First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 23 Translation

023. First meeting of the mother-in-law

“Su Yi Cheng, why are you here!”

An Ran glares at him, her consciousness has completely returned. She remembers everything last night as if it were new. Her face turns red, she pulls the blanket and covers her chest. She clearly remembers him saying that he would sleep in the study room last night, how could he be here right now!

“This is my room, if I’m not here where else would I be?” Su Yi Cheng feigns innocence.

“You……You definitely said that you would go to the study room!” An Ran defends. If it weren’t for him taking the initiative to say that he would go to the study room, she wouldn’t have slept so soundly here.

Su Yi Cheng nods, doesn’t deny it, and says, “Yeah. I said that I would go to the study room.”

“Then, then how could you come back in the middle of the night!” An Ran hatefully watches him, she thought that he was a good guy, how could he do something this shady!

“I went to the study room because there was some work that I needed to handle, also I didn’t say that I would sleep in the study room.” Su Yi Cheng stated. He doesn’t believe that he had said any half-lies.

“You…..” An Ran steamed, she glares at him, shell-shocked and couldn’t spit out half of a word.

Su Yi Cheng laughs as he shakes his head, lifts the blanket from his side of the bed, and says, “You can go change first, I’ll go get the door.” He says as he opens the door and leaves.

An Ran, annoyed, glares at the door for a while, then quickly grabs her clothes from last night and dresses herself.

Su Yi Cheng opens the door, to see Qin Yun’s smiling face barging in, and gives her son a sizing up. Then she stretches her neck in the direction of his room and watches, as if she were searching for something.

“Mom, what did you come here this early for?” Su Yi Cheng crosses his arms, laughing at his mother. He knew that she was anxious, but he didn’t know that she was this anxious. Coming here this early in the morning, it’s only 7 am, but he knows that it takes at least an hour to get here from the compound, and who knows what time she got up at!

Qin Yun smiles and turns her head. She moves closer to her son’s side, and asks in a low voice, “Ah Cheng, did mom come too early?”

“What do you think? Did you go exercise with dad today, to get up this early.” Si Yi Cheng asks.

“Che, I woke up even earlier than your dad.” Qin Yun says proudly. She turns to look at the tightly-shut-door-of-his-room, and asks, “That young lady still isn’t up?”

Su Yi Cheng glanced at his mother, smiles, and helplessly shakes his head. He walks to the kitchen, not answering her question, and just asks, “Do you want juice or water?”

“What do you mean juice, I bought some breakfast from the corner store at your guys’ neighbourhood. Freshly-ground soybean milk and steamed bun fresh out of the oven. You, go tell her to come out to eat breakfast, or else it’ll go cold.” As she says this, Qin Yun goes into the kitchen and grabs a bowl and sets it up.

“Mom, you’re going to scare her this way.” This is too unexpected, there wasn’t any time for that girl to prepare.

Qin Yun, not in a good mood, coldly stares at her son. “How could this scare her, your mother isn’t some evil mother-in-law. No way, no way.”

After she finished speaking, the door to the room makes a sound as it opens. An Ran has just finished changing and came out, and sees Qin Yun standing in the kitchen. Her face suddenly turns red, and greets her with a nod in embarrassment.

Seeing her come out, Qin Yun actually was really delighted. She shoves the breakfast that was in her hands to Su Yi Cheng, and quickly winds around the kitchen, her whole face beaming with a gentle smile as she looks at An Ran. She steps forward, grabs a hold of An Ran’s hand, and earnestly looks at An Ran up and down, her mouth couldn’t help but say, “What a looker, this style, so charming.”

An Ran was still confused, her face still red, and desperately looks at Su Yi Cheng.

As if he had received An Ran’s cry for help, Su Yi Cheng walks over from his side, takes An Ran’s hand from his mother’s, and says, “Mom, I’m going to sit in the living room.”

Qin Yun looks at the embraced hands, her smile is so big that she couldn’t close it, and only nods in agreement.

“Ah Cheng, introduce mother, introduce me! Who is this young lady.” She sits on the living room sofa, Qin Yun stares at An Ran as she speaks to Su Yi Cheng.

