066. For her (to get out of a predicament)
Upon hearing Su Yi Cheng’s words, everyone became shocked. There wasn’t a sound to be heard throughout the entire reception area; it was inconceivably quiet. Mo Fei stares wide-eyed at Su Yi Cheng. How coincidental that he would be here. Not only was it unexpected, but also he came with the mayor. What is his identity?
Xiao xiao was also shocked. Her face showed disbelief at both Su Yi Cheng and An Ran. At the moment perhaps she was thinking the same thing as Mo Fei. The entire real estate industry of Jiang city which she doesn’t dare say she doesn’t know of them. If they have a face, have a hair, then she would naturally know of them. However, Su Yi Cheng, she really doesn’t have any impression on him at all! If he’s not in the business, then perhaps he is from the municipal committee. Moreover seeing how he came together with all those big people, she reckons that his position isn’t low. Haa! She never would have expected that he came in with so much history!
Huang De Xing on the side then suddenly sees the light. He recalls that one morning where he came across Su Yi Cheng at the front door. Now he realizes how could it be that coincidental. He must have dropped off An Ran that day. Furthermore, it was also him to had called to say that An Ran was taking the day off. He knew that tail number was familiar, it was clearly the municipal committee’s number. So his gut wasn’t wrong at all!
Tong Xiao Jie who was standing beside the Zhang shrew slightly frowns. She looks at the couple before her eyes. She knows this man, She had seen him in a picture with her father, placed in the studio. But she didn’t expect that he and Gu An Ran were together, not only that, but were married!
After getting used to the big spectacle, Ling Chuan Jiang, although incredulous, still managed to get his spirit back, and asks, “You, when did you get married? I haven’t heard you mention it. Last time when I came to see old Su, your mother hasn’t mentioned anything either!”
Su Yi Cheng pulled on An Ran’s arm and lead her towards Ling Chuan Jiang, simply smiles and says, “We married quite suddenly. We were afraid that it’d be troublesome, so we just signed a certificate. For now we aren’t planning on doing a ceremony.” Turning to An Ran, he says, “An Ran, this is Mayor Ling.”
Although An Ran was still out of it, she still nods her head. She smiles at Ling Chuan Jiang, and gently calls out, “Nice to meet you, Mayor Ling.”
Ling Chuan jiang nods, looks at her, and looks at Su Yi Cheng. He thought to himself that it was rather moving. If it weren’t for that thing years ago, perhaps, perhaps Yi Cheng would have been his son-in-law. However, difficulty is a part of life, who would have thought that things would end up this way. Good fortune, good fortune!
“Special assistant Su, your marriage was so low-profile, you didn’t even offer me one cup of wine. You put too little importance on it, also you’re petty.” Xiao Ying Tian teases, alleviating the tense and awkward atmosphere.
“Hehe, Director Xiao is joking.” Su Yi Cheng laughs, and turns his head. He looks at An Ran, and turns back looking a bit dumbstruck at the Zhang shrew and Zhang Yuan Shan. He asks, “May I ask Mrs. Zhang, what happened? Did An Ran do something wrong that might have offended Mrs. Zhang, that it needs to go to the police station?”
“Yes, what happened just then, could it be a misunderstanding?” From the side, Xiao Ying Tian asks. He was holding tonight’s reception, so he is considered the host. If there really was something wrong, naturally he should step in.
The Zhang shrew forces a smile, her train of thought still was on Su Yi Cheng’s words, ‘my spouse’. She was in the middle of getting a response, and now she couldn’t come up with even a word.
She had seen Su Yi Cheng several times before, and realized her background. Not to mention the Su household’s power in Jiang city. Just Su Yi Cheng alone, only a few years after Ling Chuan was fearing a loss, it was him that brought him up. He was Jiang city’s number one hand a few years later. It was she who had committed an offense. What she thought was a nameless architect before her eyes, turned out to be someone that big.
She was about to say those words, and she was regretting it so much that her intestines were turning green, wishing that she could burn into ashes. Her mouth is too loose.
Zhang Yuan Shan stares at his wife. He knew that his wife was known to be a shrewish woman. Normally he wouldn’t mind it, and he didn’t see what the situation was earlier. It would’ve been fine if she messed with a no name, but it turns out she provoked someone she shouldn’t have provoked. He just heard that Mayor Ling was intending on putting Su Yi Cheng in charge for the science and technology town. He was planning to establish a good relationship with Su Yi Cheng, so that in the future if he needs to build something he can partake in it. He never expected that once he turned around, this fierce woman did the opposite, and went ahead and offended his person.
Right now he couldn’t attend to the others, and quickly steps forward and smiles apologetically, “I’m sure it’s a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding. Worry not Special Assistant Su.”
Su Yi Cheng looks at him, then turns and looks at the Zhang shrew, and says, “Whatever misunderstanding there is, please Mrs. Zhang let me know. Don’t keep it in. If it was An Ran’s wrong, then I ought to apologize in her place.”
The Zhang shrew forces a smile. That smile was even uglier than her crying face. Apologize, how could she let him apologize!
