First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 11 Translation

011. You Ran Restaurant (also means leisurely home)

Fortunately they did not come across any traffic jams on the way to the restaurant. By the time they arrived at ‘You Ran Restaurant’ it was 6:10.

Su Yi Cheng parks his car at the side. In the passenger seat beside him, An Ran has already unbuckled her seatbelt immediately upon parking. She opens the door in one smooth movement.

Su Yi Cheng is surprised to see her looking cautious, standing beside the door of the car, her eyes wandering around everywhere. He can’t help but shake his head and laugh. He knows that she is still shy over that kiss, her face was still bright red during the entirety of their journey.

An Ran really was frightened by the kiss. The intimate closeness when he had helped her buckle her seatbelt was enough to shock her due to the unexpected action, and it was enough to make her feel uneasy. She totally did not expect him to kiss her; that kind of kissing is reserved for lovers. She was immediately stunned. When she finally gathered herself to react to it, they were already on the road. She angrily turned her head to him and asked him why he had kissed her like that, and he innocently turned to look in her eyes, arguing, “A husband kissing a wife, isn’t it a matter of course?”

His response had rendered her speechless. Yes, they are husband and wife, if they want to be intimate, that’s normal!


Su Yi Cheng alights the car, and the couple enters ‘You Ran Restaurant’. An Ran looks left and right, and avoids looking at Yi Cheng. Su Yi Cheng smiles silently, he is in a rather delighted mood.

An Ran’s reserved table is in the chamber on the second floor. She had gone to check it out beforehand, the layout of the private room was really nice. There is a windowsill, and out of the windowsill lies the restaurant’s mini-garden. With the view from their table, they can have a panoramic view of the entire garden below. If they open the window, they can even have a sniff of the garden flowers’ fragrance.

An Ran and Su Yi Cheng were led to the second level by the restaurant’s attendant. They turn a corner to go upstairs, but still haven't reached the private room. They only saw that there were a few people surrounding the doorway, appearing to say something.

“This room is fine, even though it’s a bit small, but the ambience isn’t too bad… Let’s take it. I don’t want the other room anymore, let’s change it.” An Ran only heard these words at the doorway,

An Ran still hasn’t even entered yet, as another flattering voice went ahead to agree, “If Tong Ju likes this room I will immediately change it for you* (T/N: formal/ respectful). You* guys go notify the kitchen, the dishes for chief Tong Ju will be sent to this room instead.” *informal

“Yes, manager.” The waiters in the room respond, accepting the order.

An Ran frowns, as she enters she sees a waitress come out. “Wait,” she calls out, keeping her from leaving. She turns and enters the private room and sees the back of a 60 year-old man, standing by the windowsill. You Ran Restaurant’s manager stands at the side and smiles apologetically.


In the room there was also a gentle-looking couple. A stoutly-looking married woman sits separately in the host’s seat. Everyone sees An Ran entering and looks at her with surprise, not comprehending what she is doing here.

An Ran looks at everyone, then turns to Manager Zhang who stood at the side, and says, “Manager, I have already booked this private room days in advance.”

Manager Zhang looks at An Ran in shock, and turns to look at the waiter standing behind An Ran, his expression inquisitive, verifying whether or not An Ran was telling the truth.

The waiter hesitantly nods his head, answering, “Yes, that’s right. Ms. Gu has already scheduled for this room a week in advance, for 6:30.”

Manager Zhang nods his head in understanding, turns to smile at An Ran and says, “I’m really sorry, Ms. Gu, this is a result of our restaurant’s negligence. I had thought that this room was available, so I already agreed for chief Tong Ju. Would this be alright instead, I will immediately arrange another room for Ms. Gu, and the dishes for tonight will all be discounted.”

An Ran shakes her head and says, “It’s my mother’s birthday today. She really likes flowers, so I booked this room in advance because of the garden view from the windowsill. So I’m not thinking of changing it.”

“This….” Manager Zhang is in a bind. It is reasonable to say that this Ms. Gu has grounds not to change the room, after all, they had already reserved it a week in advance, but this chief Tong Ju is the city’s Construction Chief of Bureau, his everyday relations with this business proprietor is not bad, he also cannot afford to offend them! 

