone, and thus, is unable to see her nod her head. She hands her phone to Su Yi Jiao.

Su Yi Jiao takes the phone as she excuses herself, and upon taking the phone, says, “Older brother, you truly are clairvoyant, or maybe somebody with extremely good hearing. Or perhaps I should say you have Guan Yin Pusa’s (Goddess of Mercy) pinch of miracle. I just let Manager Zhang bring me to meet sister in law, and already, you found out.”

Under the table, Lin Li stretches her leg to kick An Ran, looking at her, her expression asking to get-to-the-bottom-of-the-matter and what-the-hell-is-going-on.

An Ran creases her brows, shaking her head. She’s just as clueless as her right now.

Also not knowing what Su Yi Cheng is saying right now, she can only hear Su Yi Jiao laugh lovingly and saying, “Don’t worry, I haven’t frightened sister in law yet. I also just got here, and heard Manager Zhang say that the Flower pavilion guest from yesterday is also here today, so I just came over to have a look-see. However, brother, this speed is fast enough. When I went home yesterday I haven’t heard Mom chatting away about your marriage, and today I have a sister-in-law.”

An Ran listens beside her, her cheeks becoming red. She also didn’t expect it to be this fast, yesterday she was also an unmarried woman, and today she’s already risen through the ranks of a married woman, on the same level as Lin Li.

“Alright, alright, she’s my sister-in-law, how else should I treat her? I just wanted to see your precious.” Su Yi Jiao says, turning her head to look at An Ran, meeting her eyes, and gives her a charming wink.

An Ran smiles embarrassingly, at a complete loss.

“Alright, you can go talk to mom yourself, I definitely won’t blab.” She says as she nods, and then she smiles lovingly as she returns the cellphone to An Ran. “My brother says he wants to say some sweet nothings to sister-in-law.”

An Ran’s skin weakens, her faces turns into a deep red as she takes the cellphone. “Hello.”

“Did Yi Jiao scare you?” Su Yi Cheng’s voice, as before, is warm and pleasant to hear.

An Ran looks at the Su Yi Jiao who is smiling from ear to ear, and shakes her head. “No, not at all.”

“She’s my little sister, she’s also You Ran’s boss. She heard that you were here, so she got curious and came over to take a look, no malice.” Su Yi Cheng explains.

“Okay, I know.” She already heard what Su Yi Jiao just said.

“I’ll be back in the evening, if I get back early I’ll call you. We should talk.” Su Yi Cheng says.

“Okay, sounds good.” An Ran nods, they really need to have a good talk.

Hanging up, she turns her head and sees that Su Yi Jiao still hasn’t left, smiling as she looks at An Ran and says, “Sister-in-law, what kind of sweet nothings has my brother said to you?”

“Uh..I—it’s nothing.” An Ran is flustered, where and what are the sweet nothings!

“Never mind, you don’t have to tell me the sweet speech and honeyed words that goes between you two.” Su Yi Jiao says somewhat pointedly, the corner of her mouth smiles ambiguously.

“Re—really! There isn’t!” An Ran explains, itching to vow a guarantee.

Su Yi Jiao laughs, but also not saying anything more. She turns to look at Lin Li, nods at her, and also looks at the dishes on the table. “Sister-in-law, our kitchen today is also featuring a new dish, I’ll have them give you some so you can try.” As she says this, she turns towards the kitchen and heads there.



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Oh, Manager Zhang, impeccable timing, as always lol. Su Yi Jiao, I'm glad she's not the harsh sis-in-law. Phew! Dodged that bullet, An Ran. Enjoy~ 

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