my personal favourite translated (and completed) c-novels

Happy New Year guys! It's almost been a year since I've started translation, can't believe how fast the time has gone by! 😮

I only recently got into c-novels last year, since I was in a gap year from graduating and job searching! Was bored, and finally had the time to watch dramas freely without guilt... Hehehe. I fell in love with the drama Nirvana in Fire/ Lang ya bang (there was another team that translated a few of the other chapters but I can't find them....) and Love me if you dare, found out that both of them were adaptations of a novel, read the translations that were available, and yep, from there on I was inspired to teach myself Mandarin again and try to read on my own. Of course, I didn't make as much progress as I'd like to, but once I make more money I hope that I could take Chinese lessons again, since there's only so much that I could learn on my own. I'm quite detached from the Chinese culture, and their language, has so much history and meanings behind them, that I know I'm overly simplifying things, and I'm afraid that I miss a lot of the nuances behind each phrase. Well, anyways, I'm getting off track here, haha. What I wanted to do was just share the novels that have inspired me 😀  They are top quality translations 👍

Also, all of these are completed, because I just have terrible memory lol, I have to read things all at once or I'll just forget details or confuse it with other stories.. Also, I'm impatient 😛

(Oh, just a warning, some these are PG-13, I think. I can't really remember, haha.)

1. To be a virtuous wife, translated by Dreams of Jianghu  (she also translated A slight smile is devastating, which is also pretty damn cute!) 
2. Sangsheng, death exists not at the River of Oblivion translated by hamster428 (also, check out Mei gonqing, it's not yet completed, but it's just too awesome to miss out) 
3. Seven unfortunate lifetimes, all thanks to a moment of impulse translated by rosyfantasy (I also quite like the Demon king's favourite wangfei! translations are still in progress though)
4. One life, one incarnation: Beautiful bones translated by hoju (should also check out Together forever, both from the same author and translated from the same team... Both stories are just amazingly sweet) 
5. The demoness is not evil translated by xiaoxiaomei 

... And I think that's it for now! I'll probably add more as I go. As you can tell, I really like historicals, lol. Hopefully one day I can translate one too ^^ Once again, Happy New Year! Cheers! 

First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 54 Translation

054. Breakfast


In a daze, as if she was missing the embrace, missing the warmth. The rustling background noise wasn’t loud, but it still woke up An Ran who wasn’t sleeping soundly. She opens her bleary eyes. The illumination of the room was still dim, only a few rays of the morning light snuck in through the window curtains, so it hadn’t brightened the room.

She slowly stretches her body, and turns her head, only to see, in the dusk, that Su Yi Cheng had already gotten up, standing in front of the wardrobe and changing into his work out clothes. He turns around, right in time to meet An Ran’s sleepy eyes. He was surprised, but immediately gives a soft smile, “Did I wake you up?”

An Ran doesn’t reply, but just stares at him. The sleepiness in her eyes was gradually waning. Her eyes slowly gets clearer, at the same time his silhouette was gradually becoming more and more clear. Without his suit, wearing such casual workout clothes made him brighter, with much more vitality, and made him appear much younger, as if he were a university student who had just entered society.

Seeing that she wasn’t speaking, Su Yi Cheng walks over to her. He squats in front of the bed, reaches out to feel her forehead, to make sure that she wasn’t having a fever or any other illness. He stares into her eyes, his hand follows down her forehead to stroke her face. He gives a small smile and asks, “What’s up? Do you not feel well?”

An Ran stares at him, and shakes her head. She covers his hands with her’s. People are truly weird, and habits are really a fearful thing. How long has it been, that she has already memorized his temperature, memorized the way his hands stroked her face, memorized everything about this man.

Su Yi Cheng laughs, and lowers his head to give her a light kiss on her forehead. Then he says, “Go back to sleep, it’s still early.”

“You, where you going?” An Ran asks sleepily, her eyes still fixed on him.

Su Yi Cheng chuckles and gets up, says, “I’m going on a morning run. You go sleep for a bit.” In the past at the compound he would run with his yeye everyday. This custom was drilled into him since young, so after all these years, even if he doesn’t live at the compound anymore, he would still diligently do his morning exercise as if it was an essential part of his life.

An Ran nods, and watches him as he leaves. She lies back down on the bed. Without his embrace, without his warmth, going back to sleep seemed like a difficult thing to do.

She lies on the bed for half an hour with her eyes still opened. The morning daylight was getting brighter and brighter by the minute. The originally dusky room was slowly being illuminated. An Ran rolls off the bed. Yesterday she hadn’t washed up and just went to sleep. And even though Su Yi Cheng had helped wipe her clean with a warm towel, but her body still felt a bit icky. So she went over to the armoire, grabbed a new pair of clothing and directly went into the bathroom.

When An Ran was done washing up and bathing it was still only 6 am, however the sky was already quite bright. She pulls the curtains aside, opens the windows, and opens the door to the balcony. She goes out to the balcony, feeling the warm brush of the morning wind on her face, cool and refreshing. She doesn’t know if anyone has said this before, but closing one’s eyes, standing outside on the balcony and letting the morning wind brush against one’s cheek, really is one of life’s pleasure, but also it seems to purify everything, letting one forget all their troubles.

An Ran doesn’t know if there is anyone who has said that, and she doesn’t really know if it’s actually true or not, but at this moment, with her eyes closed and standing there, she feels at peace. The refreshing and coolness also feels really nice, really comfortable.

When Su Yi Cheng was back from his run he sees An Ran busying herself in the kitchen, a pan in one hand, sautéing something, while at the side she puts in two slices of toast into the toaster. On the ceramic table she puts down a plate, adorning it with some slices that were already toasted, though some of them were slightly burnt.

Watching her bustling from behind, she wasn’t careful and scalded her finger. She jumped slightly, grabbing her ear. Seeing that, Su Yi Cheng became a fool, not batting an eyelid and leaning against the kitchen door, a smile on his face.

An Ran finally takes the ham that was cooked golden and puts it onto the plate, mixing it with the poached egg. An Ran nods her head with satisfaction. She turns around to put down the plate of breakfast onto the counter, only to meet the face that was faintly smiling. Surprised, she asks, “W-when did you come in?” He didn’t make a sound when he came in? Why didn’t she sense him at all!

Su Yi Cheng smiles, and walks over to her. He looks at the breakfast in her hands, and bursts into a big smile, says, “That looks and smells delicious.” Then he reaches out, not afraid of scalding himself, and picks out a piece of ham and drops it into his mouth. While chewing he says, “Delicious.”

An Ran watches him in a daze, his somewhat childish action. Only a while later does she finally react, mumbling, “You… Haven’t washed your hand.”

Su Yi Cheng blanks, and only finds it funny. This girl, really doesn’t know how to have fun. Thinking, he lowers his head to use his slightly oily mouth and seals it with her mouth that was still slightly open, swiftly prying her mouth open with his tongue, inviting her to dance with him.

An Ran dazedly lets him have his way kissing her. In his mouth, she can taste a little bit of ham, she can smell the perspiration on his body because of the morning exercise, and it was very strong.

Only after a while does Su Yi Cheng let go of her, and watches her incredibly flushed face that resulted from the kiss, the smile on his face was even more joyous. He lowers his head to give her a few more pecks on the lips, and says, “I’ll go wash up then.” Then he turns around and goes into the master bedroom.

An Ran stands there foolishly holding the plate of food, without spirit for a good while. When she finally recovered, Su Yi Cheng had already grabbed a change of clothes and went into the bathroom. She looks at the plate in her hands, and thinks about the kiss just then, when her face wasn’t yet flushed and wasn’t stained with oil. Her mouth couldn’t help but form a smile, a faint one; a beautiful smile.

While waiting for Su Yi Cheng to finish washing up and come out, An Ran had already finished arranging breakfast on the counter, and had even poured milk.

Su Yi Cheng walks towards the stool and sits, looks at the plate in front of him. There was a poached egg, three pieces of ham, two slices of toast, and a warm glass of milk. His sharp eyes sees that her plate only had a poached egg and toast, missing some hams. He wrinkles his brows, and asks, “You gave me all the ham?”

“I, I’m trying to lose weight.” An Ran says, lowering her head and nibbling on her toast. She drinks her milk.

His originally wrinkled brows wrinkles even more, his expression looking even more serious, “You’re already thin.” Saying that, he picks up all of the ham on his plate, and puts it onto her plate.

An Ran stares at the ham on her plate, then looks at him again. In her mind she scolded herself, ‘Fool, what you liked the most was given to you!’

Seeing her motionless, Su Yi Cheng takes a big bite of his toast, and urges her, “Come on, eat. After you finish I’m bringing you somewhere.”

“W-where are we going?” An Ran asks. Then she suddenly recalls, “Uh, I still have to go to work.”

Su Yi Cheng laughs and pats her head, “Idiot, today’s Saturday. Go to what work."

