Sunday 24 December 2017

First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 95 Translation

095. Bloodstains on the chest



As she was waiting in Huang De Xing’s car, she finds out that the dinner was with Tong Wen Hai. That was a surprise. Xiao Xiao isn’t coming, so it’s no wonder that she said such nonsense in the washroom.

The dinner took place at a very fancy Chinese restaurant. Tong Wen Hai still hadn’t arrived yet, so Huang De Xing went ahead to order some food, but asked the kitchen to wait, because he also ordered a bottle of Mao Tai liquor. An Ran heard the price of it, and bit her tongue with her eyes wide open.

Tong Wen Hai came in alone. Seeing An Ran, he looked surprised. He looks at her, with an inexplicable expression in his eyes.

Huang De Xing enthusiastically greets him to sit, “Bureau chief Tong, sit sit sit. Thank you so much for taking some time out of your busy schedule for this meeting, I am extremely honoured, extremely honoured.”

An Ran also got up to greet him, “Bureau chief Tong.”

Tong Wen Hai smiles at An Ran, then shakes Huang De Xing’s hands, then takes a seat.

Huang De Xing turns his head and signals An Ran to go inform the waiter to serve. An Ran gets up, but the waiter wasn’t outside. She walks along the hallway, until she was almost at the lounge does she finally see a waiter. She lets him know that they can serve now, and when she got back Huang De Xing and Tong Wen Hai were both laughing over something.

An Ran smiles at them and nods, and takes a seat.

In fact, the purpose of this meal with Tong Wen hai was not that simple, but it was too make a deal with him, since Su Yi Cheng’s side isn’t putting their hand in, then he can only look for an opportunity elsewhere. And Tong Wen Hai was Jiang City’s Construction Bureau Chief, now that the committee has decided to develop the new Ke Ji City, even though you should look for the person in charge, but when all is said and done, it’s not a one-man show. These things involve many people, and the number of people assisting naturally won’t be few. Tong Wen Hai is in charge of the city’s construction, roping him in, is no harm done.

The food was served very quickly, Huang De Xing and Tong Wen Hai ate and chat at the same time, chatted about the current trends and politics, then bit by bit talked about the upcoming Ke Ji City.

Tong Wen Hai has had this position for many years, naturally he’s met all kinds of situations and people; he was well aware of the purpose of this dinner. He will not say too much, and will only speak in riddles, leaving room for speculation.

However, based on the clues he left, Huang De Xing was naturally able to guess the meaning behind his words.

During their conversation An Ran just aptly smiles, not getting into the conversation. Huang De Xing was also intentionally, or otherwise, bringing up Su Yi Cheng, so An Ran can only smile, giving an excuse that Su Yi Cheng was busy, and regarding work he doesn’t mention much about it to her, so she doesn’t really know anything about it.

The meal lasted for over 3 hours, by the time the three left it was almost 9 o’clock. Tong Wen Hai and Huang De Xing had drank, and left their cars at the parking lot. An Ran bids goodbye to the two of them, and walks to the side by herself, to give Su Yi Cheng a call, to let him know that he can pick her up. However the phone had rang for a long time, and wasn’t getting answered. She frowns and calls him again, but still no one had answered.

“Why isn’t he picking up, where did he go?” An Ran muttered to herself.

“Are you calling Special Assistant Su?”

“Ah!” An Ran was startled, and uttered a cry. From behind, she didn’t know when Tong Wen Hai had come over. At the moment, he was smiling as he was looking at her.

“Did I scare you?” Looking at her, Tong Wen Hai asks apologetically.

An Ran forces a smile and shakes her head, “No.”

Huang De Xing went ahead and left. Tong Wen Hai was about to go as well when he caught sight of An Ran standing aside making a call, so he walked over to her side.

“Bureau Chief Tong is still here, are you waiting for your driver to come?” An Ran asks politely, the smile on her face was painstakingly wide.

Looking at her, Tong Wen Hai’s expression became strange, as if he were thinking of saying something, but didn’t dare to say it. Finally he just looks at her and shakes his head slightly, only says, “I drank too much tonight, so I wanted to stand and blow wind.”

An Ran nods, formulating a way of how to politely excuse herself.

When An Ran was still thinking of an excuse, Tong Wen Hai started to look at the neon streetlights down the street. He starts to say, “You and your mother are very much alike.”

An Ran stares at him blankly. She doesn’t say anything, because she doesn’t really know how she should respond to that.

Feeling her gaze on him, Tong Wen Hai turns to look at her. Looking at her, his eyes compared to past affections, looking at her, was as if he were looking at his own children. He softly starts to ask, “These past few years, your mother must have gone through hardship.”

“What does Bureau Chief Tong want to say?” An Ran stares at him as she asks.

Tong Wen Hai then realized that he had forgotten his manners. He quickly turns around, and only says, “Nothing, nothing.”

