First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 33 Translation

033. Strangers


At this time, the coffee shop had practically no patrons, as there were more people packing up and leaving. But those who sat down to have a drink were only An Ran and Mo Fei.

An Ran sits beside the window, her head turned to watch the pedestrians on the street. There was a leisurely group, some who were running as if they were flying, each and every person had different expressions on their face.

“Excuse me, what can I get for you?” The waitress came holding a menu, as well as two cups of water.

Mo Fei nods, orders black coffee, and gets An Ran royal milk tea. When the waitress wrote down the orders and was about take the menu back, An Ran calls out, “Wait.”

Wearing a white shirt and black bag, the waitress with the smiley face logo on her chest turns around, her face wearing a smile much like the one on her chest, asking, “Is there anything else you’d like?”

“Change the royal milk tea to a latte.” An Ran says.

“Sure.” The waitress nods smiling, and repeats the order again, “So that’s one black coffee and a latte?”

An Ran nods, confirming that what she had just said was correct.

“We will serve it as soon as it’s ready.” The waitress leaves smiling.

An Ran turns her head towards the window once again, and does not look at him.

“You used to like to drink royal milk tea, and said that coffee was bitter. No matter how much sugar and milk you put in it you still couldn’t get rid of the bitterness.” Mo Fei looks at her, saying it slowly.

An Ran turns her head, looking at him, and only says, “There isn’t anyone who stays at the same place forever. For example, work, over time one would get promoted. Like personal preferences, over time it would also change. What was favoured in the past perhaps isn’t favoured anymore. Once again, for example, feelings. Over time, it will turn indifferent.”

Mo Fei only feels a pain to his heart, hurting so much that he almost can’t breathe! He’s aware of what her intentions are from that speech, but he doesn’t want to believe it. Looking into her eyes, one line at a time, he says earnestly, “There are some things that will never change. What used to be true in the past, will still be true now!”

An Ran avoids his gaze, looking down at the cup of water on the table, and taking a sip of it. Even if she loves him, what’s the point. In the end, you can’t deny reality. This argument, she’s used up 6 years to learn it completely. Now she’s learning to let go, even if it’s not right away, at least, bit by bit, it will be forgotten.

The waitress with the smiley uniform brought their coffee over, then wearing a smile, she retreats from them.

Mo Fei drinks a mouthful of the coffee, the bitterness reflects his mood right now. He knows that the choice that he made that time had hurt her, but she should know, these past six years how he wanted to come back, every night, he couldn’t stop longing for her.

The silence made An Ran restless. She looks at her watch, and impatiently says, “Say whatever you want to say, I still need to get back to work.”

Mo Fei stares at her. He suddenly reaches out and holds her hand, grabbing it tightly.

“L-let go.” She wanted to pull back her hand with all her strength, but he was holding it tightly. An Ran was annoyed. “Mo Fei, you better let go!”

Mo Fei doesn’t hear her ‘let go’s’ but instead holds it even tighter. He leans towards her, saying, "Give me 6 months, just give me another 6 months!”

“Let go.” An Ran struggles.

“An Ran, I love you. I’ve only loved you in my life, really! I just need half a year, just another 6 months is enough, we can be together again okay?” Mo Fei says as he grabs her hand. In fact, according to his plan, it was a little too early to let her know, but that man from yesterday made him scared. He was afraid, if he didn’t say it, then he really would be too late.

An Ran looks at him in shock, and only asks, “What do you mean?” Half a year, be together, did he forget that he has a wife at home?

“Don’t worry about it. I believe that you still love me. Just wait for me for half a year, after that we can be together again, just like six years ago.”

“Be together again?” An Ran sneers, only feeling that this man in front of her is a stranger. “What status? Did you forget that you still have a wife at home? You want me to become a mistress when the time comes?”

“No, no.” Mo Fei denies. How could he make her a mistress, she’s the only woman he’s ever loved, how could he willingly wrong her with that shameful status.

“No? Then you’re planning to divorce Tong Xiao Jie? Then I would be the other woman separating you two?” An Ran looks at him coldly, her tone is cold, without any warmth.

“An Ran, stop deprecating yourself. You already know, you’ve never been the other woman!” That year they were the ones who were in love first. If you were to talk about the other party, then that would be other people, not her.

“Ha!” An Ran sneers. “You were the one who made me look this deprecating.”

“An Ran, I have a pact with her. The pact will be null in half a year. When that time comes, I can divorce her.” Mo Fei says.

An Ran looks at the man before her coldly. When they were together in the past she’d always felt that he was perfect, yet after not seeing him for six years, seeing him again she feels that he’s unfamiliar, where was the shadow from that year. With strength, she pulls her hand out of his grasp, “Mo Fei, you are really selfish. For what reason should I wait for you?”

“An Ran, you still love me, right? These past years, you couldn’t forget our past, right?” He had investigated, these past six years, she hasn’t once mentioned about dating, her life was revolved around work. He knows, her heart is the same as his, she also couldn’t let go of him.

Even if it was like that, could it be that all of this was to give him capital, which, at the time, was suffering? If it was like that, towards the former her who was in love, she felt pity for it.

Seeing her silent, Mo Fei thought that she was in the middle of reasoning with herself. He reaches out, takes her hand and doesn’t let go. In an easy-going tone, he encourages, “An Ran, just wait another half a year for me. Just half a year, okay.”

An Ran closes her eyes, her lips hooking up into a sneer. She opens her eyes again, her eyes much more determined. She shakes her hand off angrily, “I won’t wait for you. Ever since you told me that you were going to marry Tong Xiao Jie, it was the end of us. I don’t care about whatever pact you have with each other, and I don’t care whether or not you guys will divorce six months later. That has nothing to do with me.” She stands up as she says this, grabs her bag from the chair, and says, “Also, please stop looking for me from now on. I’m already married. You being this way will cause trouble for me. I don’t want any misunderstandings with my husband.” After she finishes her speech, she turns around, intending to leave.

“You’re married?” Mo Fei sprints up and blocks her way, looking at her in disbelief. The private investigator’s [information/ data] clearly said that she was unmarried, furthermore she didn’t even have a boyfriend.

“Right.” An Ran nods.

Mo Fei shakes his head. “I don’t believe you.” She was lying to him, he’s sure of it.

“Up to you.” To believe or not is something subjective, she has no control over another’s idealogy. She winds around him and passes him, but her hand was captured by him the next second.

“Was it the man from yesterday?” He speaks into her ears in a low voice.

“Yeah.” An Ran replies; clear-cut, unhesitant.

Mo Fei doesn’t say anything, and only tightens his grasp on her hand.

An Ran was starting to feel pain, she sighs, and coldly says, “Mo Fei, don’t make me hate you.”

Mo Fei grimaces, he closes his eyes painfully, finally letting go of her hand.

With her hand returned, An Ran doesn’t look back, and simply goes straight towards the door.



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First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 32 Translation

032. He insists


The next day, when An Ran woke up, Su Yi Cheng was already gone. The other side of the bed was deserted.

