Finishing breakfast, Su Yi Cheng immediately starts his car and sends An Ran to the Gu household. The two go up together, and it was Mr. Gu Heng Wen who had opened the door, upon seeing that the two had returned. His eyes smiling, he quickly got up to let the two in. Lin Xiao Fen was busy preparing breakfast, making congee and steaming buns. When she saw that the two were coming, she quickly stuck her head out of the kitchen and told them to wait a bit, the steamed buns needed a few more minutes until it was ready.
An Ran told her that they’d already eaten at Su Yi Cheng’s place, so her mom doesn’t have to busy herself. Then she headed to her room, so she can get ready, get changed and go. She supposes that there would be a meeting this morning, considering yesterday’s accident. She also wanted to know its cause as soon as possible.
While he was waiting for An Ran to come out, she saw Su Yi Cheng with her mother and father at the dining table, laughing and talking while eating congee, nibbling at the steamed buns. He sees that she’s come out, he gets up and faces her, smiling as he says, “An Ran, come and eat a bit more, the buns that your mom made is much better than the store-bought buns from before.”
“Yeah An Ran, come eat a bit more.” Lin Xiao Fen adds in.
An Ran looks at the time, shakes her head, and says, “I can’t. You guys can go ahead and eat, I’m going to go ahead to the company.” She grabs her bag from the sofa and begins to head out.
Upon seeing this, Su Yi Cheng also puts down his bowl and chopsticks, smiles as he gets up and faces the Gu parents and says, “Then I’ll go ahead to send An Ran. How about this, mother, leave some of these buns behind, I’ll come back this evening to finish them.”
Hearing this made Lin Xiao Fen happy. She quickly replies, “Yi Cheng, if you like these I can make some for you every day.” She thinks that this son-in-law is pretty good. He’s good to An Ran, and he’s good at speaking. Seeing this just makes him charming.
The two elder Gu’s watch them leave, and wait for them to enter the elevator, then they close the door.
“I think this Su Yi Cheng fella isn’t so bad.” Lin Xiao Fen looks at her husband as she says this.
Gu Heng Wen hugs his wife’s shoulder and leads her back inside, not saying anything. His mouth wears a smile, clearly in agreement with his wife’s words.
In the car, An Ran inspects the car seriously. Actually, she didn’t really inspect it, An Ran just stares at the logo on the steering wheel, somewhat flabbergasted. It’s not the first time that she’s been in this car, but this is the first time that she’s noticed the logo. She isn’t even all that familiar with car brands, other than the well-known BMW, Benz and Audi. She also recognizes Porsche and Bentley. And it’s only now that she’s aware, that right now at this moment she’s sitting on a Porsche!
Su Yi Cheng turns his head to look at her, and sees that she is foolishly staring at the steering wheel. A little confused, he asks, “What’s up?”
“Lin Li was right.” An Ran cried.
Su Yi Cheng laughs, and asks, “What did she say?” He’s heard her mention this name before, and he was getting curious about what kind of person this was!
“She said I was a gold digger.” An Ran states. Thinking to herself, Lin Li really is clairvoyant.
Su Yi Cheng couldn’t help but be shocked, then immediately laughs. “Are you talking about my car?”
An Ran looks at him, not answering him but asking instead, “Why did you agree to marry me?” According to his circumstances, he only needs to think, that there are too many women, too many young ladies! But seeing how he had agreed to her proposal so easily, it’s really outrageous. Now she feels that it’s a bit shady.
“Then why did you decide to marry me?” Su Yi Cheng also evades answering, asking her another question.
An Ran ponders, and stares at him for a while, until she says, “It was fitting.” At the time she thought that all of his conditions were pretty good, sees that he could be a husband, and again they seemed to be suitable. But she never thought that she would get the wrong person, and make such a huge mistake.
“Me too.” Su Yi Cheng laughs, and taps the steering wheel. The car was parked in front of An Ran’s company.
In the car, An Ran stares at him. Finally, she mutters a thanks, and gets off the car.
Su Yi Cheng was also thinking of getting of the car, but the cellphone in his pocket goes off. It was from Secretary Zheng. He reckons that he has returned from S City, and needs to report some work to him.
An Ran alights from the car, faces the Su Yi Cheng seated in the car, and nods. She then turns around to face the building and enters.
Holding her briefcase and waiting in front of the elevator, her mind is occupied with the last few words that he had uttered before she left, ‘Me too.’
“Hey An Ran.”
An unexpected pat on her shoulders abruptly brought her spirit back to earth, to see that her colleague, Xiao Xiao, was already standing beside her.
“What are you thinking about, I’ve been calling you for a while.” Xiao Xiao asks. As she was speaking, she was incessantly waving her hands. She is obviously younger than An Ran by two years, but for some reason she seems to be even more womanly than An Ran.
“It’s nothing.” An Ran laughs, shaking her head. Not only is Xiao Xiao younger than her, she entered the company around the same time as An Ran. At first she was still working on her degree in construction, and had started out doing odd jobs for the office. She slowly worked her way up to becoming the architect; she had to invest more than the other people. According to An Ran’s knowledge, besides the director, she’s the always the last person to leave.
Xiao Xiao turns her head and looks outside, and sees a nice-looking Porsche that would turn one’s head around, leaving and disappearing. She turns to An Ran, and ambiguously winks at her, asking, “Was that some kind of big boss just now that dropped you off?”
An Ran was shocked, soon after realizing that she was talking about Su Yi Cheng. She assumed that she’d seen her emerging from the car. Her face reddens, glancing down, not making eye-contact, and denies, “Nonsense!”
Ding!
At this time, the elevator arrives. The two follow the crowd of people into the elevator. Since it’s almost time to clock in, there was a lot of people in the elevator.
Unresigned, Xiao Xiao exploited the proximity and asks into An Ran’s ear, “Hey, do we know that family’s business?”
“It’s not what you think.” An Ran looks at her, annoyed. Regarding the marriage, she believes that it’s between the two of them, it’s enough that her close friends and relatives know. She also isn’t intending to do a wedding, so there’ll be no need for congratulations. She isn’t intending to make it public.
Seeing that she’s not getting the answer, Xiao Xiao wasn’t satisfied. She sulks and turns back, curling her lips. “Why so stingy, afraid that I’ll snatch him!”
An Ran doesn’t give anymore explanation, and quietly waits for the elevator to stop.
Going into the firm with Xiao Xiao, An Ran senses that the atmosphere obviously wasn’t right, and asks the front desk receptionist, to find that the victim’s family member is here making a fuss. Several big burly men are waiting in the conference room right now, asking the company to give them a statement.
An Ran’s heart drops. She takes her bag and enters the firm. As she enters, a man rushes out from the conference room, pointing at An Ran and loudly shouts, “It’s her, it’s this woman. The project manager said that she was the architect of the building, it was her design that didn’t meet the standards thus causing a person to be crushed to death!” He dashes towards An Ran, then, the other two big mafia-looking men came out from the conference room upon hearing the rukus. In a rage they storm over to An Ran. Sensing these men were bad news, he quickly stepped forward to stop them.
“Big brothers, if there’s something let’s talk it out, let’s talk it out. The investigation for the accident hasn’t cleared yet, we still aren’t clear on who is to blame. It may not be a problem with Architect Gu’s design.” A male colleague explains to them.
“Not her! If it’s not her then it’s your company’s fault. Our brother has died. Our family has the old and the young, no matter what, today you are giving us a statement!” The leader states ruthlessly.
---END OF CHAPTER----
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