First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 22 Translation

022. Sleeping

An Ran watches his figure disappear behind the door, and the heart that had been half-lifted is finally settling down. 

She turns around to survey the room. The snow-white wall clearly hasn’t been dressed up with wallpaper, or any decorations for that matter. The 1.8 metre bed is covered with an ash grey sheet, the cabinets are also all sharply angled. On the room’s balcony there is a small coffee table and a wicker chair. The entire room carries an ice-cold, simple, masculine aura.

An Ran opens the black and white armoire, which contains shirts and suits of monotonous colours, neatly hung in a row. From another cabinet, An Ran finds the t-shirts he wears at home, and like before, the colours are monotonous. While she’s at it, she grabs a black t-shirt and measures it against her chest. It’s at least one size bigger than she is. Actually, objectively speaking, Su Yi Cheng’s figure is pretty good; not too big, but not too thin. Only he’s tall, 189 cm, and when compared to An Ran’s 167 cm, it’s obvious that he’s taller by a half of her.

An Ran keeps on rummaging through the armoire. All of the t-shirts are practically the same size, picking out another one that doesn’t fit her. Ultimately, she can only choose from these, so it’ll have to make-do.

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The bathroom attached to the room isn’t that big. It doesn’t have a bathtub, there’s only a small room-like alley for the shower. The support of the opaque glass outside of the shower room was very cleanly put in order. On the platform of the opaque glass is a cup that holds the toothbrush and lotion for men. There isn’t even a hint of any feminine stuff.

An Ran showers quickly, and puts on Su Yi Cheng’s t-shirt. The t-shirt was so big that it could pass as a dress on her, albeit more comfortable.

Actually, An Ran was quite worn out today, as she didn’t get much sleep last night, and the incident from the construction site this afternoon had beaten her and made her powerless, even though it’s not too late in the night right now.

She lifts up the quilt and settles down on the bed. There was a hint of mint inside the quilt, very clean and pleasant. Her eyes closing, An Ran doesn’t take too long to fall asleep.

Inside the study room, Su Yi Cheng is still handling the paperwork for work. The words on the documents are densely packed together; looking at it gives anyone a headache. But, he’s made it this far on his own, so he’s already perfected the skill of speed-reading.

 The cellphone on his desk rings. It’s from Jun Qu compound, so there’s no need to pick up. He already knows that it’s the main lady of the house that’s calling.

“Hi Mom.” Su Yi Cheng answers the call, leaning against the back of the chair from exhaustion, his hand massaging the space between his eyebrows.

“Yi Cheng, this evening I heard Yi Jiao say something about a sister-in-law. You really have a girlfriend?” Qin Yun asks in a head slice. She was still under the impression that he was joking yesterday, after all since then he hasn’t said anything more about a girlfriend. Furthermore, his contact with friends of the opposite sex is all limited. Talking about marriage is a far cry. She changed her profession to introducing a partner to him, but he hasn’t been taking the opportunity, making her anxious to death.

Su Yi Cheng stifles a sigh. He shouldn’t have put his hope on Yi Jiao earlier, that girl doesn’t know how to keep a secret. She made the promise at noon, and now half a day later, she sold him out. However, this is good, since he doesn’t intend to keep the thing with An Ran a secret.

“Yes, I have a partner. So Mom, from now on, don’t worry about me and the marriage stuff.” Su Yi Cheng says.

Upon hearing this, Qin Yun beamed, quickly asking, “Ai yah, really! Who’s daughter is it? How old is she? What does she do? Is she pretty?”

“Mom.” Su Yi Cheng couldn’t help but laugh, without any other option he shakes his head, only saying, "She’s from a normal family. A really good girl."

“Normal is normal, it doesn’t matter, what’s important is that their family background is clean and her personality is good.” Qin Yun warns.

“Yes, I know.” Su Yi Cheng nods.

“Ah Cheng, you’re coming back, aren’t you? How about, how about you go get that young lady and tell her to come here so I can take a look at her.” Qin Yun was really impatient. She has longed for a daughter-in-law for so many years, thinking of the sons of other people in the compound. By the time they were 32, their grandsons were running around, going to school. As for her family, she’s been worrying about it for so many years yet she hasn’t even seen a single shadow.