An Ran lies back down on the bed, and rolls over to the side of her head to look at the pillow on the other side of the bed. Her face slowly begins to redden. She believes that she won’t be able to get used to this. She won’t be able to get used to being hugged by a strange man as she sleeps. But looking at it now, it seems as if it’s not completely the same thing. She isn’t repulsed by his hugs at all. Being hugged by him, she even got this novel feeling of security and peace.

When An Ran was done showering and had changed her clothes, she opens the door. Right away, she smells something appetising. She turns to look at the kitchen, only to see Su Yi Cheng in an apron, his back towards her as she sees that he is frying something. The toaster beside him dings and pops out two small toasts. An Ran looks at this in surprise, not aware of herself walking towards the kitchen. She only sees that there was already two plates of poached eggs on the counter, which looked like it was made five minutes ago; the egg yolk and egg whites were sharp and defined.

When An Ran seemed like she was lost in thought, Su Yi Cheng had turned around with a pan in his hand, and meets An Ran’s eyes. The corner of his lips rise, “You’re up. Just in time for breakfast.” As he says this, he transfers the ham on the frying pan onto the plates.

“You….” An Ran looks at him, her mouth still opened, thinking of saying something yet she doesn’t know what to say.

“Do you want milk or juice?” Su Yi Cheng asks. He turns around and goes to the fridge, taking out a drink, adding, “Milk is probably better. It’s good to drink milk in the morning.” He turns around to look at An Ran, only to see her staring at him. Puzzled, he asks, “What’s up?”

An Ran shakes her head, walks around the kitchen wall, and sits down in front of the counter.

Su Yi Cheng hands her the milk, as he pours himself a cup of juice. He seats himself across from her, passes her the breakfast, and says, “Give it a taste, see if it’s to your liking.”

Hearing this, An Ran nods, takes a bite of of the egg, and smiles at him. “It’s good.”

Su Yi Cheng smiles, takes a bite of the toast, takes a sip of his juice, and swallows it. “When we’re done eating I can drive you to work. I have to go to Qian Xian today, probably won’t make it back on time. It should be fine if you drive your car home.”

An Ran looks him in the eye, and mutters, “I’m not a kid.” She’s 28 this year, has been out in society on her own, has been going to work and knocking off work for 6 years already. Of course she can get back home herself!

Su Yi Cheng looks at her in the eye, smiles, and takes out a key from his pocket and puts it on the counter. “These are the home keys, I made a copy yesterday, but forgot to give it to you.”

An Ran nods, and takes the keys and puts it in her pocket.

After finishing breakfast Su Yi Cheng insisted on driving An Ran to work, and An Ran couldn’t reject it. Without any other choice she had to let him send her to work, yet when they were almost at the company, before turning the last corner, she asks him to stop. She doesn’t want any other people from the company to see her. If everybody was going to be like Xiao Xiao, she really has no idea how she’ll be able to survive.

Only, there was something that An Ran was not expecting. At the entrance of the company building, Mo Fei was waiting for her there. Standing at the entrance, his handsome face, his perfectly proportioned body, with that image he was leaning against a flashy high-end car. It attracted the gazes of the young ladies passing by, both the ladies working in An Ran’s company as well as the ladies working at the building next door.

An Ran had always known that he was an outstanding man, it was something that was clear to her ever since she’d entered university, or else the position of T Dalian’s most-handsome-face wouldn’t have been occupied by him for 4 whole years, and even Lin Li’s Cheng Xiang was pushed down to number 2. An Ran admits that she was also bewitched by that handsome face for a very long time. No matter how much you look at it, you won’t get tired of it. No matter how much you look at it, it’s still very good-looking. But it’s also the face that gave her the biggest wound.

An Ran takes in a deep breath. They have run into each other again and again. It’s made her heart that was originally stirred up, to yesterday’s feigned indifference, and now, to regard him as if he were nothing. It let her convince herself that she had already held onto that love for 4 years, couldn’t let go for 6 years. Adding it up, 10 years of that man was slowly fading from her memory.

Seeing each other after a break up would revert them back to being friends. This kind of saying, in An Ran’s point of view, is an unreliable error. She’s unable to treat Mo Fei the same as she does to Lin Li, and she can’t treat him as if he were a colleague in the same company. Thus, the only other option is to be strangers.

Taking in a deep breath, walking forward, eyes glued to the front, her line of vision does not stop anywhere near his body, not even for 0.01 seconds. Since they can’t be each other’s most loved one, neither could they be each other’s most hated person, perhaps, being strangers is more suitable for couples who break up.

Mo Fei sees her passing by him, she didn’t even give him a glance. His heart fell down like glass, shattering to pieces.

“An Ran.” In the end he couldn’t help it, when she had passed him he had reached out to hold her hand, grabbing it tightly.

An Ran doesn’t turn around, doesn’t look at him in the eyes, and only says, “I’ll have to ask you to let go.” She spoke to him as if he were stranger, not even a drop of mixed emotions was detected from her tone.

“An Ran, let’s talk. I have something to say to you.” Mo Fei’s grasp on her hand tightens even more, he doesn’t want to let go. Even though he knows that he doesn’t have the right to come and pull her away, but he knows, right now, if he lets go, he really wouldn’t be able to hold her hand anymore. That man from yesterday made it clear to him that he should be feared.

An Ran closes her eyes, she actually inadvertedly made an embarrassing scene. She takes another deep breath, turns around, and calmed herself down as much as possible to look at him, simply saying, “If you really do have something to say to me then we can get it straightened out here. But, first would you please let go of my hand.”

Mo Fei doesn’t let go, looks at her profoundly, and ays, “Let’s go somewhere to talk.” He does have something to say to her, but obviously here isn’t a good place, there are people passing by.

“Apologies, it’s almost time for me to work.” An Ran says expressionlessly. As she says this she pulls her hand back, but he was grasping it tightly. No matter how much she swung her hand it wouldn’t go free. An Ran was angry, she glowers at him and sternly asks, “Just what do you want!”

“I just want to talk to you.” Mo Fei looks at her with determination, his hands not letting loose at all.

“Gu jie?” From behind, Ling Lin, dressed in a new outfit, carrying a pink bag of the same set, looks at An Ran and Mo Fei and smiles ambiguously, “Gu jie, your boyfriend ha, is really good looking.” As she says this she didn’t even wait for An Ran to say whether he was or not, and just turns to Mo Fei and gives her greetings, “Hi, I’m Ling Lin. I’m an intern under Gu jie.”

Mo Fei simply smiles at her, not explaining or even thinking of explaining. His hands were still tightly grasping onto An Ran’s. Today, he has to get it straightened out with her, or else, he fears that he really won’t have any other opportunities.

“Ling Lin, could you help me ask the director for an hour break.” An Ran directs the request to Ling Lin, turns to face Mo Fei, and only says, “The coffee shop across from here. I only have an hour.”