An Ran doesn’t know what he’s hiding, but regarding him, she doesn’t want to get involved with him too much. She always has this feeling of fear, this feeling that she’d be happier being ignorant. She just faintly says, “My mother has been through great happiness, even though our household may not be prosperous, but my father treats her very week, really loves her. I believe that she’s happy, blessed.”

“Is that so.” Tong Wen Hai steadily says. After a while, he slowly starts to say, “Your father is a good man.”

An Ran nods, “My father is not only a good husband, but he is also a good father.” After saying that, she looks at him in the eye, and says, “Bureau Chief Tong, please continue to blow wind, I will take my leave first.” Saying that, she turns around and walks towards the taxi parked to the side.

“An Ran!” Tong Wen Hai calls out from behind.

An Ran turns around startled, and looks at him puzzled, “Is there anything else Bureau Chief Tong?”

Tong Wen Hai looks at her, and starts to open his mouth, but then hesitates. Finally he can only force a smile, shake his head, and just says, “Be careful on the road.”

An Ran looks at him for a while, and slightly nods, “En.” Then she opens the door to the car and gets in, and gives the address to the driver, so he can leave right away.

In the car, An Ran calls Su Yi Cheng once again. As before, no one answered. She finally gives up, guessing that he is probably still in the shower. She compiles a text to say that she is taking a taxi and is on her way back, and sends the text. The flickering neon lights outside, dazzled the entire city. To her, it was beautiful.

The taxi slowly stops in front of the neighbourhood. She pays the fare, and gets out of the taxi. She presses the elevators to go upstairs. Compared to the day, the elevator in the evening was a lot more free. She didn’t wait, and it came immediately. It arrived at the 10th floor, and she gets out of the elevator, walking towards her flat, only to see that the door was slightly ajar. A golden light from inside was sprinkling out, and you can see a dusky outline of a person walking past it. An Ran pushes the door open with suspicion, only to see that the living room was a mess. On the small coffee table was a broken cream cake, and it seemed like something had fallen and broken on the floor. An Ran looks at the scene in shock for a while, and then recognizes that the fragment on the floor was the blue and white porcelain vase that used to sit beside the TV.

An Ran’s first thought was that a thief had broken in, but this assumption was immediately proved wrong, because the door did not seem to have any trace of being pried open. The living room was in a sorry state but it was just the ruined cake on the table, and because of the broken vase, a little bit of water stained the floor, and rose petals were scattered on the floor. Besides that An Ran could also see Su Yi Cheng’s dropped phone. There were 5 missed calls, 3 of them belonged to her, and of the two of them one was from Ye Zi Wen, while the other was from his family courtyard landline.

“Su Yi Cheng?” An Ran called out softly. She avoids the fragments of porcelain on the floor, at the same time calling out while walking over to the room, “Su Yi Cheng?”

He wasn’t in the studio, nor was he in the master room. She even checked the bathroom, but he wasn’t there.

An Ran doesn’t know where he had gone, even his cell phone was left at home, so even if she wanted to call him to find him, no one will even answer.

An Ran started to panic, everything in the room made her somewhat scared. She doesn’t know what had happened tonight, but she couldn’t find him in the flat. Taking a seat on the sofa, because of worry, she could hear her heart thumping.

Only a while later does her emotions start to stabilize. At this time, she had Su Yi Cheng’s phone in her hand and it started to go off. It was from Ye Zi Wen.

She connects the call, and Ye Zi Wen started to spit out, “Ah Cheng, I just called you why didn’t you pick up, right now I’m at ‘Ye Se Mi Ren’, why don’t you come out and give me the chance to treat you to a drink, let me properly wish you a happy birthday!”

So today was his birthday, that was why he had asked her to come home early. The cake on the table, was that something he had prepared so that he could celebrate it together with her?

As An Ran was thinking of that, Ye Zi Wen hadn’t heard anything from Su Yi Cheng, so he looks at his cell phone. Certain that he didn’t call the wrong person, he says once again, “Ah Cheng, you still there?”

She regains her attention, and she faintly replies, “It’s An Ran.”

“Uh.” On the other line, Ye Zi Wen was clearly taken a back, taking a few seconds to react. Then he recalls that Ah Cheng had gotten married, so hearing a woman on the other line isn’t something that was baffling. He opens his mouth and carefully asks, “Is Ah Cheng out with you?” If that was the case, then as expected he values sex over friendship.

An Ran looks about the messy floor, and says, “I don’t know what happened either, I just got home, only to see that the living room is a mess. Su Yi Cheng isn’t here at all.”

“Uh.” Ye Zi Wen was speechless, not expecting that type of answer, “Where did he go? Isn’t it his birthday today? He didn’t tell you?”

