Saturday 22 December 2018

First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 126 Translation

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126 You are my girlfriend

Su Yi Cheng’s eyes steadily looked at the documents in his hand, which  recorded that on June 2nd, An Ran had tried a pearl necklace in front of a  jewelry counter of 'Yin Qin Department Store' on Guilin Road, and as  witnessed by the store clerk personally, Zhou Han had directly gifted the  pearl necklace that is worth nearly a million dollars to An Ran. There  was even a video from the surveillance cameras in the store at that time.  The edited video clearly shows the two of them and it can clearly identify  the two as Zhou Han and An Ran. 

Yan Li took the cigarette case on the table again, and pulled out a  cigarette from the inside. He sucked a mouthful and spit out a white smoke  circle. He said, "Your wife is not simple either, using $5000 to purchase a  pearl with a value of nearly one million dollars, she is really amazing!"

Su Yi Cheng did not speak, looking at the information on hand, he flipped  over to the next page, and the other page had An Ran’s account and Zhou  Han’s account details. That day's afternoon, less than an hour after  leaving the mall, An Ran did indeed made a transfer of $5,000 to Zhou Han,  and even stated the purpose of this transfer, - buy a pearl necklace.

“She thought that it would be perfect having done this, but she obviously  hadn't placed much thought into it, using a low value to purchase something  of obvious higher value, if the difference is too big in comparison with  market prices, it can also be constituted as bribery.” Yan Li smokes while  saying, "The colleagues of the Disciplinary Committee have began contacting  her."

Su Yi Cheng frowned unpleasantly, putting down the documents in his hand,  looked up at him and said, "Can I call her?"

Yan Li watching him, said after a long time, "You know this is not  possible."

Su Yi Cheng did not speak, steadily watching him, he knew that his request  was rude, he was just worried, worried that everything was too sudden, An  Ran simply did not have enough time to prepare for this, she was still so  frightened that she had a nightmare last night! Moreover, she is with child  now!

Yan Li looked back at him and shoved the cigarette in his hand in the  ashtray. He said, "When she comes over, I have to take a good look at what  kind of woman she is, to turn you astray and even to give up your own  principles."

"An Ran will not do such a thing." He remembered that she had said that the  necklace she bought was a gift to Lin Li, this was the gift she bought when  Lin Li was getting married, but he did not expect that they would dig up the whole thing.

Yan Li looked at him, and after a moment he asked, "Do you know about this  necklace?"

Su Yi Cheng looked back at him, nodded and said frankly, "I do."

Yan Li frowned, then continue to ask, "Is it because of the necklace, you  ignored others' opinions this time and insisted on giving the Ke Ji City  project to 'Bohai Properties' that is without any concrete experience and  ability, is this the case?"

"No, the Ke Ji City project selected 'Bohai Properties' who is without too  much experience is the result of the voting of the people in the China  Merchants Office. Everything is in accordance to the procedure, and there  are no bias." Su Yi Cheng said truthfully, his expression calm.

Yan Li watched him for a long time, then took the documents and stood up  again. When he turned and went out, he held the doorknob and said, "I will  inform your dad." With the Su family's background, even if Su Yi Cheng  really received bribes, with Su Wenqing and Su Hannian's connections and  relationships, there is no problem keeping him safe.

Su Yi Cheng didn't speak. He was most worried about An Ran at the moment.  He do not know if she would be frightened by this. She is so timid that even a loud  firecracker will scare her.

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Because she couldn't find Su Yi Cheng and didn't want her parents to worry,  An Ran finally called Lin Li. Maybe she was really tired, she only felt that  her eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, and then during the time when  she waited for Lin Li to come over, she fell asleep, and the phone that was  on the table rang a few times but didn't wake her up.

When she woke up in a daze, Lin Li had came over. Seeing her up she  went over. She asked in a hurry, "Anzi how are you, how do you feel, do you  feel uncomfortable anywhere? Does your tummy still feel any throbbing  pain?" The tenseness between her eyebrows reveals her worry and anxiety at  the moment.

An Ran smiled at her to placate her, shook her head, reached out and  caressed her belly as if able to feel the child moving inside. The anxiety  in her heart slowly subsided, and then she looked up at Lin Li, slightly  apologetic saying, "I caused you to miss work didn't I?" She was so sorry  about it, she knows that Lin Li had just started in the company, taking  excessive leaves will definitely let their department manager have negative opinions  about her, but she did not know where Su Yi Cheng is and as she don't want  to worry her parents, the only one she is able to contact in the end is  her.

Seemingly able to see through her. Lin Li said with annoyance,"What stupid  words are you saying, how is work more important than you, when you called  you sounded so weak, and said that you are in the hospital, I was almost  scared to death by you!" As she speaks, she reached out and touched her  cheek and said, "Fortunately, you are fine, everything's okay."