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First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 31 Translation

031. Just hugging you


“How did you get hurt?” Su Yi Cheng asks with a cold face. His usual expression, that’s normally gentle, is no longer present. It’s become much more stern, looking at An Ran. It was inexplicably scary.

Dazed, An Ran takes her hand back. She props herself up. Looking at him, she answers in embarrassment, “Wasn’t, wasn’t careful so I bumped it.” She definitely doesn’t dare to tell him that it was because she was frightened over how he would treat her when he came over, so that’s why she pretended to sleep. And it was in that process that she hit her hand against the cabinet, leaving behind an inflamed and bruised hand.

Su Yi Cheng looks at her. For a long time, he doesn’t say anything. When he sees that An Ran was restless and was about to say something, he turns around, lifts the blanket and gets off the bed, leaving behind a lonesome and dazed An Ran, not knowing what the heck is happening.

When Su Yi Cheng returned, he had a bunch of ointments in his hand, still expressionless. He simply gracefully pulls out a chair and sits by her bedside, pulls her hand out and gently applies the ointment at the inflamed spot on the back of her hand.

His strength was controlled, but even though Su Yi Cheng was applying gently, An Ran was still hurting just from the touch, causing the hand in his hold to tremble lightly, making a small whimper, “Chi--!” Her teeth was clenching tightly.

Su Yi Cheng frowns, asking, “Does it hurt when I touch it?”

An Ran purses her lips, desperately shaking her head, a faint blush on her cheeks.

Su Yi Cheng withdraws his gaze, squeezes some ointment onto his fingertip. This time, his actions were even more gentle, his expression even more serious.

Seeing him looking so serious, An Ran suddenly felt that this scene was a bit familiar. The scene right now and the one in her memory overlapped. She still remembers 6 years ago, that there was also a boy who was this attentive in applying medicine for her, but the her from back then wasn’t like the her now, firmly clenching her teeth and saying that it doesn’t hurt, but acting like a spoiled child and lamenting on how much it was hurting to the boy, how miserable she was, then exchanging a look of pity with the boy. Then she would sneer at how stupid the boy was in her mind, how easy it was to trick him.

Su Yi Cheng was finished with applying the medicine. He screws the lid back on and puts it aside. When he turns back, he sees An Ran with her head down, foolishly looking at her hand. Her eyes seem unfocused, as if she were thinking of something else.

“An Ran?” Su Yi Cheng calls her softly, but, as before, he sees that she’s still keeping the same position, as if she didn’t hear him.

“An Ran?” Su Yi Cheng watches her, and softly calls out to her again. Finally, An Ran hears him. She suddenly raises her head, and looks at him absentmindedly. Her eyes have traces of teardrops because of her reminiscing.

“What’s wrong?” Su Yi Cheng was surprised because of her expression. He really thought that he was acting really gently. It can’t be that he was hurting her just by touching her?

An Ran’s attention returns back to the present, raises her hand to wipe her eyes, and shakes her head. “It’s nothing. Thanks.”

Su Yi Cheng can see that she has some personal issues. He guesses that she was thinking of something she shouldn’t have been thinking about. But since she’s not saying anything, then he won’t ask. Wounds will slowly heal over time. This statement, he knows it really well.

He straightens his back, looking at her. A while later, Su Yi Cheng finally says, “An Ran, let’s have a talk.”

An Ran looks at him, asking, “Talk about what?”

“An Ran, I wanted to tell you that yes, I am a healthy, normal man. Having desires and urges is normal. You understand that, right?” Su Yi Cheng says as he looks into her eyes.

An Ran’s face suddenly flushes. Of course she understands what the ‘normal desires’ that he was talking about meant, and she knows that she should fulfill her duties as a wife. His request wasn’t unreasonable at all. Since he just brought it up, it’s only natural that she doesn’t have an argument to refuse him. But….. But she really, really isn’t ready for it!

So, having that in mind, An Ran’s body unconsciously leans back.

Su Yi Cheng sees that her cheeks is as red as a tomato, it really is quite amusing. His image must be that bad for her to panic and be that scared.

He sighs helplessly. He doesn’t know how to move forward with the discussion anymore, and having discussions is a work that he’s the most familiar with, but now, he doesn’t know how to start. Perhaps he really should get his political commissar father to help, so he can pass down some conversational techniques.

Ultimately he only looks at her, helplessly shaking his head. “Never mind, it’s nothing.” He rises, returns the chair back to its original place, and goes around the bed to the other side, lifting the blanket to go to bed. All the while, An Ran watches him as he does all these movements.

She feels a bit guilty. She thought of saying something, but she doesn’t know how she should say it. Ultimately, she hides her resolve. Next time, next time if he has needs again, it doesn’t matter if she was ready or not, she’s decided not to refuse him.

“Sleep.” Su Yi Cheng says indifferently, then he turns off the lamp and lies back down. An Ran nods, and lays down on her side.

In the dark, the two of them occupy both sides of the bed, in between them is a huge gap.

An Ran grips on the blanket as she lies on the bedside. Her eyes were still open, she hasn’t fallen asleep, on a bed with a stranger. She’s still nervous. Of course, yesterday was an exception, because when she slept yesterday, she wasn’t clear with the situation.

She only hears the breathing of the man beside her gradually steady itself, and An Ran’s worried heart gradually relieves itself. Succumbing to her sleepiness, her eyes close slowly, her breathing also steadies itself.

Right when An Ran was about to fall asleep, Su Yi Cheng suddenly turns around, and gracefully puts his arm around her waist, while his other arm sneaks under her neck, so that his arm became her pillow.

Because of these movements, An Ran’s body instinctually stiffens. The sleepiness that was about to overcome her was shattered into nothing. Her entire body quivers, yet she doesn’t dare to budge. She shuts her eyes, and right when she prepares herself to ‘sacrifice for the better good’, she hears his warm breath beside her ear, that gentle voice speaks into her ear.

“An Ran, don’t think that I’m going to force you. I just want to hug you while I sleep. Don’t worry.”

In the dark, An Ran opens her eyes, surprised. Because of what he said, for some reason she was moved. She feels even more guilty. After a while, she cries out, “Sorry, I, I’m still not ready.”

Su Yi Cheng nods. He pulls her body closer. “I know, I know. Don’t worry, I won’t force you. You can tell me when you’re ready, it’s no big deal.”

“Ok…..” An Ran replies, her body slowly loosening in his embrace.

Su Yi Cheng embraces her, only saying in a low voice, “Sleep.”

Sleepiness overcoming her, An Ran doesn’t take long, soon falling asleep in his embrace.


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First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 30 Translation

030. How did you get hurt?


Suitable, right, they both felt that they were suitable for each other, that’s why they decided to do this flash wedding.

An Ran doesn’t ask any further. Actually, their situation right now, compared to what she had to mind, is much better. The only accidental thing was his position. Apparently she had unintentionally climbed up the ranks. Luckily, his mother doesn’t seem like a person who cared about family status. She really is fortunate!