“An Ran, this is my mom. Mom, this is An Ran.” Su Yi Cheng introduces simply.

An Ran’s face reddens, smiles at Qin Yun, and quietly says, “Mother.” Nevertheless, this is quite an unexpected situation of meeting her mother-in-law. Honestly speaking, she wasn’t ready for it at all.

This time, it was Qin Yun’s turn to be shocked, calling her mother, it really gave her a fright. Absentmindedly, she turns to look at her son. “Ah Cheng?”

Su Yi Cheng rubs his nose, quietly sighs, and says, “Mom, An Ran and I have already registered our marriage last week.”

Hearing this, Qin Yun was shocked yet again. After a while, she still couldn’t come up with a response. She looks at An Ran, then looks at her son. Still in disbelief, she asks, “Really?”

“Really.” Su Yi Cheng nods his head seriously, wondering if he should get the marriage certificate to show it to his mother, so that she would believe him and that he wasn’t lying.

Speechless for a while, Qin Yun grumbled, “Really, this child. Marriage is such a big deal yet you didn’t say a word to your family. How can I inform our relatives and friends in such short notice!”

Su Yi Cheng smiles, and calmly says, “Then you can tell them right now, just let them know one by one.”

“Seriously… This marriage needs a lot of preparations, you should’ve let me know earlier.” Qin Yun glanced at her son in annoyance as she says this. She gets up. “No can do, I have to return at once and let your dad know about this thing, I reckon he’ll be startled as well.” As she says this she turns to look at An Ran. She laughs giddily, her tone has also softened up a lot, as she says, “An Ran ah, would you come home with Yi Cheng for dinner?”

“Uh.” An Ran looks at Su Yi Cheng, not saying anything, but only smiles meekly.

“I already promised father-in-law and mother-in-law tonight, that I will come over with An Ran for dinner.” Su Yi Cheng says.

“Oh. So it’s like that.” Qin Yun nods. “Then tomorrow. You two come over tomorrow. I’ll tell that girl Yi Jiao to come home. We can meet the whole family.” As she says this, she thought of something else, and tells Su Yi Cheng, “You set up a time, so that the two families can meet for a meal. At that time the two families can discuss your wedding.”

“Okay, okay, I got it.” Su Yi Cheng nods in agreement.

The two send Qin Yun out, waiting until she enters the elevator. The two then turn around to go back into the house.

An Ran looks at herself, her face still a bit red, and takes her hand out from Su Yi Cheng’s. The atmosphere became a little awkward.   

Su Yi Cheng looks so natural, as he looks at her and smiles gently. “Let’s eat breakfast. Mom brought these just now. After we finishing eating I’ll send you back so you can change.”

An Ran nods. She doesn’t have any objections, when she suddenly thought of something. She looks at him, and considered to start talking, “That…”

“Yeah?” Su Yi Cheng turns his head, and looks at her inquiringly.

“That, wedding…. Can we not do a wedding?” An Ran says as she looks at him.

In fact, when she was a child she had dreamt of being a princess, imagining that some day, her prince charming would escort her down the aisle with flowers in both hands. Six years ago that prince charming was Mo Fei, and during that time of romance, she had once looked forward to him escorting her down the aisle that day. But in the end it didn’t come. After three years of romance they had reached the end to take different roads. The marriage between her and Su Yi Cheng can actually be considered as a compromise. She’s reached the age of marriage, and he’s also reached the age to take a wife and have a child. This marriage, to be exact, is merely a mutually beneficial collaboration. She’s good, and he is good. Marriage should be sacred. A marriage without love. She feels that when the moment comes, she wouldn’t be able to lie and say those three words.

Su Yi Cheng looks at her, and asks her seriously, “Why don’t you want to do a wedding?”

“I, I’m afraid it’s too much trouble.” An Ran turns her head, avoiding her gaze.

For a long time, he was silent. Su Yi Cheng didn’t say any more. He only nods, and says, “Okay.”

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I wonder how private Yi Cheng is when it comes to relationships, haha. There's such a stark difference in the reaction between An Ran's people and Yi Cheng's people when they announced that they were married LOL. His mom is adorable, as is everyone in the story so far