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147. YAN pictures
“An Ran, did you see that video on the internet today?”
“What video?” An Ran was a little puzzled. She just got out of bed, even if she did get up earlier, because of her pregnancy she hadn’t turned on the computer recently, what videos or what not, she simply can’t know what’s going on.
Lin Li on the other side seemed to suddenly think of something, was silent for a long time. Finally she still started to speak heavily, asked, “An Zi, did Su Yi Cheng come home last night?”
Lin Li’s tone was a bit solemn, which was not like her usual carefree self. Her tone made An Ran somewhat uneasy, and with some uncertainty asked, “Lin Li, did something happen?”
Lin Li did not directly answer her question, and firmly asked, “Last night, did Su Yi Cheng come back home or not.”
“Su Yi Cheng came back last night.” An Ran said. “Just a little late.” She remembered waking up at 11pm last night when Su Yi Cheng carried her back into the room.
“Hehe.” Lin Li sneered on the phone.
An Ran frowned, “Lin Li, just what is going on, is it related to Yi Cheng?” She asked if Su Yi Cheng had come back last night, so she estimates it must be related to Yi Cheng. Did something really happen last night? What does the video that Lin Li mentioned have to do with Yi Cheng?
Lin Li was silent, only after a while does she start, in a low voice she said, “An Zi, I wouldn’t have told you if I could, but now the entire city knows this matter, so even if I did not tell you, someone else will report to you.”
“Just what is going on!” An Ran did not know what Lin Li was going to say to her, but the entire time she had this uneasy feeling in her heart, a little afraid for what Lin Li has to say.
“An Zi, promise me not to get too worked up, don’t think of anything else, but also think about the child in your belly.” Lin Li said somewhat uneasily.
“Lin Li!” An Ran was getting a little angry, the more she dragged it on the more she panicked.
Lin Li stopped, after another moment of silence, not sure now long, perhaps it was only a few seconds, perhaps a few minutes, but when Lin Li spoke again, an Ran’s hand that was holding the phone had become sweaty.
“I can’t say it. Go to the Internet to see it, posts and videos are in Jiang City forum.” Lin Li’s voice on the other side of the phone was very low, very heavily said, “An Zi, don’t hang up the phone, if you’re in pain tell me.”
An Ran did not say anything, put down the toothbrush in her hand and left the bathroom, then went straight to the study.
Auntie Zhang was in the kitchen and saw her come out, was thinking of asking her if she wanted her to prepare breakfast, but only saw An Ran’s not turn back and went straight into the study.
When An Ran turned on the computer, she saw the viral video and screenshot on the forum. An Ran suddenly stopped, eyes firmly stared at the screenshot, the video was somewhat in disorder, the lighting was a little to dusky, but even if were like that, you can still clearly distinguish the man and woman in the video. The people in the video wasn’t just anyone, it was clearly Su Yi Cheng and Ling Ran!
Her chest tightened, there was this unspeakable stuffiness and pain, the hand the held the house tightened, her entire person seemed to be trying to suppress her mood.
The post was from an anonymous person, which not only had a 5-minute video, there were many photos taken with a cell phone, the quality was not too good, in the photos you could see Su Yi Cheng carrying an unconscious Ling Ran into a hotel.
The post really went viral, the post went up at 3am, and only in a few hours’ time, it had forwarded to tens of thousands of people, the comments to the post were boiling over, some were watching passively, some criticising, some cajoling, some scolding….
‘This society, becoming officials, if not embezzling then prostituting, as usual, as usual…’
‘Haha, Mayor Su did you learn this from Mr. Chen?’
‘Watch the video, Mayor Su is really fierce ah, guess his wife could not meet his needs, holding back for a long time is indeed injuring, hahaha~’
‘Bastard, last time read the newspaper and thought how good he was, did not think that not long after this would happen, his wife is still pregnant! Even betraying his wife like this, how awful!’
‘Morally corrupt, worse than a beast!’
‘Human flesh, who is this woman who strongly desires human flesh!’
There were many more, if not more than dozen.
“An Zi?” Lin Li had not hung up the phone, after not hearing An Ran’s response for a long time, Lin Li could not help but worry.
An Ran looked at the picture and video, as if her breath was blocked in her chest. She does not believe that Su Yi Cheng would do such a thing, even if she had only known him for half a year, but considering his goodness and care for her, how could she believe that he was such a person. His attitude toward Ling Ran has always been very clear, he was resolute and had always been clear to not drag it in the mud.
But this online photo, she does not know how to exonerate or convince herself that the person in the photo was not him, because she recognized the clothes he was wearing in the photo was indeed the one he was wearing yesterday, and that was the one he wore when he came back last night!
For a long time did not hear An Ran’s response, Lin Li got worried, and anxiously asked, “An Zi, talk! Don’t scare me!”
An Ran only then returned to her senses staring at the computer screen, she had been squeezing the mouse so tightly it could break! Hearing Lin Li’s crying voice on the other side of the phone, she then slowly opens her mouth, just said, “I’m okay.” Her voice was a little weak, light enough to make people sad.
“An Zi….” Lin Li did not what to say, suddenly regretting telling An Ran. But this matter was so big, even if she didn’t tell, there will be others who would tell her, she does not want her to be a fool like she was and be the last to know!
“I’m fine.” Whispering, An Ran stared tenaciously at the photo on the screen, death biting her lips.
“An Zi, I’ll come over.” After all she can’t not worry, her condition right now, who would be rest assured, and she was pregnant.
An Ran shook her head, “No, you go to work.”
Lin Li pretended to be carefree, “No, I am an idle person, dispensable, anyway, anyway I can’t sell a house, I’ll come to you right away, wait for me.”
“Lin Li.” An Ran called out gently.
“En?”
“I believe him.” An Ran slowly started to say, looked at the dim picture on the screen, and said, “I believe he would not do this. I want to personally ask him, if he explained to me, said it was not him, said he did not do such a thing, then I believe it!”
“What if he lied to you?” Lin Li can’t bear to crack the blow to her, but such speculation is not impossible, the video was dim and does not say fake or not, she got a computer friend to examine the photo, there was absolutely no trace of ps.
“Lie to me and I’ll believe it!” An Ran’s tone was firm, “as long as he said it, I will believe it!”
On the other side of the phone Lin Li did not speak. Back then she clearly knew that that man’s love was not her yet she recklessly dove in, on more than one occasion she would console herself, as long as he was beside her, then waiting for his heart would only be a matter of time. For those words, she persevered for 10 years, until finally she no longer had a reason to press on, then finally she let go.
Both were silent for a while, until finally Lin Li started to say, “An Zi, if you feel bad look for me.”
“En.” An Ran nodded.
After hanging up Lin Li’s phone, An Ran did not leave the study directly. She just stayed in that position, sitting in front of the computer, looking at the picture on the screen, her spirit seemed to have flown away.
From outside Auntie Zhang would look at the study from time to time, but did not see An Ran come out. Finally she was a little worried, knocked on the door, pushed the door in and asked, “Ma’am, I’ll prepare you breakfast?”
An Ran did not respond, eyes still staring at the computer screen, not even a movement.
Auntie Zhang felt that something was wrong, while facing An Ran, she called out, “Ma’am?”
When she stopped in front of her, An Ran only then returned her spirit, blankly looked at her.
“I shall make you breakfast? What does Ma’am want to eat?” Auntie Zhang asked again.
An Ran shook her head and said, “I have no appetite.”
Auntie Zhang could see something was wrong with her, somewhat worriedly asked, “Ma’am, you, are you alright?”
An Ran turned to look at the computer, only shook her head. She really does not have an appetite.
“It’s better to eat, you’re with child, and you can’t always starve the child.” Auntie Zhang does not know what happened, she came in the morning when Su Yi Cheng had already gone out, and these days she hadn’t seen him make breakfast, she thought they just had some husband and wife quarrel, so she could only soothe her like this.
Hearing that, An Ran reached out to touch her stomach, at this moment the two little babies inside were waving their small fists, as if in protest at her hungry stomach. Yes, she herself does not want to eat, but the babies in her stomach also wants nutrition!
She turned her head and said to Auntie Zhang, “In the morning, please pour me a glass of milk.”
Hearing that, Auntie Zhang nodded, turned around to pour her a glass of milk.
Su Yi Cheng rushed home just as Auntie Zhang had just warmed up a glass of milk. Not seeing An Ran in the living, somewhat anxiously he did not even change his shoes, and went directly into the master bedroom, but did not find anyone in the room.
Then he came out and asked Auntie Zhang, “Where’s An Ran?”
Auntie Zhang was unsure of the situation, only pointed to the room and said, “Madam is in the study.”
Hearing that, Su Yi Cheng’s heart sank. It looks like she already knew. He pinched his eyebrows, and then asked Auntie Zhang, “How was An Ran?” After seeing that video, that picture, did she believe it?
“Madam got up in the morning and went straight into the study. Did not eat breakfast, said she couldn’t eat. Seems like it’s not easy to be willing to eat a bit, but was willing to drink milk.” Auntie Zhang had just poured a hot glass of milk, saying so, she looked at Su Yi Cheng, then persuaded, “Sir, I do not know what happened to you, but when women are in pregnancy their temper is a always a little bit worse, you need to be more earnest with her.”
Su Yi Cheng nodded at her, took the milk in her hand, and said, “I’ll bring it in.”
Auntie Zhang nodded, did not say anything more, only handed him the milk in her hand.
Pushing in, he just saw An Ran sitting woodenly in front of the computer, seeming to study the screen.
Su Yi Cheng gently closed the door, brought the milk to her side. An Ran did not turn her head, assumed that it was Auntie Zhang who had came in, and just faintly said, “Auntie Zhang, just put it there, I will drink it in a bit.”
Su Yi Cheng sighed, put the milk in his hand aside, half crouched beside her, gently called out, “An Ran.”
An Ran was shocked, slowly turned her head. Seeing Su Yi Cheng in front her eyes, she was lost, just looked at him, unable to say anything.
Su Yi Cheng reached out to pull her hand on her lap and held it tightly, gently gave her hands a kiss, and muttered, “I was afraid you’d see and misunderstand, so I specially rushed back, wanted to explain before you see it. Did not expect that you’d already seen it.”
An Ran bit her lips tightly, allowed her hands to be kissed by him, felt his warm breath sprinkle across the back of her hands, ticklish, warm.
Su Yi Cheng looked up, looked her biting lips, seeing that she was almost drawing blood, he frowned, the other hand slowly stretched over and gently caressed her lips, and muttered, “Don’t bite yourself.”
An Ran only then loosened her bite, eyes dead staring at him. A while later, she then said, “Do you want to explain it to me?” Tell her the man in the picture was not him, he wasn’t with Ling Ran last night!
Su Yi Cheng looked at her, saw that the spirit was back in her eyes, and asked, “Do you believe me?”
An Ran nodded, almost without hesitation, said, “As long as you say, I believe!” As long as he says it she’ll believe it, even if he’s lying to her, she’s willing to let him lie.
Hearing that, Su Yi Cheng smiled faintly, then looked at her with certainty and said, “It’s not true, the person in the video wasn’t me, I was not with Ling Ran.” He looked at her straight in the eyes, and assured, “An Ran, I will not betray you!”
Hearing his explanation, An Ran let out a faint laugh, nodded, and said, “Okay, I believe you!” She wanted a very simple, but a promise and confirmation from him.
Su Yi Cheng also smiled, touched her head, and said, “Eat something first, I will explain things to you in a minute, okay?”
An Ran nodded. She said she wanted to trust him. Being husband and wife, besides the importance of being honest, trust is more essential. Getting along for half a year, she remembers his thoughtfulness and goodness to her, if this kind of person would betray her, betray her family, how could she be convinced.
Because of his full faith, so long as he says it, then she will believe it, unconditionally!
“I want to eat what you make,” Looking at him, An Ran smiled quietly.
Hearing that, Su Yi Cheng looked at her earnestly for a while, and then suddenly reached out to hold her, tightly in his arms.
On the way back, he was afraid that she would point to the computer photo to question him, he even did not want to think about how he should answer. Thankfully, she believed him, did not doubt him a bit! Knowing this, his uneasiness and worries were settled, for he knew that he could handle everything that followed without consideration. He will find out who had uploaded this video and picture! And Ling Ran, he will not spare her!
Auntie Zhang saw the husband and wife holding hands and laughing as they came out of the study. Knowing that now they are good, she know has a peace of mind to clean up the house.
Letting An Ran go to the counter first, Su Yi Cheng took off his coat and directly rolled up his sleeves and went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast for An Ran. An Ran was carrying the milk, sitting in front of the counter she had a little smile as she watched his busy back.
Suddenly the doorbell rang at this time. Auntie Zhang went over to open the door. It was Lin Li, after all she was still worried, and still asked the company for a leave and came directly, afraid that An Ran will do something because of the online videos and photos. Only it turns out to be different from what she was thinking, Su Yi Cheng was at home, and was still cooking breakfast for An Ran, and An Ran was happily looking at him, as if the stuff online did not exist, or that it had nothing to do them at all.
An Ran saw that Lin Li came over, somewhat disapprovingly said, “Didn’t I tell you not to come over, why did you still come!”
Lin Li looked at her in the eyes and whispered, “I was still worried about you.” Then she looked at SU Yi Cheng in the kitchen and whispered, “He explained everything to you?”
An Ran nodded and said, “He said the man in the video is not him, I believe him.”
“What about the pictures?” She had someone verify the pictures, there was absolutely no trace of PS.
“Even if the picture was real, he really went to the hotel with Ling Ran, I believe he did it for a reason, and he didn’t do anything else.” She turned to look at the man who was still frying eggs for her in the kitchen, and then turned to Lin Li and said, “Lin Li, I believe him, I believe he will not betray me and this family!” The tone was absolutely positive, and it was as if it were unshakeable.
Seeing her say it like that Lin Li naturally doesn’t have anything to say. She naturally wants the best for An Ran, but also hopes that everything on the Internet is false.
“An Ran, have breakfast first.” Su Yi Cheng brought breakfast to the small coffee table in front of An Ran, looked at Lin Li, faintly smiled and nodded, “Ms. Lin.”
Lin Li looked at him, just nodded coldly, and then looked at An Ran’s satisfied face as she ate the breakfast he made, her entire person was not any different, so she herself was also rest assured. She got up and said, “Since you have nothing then I will go back.”
An Ran smiled, “There’s never been anything, it was you who worried.”
Lin Li glared at her, and then turned to look at Su Yi Cheng slightly with a threatening tone said, “You’d better have a good and clear explanation, if I find out that you’ve been cheating on our An Ran, dare to bully her, I don’t care if you are the mayor or secretary or whatever, I will not spare you!”
Su Yi Cheng just smiled and nodded, “Okay.”
“Hurry up and go, your work performance isn’t good and yet you ask for a leave of absence every day, careful they’ll let you go!”
“You have no conscience.” Lin Li glared at her, and then waved her hand, “I’m going I’m going, don’t want to see your husband and wife’s deadly love show.”
An Ran does not care, only shouted at her back to say be careful on the road, and then directly ate her own breakfast. She had no appetite just now, but now because of Su Yi Cheng’s assurance, her appetite got bigger.
Su Yi Cheng politely sent Lin Li to the door.
Lin Li turned her head and looked at him seriously as she turned away and said, “I’ve asked someone who examined those photos, it was not computer-generated, should be real, yesterday you did carry that woman into the hotel, right!”
Su Yi Cheng looked at her calmly and nodded, “The picture is real, but the person in the video isn’t me.”
“I also don’t want to ask you why, An Ran believes you, I hope you will not fail An Ran’s trust in you.” Lin Li warned.
Su yi Cheng nodded, “I promise.” He understood why An Ran was so concerned about Lin Li before, several times her mood was not good was because of Lin Li, now that he’s seen Lin Li, he understands now, because Lin Li treats her like she treats Lin Li, they both take each other’s matter as their own.
Lin Li did not say anything more, only nodded, and turned away.
Su Yi Cheng closed the door, An Ran was still sitting on the sofa eating her breakfast.
He sat down opposite her, wiped away the sauce that was carelessly lying on the corner of her mouth, and patted her head. Just when it looked like he was about to say something, the phone in his pocket rang out at this time. It was a call from Secretary Zheng, saying that he had issued out a statement, the government said they would follow up about this matter to the end, and the online videos and photos were all blocked and deleted.
By the time he hung up the phone and sat in front of An Ran again, An Ran had finished her breakfast.
Su Yi Cheng looked at her and said, “The video was fake, the person in that video wasn’t me.”
An Ran nodded, “En.” He said, she believed, just like believing in him meant she believed in herself.
“But the picture was real, and I did walk into the hotel last night with Ling Ran.” Su Yi Cheng looked into An Ran’s eyes and said with an honest face.
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Wednesday 4 December 2019
First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 146 Translation
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146. Waiting nights
Qin Yun, due the holidays had been unable to find time to see An Ran, but will still call An Ran every day to ask about her basic condition. Meanwhile, Xiao Fen had officially retired, while she was free she would cook some soup and make some small pastries to send to An Ran. Since An Ran had let go of her past, Lin Xiao Fen seemed to be more relaxed and smiled a lot more.
Regarding Tong Wen Hai’s issue she did not ask Su Yi Cheng about it. Su Yi Cheng also didn’t bring it up to her, but she did see an article in the newspaper that said there was a record of a major punishment, stopped all the work on hand. Regarding the disciplinary actions, fair or not, he later found someone else to carry it out so she does not know about it, and she doesn’t want to know about it.
Sitting in the study, An Ran opened her previously bought architectural magazine. Having not touched these things for a few months, she felt rusty. The last time when Xiao Ying Tian asked her to help participate in a project, it wasn’t that she wasn’t moved, just considering the children, and she does not want to worry Su Yi Cheng who was busy with work. So when Xiao Ying Tian called her again to ask her about her decision, she had simply declined.
However, she did recommend Chen Cheng to Xiao Ying Tian. She had always felt that Chen Cheng was very talented, she had a special feeling towards her designs, she is now just too young, has no experience, as long as they give her space and time to practice, then she will definitely bring unexpected surprises.