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Happy New Year everybody :) 

First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 53 Translation

053. The entire night

On the road An Ran just has her head turned, looking out the window. Her eyes were lifeless, unfocused.

Su Yi Cheng takes a glance at her, but doesn’t say anything. He takes his free hand and reaches out to her’s, holding it tightly. What had happened this evening was unexpected for him, but it also allowed him to understand one thing: About this marriage, it wasn’t that she couldn’t find someone who was suitable for her. It because, in her heart, she was waiting for someone for six years. Ultimately, her heart couldn’t wait anymore, and right at that time, she had met him.

He reckons that if she hadn’t gotten the wrong address that day, it would be with someone else, and perhaps she would be some other man’s wife right now. Thinking along those lines, Su Yi Cheng felt a little depressed, a feeling he can’t really describe. He squeezes her hand, an action that he wasn’t even consciously doing.

An Ran let out a muffled yelp, turns her head, and looks at him.

Realizing that he was hurting her, Su Yi Cheng was surprised that he had forgotten his manners (T/N: or self-control), at the same time he smiles at her apologetically, and rubs her small hand with his large palm. He smiles abashedly, and says, “Are you tired? If you are you can just lean back and sleep for a bit, I’ll wake you up when we’re there.”

An Ran stares at him. A while later, she nods her head. She looks at the back of her seat and slowly closes her eyes.

Su Yi Cheng adjusts her seat until it was good, so that she can lie down comfortably.

The ride was smooth. An Ran was leaning back, her body was covered with Su Yi Cheng’s coat. Her breathing, was shallow.

The car slowly enters the neighbourhood’s underground lot. Su Yi Cheng then puts the car out and watches An Ran beside him, leaning back against the seat with her eyes closed. He knows that she isn't sleeping at all. Although her breathing was even, but her quivering eyebrows and lashes exposed her.

Su Yi Cheng looks at her peacefully for a while, ultimately not waking her up at all. He opens the door, walks around the car, opens her side and carries her out. Then he carries her into the elevator, and into their home. Finally, he carries her into the bedroom, and puts her down onto the bed.

The entire way, An Ran continued to pretend to be asleep, and Su Yi Cheng continued to go along with her. He hugs her, treating her as if she really were asleep. He sits on the bedside and looks at the messy bangs on her forehead. He reaches out to brush it aside, exposing her pretty eyebrows. He gently rubs it, smoothing down the creases that came up because of her frown. Then he gets up to go to the bathroom. When Su Yi Cheng emerges from the bathroom with a warm towel, he sees that she still has her eyes closed, but with some tears at the corner of her eyes. He foolishly looks at those tear stains. He has this kind of indescribable feeling.

Still not waking her up, he unfolds his towel and wipes the tears from her eyes, wipes the dust and exhaustion. Then he goes back into the bathroom, and gets another towel. He takes her hand, wiping every single finger until they were clean.

An Ran’s eyebrows and lashes shiver, even her fingers couldn’t help but move. Su Yi cheng looks up at her for a while, yet she still has her eyes closed. He doesn’t say anything, takes her other hand, and does the same to that hand.

When Su Yi Cheng got up to put the towel back, Su Yi Jiao's call came in. He turns to look at her, and takes the call out of the bedroom.

At the same time that he left An Ran opens her eyes, and sees his figure retreating from the room, one hand holding the door, but because he wasn’t using a lot of strength, the door didn’t make a sound.

She can clearly hear him on the phone, and can guess that it was Su Yi Jiao on the other line. According to his responses, she can also guess what they were talking about. It’s probably about what had happened outside of YouRan restaurant.

An Ran doesn’t know how Su Yi Cheng responded to that, because he started to lower his voice, taking his call farther and farther away from the door.

An Ran lies on the bed, looking at the ceiling. The Mo Fei tonight was unfamiliar to her, completely different from the man six years ago.

The him from the past was warm and carried a ray of sunshine. Everytime they met he would have smile on his face, never changing expressions. Even when she turned around to leave, he was still carrying a smile. Even though it was a smile full of guilt. And the man she saw today didn’t even have an ounce of that shine from six years ago. He was scarier, that dark expression was something she’d never seen before.

Time really is like a knife, peeling away the features from before. Seeing each other again, nothing had remained the same, not even the place that they were once familiar with was the same.

What surprised her the most was that Su Yi Cheng hadn’t asked anything. She can’t read this man’s thoughts, but she’s still thankful that he hasn’t asked. Today was a mess, that even if he had asked, she wouldn’t even know where to start, how to bring it up.

Some scars, would only stop hurting when it’s healed.

Hearing his footsteps, An Ran slowly shuts her eyes, turns her body, so that her back faces the door.

Su Yi Cheng looks at her back that was facing him, quietly watching for a while. In the end he didn’t say anything, and takes some pyjamas from his armoire, then goes into the bathroom.

When Su Yi Cheng was finished bathing and had come out of the bathroom, An Ran maintained the same position, no movement at all.

He wipes his hair clean, then puts the towel aside. Su Yi Cheng lifts the quilt and lies down beside her. He turns off the lamp. In the dark, as always, he reaches out to her and brings her to his embrace, so that her back is lying against his chest. His chin, gently rests against her hair. He cirlces his arm around her waist, wrapping around her stomach. He takes her hand, entwining their fingers together.

He hears her breath quickening, and her body becoming unnaturally stiff. In the dark, he pulls up the cozy silk quilt. He grabs her body closer to his chest, so that she is sticking even closer to him. He lowers his head and kisses the top of her head, whispering, “Sleep….!”

In the dark with her back facing him, An Ran opens her eyes, squeezes his hand that was entwined with hers, then closes her eyes once again.

Not too long after, with the room being illuminated by the faint moon, the breathing rate slowly becomes even, weak, and far apart.

Su Yi Cheng, who was holding An Ran, slowly starts to smile. Now he’s certain that she had already fallen asleep, and not pretending.

Then, holding her frail body, Su Yi Cheng also slowly closes his eyes, falling asleep with her. His breathing matches her breathing. Throughout the night there was that kind of interesting rhythm.






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T/N: Aww, what a sweet chapter :) Merry Christmas everyone, hope you enjoy your holidays~

First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 52 Translation

052. No one would stay where they are and wait for you


As they were leaving YouRan restaurant, An Ran stands at the door and waits for Su Yi Cheng. She sees Xiao xiao reaching out to call for a cab, and one suddenly came and stopped. It was Mo Fei who got off from the taxi, and as if he hadn’ seen Xiao xiao, he directly went over towards An Ran.

Not waiting for An Ran to recover from her shock, her arm was suddenly pulled. Mo Fei grabs her arm without a word and just pulls her towards the taxi.

After a few steps An Ran finally recovers. She tries to struggle free from his grasp, “Mo Fei, what are you doing! Let go!” Didn’t he already leave, how could he come back?

Mo Fei doesn’t say anything, but an annoyed look is plastered on his face. Clearly he was angry. His hold on her doesn’t loosen in the least, rather it tightens even more.

“Mo Fei, let go! Didn’t you hear me!” An Ran shouts. She really is pissed, what is the meaning of this. Who does he think he is to grab her like this. They have no relationship, isn’t that so?

An Ran’s loud voice reached the ears of people who were passing by. They eagerly gather to the scene to watch. Even the employees of YouRan restaurant curiously crowd around the front door to watch. Xiao xiao was standing on the side, with a smile on her lips, but her eyes were showing envy. She doesn’t even intend to give her a hand.

An Ran halted, she continues to struggle free, “Let go, what is the meaning of this?”

Mo Fei looks at her, his expression extremely solemn. He closes his eyes, and only after a while does he start to say, “Come with me. I have something to say to you.”

“I don’t have anything to say to you, let go.” An Ran says flatly, her expression determined.

Mo Fei looks at her, and doesn’t say anything. He pulls her, turns around and continues to walk. And at the moment that Mo Fei turned his head around, he bumped into Su Yi Cheng, unaware that he was there.

Looking at him grasping tightly on An Ran’s hand, Su Yi Cheng wrinkles his brows, his tone somewhat displeased, “Sir, would you please let go of my wife.”

Mo Fei was shocked. He looks at the man in front of him in a daze. He remembers him, he was the man who had picked up An Ran after work last time.

“Yi-Yi Cheng.” Seeing him, An Ran finally feels at ease, and at the same time she starts to feel wronged. Her nose starts to sting, and her eyes start to water. Tears were on the brink of falling down.

Su Yi Cheng smiles at her, then takes a step towards her. He captures Mo Fei’s hand and pinches with a painful force, which made him let go of An Ran. He then takes her hand and gives her a hug, giving her a light pat. He says into her ears, “It’s alright.”