“I don’t know, I ……” An Ran was about to say something, when she hears the sound of the door being opened by keys. She turns to look at the door.

Su Yi Cheng enters, his whole body exhausted. With one hand he expertly massages his brows, with the other hand he starts to take off his coat. His white dress shirt, had a few opened buttons. His sleeves were also tucked up, additionally, An Ran noticed, his shirt seemed to have a stain on it, and it wasn’t a small one either.

No longer wanting to talk to Ye Zi Wen anymore, she hangs up the phone. An Ran gets up from the sofa, and starts to softy call out to him, “Yi Cheng.”

Su Yi Cheng only then notices An Ran in the living room. He smiles distractedly, and walks over to her while smiling, “You’re home.”

An Ran nods, and hands over the phone in her hand to him. She says, “I gave you a call, and sent you a text. You didn’t respond, so I took a taxi back.”

Hearing that, Su YI Cheng apologetically strokes her face, and says, “Sorry, something happened this evening. When I went out I didn’t have time to grab my cell phone.”

“What happened, why did the house become like this?” An Ran examines the room, and turns to look at him suspiciously. She notices the stain on his shirt, and as she walked closer she then sees that the stain wasn’t some kind of oil or any other stain, but it was blood!

“W-why is there blood!” An Ran was alarmed, she quickly pulls him to examine him up and down, “Where did you hurt yourself? Why is there blood?” Just what on earth happened, why is the home such in disarray? Even if it was his birthday, they shouldn’t be this violent!

Su Yi Cheng reaches out and settles his arms on her shoulder, to let her calm down. He fixes on her, and says, “I’m not hurt. The blood isn’t mine, don’t worry.”

Hearing that, An Ran was relieved. She lets out a big sigh, and looks at him for a while. Then she asks again, “Then whose blood is it?” Also, why is the living room like this. Ye Zi Wen just called and said that today was your birthday, why, why is it like this?”

Su Yi Cheng pulls her and seats her down on the sofa. He prepares to tell her the outline of the not-so-simple events of tonight. Today was his 32nd birthday, and originally he wanted to celebrate it with her with a meal, but didn’t expect that because of her work, she had a dinner party tonight.

Actually he wasn’t a romantic person. Birthdays, in the past he had always just gone out with Ye Zi Wen to a quiet place and had drinks with him, then they would go to their respective homes and sleep. But this year was different, this year in this life a woman appeared, and that woman was very important to him. She’s a person who he’ll spend the rest of his life with, from now on he will spend every birthdays with her. Thus, even though he was regretful that due to her work she couldn’t come home early so they could go out and eat, but, he will still order a cake for when she comes home from work, thinking that, at least she could eat cake with him.

As he was waiting for her he wasn’t idling about either. He returned to his studio to deal with a few documents that he didn’t get to earlier in the day. The committee has been pretty busy these past few days, with Ke Ji City’s construction going into full motion next month, at that time when the bids go up, the committee’s publicity, and foreign investments, all of that needs to be fully launched. And according to Secretary Zhang’s opinion, his promotion had already been approved, and the documents should be coming down in a few days. When the moment comes he will also have piles of work.

While he was conscientiously examining the documents, at this time the doorbell had rung. He doesn’t know who would come this late. He left the studio, and through the peephole he could see Ling Ran outside the door. He couldn’t help but frown, and doesn’t open the door immediately. He doesn’t welcome her arrival. Perhaps he shouldn’t open the door so she could think that there was no one home and would leave herself.

However Ling Ran did not get the message. She continued to ring the doorbell for a long time, not seeing him open the door, she uses her hands to knock on the door as she yells, “Ah Cheng, I know you’re home. Can you open the door?”

Su Yi Cheng was helpless, and does not want to draw other people’s attention because of her, so ultimately he opened the door to let her in.

Ling Ran smiles as she looks at him, and holds up the cake in her hands as she steps forward. She sweetly calls out to him, “Ah Cheng, happy birthday.”

He stares at her for a while, not reaching out, not saying anything, but just looks straight at her.

Ling Ran felt unnatural being stared at, and because her arms were holding the cake they were starting to ache, she looks at him and acts coquettishly, “Ah Cheng, my arms are aching, are you not planning to accept this?”

Su Yi Cheng just looks at her straightly. He expressionlessly says, “Ling Ran, can we not do these boring things? Doing this, what’s the point?"

He said it so bluntly, and it made Ling Ran incredibly embarrassed, but she still was able to react to it. She forces a smile and puts her hand down, carries the cake into the living room, and then puts the cake down onto the low table. As she opened the packaged box she says, “I know you don’t like sweet things, so I bought one that’s not too sweet - hazelnut cake.” She uses the plastic knife that came with the cake and slices a piece, places it on the plastic plate, and hands it over to him. She smiles as she says, “This cake isn’t sweet, I tried it when I bought it. You’ll like it.” Looking at him, Ling Ran’s eyes seemed to be begging, “Eat a bit okay, today’s your birthday, I know you don’t like celebrating birthdays, but just have a bite, okay?”