An Ran was planning to have a serious discussion with him, about how the two would live from now on, but, as luck would have it, his cellphone had to ring at this time. It was the section chief from some kind of company, talking about inspecting some kind of document.

An Ran retreats from the study room, and returns to the master bedroom and opens the luggage that she had brought from home, and begins to unpack. She opens a closet that isn’t too big. His clothes were neatly hanging in a row. An Ran looks at the row containing the Western-style suits and white dress shirts, and thinks to herself that it’s too inconceivable, that from now on, the closet wouldn't just only have her clothes, but the other half of it would now have the man who she’s living with, not some fancy dresses or outfits, but gloomy, tedious Western suits and white dress shirts. This kind of feeling is quite wonderful. Of course, this kind of transformation is too fast, but she told herself, with great effort, that she should adapt.

An Ran pushes his clothes to one side, and hangs up the suits and dresses that she normally wears to work on that side. She had already prepared a small box beforehand for her personal wear (underwear). She places these at an appropriate place, and finally takes her shoes and places it into a shoe cabinet.

Until she had finished organizing everything, An Ran sees that there is still her bag of reference books and blueprints on the floor. She looks around the room, a little annoyed. Perhaps she should find Su Yi Cheng and talk it over with him, and see if it’s possible to set up her own desk in the study room. That way it would be convenient for her to design in the future. Thinking of it that way, An Ran opens the door and heads straight to the study room. She pushes the door to go in, only to see him wedging his phone on one shoulder and quickly rummaging through papers to find a document, his mouth saying something. Seeing this, An Ran discreetly exits. With his rank and position, it’s assumed that being busy is inevitable.

Returning to the room again, An Ran looks around the room. She stares at the king-sized bed for a good amount of time, and sighs softly. She turns around to the closet and takes out some pyjamas for her to change into after bathing, and directly goes into the bathroom.

Because she was worried that Su Yi Cheng would return to the room, An Ran doesn’t dare to take a long time to wash, she just simply rinses, pees, changes, and comes out. But, in the way that coincidences are, the more you don’t want a situation to occur, the more you can’t avoid it. When An Ran took a step outside of the bathroom, Su Yi Cheng had stepped foot into the room. Four eyes looking at each other, the couple couldn't help but be dumbfounded.*

*[T/N: Special thanks to jo_yeowangd il! ]

Actually An Ran’s pyjamas are quite conservative: it doesn’t expose her thighs or chest. If you must ask what it does expose, then you can only say that it kind of exposes the shoulder. It really is considered as proper and conservative pyjamas.

Only then does Su Yi Cheng’s spirit returns. His short period of absent-mindedness was unexpected, because An Ran’s pyjamas actually really isn’t that sexy. However, the cause of his despondency is her tender and gentle appearance after bathing. That cut straight to his heart, made it throb.

Looking at the time, it was already 11 o’clock. Just a moment ago he was tangled up for almost an hour with the vice-office of the urban construction bureau, and then he had to arrange the materials for tomorrow’s meeting. He didn’t expect that time would go by that quickly. He slips off his watch and puts it aside on his bedside cabinet, and then turns around to open his closet and grabs a pair of pyjamas to go in to bathe, but the moment he opened to closet he was caught off-guard. He turns his head to look at An Ran, who was on the bed, the corner of his mouth handsomely creeping up.

An Ran really wanted to sleep, because if she slept then it wouldn’t be awkward. She tosses about, thinking of a way that would help her fall asleep. But the more she thought about going to sleep the more she felt alert. She could even hear the water running in the bathroom. It wasn’t actually that loud, but she could still hear it clearly.

The sound of water suddenly stops. Su Yi Cheng apparently was done washing up. An Ran quickly turns her back towards the bathroom. But because her arm movement was big, she wasn’t careful and it pounded heavily on the edge of the bedside cabinet. It hurt but she can only bite it in. She withdraws her hand under the covers while the other hand encloses it tightly, not daring to make a sound.

When Su Yi Cheng re-emerged from the bathroom he had already changed his clothes. He stands at the door to see An Ran on the bed, slightly arching her body. Even the quilt was, because of her, taut, and also trembling.

Su Yi Cheng only feels helpless. He’s a regular guy, his desires, with regards to physiology is also normal, but he still considers himself to be a gentleman. If she’s opposed to it, then of course he wouldn’t force it.

He lifts the covers and gets into bed, Su Yi Cheng turns off the bedside lamp. In the dark, Su Yi Cheng shifts his body towards An Ran’s side. His hands hadn’t even touched her, but he could already feel that her body had clearly gotten stiff, the entire person taut.

From behind, Su Yi Cheng reaches out to embrace her, and brings her towards his chest. He can clearly feel that her body was so stiff, as if she were a stick of iron, really, really rigid. He lets out a quiet sigh, Su Yi Cheng’s tone had a hint of helplessness as he speaks into her ears, “An Ran, if you face that way you will fall over.”

An Ran doesn’t say anything, her eyes tightly closed, even with her breathing she doesn’t want to gasp. The back of her hand hurts incredibly. She guesses that it’s already swelled up. But right now she can’t deal with the swelling, she only wants Su Yi Cheng to think that she’d already fallen asleep, so this way, she can dodge it tonight. Even though she knew that they would come home sooner or later, but she really hasn’t prepared herself. At the very least, at the very least wait for a few days, so she can build up enough mental preparation.

Seeing her not speak, Su Yi Cheng asks again, “Am I really that scary?” His hand covers her’s. When they touched, he suddenly hears her suck in a breath, as if touching had hurt her.

Su Yi Cheng frowns, and suddenly felt that something was wrong. He grabs her hand, not using any strength. “Siiiiii….! (hiss)” He only hears her utter that painful sound.

Certain this time, Su Yi Cheng lets go of her, sits up and turns on the lamp. His dainty girl had her arched back towards him, he wrinkles his brows. In a cold voice, he says, “An Ran, turn around.”

An Ran doesn’t move, and pretends to play dead-asleep.

Seeing this, Su Yi Cheng doesn’t speak anymore, and just reaches out and flips her over. The expression in An Ran’s eyes showed a hint of fear, but he continues to look under the cover, takes out her hand, and sees that the back of her hand was red and swollen. He brows wrinkles even deeper, with a cold face he asks, “How’d you get hurt?”



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Am I the only one who looks like a skinned pig when I get out the shower...? >_< I love my hot showers lol.

First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 29 Translation

029. Mrs. Government-official


By the time they left the Gu household to leave for Su Yi Cheng’s apartment, it was already almost 9 o’clock. The Gu couple were worried that it would take even more time to put away all the boxes, so they didn’t let the two of them stay back any more, and just let them go without delay. Additionally, when they sent them out, they especially emphasized to Su Yi Cheng to quickly arrange for the two families to meet. Su Yi Cheng repeatedly nods and agrees, carrying An Ran’s clothing and stuff and gets on the car.