Mo Fei looks at the area that was pinched. It was swelling up. This man wasn’t as refined and gentle as he seems. At the very least, going through that just now, he knows, that if he retaliated, he wouldn’t stand a chance. But seeing how he was hugging An Ran like that, he felt so angry it was unbearable. In the past An Ran had also buried her head into his chest like that, even laughing with him, holding hands and talking about their dreams. At that time he had carried her, but he only thought of succeeding, only thought of giving her an even better life, and being by his side as he tries to make a living. He really doesn’t think that he has wronged her. So after he returned, seeing the results of the investigation, finding out that for the past six years she hadn’t had any other man by her side, he was moved; he knew that she was waiting for him.

However, only in these past few days, there appeared to be this man by her side, even daring to call himself her husband. Six years, every single day and night for 2100 days... He will not lose that for just those measly few days!

“You let go of her!” Mo Fei looks at Su Yi Cheng fiercely, his two fists start to ball up at his side.

Su Yi Cheng lifts his head to look at him, but only to glance at him. Then he lowers his head to look at An Ran who was in his embrace. He hugs her and softly speaks into her ears, “Alright, I’ve already started the car, let’s go home.”

In his chest An Ran nods her head, she was thankful that he had appeared right on time, and thankful that he hadn’t asked.

Su Yi Cheng holds her and turns her around so they could leave, but was grabbed from behind by Mo Fei. He turns, only to see his eyes brimming red, extremely sinister-looking.

“I'll allow you to let go of her.” Mo Fei looks at him fiercely, saying those few words slowly.

Su Yi Cheng frowns, and was about to say something, when An Ran suddenly lifts her head, and looks at Mo Fei. She takes a deep breath and says, “Mo Fei, who are you to tell him to let go? He’s my husband. And what are you to me? Frankly, now we are just classmates, I don’t even consider you a friend. If you wanna argue against that, then you’re simply just an ex, and one from six years ago! Last time didn’t you want me to turn my back and leave? Now why are you making things so complicated? Did you think that feeling betrayed, I would still continue to stay at the same place and foolishly wait for you? You’re selfish for expecting me to stay exactly where I am. Let me tell you, Mo Fei, there isn’t anyone who would be motionless. Time has allowed me to realize how foolish and stupid I was. You turn around and look at how much Jiang City has changed these past six years; after time has passed, the city will also grow. So, for what reason, did you think that feelings wouldn’t change? So when you chose to turn your back and break up with me, what was between us was done.”

With one breath she managed to spill out a long speech such as that, without even a pause in between. Su Yi Cheng held her on one side, he could even feel that she was slightly trembling because of anger. He knows that whatever he says now will be unnecessary, so he holds her even closer, so she can lean on him. So he can give her strength.

Mo Fei looks at her in shock. What she said was all fact, and he couldn’t find a thing to refute. But to tell him to let go like this, he isn’t resigned to do so. How could he be willing to, he loves her, ever since the beginning he has always loved only her!

An Ran doesn’t look at him anymore. She turns around towards Su Yi Cheng and says, “L-let’s go home.”

Su Yi Cheng chuckles and nods. He wraps his arms around her body and turns her around.

“An Ran, don’t go…..” Right at the moment An Ran turned around, he grabs onto her hand.

Su Yi Cheng turns, and coldly says, “Mr. Mo, please behave yourself.” After saying that, he simply takes An Ran’s hand and directly walks over to the car that was parked at the side.

Mo Fei watches the man who was embracing her and leading her into the car. He watches their car leave, disappearing into the endless night sky and into the traffic.

The people who were surrounding them gradually left with An Ran and Su Yi Cheng. Mo Fei turns around in a daze, only to bump into Xiao xiao who was faintly smiling at him. His eyes doesn’t unnecessarily linger on her. He drags his steps towards the parked taxi, and directly lets himself in.

Xiao xiao holds onto her phone, smirking as she watches Mo Fei sit in the taxi and disappearing into the corner of the street. Then she looks at the picture that she had just taken on her phone. Her smile widens.



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T/N: dun dun dun, another sneaky thing that Xiao xiao has up her sleeve.. Damn girl, just let it go, stop making things your business and let that jealousy go~ let it go~

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.

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First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 50 Translation

050. Wine table


The man who came in laughing along with Xiao xiao was none other than Mo Fei.

Mo Fei catches sight of An Ran’s pale face, and a faint smile forms on his lips. This time he’s not going to let go, even if he had to force her, he will have her stay by his side.

The people in the room can see that there was something unusual between An Ran and Mo Fei. Xiao xiao laughs with a smirk, feigning surprise as she asks, “An Ran, do you and Director Mo know each other?”

An Ran’s spirit returns. She looks at Xiao xiao, but doesn’t say anything.

Ton Wen Hai examines An Ran, and then looks at Mo Fei, and asks, “Mo Fei, you two know each other?”

Taking his eyes off her, Mo Fei turns to face his father-in-law, smiles, and says, “Dad, An Ran and I were classmates, but we haven’t met in several years. Didn’t expect that we’d meet here.”

“Oh. So it’s like that.” Tong Wen Hai nods his head in understanding. Huang De Xing who was standing beside him takes in everything before him, his eyebrows slightly raised. He only smiles without a word.

Mo Fei turns back around, faces An Ran and stretches his hand out, smiling as he says, “An Ran, long time no see.”

An Ran sucks in her breath, steadying her mood as much as possible. She pulls up a fake smile, and reaches out to shake his hand. Unnaturally, she says, “Long time no see.”

Mo Fei holds her hand, and at an angle where no one could see, he caresses the back of her hand with his thumb.

An Ran, frightened, yanks her hand back, her eyes widen as she glares at him, only feeling that the man before her is such a stranger. Not even a shadow of the man six years ago can be seen.

An Ran’s action was so big, that even the Tong Wen Hai standing beside them was confused, “What’s going on?”


Mo Fei takes his hand back, looks at An Ran with a faint smile, and only says, “I’m not sure either, perhaps An Ran’s trying to avoid shaking my hand.”

Tong Wen Hai turns to look at An Ran, the expression in his eyes look like they’re inquiring whether or not it was true what Mo Fei was saying.

“That can’t be, An Ran. Director Mo is but a handsome man, even I would shake his hands, it’d be a pleasure.” Xiao xiao who was standing aside says coyly.

“Haha, that is Director Mo’s magnetism. However I reckon that both Xiao xiao and An Ran haven't had the chance yet, but Director Mo is a family man. Bureau chief Tong’s honourable daughter is the spouse of our Director Mo. The two are in deep conjugal love. A few years ago Miss Tong went to the US to pursue her studies, and Director Mo immediately went and accompanied her. As a matter of fact they just returned from the US.” Huang De Xing jokingly says.

Only, what they didn’t notice was that Mo Fei’s expression had clearly changed, and even though he was still smiling, the smile was rigid. But it did not escape An Ran’s eyes, who had been with him for 4 years.

An Ran avoids looking at him, and only says, “Let’s have a seat, we can eat and chat. I’ll let the server know we’re ready.”

“Right, right, right, everyone please take a seat and we can chat, why should we keep on standing.” Huang De Xing says in agreement.

Hearing that, the people sit down in succession, and An Ran leaves to go get the water, taking the time to catch her breath. The atmosphere in the room was so repressive.

When she managed to calm her mood down, An Ran raises her head with a smile and enters the room, willing herself as much as possible to not let her gaze fall on Mo Fei.

The liquor was on its 3rd round, and the dinner today was considered as a formal agreement for collaboration. Huang De Xing looks at Tong Wen Hai flatteringly, laughing as he asks, “I heard that the city was planning to make a science and technology town, but I’m not sure if it was true or not?”

Tong Wen Hai looks at Mo Fei, then turns to look at Huang De Xing, and only says, “The documents aren’t concrete yet, so nothing is for certain. It’s hard to say, hard to say.” Saying that, he reaches out with his chopsticks to grab a bamboo root, puts it into his mouth and slowly chews it.

“Hehe, then once there’s a proposal it’ll nearly be set. When the time comes Chief Tong shouldn’t forget to take care.” Huang De Xing laughs and pours him a cup of Maotai liquor for respect.

With one hand Tong Wen Hai stops his offering of liquor, doesn’t give him an answer, and only says, “Recently my blood pressure has been a bit high, the doctor has been repeatedly warning me to avoid alcohol as much as possible.”

Huang De Xing was surprised. The liquor he carried in his hands couldn’t be placed down, yet he also couldn’t offer it again. He shoots a glance at Mo Fei, seeming to ask what he should do.

Mo Fei looks back at him, smiles as he carries his cup of liquor, and says, “My father-in-law really can’t have alcohol, Director Huang if you don’t mind, I can drink it in my father-in-law’s place, is that okay?” Saying so, that is giving Huang De Xing only one way out.

Huang De Xing, naturally, is a smart man, acting accordingly and discerning intentions from body language, he’s been mingling with this stuff for more than 20 years, almost nearing 30 years. He was able to naturally calm down this mess into something simple, so he carries his glass and knocks his glass with Mo Fei’s, and says, “It’s a pleasure, a pleasure.”

