First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 59 Translation

059. Midnight call


By the time Su Yi Cheng had reached home it was nearly midnight. He had a meal with the staff from the municipal committee and with a few entrepreneurs from Tongjiang city. Everyone was a frequent visitor of that restaurant. They drank while they ate, chatted about any topic that came to mind, about the economy, the state of affairs, they even talked about women. Thus, the time went by really quickly. By the time the people had scattered off it was already midnight.

Still wearing the scent of alcohol, he enters the apartment. Outside, a dusky lamp was still left on. Su Yi Cheng looks at it distractedly, and slowly starts to smile. In the past he had always come home to a dark room. Now, knowing that there’s a small lamp outside the door, he knows that in his room there is someone who is waiting for him. This kind of feeling, really isn’t so bad.

He places his briefcase on the sofa in the living room, and proceeds to open the door to the bedroom. The room was pitch-black, and the bed was void of the woman that was supposed to be asleep on it. Confused, he frowns, and withdraws from the room. He sees light escaping from the cracks of the door from the study room. The corner of his lips slowly rises up. He walks over towards the study room, and pushes the door open, only to see a certain someone resting on the desk, sleeping soundly. The blueprint was acting as a pillow, a pencil is still in her grasp.

Su Yi Cheng chuckles and shakes his head. He carefully slips off the pencil from her grasp, puts it aside, and slowly pulls the chair back. He stoops down to carry her. This action, An Ran wasn’t woken up by it at all. Apparently she was really tired, finding his embrace to be cozy, sleeping soundly.

He carries her back into the bedroom. After placing her safely onto the bed, Su Yi Cheng then goes back to the study room, and tidies up the blueprint and material on the desk. He can see that she was half way done with her blueprint. He couldn’t help but peek at it a little longer. The design looked quite unique, the building, was dignified and wasn’t lacking in trendiness at all. He hasn’t a clue whether or not the design was good or not, after all, regarding construction, he is just a layman.

After tidying everything up for her, Su Yi Cheng finally returns to the bedroom to wash up and change into his pyjamas. He then goes into the bathroom. When he came out from the bathroom, he sees the figure on the bed dazedly opening her eyes, rubbing the haziness from her sleepy eyes. She stares at him for while until she finally recognizes him, and yawns as she says, “You’re back.”

“Yeah.”

She nods dazedly, and gets up.

“Where are you going?” Seeing her appearance, Su Yi Cheng asks jokingly.

“Bath.” Saying that she goes over the wardrobe and takes out a pair of pyjamas, not really looking like she was ready to go into the bathroom.

An Ran couldn’t see clearly, while Su Yi Cheng, who was standing next to her, could. He can see the pair of clothes that she had in her hand, and he couldn’t help but gulp, and asks, “An Ran, you, you’re really thinking of wearing that?”

An Ran was confused from the question. She stands there blankly for a while, then looks down at the clothes in her hand. Then, she finally sees through the haze of her sleepiness. Her cheeks immediately goes red. Heavens, how could she grab the pair of clothes that Lin Li had bought for her. She quickly throws them back into the wardrobe, and grabs her normal pyjamas and dashes into the bathroom without taking a glance at him. She couldn’t help but remind herself, that when tomorrow comes, she definitely, must take that disastrous thing and throw it into the trash.

Su Yi Cheng laughs at her childish action, shakes his head and goes back to bed. He takes a magazine from the bedside cabinet and opens it. At this time, the phone beside the bed starts to ring. Su Yi Cheng looks at the caller ID, and sees that it is an unknown number. He frowns, not understanding who could call in this late at night, but still he answers the call, “Hello, who is it?”

The caller on the other side stays silent, for a long time.

Su Yi Cheng frowns even more, and coldly says, “Speak.”

The caller on the other side still hasn’t spoken, but it isn’t the same silence as before either. This time, there was a muffled cry. It was a woman’s cry.

Su Yi Cheng recognizes this sound. There was a long period of time, when this voice was inseparable from him. But that was the past, and it has nothing to do with him now.

Su Yi Cheng doesn’t say anything, and was about to hang up the call, but right at that moment, the voice on the other side starts to speak, apparently knowing that he was about to hang up. She quickly utters, “Yi Cheng, don’t hang up. It’s me.”

“Do you have business with me.” Su Yi Cheng asks expressionlessly, his tone void of any warmth or emotion.

“Yi Cheng, I, I’m back.” Ling Ran says desolately.

“Yeah.” Su Yi Cheng simply responds. She’s back, and he doesn’t care at all. Because to him, she is insignificant.

“Yi Cheng, we, could we find a time to meet up?” Ling Ran asks, her tone almost begging.

“No need.” Su Yi Cheng declines. He can hear that the water has stopped running in the bathroom, and knows that An Ran is pretty much almost done. He doesn’t want to create an unnecessary misunderstanding with her thanks to this call, so he simply says, “Sorry, it’s pretty late. I don’t want your call to create any misunderstandings with my wife, so let’s finish this. Bye.” After speaking, he doesn’t wait for her reply, and decisively ends the call.

An Ran rubs her hair as she comes out, and sees that he’s still sitting on the bed, not asleep, so she asks, “Why are you still up?”

Su Yi Cheng smiles at her, and just says, “I’m waiting for you.”

An Ran’s face flushes red, not knowing if it was because of the bath that she just took earlier or if it was because of his words. She turns her head and avoids his gaze, absentmindedly rubbing her hair, and walks over to the other side of the bed. She has her back to him, her eyes closed, and only wishes that he would hurry up and go to sleep.

Su Yi Cheng laughs, and closes the lamp behind her and lies down. He hugs her from behind, and entangles all ten of his fingers with hers. He had grown used to sleeping alone, and had once thought that it would take some time to get used to sleeping with someone else. However, holding her like this felt too great. Now, if he doesn’t hold her every night, it would feel out of place.

“I, I have a meeting early morning tomorrow, c-can’t be late.” Her back still against him, she can only stutter that out.

Su Yi Cheng buries his head into her shoulders and muffles a laugh. How scary is he to her, all he wanted to do is just hold her.

“I, I’m tired, g-going to sleep first.” Seeing that he is only laughing in response, An Ran quickly made her position clear. She was really afraid of this man, and she really needs to get this husband and wife obligations adjusted, otherwise, she’s going to die getting tossed around by him.

Still laughing, a while later, Su Yi Cheng finally softly says, “Go sleep. I just want to hold you.”

Hearing that, An Ran finally feels relieved. She closes her eyes, falling asleep in his embrace like always.

Su Yi Cheng watches the sprinkle of moonlight peeking in through the window. In the dark the room felt calm, only her breathing can be heard. He places a kiss on the crown of her head, closes his eyes, and falls into the rhythm of her breathing.

---END OF CHAPTER--- 

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