Only when they sat down in the car did An Ran realize that the car Su Yi Cheng was using this evening and the car he had used in the morning looked different. The car in the morning was clearly a Porsche, but now it’s changed into a Volkswagen.

“Uh, you changed cars?” When he picked her up that time she wasn't paying attention. It’s only now that she sees that the logo has changed appearance, the layout of the car has also changed appearance.

Su Yi Cheng laughs, starts the car and steadily heads to the road, explaining, “No, the way you said it this morning, I also felt that the car was too flashy. It’s disruptive. This car suits the work place, and it’s usually Secretary Zheng that takes this car.”

“Uh, aren’t you an assistant. Why does your company give you a secretary and a car. What kind of company is it, is it a large-scale company?” Saying that, An Ran finally recalls that she has not once asked about his work. What he does, what company; she doesn’t know any of it.

Su Yi Cheng looks at her, and smiles mysteriously, “Me? My workplace is pretty big.”

“Within the top 500 [in the world]?” An Ran intuitively responds, and in her head she does a quick search for any of the top 500 companies in the world that she knows of in Jiang city.

“Ha ha…..” Su Yi Cheng laughs heartily, then says, “Didn’t I tell you before, I work for the government.”

“Huh? Government? They have special assistants for the government?” All of a sudden An Ran doesn’t react. She doesn’t concern herself with a lot of things, the division of positions within a company or what position, she has no knowledge of them at all. Even what rank a section chief is, to this day she hasn’t really gotten it straightened out.

Su Yi Cheng also doesn’t say anything, only smiles. It appears that the mood is pretty good, as he was smiling the entire journey to his apartment, right until he parks the car into the underground parking lot. Then he opens to the door and heads to the trunk of the car and grabs An Ran’s stuff. Following, An Ran carries the health products that were bought from the trip before, to give to her father-in-law, mother-in-law and grandfather-in-law.

When Su Yi Cheng was carrying the stuff and passed An Ran, he smiles and moves close to her ear, saying, “It’s the mayor’s special assistant.”

Suddenly, An Ran stops in her place, looking at him shocked. She couldn’t come up with a response. The mayor’s special assistant, he just said it’s the mayor’s special assistant!

Su Yi Cheng had already reached the corridor, only to see that An Ran was still standing dazedly over there. He can’t help but shake his head laughing, turns around and walks over to her side, takes her free hand and pulls her forward. The couple then leaves the basement, and enters the elevator.

Waiting for Su Yi Cheng to take his key to open the door, An Ran was unconvincingly looking at him. Su Yi Cheng suddenly felt defeated. Could it be that his image and the image of a mayor’s special assistant in her mind is really different?

Just as Su Yi Cheng was considering whether or not to do some explanation, An Ran opens her mouth and asks, “You’re an official?”

The corner of Su Yi Cheng’s mouth twitches uneasily, and only says, “Something like that.”

An Ran felt that it was really miraculous, out of nowhere she became the wife of a government official!

Su Yi Cheng, seeing her like that, assumes that she would still be out of it for a while. They ate a lot this evening, and thinking of it now he was really thirsty. He turns around to the kitchen and pours himself a cup of water, pours An Ran a cup of juice and puts it on the bar counter. He raises his voice and calls An Ran, “An Ran, come over and drink some juice.”

An Ran walks over absentmindedly, her eyes fixed on him, not in the mood to take the juice that he was offering.

Su Yi Cheng was sweating a bit, concerning this thing, does she really need to be in such disbelief? After he took a drink, he thought of explaining some stuff, but An Ran had said something that made him choke and speechless.

“So I’m not a gold digger, I’m actually with a high official.” An Ran muttered. She suddenly thought of something, staring at him and asks, “Then that car you drove that morning was a bribing gift from somebody?”

“Cough cough cough….” The water went down the wrong pipe, and made him incessantly cough in pain.

An Ran finally comes back to earth, and quickly gets a napkin and hands it to him. “You, you okay?”

Su Yi Cheng continues to cough for a while, until he gathered himself to stop his cough. However, that exceptionally handsome face is flushed from the choking.

An Ran, seeing that he has controlled his coughing, then felt embarrassed and said, “Sorry. I asked too directly.” Actually, now that she thinks about it, what official doesn’t accept bribes. They’ve climbed that high, thinking of nothing but fishing up money, if not controlling the monthly wages of the office workers. They can live grandly anywhere, use sports cars.

Looking at her expression, Su Yi Cheng can guess what she is thinking about, feeling really defeated. He’s always thought that his image was upright and plainspoken, and always thought that his image was righteous/ positive, and never expected that to her, he had become a big criminal. If this were passed on to Jun Qu compound, his family’s old man would definitely skin him.

He couldn’t drink water anymore. Su Yi Cheng detoured around the bar counter, took the juice in her hands and put it aside, pulling on her hand, “Come, I want to show you something.” Thanks to the choking from before, his voice no longer has that gentle aura, and became much huskier.

“What is it?” An Ran was confused, but she still let him lead her into the study room.

Su Yi Cheng led her behind the large work-desk in the study room, turns on the computer, then opens a stock transaction software on the desktop, enters the account number and password, then pulls An Ran in front of the computer, saying, “I don’t embezzle. The car from this morning was what I gained from stocks and funded. It’s not a bribe from somebody. When Yi Jiao started ‘You Ran Restaurant’ she borrowed some money from me, even though afterwards when business started booming she said she would give me a share, but thinking of my position, now my part of the share is also taken care of by her, it’s only at the end every year that You Ran Restaurant’s dividend is given to me.”

An Ran looks at the screen, showing the funding account’s stock and balance. She couldn’t come up with a response. That time, what Lin Li said was only half right. Looking at it now, not only is she with a wealthy person, but she is with a wealthy high official. If she remembered correctly, the so-called mayor’s special assistant not only is the mayor’s administration, so, so he, Su Yi Cheng, is not just well-off, but has authority!

“An Ran, you still don’t believe me?” Seeing her non-response, Su Yi Cheng thought that she was still unconvinced.

An Ran shakes her head. It’s not that she’s unconvinced, it’s just that she doesn’t understand. “Your circumstances are that good, why, why did you agree to marry me?”

Su Yi Cheng looks at her with a serious expression, looking into her eyes, only saying, “You’re suitable.”



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First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 28 Translation

028. Flying birds collection


By the time An Ran and Su Yi Cheng arrived, Lin Xiao Fen and Gu Heng Wen were still bustling about in the living room. At the door, Lin Xiao Fen orders Gu Heng Wen to bring Su Yi Cheng in for a seat, while An Ran offers to lend a hand to her mother in the kitchen. Of course, the mother and daughter exchange small chat while they were busy with the kitchen work.

Seeing that Gu Heng Wen and Su Yi Cheng were chatting about something on the sofa, Lin Xiao Fen closes the kitchen door, pulls her daughter aside and asks in a low voice, “An Ran, is he good to you?” As a mother, the greatest concern isn’t how a daughter marries, but how the son-in-law treats her daughter. It’s only that he treats her well, that this lifetime can be considered to be married to the right person. Otherwise, even if the situation at home is the best, if the husband doesn’t cherish you, how could you be happy?

