First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 105 Translation

105. Shamelessly drunk



An Ran places the bouquet of flowers into a vase in the bedroom. She sits on the bed and reads, but wasn’t able to absorb anything. From time to time her eyes would wander towards the flowers, look at it and smile like a fool.

For dinner, Su Yi Cheng was cooking again. He made all of her favourite food. In fact, she felt that something was off. She hadn’t told him what she liked to eat, what she doesn’t like to eat, but in every single instance that he made food, he always made something that suited her appetite. She was extremely gratified by his considerate behaviour. As she was eating, her heart was feeling warm and sweet.

As agreed previously, since he had cooked, it was her turn to wash the dishes. This is considered as working together, fair. So after eating An Ran was going to put away the dishes, but a certain someone was extremely generous and stepped forward saying that he would help, but was firmly rejected by him.

However how could Su Yi Cheng admit defeat so easily, so while An Ran was washing the dishes he was standing beside her wiping the dishes and putting it away in the cupboard. As he was wiping them he says, “Wife, let me sleep in the room tonight.” He was used to hugging her as he slept, suddenly making him sleep alone without hugging her, it truly was difficult to fall asleep.

An Ran doesn’t reply, just turns and glances at him, then turns back around. She once again goes back to washing the dishes.

Su Yi Cheng then realized that her temperament was really tough, there was no leeway for discussion at all. He frowns, at a loss.

From the corner of her eyes she could see his confused face. An Ran suddenly had an urge to laugh, but was able to endure it. Then a call from Secretary Zheng came. It seemed like it was something important, as he went into the studio after taking the call, and did not come out again.

For a period of time she wanted to make coffee and go and give it to him, only when she was at the door, she hesitated for a while. She hadn’t knocked, so she turned back around with the coffee.


She puts down the book in her hands, lifts the covers and gets out. She walks over to the vase, lowers her head and smells the flowers. Actually, her anger was already a thing of the past. Since morning she was no longer angry, and now it was difficult to be angry.

She brushes her hand across the delicate petals, her mouth rising to a slight smile. She looks at the tightly closed doors. She didn’t lock it actually, she wasn’t planning to not let him in to sleep. She was already used to sleeping in his embrace, leaving his arms, it was truly hard to fall asleep.

She looks at the clock, it was already late. An Ran wasn’t sure if he was already done with his work, but also doesn’t plan to go out to take a look. An Ran just lifts the covers closes the light and forces herself to sleep by closing her eyes.

By the time Su Yi Cheng left the studio it was almost 11 o’clock. Secretary Zheng had called last minute and said that he had made an error in tomorrow’s materials, so he had to use the whole evening to fix the issue.

He uses the bathroom in the guest room to wash and change into his pyjamas. When he grabbed his keys to open the door to the bedroom, he discovered that the door wasn’t locked at all. He opens to come in, only to see that AN Ran was already in bed, breathing smoothly, steadily, as if she were already fast asleep.

He tried to make his movements as quietly as possible. He doesn’t turn on the lamp, but instead uses the fragments of moonlight peeking through the curtains to grope about. He quietly gets on the bed, and very carefully lifts up the figure’s head, and places his arm underneath the neck, so that she can be like before, having his arm as a pillow. The sleeping An Ran chirps a bit, then turns to get closer to him. Her head rubs against his chest, then, apparently finding her snug spot, sleeps peacefully. Her breathing also gradually returns to level.

Su Yi Cheng looks at the lady in his arms. A soft smile creeps up on his face, he then lowers his head and leaves a kiss on the top of her head. After completing everything, he then closes his eyes, falling into pace with her breathing. Only he didn’t know, that the moment he closed his eyes, the lady in his embrace opened her yes, the corner of her mouth revealed a crafty smile. Sure enough she is accustomed to his embrace, accustomed to his nighttime warmth. Tonight, being embraced by him, An Ran slept superbly, did not even wake up once, and slept through the night until daybreak.

In a daze when she opened her eyes again she only saw a handsome face. Seeing that she had awaken, he raises his brows and says, “Morning.” Then, not waiting for An Ran to reply, he took the opportunity and moved forward, kissing her on the lips. An Ran struggles and swats him, but doesn’t push him away. Then she went along with his passionate French kiss, until they both were out of breath.

Leaning against his chest, it took a while for her breathing to restore its pace. An Ran pushes him away, and pretended to be angry at him, “Why are you in here! Aren’t we in a cold war!”

Su Yi Cheng smiles, and pinches her nose, laughing as he asks, “Then why didn’t you kick me out last night?” He of course knew that when he came in last night she wasn’t asleep!

“I, I was sleeping.” An Ran said, glaring at him, “How would I know that you would shamelessly sneak in!”

“Really?” Su Yi Cheng puts on a charming smile. Looking at her, he reaches out and pushes aside the fringe that was blocking her eyes, and somewhat innocently says, “I that you deliberately left the door for me.”