Su Yi Cheng looks at her, and helplessly shakes his head, “Ling Ran, you need to go back. I will celebrate my birthday, but not with you.” Saying that, he turns, wanting to go into the studio.

“Are you saying that you’re going to celebrate it with Gu An Ran? But she doesn’t even know it’s your birthday, don’t tell me that’s not so. I know that she’s not even home.” Ling Ran says from behind.

Su Yi Cheng turns, looks at her, his gaze so sinister it made people shiver. He looks at her straightly, his tone deeply displeased, “You’ve been tailing An Ran?”

Ling Ran turns her head, doesn’t look at him. Feeling wronged, she just faintly says, “I didn’t. But I know she’s not here tonight. I actually don’t want to destroy anything between you two, so I specially chose a time when she won’t be here, because I don’t want her to misunderstand that there's something between you and I. I don’t want to intervene your lives, if today An Ran is here, then I wouldn’t have come up. But she isn’t here today, so that’s why I’m here, and only to celebrate your birthday together, that’s all, there’s nothing else.”

Hearing that, Su Yi Cheng’s expression doesn’t change much. He says indifferently, “No need. You can go back.” After he was done speaking he turns towards the studio.

Behind, Ling Ran watches him. The piece of cake she was holding rustles, and smashes onto the floor, her eyes turning red with tears. Then they spill over, each of them rolling down like pearls. She says indistinctly, “Why, why won’t you give me a chance, don’t tell me that one mistake, just sends you to 18 stratums of hell?”

Hearing that, Su Yi Cheng pauses his steps, but doesn't turn to look back.

“I truly do love you, ever since I was a child til now, the person I’ve liked has always been you. That time I was too lonely, it was a long time since you’ve come back to see me. If I went to find you, and you always gave me an excuse saying that you’re busy. I don’t know if you really were busy or you didn’t want to see me, because you were always so unenthusiastic with me, I don’t have a sense of security.” Ling Ran slowly says, explaining everything about that year, “That day, on account of the shop front’s decoration my head was big, and for that period of time you didn’t even contact me, that day Zhou Han came to find me. I said I wanted to drink, so he went to go buy a pack of beer and came back. The two of us drank like that, I don’t know how things became like that after, maybe because of the alcohol, I mistook him for you, but when you appeared from the doorway, I then realized that I was dead wrong. I really don’t know how things became that way.” As she was speaking, she squats down, burying her face into her palms, crying mournfully.

Su Yi Cheng does not turn back. Really, regarding that incident, he was always brooding over it. But hearing her bring it up, he doesn’t feel an ounce of heartache over it anymore. It turns out time truly is the best antidote. He’s long forgotten it.

“What’s the point of going over the past. We cannot return to the way we were, now I have my life, and I am very satisfied with it.” Su Yi Cheng just says so faintly, “Go back. It’s late, I don’t want others to misunderstand.” This time, he directly goes into the studio.

Just as Su Yi Cheng entered the studio, he hadn’t even closed the door yet, when he heard a thump from outside, as if something had smashed.

Hearing the noise Su Yi Cheng comes out of the studio, only to see on the living room floor, the blue and white porcelain vase had been smashed to pieces, and the cake on the small table was also ruined. Ling Ran looks at him with hatred, and roars at him, “Why don’t you give me a chance, in which way is that Gu An Ran better than me! I was with you for 10 years, don’t tell me because of that one mistake you sentenced me the death penalty? Don’t tell me over the last 7 years, my punishment is not enough? What more do you want me to do?”

Su Yi Cheng looks at her coldly, and just faintly says, “It’s all too late. Ling Ran, we shouldn’t live in the past. You’re no longer the Ling Ran of the past, and I’m no longer the past Su Yi Cheng. Time changes, people also change. There is no need to cling to the past.”

“Cling... ha, I’ve loved you for so many years, even if we parted for 7 years my heart has only you. Now you tell me not to cling, Su Yi Cheng, how could you be to ruthless to me!” Ling Ran shrieks at him.

Su Yi Cheng just fixes on keeping a distance from her and looks at her. He doesn’t advance. A while later, seeing that her emotions had calmed down a bit, does he faintly say, “Go back.”

Ling Ran looks at him, suddenly grabs the fragment of ceramic on the floor, and presses it against her wrist. She smiles at him and says, “You don’t want me, then there’s no point in my return from America.” Smiling, that fragment firmly cuts into her wrist. Blood trickles down from the opening of the cut.

Upon seeing this, Su Yi Cheng mutters a swear, “Damn it!” He rushes towards her.

Ling Ran leans against his chest, a smile hangs from the corner of her mouth. With her pained expression, she says, “You don’t want me, there’s no need for me to live.”