An Ran nods, “He treats me really well.” She isn’t just saying that to relieve her mother either. Their interaction these past few short days, the way that Su Yi Cheng has been to her doesn’t need any discussion.

“Then that’s good, then that’s good.” Hearing that, Lin Xiao Fen nods her head in gratification. Seeing her daughter get deeply wounded by Mo Fei that year, she feared that her daughter was repeating her fate. However Heng Wen was right, she was able to meet a man like Gu Heng Wen, so An Ran would also be able to meet man that would understand her and treasure her.

“Mom, what kind of soup are you making right now, it smells so nice.” An Ran wanted to lift up the lid to take a look, but Lin Xiao Fen slaps her hand away.

“It’s not done yet, you can’t open it. It’s yam chicken, your favourite soup.” As she was saying that, Lin Xiao Fen pushes her aside. “Go, there’s a lot of smoke in here, and there isn’t much for you to help here. Go keep Yi Cheng company.”

An Ran sticks her tongue out and says, “Let him be with dad. It’s man-talk, women can’t participate in it.” Actually, even if she was the host she doesn’t know what they can talk about if she went out there. Even though they were husband and wife, but after all, they aren’t that close.

“Then go take a look at your room. I’ve packed up all your stuff, go see if I’ve left anything out.” Lin Xiao Fen lifts the lid up and inspects the soup. Looking at the colour of it, it still needs to be boiled for about 10 more minutes.

An Ran hugs her mother from behind, putting on a spoiled child act and rests her chin on her mother’s shoulder. She pouts and says into her mother’s ears, “Mom, I don’t wanna move.”

Lin Xiao Fen lightly slaps her daughter’s hand in reproach, scolding her playfully, “You’re so old yet you still act like a child. You’ve already married and you still don’t want to move, then when would you move!”

“I don’t wanna move, why don’t you let me live here forever.” An Ran said shamelessly.

“Go go go, you’ve stayed in this house for 28 years isn’t that enough.”

“Nope, have to stay here all my life.”

“Even if you’re not sick of this place, when I look at you I see something bothersome, you should’ve been eager to marry out a long time ago.” Lin Xiao Fen laughs. “Stop acting like a spoiled child, hurry and go take a look, see if there’s anything I’ve left out while you wait for dinner to finish.”

An Ran nods. She retreats from the kitchen.

Su Yi Cheng and Gu Heng Wen were chatting in the living room. Right when Gu Heng Wen found out that Su Yi Cheng had also learned calligraphy, he pulled him into the study room, saying that he wants to see his characters.

He couldn’t refuse, and Su Yi Cheng didn’t want to evade. With the pen brush, he writes down “Ran” onto the blank paper, his control of the brush was very precise.

“Yi Cheng, how long have you been learning calligraphy?” Gu Heng Wen, looking at the character on the table, couldn’t help but nod appreciatively. Su Yi Cheng’s writing skill is truly superb. Even though he has been practicing for over 30 years, he wouldn’t dare to say that he was that much better.

“I’ve been humbled by father. I have started calligraphy since primary school, so it’s been that long yet I haven’t seen much progress.” Su Yi Cheng says modestly.

“No no no, your writing is very good. Bold and vigorous, each and every stroke is very precise.” Gu Heng Wen praises. Regarding this son-in-law, he quickly feels very satisfied.

Lin Xiao Fen pushes the door open, laughing and looking at the two of them, “Come out and eat, after you’ve finished eating you can continue your study of words.”

“Right, right, right. Let’s go and eat, let’s go and eat.” Gu Heng Wen says laughing.

The three come out from the study room. An Ran looked like she was still in her room. Lin Xiao Fen raises her voice and directs it to An Ran’s room, “An Ran, come out and eat.”

After the three had taken a seat, An Ran still hasn’t come out.

“What is this child doing in the room. It’s already time to eat and she doesn’t come out.” Saying that, Lin Xiao Fen stands up to go call on An Ran, but was held back by Su Yi Cheng.

“Mother, I’ll go.”

Lin Xiao Fen and Gu Heng Wen exchange glances, nodding their heads with a smile on their face, "Okay, you can go. An Ran’s room is the first one on the left.”

Su Yi Cheng nods in reply, and rises as he heads towards An Ran’s room. Standing in front of her door he knocks. There was no response in the room, so he pushes the door open and enters, only to see An Ran sitting on her bedside in a daze, a notebook in her hands. Not looking at anything in particular, but she was already lost in thought. She didn’t even sense Su Yi Cheng coming in.

Su Yi Cheng stepped in until he was facing An Ran, and picks up the book in her hands. It was Tagore’s ‘Flying birds’ collection.

When she felt the book in her hands get pulled out by someone, An Ran finally came back to earth. She sees Su Yi Cheng standing in front of her, not knowing when he had come in.

Su Yi Cheng looks over the book, and says, “I’ve read this anthology back in high school. It’s been so many years since I’ve put my hands on this. It’s probably lost somewhere in my old man’s study room.”

An Ran stands up and takes back the anthology from Su Yi Cheng, not answering him, but asking, “Why’d you come in.”

Su Yi Cheng laughs, turning his head and inspecting An Ran’s room. The room was arranged very simply and generously. Plain white wallpaper, matching with her small armoire of the same colour. A light pink bedsheet covered her bed. There wasn’t the usual vanity table. A small desk is positioned to face the balcony. Arranged atop of it is some books on construction, and sketching paper and tape measure. On the bedside cabinet there is a smiling face lamp, in addition to a few photo frames. The An Ran in the photographs had long hair, wore a bachelor’s graduation gown, her smile is sweet and beautiful.

Su Yi Cheng bends down to pick up that frame, looks at the An Ran in the picture and says, “You should smile more. You’re very pretty when you smile.”

An Ran turns red, and snatches the photo frame from his hands. She's had a cold appearance since she was a kid, unable to stand praises and unable to stand smiling.

Su Yi Cheng, smiling, takes the book in her hands and the photo frame and puts it on top of the beside cabinet, pulls her hand to head out.

They overheard, “Food’s ready. Mom let me come in to tell you that.”

Lin Xiao Fen and Gu Heng Wen look at them holding hands as they appeared. An Ran’s face was still red. The two of them then look at each other, and smile ambiguously.


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First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 27 Translation

027. Health products


In the car, Su Yi Cheng turns on the music, putting on a slow and gentle piano tune. Yi Jiao gave the CD to him. You Ran Restaurant is always replacing their music every few days. As a result, with so many discs leftover, Yi Jiao would sometimes give him a few disks to take home. Actually, he normally doesn’t listen to music that much, but seeing that today a certain person’s mood wasn’t that good, so he was thinking that putting on a little bit of music would ease the tension, and the certain somebody in Su Yi Cheng’s eyes isn’t just anyone, but the An Ran who had turned her head to look out the window, ever since they got on the car.

