First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 63 Translation

063. Reception 03



On the way to the washroom, Tong Xiao Jie follows An Ran’s steps, “Senior sister, why are you walking so fast.”

An Ran looks at her, and only says, “I thought Mrs. Tong, that you were in a hurry.”

Tong Xiao Jie laughs, and walks to her side, “I am in a hurry, but not that much. Let’s walk slowly. My heels are quite high, so I can’t walk that fast. Anyways, we can chat a little bit too.”

“I don’t think there’s much that we can talk about.” An Ran was direct. She’s not a person that says things in a round-about way, and she isn’t the kind who is skilled in talking either.

Tong Xiao Jie smiles, “Senior sister, you can just call me Xiao Jie. No need to be such a stranger.”

An Ran stops, and turns to look at her, “I thought this was the first time that we met.”

Like before, Tong Xiao Jie keeps a smile on her face, “It’s the first time that we’ve officially met. However, I believe that we must know about the other quite well. At least, I know you quite well, An Ran. I’ve known about you for six years.”

An Ran looks at her, and doesn’t say anything for a while. She doesn’t understand what this woman is trying to do. She thought that she had already made herself clear earlier that afternoon.

“Mrs. Tong, if you have anything you want to say to me, we can speak one-on-one to get everything cleared.” An Ran looks at her and speaks after a while. There are some things that she doesn’t want to talk about, but if a conclusion is needed, then they should get it done now. There are some wounds, that look like they’ve been healed, but not only to say that it hasn’t been touched again, and the pain has completely gone.

“Miss Gu, don’t you want to know the real reason as to why Mo Fei left you that year?” Tong Xiao Jie changes the way she addressed her. Her expression also changes to a more serious one. Although she’s still wearing the same smile, her eyes did not show the same warmth.

“No.” Anyways, the past can’t be changed, and it doesn’t matter how much pain she went through back then. In the end she isn’t living in the past anymore. To her surprise, she felt that her life now is really good, and there’s no need to look back, to look back at the words that that gave her pain!

Hearing that, Tong Xiao Jie was taken aback by An Ran’s answer. It was contrary to her expectation, however she immediately gave a gentle smile, and said, “If I told you that Mo Fei had only loved you, but married me, because he was forced?”

An Ran was surprised, and raises her head to look at her, “What do you mean by that?” Forced? Was he forced by someone that year?

Seeing her reaction, Tong Xiao Jie smiles in disdain, apparently knowing that she would react this way. She only coldly says, “Do you still love him?”

An Ran frowns. “What did you mean by that?”

“Hehe.” Tong Xiao Jie smiles, “Nothing.” She looks up to see Mo Fei running out, and lowers her cold eyes. One side of her smile lowers. She looks at An Ran again, and her tone softens by a lot, “Senior sister, weren’t you going to show me to the washroom. Can we go now?”

An Ran looks at her, and doesn’t say anything for a while. In the end she turns towards the direction of the washroom. At the entrance, she turns and says to her, “You can go.” After that, she turns to leave.

At the moment An Ran brushed Tong Xiao Jie’s shoulder, she hears Tong Xiao Jie say, “Six years ago I made him leave you. Six years later, of course, I can make him never cross path with you. I left to live with him for six years, and will keep on doing that for another sixty years.” Saying that, she walks into the washroom.

An Ran looks at the closed washroom door. Even after a while she couldn’t recover from that. When she got back to the meeting place, she ran into a frantic-looking Mo Fei. He also looks at her, and was about to step forward, but thought of something, and doesn’t move.

An Ran stares at the man in front of him. In the past, she and that man had sweet and happy days. But ultimately, things are this way, like silence. She doesn’t know why he left her that year, but ultimately that doesn’t change the way things are now. Perhaps he had some sufferings that year, and perhaps it was as they said, that all along he had only loved her. But what about it? He’s married, she’s married. They can only sigh. The reasons between them are all too shallow.

She was about to look away, and just look ahead, about to go back into the dining hall.

Mo Fei tightens his fist, and was about to take a step, but sees Tong Xiao Jie at the corner of his eyes. He releases his fist, then tightens it again, doing this several times. Ultimately he doesn’t take that step, and turns around, giving a smile to the woman who was walking towards him.

When they came back Xiao xiao was with Huang De Xing and someone else talking about something. Tong Wen Hai was nowhere to be seen. Thus, An Ran was somewhat relieved. She could feel that Tong Wen Hai was treating her differently, and she knows that it’s not because he knows her mother. Even though she isn’t sure what exactly was between those two, but she remembers her mother’s reaction when she saw his back the other day, so she thought, if necessary, she should try to avoid him.

An Ran walks over to towards Xiao xiao, her eyes fixed ahead, that she did not see the other person walking over towards them.

“Aiya.” A voice cried out.

The person walking towards them seemed rushed, and An Ran, who was beside her, was not paying attention, so when they bumped the glass of wine in her hands was spilled. And because of the buzz from the wine, the small bump became a big wave of wine, thus both her and the other person’s clothes became soiled. An Ran’s was really soiled, while the other person less so.

An Ran raises her head, only to see a woman approximately 40 years old, slightly stout. Her white dress was soiled by the wine, so An Ran immediately apologizes, “Sorry, I didn’t see you coming.” She really did not see her, and she appeared too suddenly. She was completely off-guard.

The other person stares at the large spot of red staining her white dress, and her expression immediately sinks. She looks at An Ran and starts to yell, “What’s wrong with you, are you blind or something! Such a big person like me and you didn’t see me at all, are you blind?”

An Ran felt flustered. The collision was the fault of both parties. She was walking, and she was also walking. Even if she didn’t see her, then doesn’t that mean that the other person didn’t see her too?

“What are you staring at, what am I supposed to do, my dress is completely ruined because of you, you tell me what I’m supposed to do!” The other person’s tone was excessively overbearing, and because of her shouting it attracted a good amount of people’s attention. Someone recognizes his lady, and stepped up and said, “Aiya, Mrs Zhang, what’s the matter!”

The so-called Mrs. Zhang was about to explode. Half of the gentry of Jiang city was present. If she was provoked like this, how will this reflect on her! She thinks about it, and resolutely stares at An Ran as she says, “I don’t know where this girl came from, walking around without her eyes, pushing through and shoving.”

The music concealed the dispute occurring from one side, however Xiao xiao and Huang De Xing who were not too far had heard it. They turn around, only to see An Ran standing in the middle of the crowd, her clothes stained red and black, looking like a sorry sight.

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