Seated in her chair, An Ran’s thoughts wasn't in the moment at all. She can only think about how to leave as early as possible. She doesn’t know what in the world Mo Fei is trying to do, but from now on this kind of situation, she wants to avoid it as much as possible.

As An Ran was thinking up of how to leave early, her bowl was suddenly filled with a piece of fish. She raises her head in surprise, only to see Tong Wen Hai smiling and looking at her, and says, “The salmon here isn’t too bad, you should give it a try.”

This action by Tong Wen Hai shocked everyone in the room. An Ran looks at him stupefied, not really knowing how to respond.

And Xiao xiao who was sitting beside her looks on, not really understanding. Huang De Xing also has his brows raised, chuckling speechlessly. Mo Fei wrinkles his brows in response to his father-in-law’s actions, clenching on his wine cup.

“Give it a try?” Seeing that she wasn’t moving, Tong Wen Hai laughs and repeats again.

“Uh. Thank you, Chief Tong.” An Ran nods her head humbly, and takes a bite of the fish meat.

Tong Wen Hai nods, then turns to look at everyone and asks what they were laughing at, as if that scene hadn’t happened at all.

Mo Fei watches An Ran chew, his brows wrinkling even more.



After a while when all had eaten and drunk to their heart’s content, chatting for a while more, they then prepare to leave.

As they were leaving Tong Wen Hai purposely slows his steps so he could walk beside An Ran, and says, “I’m sorry about last time. I thought that that private room was free, which is why I asked to change our room. I didn’t know that you had already reserved it.”

An Ran shakes her head as she laughs, saying that it wasn’t a problem.

Tong Wen Hai studies her side profile, and couldn’t help but match it with the one in his memories. That woman had been in his mind for nearly 30 years, he didn’t think that they would still run into each other unexpectedly.

Speaking out of place, in the end he gives in to his curiosity and asks, “H-how has your mother been these days… Has her health been okay?”

An Ran pauses, turns to look at him, and asks, “Chief Tong and my mother are well acquainted?”

Tong Wen Hai forces a laugh and nods, “Hehe, it’s been a long time since we’ve seen each other.”

An Ran nods, and only says, “My mother’s very good. Her health and everything else are all good.”

“That’s good, that’s good.” Tong Wen Hai nods continuously. Knowing that she’s at peace*, he can be relieved.


*T/N: the same characters as An Ran’s name = at peace, safe, etc..



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First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 49 Translation

049. Social niceties/ dinner party


In the office, An Ran was concentrated on drawing the blueprint for the city hall building. It was afternoon, and even though a draft is still a draft, but she has always been able to see a little bit of progress.

An Ran grabs a pen and examines the paper seriously, then suddenly takes an eraser and wipes the diagram that she had just drawn. Then she takes the ruler and once again measures and draws, doing this repeatedly until she was satisfied, nodding her head. Just as she was about to draw another thing, someone knocks on her office door. She raises her head, only to see Xiao xiao, with her perfect makeup, and her hair made up into a wavy style, all of which was completed with an outfit, apparently changing her look to a different one since the meeting this morning. An Ran sometimes doesn't really get it. They all work together, in the same office, doing the same work. Where does she get that much time to fix herself, furthermore change her makeup according to the occasion, changing into different clothes and different bags. She’s very attentive to her lifestyle, but she herself feels that it must be very tiring.

“Alright, the director asked me to tell you that it’s almost time.” Xiao xiao says at the door with a smirk. She can’t tell if it’s a smile or not.

An Ran looks at the time on the computer screen, turns to look out the window to see the dark sky. She then sighs thinking that time is really going by too quickly.

She nods at Xiao xiao, tidies up and says to her, “Ok, I’ll be there soon. Where did the director say it was at, I can drive there myself.” Xiao xiao looks at her, only smiles and asks, “Don’t you wanna fix yourself up in the washroom first?”

Only then does An Ran realize that she had exhausted herself designing, and while she designs she has a habit of scratching her head. Even with her hair tied up it must be a mess right now. She looks at the time, puts the blueprints aside first, takes out her makeup bag and quickly runs to the washroom, passing by Xiao xiao, not forgetting to say, “You can just give me the address, I can get there myself.”

Xiao xiao raises her eyebrows, and says, “YouRan restaurant.”

An Ran pauses, her thoughts couldn’t help but bitterly cry. Why does it have to be ‘YouRan restaurant’, it’s such a big city, don’t tell me that there’s no other place to eat?

Seeing her frown, Xiao xiao asks in disdain, “What’s up, you don’t like that place?”

“No.” An Ran chuckles, shaking her head. She can only pray that she doesn’t bump into Su Yi Jiao.

Xiao xiao also doesn’t say anything, only looking at her with her brows raised.

An Ran avoids her gaze, and only says, “You don’t need to wait for me, I’ll be down in a minute.” After saying that she directly goes to the washroom.

Xiao xiao watches her figure disappear into the corner, then turns to look at the blueprints on the desk. She raises her brow, her gaze has a little shine to it.

In the washroom An Ran simply combs her hair, then dabs a bit of powder on her face. By the time she got back to her office Xiao xiao was already gone. She puts away some of her work from before, then grabs her briefcase, and the cellphone on her desk, and leaves the office.

Rushing through the short time to get to the parking lot from the office, An Ran’s eyes are only fixed on the cellphone in her hand, feeling that something’s wrong, but she doesn’t know what is it. Afterwards when An Ran was sitting in her car, she then recalls that today Su Yi Cheng hadn’t given her a call, and hasn’t said whether or not he would pick her up. Just as she was about to start the car to leave, she then recalls that Su Yi Cheng had mentioned during breakfast that he would be away for an inspection today, and that he’d probably be home a little late today, so he won’t be able to pick her up, and she can drive herself back home.

The car’s engine rumbles faintly. An Ran stares at her cellphone for a while, a little out of it. Then the phone in her hand sudden starts to ring. It was a call from Xiao xiao. Frightened from it, An Ran quickly answers it, not speaking right away, only hearing Xiao xiao ask, “An Ran, are you out yet, the director and I are already on the way. Wait at the 2nd floor house number 208. Get here soon, officer Tong is almost here, so don’t hold us up.”

“Ok, I got it.” An Ran answers, then hangs up. Then she looks at her phone and couldn’t help but shake her head, forcing herself to smile. How long as it been, she unexpectedly is used to getting that man’s call everyday, even that considerate picking up and dropping off.

Habits, they really are a scary thing.


When An Ran had arrived there, she luckily ran into Manager Zhang. Due to Su Yi Jiao’s earlier instructions, once Manager Zhang saw An Ran he greeted her passionately, his face beamed as he asked if she had reserved a table yet, whether or not she has friends coming and so on and so forth, asking until An Ran was getting overwhelmed, so in a hurry she said that she has work matters, and that she was with her company for a business dinner with an official, she shouldn’t stick around to chat too long, seizes the time and hurriedly runs up the stairs. When she knocked on the door she only saw Xiao xiao and Huang De Xing sitting at the edges of the table, Xiao xiao’s wavy hair in disarray. Her face was also a bit red, her lip gloss was a bit off. And the Huang De Xing beside her sat there honourably, checking his cellphone. Seeing An Ran come in, he simply nods at her, not really saying anything. And Xiao xiao suddenly gets up to leave, saying that she has an upset stomach. She then grabs her bags and immediately goes to the washroom.

An Ran senses that something was off, but all in all it was none of her business, she doesn’t have the seniority to give speech, so she simply bows her head and examines the beautiful, delicate tablecloth.

That evening, Bureau chief Tong that Huang De Xing had invited enters before Xiao xiao. To An Ran’s surprise this Bureau chief Tong was none other than the man from the other time, furthermore he was somehow acquainted with her mother.

Tong Wen Hai also recognizes An Ran. He remembers her, firstly because she is Su Yi Cheng’s wife, and secondly because she is Lin Xiao Fen’s daughter. Regardless of their status, she is a person he can not ignore.

“You…..” Tong Wen Hai was about to say something, but was interrupted by Huang De Xing getting up behind up.

“Chief Tong, it’s been while yet you still look dashing as ever, ha.” Huang De Xing laughs and walks over to Tong Wen Hai.

Tong Wen Hai comes back to earth, looks at Huang De Xing, and only smiles as he says, “Director Huang is such a joker.”

“You flatter me. It’s Chief Tong that’s too modest.” Huang De Xing says, then turns to An Ran beside him, “An Ran, this person is the new chief of city construction, Bureau Chief Tong. You should serve a few drinks to Chief Tong.”

An Ran smiles, nods at Chief Tong, and greets, “Nice to meet you Chief Tong.”

Tong Wen Hai nods, looking at her with a complex expression. Then the door behind him was pushed open, Xiao xiao was with a person cracking jokes as she enters. Along with An Ran they clearly see the man entering the room with Xiao xiao. Their eyes widen; they were surprised and shocked.