---END OF CHAPTER---



Merry Christmas guys! Sorry for ending it on this note, lol. Hope you guys enjoyed anyways!


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Monday 11 December 2017

First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 94 Translation

094. I’m on top



Lin Li left. She only called right before she got on.

An Ran was feeling down. Sitting on the flight of stairs, her tears fell continuously. She recalled the ten years of friendship, laughing together, crying together. When Mo Fei betrayed her, it was Lin Li who was with her. If not for her, she wouldn’t get back up from her wounds in such a short period of time.

However, now it was her who was hurt, yet she has to lick her wounds herself, and she can’t do anything. In fact An Ran knew that it would do her better to leave, after all she and Cheng Xiang had too much memories here. If you want to forget about a person, leaving is the best option.

She erases the tears from her face. Grabbing her phone, through her misty vision she looks for Lin Li's name. She doesn’t call this time, but sends a text.

“---Have a pleasant journey, take care of yourself. ---Forever your friend, An Zi.”

Lin Li doesn’t reply. An Ran knows that Lin Li hated turning her phone off, she was always like that. If she didn’t want to confront she would avoid, and this time, she was running far away.

An Ran sat at the staircase for a while, waiting until she calmed down. Then she gets up and goes towards her office.

She returns back to her office. Constructor Chen was by himself looking a little worried as he looks at the blueprint.

An Ran enters, and takes the blueprint from his hand, “Is something wrong?”

“Uh.” Constructor Chen looks up at her, and cautiously asks, “Architect Gu, are you okay?” Seeing her like that just then, it seemed like something happened, so he assumed that she had left, and didn’t expect her to come back so quickly.

An Ran purses her lips. She faintly smiles at him, and only says, “It’s nothing. Is there something that Constructor Chen is unclear of, we can talk it over. However this case is a bit rushed, there isn’t much time left, so we must seize the moment.”

Constructor Chen nods. He looks at the blueprint and points out his doubts.

When An Ran had left the office, it was already almost 9 o’clock. Before knocking off Su Yi Cheng had called her, and said that he would come pick her up, but because she has to work overtime, she doesn’t know when she’ll be done, so she told him not to come. Su Yi Cheng was still uneasy, and reminded her again to call him after she finishes her work, he will come pick her up.

The moon tonight was very round, and bright, only a bit desolate. It hangs high in the sky, no other stars beside it. How lonely one felt when looking at it.

An Ran doesn’t make the call to Su Yi Cheng. Walking down the lonely street, across the street was a happy couple wearing matching outfits, smiles upon their faces. The man had said something, and the woman bashfully glares at him, pouting and scolding him, “Hateful.” Then she turns around and runs off, the man laughs as he chases after her, overtaking her after 3 steps. Then from behind he hugs the woman, laughing out loud as he carries the woman and spins her around. The woman laughs and slaps the man on the shoulder, crying out in fear. Everyone around them was looking at him with envy in their eyes, as well as blessing.

An Ran remembered that Lin Li and Cheng Xiang where once that sweet too, that Lin Li was practically stuck to Cheng Xiang every day, not caring about the people around them, showing off how loving they were. But as they say, ‘time flies’, looking back, things may remain the same but people change. Similarly, she and Mo Fei broke up, while Lin Li and Cheng Xiang have reached the end of their road together.

While walking, her cellphone goes off at this time. Surprisingly, it was Cheng Xiang.

She let her phone ring for a while, so it would stop on it own. It then started ringing again, repeatedly. Apparently Cheng Xiang was very patient. An Ran knows that he wants to ask about Lin Li, she knew he’d be like this. People always want what they’ve lost, only then do they know what they had, and sometimes held, never knowing how to cherish it.

She sighs softly, nevertheless she still answers the phone.

Not waiting for An Ran to open her mouth, Cheng Xiang urges, “An Ran, tell me where Lin li is!” His tone was anxious, apparently he was very emotional, unlike the normally mild-mannered, refined Cheng Xiang.

“Where she goes, what does it have to do with you.” An Ran faintly says, “Should have known earlier, is this necessary.”

“Tell me where Lin li is. I went to the hospital this afternoon, only to find out that she had discharged today. But where could she go, I went to the hotel and couldn’t find her.” He looked at many places, but couldn’t find any news of her. He doesn’t know where she went, so he ultimately called An Ran. He knows that everything he says is too late now, knows that he had deeply wounded Lin Li, but he truly loves her!

“Cheng Xiang, that’s enough. I can’t tell you where Lin Li is, she’s hiding precisely because she doesn’t want to see you, She wasted 10 years on you, do you want her to waste even more time with you! People with integrity shouldn’t be too selfish, you think now that you’ve turned your head back she will still be there waiting for you. What the hell is that, are women that lowly to you? Still expect them to love you even after you’ve hurt them so deeply, there’s no such thing!” An Ran emotionally shouts into the phone.

