First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 62 Translation

062. Reception 02



An Ran walks towards them, and when An Ran was about 10 feet away Huang De Xing noticed her. His expression towards her was that of displeasure, An Ran knows, that he wasn’t happy that she left without permission.

An Ran walks over to him without a rush. As she gets closer she then found out that Tong Wen Hai had his back turned at her, with a slight hunch. Recently she is apparently detested by the Tong family.

Seeing her approach, Huang De Xing immediately changes his displeased expression, and smiles at An Ran as he says, “An Ran, come here. Chief Tong just mentioned you, asked why you aren’t here.”

Speaking of that, Tong Wen Hai and Xiao xiao who had their back towards her turn around. Xiao xiao still has a faint smile, while Tong Wen Hai seemed as if he were glad, and smiles, “I thought you didn’t come, since I haven’t seen you once.”

An Ran smiles, and excuses herself, “I had to go to the washroom.”

Interrupting the conversation, just in time someone came to find Tong Wen Hai. Taking the opportunity while Tong Wen Hai was occupied, Huang De Xing pours a cup of alcohol and gives it to An Ran. Then using this as a pretext he whispers into her ears, “Bureau chief Tong seems to have a good impression on you, why don’t you carefully accompany him this evening.”

Hearing that, An Ran frowns, and was about to say something, but sees that Tong Wen Hai had finished discussing with that other person, and had turned back to them. He smiles at them, and asks, “The city hall building, ‘Jing Cheng’… Do you guys intend to make a bid on it?”

“Of course. These past few days An Ran and Xiao xiao have been preparing designs for it, and the submission is already underway. When the time comes, we ask for Chief Tong’s interest.” Huang De Xing jokes.

Tong Wen Hai doesn’t comment, and only raises his cup to take a drink.

“Dad.”

They were just standing around, and when Hang De Xing gave a signal to An Ran to say something, a gentle female voice started to call out. An Ran felt a strange sense of familiarity to this voice.

Everyone turned their head, only to see that Mo Fei is walking over to them. And by his side, was a woman, cheerfully talking, looking beautiful. She wasn’t as lavish as Xiao xiao; her beauty was more subtle. Her make up accentuated her delicate nose, and a simple white dress adorns her pretty figure, further accentuating her ethereal beauty, as if she weren’t from this Earth.

An Ran looks at her dazedly. She naturally recognizes her. Tong Xiao Jie. The prettiest girl in T university.

Tong Xiao Jie holds onto Mo Fei’s arm as she walks over to them, her eyes quickly sweeping over everyone. When she stopped at An Ran, her smile changes, however the expression on her face doesn’t change a bit. Compared to An Ran who appeared startled, she seemed very indifferent.

She doesn’t set her eyes on An Ran for too long, and reverts her gaze back to Tong Wen Hai, “Dad, I was just asking Mo Fei if you had arrived or not. Right then, I saw you cracking jokes over here.”

“Xiao Jie, you guys have arrived.” Tong Wen Hai smiles at his daughter, then turns to introduce her, “Everyone, this is Jing Cheng’s Director Huang. This is Architect Xiao, and this Architect Gu. I just heard that Mo Fei was talking about a collaboration project with Jing Cheng these days, so I suppose that you guys will have the chance to get in touch later on. Getting to know one another first is good.”

Tong Xiao Jie smiles and nods at each of them, her expression no less friendly. She puts on a distance. Then she turns to look at Mo Fei, and only says, “You’ve been coming home late these days, I’m guessing it’s because of the project.” Saying this, she reaches out to fix his tie, and adds on, “Ai, you just said you just came back, something about being as busy as when you were in America. Just don’t wear your body out.” Her elegant eyebrows wrinkle with worry as she says this.

Mo Fei smiles awkwardly, and takes her hand, but his eyes were fixed on An Ran.

Tong Xiao Jie follows his gaze, and catches An Ran’s eyes. She smirks, and laughs as she looks at An Ran, “You must be senior sister An Ran. Long time no see. You’ve changed so much that I couldn’t recognize you.”

Senior sister, ah ha, this title ws so strange. They obviously graduated the same year, since when did she become the senior!

An Ran simply smiles, and doesn’t say anything. Actually she doesn’t really know what else to say. Even though they have seen each other at school before, but she couldn’t even get a nod from her. Now that she suddenly needs to form a sentence, she really doesn’t know how to answer.

Xiao xiao watches the interaction between them, and a smile with mysterious intention starts to form. She figures that Tong Xiao Jie had received the photo that she sent, and looking at her now, she thinks, that this Tong Xiao Jie is not so much a virtuous individual, and she understands the way that she is treating An Ran, that she is Tong Xiao Jie’s rival. Thinking so, her smile widens.

The mood became weird because of Tong Xiao Jie and Mo Fei. As Huang De Xing was about to say something to ease the mood, Tong Xiao Jie starts to speak again.

Tong Xiao Jie turns to Mo Fei and says, “Excuse me while I go to the washroom.”

Mo Fei nods his head and says, “Go ahead.”

Tong Xiao Jie smiles and turns around, but doesn’t leave right away. Rather, she looks at An Ran and says, “Senior sister, will you keep me company? I just came back from the US, and I haven’t been to this place before. Will you be able to help me find the washroom?”

An Ran was surprised. From the phone call this afternoon, she knows that it’s not going to simply be ‘keeping her company’. She was going to decline, but Xiao xiao beside her started to say something, “An Ran you should go keep the young lady company. You were just in the washroom, so you know the way.”

Hearing that, Tong Xiao Jie turns to stare at Xiao xiao. She smiles.

“Yes. An Ran, accompany Mrs. Tong.” The oblivious Huang De Xing says.

It was unsure if he was afraid that Tong Xiao Jie would make things hard for An Ran, or he was afraid that An Ran would say something to Tong Xiao Jie, but Mo Fei suddenly interrupts, “I’ll take you.”

Tong Xiao Jie chuckles, and turns to look at her husband, and says, “We’re going to the woman’s washroom, why would you, a grown man, come? Anyways, I haven’t seen senior sister in so long, naturally I want to catch up with her.”

With her saying that, it was impossible for An Ran to decline. She could only nod and say, “Let’s go. The washroom’s over here.” Saying that, she takes the lead to walks towards the intended place.




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T/n: Imma back! Thanks for your patience guys <3