“Knock knock knock…” The door of the study was knocked on, and Auntie Zhang came in with hot milk, “Madam, have some hot milk.”
“Thank you Auntie Zhang.” An Ran thanked, put down the magazine in her hands, and reached toward the hot milk.
Sometimes when she was bored she’d start to think, it’s good that she does not reject the taste of milk, otherwise drinking these few cups a day for several months would have made her tired of it. Being pregnant with a child made her deeply appreciate being a mother, even through the hardest, painful times she would cover her belly with her hand, and when she felt a kick, everything would turn fine, and at that moment she would felt that it was worth it.
Auntie Zhang took away An Ran’s empty cup, looked at the time, and asked, “Not napping today, madam?”
An Ran had slept a little in the morning, so now she wasn’t sleepy. She just said, “Not yet, I don’t feel like sleeping yet.”
“Okay.” Auntie Zhang nodded gently and pushed the door out as she left.
An Ran put the magazine back to the bookshelf, and then went to take another book, but for a while couldn’t find one she’d like to read. Su Yi Cheng had a large collection of books, but are a little too boring, all were big texts of non-fiction, there wasn’t anything that An Ran wanted to see.
She opened the desk drawer again, the drawer was neatly sorted. Su Yi Cheng was a tidy person, everything was filed well, not messy, very orderly, each were classified. Even in the drawer, they were neatly packed.
When she was mindlessly looking through things, she even found the original ‘couple agreement’ that she had printed.
Looking at the ‘couple agreement’ in her hands, she saw someone’s stiffly written, cunning addition. An Ran couldn’t help but shake her head and laugh, mouth gently scolding, “Scammer, treacherous official!”
She stroked that paper with nostalgia, looked at the agreement in her hands, and then looked at her bulging stomach. Thinking about it was wondrous, how long has it been, really it was just as Su Yi Cheng said, fate is really an incredible thing.
Suddenly she kind of wanted to see their marriage certificate. She still remembered the surprise when she saw his name on the marriage certificate, she did not think that she would sign up with the wrong person. But thanks to the original mis-identification, she was now so happy.
From the top of the drawer she pulled out those two big red marriage certificate, opened it up to see two strangers in a photo, could not help but laugh out loud, “Hehe.”
Looking back to when it was issued, she was suddenly surprised that time passed by really fast, unknowingly half a year had already passed.
“It turns out, we’ve been married for half a year.” An Ran touched the picture of the two people on the marriage certificate, muttered in a low voice.
Looking at the photo, she started to reminisce more and more.
After National Day Su Yi Cheng seemed to be busier, every day starting early and coming home late seems to be the norm now. They both live in the same house, but An Ran felt like she has not seen him in a while. Every morning when she wakes up Su Yi Cheng was already gone, every night when she falls asleep he has not come back, so, she always staggers the time, if not for the fact that every morning Su Yi Cheng would make breakfast for her before leaving, An Ran would not know if he came back the night before.
She took out her cellphone and looked for his number. She just wanted to call, but afraid that she would disturb his work, she decided to text instead.
Less than a minute after the text message was sent, Su Yi Cheng’s phone call came in.
Looking at the flashing caller ID, the corner of An Ran’s mouth unconsciously went up.
She answered the call, “Hey.” Voice so sweet, even she didn’t know that she had such a sweet and delicate tone herself.
“Miss me?” Su Yi Cheng’s gentle voice came from the phone, with a slight smile, and it sounded very comfortable and nice.
“I didn’t.” An Ran did not want to admit. She stroked that long finger along that small photo, back and forth, the corner of her mouth had a good-looking smile.
Su Yi Cheng on the other side was not annoyed, only gently sighed, and said, “But I miss you.” The voice was low, very magnetic, listening to him say such a sentiment, can really bewitch people.
An Ran’s heart skipped a beat, unconsciously said, “I miss you too.”
“Hehe.” Hearing that, Su Yi Cheng started to chuckle, his mood seemed to be a lot better.
An Ran also does not bother, she really did miss him, holding the phone gently she murmured, “Yi Cheng, what to do, I feel like I haven’t seen you for a long time.”
“I’m sorry, I’ve been a little busy lately.” Every time when he got home she was already asleep, and when he got up she was still asleep, he was reluctant to wake her up, but the two of them did not say a word for several days in a row.
“I was just looking at the marriage license, and it turns out, today is our half-year wedding anniversary.” An Ran muttered.
“I’ll come back early today.” He could hear the loneliness and want in her voice, So Yi Cheng answered so.
“Really?” An Ran did not really believe it, recently his work had gotten busy that much she could naturally see, because Ling Chuan Jiang’s issue was so sudden, before there was no mayor’s candidate, and now only Su Yi Cheng can manage some of the mayor’s affairs. Originally his work was already a lot, and now there are more positions, that matter is naturally more. Thinking about it, she said, “I don’t want you to delay your work because of me, I was just talking.”
Su Yi Cheng smiled, because of her compassion and understanding, just said, “There wasn’t too much issues today, but at night there is a dinner, when the time comes I will have Secretary Zheng go in place of me, I will come back to accompany you.”
“Really not impeding your work?” An Ran was still a little uneasy, because she understood that Su Yi Cheng was trying to coax her to make her happy, even if there was a lot of work that was not completed and instead came to accompany her, then he would stay up late to work overtime. As a wife, she could not share half of the work with him, but at least she should not cause him burden.
“It’s okay.” Su Yi Cheng said in a low voice, “An Ran, I want to have a good meal with you.”
Hearing him say so, An Ran did not say more, only gently agreed.
Hanging up the phone, An Ran went out to look for Auntie Zhang. Auntie Zhang at the moment had finished cleaning and was sitting in the living room watching TV.
“Auntie Zhang, teach me how to cook!” An Ran said with a look of anticipation. This evening she was going to cook a dinner herself.
In fact when it came to learning how to cook food An Ran was really embarrassed. This has not worked for 2 months, speaking of shame, such a long time, she hasn’t even properly learned even one dish. Although her cooking can’t even to be said to have a little progress, but in addition to not burning the dish, the taste was still not flattering. Also, Su Yi Cheng was not willing to have her eat all the food she made, she reckons she won’t be able to find a single person in the world to eat her food.
Auntie Zhang smiled, and said, “Why are thinking of cooking again, last time didn’t Mister not let you do it?” The last time An Ran had accidentally cut herself with a knife, although the wound was not big nor deep, but Su Yi Cheng noticed, his heart hurt, then said she doesn’t have to learn.
“It’s alright, last time was an accident, I didn’t notice it myself.” An Ran did not care and said, “Today is our half-year wedding, just called him, Yi Cheng promised to come back early to eat with me in the evening, I want to personally make something once, Auntie Zhang, please be beside me and teach me. I don’t know how much seasoning to add, each time I do it, it is either too salty or light.”
Auntie Zhang had been here to help for a little over two months, had long gotten used to the couple’s love and sweetness, but also envied the couple’s affection. Compared to her own son and daughter-in-law who would all day look for a small matter to fight about, she longed for them to be like An Ran and Su Yi Cheng and got along.
She took the remote control from the short table, turned off the TV directly, stood up, and smiled and looked at An Ran and said, “Okay, I’ll teach you.”
“En.” An Ran smiled and nodded, “Auntie Zhang just needs to stand next to me and teach me how to do it, watch me and do not let me make a wrong step or misplace the seasoning.”
Auntie Zhang nodded, “Okay, I will just talk and not move.”
Because An Ran’s movement was slow, hands of a newbie, she was afraid that she wouldn’t make it on time, so even though she had a few hours to spare, An Ran began to prepare early.
Auntie Zhang was responsible for running errands, went to the supermarket to buy the ingredients for the dish this evening.
Auntie Zhang understood that she was pregnant, was afraid that if she did not sleep at noon she will get tired, proposed to let her to prepare these ingredients and so on, so when she wakes up she can just start on them immediately.
But An Ran stubbornly refused, she really wanted to make her own dinner, so from washing the dishes to preparing the ingredients and so on, she wanted to each of them on her own.
Under Auntie Zhang’s instructions she handled all the ingredients, and then again under Auntie Zhang’s instructions she made each dish in accordance with Auntie Zhang’s steps. When she was done, An Ran specially snuck a bite to eat. The taste wasn’t special, but it wasn’t bad either, absolutely not difficult to swallow, compared to the thing she made before, it was much better. And when these dishes were all finished, it was a little past five o’clock, according to her estimate, Su Yi Cheng will probably arrive home at around six o’clock, then at that time the dishes should still be warm, ready to eat.
It was a candlelit dinner for two people, An Ran specially let Auntie Zhang to leave work early. Auntie Zhang could see through her intention, and gave her an ambiguous look, then with laughter carried her own old-fashioned bag home.
After Auntie Zhang left, An Ran specially put out the candles and candlesticks prepared by Su Yi Cheng before and put them on the bar, and used the remote control light to turn the lights of the whole house to a very romantic lighting. She even changed into her own beautiful maternity dress, goose-yellow coloured, straight skirt, had a girdle-design at the waist, with a bow at the back. Simple but elegant, well worth a second look, and the dress was especially comfortable.
After changing her clothes, she went to the bathroom to put on some lip gloss to make herself look a little more spirited.
Looking at the mirror at herself, An Ran suddenly stopped, and then laughed out loud. She thought it was funny, hands on her chest, she could obviously feel that her heart at the moment was constantly in acceleration, even a little nervous. This sort of feeling as if she’s liked one person, like two people holding hands for the first time, like two people hugging for the first time, like two people kissing for the first time, it felt like that, heart beating quickly, nervously, but also somewhat excited. This feeling, she had experienced it when she fell in love for the first time, at that time her simple pounding heart scared her, somewhat panicked, she pulled Lin Li aside and asked her if she was ill, but was then rudely laughed at by Lin Li, who said she was not sick, just pining. She even loudly touted to the dorms publicly, then in a matter of days the entire class and even the school knew that she and Mo Fei were dating. Only, looking back now it was all but a distant memory.
The other hand covered her bulging stomach, and whispered, “Baby, say isn’t mother so useless, dad just promised to come back early in the evening to accompany us to dinner, mother is just so happy like a child, really not so mature right.”
Not sure if it was truly a response, but at this moment An Ran felt like the two little guys in her belly actually responded with a movement.
An Ran was somewhat moved, hand followed along the direction of the movement, and said jokingly, “You also feel so ah! But it can’t be helped, mother has not seen father for several days, really miss him, you guys also miss him, right?”
As if they truly understood An Ran’s words, after An Ran finished, her stomach was kicked twice, the force was much heavier than the previous times, even other people would be able to feel it. An Ran chuckled, a face full of happiness and satisfaction.
Such fetal movement may be just a coincidence, but such a coincidence made An Ran especially happy. She was humming a small song sitting on the side of the living room sofa waiting for Su Yi Cheng to come back. When she was bored she would touch her stomach and talk to the babies in her stomach. Time had passed on bit by bit, the sky outside was quickly darkening. It was six o’clock and Su Yi Cheng still hadn’t come back.
An Ran assumed that he still had unfinished work, so did not call him, and just stayed in the living room waiting, flipping through the magazine, or watching TV.
After an hour, when Su Yi Cheng had not come back when it was 7 o’clock, An Ran was getting hungry, protesting by growling out. She pursed her lips, frowned slightly, reached out gently to caress her big belly, softly said, “Let’s wait a little okay, wait for father to come home, when father comes back we will all eat together, we have not eaten with him in a long time.”
So after another hour, waiting until 8 o’clock and that door was not opened from the outside, the smile originally on An Ran’s face gradually dropped, was slowly replaced with worry and uneasiness instead.
She took out her cell phone and called Su Yi Cheng, the mobile phone rang for a long time but no one picked up.
An Ran did not know what happened to Su Yi Cheng, she comforted herself and said that he was probably still busy, perhaps still in a meeting, a situation came out last minute and he didn’t have the time to inform her.
Comforting herself like that made the worry in her heart halve a little. As she had been busy in the kitchen during the afternoon preparing dinner with Auntie Zhang, she did not even eat snacks, so now her stomach was really hungry and a little uncomfortable. Because she was with child, An Ran does not dare to be insistent, got up and went to the kitchen to pour herself a cup of hot milk to ease her own hunger. Then she sat back in the living room and waited for Su Yi Cheng to come back.
As she was waiting her eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, bit by bit she could no longer hold them up, slowly closing, even her consciousness was beginning to become a little hazy. She was truly tired, after spending the entire afternoon in the kitchen, she naturally had no time to take a nap.
So she fell asleep on the coach hugging a long pillow.
An Ran did not know how long she slept for, when she woke up again the house lights were still on, the dinner had gotten cold, even the red candle had been burned down to half. She grabbed the cellphone to look at the time. It was already 10:30pm but Su Yi Cheng was still not back. She called him again, but still no one had answered.
An Ran worried, but had no other way. At this moment she wondered why she did not ask for his office number or Secretary Zheng’s number, otherwise if she could not reach him she could go find Secretary Zheng to ask about the situation. Actually the main thing was that he was too good before, even if he were busy, he would never make it so that she couldn’t reach him.
She made several calls in a row, and no one answered them.
Somewhat helplessly she got up, took some saran wrap and covered the dishes only to keep them fresh, perhaps in a moment he will come back, and when he’s home he perhaps did not eat, so he could just heat them up and eat.
And at this moment besides being worried she no longer felt hungry, she hugged the pillow and sat on the sofa in the living, waiting, eyes staring at the door, thinking that the next moment it will open, and then Su Yi Cheng would come in with a smile.
Waiting and waiting, not sure how long after, her eyelids began to become more and more heavy, and finally she fell asleep.
In the midst of her dream An Ran felt a jolt, then her eyelids moved slightly. She awoke faintly, in the midst of her daze she could see Su Yi Cheng’s handsome face in front of her own eyes, and at this moment she was being carried by him.
“Yi Cheng?” An Ran muttered out a call, reached out and lightly touched his face, confirming that she wasn’t just dreaming, and that the person carrying her at this moment was Su Yi Cheng.
Su Yi Cheng turned his head, faintly and gently smiled at her, yet apologetically said, “I’m sorry, I came back late.” As he was carrying her to the room, he gently put her on the bed.
An Ran looked at him, somewhat aggrieved said, “I waited for you for a long time, called you and no one answered, I don’t know if something happened to you, I was really worried.”
Hearing that, Su Yi Cheng bowed his head to kiss her forehead, and whispered, “I’m sorry, last minute situation, I also forgot my phone in the office, so I didn’t receive your calls. Sorry, I let you worry so much.”
An Ran shook her head, carried a faint smile on her mouth, only asked, “Have they been handled? Is everything alright?” She was just worried about what happened to him and she didn’t know what was going on. Now that he was back, knowing he’s okay, she was relieved.
Su Yi Cheng nodded faintly to her, and said, “Yes, it’s all handled, it’s all right.”
An Ran smiled. Suddenly remembering something, she sat up, and asked, “Have you had dinner yet? Did you forget to eat?”
Su Yi Cheng smiled, pressed her to not let her get up, and said, “Don’t get up, don’t worry about me, I’ll go get something to eat myself.”
An Ran shook her head, touched her stomach, and playfully stuck her tongue out, said, “I have not eaten, I am very hungry.”
Hearing that, Su Yi Cheng frowned, and disapprovingly said, “It’s this late and you haven’t eaten, don’t you know you are pregnant now! Why starve!”
An Ran mumbled, and said, “I was waiting for you to come back, who would have known I couldn’t wait.”
Sighing softly, Su Yi Cheng stroke her face and said, “You are not the same, from now on don’t wait for me at least don’t be hungry and wait for me, okay?”
An Ran nodded, and then smiled and said, “I made the dishes tonight, in the fridge, in a minute I'll take them out and heat them up, the taste isn’t that bad!” Her tone was full of pride.
Su Yi Cheng also smiled, pinched her nose, and said, “I’ll go heat them up, don’t get up, I’ll bring them to you.”
An Ran nodded, and smiled happily.
The next morning when Su Yi Cheng had gone to work, An Ran was still brushing her teeth when Lin Li called her, her tone was very urgent.
“An Zi, did you see that video on the internet today?”
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146. Waiting nights
Qin Yun, due the holidays had been unable to find time to see An Ran, but will still call An Ran every day to ask about her basic condition. Meanwhile, Xiao Fen had officially retired, while she was free she would cook some soup and make some small pastries to send to An Ran. Since An Ran had let go of her past, Lin Xiao Fen seemed to be more relaxed and smiled a lot more.
Regarding Tong Wen Hai’s issue she did not ask Su Yi Cheng about it. Su Yi Cheng also didn’t bring it up to her, but she did see an article in the newspaper that said there was a record of a major punishment, stopped all the work on hand. Regarding the disciplinary actions, fair or not, he later found someone else to carry it out so she does not know about it, and she doesn’t want to know about it.
Sitting in the study, An Ran opened her previously bought architectural magazine. Having not touched these things for a few months, she felt rusty. The last time when Xiao Ying Tian asked her to help participate in a project, it wasn’t that she wasn’t moved, just considering the children, and she does not want to worry Su Yi Cheng who was busy with work. So when Xiao Ying Tian called her again to ask her about her decision, she had simply declined.
However, she did recommend Chen Cheng to Xiao Ying Tian. She had always felt that Chen Cheng was very talented, she had a special feeling towards her designs, she is now just too young, has no experience, as long as they give her space and time to practice, then she will definitely bring unexpected surprises.
“Knock knock knock…” The door of the study was knocked on, and Auntie Zhang came in with hot milk, “Madam, have some hot milk.”
“Thank you Auntie Zhang.” An Ran thanked, put down the magazine in her hands, and reached toward the hot milk.
Sometimes when she was bored she’d start to think, it’s good that she does not reject the taste of milk, otherwise drinking these few cups a day for several months would have made her tired of it. Being pregnant with a child made her deeply appreciate being a mother, even through the hardest, painful times she would cover her belly with her hand, and when she felt a kick, everything would turn fine, and at that moment she would felt that it was worth it.
Auntie Zhang took away An Ran’s empty cup, looked at the time, and asked, “Not napping today, madam?”
An Ran had slept a little in the morning, so now she wasn’t sleepy. She just said, “Not yet, I don’t feel like sleeping yet.”