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First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 48 Translation

048. Results


In ‘Jing Cheng’ building’s general meeting room, Huang De Xing sits in the first seat. An Ran and Xiao xiao sit separately on his two sides, and the other workers follow suit, sitting along the side following An Ran and Xiao xiao.

Huang De Xing carries the cup of tea and takes a sip of it, and says, “Today’s gathering will mainly be about 2 things.”

An Ran takes a pen and comes up with something to draw. She doesn’t know the purpose of this meeting, but she guesses that it has to be related to the construction site accident. She doesn’t know what the outcome is, however looking at Hou Zheng Wen’s proud face opposite to her, she assumes that he had nothing to do with it.

“Concerning the shopping center ‘Bi Hu Yuan’, the cause of the collapse at the construction site, the firm has already investigated it thoroughly.” Huang De Xing says. As he speaks he shoots a glance at An Ran, then Hou Zheng Wen, and finally looks at who was Xiao xiao sitting on his left.

“My construction was done according to Architect Gu’s plans. If there really was a problem, then it wouldn’t be with me.” Hou Zheng Wen says coldly as looks at An Ran, his manner of speaking was rather provoking.

An Ran stares at him, not speaking, circling her pen around. If it really was her to blame, then she doesn’t have anything to say. Huang De Xing looks at Hou Zheng Wen, and starts to say, “There weren’t any problems with An Ran’s designs. The company asked a specialist to examine the blueprint in detail. Everything in the plan was reasonably calculated, so it was not the cause of the accident.”

Hou Zheng Wen’s eyes pop open, “I worked in accordance to the blueprint, if there was nothing wrong with the plan, then there certainly should be no problem with my construction.”

“Lao Hou, you didn’t let me finish, why are you getting so worked up for? I haven’t said that there was a problem with the construction.” Huang De Xing looks at him as he jokingly says this.

Hou Zheng Wen rubs his nose, muttering, “As long as it’s not my fault.”

Huang De Xing looks at Xiao xiao once again, then starts to say, “This accident wasn’t on the plans, neither was it on the construction. It was all a result of the quality of the cement, which simply did not reach safety standards. This supportive use of the 32.5 grade of the Portland cement composite compressive strength was measured to be barely 4.8, 4.3 MPa, while the standard is 32.5 MPa, differing by a factor of 6.8 and 7.6. This kind of Portland cement composite then lost its usable value. This is also the main cause of the collapse.”

An Ran raises her head at this unexpected outcome. It was the cement strength that didn’t reach standards. This completely relates to whether or not the building can be built, whether or not it can collapse, whether or not it’s a jerry-built building project. This relates to the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inhabitants.

One after another, the others begin to talk. In construction this is the situation that one fears the most. If there was something wrong with the blueprint or the construction then it can easily be changed, but this frugal spending, lowering the quality of the building, it all comes down to human lives. It’s good that they were able to discover the accident now while it’s still early, if it were later, after everything was completed, then the dreaded collapse wouldn’t just be that balcony; the casualties of the collapse wouldn’t just be one person.

Huang De Xing waves his hands to settle everyone down, and says, “Alright, regarding the issue with the cement quality, the company will co-ordinate with the supplier to resolve this, I will only report this matter in a paragraph, so do not start arguments with each other.”

“Since the matter has been thoroughly seen, I have no complaints.” Hou Zheng Wen mutters.

“If it was a problem with the materials, then even the best design and construction would be in vain. I personally believe that regarding this accident, our company must pursue legal sanction against the supplier. After all we are a construction business, eventually this building will have people living in it, and we aren’t able to bear this big of a risk.” An Ran says objectively.

Huang De Xing nods, and glances at Xiao xiao on his side, only says, “The company will handle this matter, there will absolutely be no appeasements.”

An Ran nods. She turns her head and sees Xiao xiao sending her a glance, only seeing her smiling faintly as she looks at her. Her eyes were somewhat fierce. An Ran frowns, looking up to look at her, only to see that she had already turned away, smiling as she asks Huang De Xing about the other thing.

Huang De Xing nods, and says, “ The next thing will be about the city hall building’s bidding that will start in a few days. Our company’s blueprint is yet to be decided. Next Wednesday I was thinking of making a public evaluation for the company. Several architects will submit their designs. At that time everyone can vote, whoever has the most votes will have their design chosen. Of course if the interns are interested they can also participate, this can be considered as a chance to train yourself.”

Calling to mind about the blueprints An Ran starts to get a headache. The past few days she has been busy labouring over it yet she doesn’t know what to be busy about. About the blueprint to the city hall building, up until now she has only managed to come up with a draft. With the particulars she still hasn’t come up with any. At first she wanted to spend the past few nights to get it done on time, however with Su Yi Cheng wrapping himself around her every night, tossing her from night and well into the morning not letting her go to bed, she really doesn’t understand where in the world he gets all that energy from.

Thinking about all that, An Ran couldn’t help but both get shy and annoyed at the same time, her face has also become unconsciously hot.

“An Ran?” Huang De Xing wrinkles his brows, calling her in a low voice.

Only then does An Ran come back to earth, looking at him blankly, and once again looks at everyone. She didn’t hear anything at all about what they were just talking about.

“What are you thinking about, your face has gone red. The Director has called on you several times yet you haven’t answered back.” Facing her Xiao xiao smirks as she speaks coldly.

An Ran couldn’t help but rub her burning cheeks, apologizing to Huang De Xing and nods. “Sorry, my mind went wandering.”

Huang De Xing looks at her, and only says, “Tonight there’ll be dinner with city construction’s Bureau Chief Tong. After work don’t be in a rush to leave, until then just wait with me and Xiao xiao for the dinner.”

An Ran nods quickly, “Okay. I got it.” These types of social niceties are actually universal, although she doesn’t like it much, but she can’t decline.

Huang De Xing nods, then collects the materials on the desk, taking the lead and stands up, saying, “Ok, that’s all for the meeting today. Everyone can go back to work.”

An Ran sighs, leaning against the chair and sitting there, no sign of leaving. Her eyes were tired, her body was aching. She thinks that she should very well discuss their married life together. Otherwise she’ll be sucked dry.

“Congrats, what luck.”

While An Ran was thinking of how to bring this up with Su Yi Cheng when overhead she hears a cold voice, her tone cold, not good-natured. She raises her head to look, only to see Xiao xiao looking at her with a faint smile, but her eyes don’t have the slightest amount of a smiling expression.

“What do you mean?” An Ran frowns, not understanding what she meant by ‘Congrats’, where that came from?

Xiao xiao looks at her with a strange smile, not saying anything. She turns around to leave to the conference room.


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First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 47 Translation

047. A touch of love 



The pen in her hands slips. The line that she was drawing on the blueprint went past the outline, so much that she puts on even more pressure on the paper. The nib of the pen creates a hole into the blueprint.

An Ran sighs, absentmindedly throwing the pencil aside on the desk. She raises her head and sits on the swivel chair, closing her eyes. The images on the blueprint bounce around before her eyes. There’s joy, and tears. She still remembers the first date, when they strolled around the campus lakeside shoulder-to-shoulder. He was smiling while talking about their future life, laughing as he said that he must start a construction company, build lots of high-rise apartment buildings. They talked about their dreams, their aspirations, chatting until they got closer and closer together, not realizing who was the one to first hold the other’s hand. The sun sets in the west, he finally grabs her hand, their ten fingers interlocking. And it was in that setting sun, in the reflection of that small lake, that he kissed her. At the time they were adorably innocent. Their lips barely touched, yet their faces reddened like ripe red apples, their heartbeat jumping at 180 bpm.

Unexpectedly led on by the nose from the memories, An Ran suddenly opens her eyes. She crumples up the blueprint on the desk, throwing the paper into the basket beside her foot. In the basket there were about 7 or 8 of those balls. It was the result of An Ran’s struggle all evening.

The door to the studio opens. It was only Su Yi Cheng in a neat suit, entering with a briefcase in hand. Upon seeing him, An Ran quickly stands up, “Y-you’re back. You need the studio? I-I’ll get out right away.” Saying that, she gets up and stacks the blueprints, preparing to leave.

“An Ran.” Su Yi Cheng calls out to her, shakes his head, and says, “I don’t need the studio. I’ve already finished all my work in the office. If you need to use the studio feel free to use it. We’re married, and you’re this house’s madame, there’s no need to be this courteous.”

An Ran stands there, looking at him speechless. It’s just that she’s still not used to this. Su Yi Cheng smiles at her, puts his briefcase aside, and loosens the necktie around his neck. “I’ll go wash up first.” He leaves the room as he says this.