An Ran glares at him. Of course she wouldn’t admit that she really did intentionally leave the door for him. But she reluctantly admits, “I did not.”

Su Yi Cheng just smiles, not exposing her. He lovingly rubs her head, lifts the covers and gets up. Today he reckons will be a busy day. At the 9 o’clock meeting today, at 8:30 he will be at the office, and will be preparing materials and the speech draft.

As they ate breakfast Su Yi Cheng told her that he will be coming home late, so she can decide on dinner herself, no need to wait for him. An Ran nods, she recalls that he had told her that today he will be receiving orders from above, so she reckons that he will be busy.

News has always traveled fast, clearly their side hadn’t finalized anything yet, but it was already known by everyone outside. An Ran had reached her office and placed her briefcase on the desk. She hadn’t opened the computer yet, when Huang De Xing had entered with a giggle. Seeing An Ran, he quickly congratulates her, “An Ran ah, I heard about Special Assistant Su’s promotion, truly, congratulations ha.”

“Uh. The report just came down, whether it’s a promotion or demotion, at the moment it’s not certain yet.” An Ran faintly smiles.

“Haha, it’s definitely a promotion, definitely a promotion. With Su Yi Cheng’s strategy and capabilities, absolutely no problems at all.” Huang De Xing said confidently.

An Ran just faintly smiles, nods at him, “I will accept Director’s noble words.”

“An Ran, when will you return and ask Special Assistant Su to see, see if our company can be a part of Ke Ji City, if the odds of success for our bid is high.” Huang De Xing said meaningfully.

After all she was still working here, so it was not a good idea to refuse and offend him. An Ran just faintly smiles and nods, and responds, “Then I will go ask and see.” If she can delay it then she will.

“Good, good.” Huang De Xing nods happily. Then he discussed a few things about work, and finally turned to leave An Ran’s office.

In the afternoon An Ran and Chen Cheng went to the sample room together. The project was going smoothly, even going faster than expected. If it continues like this An Ran can be relieved, doesn’t have to worry about not meeting the final evaluation.

Because she knew that Su Yi Cheng will be coming home late today, she wasn’t in a rush to go home. Unwittingly, once she started on her blueprint she forgot about the time, so by the time she tidied up, she only then discovered that the sky was slowly darkening. Luckily the apartment wasn’t too far from her office, just by walking she can arrive home in a few minutes.

She leaves her office, and the place was extremely quiet. The light in the hallway was still on, and Chen Cheng’s computer was still on. Her bag was still on the desk, it was clear that aside from her Chen Cheng was also here.

At first she had planned to wait for her and leave the gates together, but she had waited for some time and did not see her return. Ultimately An Ran gave up and left by herself.

As she was waiting for the elevator, An Ran could faintly hear sounds of sobbing in the corridor. She frowns, and heads over there with curiosity. The sound was getting louder and louder, more and more distinct. From the sound, An Ran felt that it was somewhat familiar.

As she approaches, at a quiet corner of the staircase, an Ran at last could see who was sobbing. While holding down their own emotions, that person wasn’t just anyone, but Chen Cheng.

An Ran stood behind her for a while, and she did not find out. An Ran reaches out and hands her a tissue, Chen Cheng then turns around and sees the person behind her. She quickly wipes the tears off her face, and awkwardly hiccups as she forces a smile. Only that smile, seemed to be more unsightly than crying.

“Gu, Gu jie. You’re still here.”

An Ran nods, and hands the tissue over to her. She faintly asks, “What happened?”

Chen Cheng reaches out and accepts it, but only shakes her head, not replying to her question.

She isn’t saying, she naturally An Ran doesn’t probe. She just nods, not pursuing the subject.

The pair return to the office, and An Ran asks her if she was leaving or not. She just sees Chen Cheng shake her head, and faintly say that she still has some things she hadn’t finished, and will leave after a while.

An Ran nods. She won’t force her, but when she was about to leave, she couldn’t help but turn to look at her, and faintly starts to say, “If there really is something, don’t keep it to yourself, speak it out. Perhaps we won’t be able to help, but at the very least your mind will be at ease.”

Chen Cheng looks at her for a while, nods, her eyes somewhat twinkling.

Returning home, An Ran made herself some noodles for dinner, as she ate she started to hate her own cooking. It really was underwhelming. Perhaps it is because she has recently been raised with Su Yi Cheng’s cooking. In the past she had felt that her cooking was at least bearable, but now she is unable to eat it. She recalls Su Yi Cheng eating with pleasure each time, and eating up all the noodles until there was not a drop left, she suddenly started to pity him. But it was his own fault, because of his behaviour, she started to feel warm.