“…How about this. We also do not wish to trouble Manager Zhang. We will cover all of your dining expenses this evening. Would you be able to give us this room?” asks the man who had been standing at the side.

An Ran turns to look at the man, and says, “Apologies, this is not a matter of money. On a normal day I would give in to you guys, no problem. But today is my mother’s birthday, as a daughter, I haven’t been able to give her many things. So to me, for this special day, I wish for her to be in a cozy environment, happily eating her meal. So I cannot give up this room.”

“Why is this woman so difficult, today’s meal is to give my elder sister a welcome home meal. She likes flowers, my mother also likes flowers, what’s the big deal if you just give it up. We already said that we will cover all of your meal expenses, what else do you want?” Another woman from the side says in disdain. Not waiting for An Ran to open her mouth, she rushes to stand in front of manager Zhang and says, “Manager Zhang, we want this room. As for whatever she wants, you can do whatever you see fits. Also, the dishes that I just ordered, it’s already been about 10 minutes.”

“You… How can a person be so rude and unreasonable?” An Ran is unbearably angry. This is clearly using one’s powers to bully others.

The woman looks at An Ran, stating meaninglessly, “I’m just like this, think whatever you want to think.”

“You…” An Ran was pissed, she takes a step, intending to step forward to reason with her, when her hand was suddenly grabbed by Su Yi Cheng from behind. She turns to look at him, puzzled. He just wears a smile, shakes his head to her, and whispers, “Let me.”

“Xiao Min.” The man standing by the windowsill turns his head, calling his daughter with a strict tone.

“Dad…” The woman called Xiao Min whines like a spoiled child. She pulls on his hand and speaks in a tender voice, “Dad, I won’t want to change. This room’s air is so fragrant, I like this.”

“You!” That chief Tong Ju begrudgingly pats her hand, and was about to face An Ran to say something, but catches a glimpse of Su Yi Cheng who stood beside her. He was caught off guard, and turned speechless.

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Dayummm, go An Ran haha. Should have let her go at it, Yi Cheng, tsk tsk. Sorry for the late update guys, haven't been in the mood/ have the patience for translating haha. And yes, I'm still playing around with the formatting... Don't kill me!

Also, I will release the translation for chapter 12 and 13 next week, as the two are technically a continuation of each other. (based on the title anyways)

First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 10 Translation

010. The sudden kiss

Although she doesn’t know whether or not Su Yi Cheng will know where to pick her up, once An Ran knocked off work, nevertheless, she ran towards the front doors to have a look see.  Of course, she does not see any unfamiliar cars, and she does not see him. She turns back to go to the company garage to start her car, however after taking two or three steps, she sighs and takes out her cellphone to call him.

The call was received quite quickly, so much that An Ran didn’t even get to open her mouth, he immediately spoke once the call connected, “Stand at the front door, I’ll be there right away.”

“You…You know where I work?” An Ran can’t help but ask skeptically.

Su Yi Cheng stays silent, and only smiles. It was silent for 10 seconds, when she hears him say, “I’m here. An Ran, did you come out yet? I don’t see you.”

“Eh…” An Ran blanked, soon after, she runs towards the company’s main entrance. Sure enough, she sees him come out of his car, holding his cellphone, and smiling at her.

An Ran ends the call, walking to him in a daze. After spending a few good minutes staring at him, she finally blurts out and asks, “How did you know I work here!” 

Su Yi Cheng laughs, reaches out to brush aside a strand of her hair that fell out in front of her forehead, and says, “You’re my wife, of course I know where you work.”

“But I didn’t even tell you!” That’s the most important point—she didn’t even say so much as to what field she works in, how in the world did he know?

“I have my ways.” Su Yi Cheng chuckles. Really, with his status, it’s not that hard to do a search on a person; he can just give her name to Secretary Zheng, have him pass it through the city’s Human Resource Department to look up her profile and record. So to find out where she works, to him it’s no big deal.

Su Yi Cheng reaches out to grab the bag in her hand, and says to An Ran, “Let’s go. Where did you reserve your table, I can bring you over there. Might as well look over the dishes.”

