First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 147 Translation

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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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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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