She didn’t each much, and in the end she couldn’t swallow any more and threw the rest into the trash. Not having SU Yi Cheng around tonight was really boring, bored to death, she sits on the living room sofa aimlessly watching TV. But she had no idea what she was watching. When the actress on TV was crying teary pearls, An Ran watches the tears fall.

“Ding dong, ding dong—”

An Ran was woken up by the doorbell. The door continues to ring, rousing An Ran up. In her daze she couldn’t react. She was sitting blankly for a while. Her head was still dizzy. The pretty actress on the crystal screen was long gone, and now it was broadcasting the midnight news.

“Ding dong—” Seeing that the person inside isn’t responding, the person outside rings the bell once again.

An Ran only then reacts, quickly stands up, looks at her watch. It was almost midnight. She isn’t sure who would visit this late, and promptly smooths out her wrinkled pyjamas. She then goes over to the door, passing the monitor, only to see a man outside holding up Su Yi Cheng, while Su Yi Cheng was frowning, appearing to be unwell.

Upon seeing that, An Ran quickly opens the door. When she opened it, she could smell the strong scent of alcohol. Clearly someone had drunken too much, and couldn’t go home without help.

“Madame, Special assistant he—” Secretary Zheng was going to say something, but thought of something else, and quickly corrects himself, “Uh, no, now it should be Deputy Mayor Su, deputy mayor was too happy tonight, so he had a little too much to drink.”

An Ran nods at the man. She remembers this man, back when she and Su Yi Cheng went to get the certificate she had seen him. Only after did she know that he was Su Yi Cheng’s secretary, and has worked for him for 3 years, he is considered to be his most capable assistant.

“Quickly come in.” An Ran quickly helps Secretary Zheng prop up Su Yi Cheng and bring him to the bedroom.

When Secretary Zheng safely placed Su Yi Cheng down onto the bed, An Ran quickly went over to the kitchen and poured him a glass of water, “Here, have some water.”

As if he truly were thirsty, he accepts the cup and gulps it down. Secretary Zheng seemed to be very tall, but perhaps is a little shorter than Su Yi Cheng. He was on the slender side as well. Su Yi Cheng did not look plump, but he was muscular, he was full of muscle, appearing so probably due to his daily exercises, thus during the journey back, seemed to be quite strenuous to Secretary Zheng.

From his appearance, it seemed like a cup wasn’t enough, so An Ran cautiously asks, “Do you want me to pour you another cup?”

Secretary Zheng hurriedly shakes his head, “No need no need, it’s late, I won’t bother you. Plus my girlfriend is waiting for me downstairs.” He had also drank too much tonight, when the party was over, he was planning to get a driver to take him and SU Yi Cheng home, right then his girlfriend called at that time, saying that she was close, and asking if the party was over, if he wanted to go home together. He figured might as well go with her, have her drop off Su Yi Cheng as well, and thus, she was downstairs waiting for him.

“Oh, is that so.” It really is late, so An Ran nods. She doesn’t keep him any longer, and just smiles at him and expresses her thanks, “Thank you for bringing Yi Cheng back, thank your girlfriend on my behalf as well.”

Secretary Zheng smiles at her foolishly and nods, then turns around to leave. An Ran courteously escorts him to the door, and returns to the room after closing the door.

Returning to the room, she only sees Su Yi Cheng lying on the bed. Now there was a faint sound of snoring. His tolerance for alcohol was pretty good, even if he is drunk he wouldn’t do anything to cross boundaries, just lies there peacefully asleep.

An Ran sighs softly, and goes ahead to remove his shoes and socks. She undoes his collar button, so that he could breathe more naturally. After she was finished with everything, An Ran then turns around to go to the bathroom to get some hot water. She wets the towel, wrings it out, and gently wipes his face and hands. As she was wiping she mutters, “I told you not to drink, you didn’t listen at all. Luckily this time you just got drunk, if the next time you drink your stomach illness acts up again, see what I will do to you.” As she said that, she mischievously puts a cross on his forehead. The sleeping Su Yi Cheng starts to frown, and An Ran spits out her tongue at him. Then she gets up to go the bathroom and dump the water out.

Meanwhile, An Ran had not realized, the moment she turned around the person behind her who should be intoxicated suddenly opened his eyes. There was a crafty twinkle in his eyes, there was no sign of intoxication at all.

At night An Ran lies down beside him. She was in light sleep, because she was still worried that during the night he would start to feel unwell, then she would be awake to take care of him.

Su Yi Cheng did not seem to be unwell or show any of those post-drunken behaviour, he just lies there peacefully, with a faint sound of snoring, seeming as if he were sleeping fine.

An Ran once again closes her eyes and dazedly falls asleep, when suddenly she felt something heavy on her. She opens her eyes, only to see that Su Yi Cheng had flipped over, and his thighs were pressing on her legs, his arms tyrannically wrapped around her waist, trapping her body. He looked like he was a sloth, clinging onto her.

