First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 51 Translation

051. The bottom line


Since everyone had had a drink, naturally it wasn’t possible to drive, so at the entrance of YouRan restaurant, they called for a taxi.

Huang De Xing politely lets Tong Wen Hai and Mo Fei go first. Tong Wen Hai gets in the car. When the driver was about to leave he suddenly rolls the window down, and towards An Ran he said, “An Ran, where do you live? If it’s on the way we might as well go together.”

Hearing that, Huang De Xing and Xiao xiao, who were standing beside An Ran, were bewildered. They turn to look at An Ran.

An Ran manages to come with a reply, and quickly waves her hand. “N-no need, I can get a ride myself.”

“Let’s go together, a woman shouldn’t go home alone by herself.” Tong Wen Hai insists.

“I….” An Ran was about to think of something to say, when the phone in her bag starts to ring. It was Su Yi Cheng. An Ran smiles apologetically to everyone, and answers the call.

“Are you still out?” Su Yi Cheng sounds a bit exhausted.

An Ran nods, and asks, “Yeah. Are you back?”

“Yeah, just got home. Saw that you weren’t home.”

“I, I had a dinner gathering with my company.”

“Is it done? Did you drink? Want me to come over and pick you up?” Su Yi Cheng asks.

“Yeah, I drank a bit. I’m afraid I can’t drive now,” An Ran chuckles.

“Where are you? I’ll come pick you up.” Su Yi Cheng asks. An Ran can hear him take his car keys; apparently he’s going to leave immediately.

“It’s ok, I can take a taxi back.” An Ran quickly says, not wanting to trouble him.

“Address.” Su Yi Cheng asks in a tone that accepted no refusal.

“Uh. I’m at YouRan restaurant.” An Ran replies without thinking.

The person on the other line doesn’t say anything more, and just hangs up.

An Ran ends the call, and turns her head only to see that Tong Wen Hai’s car still hasn’t left. She quickly says, “Chief Tong you really don’t need to take the trouble, m-my friend is coming to pick me up.”

Only then does Tong Wen Hai nod, turns back to the driver, and allows the driver to leave.

“Don’t tell me that Chief Tong is interested in you?” Xiao xiao says coldly, her tone scathing and harsh.

“What are you talking about.” An Ran looks at her annoyed. She doesn’t like to hear stuff like that. Actually she can see that Tong Wen Hai was taking particular care of her, but that was because of her mother. Even though she doesn’t really know what was between him and her mother, but her intuition tells her, that what was between them wasn’t that simple.

At this time Huang De Xing’s phone also starts to ring. It was a call from his wife, urging him to come home early. He hangs up and politely says to An Ran and Xiao xiao, “Who’ll be going the same direction as me, we can go together.”

“My friend is coming to pick me up.” An Ran says as she shakes her head.

“Then I’ll go with An Ran, I’m in the same direction.” Xiao xiao says.

Huang De Xing nods, and doesn’t really say anything, just gets in the taxi and leaves.

Watching Huang De Xing leave, Xiao xiao starts to ask, “Is the person coming to pick you up that hot guy from the other day?”

“Yeah.” An Ran chuckles and nods. Actually she really didn’t want to trouble Su Yi Cheng, but he said that he’s coming to pick her up, and it’s not that she’s not moved, her heart is feeling fuzzy, being treated in such a way by another just feels really great.

Xiao xiao gathers her hair and sweeps it to the side, and with a scathing remark she says, “Recently you’ve really picked a prosperous peach blossom. Weren’t you doing blind dates not too long ago, how did you pick one?”

An Ran frowns. She didn’t really like the way she spoke to her, so she doesn’t say anything, and just looks at the neon lights on the streets.

Seeing that she’s not speaking, Xiao xiao also felt embarrassed, so she smiles sluggishly and says, “You can go in and wait. Oh right, do you mind if I take a ride with you? If you do mind then I can go and take a taxi.”

“No it’s okay, it’s on the way in any case.” An Ran says. Then she turns around and goes into the lounge, taking a seat by the window, this way, once Su Yi Cheng arrives, she can see him.

An Ran takes the seat across from her, looking lazy, her unique look. She takes a sip of the tea that the waiter brought her, faintly saying, “You can’t be interested in that Chief Tong, are you?”