An Ran sits down again, once again spreading out the blueprint paper across the spacious office desk. She grabs a measuring tape and painting brush to seriously design. But her mind is still on that scene in Huang De Xin’s office. She just doesn’t understand what Mo Fei is trying to pull. She never would have thought that he would be the kind of person who wouldn’t back down. At that time he had turned his head and never looked back, he could so easily let go of 4 years of affections, so why is there this kind of entanglement now? He either thinks highly of himself or thinks too lowly of him, could it be that he thought she would really be so foolish as to run back to him now that he’s back? Could it be that he doesn’t know that on this earth there are relationships that can be missed, like time, there’s no turning back time.

She lets out a big sigh. An Ran puts the pen down. She’s really afraid that she really can’t come up with anything tonight. She can’t settle down these agitated trains of thoughts. She puts the painting brush down, putting away the blueprint paper along with the resource books she’d brought with her.

She takes her stuff into the bedroom. Right at that moment, she bumps into Su Yi Cheng who had just finished bathing, with only a towel wrapped around his hip, coming out of the bathroom. Their four eyes staring at each other, An Ran’s face instantly turns red. Although they’ve done those intimate activities, but still An Ran was embarrassed seeing him naked from the waist-up. She avoids his gaze, puts her stuff aside, only feeling that the two in the room together is embarrassing. She raises her head, eyes avoiding his body, and asks, “Did you eat yet? If not do you want me to make you some noodles?”

Su Yi Cheng sees the uneasiness in her face. Actually he’d already eaten in the evening, with a few grassroots officials, but he remembered her appearance that day when she boiled noodles for him, reminiscing it a lot. His heart skips a beat, and he nods and says, “Sure. I want that tomato-topped noodles again from last time.”

An Ran nods, and heads to the kitchen. Actually what she never told him was that, besides the tomato-topped noodles, she really can’t make anything else. Of course, she doesn't make that very well either.

As Su Yi Cheng was changing into his home clothes and coming out of the room, at that time An Ran was busy in the kitchen. He leans against the counter and watches her get busy for him. His heart has this unspeakable tranquility.

Seeing An Ran busy with boiling the noodles, he recalls that at that time there was also that kind of woman who would do everything for him. He had once thought that it would be that woman who would walk hand in hand together with him until the end of their life, but in the end he didn’t expect there to be that kind of ending. He also once thought that he would never get married. Who would have thought that this impulsive side of his could also do this kind of lightning wedding. At that time he had once picked out a ring in preparation to proposing to his beloved person, yet who would have thought that he would meet the deepest kind of betrayal. He was beginning to reject all kinds of relationships, even friendship, let alone marriage.

Meeting An Ran again, he now understands that marriage can be this simple, no need for love, suitability is the most important factor, no need for weddings, or wedding rings.

As he was thinking, Su Yi Cheng didn't know how he ended up in the kitchen, and didn't know how he ended up hugging An Ran from behind. He rests his chin on her shoulder, his warm breath blowing against her ears. He can even start to feel the body against his chest get stiffer by the minute in his embrace. Seeing her face gradually burn, he couldn’t help but laugh. This woman’s cheeks are rather too thin, can’t even stand against a little bit of provocation. Now that he thinks back, he really isn’t convinced that at that time it was her first formal meeting that she requested this marriage. He couldn’t help but be curious of where she got that courage.

“N-noodles are almost ready, y-you go over there and sit, i-it’ll be ready right away.” Being embraced by him from behind, An Ran stammers, she was nervous as hell.

“Ok.” Su Yi Cheng answers, but he doesn’t let go of her. He sniffs her skin. Her body has the same scent of the body wash that he uses, fresh and clean, nice to smell.

Somewhat rigidly, An Ran reaches out to turn off the heat, then takes a bowl and pours the noodles into it.

“Ya!” The bowl of noodles in her hands was almost spilled, where in the world is his hands touching!

“Su, Su Yi Cheng!” An Ran yells at him, warning him, stopping his hands before it goes too far.

Su Yi Cheng doesn’t say anything, still embracing her, as his hands starts to explore. The him at the moment is elsewhere as he settles down the bowl of noodles. He has found an even better midnight snack, moreover it’s sure to be delicious.

In the past An Ran had asked him many times on why he had agreed to her absurd proposal, in fact he had asked himself the same question over and over, and every time his answer is the same as her’s, they were suitable, they in fact are suitable indeed. But is it only her that is genuinely suitable as his wife?

Or perhaps it was that he had liked her the first time he saw her, that kind of dim fondness, the kind of fondness that isn’t love.



An Ran’s tomato-topped noodles was finally in that certain someone’s stomach in the middle of the night, and at that time An Ran was already tired all over and drops onto the bed.

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First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 46 Translation

046. What is he thinking?


Su Yi Cheng opens the door, and smiles at Huang De Xing.

“Director Huang.”

“Ah, it really is you Special assistant Su. I thought I saw wrong.” Huang De Xing smiles back at him. As he was passing by he thought that the license plate was familiar. When he was passing by he couldn’t help but look at it a little longer, and felt that the person inside the vehicle was familiar. He didn’t think that it actually was Su Yi Cheng. And what’s even more coincidental was that he and Su Yi Cheng had only met at an estate summit meeting once before, he really didn’t expect that he would still remember his name. How coincidental, indeed very coincidental.

“Special assistant Su is here for business?” Huang De Xing smiles as he asks.

“Uh, no. Just passing by.” Su Yi Cheng says, his face relaxed.

“Uh, Special assistant Su, I heard that the municipal committee just recently planned on the Xinjian science and technology town, so….. Have you guys decided on collaboration partners yet?” Huang De Xing inquires. The Xinjian science and technology town is a large-scale project, if they were able to catch that, then there’d be no need to pick up other projects for the next few years.

Su Yi Cheng raises his brows, aware of what he was intending to ask. He’s seen this kind of situation many times, so he has a lot of ways to reply to that. Mysteriously, he says, “For the time being I still haven’t received any files, so, regarding to the matter Director Huang is talking about, I’m not too sure. Where did Director Huang hear this from?”

“Uh, no, it was just hearsay, hearsay.” Huang De Xing smiles dryly.

Su Yi Cheng doesn’t push on further. He raises his arm and looks at his watch, and says, “There's still a municipal committee meeting this morning, I’ll have to take my leave first.”

“Oh! Have a good trip, have a good trip. Will there be an opportunity to invite Special assistant Su to a meal another day?” Huang De Xing probes.

Su Yi Cheng raises his brows, just smiles and takes a seat in his car. He doesn't say yes, but also doesn't say no. Truly not letting people see through him.

Huang De Xing sees him start the car and leave, pondering over the meaning of his smile just then.

“Director.” Xiao Xiao comes up from behind, still decked out in designer suits, outlining her exquisite, delicate figure. Her mature look of wavy hair added to that look of perfection, exuding irresistible glamour.

“Director, who was that person just now?” Xiao Xiao asks. That man looked like the man who had picked up An Ran the other day, but she doesn’t understand why Huang De Xing that old man was looking at him as if trying to win his favour.

Huang De Xing glances at her, his complexion turning serious, and doesn’t give her an answer. He just coldly says, “The results of last time’s accident is here.”

“Oh. Really? Was it a problem with An Ran’s design or was it Hou Zheng Wen’s construction?” Xiao Xiao rejoices in other’s misfortune. She can see that these two people were out of sorts, regardless of who was in the wrong, she’d be happy to see the outcome either way.

“Neither. You might be disappointed with the results.” Huang De Xing says coldly.

“Uh, what do you mean?” Xiao Xiao was confused.

“The cement from this project was supplied to us from your jiu jiu (maternal uncle), wasn’t it. The stone balcony from this project collapsed not because of deficiency in design, nor was it an error from the construction. It was entirely a result of the cement, which did not reach acceptable standards. Therefore it was the deficient stone that caused the accident, so I suggest that you notify your jiu jiu to prepare his self. The firm will certainly pursue liability. Fortunately this project’s progress with Wan Xing has been slow, otherwise with this kind of shoddy construction there would be more accidents.” After saying that, Huang De Xing looks but also doesn't look at her face turn pale, turning towards the building and walking in.

At this moment Xiao xiao couldn’t attend to anything else, she hastily fishes out the cell phone in her bag and gives her jiu jiu a call. At first she had wanted to arrange a way for him to wire some money, but who would have thought that he would give her such a big problem, really pisses her off.



In the office, An Ran looks at the blueprint that Ling Lin was submitting. Her head suddenly hurts. This is already the third time this month. She really can’t help but be sceptical that Ling Lin really did graduate from a famous school, the one who had received several domestic prizes? Why are her drafts so elementary, so much that she even miscalculates even the simplest scales?

She helplessly shakes her head, putting the blueprint aside. She rises to go over to Huang De Xing’s office.

Knock knock knock….

“Come in.” He answers from inside.