He hugs her even closer, nearly choking her. She lightly pats his shoulder, “Yi, Yi Cheng, are you awake?”

Su Yi Cheng doesn’t answer, only snorts, then buries his head into her chest. He tightens his hold around her, his strong thighs rub against her, as if provoking her.

An Ran was starting to get enticed by him, and reaches out about to push him away, but against his strength, she couldn’t help but be skeptical and ask, “Su Yi Cheng, you’re not pretending to be drunk are you!”

Su Yi Cheng still has his eyes closed and does not say anything, appearing to be truly drunk. His head continued to rub against her chest, and his wicked mouth starts to purposely leave kisses on her pyjamas.

“En—” An Ran shivers, reflexively letting out a groan.

“Su Yi Cheng!” An Ran was almost gnashing her teeth, she grabs his face and has him face-to-face with her. This punk better not be playing drunk!

Feigning tipsiness, a certain person’s hand started to feel up An Ran. The large palm that was originally arrested by her had somehow made its way under her clothes, lingering on her silky flesh.

An Ran was flustered by him. Fastening his head at one spot made him unable to take the advantage, and so he took the advantage to use his hands and wander around. She captures his hands once again, even started to grind his hips against her, circulating like that, An Ran was not his opponent at all.

She was still skeptical that he was intoxicated, and looks at his misty appearance. She still wasn’t sure if he truly was intoxicated or pretending!

Last night, in the end, she was still teared down by the belly, on the bedroom floor the pair’s clothes were scattered about. Underneath the quilt, the two were tangled around one another.

When she woke up again Su Yi Cheng was still fast asleep. The sunshine was penetrating through the white window curtains, lighting up the entire room giving it a hazy golden halo, making the people inside it feel like they were in the in-between, a somewhat dream-like aesthetic.

An Ran sighs, looking at his neat child-like countenance as he slept, she couldn’t help but stroke his face. She knew that he wasn’t drunk last night, but was shamelessly pretending, because she remembered that when she was succumbing to his hard to resist instigation, this hateful man purposely asked her if she would forgive him, if she was still mad, if her answer was no, he would deliberately torment her until she was begging for mercy.

Thinking of that, An Ran started to get angry. She scolded underneath her breath, “Scoundrel, big fat scoundrel!” Then she rose, and softly bit his tall nose.

Su Yi Cheng groaned as he woke up. He opened his eyes, and sees this large mien. The tip of his nose was kind of itchy, and he suddenly wrapped his arms around her waist. He flips over to press down on her, and softly pecks her small and graceful lips. He gives her a big fat smile, “Morning!” His mood was great!

An Ran was still angry, and in a low voice scolds him, “You hoodlum, bastard!” Then, peeved, she turns around to deliberately avoid his gaze.

Su Yi Cheng laughs, and deliberately buries his head into her neck, opening his mouth to nip on her smooth shoulders, then softly whispers into her ears, “I’m just acting like a hoodlum for you.” Underneath the quilt, the two were tangled with each other, that additional grip on her waist tightens a bit, making them even closer.

An Ran suddenly turns her head, stares at him. Underneath she can clearly feel the change in him, and quickly pushes him away, “You, get off.”

Su Yi Cheng’s gaze to her turns deeper, there seemed to be a raging flame that had ignited in his eyes. He softly whispers into her ears, “An Ran…..”

An Ran was quickly weeping, her body was still aching, really she won’t be able to stand being tossed around one more time. She was quick to beg for forgiveness, “Su, Su Yi Cheng, I am really tired, let me off okay?”

Su Yi Cheng smiles, buries his head into her neck, taking a deep breath, his voice was taut as he says, “Don’t move, just let me hold you like this for a bit.”

Hearing that, An Ran really did not dare to move. From her past experience, this man gets urges quite easily in the morning, she doesn’t want to fire up ‘that part’!

The two embrace each other like that for a while. She slowly felt that part of his body gradually wane down, then she lightly pats him, “Let, let me get up.”

Not waiting for Su Yi Cheng’s reply, An Ran’s cellphone started to ring. Su Yi Cheng turns over and lets An Ran get up. He reaches out to grab the cellphone and hand it over to her, then turns around and heads to the bathroom.

“hu—” An Ran lets out a long sigh, then answers the phone, “Hello.” Listening to the other person on the line, An Ran suddenly widens her eyes, getting worked up, “What? How could this be!”


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First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 104 Translation

104. Wife, I was wrong


The business bureaucracy was like a battle field, there were no eternal friends. To put it frankly, everyone is out for their own interest, for power. To be an official is like an art, your weapon was your intelligence, your strategy.

On this battlefield without smoke, no one is your comrade, no one will eternally stand on your side. Perhaps they will support you at first, but the support is merely to exploit you, to create more beneficial conditions for themselves, so there is no eternal support in officialdom. When you have no more use for them, even your status is becoming a threat to them, when that time comes, perhaps it is time for them to dispose you.