“An Ran, tell me, I know I was sorely wrong before, but I vow that I will love her properly from now on, I truly love her, I truly want to return to her side.” Cheng Xiang begs. Today he couldn’t find Lin Li, every place he looked he couldn’t find her. He was truly afraid. Before he thought that Lin Li would be angry for a few days, but she still loves him, sooner or later she will forgive him and return to his side, but now he can’t find her, not even a single trace was left behind. He was scared, scared that he truly has lost her forever.

“I told you, I can’t tell you. You can die with this heart.” An Ran was done, so she hangs up.

Lin Li’s injury needs time, needs time to heal. She escaped from Jiang City, for herself so that she could have time to relax, slowly lick her wounds.

Clenching her fist, her phone starts to ring again one second later. It was still Cheng Xiang, and now he was determined to redeem himself. Back then, even if he spent a little time with Lin Li, she was still regarded as a substitute for someone else, and that was why Lin Li had such heartache.

She takes off the back case of her phone and removes the battery, and puts them back into her bag. She looks up again, the streets was still lively, from afar the crowded night market, the street was densely packed with vendors selling all kinds of goods.

An Ran was a little gloomy, and doesn’t call for a taxi right away, but rather she continues to walk on her own down the neon flickering streets, slowly walking towards the direction of her home. When she neared the neighbourhood, only then does she see Su Yi Cheng’s car pass by her. She had sat in that car for this long, so naturally An Ran recognized his car. She turns to it blankly, unable to utter anything, only to see the speedy car suddenly stop after 5-6 meters. Then the car door opens, and Su Yi Cheng’s expression seemed solemn. He stares at her as he walks over to her, then when he was in front of her, he fixes his gaze at her.

An Ran blankly looks at him. From his face she can tell that he wasn’t in a good mood. She doesn’t know what had happened, so she can only be obliged to ask, “You’re going out?”

Su Yi Cheng looks at her, looking angry. He has been waiting for her call at home, but never seeing it come in. It was getting late, and she hasn’t even come back yet. He was worried, and gave her a call, but was met with a busy dial tone. He hung up and called again, but now her phone was turned off. He has no idea what had happened to her, not sure whether or not she had more work to do or she was preparing to go home, he completely had no idea. He redialled, and the phone was still off. He waited a little longer at home, and still she wasn’t back. He was getting worried that perhaps something had happened, and with this anxiousness he became restless, so thinking along those lines, he couldn’t sit around anymore. He grabbed his keys from the coffee table, and went directly to her company to see if she had got off work or not. Even if she hadn’t, he will be bringing her home this time. However he hadn’t even left the neighbourhood yet, when he sees her leisurely strolling in with her bag. Seeing that she was fine, that anxiousness that was hanging in his heart was finally laid down, but now in place of that anxiousness was a feeling of anger and wrath.

She didn’t hear his reply, so she asks him once again, “What’s wrong?”

Su Yi Cheng doesn’t say anything, and just pulls on her hand. He opens the door to the car and lets her in, his action quite rough, not at all gentle.

An Ran, surprised, lets him push her into the car. Then he starts the car and turns his head, directly turning the car back.

The entire way home, Su Yi Cheng hadn’t said a word. He just has a terse expression on his face, grasping An Ran’s hands with force.

He opens the door to let her see, then turns around and traps her between the door and himself. Fixing his gaze on her, Su Yi Cheng starts to interrogate, “Didn’t I tell you to call me to pick you up, why didn’t you call me.”

“Uh, I, I was afraid of troubling you.” An Ran was a bit scared seeing him like that. Such overbearing intensity contrasted against his usual gentle and refined self made him seem like two different people.

“I called you just a moment ago, but you were in the middle of a call. I hung up and called again, yet this time your phone was already off. I don’t know your office number, don’t even know your co-worker’s phone number, not even one, so I can’t get to you at all and I don’t even know what to do. I don’t know if you were off work yet, don’t know if you’ve left the company yet. I was worried, worried that I can’t reach you, I don’t know if any accident had happened to you, so I waited at home for a while, yet it was getting later and later and I still don’t see you home. I wasn’t assured, so I decided to grab my car keys and go over to your company and see. Yet I meet you here, leisurely strolling in carrying your bag.” With both hands propping against either side of her, Su Yi Cheng stared at her, saying each word determinedly.

An Ran felt sorry. She looks at him, and apologizes, “Because I was afraid of troubling you, so I didn’t call you. Sorry.”

Su Yi Cheng stares at her. Only after a long time does she slowly start to say, “An Ran, because I was worried about you that’s why I told you that I would pick you up. But yet you say that you don’t want to trouble me, we are married, do you think there is really any use of the word ‘troubling’ when it comes to us?”