He acts so naturally, he speaks as if it’s a matter of course. An Ran has a moment where she cannot find the words to speak, and takes a few minutes to get over her shock. She hastily takes back her bag from him, her face is also flushed with red, and says, “Uh, that, that I, I brought my own car here.”

Su Yi Cheng takes in her bashful and uneasy appearance, his smile gets wider, and he says, “It’s okay, you don’t have work tomorrow. If anything comes up you can take my car, and on Monday I can drive you to work.”

“Uh…” She was shocked once again by his words, unable to find a response. Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and Monday. So what he’s saying is that from now on every day they will live together? Isn’t that too fast! She hasn’t even discussed with him, what their lifestyle will be like, after all this kind of marriage is pretty strange! “Uh, that, I, I think we should first talk this through thoroughly.”

Hearing that, the corner of his mouth slightly rises to a smile, he looks at her and asks, “Talk about what?”

“Talk about how we’re going to interact from now on.” An Ran says.

Su Yi Cheng smiles, looks at his watch, and asks instead, “Where did you book your table for this evening, and what time?”

“You Ran Restaurant, 6:30, why?” An Ran answers automatically.

 Su Yi Cheng points at his watch and says, “It’s 5:45 right now, to get from here to You Ran Restaurant would take about 20 minutes of travel. Furthermore, it’s rush hour right now, can’t guarantee that there won’t be a traffic jam, so, do you think we’ll have any time to talk about our interactions with each other?”

“Uh.” An Ran blanks, and looks at her cellphone. Honestly, what he says is true, she actually does not have any time left. She raises her head, determined to ask him when he would have free time, and they will set up a time to clearly discuss this. But seeing how he has already opened the door to his car, smiling and looking at her, “Get in.”

His amiable smile can really confuse a person, make a person feel comfortable, like a spring breeze.

Seeing how slow she is with movement, Su Yi Cheng slightly wrinkles his brows and frowns, he asks, “What’s up?”

“You… also want to come?” An Ran asks. She doesn’t know if her parents learned that she went through this lightning wedding, there’s no way they wouldn’t not be surprised. She was actually thinking of brushing it off for two days first to see what they would think of it. Then, after a period of time, she would arrange for them to meet him.

“Is there a problem?” Su Yi Cheng asks instead, and frowns.

An Ran opens and closes her mouth, she was actually thinking of not letting him come, after all this is a family party. He’s a stranger, and having him come would be inappropriate. But as the words reach her mouth, it stiffens. She thinks of the marriage certificate in her bag; ‘Stranger’... doesn't exactly match with the words on that paper. And with this situation and his status right now, indeed, he ought to be attending.

“Hm?” Su Yi Cheng probes.

An Ran starts to think about that blind date earlier this noon, she heard that he said there was something about returning home this evening, and quickly said, “You, your call from noon, didn’t you say that you had to return home this evening? So you should not have any time this evening, right!”

Hearing this, Su Yi Cheng smiles, “I have to allocate what’s important and what’s not. I can come home any day, today is my mother-in-law’s birthday, of course I must attend. That’s enough, get on. If you delay any longer you really won’t make it on time.” He says as he pushes An Ran into the car, closes the door, winds around the car and gets into the driver’s seat.

In An Ran’s eyes, she is still not herself, blankly seeing that he hasn’t fastened his seatbelt. Su Yi Cheng breaks into laughter and shakes his head, rising from his seat to fasten her seatbelt.

An Ran’s spirit returns as soon as he stretches his body. She hasn’t agreed to this kind of intimacy. Shyly, she thought of pushing him away, and quickly says, “I-I-I, I can do it myself, myself I can do.”

“Don’t move.” Su Yi Cheng speaks into her ears with a deep and low voice.

The two were sticking very closely. Su Yi Cheng could smell the natural sweet scent of her body, not wearing any perfume. He can also see her small face slightly flushing with redness, which he knows is because of shyness, but this kind of bashful appearance at this moment, to him it looks especially adorable, and especially alluring.

An Ran dares not move. She sits upright and still, holding her breath and watching him, hoping that he would hurry and fasten it and go back to his seat.