When Su Yi Cheng was called into the office by Ling Chuan Jiang, Su Yi Cheng had a bad premonition. Although he wasn’t certain, but the feeling was very strong.

“Knock knock knock…” Su Yi Cheng taps on the door, only to hear a strict voice call out from inside, “Come in.”

Su Yi Cheng then opens the door and enters. He closes the door, and walks over to the man behind the large desk. He speaks in a low voice, “Mayor Ling, you were looking for me.”

Ling Chuan Jiang then lifts up his head. He glances at him, and nods, “Take a seat.” He points at the chair in front of the desk.

Su Yi Cheng doesn’t say much more, nods, and pulls the chair out to sit.

Ling Chuan Jiang puts down the document in his hands, then takes off the thick spectacles resting on his nose bridge. He leans back against the chair, and faintly starts to ask, “Yi Cheng ah, how long have you been working for me?”

“3 years and 5 months.” Su Yi Cheng faintly replies, his tone stable.

Ling Chuan Jiang nods, and sighs ruefully, “Time really flies by. When I think back to when you first took part in the work on behalf of the county and made a report to the municipal committee, back then you were still green and did not understand anything, and now you can already independently represent yourself. You already have some political achievements, I reckon there is no need to wait for me to retire.. Your accomplishments have already surpassed mine.” Looking at him, Ling Chuan Jiang seemed to have a deeper meaning in his eyes.

“Mayor Ling is flattering me. Everything is because of your promotion of me.” Su Yi Cheng faintly replies. He looked straight into his eyes, his expression magnanimous.

Ling Chuan Jiang smiles and shakes his head, and with regret he says, “Back then I thought that you and Ling Ran would get married, and you have always been the son-in-law that I’ve yearned for. Even when Ling Ran left, this thought has never left my mind.” Saying so, he smiles helplessly, “Only, only I didn’t expect that things would end up this way.”

“The world is difficult to anticipate.” Su Yi Cheng faintly replies, his expression neither sad nor happy, his attitude neither servile nor overbearing.

Ling Chuan Jiang nods, and sighs regretfully, “The world indeed is difficult to anticipate!” Then he shakes his head, and says, “No matter, no need to talk about those stuff.” He sits up, grabs the glasses from the desk and puts it back on, as he says, “The files from the Inspection Department has come, regarding your appointment, I already received it yesterday. It’s confirmed that you will take up post as Ke Ji City’s ‘Urban Construction Mayor’. The day after tomorrow the municipal committee will formally convene a conference for your post and the Ke Ji City program initiation ceremony.” As he spoke, he picks up the document on his desk and hands it to him, “Take a look at it.”

Su Yi Cheng accepts it, it was his office documents, later he will be promoted from the mayor’s assistant to Ke Ji City’s ‘Urban Construction Mayor’. The position was equal to Jiang City’s Deputy Mayor, the second-in-command!

Ling Chuan Jiang looks at him, smiling yet not as he says, “In the future it will be the youngster’s world. We elderly people, it is time to retire.”

Su Yi Cheng stares at him for a while, but doesn’t say anything.



When Su Yi Cheng returned home, he sees An Ran sitting in the living room, mumbling to herself, and in front of her, spread out on the coffee table was an A4 paper, evidently it was the ‘husband and wife agreement’ that she had specially printed out, only the content had been slightly modified by a certain somebody.

Upon seeing the situation, he naturally understood. He faintly smiles and lays down his briefcase, sits down beside her, and reaches out to hug An Ran, but she had slapped his hand away. She turns around and looks at him coldly, pointing to the ‘husband and wife agreement’, and says, “Would you care to explain what on earth happened!”

Su Yi Cheng subconsciously smiles and rubs his nose, softly calling, “Wife.” He advances and gives her a hug, letting her flap around but not letting go. At the same time he grieves, “Wife, if I had agreed to your agreement, I will implode.”

An Ran glares at him. He still has excuses! She pushes him, puts a hand on her waist, and says, “You’re quibbling!” Then she reaches out and picks up the agreement on the table, pointing out the word ‘Rest’ on the paper, and says, “You tell me, how did you add this word, your conduct was deceitful, maliciously deceitful!”

Su Yi Cheng looks at the word that he had added in. Naturally he wasn’t going to tell her that when he was looking over each word and when she was not paying attention he had added that word. He smiles apologetically and says, “Wife, what do you want to eat tonight, I will make it for you.”

“Don’t you dare change the topic!” An Ran looks at him coldly. She was determined and would not back down at all. Today she must get an outcome, otherwise wouldn’t she fall for his schemes every day!