An Ran stares at him, somewhat speechless for a while.

“If you were afraid of worrying me at least give me a call, don’t let me be unable to reach you. Even if you lost your phone, use a landline to call me, but just don’t make it so I can’t find you. If I can’t find you, I don’t know what I should do, this kind of feeling is very unsettling.”

Looking at him, An Ran apologetically says, “S-sorry.” She didn’t think about it, so she turned off her phone and didn’t give him at a call at all.

“Ai!” Lightly sighing, Su Yi Cheng slowly eases his manner of speaking. Fixing on her, he says, “An Ran, I’m angry because I was worried about whether something had happened to you and I didn’t know about it, apart from knowing where you work, I don’t have the slightest clue of where you went. If I can’t find you at work, I don’t know where else I can go to find you. It’s not troubling at all for me to pick you up, because that way it makes me feel reassured. Only if I can’t contact you will I feel uneasy, be sitting at home with this inexplicable fear.”

Saying that, Su Yi Cheng’s hand slowly strokes her face, softly touching. He slowly starts to say, “From now on don’t be so polite with me, it’s not troublesome, if I can’t reach you, I will be worried and scared, understand?”

An Ran looks at him, unwittingly tears had come streaming down. She had no control over it, and it was coming ferociously.

Su Yi Cheng was taken aback, frightened by her tears. He couldn’t help but blame himself for using such a harsh tone before. He reaches out and wipes her tears, while consoling her, “Don’t cry, I was just worried. I didn’t mean to blame you.”

An Ran looks at him, crying and laughing, unable to say anything, can only shake her head. Of course she knows his intention, because she knew, therefore she felt moved. Being treasured by someone like that, besides her parents, he is the first one. Back then she would have said that Mo Fei had treated her well, but he was never so worried about her.

An Ran’s tears were like a disobedient child, wiping over and over but it was not enough, Su Yi Cheng erasing her tears but unable to remove them. Helplessly, he can only lean over, clasp her face, and bit by bit kiss the tears on her face, the tears being eaten by him, salty with astringent and bitterness.

An Ran reaches out and puts her arms around his shoulders, earnestly returning his kiss.

The passion always came quickly. Not a moment later Su Yi Cheng lifted her and relocated to the room. An Ran lied down on the bed, looking at him with misty eyes. She reaches out to softly stroke his face, the corner of her mouth carried a slight smile. Once again she was glad for her impetuousness, and glad that she had gotten the wrong date and the person she met was him. She was grateful that he treasured and doted her, thankful for his warmth and consideration. In fact her expectations for marriage was never that high, she doesn’t need her partner to be very wealthy, because the household’s burden does not need to fall only on the man, she can also take part of it, try her best to make the home better and go to work. She is a simple person, doesn’t need feelings of ups and downs, only needs someone considerate, who understands her, that kind of man. And he, absolutely met all of her ideal standards, even going above and beyond it.

Su Yi Cheng takes off both of their clothes, looking at her because of ** and both his eyes had become misty, his eyes carried a vague mist, those pair of large eyes, looked especially seductive. His hands slowly covered her silky skin, reluctant to leave contact. He knows all of her sensitive spots, knows where to touch to make her shiver and let out that attractive sound. He has never thought himself as a person with vigour, but he was infatuated with her body, sinking into it every time.

Slowly leaning over her body, he leaves behind light kisses on every possible place.

An Ran was aroused, trembling below him, feeling each and every kiss that he was leaving behind, including the spots that shall not be named. In between movements, An Ran’s mind suddenly came up with a bold thought. She gives him a tight squeeze around his neck, then flips over to press down on him. Because of the action her long hair had scattered down her shoulders, her bareness and her cape of long hair could bewitch people, made her look especially lovely.

Su Yi Cheng looked on like a fool, that certain place in his body had become incredibly taut.

“An Ran…..” Gently calling out her name, Su Yi Cheng wanted to flip her back down and press down on her body, but the way she slightly pushed him down stopped him.

Because An Ran was shy, her face had reddened. She stares at him, and slowly leans over to softly speak into his ears, “Tonight, tonight I’m on top.” 

That soft, gentle voice carried her unique charm, and as she spoke, that warm breath sprinkled directly into his ears, that slight feeling of ticklishness made his entire body shake, only after a while does he react. He repeatedly swallows, and with difficulty, asks, “You, what did you say?” His voice had already turned incredibly dark, unlike his usual warmness, but it was pleasant to hear.

An Ran was embarrassed, her face had turned incredibly red. She acted on her own boldness and was feeling embarrassed, and now straddling over his figure made her feel even more ashamed, “I, I I had better…..” She wanted to flip once more, but then he presses on her delicate thigh, not letting her switch positions. Su Yi Cheng laid there flatly, with a large palm he strokes her thigh, with the other he covers her butt, not allowing her to leave.