“Mom!” Su Yi Cheng was really at his wit’s end by his mother, she says one thing yet does another. “Mom, look what time it is. I’ve been exhausted this entire day, and I just got back. Furthermore, An Ran is quite tired right now, she’s already asleep. How about tomorrow. I’ll bring An Ran home tomorrow.” He suddenly thought of something, and corrected himself. “Uh, I have a campaign tomorrow evening. How about this, the day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow I will definitely bring her home so you and dad and grandpa can meet her. You can be rest assured this time I—“

“Hold on, hold on!” Not waiting for Su Yi Cheng to finish speaking, Qin Yun appears to have heard something weird. She quickly interrupted him and asks, “You said she was tired? She’s sleeping?”

Upon hearing this, Su Yi Cheng could tell what she was about to ask, but he really doesn’t know whether to cry or laugh. How could he not know that his own mother has become this modern; her way of thinking is faster than the youngsters. He forces a smile and asks, “Mom, aren’t you overthinking it?”

“Aiyah, I wasn’t thinking of anything. You were the one who said it.” Qin Yun stated, laughing out loud, and asks, “Son, are you saying that lady is in your house right now?”

“Yes, but it’s not what you think.” Even though just a while ago it almost became that way, but in the end it wasn’t successful.

“Okay okay, mother gets it. I wasn’t thinking too much of it.” Qi Yi chuckles. She’s in a good mood. “Alright, alright. It’s late, I need to go to sleep too. You should sleep early too, don’t tire yourself out too much.”

The corner of Su Yi Cheng’s mouth twitched, especially those words ‘don’t tire yourself out too much’, oh god, now he’s thinking of it!

He hangs up. He’s not in the mood to look at the documents again. Recalling those last few ambiguous words his mother had just said, and remembering that embrace earlier that softened his heart, made the bottom of his stomach rise in heat. “Damn it!” Su Yi Cheng mutters a swear. He puts down the document in his hands and goes to the bathroom outside. The him right now really needs to cool down.

He takes a quick shower and returns to his bedroom once again. Pushing the door open to go in, he sees An Ran lying down on one side, steadily sleeping, her breathing long and deep. Su Yi Cheng goes to the other side of the bed and lifts the blanket, gently lifting her head up. His arm stretched out under her neck, allowing her to rest her head on it. The other arm circles her waist, pulling her into a hug.  

An Ran must’ve been really tired, as she was in a deep sleep. Even if Su Yi Cheng does a series of movement, she won’t wake up at all.

In the dark Su Yi Cheng’s mouth rises into a small smile. He dips his head to the centre of her hair and lands a kiss on it, then he smells the scent of her hair. He closes his eyes and falls asleep with her.

That night An Ran had a good sleep; she didn’t dream and she didn’t wake up. But while she was sleeping soundly, she was woken up by a noise that frightened her dearly.

The doorbell hooted in chaos, even knocking on the door while the doorbell was still going ‘ding dong ding dong….’. An Ran jerked up. Her eyes still not yet opened. She lifts the blanket and prepared to get off the bed.

Suddenly, a strength from behind pulls her back, speaking into her ears, “Go back to sleep, I’ll get it.”

Hearing this, because she had just woken up and the dazedness dissipated in an instant, she suddenly opens her eyes to see, in front of her, a man that’s smiling yet not smiling. She couldn’t help but widen both of her eyes, crying out in surprise, “Su Yi Cheng, why are you here!”

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First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 21 Translation

021. Confused, bewitched

Su Yi Cheng lets go of her hand. The two hands that are normally obedient to his body instinctively longs to embrace her lightly, trail down her back. From her clothes, up the hem of her shirt, to explore, so that his hands can feel her skin. That exquisite feel made him gasp. He thought that if he had enough rationality, he should stop now. He knows that she is definitely not prepared.

But Su Yi Cheng definitely does not have enough rationality. He was reluctant to leave, lingering on her skin, so much that he unexpectedly did not want to give up. He quickly got up. He, in no way, is a man with big appetite. He even thought that his self-control was pretty good. In his position, he’s practically seen all kinds of people, and did everything there is to do. Like the dinner parties of those particular places, even though he didn’t really like them, but still, not like he doesn’t go that often, yet he has never been this way.