An Ran pushes the door open, opening her mouth to say, “Director, about Ling Lin, I don’t think I have the capability to look after her. Please, I ask you to change to another architect for her to learn from.” After she says this, she then realizes that there was another man in the office besides Huang De Xing, the two were apparently discussing about something. And at the moment when An Ran could clearly make out who was sitting on the sofa, her tiny face suddenly turns pale, her firsts clenching. She did not expect that man to be Mo Fei.

“An Ran, you came at the right time. This person is Cheng Kai’s Director Mo. We were just talking about you. So it turns out you and Director Mo were school mates!” Huang De Xing looks at An Ran and laughs as he says this.

An Ran looks at Mo Fei, not understanding why he’s here. She thought after that last time, they wouldn’t see each other again.

Mo Fei stands up, and smiles as he walks over to her. He reaches out, as if they were two people who hadn’t seen each other in a long time, laughing as he says, “An Ran, long time no see.”

An Ran looks at him in a daze, not returning his handshake. She doesn’t understand what he’s trying to pull here and she doesn’t want to know. Because no matter what he wants do, it has nothing to do with her.

She looks over him at Huang De Xing behind him and says, “Director, since you have an unexpected guest I’ll take my leave first so as to not disturb you.” Saying that she turns around to leave.

“An Ran, wait. Director Mo and I were just talking about a collaboration for a project, you should stay behind and listen.” Huang De Xing starts to say.

An Ran excuses herself, “I can’t. I still have to make a trip to the construction site. Worker Wei called and said that some of the blueprint’s unclear, so I should go over and take a look.” Finishing that she turns her head and doesn’t look back as she leaves the director’s office.



Mo Fei stares at the disappearing silhouette. His two hands hang by his side, clenched. An Ran, this time he won’t give up!

Huang De Xing apparently senses the situation. He smiles as he probes, “The relationship between Director Mo and our Architect Gu seems to be quite deep?”

Mo Fei turns his head, smiling at Huang De Xing, but not answering.

Seeing that he had spoken too much, Huang De Xing is also considered as a refined person. He’s been mingling around in this position for this long, naturally he has come across all kinds of people. This being the case he doesn’t say anymore, and meaninglessly asks, switching topics, “About the city’s plan to invest in building the science and technology town, is Director Mo’s information reliable? As far as I know the files haven’t come out yet, after all whether or not this is true is yet to be known.”

Mo Fei smiles, and lazily says, “Director Huang seems to have forgotten that my father-in-law is the Bureau Chief of the city’s construction.”

Huang De Xing is shocked, immediately smiles, and only says, “Then about the collaboration, I will report to the board members. I believe, if things go well, we will happily work together.”

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First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 45 Translation

045. The hickey on the neck 2


And it was only today that An Ran found out that Su Yi Cheng has a habit of getting up early to exercise, and this habit is a result of his military upbringing since childhood, as a result of being born into a household of soldiers. Ever since he was a child, Su Yi Cheng would, with his grandfather and father, go out for morning exercises ‘drill training’, so much that even after all these years, there is no need for his father’s compulsive attitude. This habit has already been cultivated, and continues to persevere.

After breakfast, due to it being a work day, Su Yi Cheng drives An Ran towards the downtown area.

In the car, An Ran was feeling that during breakfast earlier, everyone was looking at her strangely, as if wanting to laugh but couldn’t make a sound.

Su Yi Cheng sees that his passenger is wrinkling her eyebrows pondering over something, and once again looks at her snow white neck that has some of his own imprints left behind from last night. The corner of his mouth rises into a bigger smile.

Apparently sensing his gaze, An Ran turns around, to see him wearing a smile on his face. She can’t help but be suspicious, and asks, “What are you smiling about?” Saying that, she touches her face. Nothing seems to be on her face.

Su Yi Cheng just smiles, turns his head and looks serious as he concentrates on the road in front of him, only saying, “If you’re still tired you can go ahead and sleep a bit, I’ll tell you when we’re there.”

Hearing that, An Ran actually was still a bit tired. She was tossed around by him for the entire night and didn’t get that much time to sleep. Thinking about it, they’re still about an hour away, even if she stayed awake and the two don’t speak then it would make the ride a bit awkward and weird. At least if she went to sleep she wouldn’t have to worry about whether or not it’ll be awkward.

Thinking in that line, An Ran leans back, slowly shutting her eyes.

The vehicle slowly comes to a stop in front of the entrance of An Ran’s company. Looking at the figure leaning back and dozing off beside him, his heart actually has this inexplicable sense of satisfaction.

He looks at his watch, it’s 8:50. He knows that if he doesn’t wake her up she’d be late. Seeing her sleeping so soundly Su Yi Cheng suddenly felt regretful, that perhaps he had demanded too much. Two continuous nights, it really is quite tiring for her. But with a heart of jade (T/N: literally is jade but I’m guessing it’s like our equivalent of ‘heart of gold’) she really acquiesced his apparently demanding will. He doesn’t feel that he is a noble man, but at least enough of one that his heart isn’t evil. However he used to believe in his own ability to control himself, at the very least he wouldn’t be thrown left and right by his desire. But every time he embraces her, the longing in his body actually is so pressing, as if he has turned back into that impulsive young boy, satisfied by rampaging around.

Thinking about that, Su Yi Cheng couldn’t help but laugh.

His laugh woke up An Ran who was sleeping soundly. She bewilderedly opens her eyes, sees the familiar building outside, and gracefully lets out a yawn, asking, “We’re here?”

Su Yi Cheng laughs and nods. Seeing her dazed state of just being woken up, he only felt that it was adorable.

An Ran nods, rubbing her sore eyes. “Then I’m going to go first.” Saying that, she reaches out to open to door.

“An Ran.”

As she was holding the handle Su Yi Cheng suddenly calls out from behind her. An Ran turns her head, confused, and then turns her body, only to see him lean over, his lips precisely covering her’s, a hot kiss that can suffocate a person, hard and fast. The kiss was so ardent it didn’t even give An Ran a chance to prepare for it.

Not knowing how much time had passed, when An Ran was feeling out of breath from the kiss, Su Yi Cheng finally releases her, embracing her and caressing her back, being tenderly.

An Ran catches her breath in his embrace, but also greedily enjoying the incomparable tranquility and ease of being in his embrace.

“An Ran.” As Su Yi Cheng is hugging her, one arm is around her, while another arm is stroking her snow-white neck.

“En.” An Ran answers. Because he is stroking her neck it suddenly became ticklish, and she can’t help but let out a giggle, “Hehe, it’s ticklish.”

Su Yi Cheng also laughs, but doesn’t immediately release her, just says, “Do you still have that scarf from yesterday?”

“Yeah, it’s in my bag.” An Ran becomes puzzled, although she doesn’t know why he was asking about that, but she still replied truthfully.

Su Yi Cheng releases her, takes the bag that she had put aside, opens it, and takes out yesterday’s scarf from the bag. Then he places it on his lap and folds it, turning his body and wraps it around her snow-white neck, and makes a sloppy-looking bow. Then he looks at her for a while, nodding his head, and says in a low voice, “Now you can’t see it.”

An Ran blanks, then immediately reacts to the meaning behind his words, and she can’t help but bulge her eyes out, “You-you-you-you’re saying that I have hickeys on my neck?”

Su Yi Cheng looks at her, but doesn’t say anything, and just laughs.

“Aiyah, why didn’t you say so earlier!” An Ran’s face blazes up, and only now does she understand her mother-in-law’s ambiguous smile from this morning. Dreading that everyone had seen it, she thinks about it, and can’t help but complain to him, “It’s all your fault, everyone saw it.”

“It’s fine, we’re all family. Mother and everyone else won’t laugh at you.” Su Yi Cheng says as he laughs.

“They’re already laughing at me.” An Ran grumbles. She takes out a compact mirror from her bag, and was about to take the scarf off to see how bad it was.

Su Yi Cheng catches her hand, raising it and turning to look at her wristwatch, and says, “No need to look, it’s 8:58, you should head up, or else you’ll be late.”

“Ah.” An Ran screams, “Why didn’t you say so earlier!” Saying that, she quickly grabs her bag and immediately opens the door and runs off.


In the car, Su Yi Cheng looks at her from behind for a while and couldn’t help but laugh and shake his head. Apparently he’s gotten worse, surprisingly he really likes to see her so frantic like this.

Just as Su Yi Cheng was about to start the car to leave, the cellphone in his briefcase rings at this time. It was Ye Zi Wen’s number, the brat who flew to Europe last week for vacation. Now that he’s calling, it appears that he’s back.

“Yes?”

“Ah Cheng, come drink with me tonight.” Ye Zi Wen says in lightning speed.

“Can’t.” Su Yi Cheng firmly declines. Things are different now, tonight An Ran will be home.

“Uh.” Ye Zi Wen was surprised, unable to come up with a reply. Because of his status, it was inconvenient to go to a nightclub or even a bar, so coming over to his place to drink was a common thing. “Why?”

“Inconvenient.” Su Yi Cheng says concisely.