“Okay.” Auntie Zhang nodded gently and pushed the door out as she left.
An Ran put the magazine back to the bookshelf, and then went to take another book, but for a while couldn’t find one she’d like to read. Su Yi Cheng had a large collection of books, but are a little too boring, all were big texts of non-fiction, there wasn’t anything that An Ran wanted to see.
She opened the desk drawer again, the drawer was neatly sorted. Su Yi Cheng was a tidy person, everything was filed well, not messy, very orderly, each were classified. Even in the drawer, they were neatly packed.
When she was mindlessly looking through things, she even found the original ‘couple agreement’ that she had printed.
Looking at the ‘couple agreement’ in her hands, she saw someone’s stiffly written, cunning addition. An Ran couldn’t help but shake her head and laugh, mouth gently scolding, “Scammer, treacherous official!”
She stroked that paper with nostalgia, looked at the agreement in her hands, and then looked at her bulging stomach. Thinking about it was wondrous, how long has it been, really it was just as Su Yi Cheng said, fate is really an incredible thing.
Suddenly she kind of wanted to see their marriage certificate. She still remembered the surprise when she saw his name on the marriage certificate, she did not think that she would sign up with the wrong person. But thanks to the original mis-identification, she was now so happy.
From the top of the drawer she pulled out those two big red marriage certificate, opened it up to see two strangers in a photo, could not help but laugh out loud, “Hehe.”
Looking back to when it was issued, she was suddenly surprised that time passed by really fast, unknowingly half a year had already passed.
“It turns out, we’ve been married for half a year.” An Ran touched the picture of the two people on the marriage certificate, muttered in a low voice.
Looking at the photo, she started to reminisce more and more.
After National Day Su Yi Cheng seemed to be busier, every day starting early and coming home late seems to be the norm now. They both live in the same house, but An Ran felt like she has not seen him in a while. Every morning when she wakes up Su Yi Cheng was already gone, every night when she falls asleep he has not come back, so, she always staggers the time, if not for the fact that every morning Su Yi Cheng would make breakfast for her before leaving, An Ran would not know if he came back the night before.
She took out her cellphone and looked for his number. She just wanted to call, but afraid that she would disturb his work, she decided to text instead.
Less than a minute after the text message was sent, Su Yi Cheng’s phone call came in.
Looking at the flashing caller ID, the corner of An Ran’s mouth unconsciously went up.
She answered the call, “Hey.” Voice so sweet, even she didn’t know that she had such a sweet and delicate tone herself.
“Miss me?” Su Yi Cheng’s gentle voice came from the phone, with a slight smile, and it sounded very comfortable and nice.
“I didn’t.” An Ran did not want to admit. She stroked that long finger along that small photo, back and forth, the corner of her mouth had a good-looking smile.
Su Yi Cheng on the other side was not annoyed, only gently sighed, and said, “But I miss you.” The voice was low, very magnetic, listening to him say such a sentiment, can really bewitch people.
An Ran’s heart skipped a beat, unconsciously said, “I miss you too.”
“Hehe.” Hearing that, Su Yi Cheng started to chuckle, his mood seemed to be a lot better.
An Ran also does not bother, she really did miss him, holding the phone gently she murmured, “Yi Cheng, what to do, I feel like I haven’t seen you for a long time.”
“I’m sorry, I’ve been a little busy lately.” Every time when he got home she was already asleep, and when he got up she was still asleep, he was reluctant to wake her up, but the two of them did not say a word for several days in a row.
“I was just looking at the marriage license, and it turns out, today is our half-year wedding anniversary.” An Ran muttered.
“I’ll come back early today.” He could hear the loneliness and want in her voice, So Yi Cheng answered so.
“Really?” An Ran did not really believe it, recently his work had gotten busy that much she could naturally see, because Ling Chuan Jiang’s issue was so sudden, before there was no mayor’s candidate, and now only Su Yi Cheng can manage some of the mayor’s affairs. Originally his work was already a lot, and now there are more positions, that matter is naturally more. Thinking about it, she said, “I don’t want you to delay your work because of me, I was just talking.”
Su Yi Cheng smiled, because of her compassion and understanding, just said, “There wasn’t too much issues today, but at night there is a dinner, when the time comes I will have Secretary Zheng go in place of me, I will come back to accompany you.”
“Really not impeding your work?” An Ran was still a little uneasy, because she understood that Su Yi Cheng was trying to coax her to make her happy, even if there was a lot of work that was not completed and instead came to accompany her, then he would stay up late to work overtime. As a wife, she could not share half of the work with him, but at least she should not cause him burden.
“It’s okay.” Su Yi Cheng said in a low voice, “An Ran, I want to have a good meal with you.”
Hearing him say so, An Ran did not say more, only gently agreed.
Hanging up the phone, An Ran went out to look for Auntie Zhang. Auntie Zhang at the moment had finished cleaning and was sitting in the living room watching TV.
“Auntie Zhang, teach me how to cook!” An Ran said with a look of anticipation. This evening she was going to cook a dinner herself.
In fact when it came to learning how to cook food An Ran was really embarrassed. This has not worked for 2 months, speaking of shame, such a long time, she hasn’t even properly learned even one dish. Although her cooking can’t even to be said to have a little progress, but in addition to not burning the dish, the taste was still not flattering. Also, Su Yi Cheng was not willing to have her eat all the food she made, she reckons she won’t be able to find a single person in the world to eat her food.
Auntie Zhang smiled, and said, “Why are thinking of cooking again, last time didn’t Mister not let you do it?” The last time An Ran had accidentally cut herself with a knife, although the wound was not big nor deep, but Su Yi Cheng noticed, his heart hurt, then said she doesn’t have to learn.
“It’s alright, last time was an accident, I didn’t notice it myself.” An Ran did not care and said, “Today is our half-year wedding, just called him, Yi Cheng promised to come back early to eat with me in the evening, I want to personally make something once, Auntie Zhang, please be beside me and teach me. I don’t know how much seasoning to add, each time I do it, it is either too salty or light.”
Auntie Zhang had been here to help for a little over two months, had long gotten used to the couple’s love and sweetness, but also envied the couple’s affection. Compared to her own son and daughter-in-law who would all day look for a small matter to fight about, she longed for them to be like An Ran and Su Yi Cheng and got along.
She took the remote control from the short table, turned off the TV directly, stood up, and smiled and looked at An Ran and said, “Okay, I’ll teach you.”
“En.” An Ran smiled and nodded, “Auntie Zhang just needs to stand next to me and teach me how to do it, watch me and do not let me make a wrong step or misplace the seasoning.”
Auntie Zhang nodded, “Okay, I will just talk and not move.”
Because An Ran’s movement was slow, hands of a newbie, she was afraid that she wouldn’t make it on time, so even though she had a few hours to spare, An Ran began to prepare early.
Auntie Zhang was responsible for running errands, went to the supermarket to buy the ingredients for the dish this evening.
Auntie Zhang understood that she was pregnant, was afraid that if she did not sleep at noon she will get tired, proposed to let her to prepare these ingredients and so on, so when she wakes up she can just start on them immediately.
But An Ran stubbornly refused, she really wanted to make her own dinner, so from washing the dishes to preparing the ingredients and so on, she wanted to each of them on her own.
Under Auntie Zhang’s instructions she handled all the ingredients, and then again under Auntie Zhang’s instructions she made each dish in accordance with Auntie Zhang’s steps. When she was done, An Ran specially snuck a bite to eat. The taste wasn’t special, but it wasn’t bad either, absolutely not difficult to swallow, compared to the thing she made before, it was much better. And when these dishes were all finished, it was a little past five o’clock, according to her estimate, Su Yi Cheng will probably arrive home at around six o’clock, then at that time the dishes should still be warm, ready to eat.
It was a candlelit dinner for two people, An Ran specially let Auntie Zhang to leave work early. Auntie Zhang could see through her intention, and gave her an ambiguous look, then with laughter carried her own old-fashioned bag home.
After Auntie Zhang left, An Ran specially put out the candles and candlesticks prepared by Su Yi Cheng before and put them on the bar, and used the remote control light to turn the lights of the whole house to a very romantic lighting. She even changed into her own beautiful maternity dress, goose-yellow coloured, straight skirt, had a girdle-design at the waist, with a bow at the back. Simple but elegant, well worth a second look, and the dress was especially comfortable.
After changing her clothes, she went to the bathroom to put on some lip gloss to make herself look a little more spirited.
Looking at the mirror at herself, An Ran suddenly stopped, and then laughed out loud. She thought it was funny, hands on her chest, she could obviously feel that her heart at the moment was constantly in acceleration, even a little nervous. This sort of feeling as if she’s liked one person, like two people holding hands for the first time, like two people hugging for the first time, like two people kissing for the first time, it felt like that, heart beating quickly, nervously, but also somewhat excited. This feeling, she had experienced it when she fell in love for the first time, at that time her simple pounding heart scared her, somewhat panicked, she pulled Lin Li aside and asked her if she was ill, but was then rudely laughed at by Lin Li, who said she was not sick, just pining. She even loudly touted to the dorms publicly, then in a matter of days the entire class and even the school knew that she and Mo Fei were dating. Only, looking back now it was all but a distant memory.
The other hand covered her bulging stomach, and whispered, “Baby, say isn’t mother so useless, dad just promised to come back early in the evening to accompany us to dinner, mother is just so happy like a child, really not so mature right.”
Not sure if it was truly a response, but at this moment An Ran felt like the two little guys in her belly actually responded with a movement.
An Ran was somewhat moved, hand followed along the direction of the movement, and said jokingly, “You also feel so ah! But it can’t be helped, mother has not seen father for several days, really miss him, you guys also miss him, right?”
As if they truly understood An Ran’s words, after An Ran finished, her stomach was kicked twice, the force was much heavier than the previous times, even other people would be able to feel it. An Ran chuckled, a face full of happiness and satisfaction.
Such fetal movement may be just a coincidence, but such a coincidence made An Ran especially happy. She was humming a small song sitting on the side of the living room sofa waiting for Su Yi Cheng to come back. When she was bored she would touch her stomach and talk to the babies in her stomach. Time had passed on bit by bit, the sky outside was quickly darkening. It was six o’clock and Su Yi Cheng still hadn’t come back.
An Ran assumed that he still had unfinished work, so did not call him, and just stayed in the living room waiting, flipping through the magazine, or watching TV.
After an hour, when Su Yi Cheng had not come back when it was 7 o’clock, An Ran was getting hungry, protesting by growling out. She pursed her lips, frowned slightly, reached out gently to caress her big belly, softly said, “Let’s wait a little okay, wait for father to come home, when father comes back we will all eat together, we have not eaten with him in a long time.”
So after another hour, waiting until 8 o’clock and that door was not opened from the outside, the smile originally on An Ran’s face gradually dropped, was slowly replaced with worry and uneasiness instead.
She took out her cell phone and called Su Yi Cheng, the mobile phone rang for a long time but no one picked up.
An Ran did not know what happened to Su Yi Cheng, she comforted herself and said that he was probably still busy, perhaps still in a meeting, a situation came out last minute and he didn’t have the time to inform her.
Comforting herself like that made the worry in her heart halve a little. As she had been busy in the kitchen during the afternoon preparing dinner with Auntie Zhang, she did not even eat snacks, so now her stomach was really hungry and a little uncomfortable. Because she was with child, An Ran does not dare to be insistent, got up and went to the kitchen to pour herself a cup of hot milk to ease her own hunger. Then she sat back in the living room and waited for Su Yi Cheng to come back.
As she was waiting her eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, bit by bit she could no longer hold them up, slowly closing, even her consciousness was beginning to become a little hazy. She was truly tired, after spending the entire afternoon in the kitchen, she naturally had no time to take a nap.
So she fell asleep on the coach hugging a long pillow.
An Ran did not know how long she slept for, when she woke up again the house lights were still on, the dinner had gotten cold, even the red candle had been burned down to half. She grabbed the cellphone to look at the time. It was already 10:30pm but Su Yi Cheng was still not back. She called him again, but still no one had answered.
An Ran worried, but had no other way. At this moment she wondered why she did not ask for his office number or Secretary Zheng’s number, otherwise if she could not reach him she could go find Secretary Zheng to ask about the situation. Actually the main thing was that he was too good before, even if he were busy, he would never make it so that she couldn’t reach him.
She made several calls in a row, and no one answered them.
Somewhat helplessly she got up, took some saran wrap and covered the dishes only to keep them fresh, perhaps in a moment he will come back, and when he’s home he perhaps did not eat, so he could just heat them up and eat.
And at this moment besides being worried she no longer felt hungry, she hugged the pillow and sat on the sofa in the living, waiting, eyes staring at the door, thinking that the next moment it will open, and then Su Yi Cheng would come in with a smile.
Waiting and waiting, not sure how long after, her eyelids began to become more and more heavy, and finally she fell asleep.
In the midst of her dream An Ran felt a jolt, then her eyelids moved slightly. She awoke faintly, in the midst of her daze she could see Su Yi Cheng’s handsome face in front of her own eyes, and at this moment she was being carried by him.
“Yi Cheng?” An Ran muttered out a call, reached out and lightly touched his face, confirming that she wasn’t just dreaming, and that the person carrying her at this moment was Su Yi Cheng.
Su Yi Cheng turned his head, faintly and gently smiled at her, yet apologetically said, “I’m sorry, I came back late.” As he was carrying her to the room, he gently put her on the bed.
An Ran looked at him, somewhat aggrieved said, “I waited for you for a long time, called you and no one answered, I don’t know if something happened to you, I was really worried.”
Hearing that, Su Yi Cheng bowed his head to kiss her forehead, and whispered, “I’m sorry, last minute situation, I also forgot my phone in the office, so I didn’t receive your calls. Sorry, I let you worry so much.”
An Ran shook her head, carried a faint smile on her mouth, only asked, “Have they been handled? Is everything alright?” She was just worried about what happened to him and she didn’t know what was going on. Now that he was back, knowing he’s okay, she was relieved.
Su Yi Cheng nodded faintly to her, and said, “Yes, it’s all handled, it’s all right.”
An Ran smiled. Suddenly remembering something, she sat up, and asked, “Have you had dinner yet? Did you forget to eat?”
Su Yi Cheng smiled, pressed her to not let her get up, and said, “Don’t get up, don’t worry about me, I’ll go get something to eat myself.”
An Ran shook her head, touched her stomach, and playfully stuck her tongue out, said, “I have not eaten, I am very hungry.”
Hearing that, Su Yi Cheng frowned, and disapprovingly said, “It’s this late and you haven’t eaten, don’t you know you are pregnant now! Why starve!”
An Ran mumbled, and said, “I was waiting for you to come back, who would have known I couldn’t wait.”
Sighing softly, Su Yi Cheng stroke her face and said, “You are not the same, from now on don’t wait for me at least don’t be hungry and wait for me, okay?”
An Ran nodded, and then smiled and said, “I made the dishes tonight, in the fridge, in a minute I'll take them out and heat them up, the taste isn’t that bad!” Her tone was full of pride.
Su Yi Cheng also smiled, pinched her nose, and said, “I’ll go heat them up, don’t get up, I’ll bring them to you.”
An Ran nodded, and smiled happily.
The next morning when Su Yi Cheng had gone to work, An Ran was still brushing her teeth when Lin Li called her, her tone was very urgent.
“An Zi, did you see that video on the internet today?”
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Wednesday 13 November 2019
First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 145 Translation
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145. Photos
When Lin Li came back An Ran was looking outside seemingly without spirit.
Lin Li put down the things in her hand in front of her, then waved her hand in front of her, “What are you looking at?”
An Ran only then returned to her senses, looked at Lin Li and said, “I just saw Su Yi Cheng.”
“Oh, really. Why don’t you call him in.” Lin Li said as she sat in front of her, did not notice that An Ran’s expression had turned strange, only took the chicken roll and spread it out on the paper bag and began to gnaw it up, and drank the delicious cola on the side. She took a glance at An Ran, then with a mocking tone, said, “What, don’t feel like eating anymore now that you’ve seen your dear husband?”
An Ran gave her a glare, and just said, “I saw him with a woman.” She did not know, does Su Yi Cheng and Ling Ran still have contact?
Lin Li had taken a mouthful of the coke, and then let out a large belch as a result of the carbonated drink, did not care about her image, and said, “Woman, what woman?” As she said that she took a piece of the chicken wing and gave it to Xiao Bin, and whispered to tell him to eat slowly, don’t choke.
An Ran shook her head for a moment in silence, only said, “Nothing, I’ll ask him when I get back.”
Hearing that, Lin Li looked up at her, and with worry, asked, “An Zi, nothing will happen right?”
An Ran shook her head and smiled, “What can happen, don’t worry about it.”
“Well well well, look at your happy and contented look.” Looking at her, Lin Li shook her head funnily. Suddenly remembering something, she asked, “Hey, does your Leader Su demand a lot in that aspect?”
An Ran was a little confused, looked at Lin Li with confusion and asked, “What?”
Lin Li looked at her with an ambiguous smile, then said, “I read the newspaper that day.” Her ambiguity picked up, and asked, “Is it true?”
An Ran thought about what she said about the demand. Her face suddenly heated up, and glared at her, “Boring.” After saying that, she didn’t want to look at her again, and looked down and concentrated on eating her rice.
“Hahaha.” On the other side, Lin Li already got an answer from her red face, her entire body shook from laughter at the image, and even incited curious looks from the people around them. On the other hand Xiao Bin who was eating his chicken stopped to stare at her, a little confused as to what she was laughing at.
On account of An Ran being out all day yesterday, plus now she was pregnant with twins, the three did not go for a walk, and sat at the KFC for the entire afternoon. Xiao Bin was also very excited to go to the playground and play with the other children.
Lin Li looked at Xiao Bin, from time to time she would shout, “Xiao Bin, slow down, don’t fall.”
And Xiao Bin at this moment looked like a lively and happy little boy.
“Is this really alright?” An Ran looked at her and just so gently asked.
Lin Li did not look back, eyes still on Xiao Bin who was in the playground. Only a while later did she faintly reply, “Yes, it’s quite good.”