The reservation that doesn’t allow her to budge somehow provokes Su Yi Cheng to laugh, but the way she is right now is apparently even more attractive to him.  The self-control that he previously believed to be pretty strong has completely collapsed at this moment. He leans forward, his lips land on her’s precisely. Her lips were really soft; the kiss seemingly carries out a sweet flavour. He doesn’t know whether or not she had eaten candy beforehand, but he likes this flavour.

The kiss did not go on for very long. As Su Yi Cheng lets go of her. Because of the kiss that had just finished, An Ran foolishly lags behind. Her eyes open wide, her expression wooden.

Seeing her spaced-out appearance, Su Yi Cheng can’t help but break into laughter. He softly shakes his head, faces forward, and starts the car to leave.

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*squeals* ;) Su Yi Cheng you sly sly bastard. Also, sorry for the change in formatting, I'm still trying to find the best one for smoother reading!

First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 9 Translation

009. Married Woman

Even An Ran felt that her own simple-mindedness is a tragedy. Just saying that an unexpected mishap on a blind date had just happened is enough to make her laugh to death. She really fell for it, she got married with another person, that’s that!

Standing in front of the civil administration office An Ran looks down at the red card in her hand. Only a while later did she raise her head to look at Su Yi Cheng, and said, “Then let’s go back inside and annul this marriage.” She thought back to a time when she was watching TV and read an article about it on the newspaper, that said something about dodging lightning weddings, thinking back then that the matter was inconceivable and incomprehensible. Never did she think that she would be in such a situation. Ever since she got this card, she hasn’t even gone home once. Now they have to go back inside and change cards.

Su Yi Cheng stares at her, and asks, “Must you marry that Mu Feng?”

An Ran, shocked, automatically shakes her head. Must she marry Mu Feng!

“Then you’ve seen him before, you know him?” Su Yi Cheng asks again.

An Ran frowns, and shakes her head once again. How could she have possibly met Mu Feng before. If she had, it'd be unlikely that she would get the wrong person. What a joke!

“In other words, even if you didn't have a blind date with Mu Feng today, if you felt that you guys were suitable, you would still propose to marry. You weren’t thinking of Mu Feng, that you had to get a marriage license with him. Am I right?” Su Yi Cheng smiles, asking yet another question.

An Ran stares in shock, finally nodding her head.

“Then isn’t that fine. You went on a blind date with me, then felt that I was suitable, and like that, we got married, so why not?” He concludes his questioning.

An Ran feels like a spiral had entered her. She stares at him, and thought about it for a while, and finally nods her head. Indeed, it makes no difference who it was with.

Su Yi Cheng looks at her shocked and speechless appearance, thinking that it was kind of funny. He turns to look at secretary Zheng coming out of the car, lifting his arm and tapping his wristwatch to indicate that his time is up. He looks at his watch; it really is almost time. He has a meeting this afternoon, and needs to return to the municipal committee. He turns to An Ran and says, “Give me your number.”

“Eh….” An Ran is surprised. She doesn’t know what he needs her number for, yet she still reaches into her bag and hands it over to him.

Su Yi Cheng grabs it, turns on the phone, and quickly enters a few buttons. Following that, the phone in his hand rings out an elegant, mellow piano tune. He returns the cellphone to An Ran, and says, “I’ve already put in my number. I have some matters to attend to right now, so I have to return. What time do you finish work?”

“5:30.” An Ran instinctively answered.

“Ok, I’ll pick you up. Wait for my call.” Su Yi Cheng nods, and immediately heads over to secretary Zheng after he finishes speaking.

Until Su Yi Cheng gets in his car to leave, the car getting further and further away until it leaves behind a small point, does An Ran finally return to earth. She looks back, and looks down at the marriage certificate that she had snatched herself. She opens her cellphone again and looks through her contacts to find his cell number and name. Now in hindsight, she realizes herself that she really got married, and with regard to her husband, all she knows is that he is called Su Yi Cheng. Furthermore, she doesn’t know what he works as, or even his age!

However, before she could do any more thinking, Lin Li’s chasing spirit seizes the opportunity and calls in. An Ran looks at the doom calling from her cellphone, takes in a deep breath. She can't hide anymore, and this matter cannot be concealed even if she tried. She answers the call, and as expected, as soon as the call connected, Lin Li, hollered in violent rage, “GU AN RAN, you want to die?! Hanging up on me and even turning off your phone, are you not concerned for your life?! You shouldn’t have turned on your phone then! Turning it off for 5 minutes or 10 minutes, you think you’ll be a hero?!”