An Ran reddens. She looks into his eyes, suddenly regretting her own impetuousness. Because she has no idea what she should do, she has no experience, not even a little bit.

Su Yi Cheng’s breathing became erratic, his stomach heaving. Looking at her, his entire person had become tense.

An Ran looks at him, she herself was nervous and at a complete loss. She stares at him, the sweat on her forehead slowly starts to form. Blushing with shame, she looks at him defeated, and scowls, “I, I I don’t know what to do!”

Su Yi Cheng starts to chuckle, places both hands on her lower back. Looking at her, with his dark voice, he says, “I’ll teach you.”


After the ** An Ran laid spread out across the bed exhausted. The weight in her eyes were so heavy she could barely open them, as for tonight’s string of high-energy-consumption, high-calorie-burning, physical activity, tonight she had a new experience. Normally she thought that lying there was already so tiring that she couldn’t even utter a word and go straight to sleep, but seeing after tonight, she had a new-found knowledge, that the person on top was actually the most energy consuming! But seeing Su Yi Cheng, he even had enough strength to carry her into the bathroom to shower together, she couldn’t help but be suspicious over how his physical strength got to be that good.

She allows Su Yi Cheng to carry her into the bathroom and the two wash off together. In between her sleepy dazedness, An Ran vaguely recalled the moving issue. She unconsciously had her arms wrapped around his neck, making sure that she won’t be dropped. Then she slowly lets go of him, resting her head on his strong chest, and dazedly, foolishly says, “Let’s, let’s find a day to move.”

The place was close to her company, walking would only take a few minutes, thus, he doesn’t need to take the long route to drop her off to work first, she can go herself. Not only that for the next few months, she will be busy with the physical activity manor, and staying overtime will probably become more common. She knows that he is also busy, so he cannot come to pick her up and drop her off everyday. Living that close, she can walk home herself and he doesn’t have to worry.

Su Yi Cheng looks at the figurine in his embrace. He smiles and nods, replying, “En. Alright.” Her word is the rules, so if she doesn’t like it, then he can disregard everything.

Concerning her work, An Ran truly could not find a time for the move, and actually there isn’t really much to pack up, apart from their own clothes, furniture, appliances, all of that has already been arranged at the new place, the only thing that is needed is to find a time to pack up their clothes.

Today, just before finishing work she received a call from Su Yi Cheng, asking if she can come home a bit earlier tonight. Actually the work today was more or less completed, only this afternoon Huang De Xing had notified her that there will be a banquet tonight and he needs her to come accompany him. Dinner parties are naturally a part of the work, even if An Ran wasn’t fond of them, it’s not good for her to evade them. She can only nod, and say yes.

“There’s a banquet tonight, not sure when it’ll finish.” An Ran stated.

“Oh.” Su Yi Cheng faintly replies. His tone carried a slight disappointment, but it wasn’t obvious.

An Ran could hear his disappointment, and couldn’t help but ask, “What’s wrong, is there something tonight?”

Su Yi Cheng chuckled over the phone, and only says, “Try to come home as early as you can. When the banquet is over, remember to give me a call, I’ll come pick you up. Don’t be afraid of troubling me.”

An Ran’s heart warms up, as she smiles and nods, “En.”

Ending the call, not even half an hour after finishing work, An Ran was about to go find Constructor Chen to discuss about how to rectify the problem of the prototype’s balcony. She then leaves her office, and sees Huang De Xing walking over towards her, telling her that he will let her get ready, in a moment she will take his car and they can head to the restaurant together. Without choice, An Ran had no alternative but to nod, and turns back to go to her office. She grabs her make-up pouch, and was about to go to the washroom to touch up. When she got the washroom she happened to run into Xiao xiao who was coming out of the washroom. The two women were mutually taken aback.

Xiao Xiao looks at her hands, holding the make-up pouch. She couldn’t help but mockingly smile, and says, “Married women are truly different ha, even going to banquets more now.”

An Ran glances at her, but doesn’t say anything. She just wants to pass the person beside her, and enters the washroom.

From behind Xiao Xiao coldly says, “Didn’t I warn you that you should look after your man carefully. Aren’t you afraid of someone making their way into your space?”

An Ran halts her steps. She doesn’t turn back, and just faintly says, “Are you trying to say that you’ll be the person making their way into my space?”

Xiao Xiao smiles, and says, “I just wanted to tell you. Because of Su Yi Cheng’s conditions, besides me, there won’t be short of other women thinking the same thing.” Saying that, she turns around and twists her hips as she leaves.

When An Ran turned back to look she only saw her flirtatious way of walking. About her mindless words, she can only feel baffled by it.



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Sorry for taking so long guys, lol. As much as I love the steamy love scenes, but man they are hard to translate 😂