An Ran did not say much more. Sometimes these choices may not be a bad thing.
In the evening, Lin Li drove and dropped off An Ran, and in the backseat of the car was Xiao Bin who had fallen sleep after playing, the corner of his mouth had a faint smile.
Lin Li drove slowly, not only because there was a pregnant woman in the car, but also because there was a tired and sleeping child.
When they got to the complex, An Ran did not hurry to get off, but stayed in the car for a while. She reached out to Lin Li’s hand, held it tightly, looked at her and said, “Lin Li, you have to be happy!”
Lin Li looked at her and nodded with a smile.
Seeing that, An Ran nodded, then silently sighed. She let go of her hand, and said, “I’m going.” Then directly opened the door to get off, did not turn her head, and walked straight to toward the building. Her nose inexplicably started to feel a little sour, even she did not know why.
And Lin Li stayed outside of the building for a while, before driving away.
Back at home Auntie Zhang was preparing for today’s dinner, greeted An Ran. An Ran faintly replied back, looking a little depressed. Not wanting to talk about it, An Ran just said she was a little tired, and wanted to go to the room to lie down for a bit.
Su Yi Cheng came back a little earlier today, and was back before six o’clock.
Auntie Zhang saw him come in, somewhat worriedly told him that An Ran was acting a little abnormal after she came back. Su Yi Cheng only raised his eyebrows. He did not put down the briefcase in his hands in the study, directly carried it with him into the room, only to see An Ran lying sideways on the bed, eyes closed, eyebrows slightly furrowed.
He reached over to flatten her furrowed brows. An Ran did not seem to be in a deep sleep, so with just that slight touch she woke up. Seeing him in front of her, she was blank for a little while, until she managed a smile, and said, “You’re back.”
Su Yi Cheng smiled back, nodded, and responded, "Yes, I’m back.” Saying that, he took off his coat and lifted the blanket up, took her shoulders, and let her lean against him in his arms.
An Ran rubbed her head against him, found a comfortable position, then rested her hands around his waist.
Su Yi Cheng’s hand was gently rubbing her back, slowly caressing down along her hair, and then softly asked into her ears, “Auntie Zhang said that you came into the room as soon as you came back, what’s wrong, did you encounter unhappy things when you went out with Lin Li?”
An Ran hugged him for a while, then faintly starts to say, “Yi Cheng, would you say being pregnant people are always emotional, think too much?”
Hearing that, Su Yi Cheng raised his brows, smiled and asked, “What are you emotional over? Can you tell me?”
“Lin Li married Zhou Han.”
Su Yi Cheng raised his eyebrows, obviously very surprised. But he still replied faintly, “Really.”
An Ran leaned into his arms, slowly said, “I don’t know if this is a good thing or not, Lin Li can marry to start another new relationship, I am happy for her, but with this way to their own marriage, I feel pain for her.”
Su Yi Cheng did not speak, but his hand was still gently, irregularly patting her back.
“Married… She just wanted to give her parents an account.” An Ran whispered. She understood the helplessness, because she had done it too. Whispering softly she said, “Looking at her, it’s like looking at myself.”
Hearing that, Su Yi Cheng smiled softly and asked, “Even if you decided to marry only to give your family an account, but we are now very good, aren’t we?”
An Ran retreated from his arms, looked up at him and said, “But are Lin Li and Zhou Han like us?” Zhou Han is not Su Yi Cheng, and Lin Li was deeply hurt by Cheng Xiang!
“Fool.” Su Yi Cheng pinched her nose, and said, “Leave the emotions up to fate.” He held her in his arms again, intertwined his fingers with her fingers, put them on her bulging belly, tightly attached, so that the family are having the closest contact, and said, “Sometimes fate is so wonderful, when you want it to come it doesn’t necessarily come, when you don’t want it to come, suddenly turning back, you realize that it was already there unknowingly. In fact, we are all the same, for each relationship we always treat it with a serious attitude, but sometimes we learn how to cherish through experience, experience is to meet the right person later. Perhaps Lin Li’s fate is Zhou Han, who is to say? What we can do for her is not to sigh, do not feel wronged, we can only bless, bless her that she can live better, only pray, pray that they are fated together.”
An Ran did not speak, but leaned against his chest to listen to his words quietly.
"An Ran, you know what? I had been afraid to accept these feelings before I met you, because I have been unable to forget the feeling of being betrayed. I thought I wouldn’t touch that thing called love all my life, but I met you.” With that, Su Yi Cheng lowered his head and kissed her hair.
An Ran had not spoken, but squeezed her hands with his. In fact, it was the same with her, before meeting him she felt that she will not love again. Her first purest love during her schoolyears had changed her, not to mention with such circumstances, getting married to someone you’ve only known for a day. The unexpected beginning did not expect to have these unexpected results, the present her is so happy for that impulsive decision.
“At the beginning we are all the same, just like you said, towards our parents we cannot get rid of the responsibility, but only to find out that we are the same, have paid a price on that road, we all know how painful that pain is, so we know how to cherish. It’s not easy to meet someone who will be walking with you through the next few decades until your hair grows white. Sometimes I will think, did I get hurt so that I could wait for you to appear, so that I would know how to cherish you.” Su Yi Cheng smiled and asked into her ears, “Don’t you think so, you got hurt so that you could meet me later?”
An Ran laughed, why with a clearly very heavy topic he can always put a smile on her face, can always make her heart feel like being injected with a warm current, warm ocean.
Retreating from his arms, she fixed her eyes on him and looked at him, and asked, “Leader Su, did you go into political school to learn how to say such pretty words!”
Su Yi Cheng smiled, seeming like he was thinking about it seriously, shook his head, and said, “It seems not.”
An Ran poked her hand into his chest, “Then tell me, where did you learn these words?” What’s most hateful is that she always enjoyed his sweet words, and this cannot be ah, she can’t ignore him when she wants to, always cajoled by him with less than three words, how spineless is she ah!
Su Yi Cheng smiled, and bent over to kiss her on the lips, “Self-taught, seems like I could do it when I met you.”
“Such a glib.” An Ran pouted childishly.
Su Yi Cheng rubbed her head dotingly, and asked, “Are you still emotional?”
Hearing that, An Ran smiled and shook her head, only said, “Perhaps, as Lin Li said, I met you, so she will also meet her prince.”
Su Yi Cheng nodded, pulled her back into his embrace, and said, “En, she will.” Hands gently covered her bulging belly, gently asked, “Has baby move a lot?”
An Ran smiled, and joked, “Wow, Mayor Su, you have no common sense ah, it’s only a little more than 4 months, how could it move so often. Didn’t the doctor say last time ah, at four months the fetal movement is generally weak.”
“Is it?” Su Yi Cheng frowned, said to himself, “No wonder, I was wondering how could I not feel one movement, so it turns out it was weak!”
An Ran laughed. Suddenly remembering something, she grabbed the hand that was rubbing back and forth on her stomach, and asked, “Tell me, what did you do today?”
Su yi Cheng raised his brows, and said, “I went to work ah.” She grabbed his hand back, and wrapped it around him.
An Ran turned to look at him and said, “Then tell me, who did you see today?” She does not want to guess, does not want to make these endless guesses, although she does not understand, and does not have much experience regarding husband and wife affairs, but she felt that they both got along well, no matter if they were friends or lovers or married, at the very least they should be honest, this is the most basic foundation, must have respect.
Hearing that, Su Yi Cheng raised his brows and said, “Saw Secretary Zhang, Secretary Zheng, bidding people, some of the project team leader and…. Lin Ran.”
Hearing Lin Ran, An Ran felt relieved, at least she knew that he was not deliberately concealing it, at least she knew that he had respected her.
“When I went out with Lin Li today, I saw you and Ling Ran driving by while I was eating lunch.” An Ran said, “I don’t really have any other meaning by asking you, but I’m afraid of thinking too much, making guesses.” Saying it so clearly, knowing that he did not mean to hide it deliberately, then she will be at ease, will not think too much. He is willing to be honest and give her respect, and so she will learn to trust him, believe in him.
“Ling Ran came to me and wanted me to help her father.” Su Yi Cheng opened up to explain, “In fact she called me last night about this matter, I refused, I—”
An Ran reached over his mouth, looked at him carefully, and said, “I believe in you, so there is no need to explain.”
Su Yi Cheng stared at her and smiled, nodded, then said nothing more. In fact, not too long after he arrived at the office Ling Ran had came, must ask him to take her to see Ling Chuan Jiang, he refused, but she wouldn’t leave no matter what he said, and because he did not want to make it a huge issue, finally he agreed to move a little and find someone at noon to arrange for the father and daughter to meet once.
An Ran also smiled, snuggled up to his chest, small hand playing with his big palm.
It was a holiday so Su Yi Cheng’s work was not really too busy, although he went to work every day, but came back quite early in the evening.
The two sometimes go out for a stroll together, but considering An Ran was pregnant, they walked for only half an hour, because if too long An Ran’s feet would always hurt at night. And after the pregnancy An Ran suddenly liked to watch movies, some of the last century’s old movies, always liked to sit on the sofa with Su Yi Cheng, then snuggled up in Su Yi Cheng’s arms, watching the movie on the TV screen. But each time An Ran would not last long, always only watched half of the movie and then fell asleep in Su Yi Cheng’s arms.
Tonight An Ran dragged Su Yi Cheng along to watch another movie with her, then at this moment in Su Yi Cheng’s arms her eyelids began to fight, clearly getting heavier and heavier and constantly sinking. Suddenly remember something, her whole person had spirit again and then suddenly opened her eyes, mouth also muttered, “Don’t sleep, this time must watch…”
Su Yi Cheng smiled in defeat, shook his head, and touched her head with his hand.
Only in the end An Ran could not help but meet the God of Dream’s calls, after several struggles even though her mouth was still muttering about how she wanted to sleep, eyes could not stay open, her eyelids were getting heavier and heavier.
Su Yi Cheng just laughed and lowered his head to kiss her on the crown, and then maintained the previous posture and held her for a while, until the end of the film, then carried her into the bedroom.
He gently put her down. Suddenly feeling the lack of embrace, An Ran was unaccustomed at first and muttered, but did not wake up.
Su Yi Cheng substituted her pillow with his arm. Then the phone beside An Ran suddenly rang, and the sleepy An Ran was startled by the bell, her entire person was somewhat shaking down. Su Yi Cheng for the first time took the phone and directly pressed mute, then reached out to lightly pat An Ran’s back, until she calmed down then he took the cell phone out.
It was Lin Li, directly picked up, not waiting for Su Yi Cheng to say anything, on the other side Lin Li opened to say, “An Zi, that photographer that I asked for you said that he was free tomorrow, why don’t you ask your leader Su, see if he has time, if he does have time then I can help you book a time. You also know, you’re pregnant with twins, the longer you put it off the bigger your stomach will get, you won’t even have strength. If you can come tomorrow, you should take some pictures first.”
Hearing that, Su Yi Cheng started to filter through tomorrow’s work in his head. There was nothing particularly important, so it was not a big problem to take half the day off.
For a while she didn’t hear An Ran’s reply, so Lin Li couldn’t help but ask, “An Zi, are you listening?”
Su Yi Cheng returned to Earth, and said, “Then arrange it for tomorrow afternoon, I have time, can shoot.” In fact, a few days ago he inadvertently went into the bedside table drawer, and inadvertently saw a picture of a piece of paper. It was just a photo of them from the newspaper, but An Ran had cut it out separately.
“Heng, Leader Su?” Lin Li was taken aback, obviously surprised that the person who answered the phone was not An Ran but Su Yi Cheng.
Su Yi Cheng smiled and explained, “An Ran fell asleep.”
“Oh.” Lin Li understood, then said, “Then Leader Su tomorrow if there is time, I will tell the photographer to prepare the room for tomorrow.”
“Okay, thanks a lot.” Su Yi Cheng said politely.
“Che, An Zi is my best friend, and on this, it’s not a hassle.” Lin Li does not care, and spoke straightly, “Well, I’ll call the studio first, you will go directly tomorrow.”
“Okay, thank you.” Su Yi Cheng thanked her and hung up the phone, and then took his cell phone again to call Secretary Zheng, ready to arrange for his work tomorrow.
An Ran woke up the next day, when she got out of the bathroom and went out into the living room she unexpectedly saw a certain someone still in their home clothes, their hair still damp, eating their steaming breakfast, while Auntie Zhang was wiping the table. Seeing An Ran, she smiled, “Madam has woken up.”
An Ran nodded to her, and then turned back, only to see that the man who had just turned his back to her at the moment, holding the spoon, was smiling at her.
An Ran went forward, sat down at the bar and asked, “Don’t you have work?” Why is he still at home at this time?
Su Yi Cheng nodded, and said, “En, there’s nothing much today, I’m not going to go over.”
“Really?” An Ran frowned, and muttered, “How come I heard you say yesterday that there was a meeting to be held in the morning.”
Su Yi Cheng gently smiled, and did not explain much, just said, “Sit down first, breakfast will be ready soon.”
An Ran also did not want to think too much, that he did not go to work is good, he can accompany her more. While nodding she sat on the high chair, while saying, “Yi Cheng, since you don’t have work today, then let’s go to my mother’s house, I kind of miss them.”
Su Yi Cheng put the two people’s breakfast away, nodded and said, “We can go in the evening.” As he spoke, he poured her a glass of milk.
Why did An Ran feel weird hearing this, she asked, “So what are we doing in the day?”
Su Yi Cheng smiled, only dragged it on and said, “Secret, you’ll see in a bit.”
An Ran muttered funnily, “How mysterious.” But she didn’t ask much, she looked forward to him surprising her.
It was really a surprise, a surprise and joy!
After lunch, Su Yi Cheng drove her to the door of a photography studio. An Ran looked at him with some disbelief, “Why are you bringing me here, last time didn’t Lin Li say the soonest time will be at the end of October?”
Su Yi Cheng thoughtfully went around the car to her side and undid her seatbelt, then explained everything Lin Li said on the phone after she fell asleep last night.
Hearing that, An Ran couldn’t help but yell, “Ah, why didn’t you tell me, I wasn’t ready.” She took out the little makeup mirror from her bag, looked at herself, and said, “How is it? Can I go like this? Do I look alive?”
Every woman loves to be beautiful, especially when taking pictures, and is very demanding on herself, because everyone wants to take a beautiful picture.
Su Yi Cheng pulled on her slightly sweaty hand because of the nervousness, and said, “Very good, everything is good, my wife is the most beautiful person in the world!” The soothing patter patted her hand and said, “It’s all right, there’s me.”
An Ran still looked at him nervously, nodded in the end, holding his hand tightly.
An Ran’s nervousness continued until the beginning of the shooting, frequently wanting to go to the washroom to put on makeup, and every time Su Yi Cheng would say no worries, he would always accompany An Ran and go together. An Ran felt that if it were not for Su Yi Cheng’ identity, she estimates that she would have gotten angry earlier, just a simple makeup look, she couldn’t finish even an hour later.
Finally when the real shooting time started, the tension suddenly disappeared, the whole filming process was still smooth.
Because of the twins, An Ran’s stomach was now small. At the photographer’s suggestion, An Ran prepared to take a set of pregnancy photos, the photographer originally wanted the make-up artist to paint a lovely smiley face on An Ran’s stomach, just like some of the big belly photos on the internet, have Su Yi Cheng be like those baby fathers with the same weird action, that shot should come out very good, but considering Su Yi Cheng’s image, although An Ran was very excited, but refused, and just agreed to wear a set of clothes that showed off her belly, and then have Su Yi Cheng hold her from behind and take a few simple photos.
At the end of the shoot, su Yi Cheng crouched in front of An Ran at the photographer’s request, bowing his head and kissed An Ran’s stomach warmly. Such an action for Su Yi Cheng was second nature, very naturally looked up to look at An Ran, An Ran affectionately will have a kiss printed on her belly. An Ran on the other hand, naturally put her hand on his face, gently stroked his face, everything was very natural.
Only when the photographer said, ‘OK’, they kept doing the action for a few more shots. Suddenly Su Yi Cheng raised his head, stared at An Ran, seeming like he had received a great impact. An Ran smiled but didn’t say anything, but her eyes were smiling.
The photographer and the lighting man didn’t know what was going on, and asked, “What, what happened?”
Only to see Su Yi Cheng mutter, did not hear what he said, and then directly put his ears on An Ran’s big belly, hands still attached to her stomach, as if feeling something, mouth kept saying, “Baby, it’s daddy, come say hello to daddy…”
And the people at the scene then knew that it turns out An Ran’s stomach at this time had fetal movement, and Su Yi Cheng’s reaction was precisely because of the feeling of excitement after the fetal movement.
The look An Ran had was just the same, hand caressed Su Yi Cheng’s head, face full with a smile of satisfaction and happiness.
The photographer suddenly found the scene to be more warm and natural than any of the previous pictures, and then took several shots with the camera clicking away.
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145. Photos
When Lin Li came back An Ran was looking outside seemingly without spirit.
Lin Li put down the things in her hand in front of her, then waved her hand in front of her, “What are you looking at?”
An Ran only then returned to her senses, looked at Lin Li and said, “I just saw Su Yi Cheng.”
“Oh, really. Why don’t you call him in.” Lin Li said as she sat in front of her, did not notice that An Ran’s expression had turned strange, only took the chicken roll and spread it out on the paper bag and began to gnaw it up, and drank the delicious cola on the side. She took a glance at An Ran, then with a mocking tone, said, “What, don’t feel like eating anymore now that you’ve seen your dear husband?”
An Ran gave her a glare, and just said, “I saw him with a woman.” She did not know, does Su Yi Cheng and Ling Ran still have contact?
Lin Li had taken a mouthful of the coke, and then let out a large belch as a result of the carbonated drink, did not care about her image, and said, “Woman, what woman?” As she said that she took a piece of the chicken wing and gave it to Xiao Bin, and whispered to tell him to eat slowly, don’t choke.
An Ran shook her head for a moment in silence, only said, “Nothing, I’ll ask him when I get back.”
Hearing that, Lin Li looked up at her, and with worry, asked, “An Zi, nothing will happen right?”
An Ran shook her head and smiled, “What can happen, don’t worry about it.”