An Ran only felt a spell of dizziness, and then her ears felt as if the wind was blowing. But then she remembered that she’s obviously indoors, how could there be wind?

Aware of this point, An Ran bravely opens her eyes. Not knowing when it happened, but she had already been carried onto the bed, and now Su Yi Cheng is truly seriously yet tenderly, looking at her. Only, his expression was a bit strange, as if a part of him were set ablaze, the corner of his mouth softly hooked into a smile. When An Ran’s spirit has yet to return, he bravely lowers his head and covers her mouth. The kiss this time, compared to the one before, is even more ardent. His kiss was hurried, not tender like before, as if he was demanding for urgency. His hands were also urgently searching for an opening inside her clothes, causing her stomach to turn.

That kind of peculiar feeling is something that An Ran never came across before, she suddenly stared blankly, her entire person was quivering. She didn’t know where the strength came from. Bravely using her strength, she stopped Su Yi Cheng. Su Yi Cheng’s legs were unstable, and so he simply drops down to the floor.

An Ran hurriedly sits up, a little frightened. She holds onto her clothes tightly. Both eyes wide, she merely looks at him attentively, breathes, not knowing if she was nervous or scared, she takes a deeper breath.

The fall made Su Yi Cheng sore, but at the same time made him sober. The appetite in his eyes slowly shrunk back, and his rationality returned once again. Even he felt that he was inconceivable, and couldn’t help but laugh and shake his head. This kind of urge, it’s already been many years ago that he’d been through that.

An Ran looks at him, in her mind she felt a bit sorry for him, but definitely not remorseful. She’s apologetic because he is, after all, her husband, as far as love is concerned, she knows that it is nothing out of the ordinary. But, their situation is unusual. She gave it a chance, but she really hasn’t prepared herself enough, mentally.

“Sorry.” Throwing out an apology, An Ran gets up to leave. Just a moment ago she almost erred and shot herself in the foot. To stay would be too awkward.

Su Yi Cheng gets up. When she passed him, he went to grab her hand, held it tightly, asking, “Where are you going?”

 “I’m… I’m going home first.” An Ran doesn’t turn her head, saying it awkwardly. Originally, today she was to find him and discuss their life in the future, but she never thought that things would end up like this.

Su Yi Cheng heaves a faint sigh. He turns to hug An Ran from behind. An Ran turns stiff. She struggled to think of ways to escape this embrace.

“Don’t move.” Su Yi Cheng hugs her even tighter. The two bodies were fitting tightly, so much that An Ran could clearly feel her buttocks supporting her stiff self. It scared all of her movements away. Even with breathing, she forgot how to do it all.

Su Yi Cheng tightly encircles her, his head lowers to her shoulder. He silently endures the pain, keeping close to her ears, he asks, “Did I scare you?”

An Ran doesn’t even dare to take a deep breath. Not saying a word, she shakes her head, then nods her head. She really was frightened. The her right now, is utterly and entirely at a complete loss.

Su Yi Cheng smiles sadly, and continues to embrace her like that for a little while. Only then does he whisper in her ears, “Sorry. I scared you.”

An Ran still doesn’t say anything, her body still stiff, taking his embrace.

Su Yi Cheng sighs, releases her, looks at her seriously, and calls to her. “An Ran?”

Only then does An Ran’s spirit seem to return. She avoids his eyes, and quickly says, ‘I… I still need to go back.” She says as she’s about to go.

“Stay.” Su Yi Cheng doesn’t let go of her hand.

“I……” An Ran looks at him, her mind somewhat anxious, the rim of her eyes turning red. “ Su Yi Cheng, I—I—I’m not ready.”

Honestly, Su Yi Cheng couldn’t help but force a smile, looks like he truly is a million years too early. Dreading that after this, in her mind, he is an urgent-coloured-pervert. “I know.” Su Yi Cheng, as much as possible, wants to recover his image, the one in her mind.

“Then, then you still…..” An Ran really was anxious, she looks at his urgent red eyes. She originally thought that he was a man of honour, yet she didn’t expect, didn’t expect that the world’s raven is generally black after all, and men, there isn’t a single good one after all!

Su Yi Cheng can’t help but laugh, and draws her to his chest, not allowing any room for her to struggle and not letting go. He says into her ears, “Stay. I swear that I won’t do anything to you. Really!”