Hearing that, An Ran got pissed. She turns and looks right at her, and says, “Xiao xiao, I don’t like the way you’re speaking to me. Everyone has a bottom line, you shouldn’t touch mine; you can say whatever and I wouldn’t really care, but for these matters you really shouldn’t talk about it so irresponsibly, and just because I wasn’t saying anything doesn’t mean that I didn’t take offense.”

Xiao xiao was taken aback, she laughs, “Why so serious? I was just reminding you, that’s all. Up to you to listen or not.”

“Thanks, you’re so kind to point it out, didn’t think of it as complicated as you did.” An Ran says coldly.

Xiao xiao shrugs indifferently, “I wish.” Then she thought of something, laughs and says, “But that Mo Fei really does have an interest in you right, I saw him caressing your hand.”

An Ran turns red, shooting a glance at her, “Don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Really?” Xiao xiao looks at her and smiles, but An Ran doesn’t know that in that smile contains envy, disdain.

An Ran looks out. The dim light of the night was making things hard to see, and the neon lights were flickering. Even at night Jiang city was just as lively as the day.

Xiao xiao also turns to look out, and rubs her cheek. She smirks, her appearance charming.

When Su Yi Cheng alighted from the taxi he caught sight of the seat by the window. An Ran was pensively sitting there. She’s looking in his direction, but it seems like she hadn’t seen him at all.

Su Yi Cheng chuckles and shakes his head, quickening his steps to go into YouRan restaurant.

On the contrary, Xiao xiao had seen Su Yi Cheng just as he got off the taxi. He was a remarkable man, in looks and manners. It’s hard not to take note of him. It’s a pity that his background just isn’t up to par; otherwise he’d be a pretty good catch.

Su Yi Cheng was on his way there, when he noticed Xiao xiao sitting across from An Ran. He remembered her. He’d met her that day in front of An Ran’s company, she was An Ran’s colleague. He smiles at her and nods, not lacking in manner and etiquette.

Xiao xiao raises her brows, arranging her hair gracefully while getting up. Her eyes watching him with some attraction, she reaches out, smiles and says, “Xiao xiao.”

“Su Yi Cheng.” Su Yi Cheng reaches out and shakes her hand, then quickly takes it back. He doesn’t look at her much, and turns to look at the woman sitting there and staring blankly. He chuckles and shakes his head.

Xiao xiao widens her eyes at this man whose gaze left her, incredulously. Her good looks have always been her pride, there hasn’t been a single man who has genuinely ignored her. Besides Mo Fei, he was another one!

“Gu An Ran, are you still daydreaming?” Su Yi Cheng jokes.

Hearing that, An Ran’s spirit suddenly returns, only to see that Su Yi Cheng was already standing beside her, looking at her and laughing. She quickly gets up, “You’re here!” Seeing him, An Ran wasn’t able to say that it was a pleasant surprise.

Su Yi Cheng brushes her bangs to the side, smiles and says, “Yeah, I’m here to pick up my wife.”

An Ran smiles bashfully, her blush fluttering. Even though she was still getting used to it, but because of him her heart, because of those few words, ‘my wife’, she felt that it was super sweet, mysteriously happy.

Su Yi Cheng takes the bag that she had put aside and says, “Give me the car keys, I can drive. Wait for me at the door.”

An Ran nods, and hands the car keys to him. She watches Su Yi Cheng’s tall figure leave the room.

Xiao xiao turns to look at the happy face that An Ran was displaying, feeling ineffably jealous, so much that it was hard to contain. Without a smile on her face she asks, “You guys live together?”

An Ran looks at her, her cheeks turning red. She nods, but doesn’t say anything. She’s married, so obviously they live together. She doesn’t feel like explaining anything to her, so she doesn’t really care what she thinks about it.

“Isn’t that too quick.” Xiao xiao says, her tone has disdain and mockery.

An Ran looks at her, not answering her remark, and just says, “Let’s go, we’ll drive you home first.”

“It’s fine, I’ll go take a taxi myself.” Xiao xiao declines. After saying that, she takes her bag and leaves.

An Ran watches her retreating figure, sensing that she was pissed, for some reason.

---END OF CHAPTER---

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