Su Yi Cheng sighs. He’s afraid that he wouldn’t be able to dodge this today, looking at An Ran, with hidden bitterness he says, “Wife, if I really were to agree, if we really do it once a week, aren’t you afraid I will implode!”

He said it so frankly, hearing it, An Ran’s face heated up. Due to the temperature on her face rising, her little white face also immediately turned bright red. She mutters a scold under her breath, “You rascal.”

In response, Su Yi Cheng took advantage and approaches, and hugs her from behind. His chin rests on her shoulder, he mumbles, “Wife, you are really that heartless that you would implode me, you will miss out on a lot of fortune.”

An Ran felt more embarrassed because of him. Her skin was originally thin, especially in this aspect, she found it hard to speak about. She uses her strength to push him away, blushing ferociously as if she would drip blood. She springs up, and looks at him hatefully, “Sleep on the couch tonight, don’t come on my bed, see if you will implode!” After she was done, she gets up with a red face, and doesn’t turn her head back as she goes into the room with a ‘thump—’ of the door.

Su Yi Cheng blankly stares at the bedroom door. A while later, he finally reacts, and chuckles. He thought that she was just peeved, only needs a little coaxing and it’ll be fine. He gets up to rap on the door, “An Ran, open the door. I admit that I was wrong, isn’t that alright.”

Even after a while no one opened the door. When he raised his hand to knock on the door again, his hand was still in mid-air, when the door opens, but it was at the time when Su Yi Cheng hadn’t yet reacted, so his hand was suddenly stuffed with things, only to hear her rapidly speak, “For you!” Then, not waiting for him to ask what and his hands full of stuff, the door was shut once again, blocking him out.

Su Yi Cheng stares blankly at the door for a while, then finally notices that the things placed in his hands were his bathroom stuff and pyjamas. Looking at them the situation seemed clear, Su Yi Cheng then realized, that An Ran was serious, and he was driven away by his own wife!



The next day, An Ran twists her neck around as she appears from the bedroom. In the kitchen, Su Yi Cheng was busy making breakfast. Seeing her appear from the bedroom, he smiles and says, “Come take a seat, breakfast will be ready right away.”

He turns around once again and puts the vegetables in his hands into the pot to boil.

Not one minute later, he cracks an egg and fries it in the pan, then puts both of it on their plates. He turns around again and pours her a cup of milk, “Here, eat it while it’s hot.” He sits down on the stool, and An Ran mumbles, frowning. She rubs her sore neck. Habits were truly a fearful thing, it hasn’t been that long, but she isn’t used to having him not by her side, and can’t even sleep. And not having his arm as a pillow, when she got up this morning she tragically discovered that she had a stiff neck!

Su Yi Cheng can see that she was unwell. He puts down his knife and fork, and attentively massages her incredibly sore neck, at the same time he asks, “How is it, does this feel a little more comfortable?”

An Ran doesn’t say anything, only the corner of her mouth faintly curves up, betraying her mood.

Su Yi Cheng naturally saw her smile, doesn’t ask much, and continues his hand movements massaging her neck.

Looking at the time, she was afraid that he wouldn’t make it to work on time, so she evades him, and purposely speaks rigidly, “Eat breakfast! Later on you will blame me for wasting your time.”

Su Yi Cheng smiles. Hearing that, he returns to his seat, looks at her, and takes a big mouthful.

An Ran really got angry this time. Until right before Su Yi Cheng had to go to work, he wanted to hug her and give her a kiss goodbye, but was evaded by her. She looks him in the eye, and directly turns around and goes into the room.

Su Yi Cheng rubs his nose helplessly, this time it seemed he fell flat, An Ran’s temperament was bigger than he had thought, there was apparently no use in coaxing her.

This particular day Su Yi Cheng was actually quite busy. Tomorrow he has a conference on his new post, as well as Ke Ji City’s official launch day, so today he has quite a few things to prepare, and write a speech for tomorrow. Besides, tomorrow was the official project launch of Ke Ji City, so they have to start the bidding. For the next few weeks, he reckons that he will be very busy, that is the necessary price of taking a new position.

“Knock knock knock.” Secretary Zheng knocks. He was holding the materials that Su Yi Cheng told him to prepare, and respectfully hands it over, “Special Assistant Su, this the material that you wanted.”

Su Yi Cheng reaches out and accepts it. When Secretary Zheng was about to leave he suddenly calls out to him, “Secretary Zheng, wait a moment.”

Secretary Zheng turns, look at him, and asks, “Is there anything else you would like?”

Appearing as if he were expecting for instructions, Su Yi Cheng recalled the awkward appearance of the little girl at home. He does not want to sleep in the guest room again. The guest room seemed cold, he still feels that he will have to hug her in order fall asleep soundly.