An Ran nodded, with a faint smile on her lips.

The nurse came in with documents at this time, looked up and saw her,  smiled and said, "You are awake."

An Ran nodded and smiled softly at her.

"There are no major issues. we had just measured the fetal heartbeat. The  baby's situation is normal. No worries." Flipping over the information, the  nurse said thus, closed the folder and hugged it on her chest, reminding  her, "Now that you are a mother, everything needs to be in consideration  for the baby in your stomach. The baby is still very fragile. It is  entirely dependent on the mother. Your emotions will directly affect your  child. Therefore, you should avoid excessive emotional changes in the  future. It is most important to keep your mood cheerful at all times,  otherwise if you are unhappy then your baby will also be unhappy."

Hearing this, An Ran nodded, "En, I know now."

The nurse did not say anything more. She took the thermometer and measured  her temperature. Everything was normal. Then she smiled and said, "Okay,  you should take a good rest these two days. When you were admitted, there  were some bleeding, there were also minor signs of miscarriage, so you have  to stay in bed for these two days and try to move as little as possible. It  is best to stay in the hospital for a few days."

"En, thank you nurse." An Ran smiled and thanked her.

The nurse did not say anything more, but reminded that she must take a rest  and relax her mood.

After the nurse went out, Lin Li looked at her, and she asked, "What  happened to you today? How did this happen? Who did you run into?"

An Ran shook her head and smiled at her. "It's nothing, I was just not careful."  She didn't want to say much about today's business. Just like the nurse had  just said, she wants to maintain a happy mood and not be upset by the bad  mood. The matter has really affected her emotions. This time was really a  scare to her, she can't bear it happening again.

Seeing that she didn't want to say, Lin Li didn't force her further. She  turned her head and asked, "Where is your great leader Su? Is he in a  meeting?" This meeting has gone on for too long already, it's almost five o'clock  now, no matter what it should almost be over, it's almost knockoff time  after all.

An Ran shook her head, she has no idea. She had made some phone calls to  him before, but no one answered. She didn't know if he was busy, but this  kind of situations where he did not return her call even after so long has  never happen before. No matter how busy, seeing her calling him, he will  return a call to her, but just not today.

Looking at the mobile phone on the bedside table, she reached out for it.  "I will call him again."

After taking the mobile phone, she found out that she had several missed  calls, all of which were called from a city landline. She frowned, "How  come there are so many missed calls?"

Lin Li was curious and asked, "What phone number is this, who is it from?"

An Ran shook her head and said, "I don't know, it's a landline, I don't  recognize it."

"Let me see." Lin Li looked at her suspiciously, and reached out and took  the phone in her hand. Looking at the number displayed on the screen, there  were 5 missed calls. Thinking of her own experience, she said, "It must be  from those telemarketers, these people are the most annoying." Saying  this, yet feeling a little differently, she whispered and said, "But it is  rare for them to be so persistent, they even call so many times  consecutively!"

An Ran also felt it to be strange, but she could not think of who would  call her so many times.

Just when both of them were puzzled, the mobile phone held in Lin Li’s hand  rang again. It was still from the same landline number. Lin Li looked at An  Ran and said, “Let me pick it up?”

An Ran nodded, no comments.

The phone rang a few times, and Lin Li decided to answer it then, "Hello?"

"Is this Gu An Ran?" There was a serious male voice on the phone, with a  low tone of voice.

Lin Li frowned and asked, "Who are you?"

The person on the other side did not answer Lin Li’s question, but asked  directly, “Where is Miss Gu now? We have something to ask Miss Gu about to  better understand a situation.”

Lin Li rolled her eyes and said, "I am asking you who you are! Also,  understand the situation, what is the situation you want to understand!?"  As she asked she questioned An Ran with a glance.

Hearing this, An Ran also frowns, puzzled.

The person on the other side of the phone is obviously unhappy with her  uncooperation. The low voice said, "Miss Gu just needs to tell us where you  are now. We are the people from the Disciplinary Committee. As for what  happened, we will inform you when we ask you to come back later to  cooperate with the investigation."

"I don't care what investigation you are talking about or what situation to  understand, now it is you calling me, if you are so insincere to not even  say who you are, then we have no need to continue to drag this out." Saying  this Lin Li directly hang up the phone. Somewhat irritated she said, "Who  does he thinks he is, what a joke, without explaining anything he wants me  to tell him your location, and inexplicably say something about  investigating something, does he think I am an idiot, if I tell him  anything then pigs will fly."

"What did the man say?" An Ran looked at Lin Li with a puzzled look. She  was faintly worried. She heard something about investigations and something  about understand some situations. She didn't know if it is what she was  thinking about, and she didn't know if the reason that Su Yi Cheng didn't  pick up was related to this.