“An Ran.” Su Yi Cheng was concentrated on looking ahead of the car, softly calling her.

An Ran turns her head back to look at him, and waits for him to continue speaking.

Su Yi Cheng doesn’t say anything right away. He parks the car in front of a nutrition shop, cuts the engine, turns his head to face An Ran and says, “Let’s get out and buy some stuff.”

“What are we buying?” An Ran was puzzled.

Su Yi Cheng doesn’t answer, and just opens the door to get out, then winds around and opens the door to An Ran’s side, looking at her and smiling as he extends his hand.

An Ran’s face faintly reddens, thinking that ever since the day she knew him up until now, even though it hasn’t been long, but she has sat in this car enough times, yet every time she gets on the car or gets off he would open the door for her. The gentleman’s elegance truly has reached its peak. Opposite to its intended effect, being like that made her a bit embarrassed.

Even though she was embarrassed, An Ran, red-faced, still took his hand. She raises her head to look at the shop before her, turns her head and asks, “You want to buy health stuff?”

Su Yi Cheng nods, smiling as he says, “Technically today is a formal visit to your family, how could I come empty-handed.”

“Uh, actually my parents don’t really care about that stuff.” What they care about most is whether or not she would be happy, that she has always known.

“Yeah, I know mom and dad aren’t those kind of people, but some etiquette should still be carried out. I want to leave them with the best impression.” Su Yi Cheng was leading with her hand into the shop, walks beside her, saying, “Actually buying these things isn’t just etiquette. I really like them, so I want them to grow old in the best of health. Perhaps before they were just your parents, but now, they’re also my parents, so I also want to be concerned and care for their health.

An Ran was moved. She turns her head to look at his side profile. This man’s attentiveness made her feel less*. She suddenly was glad about that day’s mishap, suddenly glad and that she was married to him, and not the previous Lin An Jie, and not that Mu-Feng-that-has-no-chance. She doesn't know how their marriage would pan out, and how he will treat her, but she was glad that he has enough respect and thinks about her parents.

*[T/N: as in feeling like you’re not as good as the other person]

Sensing her stare, Su Yi Cheng stopped his tracks, turns his head to look at her, and smiles as he asks, “What’s up? Do I have something on my face?”

An Ran shakes her head, turns her head as she is wearing a smile, not looking at him. She only says, “My mom’s blood sugar is a bit high, and my dad has high blood pressure.”

Su Yi Cheng smiles, “Then I know what to buy.” Then he pulls her hand towards the shelf and takes a few boxes of health products for blood sugar and high blood pressure, not only taking one but two of each, and also goes to another shelf and takes a box for diabetes. Then, carrying these, he goes to the checkout counter.

An Ran, seeing in his hands a variety of big and small boxes, quickly says, “Why are you buying this much, one is enough. And this, this, I saw the ad on TV that this is for diabetes, my parents don’t have diabetes, so you don’t need this.”

“Yeah, I know. This is for grandpa.” Su Yi Cheng answers while laughing.

“Grandpa……”An Ran responds slowly, and takes a while until she realizes that the grandpa he was referring to was his. She blushes a bit, reaches out and takes the box in his hands, saying, “Then, then I’ll pay for this one.” He wants to be filial then she also wants to be filial. According to etiquette, this ought to be covered by her.

Su Yi Cheng smiles because of her action, and doesn’t say anything.

When they got to the checkout counter, the cashier asks if they want to pay together. Not waiting for An Ran to speak, Su Yi Cheng had already taken the health product in her hands, hands over his card, and nods. “Together.”

They carry the bags containing the health products and put them into the trunk of his car. She returns to the passenger seat, and when Su Yi Cheng was about to start the car to leave, An Ran grabs her bag and secretly takes out her wallet, then takes out a few sheets of big red paper bills and hands it over to him, her eyes directly looking at him, and not saying anything.

Su Yi Cheng laughs and raises his eyebrows, and asks, “What are you doing?”

“We’ve agreed that I would cover that.” She was referring to the health products that he just bought for parents and grandpa.

Su Yi Cheng, seeing that she was a bit stubborn, gives her a big smile, extends his hands but not accepting the big bills in her hands, but rather wraps around her tiny hands and closes it tightly, pulls it down and rests it on his leg. He looks at her and asks, “An Ran, are you always so divisive with people?”

An Ran doesn’t understand, wrinkles her brows and looks at him.

Su Yi Cheng smiles, looks down to play with her small hands for a while. Then he finally looks up and asks, “An Ran, what would you call our relationship right now?”

An Ran seemed a bit shy and blushed, but this time she doesn’t avoid the question. She looks down, doesn’t look at him, saying in a low voice, “Husband and wife.”

“Right, so you are my wife, I am your husband, then must we be so clear in dividing parts?” Su Yi Cheng asks again.

“But I, I also want to be filial to my parents and grandpa, or else, or else what would I turn into.” An Ran replies, her tone and expression a bit shy and uneasy.

She knows how to be giving, with him being that way towards her parents, naturally she would also return the same feelings to his relatives as she would her own.

“To show filial respect isn’t about who buys what, who pays. The main thing is the intention, as long as you have the mind that’s enough. Things don’t have feelings, people are the ones that have feelings. If you have the intention, mom and dad and grandpa, they would naturally receive those feelings.”

“Then, then you….” An Ran thinks of something to say, but was interrupted by him.

“We’re husband and wife, I am your husband, supporting family and spending money are a matter of course, there’s no need to divide into you or me, isn’t that so?”

An Ran stares at him for a while, finally having nothing to say. He already ended the discussion, whatever else she has to say, and she also believes that she has a clumsy mouth, so it’s set that she wouldn’t win over him. At last, she could only take the big bills and put it into her wallet again. But she still couldn’t accept it, and even though she couldn’t accept she can only mutter at the side, “Obviously this is just male chauvinism.”

Hearing that, Su Yi Cheng let out a big laugh, but also not refuting it. He just simply starts the car and heads to the direction of the Gu household.



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First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 26 Translation

026. To meet again


Mo Fei walks over to her. Seeing that these past 6 years, the face that has been appearing in his dreams every night for 2000 days, his mood isn’t as calm as he imagined it to be. He has an urge to run over to her, to embrace her tightly. But he doesn’t dare. Because he can’t.

An Ran slowly regains her spirit. She speaks but doesn’t look at him. At this moment, she was expecting for Su Yi Cheng to come any minute now, but she didn’t expect things to turn out this way. Su Yi Cheng was late.

“An Ran.” Mo Fei stands facing An Ran, calling out her name, the name that he’s been worrying about these past six years. He's facing her once again, and he regrets the decision that he'd made before. Maybe, at that time, he should have stayed.

“What a coincidence.” An Ran tried to be as natural as possible, but the hands that are tightly balled up exposed her nervousness.

Mo Fei looks at her, and determinedly says, “No, I came to look for you.”

“Look for me?” An Ran only feels like laughing. “Why are you looking for me?” Between the two of them, what is there to talk about?