“Cough cough…” He coughs lightly. Su Yi Cheng was a bit embarrassed, after all he did not have experience in this matter, but for his own benefit, nevertheless he stiffly starts to ask, “Secretary Zheng, you have a girlfriend right!” He recalls the three years that Secretary Zheng has been with him, since his transfer as a Mayor’s Special Assistant, he has always been his secretary. He remembers that he has mentioned before, that he had a girlfriend.

“Uh.” Secretary Zheng was expecting instructions for more work, and did not expect this personal question. He was stunned for a few minutes, then nods, replying, “Yes, I do. Is there an issue?” Don’t tell him there’s a new rule that doesn’t allow staff to have girlfriends!

“Then, have you guys had an argument?” Su Yi Cheng asks. He was ready to learn from Secretary Zheng’s experience.

“Uh, we’ve been together for a long time. There have been times when there was conflict.” Although he doesn’t really understand why he was asking, Secretary Zheng nevertheless answers honestly.

“Then, how did you make up?” Su Yi Cheng looks eagerly at him as he asks. How to make up was the key question he had been waiting to ask!

Secretary Zheng was no fool, so he cautiously asks, “Special Assistant Su, did you and the lady have a falling out?” Otherwise why would he ask these! However he was actually curious, Special Assistant Su is so kindly and refined, he always wore a smile, and his character always gentle and considerate above all. What kind of conflict could this sort of person have with his wife?

Su Yi Cheng chokes thanks to his reply, “Cough cough.” He coughs softly for a few times, then says, “P-perhaps. First tell me what you would normally do in this situation.”

Pulling in his lips, he tried his best to suppress a smile. Secretary Zheng says in deadpan, “That depends on who was wrong. If it was you, then first you need to apologize.”

“Apologize?” But it had no use! Su Yi Cheng pondered.

“It is said that, apologies between lovers is also a skill, there is a method.” As he said that, Secretary Zheng seemed to be experienced. He pulls out a chair, and sits his butt on it. “Women are petty animals, she doesn’t care who is right or wrong, in their dictionary, the other person is always wrong, and she is always right. So don’t delve into who is right or wrong, taking the initiative and admitting your mistake is the most important thing. Besides, women love romance and romantic men, if when you apologize you give them a bouquet of pretty roses, all their attention goes to the bouquet in your hands, thereby making it easier for them to accept your apology. Of course after giving the bouquet you must take her to a nice restaurant, go to those romantic Western restaurants, then you guys have a candle-lit dinner, pair it up with red wine and that would be perfection. The night would end with the woman forgetting all unhappy thoughts.” Secretary Zheng said in seriousness.

“Then, according to what you just said I should go buy some flowers?” Su Yi Cheng asks.

“Correct, choose her favourite. If you bought one that she doesn’t like, then it will all fail.” Secretary Zheng said.

Su Yi Cheng nods, and mutters to himself, “So apologizing has this kind of method.” He suddenly thought of another question, and raises his head to stare at Secretary Zheng and asks, “Secretary Zheng, do you always make mistakes?” Otherwise how would he know it so well.

Secretary Zheng stiffens up, and shyly says, “This, it doesn’t matter who was wrong, the man is always wrong. As it is men should be generous, should not be fussy.”

Su Yi Cheng looks at him, a faint smile emerges from the corner of his mouth.

After giving the lecture on the technique of apologizing, Secretary Zheng looked at him curiously, and asks, “Say, Special Assistant, what fight did you guys have?” He always felt that although the beginning of Su Yi Cheng’s marriage was a bit careless, but seeing his attitude towards his wife, it seemed like they were quite harmonious. Not only that it seemed that he really loved and was quite fond of his wife, before he had always came to pick up and drop off his wife for work.

Su Yi Cheng was still pondering on Secretary Zheng’s apologizing procedure. Hearing what was said he raised his head to look at him, and faintly laughs, “Are you very idle? If you are free then don’t mind me if I give you some more work.”

Secretary Zheng felt chills down his back. Su Yi Cheng was clearly smiling as he was talking to him, but he felt like the him right now is a more grave than before and even scarier. He quickly waves his hand and says, “Um, um I still have a few things that I haven’t done, I, I will get busy.” Saying that, he doesn’t wait for him to reply, and hastens to flee from his office.

Su Yi Cheng, left alone in his office, has an unsmiling-smile on his lips, finely polishing through Secretary Zheng’s so-called method of apologizing. Tonight, after work, Su Yi Cheng decided to listen to Secretary Zheng’s instructions. He drove his car down to the flower shop, and asked the staff to bundle up their prettiest roses. While he was wandering around in the flower shop, he happened to see an interesting card on the counter. As a result he had the person pull the card out, asked for a pen, and earnestly wrote a message on the card.