“No. I wanna go home.” An Ran says, her voice carrying a small sob.

“This is your home.” Su Yi Cheng says.

“I ——“ An Ran speechless, but quickly opens to say,” Then, then I wanna go back to my parents’ home!”

 “No can do, father-in-law and mother-in-law will be worried. I just told them that you won’t come back tonight. You suddenly going back home now, the elders would be worried.” Su Yi Cheng says, these words have logic.

An Ran doesn’t say anything, only looking at him determinedly with her red eyes.

Su Yi Cheng was a bit exhausted, he sighs and says, “An Ran, please stay, okay? It took me 6 hours to get back, I’m really quite tired. I don’t have the strength to send you back home.”

An Ran looks at him, and sees that the area between his eyes does seem quite weary, but still unwilling to give up, mutters, “I can go back myself…..”

Su Yi Cheng also doesn’t say anything, and only looks at her.

The two stand silently like that. An Ran makes the first step and surrenders. “Do you have other rooms?”

“There’s the study room.” Su Yi Cheng says.

“Then I, I’ll go---“ An Ran was about to say something, but was interrupted by Su Yi Cheng.

“I’ll go to the study room. If you’re tired, just go take a bath, go to sleep early. Clothes are in the dresser, but I don’t have any lady pyjamas, guess you’ll have to feel wronged and wear my T-shirt or shirt.” Su Yi Cheng says.

An Ran looks at him for a while, then ultimately nods.

Su Yi Cheng nods, and doesn’t say any more. He turns and goes to the study room.


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Oh Yi Cheng, lol. Been single for too long huh *dirty look* 

First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 20 Translation

020. He is earnest

An Ran looks at him, not understanding the situation. She doesn’t understand why he had called home?

“Um.” On the other line, Lin Xiao Fen, after all, still isn’t used to the sudden arrival of a son-in-law. She was dazed for a few minutes until she could finally muster a response. She quickly said, “Oh yes, Yi Cheng ah. You’ve come back from your business trip?”

“Yes, I’m back. Actually I called back to let you know, An Ran is with me right now. She might not come back tonight. I will drive her tomorrow morning.” Su Yi Cheng said.

“Oh.” Lin Xiao Fen couldn’t help but be shocked at what Su Yi Cheng had just said, but this time she could quickly come up with a response; after all her daughter is married. She laughs. “Heheh. Okay, okay, Ma understands. You guys are youngsters. An Ran too, why the need to hide the fact that you’re together. You guys are husband and wife after all, you should live together. However, this marriage is just too rushed, I haven’t thought it over thoroughly yet. How about this, tomorrow, tomorrow I’ll go help An Ran pack, so she can move her stuff to your place. You guys are already married, what kind of reasoning is it that she should live in her parents’ house. If that gets out, wouldn’t it become such a joke!”

“Hehe, yes yes yes. I’ll come over and help An Ran bring her stuff, but this will tire mother.” Su Yi Cheng replied in kind.

“Look at what you’re saying. Then how about tomorrow, come over when you guys finish work. Then we can eat dinner as a family. Oh right! Have you told your parents yet? How about you arrange a time to let the two families dine together.” Even though there won’t be a wedding, there’s still a need for the two families to eat dinner together and meet each other. Otherwise, in-law to in-law, if they ever meet on the streets, they wouldn’t even know.

“Mother, your opinions are important. I will try to arrange it these next two days.” Su Yi Cheng responds. He looks at the An Ran in front of him, staring at him wide-eyed as if he were a mob boss. It made him chuckle. He couldn’t help but stroke her hair.

“Ok, then let us know when you’ve set a time,” Lin Xiao Fen answers, and then ending the conversation with some niceties, then hangs up.

Once Su Yi Cheng hears the end of the line, he hands the cellphone back to An Ran, but only sees that An Ran is gaping at him. Her hands also do not know how to take the phone, so he laughs. “You become foolish?”

In turn, An Ran’s spirit finally returns. “You, you you….” She points at him, a little speechless.

Su Yi Cheng laughs, asking, “What’d I do?”

“You you you… How could you call my mother!” After restraining for a long time, An Ran could only choke out these few words.

“What do you think?” Su Yi Cheng responds, he smiles crookedly.