“Well well well, look at your happy and contented look.” Looking at her, Lin Li shook her head funnily. Suddenly remembering something, she asked, “Hey, does your Leader Su demand a lot in that aspect?”
An Ran was a little confused, looked at Lin Li with confusion and asked, “What?”
Lin Li looked at her with an ambiguous smile, then said, “I read the newspaper that day.” Her ambiguity picked up, and asked, “Is it true?”
An Ran thought about what she said about the demand. Her face suddenly heated up, and glared at her, “Boring.” After saying that, she didn’t want to look at her again, and looked down and concentrated on eating her rice.
“Hahaha.” On the other side, Lin Li already got an answer from her red face, her entire body shook from laughter at the image, and even incited curious looks from the people around them. On the other hand Xiao Bin who was eating his chicken stopped to stare at her, a little confused as to what she was laughing at.
On account of An Ran being out all day yesterday, plus now she was pregnant with twins, the three did not go for a walk, and sat at the KFC for the entire afternoon. Xiao Bin was also very excited to go to the playground and play with the other children.
Lin Li looked at Xiao Bin, from time to time she would shout, “Xiao Bin, slow down, don’t fall.”
And Xiao Bin at this moment looked like a lively and happy little boy.
“Is this really alright?” An Ran looked at her and just so gently asked.
Lin Li did not look back, eyes still on Xiao Bin who was in the playground. Only a while later did she faintly reply, “Yes, it’s quite good.”
An Ran did not say much more. Sometimes these choices may not be a bad thing.
In the evening, Lin Li drove and dropped off An Ran, and in the backseat of the car was Xiao Bin who had fallen sleep after playing, the corner of his mouth had a faint smile.
Lin Li drove slowly, not only because there was a pregnant woman in the car, but also because there was a tired and sleeping child.
When they got to the complex, An Ran did not hurry to get off, but stayed in the car for a while. She reached out to Lin Li’s hand, held it tightly, looked at her and said, “Lin Li, you have to be happy!”
Lin Li looked at her and nodded with a smile.
Seeing that, An Ran nodded, then silently sighed. She let go of her hand, and said, “I’m going.” Then directly opened the door to get off, did not turn her head, and walked straight to toward the building. Her nose inexplicably started to feel a little sour, even she did not know why.
And Lin Li stayed outside of the building for a while, before driving away.
Back at home Auntie Zhang was preparing for today’s dinner, greeted An Ran. An Ran faintly replied back, looking a little depressed. Not wanting to talk about it, An Ran just said she was a little tired, and wanted to go to the room to lie down for a bit.
Su Yi Cheng came back a little earlier today, and was back before six o’clock.
Auntie Zhang saw him come in, somewhat worriedly told him that An Ran was acting a little abnormal after she came back. Su Yi Cheng only raised his eyebrows. He did not put down the briefcase in his hands in the study, directly carried it with him into the room, only to see An Ran lying sideways on the bed, eyes closed, eyebrows slightly furrowed.
He reached over to flatten her furrowed brows. An Ran did not seem to be in a deep sleep, so with just that slight touch she woke up. Seeing him in front of her, she was blank for a little while, until she managed a smile, and said, “You’re back.”
Su Yi Cheng smiled back, nodded, and responded, "Yes, I’m back.” Saying that, he took off his coat and lifted the blanket up, took her shoulders, and let her lean against him in his arms.
An Ran rubbed her head against him, found a comfortable position, then rested her hands around his waist.
Su Yi Cheng’s hand was gently rubbing her back, slowly caressing down along her hair, and then softly asked into her ears, “Auntie Zhang said that you came into the room as soon as you came back, what’s wrong, did you encounter unhappy things when you went out with Lin Li?”
An Ran hugged him for a while, then faintly starts to say, “Yi Cheng, would you say being pregnant people are always emotional, think too much?”
Hearing that, Su Yi Cheng raised his brows, smiled and asked, “What are you emotional over? Can you tell me?”
“Lin Li married Zhou Han.”
Su Yi Cheng raised his eyebrows, obviously very surprised. But he still replied faintly, “Really.”
An Ran leaned into his arms, slowly said, “I don’t know if this is a good thing or not, Lin Li can marry to start another new relationship, I am happy for her, but with this way to their own marriage, I feel pain for her.”
Su Yi Cheng did not speak, but his hand was still gently, irregularly patting her back.
“Married… She just wanted to give her parents an account.” An Ran whispered. She understood the helplessness, because she had done it too. Whispering softly she said, “Looking at her, it’s like looking at myself.”
Hearing that, Su Yi Cheng smiled softly and asked, “Even if you decided to marry only to give your family an account, but we are now very good, aren’t we?”
An Ran retreated from his arms, looked up at him and said, “But are Lin Li and Zhou Han like us?” Zhou Han is not Su Yi Cheng, and Lin Li was deeply hurt by Cheng Xiang!
“Fool.” Su Yi Cheng pinched her nose, and said, “Leave the emotions up to fate.” He held her in his arms again, intertwined his fingers with her fingers, put them on her bulging belly, tightly attached, so that the family are having the closest contact, and said, “Sometimes fate is so wonderful, when you want it to come it doesn’t necessarily come, when you don’t want it to come, suddenly turning back, you realize that it was already there unknowingly. In fact, we are all the same, for each relationship we always treat it with a serious attitude, but sometimes we learn how to cherish through experience, experience is to meet the right person later. Perhaps Lin Li’s fate is Zhou Han, who is to say? What we can do for her is not to sigh, do not feel wronged, we can only bless, bless her that she can live better, only pray, pray that they are fated together.”
An Ran did not speak, but leaned against his chest to listen to his words quietly.
"An Ran, you know what? I had been afraid to accept these feelings before I met you, because I have been unable to forget the feeling of being betrayed. I thought I wouldn’t touch that thing called love all my life, but I met you.” With that, Su Yi Cheng lowered his head and kissed her hair.
An Ran had not spoken, but squeezed her hands with his. In fact, it was the same with her, before meeting him she felt that she will not love again. Her first purest love during her schoolyears had changed her, not to mention with such circumstances, getting married to someone you’ve only known for a day. The unexpected beginning did not expect to have these unexpected results, the present her is so happy for that impulsive decision.
“At the beginning we are all the same, just like you said, towards our parents we cannot get rid of the responsibility, but only to find out that we are the same, have paid a price on that road, we all know how painful that pain is, so we know how to cherish. It’s not easy to meet someone who will be walking with you through the next few decades until your hair grows white. Sometimes I will think, did I get hurt so that I could wait for you to appear, so that I would know how to cherish you.” Su Yi Cheng smiled and asked into her ears, “Don’t you think so, you got hurt so that you could meet me later?”
An Ran laughed, why with a clearly very heavy topic he can always put a smile on her face, can always make her heart feel like being injected with a warm current, warm ocean.
Retreating from his arms, she fixed her eyes on him and looked at him, and asked, “Leader Su, did you go into political school to learn how to say such pretty words!”
Su Yi Cheng smiled, seeming like he was thinking about it seriously, shook his head, and said, “It seems not.”
An Ran poked her hand into his chest, “Then tell me, where did you learn these words?” What’s most hateful is that she always enjoyed his sweet words, and this cannot be ah, she can’t ignore him when she wants to, always cajoled by him with less than three words, how spineless is she ah!
Su Yi Cheng smiled, and bent over to kiss her on the lips, “Self-taught, seems like I could do it when I met you.”
“Such a glib.” An Ran pouted childishly.
Su Yi Cheng rubbed her head dotingly, and asked, “Are you still emotional?”
Hearing that, An Ran smiled and shook her head, only said, “Perhaps, as Lin Li said, I met you, so she will also meet her prince.”
Su Yi Cheng nodded, pulled her back into his embrace, and said, “En, she will.” Hands gently covered her bulging belly, gently asked, “Has baby move a lot?”
An Ran smiled, and joked, “Wow, Mayor Su, you have no common sense ah, it’s only a little more than 4 months, how could it move so often. Didn’t the doctor say last time ah, at four months the fetal movement is generally weak.”
“Is it?” Su Yi Cheng frowned, said to himself, “No wonder, I was wondering how could I not feel one movement, so it turns out it was weak!”
An Ran laughed. Suddenly remembering something, she grabbed the hand that was rubbing back and forth on her stomach, and asked, “Tell me, what did you do today?”
Su yi Cheng raised his brows, and said, “I went to work ah.” She grabbed his hand back, and wrapped it around him.
An Ran turned to look at him and said, “Then tell me, who did you see today?” She does not want to guess, does not want to make these endless guesses, although she does not understand, and does not have much experience regarding husband and wife affairs, but she felt that they both got along well, no matter if they were friends or lovers or married, at the very least they should be honest, this is the most basic foundation, must have respect.
Hearing that, Su Yi Cheng raised his brows and said, “Saw Secretary Zhang, Secretary Zheng, bidding people, some of the project team leader and…. Lin Ran.”
Hearing Lin Ran, An Ran felt relieved, at least she knew that he was not deliberately concealing it, at least she knew that he had respected her.
“When I went out with Lin Li today, I saw you and Ling Ran driving by while I was eating lunch.” An Ran said, “I don’t really have any other meaning by asking you, but I’m afraid of thinking too much, making guesses.” Saying it so clearly, knowing that he did not mean to hide it deliberately, then she will be at ease, will not think too much. He is willing to be honest and give her respect, and so she will learn to trust him, believe in him.
“Ling Ran came to me and wanted me to help her father.” Su Yi Cheng opened up to explain, “In fact she called me last night about this matter, I refused, I—”
An Ran reached over his mouth, looked at him carefully, and said, “I believe in you, so there is no need to explain.”
Su Yi Cheng stared at her and smiled, nodded, then said nothing more. In fact, not too long after he arrived at the office Ling Ran had came, must ask him to take her to see Ling Chuan Jiang, he refused, but she wouldn’t leave no matter what he said, and because he did not want to make it a huge issue, finally he agreed to move a little and find someone at noon to arrange for the father and daughter to meet once.
An Ran also smiled, snuggled up to his chest, small hand playing with his big palm.
It was a holiday so Su Yi Cheng’s work was not really too busy, although he went to work every day, but came back quite early in the evening.
The two sometimes go out for a stroll together, but considering An Ran was pregnant, they walked for only half an hour, because if too long An Ran’s feet would always hurt at night. And after the pregnancy An Ran suddenly liked to watch movies, some of the last century’s old movies, always liked to sit on the sofa with Su Yi Cheng, then snuggled up in Su Yi Cheng’s arms, watching the movie on the TV screen. But each time An Ran would not last long, always only watched half of the movie and then fell asleep in Su Yi Cheng’s arms.
Tonight An Ran dragged Su Yi Cheng along to watch another movie with her, then at this moment in Su Yi Cheng’s arms her eyelids began to fight, clearly getting heavier and heavier and constantly sinking. Suddenly remember something, her whole person had spirit again and then suddenly opened her eyes, mouth also muttered, “Don’t sleep, this time must watch…”
Su Yi Cheng smiled in defeat, shook his head, and touched her head with his hand.
Only in the end An Ran could not help but meet the God of Dream’s calls, after several struggles even though her mouth was still muttering about how she wanted to sleep, eyes could not stay open, her eyelids were getting heavier and heavier.
Su Yi Cheng just laughed and lowered his head to kiss her on the crown, and then maintained the previous posture and held her for a while, until the end of the film, then carried her into the bedroom.
He gently put her down. Suddenly feeling the lack of embrace, An Ran was unaccustomed at first and muttered, but did not wake up.
Su Yi Cheng substituted her pillow with his arm. Then the phone beside An Ran suddenly rang, and the sleepy An Ran was startled by the bell, her entire person was somewhat shaking down. Su Yi Cheng for the first time took the phone and directly pressed mute, then reached out to lightly pat An Ran’s back, until she calmed down then he took the cell phone out.
It was Lin Li, directly picked up, not waiting for Su Yi Cheng to say anything, on the other side Lin Li opened to say, “An Zi, that photographer that I asked for you said that he was free tomorrow, why don’t you ask your leader Su, see if he has time, if he does have time then I can help you book a time. You also know, you’re pregnant with twins, the longer you put it off the bigger your stomach will get, you won’t even have strength. If you can come tomorrow, you should take some pictures first.”
Hearing that, Su Yi Cheng started to filter through tomorrow’s work in his head. There was nothing particularly important, so it was not a big problem to take half the day off.
For a while she didn’t hear An Ran’s reply, so Lin Li couldn’t help but ask, “An Zi, are you listening?”
Su Yi Cheng returned to Earth, and said, “Then arrange it for tomorrow afternoon, I have time, can shoot.” In fact, a few days ago he inadvertently went into the bedside table drawer, and inadvertently saw a picture of a piece of paper. It was just a photo of them from the newspaper, but An Ran had cut it out separately.
“Heng, Leader Su?” Lin Li was taken aback, obviously surprised that the person who answered the phone was not An Ran but Su Yi Cheng.
Su Yi Cheng smiled and explained, “An Ran fell asleep.”
“Oh.” Lin Li understood, then said, “Then Leader Su tomorrow if there is time, I will tell the photographer to prepare the room for tomorrow.”
“Okay, thanks a lot.” Su Yi Cheng said politely.
“Che, An Zi is my best friend, and on this, it’s not a hassle.” Lin Li does not care, and spoke straightly, “Well, I’ll call the studio first, you will go directly tomorrow.”
“Okay, thank you.” Su Yi Cheng thanked her and hung up the phone, and then took his cell phone again to call Secretary Zheng, ready to arrange for his work tomorrow.
An Ran woke up the next day, when she got out of the bathroom and went out into the living room she unexpectedly saw a certain someone still in their home clothes, their hair still damp, eating their steaming breakfast, while Auntie Zhang was wiping the table. Seeing An Ran, she smiled, “Madam has woken up.”
An Ran nodded to her, and then turned back, only to see that the man who had just turned his back to her at the moment, holding the spoon, was smiling at her.
An Ran went forward, sat down at the bar and asked, “Don’t you have work?” Why is he still at home at this time?
Su Yi Cheng nodded, and said, “En, there’s nothing much today, I’m not going to go over.”
“Really?” An Ran frowned, and muttered, “How come I heard you say yesterday that there was a meeting to be held in the morning.”
Su Yi Cheng gently smiled, and did not explain much, just said, “Sit down first, breakfast will be ready soon.”
An Ran also did not want to think too much, that he did not go to work is good, he can accompany her more. While nodding she sat on the high chair, while saying, “Yi Cheng, since you don’t have work today, then let’s go to my mother’s house, I kind of miss them.”
Su Yi Cheng put the two people’s breakfast away, nodded and said, “We can go in the evening.” As he spoke, he poured her a glass of milk.
Why did An Ran feel weird hearing this, she asked, “So what are we doing in the day?”
Su Yi Cheng smiled, only dragged it on and said, “Secret, you’ll see in a bit.”
An Ran muttered funnily, “How mysterious.” But she didn’t ask much, she looked forward to him surprising her.
It was really a surprise, a surprise and joy!
After lunch, Su Yi Cheng drove her to the door of a photography studio. An Ran looked at him with some disbelief, “Why are you bringing me here, last time didn’t Lin Li say the soonest time will be at the end of October?”
Su Yi Cheng thoughtfully went around the car to her side and undid her seatbelt, then explained everything Lin Li said on the phone after she fell asleep last night.
Hearing that, An Ran couldn’t help but yell, “Ah, why didn’t you tell me, I wasn’t ready.” She took out the little makeup mirror from her bag, looked at herself, and said, “How is it? Can I go like this? Do I look alive?”
Every woman loves to be beautiful, especially when taking pictures, and is very demanding on herself, because everyone wants to take a beautiful picture.
Su Yi Cheng pulled on her slightly sweaty hand because of the nervousness, and said, “Very good, everything is good, my wife is the most beautiful person in the world!” The soothing patter patted her hand and said, “It’s all right, there’s me.”
An Ran still looked at him nervously, nodded in the end, holding his hand tightly.
An Ran’s nervousness continued until the beginning of the shooting, frequently wanting to go to the washroom to put on makeup, and every time Su Yi Cheng would say no worries, he would always accompany An Ran and go together. An Ran felt that if it were not for Su Yi Cheng’ identity, she estimates that she would have gotten angry earlier, just a simple makeup look, she couldn’t finish even an hour later.
Finally when the real shooting time started, the tension suddenly disappeared, the whole filming process was still smooth.
Because of the twins, An Ran’s stomach was now small. At the photographer’s suggestion, An Ran prepared to take a set of pregnancy photos, the photographer originally wanted the make-up artist to paint a lovely smiley face on An Ran’s stomach, just like some of the big belly photos on the internet, have Su Yi Cheng be like those baby fathers with the same weird action, that shot should come out very good, but considering Su Yi Cheng’s image, although An Ran was very excited, but refused, and just agreed to wear a set of clothes that showed off her belly, and then have Su Yi Cheng hold her from behind and take a few simple photos.
At the end of the shoot, su Yi Cheng crouched in front of An Ran at the photographer’s request, bowing his head and kissed An Ran’s stomach warmly. Such an action for Su Yi Cheng was second nature, very naturally looked up to look at An Ran, An Ran affectionately will have a kiss printed on her belly. An Ran on the other hand, naturally put her hand on his face, gently stroked his face, everything was very natural.
Only when the photographer said, ‘OK’, they kept doing the action for a few more shots. Suddenly Su Yi Cheng raised his head, stared at An Ran, seeming like he had received a great impact. An Ran smiled but didn’t say anything, but her eyes were smiling.
The photographer and the lighting man didn’t know what was going on, and asked, “What, what happened?”
Only to see Su Yi Cheng mutter, did not hear what he said, and then directly put his ears on An Ran’s big belly, hands still attached to her stomach, as if feeling something, mouth kept saying, “Baby, it’s daddy, come say hello to daddy…”
And the people at the scene then knew that it turns out An Ran’s stomach at this time had fetal movement, and Su Yi Cheng’s reaction was precisely because of the feeling of excitement after the fetal movement.
The look An Ran had was just the same, hand caressed Su Yi Cheng’s head, face full with a smile of satisfaction and happiness.