"Who knows, said a bunch of inexplicable things that people can not  understand, but still do not say their name, there are really all sorts of  people." Lin Li said angrily, put the phone back on the bedside table and  say to An Ran. "Don't frown, don't think too much. You forgot what the  nurse just said. She said that you have to rest more. Also, the most  important thing is to keep your mood happy. When you are happy that my  godson will also be happy."

An Ran pressed her lips and looked at the phone on the table, then said,  "Give me the phone."

"Sigh, it's fine, maybe your family's great leader Su is really busy, just  think, he is such a big official, he must take care of a ton of matters  usually, just don't worry." Lin Li is also very smart, just from those  words said on the phone, and thinking of Su Yi Cheng’s identity. Naturally,  she can think of something. It’s just that An Ran is still in the hospital  bed. From just before, the young nurse had even just said that she should  pay attention to her rest and emotions. She didn’t want her to be affected  by negative emotions when she had just calm down. 

"Lin Li, give me the mobile phone. If you don't give it to me, I would  still worry. I know that something may have happened to Su Yi Cheng." An  Ran said calmly, but her heart was flustered. She remembered what Ling Ran  had said when they met previously. She had not meant it as a scare but she  had really meant it.

"An Ran..." Lin Li looked at her, her expression was worried.

An Ran smiled at her, reached out and stroked her stomach, and whispered,  "I am prepared, and I also believe in Su Yi Cheng, I will not let anything  happen to the baby, rest assured."

Lin Li didn't say anything more. She took the mobile phone on the bedside  table and handed it over to her.

An Ran took it over, searched the call record, and looked at the number on  the watch for a while, then dialed directly.

The phone was connected very quickly, almost as it was connected it was  already picked up. The receiver was still the same man who was just on the  phone with Lin Li. It was just that the voice was lower and less serious,  and it sounded more surprised. "Gu Anran?"

An Ran took a deep breath and nodded and said, "En, yes it is me."

The phone went silent, and said sharply, "How is this voice and the one  just now not the same?"

"Just now was my friend's." An Ran explained, and asked, "Do you have any  business with me?"

"Where are you now, we are the people from the Disciplinary Committee,  there are some questions about Su Yi Cheng we want to ask you, I hope you  can cooperate with our work." The man said.

An Ran's heart sank, sure enough, it is what she had guessed. The hand on  the pure white quilt tightened and she asks, "Yi Cheng, is Yi Cheng with you now?"

"Ms Gu, there are matters that you should not be asking or even be allowed  to ask. You only have to tell us your current location, we will have our  colleagues over to look for you." The phone said a little seriously.

An Ran was silent, after a while, only said, "I, I am in the Department of  Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Fifth Hospital of the City, you can come  over now."

Hanging up the phone, Lin Li asked curiously on the side. "What did he  say?"

An Ran shook her head, but her hand clutched the phone tightly and said,  "Nothing at all."

Lin Li looked at her and probed. "Your family's Su Yi Cheng is really -"

"No he did not!" An Ran interrupted what she had not finished saying, only  saying, "It's not what you think, Yi Cheng will not do things that violate  his principles."

Lin Li looked at her, didn't ask more, just nodded and said, "En, then you  can rest assured that as long as he doesn't do what he shouldn't do, then  there is nothing to worry about." Actually, from her brief interactions  with Su Yi Cheng she also felt that Su Yi Cheng should not be this kind of  person.

An Ran did not speak, just steadily looking at the phone, slowly covering  her still flat belly with her hand.

Lin Li did not speak as well, just looking at her, the atmosphere in the  ward got heavy.

An Ran stared at the mobile phone in a daze, suddenly her hand was held by  another hand, she turned to look, and saw Lin Li faintly smiled at her,  comforting her, "Do not worry."

An Ran looked at her, her nose was soured, but she stubbornly looked up and  forced her tears back. She nodded hard to her. "Uh-huh." Su Yi Cheng  had guaranteed her, he will be fine, although she is worried, but she still  believe in his words.

Lin Li’s mobile phone rang at this time, and she took it out from her bag.  It was an unknown number, but it was also the number of Jiang city. She  looked up at An Ran and said, “I will answer the phone first.” Saying this  she headed outside.

In the aisle, Lin Li picked up the phone and probed, "Hello, who is this?"

Ignoring Lin Li’s question, the voice on the phone directly asks, “Where  are you now?”

Lin Li frowned, this voice seems familiar, but she couldn’t remember who  it was, and where she heard it from. She frowned and asked, "Who are you?"

"Zhou Han." On the other side of the phone, the answer came without a hint  of temperature, no trace of feelings. "You are not in the company?"