This is the second time that he has walked down the street with a bouquet of flowers. The last time was 7 years ago when he was about to propose to Ling Ran, at Ye Zi Wen’s suggestion he had a diamond ring ready, and had specially bought a bouquet. However even though it was like that, walking down the street while holding a large bouquet, he felt it was incredibly awkward. He had an urge to stuff the bouquet onto Ye Zi Wen’s chest, but unsure of why, this time he surprisingly was excited, looking forward to An Ran’s appearance upon seeing him holding up a bouquet of flowers, would she cry? Would she laugh?

As Su Yi Cheng had almost reached his car, suddenly from behind a figure scuttled away, nearly knocking the flowers from his hands. Luckily he had reacted quickly, and dodged, directly avoiding. However, avoiding was simply avoiding, the person still wasn’t careful and bumped into the bouquet, causing the card resting in the flowers to fall.

Su Yi Cheng caught sight of the person, and couldn’t help but frown, “Yi Jiao!”

Su Yi jiao raised her head. She had some tears left on her face. Meeting Su Yi Cheng was really unexpected. “Brother!”

“What happened? Are you crying?” Su Yi Cheng did not miss the tears that had not yet dried.

“Uh.” Su Yi Jiao was speechless, and quickly uses her hands to wipe the tears on her face. She forces and smile and explains, “N-no, something just blew into my eyes.”

Su Yi Cheng naturally knew how lame her excuse was, but since she doesn’t want to say, he won’t interrogate her. He just faintly asks, “You alright?” His voice was not loud, but his tone was actually concerned.

Scared that he would worry about her, Su Yi Jiao puts on a big smile, and with a clear voice says, “Yup, I’ll be fine!”

Su Yi Cheng nods, and lovingly rubs her head.

Su Yi Jiao then noticed the large bouquet of flowers clasped in his hands, and asks curiously, “Brother, such a large bouquet of roses, is today an anniversary?”

Su Yi Cheng was uneasy, and purses his lips. He nods, and says, “Yeah, our anniversary.” Comparing to this, is much better than letting her know that he had offended her sister-in-law, and is making an effort to apologize!

Su Yi Jiao looks at him oddly, and jokes, “I don’t see it, brother since when did you know how to be romantic?”

He impolitely pats her forehead, Su Yi Cheng impatiently says, “Impolite.” He raises his arm and looks at the time, “Alright, I have to go, your sister-in-law is still waiting for me at home.”

Su Yi Jiao winks at him ambiguously, “Work hard ha, not only is mom waiting to hold a big fat grandchild, I am also waiting to be an aunt.”

Su Yi Cheng had a good laugh, doesn’t reply, and just turns around preparing to walk the few steps to his car.

“Ha ha ha.” Su Yi Jiao laughs out loud. When she was about turn around to walk she happened to see the card on the ground. She picks it up and opens it. She recognizes the writing, it belonged to her brother. However the content of the writing made her eyes pop out.

‘Wife—I’m sorry!’


When Su Yi Cheng reached home, he only saw that the living room was absolutely empty. He changed his shoes, calling out as he walked forward, “An Ran?”

Hearing noise, An Ran came out from the studio, dressed in her home clothes. Her hair trailed over her shoulders. Seeing him coming in with a bouquet of flowers, her expression wasn’t too excessively surprised nor pleasantly surprised, only smiling yet not while looking at him, apparently knowing that he would be coming home with flowers.

Su Yi Cheng held the flowers and walked over to her. He was about to open his mouth and start to apologize, but did not expect to be interrupted by her first.

“Are these flowers for me?” An Ran faintly asks. The corner of her mouth a faint smile, smiling yet not smiling.

Su Yi Cheng nods, and was about to start, “Um---”

Only to see An Ran reaching out and accepting the flowers from his hands, “Thanks, they’re beautiful.” After saying that, she deliberately searches through the bouquet, but did not find anything. She raises her head to look at him and asks, “Where’s the card?”

“Uh.” Su Yi Cheng was speechless. He advances and looks at the bouquet. The card that he had specifically put into the bouquet was gone. But he had suddenly thought of something, and raises his head to look at An Ran, and suspiciously says, “How did you know!”

She seemed to already know, so that was why she wasn’t surprised or pleasantly surprised.

An Ran looks at him. Carrying the bouquet she sits up straight on the sofa, and starts to say, “Just a moment ago Mom called, asking if we had fought, said that you bought a big bouquet and even wrote a card apologizing to me.”

“How did mom---” Suddenly he recalled bumping into Yi Jiao a moment ago. Then everything became clear. He assumed the card had dropped then, and Yi Jiao that brat had picked it up, then blabbed to mother!

Looking at An Ran who was sniffing the flowers, Su Yi Cheng also sat himself beside her, and puts his hand on her shoulder, giggling like a hoodlum, “Wife, don’t be angry okay?”

An Ran glances at him, pats the hand on her shoulder, and craftily says, “No card--I won’t accept the apology.” Saying that, she held the bouquet and got up to leave.


---END OF CHAPTER---


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