First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 44 Translation

044. The hickey on the neck 1


While An Ran was finished with washing and came out changed into his white shirt. Su Yi Cheng was standing at the bookshelf reading something. He hears the bathroom door open, and turns his head, only to see An Ran wearing his white shirt, her two slender legs standing perfectly straight, her small face carrying the delicate blush of after-shower. Su Yi Cheng can’t help but look on foolishly. He had heard that when a woman wears a man’s shirt she is the sexiest, the prettiest. So it wasn’t fake news, all of it was real.

Being looked at like that made An Ran feel embarrassed, not daring to look at him, and only says a few words, “I’m done. You can go wash up.” Then in an instant she buries herself into the bed, pulling the blanket and wrapping it around her, only leaving behind a pair of large blinking eyes.

Su Yi Cheng finds her action both funny and in a good mood, contrary to the thief that she is.

Seeing that he is still fixed on her, An Ran swallows nervously, just says, “I, I’m kinda tired, first, going to sleep first, night.” After she finished speaking she immediately covers her head with the quilt.

Su Yi Cheng shakes his head laughing, then turns around to the armoire and takes out some pyjamas to change into, then goes into the bathroom right after. Underneath with the quilt wrapped around her body as a hiding space, she counts sheep. One sheep, two sheep, three sheep……

When she counted up to 325 sheep the door to the bathroom opens. Su Yi Cheng drags his steps and comes out, and An Ran still hasn’t fallen asleep. Actually she isn’t even the least bit sleepy, her eyes were still wide opened.

Su Yi Cheng looks over at the nest of dumpling on the bed, finding it a bit funny and felt helpless. They were husband and wife, going through last night, do they still need to be this way?

He lifts the quilt to go to bed, only to see the person beside him lying motionlessly. Su Yi Cheng shakes his head still finding it funny, turns off the lamp on the bedside and lies down beside her.

In the dark, underneath the quilt, Su Yi Cheng familiarly reaches out and gently brings her to his chest.

An Ran appears stiff, closing her eyes tightly, as if she had already fallen asleep.

Su Yi Cheng holds back a smile, embracing her and lying down properly. It's only her that's pretending that stiff-like-a-corpse position isn't tiring, but to him it looks like it is quite tiring. As a result he comes up with a prank in his mind. He reaches out evilly, wandering over her body. He can even clearly sense that because of his hand her body can’t help but become even stiffer.

Seeing that she still doesn’t intend to open her eyes and say that she’s still awake, Su Yi Cheng, with that evil hand, slowly explores. At first he simply wanted to play a prank to tease her, but as his hands are exploring her silky and satin-like skin, his own body is also slowly getting a reaction. Thinking about last night, his breathing quickly tightens.

“An Ran…..” Su Yi Cheng’s voice from behind is already a bit husky. Unsatisfied with just exploring with his hands, he leaves a soft kiss behind her ear, then quietly asks into her ears, “Are you seducing me?”

“No.” An Ran unconsciously shakes her head. Seducing him, how could that be! And now she’s completely forgotten that she should have already fallen asleep.

Su Yi Cheng chuckles, softly sucking on her ear, his hands still exploring, “Weren’t you sleeping?”

“Uh.” An Ran blanks, and only after a while does she come up with something herself to respond to that, just shyly saying, “I, I was about to fall asleep, but, but you, you being like that woke me up.”

Su Yi Cheng’s laugh resonates in his chest, just feeling that this figure in his embrace is just so cute. Suddenly turning over, he presses down on her. In the dark the pair of bright, clear dark eyes stare at her, not blinking. The corner of his mouth rises up to entice people, and asks, “Since you’re up then, don’t you wanna do some exercise together?”

He's speaking as if he hadn’t eaten pork before, furthermore hadn’t even seen a pig run... Besides, last night they’d already eaten ‘pork’, so An Ran naturally knows what his so-called exercises is referring to.

Frightened, she replies by shaking her head, “I-I-I’m kinda tired.”

Su Yi Cheng looks at her and laughs. He lowers his head to move closer to her ears, whispering, “Then you don’t have to move, I’ll do the moving.”

“I---Wu---“ Su Yi Cheng doesn’t even give her a chance to open her mouth. Taking advantage of the moment she opened her mouth, in rapid speed he blocks her mouth, using the most primitive method.



While a person was in a deep slumber and was woken up by someone is the most dreadful kind of experience. Jun Qu courtyard has morning exercises every day, so the sound of the bell rings at 5 am sharp, and every corner of the courtyard could hear it nice and clear. An Ran only felt that she had just closed her eyes, and then this bell started to ring, bringing her back to her childhood. During school, the bell that indicated class was starting was also like that, really ear-splitting, really rouses people’s spirit.

She doesn’t know what time she fell asleep last night, just knows that it won’t do that she’s tired, lying motionlessly, she allows Su Yi Cheng to hug her. Then he goes to the bathroom to wash up. Having no resistance whatsoever, she closes her eyes in a daze and falls back to sleep, no need to count, and no need to count sheep.



Awoken by the stroke of the bell, An Ran dazedly pushes herself to sit up on the bed, her eyes still closed, just asking, “What’s, what’s going on? What happened?” Su Yi Cheng reaches out and hugs her, just whispering into her ears, “It’s nothing, keep on sleeping. It’s still early.”

An Ran was truly tired, upon leaning against him that she could fall asleep.

Su Yi Cheng looks at her sleeping eyes, lowering his head and leaves light kisses on her forehead. Then he turns and puts her down on the bed, and grabs a pair of workout outfits from the armoire to change into, then turns around and leaves the room.



By the time An Ran woke up again it was exactly 7 am. The sounds of commands from outside permeates inside. She looks at the other side of the bed that had already gone cold, vaguely remembering that he had told her it was still early, but other than that she doesn’t have an impression of anything else. She opens her eyes and stares at the light on the ceiling. Then she remembers that she isn’t in Su Yi Cheng’s apartment in the city.

She grabs the cellphone on the bedside and looks at the time. It was exactly 7 am. This morning she still has to make a trip to the construction site. To get there from downtown should take about an hour, so, besides getting herself ready, she doesn’t have much time at all.

Thinking of that, An Ran quickly sets into motion and washes up. Doing that movement, her entire body seemed as if her muscles were being wrung and pinched, reminding her of last night’s craziness. Her tiny face suddenly flushes red.

“Screw you Su Yi Cheng.” She curses him in a huff, finally dragging her incredibly aching body into the bathroom to change.

When she came out of the room and into the lounge the house’s maid at that time was arranging bowls and chopsticks. Qin Yun was moving things about in the kitchen for breakfast. Upon seeing that, An Ran quickly rushes forward to lend a hand, bringing out the side dishes.

Qin Yun assumed that it was the house’s maid, so she asks her to take the bowl of rice and set it out. An Ran responds, and goes ahead to set up the congee. Qin Yun heard that the voice was weird, so she turns her head to see An Ran’s smiling face cheerily standing there.

“An Ran, why are you up so early.” Qin Yun pulls on her hand as she speaks, “Ah, is it because you’re not used to the courtyard, the noises from the morning exercises must have woken you up.”

An Ran shakes her head, “Not at all, I still have to head to work early morning, so I got up early.”

Qin Yun nods, suddenly catching a glimpse of the faint red marks on her neck. She looks at her, giving her an ambiguous smile.

---END OF CHAPTER---

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