Lin Li paused for a long while, it is too unexpected, hey, can't she take a  day of leave? Must the CEO of the company personally call her because of  this?! Because she didn't want to enter the company for less than a week  and was fired. Lin Li said in a hurry, "That I, I have already inform  Manager Su about taking a day of leave, and it was approved by her." What  she didn't say is that when she asked the old witch for approval, she  doesn't look too approving of it. It seems that for her who has just come  to work for less than a week, there is a lot of dissatisfaction with the  leave.

Without paying attention to her explanation, Zhou Han once again asked,  "Where are you now?"

"Ermmm" Lin Li paused, cautiously asked, "Excuse me, is there anything  wrong?" She is just a small sales employee who had just entered the  company, and even till now she has not sold a single house. As a company  leader, he wouldn't be talking shop to an employee like her right? But if  it's not talk about work, what else can they talk about?

Lin Li seemed to hear Zhou Han sighing on the phone. Without waiting for  her to confirm if she heard wrong his low voice rang in her ear and said,  "Just listen, I don't care about where you are now. But later, if someone  calls you and says that the person is from the Disciplinary Committee and  wants you to cooperate with the investigation, you will answer as I tell  you to."

"Erm, just what are you saying?" Lin Li asked.

"I haven't finished!" Zhou Han on the line somewhat aggravated his tone,  and then asked, "In the past Gu An Ran had sent you a pearl necklace, where  is the necklace now?"

"Pearl necklace?" Lin Li thought for a while, remembering the day before  she got married with Cheng Xiang, An Ran actually sent a pearl necklace to  her, and the necklace is now at the apartment that An Ran had rented to  her. But the question is, "How did you know about that?!"

"Because I sold that necklace to her." Zhou Han answered indifferently.

Lin Li was surprised. She thought that An Ran had gone to the mall to pick  the gift for her, but she remembered that the necklace was very beautiful.

"Listen, if anyone ask you later what relationship you have with me, you  will say that you are my girlfriend, do you understand?" Zhou Han said over  the phone.

Hearing this, Lin Li widen her eyes, "What, girlfriend? Why?" Why did she  have to say this?

"If you want Gu An Ran and Su Yi Cheng to be fine, you will do as I asked."  Zhou Han said with a low voice.

Lin Li’s brows were tightly crumpled, and she got more and more confused.  Then said, “I don’t quite understand what you mean?”

"You don't need to understand, just know that your current identity is my  girlfriend, and that pearl necklace is what I got An Ran to pass to you,  and the purpose is to please you. Remember these points will be enough."  Zhou Han said quickly.

Lin Li did not speak, and was not able to digest what he had just said. She  really is not aware of what is happening now. Just what is what now?

Foolishly she asked, "Why should I say that I am your girlfriend?"

Zhou Han on the other side of the phone seemed to be somewhat annoyed with  her. He seemed to be gnashing his teeth as he says, "Why, because I am your  boss, and this is the job I gave you, so you must complete it! Don't ask  why again. Remember what I just said, when the time comes just answer  accordingly! Otherwise, don't bother to come to work later." After that,  without waiting for Lin Li to talk, he hang up the phone directly.

Lin Li looked at the black screen in her hand, and it took a long time for  her to react. She whispered to herself and said, "Who does he think he is?"  But after carefully thinking about what he just said, she seem to  understand something. Turning around wanting to go back to the ward and  speaking to An Ran. She saw a few serious looking men in the aisle of the  hospital coming over to her under the guidance of the nurse. Lin Li’s  reaction was late, and she looked at them going into An Ran's ward, after  coming back to her senses, she wanted to go in, but was blocked by the man  at the end, and he said with a sullen face, "Apologies, we are  interrogating, you can't go in."


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9 comments :

  1. Yeaaaah Zhou Han and Lin Li ‘s ship is sailing

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  2. Thankfully the intervinients in this whole mess created by that scheming biatch are all related and ZH Is willing to protect YC. What a great chess play, and finally the other ship seems to be able to sail. But thinks won't stop here right, that obnoxious person won't stop here I fear. Merry Christmas

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  3. By the way I'm wondering how they will cope if it's found that it was a wedding gift? A plot hole or will he say that he fell for her despite that.. Hum

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    1. can always say that despite knowing she was getting married he still send her the gift anyways to please her and after the wedding did not work out he pursue and won her over. given his past history with LR I think ppl will believe ZH has tendency to do that. BTW this is not spoiler just a deduction from what is happening and chipchipi's plot hole discussion

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  4. And this bad news chapter just had to be posted around Christmas time! I feel awful!

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  5. Nope, went to comments first. Saving this chapter till good news shows. Merry Christmas!!

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  6. Joecck my thoughts were along the same line regarding the pearl necklace being a wedding gift. I agree that it is not necessarily a plot hole. Zhou Han does have a history of pursuing others fiancée. Thanks for the chapters joecck! Love your translation efforts well done.

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