“Is there something?” Yi Zi Wen gets the rough idea of what’s happening from listening to him.

“Yeah.” Su Yi Cheng answers, not denying it.

“Haha, baloney. Bring it out for us brothers to see.” Ye Zi Wen laughs out loud. Ever since Bai Ran, over the past few years he’s never heard him talk about his feelings. If it weren’t for the fact that he’s known him since childhood, practically growing up together and going through thick and thin, he all wouldn’t help but be sceptical over his disposition because of the shock from that time and had perhaps changed.

“Another day. I have to ask her first.” Su Yi Cheng laughs.

“Ah Cheng, the more you’re like this to me the more I’m curious about what kind of woman this is.” Leaving a person in suspense is actually an immoral thing.

“Hehe.” Su Yi Cheng simply laughs. Suddenly remembering something, he says, “Oh right, Zi Wen, about the Jing yuan house can you help me embellish the design another day, the sooner the better.” That house is a bit too small now, and according to the nature of An Ran’s job, it’s only right that he help her get a studio.

“Ah Cheng, I’ve only been in Europe for 2 weeks right?” Yi Zi Wen couldn’t help but wonder if he’d been away for too long, otherwise how could things change this quickly!

"Hehe, alright, I’ll tell you another day. I have to hurry back to the committee, still have a meeting this morning." Saying that, Su Yi Cheng ends the call, and starts the car to leave.

“Knock knock…..” Someone suddenly knocks on the window. He turns, only to see a middle aged man standing outside. If he remembers correctly, this man is Jing Cheng building’s head architect, An Ran’s direct superior, Huang De Xing.

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First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 44 Translation

044. The hickey on the neck 1


While An Ran was finished with washing and came out changed into his white shirt. Su Yi Cheng was standing at the bookshelf reading something. He hears the bathroom door open, and turns his head, only to see An Ran wearing his white shirt, her two slender legs standing perfectly straight, her small face carrying the delicate blush of after-shower. Su Yi Cheng can’t help but look on foolishly. He had heard that when a woman wears a man’s shirt she is the sexiest, the prettiest. So it wasn’t fake news, all of it was real.

Being looked at like that made An Ran feel embarrassed, not daring to look at him, and only says a few words, “I’m done. You can go wash up.” Then in an instant she buries herself into the bed, pulling the blanket and wrapping it around her, only leaving behind a pair of large blinking eyes.

Su Yi Cheng finds her action both funny and in a good mood, contrary to the thief that she is.

Seeing that he is still fixed on her, An Ran swallows nervously, just says, “I, I’m kinda tired, first, going to sleep first, night.” After she finished speaking she immediately covers her head with the quilt.

Su Yi Cheng shakes his head laughing, then turns around to the armoire and takes out some pyjamas to change into, then goes into the bathroom right after. Underneath with the quilt wrapped around her body as a hiding space, she counts sheep. One sheep, two sheep, three sheep……

When she counted up to 325 sheep the door to the bathroom opens. Su Yi Cheng drags his steps and comes out, and An Ran still hasn’t fallen asleep. Actually she isn’t even the least bit sleepy, her eyes were still wide opened.

Su Yi Cheng looks over at the nest of dumpling on the bed, finding it a bit funny and felt helpless. They were husband and wife, going through last night, do they still need to be this way?

He lifts the quilt to go to bed, only to see the person beside him lying motionlessly. Su Yi Cheng shakes his head still finding it funny, turns off the lamp on the bedside and lies down beside her.

In the dark, underneath the quilt, Su Yi Cheng familiarly reaches out and gently brings her to his chest.

An Ran appears stiff, closing her eyes tightly, as if she had already fallen asleep.

Su Yi Cheng holds back a smile, embracing her and lying down properly. It's only her that's pretending that stiff-like-a-corpse position isn't tiring, but to him it looks like it is quite tiring. As a result he comes up with a prank in his mind. He reaches out evilly, wandering over her body. He can even clearly sense that because of his hand her body can’t help but become even stiffer.

Seeing that she still doesn’t intend to open her eyes and say that she’s still awake, Su Yi Cheng, with that evil hand, slowly explores. At first he simply wanted to play a prank to tease her, but as his hands are exploring her silky and satin-like skin, his own body is also slowly getting a reaction. Thinking about last night, his breathing quickly tightens.

“An Ran…..” Su Yi Cheng’s voice from behind is already a bit husky. Unsatisfied with just exploring with his hands, he leaves a soft kiss behind her ear, then quietly asks into her ears, “Are you seducing me?”

“No.” An Ran unconsciously shakes her head. Seducing him, how could that be! And now she’s completely forgotten that she should have already fallen asleep.

Su Yi Cheng chuckles, softly sucking on her ear, his hands still exploring, “Weren’t you sleeping?”

“Uh.” An Ran blanks, and only after a while does she come up with something herself to respond to that, just shyly saying, “I, I was about to fall asleep, but, but you, you being like that woke me up.”

Su Yi Cheng’s laugh resonates in his chest, just feeling that this figure in his embrace is just so cute. Suddenly turning over, he presses down on her. In the dark the pair of bright, clear dark eyes stare at her, not blinking. The corner of his mouth rises up to entice people, and asks, “Since you’re up then, don’t you wanna do some exercise together?”

He's speaking as if he hadn’t eaten pork before, furthermore hadn’t even seen a pig run... Besides, last night they’d already eaten ‘pork’, so An Ran naturally knows what his so-called exercises is referring to.

Frightened, she replies by shaking her head, “I-I-I’m kinda tired.”

Su Yi Cheng looks at her and laughs. He lowers his head to move closer to her ears, whispering, “Then you don’t have to move, I’ll do the moving.”

“I---Wu---“ Su Yi Cheng doesn’t even give her a chance to open her mouth. Taking advantage of the moment she opened her mouth, in rapid speed he blocks her mouth, using the most primitive method.



While a person was in a deep slumber and was woken up by someone is the most dreadful kind of experience. Jun Qu courtyard has morning exercises every day, so the sound of the bell rings at 5 am sharp, and every corner of the courtyard could hear it nice and clear. An Ran only felt that she had just closed her eyes, and then this bell started to ring, bringing her back to her childhood. During school, the bell that indicated class was starting was also like that, really ear-splitting, really rouses people’s spirit.

She doesn’t know what time she fell asleep last night, just knows that it won’t do that she’s tired, lying motionlessly, she allows Su Yi Cheng to hug her. Then he goes to the bathroom to wash up. Having no resistance whatsoever, she closes her eyes in a daze and falls back to sleep, no need to count, and no need to count sheep.



Awoken by the stroke of the bell, An Ran dazedly pushes herself to sit up on the bed, her eyes still closed, just asking, “What’s, what’s going on? What happened?” Su Yi Cheng reaches out and hugs her, just whispering into her ears, “It’s nothing, keep on sleeping. It’s still early.”

An Ran was truly tired, upon leaning against him that she could fall asleep.

Su Yi Cheng looks at her sleeping eyes, lowering his head and leaves light kisses on her forehead. Then he turns and puts her down on the bed, and grabs a pair of workout outfits from the armoire to change into, then turns around and leaves the room.



By the time An Ran woke up again it was exactly 7 am. The sounds of commands from outside permeates inside. She looks at the other side of the bed that had already gone cold, vaguely remembering that he had told her it was still early, but other than that she doesn’t have an impression of anything else. She opens her eyes and stares at the light on the ceiling. Then she remembers that she isn’t in Su Yi Cheng’s apartment in the city.

She grabs the cellphone on the bedside and looks at the time. It was exactly 7 am. This morning she still has to make a trip to the construction site. To get there from downtown should take about an hour, so, besides getting herself ready, she doesn’t have much time at all.

Thinking of that, An Ran quickly sets into motion and washes up. Doing that movement, her entire body seemed as if her muscles were being wrung and pinched, reminding her of last night’s craziness. Her tiny face suddenly flushes red.

“Screw you Su Yi Cheng.” She curses him in a huff, finally dragging her incredibly aching body into the bathroom to change.

When she came out of the room and into the lounge the house’s maid at that time was arranging bowls and chopsticks. Qin Yun was moving things about in the kitchen for breakfast. Upon seeing that, An Ran quickly rushes forward to lend a hand, bringing out the side dishes.

Qin Yun assumed that it was the house’s maid, so she asks her to take the bowl of rice and set it out. An Ran responds, and goes ahead to set up the congee. Qin Yun heard that the voice was weird, so she turns her head to see An Ran’s smiling face cheerily standing there.

“An Ran, why are you up so early.” Qin Yun pulls on her hand as she speaks, “Ah, is it because you’re not used to the courtyard, the noises from the morning exercises must have woken you up.”

An Ran shakes her head, “Not at all, I still have to head to work early morning, so I got up early.”

Qin Yun nods, suddenly catching a glimpse of the faint red marks on her neck. She looks at her, giving her an ambiguous smile.

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