The photographer suddenly found the scene to be more warm and natural than any of the previous pictures, and then took several shots with the camera clicking away.
---END OF CHAPTER---
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Sunday 20 October 2019
First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 144 Translation
Previous Chapter
144. Scenes
The next day she woke up, Su Yi Cheng had already gotten out of bed. An Ran dazedly got up and washed her face, and when she opened the door Auntie Zhang had already came over. Apparently as she was waking up she had already gone to the market, and was now using the time to prepare the ingredients for lunch. Seeing that An Ran was up, she quickly washed her hands and said, “Madam, you’re up. I’ll warm up breakfast for you.”
An Ran sat in front of the bar, took the milk that Auntie Zhang had given her, and asked, “Did Yi Cheng make breakfast?”
“Yeah, I just came over in the morning when I met the mister as he was leaving. He was quite early, it was only 7 when he left, and even made breakfast.” Auntie Zhang said as she took out the breakfast that Su Yi Cheng made out of the microwave and carried it over to her.
An Ran smiled faintly, it was a satisfied happiness.
An Ran sat in the living room and watched TV, it was a cooking program. Meanwhile, Lin Li called her, and said that she wanted to take a walk with her. Hearing that, An Ran just shook her head, and said she had walked around the entire day yesterday with Su Yi Cheng, so her legs were still sore from that.
“Then come out and have a meal together, I haven’t seen you for so long, I want to rub my adopted son.” Lin Li said over the phone.
“Ha, then you come over, I’m at home.” An Ran smiled. Lin Li and Su Yi Cheng have opposite wishes. Lin Li has been insistent that she must have a son, while Su Yi Cheng must have a daughter. In fact, thinking about it made her laugh. Whether she gives birth to a boy or a girl was nothing she could control, it depends on fate. Actually if it were up to her, what she wants the most is one girl and one boy.
“Well you should come out, I, I have something I want to tell you.” Lin Li’s tone was a little strange, “I’ll wait until I’m in front of your house to pick you up, and I’ll call you.”
An Ran frowned, unconvincingly, and asked, “What is it, that I have to come out for you to tell me?”
“Ai ya, you’ll know by then.” Lin Li did not explain, and half-heartedly said, “Alright, I won’t speak anymore, let’s just leave it at that.” After she was done speaking she did not wait for An Ran to talk, and just hung up the phone.
“How strange.” An Ran looked at the phone and muttered a few words, then directly said to Auntie Zhang, “Auntie Zhang, don’t make lunch, I’m going out soon.”
“Oh, okay.” Auntie Zhang nodded and agreed.
When An Ran changed her clothes, Lin Li’s call just came in and said she was downstairs and she can just come down.
An Ran wore the maternity dress they bought last time. Originally she thought it would be a while until she wore it, did not expect to have twins, the stomach is double the average person’s.
When An Ran came down, only to see a red Audi parked at the community door. She did not know what series, but she still recognized those four circles.
Lin Li put down the window of the driver’s seat and smiled. An Ran stared incredulously, “Lin Li!”
Lin Li smiled guiltily, and said, “Get in the car.”
An Ran got in the car with doubt. She stared at her, and asked, “Where did you get the car?” Lin Li’s father’s illness cost the Lin family almost of the their savings, how in the world could Lin Li buy such a good car.
“Just wait.” Lin Li pouted her lips, and motioned her to look behind.
“What?” An Ran turned her head in disbelief, only to see a child in the back seat of the car, staring at her with round eyes. And she recognized that child, it was the child of Zhou Han family. She looked at the child with surprise and cried out, “Xiao Bin?”
The child did not speak, looked at her for a moment, then dropped his eyes, and continued to play with the Transformers in his hand.
An Ran turned her head, looked at Lin Li, face full of doubt, really did not know what is this situation.
“Well, let’s go the restaurant first.” Lin Li said and started the car.
In the car, An Ran knew that she shouldn’t say anything bad in front of the child, but she still can’t figure out how this Lin Li and Zhou Han’s child got to know each other. She felt the situation was really too strange, eyes straightly stared at Lin Li.
Lin Li felt unsettled being stared at, could only dryly smile, “Hehe, if you look at me like that I can’t really drive.”
“Heng, didn’t you say you would never drive?” An Ran said coldly.
Only to see Lin Li’s expression turn stiff, the hands grasping the steering wheel also tightened. She just fixedly looked at the front, and did not speak.
An Ran suddenly realized, and secretly scolded herself, clearly knew that it had hurt her, but also was committed to take this opportunity, and whispered apologetically, “I’m sorry.”
Lin Li just pulled a stiff smile, and did not speak, eyes only looked at the front.
The atmosphere in the car changed strangely, An Ran did not say anything more, only turned to look out of the window.
Lin Li parked her car in front of a KFC, turned to look at him and smiled, “Xiao Bin, we’re here.”
Hearing that Zhou Jia Bin turned to look out of the window, his eyes twinkling.
Lin Li turned to look at An Ran, and said with a faint smile, “He has always wanted to eat here, today I don’t have work, he also does not have school, so I promised him that we would come here.”
An Ran nodded, turned to look at the child, the corner of her mouth had a faint smile. In fact, she and this child have quite a fate.
The three got off, An Ran brought Xiao Bin to find a seat. Today was a holiday, so there was a lot of people inside this KFC, there were also a lot of children, running noisily, laughter, it was extremely boisterous.
An Ran held onto the child’s hand to find a place where there was a window seat. An Ran directly let the waiter pack the things up, and then with Xiao Bin sat him down and so on. Xiao Bin seemed to be more interested in the children’s activity area, eyes were glued to the side.
Lin Li had been waiting in line for a while, but the rice meal that she ordered for An Ran was not ready yet, so she had to wait for a little longer.
Xiao Bin saw his beloved hamburger and French fries. His eyes lit up brightly, but still cleverly. He turned to look at Lin Li, and since Lin Li did not give him permission he did not move.
Lin Li touched his head, unwrapped the hamburger, and handed it to him, laughing and saying, “Come on, eat slowly.”
With permission, the little guy only took the hamburger and took a big bite, not afraid of it being hot, his eyebrows bent, eating happily.
An Ran looked at the child, then turned to look at Lin Li, and asked, “Say it, what’s going on?”
Lin Li turned her head, looked at An Ran, and said straightly, “I got married to Zhou Han some time ago.”
“What!” An Ran yelled out, her eyes got even wider, that expression could scare a person.
The little guy in front of them was also startled, the whole person was shaken down. He stared at An Ran, not even eating the hamburger.
“Oh, An Zi, can’t you tone down your reaction a little bit!” Lin Li did not look good, and then hurriedly turned around and patted Xiao Bin’s back, and said, “It’s nothing, keep eating Xiao Bin, drink some coke, don’t just eat hamburgers.” Sayng that, she handed him the coke.
The little guy looked at An Ran, seemed a little frightened.
An Ran also knew that she had scared him, and just smiled awkwardly, trying to make her expression not too serious. The little guy seemed to calm down a bit, grabbed the burger and continued to eat.
After the child was calmed down, An Ran started to ask, “Why did you do that!”
Lin Li turned her head, looked at her. She had a bitter smile, and just said, “Actually it’s nothing much. It hurts too much to love a person, I have all my feelings to Cheng Xiang, and I found that I can’t love anymore. I do not want to love, but I also can’t not marry. Zhou Han also needed a wife, so we made a deal, he is still my boss, I am still his employee, he pays me, I just have to do my role well. It’s just a deal, nothing more.”
“Are you crazy?” An Ran couldn’t believe her, “Marriage is not a child’s play, how can you do this! Mother Lin and Father Lin want you start a relationship again, do you want to start like this? If they found out how hurt would they be!”
“Hehe.” Lin Li smiled and shook her head, looked at her and said, “An Ran, I’m just like you aren’t I? When you married Su Yi Cheng, was it not to forget Mo Fei?”
An Ran was stumped, unable to retort. She could not deny that originally the marriage was indeed as absurd as Lin Li’s reasons, but she was more fortunate. Meeting Su Yi Cheng, although their marriage had an abnormal start but they had a normal perfect ending. But is Zhou Han the same as Su Yi Cheng? Is Lin Li like her?”
“An Ran, I don’t want to talk or explain too much about this, you will certainly understand why I did this, so I don’t need to say any words of persuasion, I understand the reasoning, I even remembered I said the same thing to you before, ha ha.” Lin Li smiled a little bitterly.
Looking at her, she shook her head helplessly, sighed, and said, “I don’t know what to say to you.” Some things can only be understood through experienced. She knows that Lin Li is doing this wrong, but she does not know what to say, she understands Lin Li’s feelings and helplessness.
Lin Li smiled, and said lightly, “Oh, it’s nothing, I wasn’t worried about you, but seeing you now, after this long, you have become a mother, and then look at Su Yi Cheng, he treats you so well ah, you can’t guarantee that I won’t meet another Su Yi Cheng, right.”
An Ran glared at her, and said, “I better hope so!”
“Don’t worry, can’t you meet me!” Lin Li said relaxed, but did not want An Ran to worry about her.
An Ran looked into her eyes and did not speak.
“I’ll go and see if your meal is ready.” Lin Li got up and went to the counter.
An Ran and the little guy sat there. Watching him eat until his mouth was full of oil, she took a side of a paper towel and handed it over to him to wipe his face, “Come, let auntie wipe your mouth.”
The little guy obediently stopped his action, and let An Ran wipe away the oil around his mouth.
After wiping his mouth, An Ran put the tissue aside, smiled and touched his head, smiled and said, “It’s done.”
Only to see the little guy staring straight out of the window, his mouth murmured, “Mommy…”
An Ran frowned in doubt, turned her head and followed his gaze, only to see the street outside the window, a stopped vehicle because of the red light, that side was looking far away, only to see Ling Ran sitting in the passenger side, and she turned around at that moment. An Ran saw that the driver on the driver’s seat was obviously Su Yi Cheng.
---END OF CHAPTER---
Next Chapter
144. Scenes
The next day she woke up, Su Yi Cheng had already gotten out of bed. An Ran dazedly got up and washed her face, and when she opened the door Auntie Zhang had already came over. Apparently as she was waking up she had already gone to the market, and was now using the time to prepare the ingredients for lunch. Seeing that An Ran was up, she quickly washed her hands and said, “Madam, you’re up. I’ll warm up breakfast for you.”
An Ran sat in front of the bar, took the milk that Auntie Zhang had given her, and asked, “Did Yi Cheng make breakfast?”
“Yeah, I just came over in the morning when I met the mister as he was leaving. He was quite early, it was only 7 when he left, and even made breakfast.” Auntie Zhang said as she took out the breakfast that Su Yi Cheng made out of the microwave and carried it over to her.
An Ran smiled faintly, it was a satisfied happiness.
An Ran sat in the living room and watched TV, it was a cooking program. Meanwhile, Lin Li called her, and said that she wanted to take a walk with her. Hearing that, An Ran just shook her head, and said she had walked around the entire day yesterday with Su Yi Cheng, so her legs were still sore from that.
“Then come out and have a meal together, I haven’t seen you for so long, I want to rub my adopted son.” Lin Li said over the phone.
“Ha, then you come over, I’m at home.” An Ran smiled. Lin Li and Su Yi Cheng have opposite wishes. Lin Li has been insistent that she must have a son, while Su Yi Cheng must have a daughter. In fact, thinking about it made her laugh. Whether she gives birth to a boy or a girl was nothing she could control, it depends on fate. Actually if it were up to her, what she wants the most is one girl and one boy.
“Well you should come out, I, I have something I want to tell you.” Lin Li’s tone was a little strange, “I’ll wait until I’m in front of your house to pick you up, and I’ll call you.”
An Ran frowned, unconvincingly, and asked, “What is it, that I have to come out for you to tell me?”
“Ai ya, you’ll know by then.” Lin Li did not explain, and half-heartedly said, “Alright, I won’t speak anymore, let’s just leave it at that.” After she was done speaking she did not wait for An Ran to talk, and just hung up the phone.
“How strange.” An Ran looked at the phone and muttered a few words, then directly said to Auntie Zhang, “Auntie Zhang, don’t make lunch, I’m going out soon.”
“Oh, okay.” Auntie Zhang nodded and agreed.
When An Ran changed her clothes, Lin Li’s call just came in and said she was downstairs and she can just come down.
An Ran wore the maternity dress they bought last time. Originally she thought it would be a while until she wore it, did not expect to have twins, the stomach is double the average person’s.
When An Ran came down, only to see a red Audi parked at the community door. She did not know what series, but she still recognized those four circles.
Lin Li put down the window of the driver’s seat and smiled. An Ran stared incredulously, “Lin Li!”
Lin Li smiled guiltily, and said, “Get in the car.”
An Ran got in the car with doubt. She stared at her, and asked, “Where did you get the car?” Lin Li’s father’s illness cost the Lin family almost of the their savings, how in the world could Lin Li buy such a good car.
“Just wait.” Lin Li pouted her lips, and motioned her to look behind.
“What?” An Ran turned her head in disbelief, only to see a child in the back seat of the car, staring at her with round eyes. And she recognized that child, it was the child of Zhou Han family. She looked at the child with surprise and cried out, “Xiao Bin?”
The child did not speak, looked at her for a moment, then dropped his eyes, and continued to play with the Transformers in his hand.
An Ran turned her head, looked at Lin Li, face full of doubt, really did not know what is this situation.
“Well, let’s go the restaurant first.” Lin Li said and started the car.
In the car, An Ran knew that she shouldn’t say anything bad in front of the child, but she still can’t figure out how this Lin Li and Zhou Han’s child got to know each other. She felt the situation was really too strange, eyes straightly stared at Lin Li.
Lin Li felt unsettled being stared at, could only dryly smile, “Hehe, if you look at me like that I can’t really drive.”
“Heng, didn’t you say you would never drive?” An Ran said coldly.
Only to see Lin Li’s expression turn stiff, the hands grasping the steering wheel also tightened. She just fixedly looked at the front, and did not speak.
An Ran suddenly realized, and secretly scolded herself, clearly knew that it had hurt her, but also was committed to take this opportunity, and whispered apologetically, “I’m sorry.”
Lin Li just pulled a stiff smile, and did not speak, eyes only looked at the front.
The atmosphere in the car changed strangely, An Ran did not say anything more, only turned to look out of the window.
Lin Li parked her car in front of a KFC, turned to look at him and smiled, “Xiao Bin, we’re here.”
Hearing that Zhou Jia Bin turned to look out of the window, his eyes twinkling.
Lin Li turned to look at An Ran, and said with a faint smile, “He has always wanted to eat here, today I don’t have work, he also does not have school, so I promised him that we would come here.”
An Ran nodded, turned to look at the child, the corner of her mouth had a faint smile. In fact, she and this child have quite a fate.
The three got off, An Ran brought Xiao Bin to find a seat. Today was a holiday, so there was a lot of people inside this KFC, there were also a lot of children, running noisily, laughter, it was extremely boisterous.
An Ran held onto the child’s hand to find a place where there was a window seat. An Ran directly let the waiter pack the things up, and then with Xiao Bin sat him down and so on. Xiao Bin seemed to be more interested in the children’s activity area, eyes were glued to the side.
Lin Li had been waiting in line for a while, but the rice meal that she ordered for An Ran was not ready yet, so she had to wait for a little longer.
Xiao Bin saw his beloved hamburger and French fries. His eyes lit up brightly, but still cleverly. He turned to look at Lin Li, and since Lin Li did not give him permission he did not move.
Lin Li touched his head, unwrapped the hamburger, and handed it to him, laughing and saying, “Come on, eat slowly.”
With permission, the little guy only took the hamburger and took a big bite, not afraid of it being hot, his eyebrows bent, eating happily.
An Ran looked at the child, then turned to look at Lin Li, and asked, “Say it, what’s going on?”
Lin Li turned her head, looked at An Ran, and said straightly, “I got married to Zhou Han some time ago.”
“What!” An Ran yelled out, her eyes got even wider, that expression could scare a person.
The little guy in front of them was also startled, the whole person was shaken down. He stared at An Ran, not even eating the hamburger.
“Oh, An Zi, can’t you tone down your reaction a little bit!” Lin Li did not look good, and then hurriedly turned around and patted Xiao Bin’s back, and said, “It’s nothing, keep eating Xiao Bin, drink some coke, don’t just eat hamburgers.” Sayng that, she handed him the coke.
The little guy looked at An Ran, seemed a little frightened.
An Ran also knew that she had scared him, and just smiled awkwardly, trying to make her expression not too serious. The little guy seemed to calm down a bit, grabbed the burger and continued to eat.
After the child was calmed down, An Ran started to ask, “Why did you do that!”
Lin Li turned her head, looked at her. She had a bitter smile, and just said, “Actually it’s nothing much. It hurts too much to love a person, I have all my feelings to Cheng Xiang, and I found that I can’t love anymore. I do not want to love, but I also can’t not marry. Zhou Han also needed a wife, so we made a deal, he is still my boss, I am still his employee, he pays me, I just have to do my role well. It’s just a deal, nothing more.”
“Are you crazy?” An Ran couldn’t believe her, “Marriage is not a child’s play, how can you do this! Mother Lin and Father Lin want you start a relationship again, do you want to start like this? If they found out how hurt would they be!”
“Hehe.” Lin Li smiled and shook her head, looked at her and said, “An Ran, I’m just like you aren’t I? When you married Su Yi Cheng, was it not to forget Mo Fei?”
An Ran was stumped, unable to retort. She could not deny that originally the marriage was indeed as absurd as Lin Li’s reasons, but she was more fortunate. Meeting Su Yi Cheng, although their marriage had an abnormal start but they had a normal perfect ending. But is Zhou Han the same as Su Yi Cheng? Is Lin Li like her?”
“An Ran, I don’t want to talk or explain too much about this, you will certainly understand why I did this, so I don’t need to say any words of persuasion, I understand the reasoning, I even remembered I said the same thing to you before, ha ha.” Lin Li smiled a little bitterly.
Looking at her, she shook her head helplessly, sighed, and said, “I don’t know what to say to you.” Some things can only be understood through experienced. She knows that Lin Li is doing this wrong, but she does not know what to say, she understands Lin Li’s feelings and helplessness.