“I’m the one asking you, how could you call my mom and say those things!” An Ran was a little bit panicked. Leave what behind? Move what? She never said anything about that!

Su Yi Cheng laughs, but still not speaking. He turns back to the bar and picks up the chopsticks again to eat. Even though the noodles have gotten cold and mushy, but it still doesn’t taste too bad. Su Yi Cheng really feels that, even though he has grown this old, this was the best bowl of noodles that he has ever eaten, even if the flavour, in itself, isn’t that good.

“Su Yi Cheng!” An Ran walks over to his side, looks at him. She really is angry, as her entire face has swelled up in redness.

Su Yi Cheng takes a few more bites until the noodles was completely finished off, he even drank all the soup so that there was nothing left. He gets up and puts the bowl and chopsticks into the sink, and even puts some water into it, so that it would be easier to wash. Then he finally turns to An Ran and looks at her, asking seriously, “Where is this?”

“Your home.” An Ran answers, her expression remaining cool, obviously she is still angry.

“Then what am I to you?” Su Yi Cheng asks again.

“You’re my…” An Ran paused; to say ‘husband’ is a bit difficult to say...

“I’m your what?” Su Yi Cheng presses, his expression still serious.

An Ran stares at him for a while, in the end she can’t say anything. Peeved, she turns away, not looking at him.

Su Yi Cheng sighs. He reaches out to draw her in. An Ran struggles with difficulty, but he was firm. He pulls her into the living room sofa and sits her down. He turns her body so that the two are face-to-face, and begins to say, “An Ran, you know our relationship right now?”

An Ran nods, but avoids his eyes. Her line of sight is on the coffee table.

“We’re husband and wife, from the moment we got the marriage certificate, this place isn’t just my home, it’s also your home. Your mom also isn’t just your mother, she’s also my mother-in-law. I also want to call her mom. Don’t tell me it’s not?”

An Ran nods, she already knows all of that, she’s just a bit out of it, that’s all.

“An Ran.” Su Yi Cheng calls her gently, he reaches out to take her chin, but doesn’t use any force. He only says, “Raise your head and look at me.”

Regarding this kind of action, An Ran felt a bit uneasy, but she still turns her head, lifts her eyes, and looks at him. His eyes are really deep, as if there are many things that she just wouldn’t understand.

Su Yi Cheng looks at her in the eyes, earnest and with certainty, says, “Regarding this marriage, I am serious about it.”

An Ran looks at him, as if she was confused by him.

Even she doesn’t know how to answer, but when An Ran finally could react, his lips had already planted a kiss, softly on her lips, wandering. An Ran doesn’t know how  react, she could only look, wide-eyed and foolishly, at the face that had been magnified. His eyes were closed, his lashes were long, even so much that she could feel it rubbing against her skin.

When An Ran was still in a daze, Su Yi Cheng opens his eyes. Seeing her foolishly shocked appearance is really funny. The evil in his heart made him open his mouth to bite her lips lightly. He was good in controlling his strength. It didn’t split her lip, but still, it hurt.

An Ran’s spirit was brought back by the pain. Her eyes flickered bashfully. She raised her hand to push him, because this kind of intimacy, she clearly isn’t comfortable with it.

Su Yi Cheng holds her hands, his lips still sticking to her’s, his voice is sort of husky, lightly coaxing her, “Don’t move, close your eyes.”

“I….Wu wu…” An Ran was trying to refuse, but this gave him the opportunity to guide, as the mouth opened, that tongue of his went in, without restraint, robbing her of everything.

Su Yi Cheng kisses her, his tongue carefully inspecting, to let her take part in the dance. Her lips were soft and sweet, just like the taste yesterday when he kissed her. He couldn’t help but be a bit confused. He wanted to cling on to her even more. 

To An Ran, the kiss was more or less strange. Granted, she was with Mo Fei for three years, but back then they were both pure and didn’t know better, at the most they only held hands while walking. Any real kisses were simply light pecks on the cheek, exactly like that, and the two became red the whole morning. 

An Ran doesn’t know if Su Yi Cheng’s kissing techniques were good or not, but she really was confused and disoriented from his kisses, all rationality was removed from her brain bit by bit. Even the hand that originally wanted to resist was slowly losing strength, it slowly retreated. 

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