First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 20 Translation

020. He is earnest

An Ran looks at him, not understanding the situation. She doesn’t understand why he had called home?

“Um.” On the other line, Lin Xiao Fen, after all, still isn’t used to the sudden arrival of a son-in-law. She was dazed for a few minutes until she could finally muster a response. She quickly said, “Oh yes, Yi Cheng ah. You’ve come back from your business trip?”

“Yes, I’m back. Actually I called back to let you know, An Ran is with me right now. She might not come back tonight. I will drive her tomorrow morning.” Su Yi Cheng said.

“Oh.” Lin Xiao Fen couldn’t help but be shocked at what Su Yi Cheng had just said, but this time she could quickly come up with a response; after all her daughter is married. She laughs. “Heheh. Okay, okay, Ma understands. You guys are youngsters. An Ran too, why the need to hide the fact that you’re together. You guys are husband and wife after all, you should live together. However, this marriage is just too rushed, I haven’t thought it over thoroughly yet. How about this, tomorrow, tomorrow I’ll go help An Ran pack, so she can move her stuff to your place. You guys are already married, what kind of reasoning is it that she should live in her parents’ house. If that gets out, wouldn’t it become such a joke!”

“Hehe, yes yes yes. I’ll come over and help An Ran bring her stuff, but this will tire mother.” Su Yi Cheng replied in kind.

“Look at what you’re saying. Then how about tomorrow, come over when you guys finish work. Then we can eat dinner as a family. Oh right! Have you told your parents yet? How about you arrange a time to let the two families dine together.” Even though there won’t be a wedding, there’s still a need for the two families to eat dinner together and meet each other. Otherwise, in-law to in-law, if they ever meet on the streets, they wouldn’t even know.

“Mother, your opinions are important. I will try to arrange it these next two days.” Su Yi Cheng responds. He looks at the An Ran in front of him, staring at him wide-eyed as if he were a mob boss. It made him chuckle. He couldn’t help but stroke her hair.

“Ok, then let us know when you’ve set a time,” Lin Xiao Fen answers, and then ending the conversation with some niceties, then hangs up.

Once Su Yi Cheng hears the end of the line, he hands the cellphone back to An Ran, but only sees that An Ran is gaping at him. Her hands also do not know how to take the phone, so he laughs. “You become foolish?”

In turn, An Ran’s spirit finally returns. “You, you you….” She points at him, a little speechless.

Su Yi Cheng laughs, asking, “What’d I do?”

“You you you… How could you call my mother!” After restraining for a long time, An Ran could only choke out these few words.

“What do you think?” Su Yi Cheng responds, he smiles crookedly.

“I’m the one asking you, how could you call my mom and say those things!” An Ran was a little bit panicked. Leave what behind? Move what? She never said anything about that!

Su Yi Cheng laughs, but still not speaking. He turns back to the bar and picks up the chopsticks again to eat. Even though the noodles have gotten cold and mushy, but it still doesn’t taste too bad. Su Yi Cheng really feels that, even though he has grown this old, this was the best bowl of noodles that he has ever eaten, even if the flavour, in itself, isn’t that good.

“Su Yi Cheng!” An Ran walks over to his side, looks at him. She really is angry, as her entire face has swelled up in redness.

Su Yi Cheng takes a few more bites until the noodles was completely finished off, he even drank all the soup so that there was nothing left. He gets up and puts the bowl and chopsticks into the sink, and even puts some water into it, so that it would be easier to wash. Then he finally turns to An Ran and looks at her, asking seriously, “Where is this?”

“Your home.” An Ran answers, her expression remaining cool, obviously she is still angry.

“Then what am I to you?” Su Yi Cheng asks again.

“You’re my…” An Ran paused; to say ‘husband’ is a bit difficult to say...

“I’m your what?” Su Yi Cheng presses, his expression still serious.

An Ran stares at him for a while, in the end she can’t say anything. Peeved, she turns away, not looking at him.

Su Yi Cheng sighs. He reaches out to draw her in. An Ran struggles with difficulty, but he was firm. He pulls her into the living room sofa and sits her down. He turns her body so that the two are face-to-face, and begins to say, “An Ran, you know our relationship right now?”

An Ran nods, but avoids his eyes. Her line of sight is on the coffee table.

“We’re husband and wife, from the moment we got the marriage certificate, this place isn’t just my home, it’s also your home. Your mom also isn’t just your mother, she’s also my mother-in-law. I also want to call her mom. Don’t tell me it’s not?”

An Ran nods, she already knows all of that, she’s just a bit out of it, that’s all.

“An Ran.” Su Yi Cheng calls her gently, he reaches out to take her chin, but doesn’t use any force. He only says, “Raise your head and look at me.”

Regarding this kind of action, An Ran felt a bit uneasy, but she still turns her head, lifts her eyes, and looks at him. His eyes are really deep, as if there are many things that she just wouldn’t understand.

Su Yi Cheng looks at her in the eyes, earnest and with certainty, says, “Regarding this marriage, I am serious about it.”

An Ran looks at him, as if she was confused by him.

Even she doesn’t know how to answer, but when An Ran finally could react, his lips had already planted a kiss, softly on her lips, wandering. An Ran doesn’t know how  react, she could only look, wide-eyed and foolishly, at the face that had been magnified. His eyes were closed, his lashes were long, even so much that she could feel it rubbing against her skin.

When An Ran was still in a daze, Su Yi Cheng opens his eyes. Seeing her foolishly shocked appearance is really funny. The evil in his heart made him open his mouth to bite her lips lightly. He was good in controlling his strength. It didn’t split her lip, but still, it hurt.

An Ran’s spirit was brought back by the pain. Her eyes flickered bashfully. She raised her hand to push him, because this kind of intimacy, she clearly isn’t comfortable with it.

Su Yi Cheng holds her hands, his lips still sticking to her’s, his voice is sort of husky, lightly coaxing her, “Don’t move, close your eyes.”

“I….Wu wu…” An Ran was trying to refuse, but this gave him the opportunity to guide, as the mouth opened, that tongue of his went in, without restraint, robbing her of everything.

Su Yi Cheng kisses her, his tongue carefully inspecting, to let her take part in the dance. Her lips were soft and sweet, just like the taste yesterday when he kissed her. He couldn’t help but be a bit confused. He wanted to cling on to her even more. 

To An Ran, the kiss was more or less strange. Granted, she was with Mo Fei for three years, but back then they were both pure and didn’t know better, at the most they only held hands while walking. Any real kisses were simply light pecks on the cheek, exactly like that, and the two became red the whole morning. 

An Ran doesn’t know if Su Yi Cheng’s kissing techniques were good or not, but she really was confused and disoriented from his kisses, all rationality was removed from her brain bit by bit. Even the hand that originally wanted to resist was slowly losing strength, it slowly retreated. 

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