“I wasn’t thinking of being a hero….” An Ran had her phone as far from her ear as possible, there’s no other choice when Lin Li is like this, her voice is naturally loud. Even if you put a distance, you can still clearly hear her roar.

“Hero, hmph! Don't even think about it! In this lifetime it's more likely you'll be a bear instead!*" (*Thank you to joecck for solving this mystery!)  Lin Li not only has a loud voice, but her hearing ability was also astonishingly acute. Even though An Ran doesn’t feel like her voice was not at all loud, even with the distance from her cellphone, nothing escapes from Lin Li’s ears.

An Ran was ashamed, but knowing that Lin Li is just starting to begin, she can only put on a smile, and follow along, “Yes yes yes, whatever you say.” 

“Hmph!” Lin Li coldly snorts. But seeing how An Ran has admitted defeat too many times, her rage from before has waned a lot. She overlooks the fact that she hung up on her, and asks, “You said something about a certificate, what certificate? A library certificate or graduation certificate?”

An Ran looks at the dazzling red marriage certificate in her hand, takes a big gulp, and says, “Not a library certificate nor a graduation certificate… Lin Li, I… I got married. Just a while I got a marriage certificate.”

The other line suddenly went silent. The peacefulness frightened An Ran. She really thought that Lin Li would blow her head off.

“Gu An Ran, where in the world are you right now!” a angry voice suddenly explodes, nearly deafening An Ran. She then hears Cheng Xiang, seemingly calming down Lin Li, saying that she is giving too much misgivings to the child, then hangs up the phone, leaving behind a ‘du du du’. She’s not too worried about Lin Li, because she knows that Cheng Xiang will take good care of her.

An Ran sighs, puts her phone in her bag, and looks at the marriage certificate once again. She stays absentminded for a good while, and finally puts it into her bag. By the time she got back to the company, it was already 3 o’clock. She didn’t get to sit down for long, when the director calls in. She allows herself to lie down. When she came out of the director’s office, she was carrying out a tall stack of data and documents. They said that recently the city was preparing to establish a large-scale composite building. This time it will be publicly supported by the masses to invite bids, and of course, the company intends to take charge of this case. 

She closes her eyes and leans her head back on the leather chair. She uses both hands to press on her temples, gently massaging it. Suddenly, the cellphone on her desk rings. She squeezes her eyes closed, and blindly fumbles about until she finds her cellphone. She slides the answer button, and weakly says, “Hello….”

“Are you done work?” An unfamiliar yet somewhat familiar voice asks. An Ran opens her eyes in shock, and looks at her at the screen of her cellphone—‘Su Yi Cheng’. She was slightly shocked for a second, and recovers. Somewhat cautiously, and somewhat unnaturally, she asks, “Is something up?”

“Come home with me tonight, I want you to meet my mom and dad.” Su Yi Cheng says.

“Eh…  It’s my mom’s birthday today, we’ve already reserved a table to eat out as a family,” answers An Ran. Actually, hearing that she will have to meet his parents, no matter what she still hasn’t been able to adapt to the situation that she’s in right now. The main point has changed too quickly; just this morning she was still an unmarried old leftover woman. In a blink of an eye she rose to the ranks of a married woman.

“Oh, I see…” Su Yi Cheng drags out the last vowel.

An Ran nods. Out of the blue, she decides to separate from the phone, immediately making a sound, “Urgh…”

A thought comes to her, she says, “That… Do you have time tomorrow? I, I think we should discuss this over?”

“I have to make a business trip tomorrow. Let’s discuss it in the evening. I just remembered something, so how about this. After work wait for me at the company entrance, I’ll pick you up,” having said this, he hangs up, not even giving a chance for An Ran to open her mouth.

An Ran stares in shock, she can’t help but have some doubtful thoughts. Pick her up? He knows where she works?




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Sorry for the long hiatus! But I'm back! and have a lot of catching up to do, haha. Poor An Ran, too innocent for her own good lol. Hope you guys enjoyed~