Lin Li smiled, and said lightly, “Oh, it’s nothing, I wasn’t worried about you, but seeing you now, after this long, you have become a mother, and then look at Su Yi Cheng, he treats you so well ah, you can’t guarantee that I won’t meet another Su Yi Cheng, right.”
An Ran glared at her, and said, “I better hope so!”
“Don’t worry, can’t you meet me!” Lin Li said relaxed, but did not want An Ran to worry about her.
An Ran looked into her eyes and did not speak.
“I’ll go and see if your meal is ready.” Lin Li got up and went to the counter.
An Ran and the little guy sat there. Watching him eat until his mouth was full of oil, she took a side of a paper towel and handed it over to him to wipe his face, “Come, let auntie wipe your mouth.”
The little guy obediently stopped his action, and let An Ran wipe away the oil around his mouth.
After wiping his mouth, An Ran put the tissue aside, smiled and touched his head, smiled and said, “It’s done.”
Only to see the little guy staring straight out of the window, his mouth murmured, “Mommy…”
An Ran frowned in doubt, turned her head and followed his gaze, only to see the street outside the window, a stopped vehicle because of the red light, that side was looking far away, only to see Ling Ran sitting in the passenger side, and she turned around at that moment. An Ran saw that the driver on the driver’s seat was obviously Su Yi Cheng.
---END OF CHAPTER---
Next Chapter
Tuesday 1 October 2019
First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 143 Translation
Previous Chapter
143. Getting fat
The recent event made An Ran raise her head, only to see Xiao Xiao holding sugar fried chestnuts and coming towards them.
Xiao Xiao also saw An Ran, and was surprised, that smile on the corner of her mouth slowly disappeared, then in the next moment it appeared again. As she advanced she naturally reached out to hold Mo Fei’s hand. She looked at An Ran, smiled and said, “An Ran, what a coincidence! Long time no see.”
Concerning this combination, An Ran couldn’t help but be surprised. It wasn’t anything else, but just utter surprise.
After that incidence An Ran shook her head and smiled, then looked up at them, just smiled and nodded, and repeated, “It is a coincidence.”
Xiao Xiao didn’t smile but pulled in her lips, turned to look at the paper bag in her hands containing the sugar fried chestnuts, took one out and said, “Mo Fei, didn’t you say you wanted to eat this, I peeled it off for you, I just tasted one, very sweet and very powdered.” As she spoke, she peeled the chestnut shell with her newly manicured fingers, then look out the flesh and handed it to Mo Fei’s mouth.
An Ran smiled at everything, as if she were looking at two complete strangers, no feeling.
Mo Fei looked dead on at An Ran, completely indifferent to Xiao Xiao’s delivering the chestnut to his mouth, and did not open his mouth.
“An Ran.” From behind Su Yi Cheng finally squeezed out from the crowd, holding the still hot corn and walked towards An Ran.
An Ran turned around, saw his happy face, and saw that he was holding some hot corn in his hands, smiled with her eyes and said, “You bought it.”
Su Yi Cheng only had his eyes on An Ran, as he came close he only then saw Mo Fei and Xiao Xiao standing in front of An Ran. Seeing that they looked intimate, he slightly raised his eyebrows, as if he weren’t that surprised. He lightly nodded to them, and just said, “Chief Mo, Miss Xiao, what a coincidence.”
Xiao Xiao took back the hand that was close to his mouth, turned her head and slightly nodded towards Su Yi Cheng, pulled in her lips and smiled, “Mayor Su.”
Mo Fei stared at home, and stiffly nodded.
After saying hello, Su Yi Cheng no longer cared about them, directly opened the plastic bag and delivered the sweet corn to An Ran’s mouth, and said, “It’s still very hot, I’ll hold, you eat slowly.”
“En en.” An Ran nodded joyfully, and gnawed up the corn he put in front of her. As she was eating like a kid she said, “En, it’s good.”
Su Yi Cheng just dotingly rubbed her head and said, “Let’s go, where do you wanna go?”
An Ran’s mouth was full of corn, so her words were somewhat unclear as she said, “I want to go to the river.” Looking at Su Yi Cheng, her eyes were shining.
Su Yi Cheng nodded, “Okay, we’ll go wherever you want to go.” She was the boss, and everything was about her. Then he looked up and saw Mo Fei and Xiao Xiao standing to the side, faintly smiled and said, “Chief Mo and Miss Xiao can continue, we will leave first.”
Mo Fei still had no expression, his eyes were fixed on An Ran and just looked at her. Both his hands were hanging down on his sides balled up tightly, as if he were supressing his mood through his body.
Xiao Xiao was somewhat embarrassed and nodded at Su Yi Cheng, and just answered, “Okay.”
Until the two of them disappeared into the crowd, he stared into the distance, unable to return to his senses.
Xiao Xiao delivered the chestnut flesh that she had just peeled to his mouth, her delicate voice came into his ears, “Mo Fei, eat the chestnuts, didn’t you want to eat this, it’s really delicious.”
Mo Fei then returned to his senses, coldly glanced at Xiao Xiao, reached out to pat her hand and coldly said, “After 0 don’t do such a senseless thing, otherwise, it will only let me hate you more.” After that, he didn’t look at her, and turned to leave.
Xiao Xiao’s hand tightened up, teeth tightly bit her lips, suddenly she only felt ridiculous, the scene just now seemed to be a sharp contrast. She and An Ran seemed to always be the opposite, she has Su Yi Cheng who squeezed into the crowd to get sweet corn, they were both women, but she had to go into the crowd to buy chestnuts, Gu An Ran has Su Yi Cheng who spoiled her and feared that she would burn herself and fed her the corn, while she had to personally peel the chestnut and hand it to a man who didn’t want it.
It was ridiculous to think about it. She knew why he had promised to be with her, but only for the reason that she had stolen the information from Huang De Xing behind his back, and then destroyed the evidence pertaining to Mo Fei and ‘Jing Cheng’, and felt that he owed her a personal favour.
Thinking of that, Xiao Xiao let out a self-deprecating laugh.
Standing in front of the guardrail on the dam of Qingjiang River, Su Yi Cheng held An Ran in front of him protectively. Feeling the night wind blowing across her face, listening to the whistle of the night ferry not too far away, the sound of laughter from the crowd around them, An Ran closed her eyes somewhat satisfied, gently sighed, “So good!”
Su Yi Cheng smiled, rested his chin on her shoulder, softly chuckled and asked, “What’s good?”
An Ran smiled and said, “A lot. You being here with me feels very good, having these children feels very good, shopping hand in hand like today also feels good, and so much more, all feels very good!”
Su Yi Cheng smiled but did not speak, but held her hand and hugged her tighter.
The two stood on the river for a while, also walked for a while, until An Ran felt sleepy, then the two decided to go back.
Today they walked for quite a bit, Su Yi Cheng, considerate that it would tire her, went directly under the bridge and called a taxi, as for their own car they could only wait for tomorrow morning to get it.
Taking a stroll for the entire day today, An Ran was really tired, when she got into the taxi, she leaned against SU Yi Cheng and slowly fell asleep.
Su Yi Cheng took off his coat and put it on her, then softly whispered to the driver, “Shi fu*, drive slowly, do not rush, steady is good.”
*respectful form of address for older men
The driver smiled and nodded. He smiled through the rear-view mirror and said, “Young man, you really know how to love your wife.”
Su yi Cheng smiled, looked down at An Ran. He helped her brush her fringe to the side, and only faintly said, “We should love our wives.”
The driver smiled and nodded. Looking at the rear-view mirror, these two people felt a little familiar, seems to have seen somewhere, but for a time could not remember. Half with doubt he asked, “Where have I seen you?”
Su Yi Cheng just smiled, did not speak, holding An Ran, he let her sleep more calmly in his arms.
Until the car slowly stopped at the door of their complex, An Ran did not wake up. Su Yi Cheng also did not intend to wake her up. He paid the fare, directly held An Ran ready to get off.
The driver saw the situation and hurried out of the car to open the door for them. Under the street lamp, Su Yi Cheng carried An Ran out of the car, the driver then saw Su Yi Cheng more clearly, suddenly remembered the newspaper he saw a few days ago, somewhat exclaimed, “Oh, I remember now, you, you are Mayor Su!”
Su Yi Cheng looked down at An Ran, saw that she had not woken up, only then did he smile at the driver and looked at him, slightly nodded, and whispered, “Small voice.”
The driver only then reacted. He smiled awkwardly, busily nodded, “Yes, I’m sorry, I was excited, I’ve read the newspaper that day.”
Su Yi Cheng smiled, looked at his eyes, just said, “Then, I will go first and bring my wife in.”
The driver nodded, “Yes yes yes.”
As Su Yi Cheng was carrying An Ran and just entered the hall, from behind the driver quickly called out, “Mayor Su, wait a minute.”
Su Yi Cheng turned to look at him puzzled, only to see him somewhat breathless running his way, and then quickly took out his business card from his pocket and handed it over, smiled and said, “Mayor Su, this is my business card, if you ever need to go somewhere where it’s inconvenient to drive, you can call me directly, I am usually driving at 2 o’clock at night, of course, I will give you a 70% discount.” As he said that, he also simply scratched his head.
Su Yi Cheng took the business card and smiled and nodded, “Okay, next time I need a ride I’ll call you.”
“Yes.” The driver nodded, “Then, I won’t bother you, Mayor Su. Good bye.” He said that and left.
Su Yi Cheng smiled and shook his head, then turned around and headed toward the elevator.
When Su Yi Cheng placed An Ran on the bed, as if suddenly feeling something less because of the lack of Su Yi Cheng’s embrace, just as she lied down, her eyelids moved, and her eyes slowly opened.
Just waking up, her eyes were somewhat hazy. Seeming to not see the surrounding environment, she tightly grasped Su Yi Cheng’s hand, and bewilderedly and cutely asked, “Where are we?”
Su Yi Cheng reached out to touch her face, and said with a faint smile, “We’re home.”
Hearing that, An Ran seemed to try to open her eyes to the surrounding environment. Recognizing that this is indeed their room, and that she is lying in their big bed at the moment, she frowned and said, “I got in the car and fell asleep ah!” She just remembered them stopping the car, sitting there and said that they were going home, and then she just felt that her eyelids were heavy, and then her consciousness slowly blurred, and then she doesn’t remember anything after that.
“En.” Su Yi Cheng replied softly, he soothed and said, “Sleep for a while, you didn’t sleep for that long.” It was only a half hour ride.
‘Grumble grumble…’ This time An Ran did not open her mouth, but her stomach was the first to respond. Today she didn’t actually eat much, although she ate a lot of roadside snacks, but not enough to fill up the stomach.
“Your two little lovers are hungry.” An Ran muttered. Being with him for this long, there are some things where there was no need for consideration, that was natural. Of course, if it was another party, An Ran estimates that she would burst into a red face, but since she was just with Su Yi Cheng, she was natural.
Su Yi Cheng chuckled and shook his head, helped her to sit up and said, “You go wash up, I will make you a late-night snack.”
“Okay.” An Ran nodded. She got up and took a change of clothes from the closet, then went into the bathroom.
Su Yi Cheng got up and went to the kitchen, opened the refrigerator to see what he could make. Because Auntie Zhang would go the market every day to go buy fresh ingredients, and the daily ingredients are basically only enough for the day, then tomorrow she would go buy another kind. Since today Auntie Zhang did not come to work, there was not much in the fridge, only a few tomatoes, and a few eggs.
Looking at these things, Su Yi Cheng suddenly felt that he and An Ran seemed to have a special fate for the same few things. He chuckled and took out the tomatoes and eggs, washed them and then began to prepare.
He opened the cabinet door ready to take out the noodles, when at this time his cell phone started to ring. He did not really look at the call, and directly picked up, “Hello, who is it?” With the other hand he took the noodles out of the cupboard and prepared to boil the noodles.
“It’s me.” It was a woman’s voice, gentle and soft with resentment.
Hearing that, Su Yi Cheng frowned. He paused, then looked at the screen. His first guess was not wrong, that frown frowned even more. His voice went cold to minus 12 degrees, and coldly said, “Is there something?”
There was some contemptuous smile from the other side of the phone, and the tone was a little weird, “I can’t call you unless there’s something? We once dated, even though it was long ago, you can’t deny that we were real, can you?”
Su Yi Cheng’s frown didn’t even drop, not even bothering to reply, he just took the phone off his ear, and hung up. Now he has no time to listen to her, anyways, one cannot go back into the past, whether they were real or not in the past does not matter now, especially affections, it is impossible to turn back and go back, call him strict, he will not forgive betrayal.
He turned the stove on again, waited for the water to boil. The phone that he had just hung up started to ring again less than a dozen second later, still Ling Ran. Su Yi Cheng frowned, reached out and refused the call, this time he doesn’t even feeling like picking it up.
She seemed to be even more patient than him, she dialed again and again, as if she were really going to dial until he picked up.
Hanging up three more times, on the fourth call, Su Yi Cheng directly turned off the stove. Not waiting for Ling Ran to speak, he directly said, “Ling Ran, what’s the point of being like this?”
On the other side of the phone, Ling Ran sneered and accused, “Oh, Su Yi Cheng, I’ve become like this because of you! If it hadn’t been for you—”
Su Yi Cheng did not wait for her to finish, and directly interrupted her, “If you insist on calling to tell me about the old memories of the past, then there is no need, I do not want to listen, and please understand, it was you who betrayed me in the first place!”
He had always considered himself a traditional man, his attitude towards feelings is even more traditional, he can love a person wholeheartedly, maybe when he is busy he will be neglectful, but when he loves a person then his entire heart belongs to that person, he would not give another woman a chance, that is his attitude towards love, but also the same, if he decided to let go, then he will also be very decisive, not dragging mud with water, this is what he thinks is the best way to reduce injury, towards yourself and to others.
“Hehe.” Ling Ran sneered, and just said, “Fine, I won’t talk about the past. Our Ling family and your Su family can be considered as friends.”
“If this is what you want to talk about, then I only have one thing to say, if you don’t provoke me I won’t provoke you!” He didn’t think about giving Ling Chuan Jiang an opportunity, but he shouldn’t have gone after An Ran, since he did, he didn’t have anything to say about feelings, because the first person to tear off the face is them!
“Do you really have to do such a thing!” Never even gave his father a second chance, even sending him to prison!
“Did I wrongly accuse him?” Su Yi Cheng asked rhetorically. He wouldn’t wrongly accuse another person without any evidence, all the evidence he gathered were the truth, each can find the corresponding time and situation, none were falsified.
“But you—” Ling Ran seemed like she wanted to say something, but Su Yi Cheng was now impatient, only said, “Look what you have done to others, don’t think that others owe you anything. I won’t answer your call again.” After he was done, he hung up the phone. He reached up and massaged his sore brows, and threw the phone aside.
When An Ran came out of the bathroom, Su Yi Cheng happened to be pouring the soup onto the noodles.
An Ran saw that, and smiled, “Ha, that’s my specialty noodle.”
Su Yi Cheng pinched her nose, let her sit on the high chair, and then handed her the chopsticks and spoon, and sat down opposite her, “It’s a little hot, eat slowly.”
“Sure.” An Ran nodded while holding a spoon of soup. Then her expression turned heavy, and then holding the noodles with her chopsticks, blew on it, then put it into her mouth, only to see that her expression turned heavier.
Su Yi Cheng had seen her not so great complexion, wrinkled, lowered his head to eat a mouthful. The taste was good, it shouldn’t be a problem!
He also added eggs and tomatoes, this time, An Ran’s face sunk, she looked at Su Yi Cheng, a face of grievance, bitter face, as if she were about to cry.
Su Yi Cheng hurriedly asked, “What’s the matter, no appetite?”
Only to see An Ran shake her head innocently, and muttered, “It’s you, why did you make this noodle, now when I make noodles it wouldn’t be as a good as your’s, what am I supposed to make from now on!”
Su Yi Cheng was taken aback for a moment. A while later does he come up with a reaction, with a big smile he reached out to rub her head, dotingly said, “Fool.”
“I’ve decided, starting tomorrow, I must learn to cook with Auntie Zhang!” An Ran said with a serious face, as if she had made a firm decision.
Su Yi Cheng just laughed, and didn’t comment.
After eating and drinking their fill, Su Yi Cheng grabbed a pair of clothes and went to the bathroom to shower, while An Ran returned to bed. Because she had slept a little while ago, she wasn’t that tired now, so she grabbed a magazine by the bedside, browsing leisurely.
But she doesn’t know what was happening, she doesn’t know how to put these two legs so that it is comfortable, it feels like something was pressing on them, it was aching and sore.
When Su Yi Cheng came out of the bathroom, only to see An Ran half-sitting with her hands pinching her feet, pinching to the point her hands were tired.
He wiped his hair dry with a dry towel, then put the towel aside, sat beside her and asked, “What’s going on?” As he said that, he raised her feet and put it on top of his thighs.
An Ran frowned, somewhat distressed said, “My legs are a little sore.”
Su Yi Cheng smiled, pulled her hand, and his large hands started to take over her work, while laughing he said, “You walked the whole day, of course it’ll be sore, and you are pregnant.”
“I’m only four months.”
Su Yi Cheng pinched her feet to relieve the soreness on her feet, and said, “But you are pregnant with twins ah, the doctor also said, you have the stomach of 6 months compared to others.”
“What to do, I also asked Lin Li to look for a photo studio!” An Ran mumbled, she wanted to take a beautiful picture!
“It’s alright, let’s take the baby with us. “Su Yi Cheng said with comfort.
An Ran was suddenly silent and did not speak, but just stared straight at him.
Su Yi Cheng asked hilariously, “What’s wrong?”
An Ran mumbled, looked at him and asked, “Do you think I’m getting ugly after getting pregnant?” After getting pregnant, she couldn’t help but think about a lot of nonsense, she felt like she was quickly becoming someone not like herself.
Su Yi Cheng smiled, let go of her legs, and then sat over, put her in his arms, and smiled, “Fool, what are you thinking of, my wife is still as beautiful as before.”
“No way, I’m obviously much fatter than before!” She knew that he was just coaxing her, she had just looked in the mirror when she took a bath, and felt that her body was a lot fatter, nothing like before.