“An Ran, I—“ Mo Fei was about to speak, but Xiao Xiao interrupted him as she approaches An Ran from behind. “An Ran!”

An Ran turns her head, to see Xiao Xiao treading over with her 7 cm high heeled shoes, her head giving a big wave to tell her to come over here. She checks out the Mo Fei standing with her, walks over to An Ran’s side, smiles and asks, “An Ran, is this handsome guy your friend?”

“He’s just a classmate.” An Ran replies, not showing any emotion.

“Hi. I’m An Ran’s co-worker, Xiao Xiao.” Xiao Xiao eagerly extends her hands to Mo Fei.

Mo Fei doesn’t give Xiao Xiao a glance. He just fixes his stare at An Ran, that expression. Because her words kind of hurt.

An Ran avoids his eyes and avoids facing him. She raises her arm to look her watch, and looks around. Her hands grip on her cellphone. She’s considering whether or not she should give Su Yi Cheng a call. If he couldn’t catch up with whatever work he had, then she could just take her car home.

Mo Fei’s coldness and disregarding the extended hand beside him made Xiao Xiao hang on to one expression. In any case, she’s a beauty. Whenever she goes out she worms her way into being friends with the guy she wants. She’s never received this kind of treatment! This made her beyond pissed.

Even though her heart is raging with resentment, because of how she was raised, from an early age, the Xiao Xiao who was in touch with society, had mastered the act of separating what a person thinks from their actions. As such, she concealed her mood. So even though she was deeply resenting Mo Fei, her expression, from the beginning, held on to a smile. She then delicately laughs and reminds him, “A gentleman wouldn’t possibly let a woman extend her hand for this long and not shake it.”

Only then does Mo Fei's attention return back to earth, his face lacking of a smile, and simply extends his hand and shakes it with her’s, his eyes not once leaving An Ran’s.

Xiao Xiao awkwardly stares, her eyes slowly becoming cold. She slowly retracts her hands.

An Ran is aware of Mo Fei staring at her, the feeling of being stared at made her feel uncomfortable. She looks at her watch. It’s already 5:42 pm, and Su Yi Cheng still isn’t here. She sucks in a breath, and turns towards the parking lot, not waiting anymore.

At the same time when An Ran turned, a black Volkswagen slowly came into a stop in front of Mo Fei’s black Benz. The driver’s door opens, and a graceful man comes out. Seeing that An Ran was turned around and was about to leave, he raises his voice and shouts, “An Ran!”

An Ran turns around, to see Su Yi Cheng raising his hand, standing by the car door and smiling at her. Seeing her turn her head, he closes the door and planned to walk over to her.

An Ran sees that he was about to come over, she quickly gets her bag and runs down the stairs, jogging towards him. Because she was walking too quickly, inexplicably, she doesn’t want Su Yi Cheng and Mo Fei to meet. If you were to ask her why, she herself can’t come up with a reason. In any case, she just doesn’t want to, really doesn’t want to!

Mo Fei watches An Ran run towards that man, the two arms hanging down, balls up on its own accord. When he came back he knew that she was still unmarried. Honestly speaking, he was secretly delighted hearing this. He thought that since she was still unmarried at this age, that was because she didn’t forget about him. In her heart, she was like him, still having the same feeling as that year, unable to let go.

However, at this moment, he is watching her run towards another man, and that man also seems remarkable. Regarding what he’d guessed before, he suddenly doesn’t have the confidence anymore.

An Ran rushed over to him. Actually she wanted to quickly escape from Mo Fei’s gaze. Even though she said that she’d let go, but in such a short time she still couldn’t face him like an ordinary person. Because she was walking too quickly, and she wasn’t watching her feet, when she dashed forward, her ankle rolled. In an instant, An Ran’s body almost hit the ground. Fortunately Su Yi Cheng had sharp eyes, he took large strides and was able to support An Ran, half embracing her and holding her against his chest.

“You alright?” Su Yi Cheng asks concerned.

An Ran shakes her head, and withdraws from his embrace. She looks at her feet. It wasn’t sprained, but she was still somewhat scared.

“Next time don’t be so urgent. Take your time. If not, perhaps you should stay where you are and wait for me. I’ll come to you.” Su Yi Cheng looks at her, in his head he thinks how could this girl be 28 years old. She completely isn’t matured or steady.

Hearing this, An Ran stares at him blankly, and finally nods.

Su Yi Cheng nods, and raises his head to see Mo Fei and Xiao Xiao standing by the front doors. He asks An Ran, “Your colleagues? Should I come over to greet them?”

An Ran doesn’t turn to look, just shakes her head, and quickly says, “No it’s fine.” Her tone was also urgent, the rejection was clean and firm.

Su Yi Cheng looks at her, the expression in her eyes was a bit strange.

Aware of her own mood, An Ran unconsciously plays with her hair, and explains, “Uh, just now, just now mom called in a rush. She asked when we would be there, we, we should just go ahead and go.”

“Oh. Okay.” Su Yi Cheng complies. He then raises his head to look at Mo Fei and Xiao Xiao, and gives them a smile as he nods. Then he turns to An Ran and extends his hands.

An Ran stares at it blankly. Finally, a little embarrassed, she puts her hand into his.

Pleased, the corners of Su Yi Cheng’s mouth bends up. He holds her hands and says, “Let’s go.”

The two hands hanging down Mo Fei’s sides ball up tightly, his fingernails are digging in yet he doesn’t feel any pain. He gives a death glare to the man pulling on An Ran’s hand, and watches him be considerate and open the car door for An Ran as she gets in. The door closes, he walks around the head of the car to the other side, and starts the car. Finally, what’s left over is the chaotic dancing of the wind.

Xiao Xiao watches An Ran and co.’s car disappear into the traffic of after-work. She turns her head and examines the exceptionally outstanding man beside her. The corner of her mouth lifts a bit. She asks, “You aren’t just old classmates, huh.” Seeing his expression, she can tell that they were more than that, and he was probably her ex-boyfriend. However, how could this Gu An Ran get this flashy. Undoubtedly there was an accident from her blueprint, and these past two days she came to work to be dropped off in a grand car. When she knocks off work she even has such handsome men come pick her up. What a lucky bitch.



Mo Fei looks at her, not commenting. He turns towards the parked black Benz and walks over to it.

Xiao Xiao sees that he is about to leave, and he is walking quickly. When he is about to open the door, from his side she makes her way in, stopping him from entering the door. She puts on her charm and winks at him, and says, “I’m heading to Xin Hua road, can you give me a ride?”

Mo Fei looks at her coldly. He’s worked hard for so many years, he’s seen all kinds of people. Now, he only needs to shoot a glance, and he can tell what a woman is thinking.

Unemotionally, Mo Fei says, “Not going that way.” He pulls on the door that she had opened and got on, then starts the car and leaves.

Xiao Xiao stands on the curb, her face swelling red. She mutters under her breath, “Hmph, what the hell.”



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