First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 61 Translation

061. Reception 01


An Ran was still bothered by the phone call earlier, when someone knocks on the door to her office. She raises her head, only to see Xiao xiao standing by the door, with a smirk on her face.

“Is there anything you need?” An Ran asked with a cold tone. She doesn’t know when it happened, but she has felt that Xiao xiao has been targeting her; whenever she spoke it was always prickly.

“Uh, nothing.” Xiao xiao shrugs carelessly. She enters the room, pulling a chair out in front of An Ran and sits down on it, and says, “But I wanted to ask if your weekend went well?”

An Ran gives her a look, lowers her head and goes back to work on her blueprint, grabbing the pen and a ruler, as she mumbles, “It was pretty good.”

Xiao xiao isn’t bothered by her cold attitude, and just sits there and stares at her newly-manicured fingers. She takes a look at her blueprint, and without thinking, says, “Still not done with your blueprint?”

“Yeah.” An Ran answers simply, not raising her head.

An Ran doesn’t know what she’s up to, but ever since she said that she was interested in Mo Fei, she felt that she should avoid her. Before, it wasn’t that she hadn’t heard the rumours; she was always talked about by everyone in the industry, her manners well known. Colleague to colleague, she has observed her capabilities, and she has always felt that the rumours from the others weren’t fair to her at all, but after last time, regarding Xiao xiao, she suddenly thought of an idiom, ‘there is no smoke without fire’, a housefly won’t bite a seamless egg. If there’s nothing about her, then naturally people wouldn’t talk about her.

Everyone at work has always felt that the relationship between her and Huang De Xing wasn’t normal. It can be seen that Huang De Xing had a hand in all of her work. Before she hadn’t really thought about the truthfulness in these rumours, but that day at YouRan restaurant, when she came in, she definitely felt that the atmosphere wasn’t right. Even though they masked it very well, but Xiao xiao’s lipstick was smeared, and Huang De Xing’s lips was stained with Xiao xiao’s red lipstick, which is telling sign for her as to what they were doing in the room before she had entered.

Xiao xiao sits in front of An Ran with a bored expression, and watches her earnestly work on her blueprint. She smirks.

She sits there for a while more, and finally Xiao xiao stands up. When she turned around to leave, she apparently thought of something, and turns back, smiling as she says to An Ran, “Oh, right, I almost forgot. Before I came in the director wanted me to remind you, there’s a wine reception this evening, it’s at Jiang city’s big pub. All the architects in our company have to attend it.”

An Ran looks at her, and nods, “Ok. I got it.”

Xiao xiao nods her head in understanding, reaching out for the door and was about to leave, but right before opening the door, not turning her head, she says, “An Ran, I definitely won’t lose in this project’s draft competition. Oh right, I forgot to tell you, the company is intending to make the winner the chief architect, so, in other words, Jing Cheng’s chief architect. I’m definitely getting it.” After speaking she pulls the door open and leaves, leaving An Ran with the sultry sway of her hips.

An Ran watches the door slowly close, and then slowly regains herself. She once again takes a pen and utensil and goes back to working on her incomplete blueprint.


When she was about to get off work she gave Su Yi Cheng a call, and tells him that she has a wine reception, so she’ll probably get home pretty late. This reporting-if-going-home-late was a request that Su Yi Cheng made this morning when he was driving her to work. He said that he doesn’t want to come home only to a black room that welcomes him, so even if she is coming home late, she should at least call him, so that he’ll expect it.

She didn’t think that he would be the kind of man who was spoiled, but his expression this morning was obviously one of complaint, like he was very wronged, so that made her nod without hesitation, agreeing that she’ll call him if she’s going to come home late, and that she’ll call him after she gets off work to let him know.

By coincidence, Su Yi Cheng also has a wine reception tonight, so he just reminds her not to drink too much, and it appeared that he was pretty busy on his side so he doesn’t say much else and ends the call.

‘Jiang city’s big pub’ is Jiang city’s largest pub house. It is located at the Qing river bank, and on the upper floor of the pub, you can see the view of the entire city at night, as well as the town on the other side of the river, Qing city’s nightscape. Jiang city’s big pub isn’t far, and was right in the plaza, which was especially lively tonight. Some were dancing to music, while some brought their children out to play, and even more were couples who go for walks after eating, walking along the river bank to the dam, the river from the wind blowing, speaking words of love.

The two cities across the river face each other, and as a result the cross-section of Qing river was pretty big. Furthermore, Jiang city and Qing city were both in the southeast coast, so summer typhoons were common, and in cases of typhoons, the waves of the river also became immensely large, which made road repairs quite difficult. As a result, the bridge that was supposed to join the two cities together had been planned for a very long time, but was never carried through. And now, because there wasn’t that connecting bridge, the only link to the two cities was through the ferry boat, and at night time, the ferry boat would circle around the river in bright rainbow-coloured lamps, travelling distantly, with no other word to describe it than, beautiful.

An Ran looks out the window, watching the nightscape, a smile on her face. Then suddenly, a man’s voice comes from behind. She turns her head, and it was a co-worker.


“An Ran, the director’s looking for you, you should quickly go over there.” The co-worker urges.

The dinner party tonight was held by the real estate association. Apart from the industry people, several celebrities from Jiang city and high officials from the municipal committee came. As a result, Huang De Xing was especially important.

An Ran nods at him, “Alright, I got it.” She looks back out the window, then walks back to the wine reception.

Actually, she doesn’t really like these occasions, and social niceties like these were a pain in the neck. If she had a choice, she would rather spend the night at the office working on her blueprint. And it wasn’t her first time attending these wine receptions. These occasions happen quite often, but she still hasn’t gotten used to it. Because in these occasions, the people who come here are people with great pride and prestige, or they were those so-called government officials. And when those people speak they confuse a person, spend a lot of time talking. These so-called pig-gut brained gentries, high officials, do not even try to mask their expression. So An Ran wasn’t used to these situations, but it was work, so she just has to adapt to it. You have to adapt to any place, so even if she doesn’t like it, she still has to come.

An Ran opens the door to come in, and at that moment the hall was having a waltz. The entire space was flooded with elegant music and dance steps, pairs of males and females met in the middle to dance.


An Ran unintentionally admires the mood, and lookes all over the room to search for her colleague. Then shifted to the right, approaching to the side of the dance floor, and luckily found Huang De Xing laughing and smiling. Xiao xiao was beside him in a low-cut halterneck gown.

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