“Really.” Su Yi Cheng nodded heavily, “I think you’re prettier than before, and I like the way your body feels.” He said. The hand began to wander around her.
“You! You scoundrel!” An Ran took his hand and slapped it away, the entire person was now in his attention, she was watching out for his unruly hand.
Su Yi Cheng chuckled into her ears, somewhat evilly said, “I like you now, because here is also bigger.” Speaking, he reached out and covered her chest.
An Ran’s face burst red, and slapped his hand, “You scoundrel!”
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Hey guys, really sorry for the long delay. Got into a car accident last month, still recovering from it. But I am doing much better ^^Hope you guys enjoyed this one!
143. Getting fat
The recent event made An Ran raise her head, only to see Xiao Xiao holding sugar fried chestnuts and coming towards them.
Xiao Xiao also saw An Ran, and was surprised, that smile on the corner of her mouth slowly disappeared, then in the next moment it appeared again. As she advanced she naturally reached out to hold Mo Fei’s hand. She looked at An Ran, smiled and said, “An Ran, what a coincidence! Long time no see.”
Concerning this combination, An Ran couldn’t help but be surprised. It wasn’t anything else, but just utter surprise.
After that incidence An Ran shook her head and smiled, then looked up at them, just smiled and nodded, and repeated, “It is a coincidence.”
Xiao Xiao didn’t smile but pulled in her lips, turned to look at the paper bag in her hands containing the sugar fried chestnuts, took one out and said, “Mo Fei, didn’t you say you wanted to eat this, I peeled it off for you, I just tasted one, very sweet and very powdered.” As she spoke, she peeled the chestnut shell with her newly manicured fingers, then look out the flesh and handed it to Mo Fei’s mouth.
An Ran smiled at everything, as if she were looking at two complete strangers, no feeling.
Mo Fei looked dead on at An Ran, completely indifferent to Xiao Xiao’s delivering the chestnut to his mouth, and did not open his mouth.
“An Ran.” From behind Su Yi Cheng finally squeezed out from the crowd, holding the still hot corn and walked towards An Ran.
An Ran turned around, saw his happy face, and saw that he was holding some hot corn in his hands, smiled with her eyes and said, “You bought it.”
Su Yi Cheng only had his eyes on An Ran, as he came close he only then saw Mo Fei and Xiao Xiao standing in front of An Ran. Seeing that they looked intimate, he slightly raised his eyebrows, as if he weren’t that surprised. He lightly nodded to them, and just said, “Chief Mo, Miss Xiao, what a coincidence.”
Xiao Xiao took back the hand that was close to his mouth, turned her head and slightly nodded towards Su Yi Cheng, pulled in her lips and smiled, “Mayor Su.”
Mo Fei stared at home, and stiffly nodded.
After saying hello, Su Yi Cheng no longer cared about them, directly opened the plastic bag and delivered the sweet corn to An Ran’s mouth, and said, “It’s still very hot, I’ll hold, you eat slowly.”
“En en.” An Ran nodded joyfully, and gnawed up the corn he put in front of her. As she was eating like a kid she said, “En, it’s good.”
Su Yi Cheng just dotingly rubbed her head and said, “Let’s go, where do you wanna go?”
An Ran’s mouth was full of corn, so her words were somewhat unclear as she said, “I want to go to the river.” Looking at Su Yi Cheng, her eyes were shining.
Su Yi Cheng nodded, “Okay, we’ll go wherever you want to go.” She was the boss, and everything was about her. Then he looked up and saw Mo Fei and Xiao Xiao standing to the side, faintly smiled and said, “Chief Mo and Miss Xiao can continue, we will leave first.”
Mo Fei still had no expression, his eyes were fixed on An Ran and just looked at her. Both his hands were hanging down on his sides balled up tightly, as if he were supressing his mood through his body.
Xiao Xiao was somewhat embarrassed and nodded at Su Yi Cheng, and just answered, “Okay.”
Until the two of them disappeared into the crowd, he stared into the distance, unable to return to his senses.
Xiao Xiao delivered the chestnut flesh that she had just peeled to his mouth, her delicate voice came into his ears, “Mo Fei, eat the chestnuts, didn’t you want to eat this, it’s really delicious.”
Mo Fei then returned to his senses, coldly glanced at Xiao Xiao, reached out to pat her hand and coldly said, “After 0 don’t do such a senseless thing, otherwise, it will only let me hate you more.” After that, he didn’t look at her, and turned to leave.
Xiao Xiao’s hand tightened up, teeth tightly bit her lips, suddenly she only felt ridiculous, the scene just now seemed to be a sharp contrast. She and An Ran seemed to always be the opposite, she has Su Yi Cheng who squeezed into the crowd to get sweet corn, they were both women, but she had to go into the crowd to buy chestnuts, Gu An Ran has Su Yi Cheng who spoiled her and feared that she would burn herself and fed her the corn, while she had to personally peel the chestnut and hand it to a man who didn’t want it.
It was ridiculous to think about it. She knew why he had promised to be with her, but only for the reason that she had stolen the information from Huang De Xing behind his back, and then destroyed the evidence pertaining to Mo Fei and ‘Jing Cheng’, and felt that he owed her a personal favour.
Thinking of that, Xiao Xiao let out a self-deprecating laugh.
Standing in front of the guardrail on the dam of Qingjiang River, Su Yi Cheng held An Ran in front of him protectively. Feeling the night wind blowing across her face, listening to the whistle of the night ferry not too far away, the sound of laughter from the crowd around them, An Ran closed her eyes somewhat satisfied, gently sighed, “So good!”
Su Yi Cheng smiled, rested his chin on her shoulder, softly chuckled and asked, “What’s good?”
An Ran smiled and said, “A lot. You being here with me feels very good, having these children feels very good, shopping hand in hand like today also feels good, and so much more, all feels very good!”
Su Yi Cheng smiled but did not speak, but held her hand and hugged her tighter.
The two stood on the river for a while, also walked for a while, until An Ran felt sleepy, then the two decided to go back.
Today they walked for quite a bit, Su Yi Cheng, considerate that it would tire her, went directly under the bridge and called a taxi, as for their own car they could only wait for tomorrow morning to get it.
Taking a stroll for the entire day today, An Ran was really tired, when she got into the taxi, she leaned against SU Yi Cheng and slowly fell asleep.
Su Yi Cheng took off his coat and put it on her, then softly whispered to the driver, “Shi fu*, drive slowly, do not rush, steady is good.”
*respectful form of address for older men
The driver smiled and nodded. He smiled through the rear-view mirror and said, “Young man, you really know how to love your wife.”
Su yi Cheng smiled, looked down at An Ran. He helped her brush her fringe to the side, and only faintly said, “We should love our wives.”
The driver smiled and nodded. Looking at the rear-view mirror, these two people felt a little familiar, seems to have seen somewhere, but for a time could not remember. Half with doubt he asked, “Where have I seen you?”
Su Yi Cheng just smiled, did not speak, holding An Ran, he let her sleep more calmly in his arms.
Until the car slowly stopped at the door of their complex, An Ran did not wake up. Su Yi Cheng also did not intend to wake her up. He paid the fare, directly held An Ran ready to get off.
The driver saw the situation and hurried out of the car to open the door for them. Under the street lamp, Su Yi Cheng carried An Ran out of the car, the driver then saw Su Yi Cheng more clearly, suddenly remembered the newspaper he saw a few days ago, somewhat exclaimed, “Oh, I remember now, you, you are Mayor Su!”
Su Yi Cheng looked down at An Ran, saw that she had not woken up, only then did he smile at the driver and looked at him, slightly nodded, and whispered, “Small voice.”
The driver only then reacted. He smiled awkwardly, busily nodded, “Yes, I’m sorry, I was excited, I’ve read the newspaper that day.”
Su Yi Cheng smiled, looked at his eyes, just said, “Then, I will go first and bring my wife in.”
The driver nodded, “Yes yes yes.”
As Su Yi Cheng was carrying An Ran and just entered the hall, from behind the driver quickly called out, “Mayor Su, wait a minute.”
Su Yi Cheng turned to look at him puzzled, only to see him somewhat breathless running his way, and then quickly took out his business card from his pocket and handed it over, smiled and said, “Mayor Su, this is my business card, if you ever need to go somewhere where it’s inconvenient to drive, you can call me directly, I am usually driving at 2 o’clock at night, of course, I will give you a 70% discount.” As he said that, he also simply scratched his head.
Su Yi Cheng took the business card and smiled and nodded, “Okay, next time I need a ride I’ll call you.”
“Yes.” The driver nodded, “Then, I won’t bother you, Mayor Su. Good bye.” He said that and left.
Su Yi Cheng smiled and shook his head, then turned around and headed toward the elevator.
When Su Yi Cheng placed An Ran on the bed, as if suddenly feeling something less because of the lack of Su Yi Cheng’s embrace, just as she lied down, her eyelids moved, and her eyes slowly opened.
Just waking up, her eyes were somewhat hazy. Seeming to not see the surrounding environment, she tightly grasped Su Yi Cheng’s hand, and bewilderedly and cutely asked, “Where are we?”
Su Yi Cheng reached out to touch her face, and said with a faint smile, “We’re home.”
Hearing that, An Ran seemed to try to open her eyes to the surrounding environment. Recognizing that this is indeed their room, and that she is lying in their big bed at the moment, she frowned and said, “I got in the car and fell asleep ah!” She just remembered them stopping the car, sitting there and said that they were going home, and then she just felt that her eyelids were heavy, and then her consciousness slowly blurred, and then she doesn’t remember anything after that.
“En.” Su Yi Cheng replied softly, he soothed and said, “Sleep for a while, you didn’t sleep for that long.” It was only a half hour ride.
‘Grumble grumble…’ This time An Ran did not open her mouth, but her stomach was the first to respond. Today she didn’t actually eat much, although she ate a lot of roadside snacks, but not enough to fill up the stomach.
“Your two little lovers are hungry.” An Ran muttered. Being with him for this long, there are some things where there was no need for consideration, that was natural. Of course, if it was another party, An Ran estimates that she would burst into a red face, but since she was just with Su Yi Cheng, she was natural.
Su Yi Cheng chuckled and shook his head, helped her to sit up and said, “You go wash up, I will make you a late-night snack.”
“Okay.” An Ran nodded. She got up and took a change of clothes from the closet, then went into the bathroom.
Su Yi Cheng got up and went to the kitchen, opened the refrigerator to see what he could make. Because Auntie Zhang would go the market every day to go buy fresh ingredients, and the daily ingredients are basically only enough for the day, then tomorrow she would go buy another kind. Since today Auntie Zhang did not come to work, there was not much in the fridge, only a few tomatoes, and a few eggs.
Looking at these things, Su Yi Cheng suddenly felt that he and An Ran seemed to have a special fate for the same few things. He chuckled and took out the tomatoes and eggs, washed them and then began to prepare.
He opened the cabinet door ready to take out the noodles, when at this time his cell phone started to ring. He did not really look at the call, and directly picked up, “Hello, who is it?” With the other hand he took the noodles out of the cupboard and prepared to boil the noodles.
“It’s me.” It was a woman’s voice, gentle and soft with resentment.
Hearing that, Su Yi Cheng frowned. He paused, then looked at the screen. His first guess was not wrong, that frown frowned even more. His voice went cold to minus 12 degrees, and coldly said, “Is there something?”
There was some contemptuous smile from the other side of the phone, and the tone was a little weird, “I can’t call you unless there’s something? We once dated, even though it was long ago, you can’t deny that we were real, can you?”
Su Yi Cheng’s frown didn’t even drop, not even bothering to reply, he just took the phone off his ear, and hung up. Now he has no time to listen to her, anyways, one cannot go back into the past, whether they were real or not in the past does not matter now, especially affections, it is impossible to turn back and go back, call him strict, he will not forgive betrayal.
He turned the stove on again, waited for the water to boil. The phone that he had just hung up started to ring again less than a dozen second later, still Ling Ran. Su Yi Cheng frowned, reached out and refused the call, this time he doesn’t even feeling like picking it up.
She seemed to be even more patient than him, she dialed again and again, as if she were really going to dial until he picked up.
Hanging up three more times, on the fourth call, Su Yi Cheng directly turned off the stove. Not waiting for Ling Ran to speak, he directly said, “Ling Ran, what’s the point of being like this?”
On the other side of the phone, Ling Ran sneered and accused, “Oh, Su Yi Cheng, I’ve become like this because of you! If it hadn’t been for you—”
Su Yi Cheng did not wait for her to finish, and directly interrupted her, “If you insist on calling to tell me about the old memories of the past, then there is no need, I do not want to listen, and please understand, it was you who betrayed me in the first place!”
He had always considered himself a traditional man, his attitude towards feelings is even more traditional, he can love a person wholeheartedly, maybe when he is busy he will be neglectful, but when he loves a person then his entire heart belongs to that person, he would not give another woman a chance, that is his attitude towards love, but also the same, if he decided to let go, then he will also be very decisive, not dragging mud with water, this is what he thinks is the best way to reduce injury, towards yourself and to others.
“Hehe.” Ling Ran sneered, and just said, “Fine, I won’t talk about the past. Our Ling family and your Su family can be considered as friends.”
“If this is what you want to talk about, then I only have one thing to say, if you don’t provoke me I won’t provoke you!” He didn’t think about giving Ling Chuan Jiang an opportunity, but he shouldn’t have gone after An Ran, since he did, he didn’t have anything to say about feelings, because the first person to tear off the face is them!
“Do you really have to do such a thing!” Never even gave his father a second chance, even sending him to prison!
“Did I wrongly accuse him?” Su Yi Cheng asked rhetorically. He wouldn’t wrongly accuse another person without any evidence, all the evidence he gathered were the truth, each can find the corresponding time and situation, none were falsified.
“But you—” Ling Ran seemed like she wanted to say something, but Su Yi Cheng was now impatient, only said, “Look what you have done to others, don’t think that others owe you anything. I won’t answer your call again.” After he was done, he hung up the phone. He reached up and massaged his sore brows, and threw the phone aside.
When An Ran came out of the bathroom, Su Yi Cheng happened to be pouring the soup onto the noodles.
An Ran saw that, and smiled, “Ha, that’s my specialty noodle.”
Su Yi Cheng pinched her nose, let her sit on the high chair, and then handed her the chopsticks and spoon, and sat down opposite her, “It’s a little hot, eat slowly.”
“Sure.” An Ran nodded while holding a spoon of soup. Then her expression turned heavy, and then holding the noodles with her chopsticks, blew on it, then put it into her mouth, only to see that her expression turned heavier.
Su Yi Cheng had seen her not so great complexion, wrinkled, lowered his head to eat a mouthful. The taste was good, it shouldn’t be a problem!
He also added eggs and tomatoes, this time, An Ran’s face sunk, she looked at Su Yi Cheng, a face of grievance, bitter face, as if she were about to cry.
Su Yi Cheng hurriedly asked, “What’s the matter, no appetite?”
Only to see An Ran shake her head innocently, and muttered, “It’s you, why did you make this noodle, now when I make noodles it wouldn’t be as a good as your’s, what am I supposed to make from now on!”
Su Yi Cheng was taken aback for a moment. A while later does he come up with a reaction, with a big smile he reached out to rub her head, dotingly said, “Fool.”
“I’ve decided, starting tomorrow, I must learn to cook with Auntie Zhang!” An Ran said with a serious face, as if she had made a firm decision.
Su Yi Cheng just laughed, and didn’t comment.
After eating and drinking their fill, Su Yi Cheng grabbed a pair of clothes and went to the bathroom to shower, while An Ran returned to bed. Because she had slept a little while ago, she wasn’t that tired now, so she grabbed a magazine by the bedside, browsing leisurely.
But she doesn’t know what was happening, she doesn’t know how to put these two legs so that it is comfortable, it feels like something was pressing on them, it was aching and sore.
When Su Yi Cheng came out of the bathroom, only to see An Ran half-sitting with her hands pinching her feet, pinching to the point her hands were tired.
He wiped his hair dry with a dry towel, then put the towel aside, sat beside her and asked, “What’s going on?” As he said that, he raised her feet and put it on top of his thighs.
An Ran frowned, somewhat distressed said, “My legs are a little sore.”
Su Yi Cheng smiled, pulled her hand, and his large hands started to take over her work, while laughing he said, “You walked the whole day, of course it’ll be sore, and you are pregnant.”
“I’m only four months.”
Su Yi Cheng pinched her feet to relieve the soreness on her feet, and said, “But you are pregnant with twins ah, the doctor also said, you have the stomach of 6 months compared to others.”
“What to do, I also asked Lin Li to look for a photo studio!” An Ran mumbled, she wanted to take a beautiful picture!
“It’s alright, let’s take the baby with us. “Su Yi Cheng said with comfort.
An Ran was suddenly silent and did not speak, but just stared straight at him.
Su Yi Cheng asked hilariously, “What’s wrong?”
An Ran mumbled, looked at him and asked, “Do you think I’m getting ugly after getting pregnant?” After getting pregnant, she couldn’t help but think about a lot of nonsense, she felt like she was quickly becoming someone not like herself.
Su Yi Cheng smiled, let go of her legs, and then sat over, put her in his arms, and smiled, “Fool, what are you thinking of, my wife is still as beautiful as before.”
“No way, I’m obviously much fatter than before!” She knew that he was just coaxing her, she had just looked in the mirror when she took a bath, and felt that her body was a lot fatter, nothing like before.
“Really.” Su Yi Cheng nodded heavily, “I think you’re prettier than before, and I like the way your body feels.” He said. The hand began to wander around her.
“You! You scoundrel!” An Ran took his hand and slapped it away, the entire person was now in his attention, she was watching out for his unruly hand.
Su Yi Cheng chuckled into her ears, somewhat evilly said, “I like you now, because here is also bigger.” Speaking, he reached out and covered her chest.
An Ran’s face burst red, and slapped his hand, “You scoundrel!”
---END OF CHAPTER---
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Hey guys, really sorry for the long delay. Got into a car accident last month, still recovering from it. But I am doing much better ^^Hope you guys enjoyed this one!
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