Seeing that she’s taking a while to respond, Su Yi Cheng calls out, “Mrs. Zhang?” His eyes probing her, fixed on making her say the reason why.
The Zhang shrew forces a smile, looks at her husband, but was met with ruthless white eyes. She angrily turns her head. In fact, she is a person who bullies the weak and fears the strong, because she was wealthy so ordinarily she would act harsh and unreasonable. But then again, if you have money you have power.Thus, now she can only put on a bold face, and smile rigidly. She smiles apologetically at Su Yi Cheng and says, "Actually, actually it was my bad. When I came over I wasn’t careful and bumped into Mrs. Su, and because of this I got wine all over Mrs. Su’s clothes, actually—"
Not waiting for the Zhang shrew to finish, Zhang Yuan shan interrupts, turning to An Ran and saying, “That is really embarrassing, but at the same time, at these receptions bumping into one another is expected. Mrs. Su, if you don’t mind, we can cover the cleaning cost for your dress when you change this evening.”
Su Yi Cheng doesn’t say anything, a smile still on his face. He turns to look at An Ran, intending to listen to An Ran’s opinion, dealing with it on her terms.
An Ran isn’t an unforgiving person, and it really is a small matter. She didn’t want it go too far. But the matter up until now, if she still continued to bicker like before then she wouldn’t be any different than her, and besides tonight so many well-known people are here. Even if she doesn’t think of herself, then she should think like Su Yi Cheng. Standing next to him, not having the sense or mind, then she would make him lose face. Thinking in that way, she looks at Zhang Yuan shan and shakes her head, and says, “No need. As Director Zhang has said, there’s a lot of people in this reception, naturally knocking into people is unavoidable. Just then Mrs. Zhang was walking too quickly, and I wasn’t careful, so we ended up bumping into each other. We can’t tell who is right or wrong, but that it’s just a mistake.”
“Yes yes yes. Mistake, it’s simply a mistake. It’s good that Mrs. Su isn’t bothered by it.” Zhang Yuan Shan quickly agrees with her, following An Ran and helping her safely down the stairs.
Su Yi Cheng doesn’t say anything, and only looks at An Ran. He carefully gathers her with his suit, then turns back to look at Mayor Ling and President Xiao and says, “Uncle Ling, President Xiao, since An Ran’s like this, I think I should take her back to change. If there’s nothing else, then we will take our leave first.”
Mayor Ling and President Xiao each nod their head, not opposing it. An Ran also nods at them, smiling apologetically.
Taking An Ran’s hand, Su Yi Cheng turns back and directs his attention towards Huang De Xing and says, “Director Huang, we’ll have to take our leave first, is that okay?”
“No no no problem.” Huang De Xing quickly replies.
Su Yi Cheng smiles, his gaze sweeps over, and lands on Mo Fei in the crowd. He looks at him silently, not saying anything. Then he looks away, turning to look at An Ran’s face. He smiles slightly, and takes An Ran hand and leads her towards the entrance.
An Ran lets Su Yi Cheng lead the way out, not paying attention to everyone’s curious gaze behind her, and not paying attention to the whispers behind her. She passes Xiao xiao and Mo Fei. She notices their startled gazes but doesn’t stop, and just walks past them, allowing Su Yi Cheng to take her away.
There’s an illusion, at this moment she felt like she was like a princess in those fairy tales, and Su Yi Cheng was her prince, appearing at the moment when she was stuck in a dilemma and was isolated and without help, then taking her and leading her away. This kind of feeling, it was quite fantastic.
---END OF CHAPTER---
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Saturday, 29 April 2017
Saturday, 22 April 2017
First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 65 Translation
065. Lover/ spouse
The shrew doesn’t anything. She just looks at An Ran, unable to say anything, but also, not saying anything doesn’t feel right.
Seeing her like that Huang De Xing assumes that she is agreeing tacitly. He quickly turns his head, and gives An Ran a signal, “An Ran!”
An Ran looks at him, and looks into the eyes of that temperamental arrogant shrew. In her mind she naturally wasn’t able to say that she was feeling wronged. She does believe that the fault doesn’t entirely lie on her, and she also doesn’t have any reason to wrong herself. Thinking in that way, she makes eye contact with the woman, and says, “I won’t apologize to you, as I don’t think that I did anything wrong, or said anything wrong.”
“Ha, listen to that. This is her attitude. Well, very well.” The shrew was ashamed into anger, gnashing her teeth as she says, “Director Huang, don’t say that I didn’t give you face, it’s that SHE doesn’t want to give you face.”
“An Ran!” Huang De Xing turns his head, glowering at An Ran, thinking that she doesn’t understand the severity of the case.
An Ran avoids his gaze, and turns her head, not looking at him.
In the crowd, Mo Fei couldn’t watch anymore. He didn’t want to leave An Ran feeling wronged, so he was thinking of stepping forward, but was stopped by Tong Xiao Jie who pulled on his hand, shaking her head.
Mo Fei frowns, looking on at An Ran worriedly. He turns to Tong Xiao Jie and whispers, “Xiao Jie, let go of me.”
Tong Xiao Jie looks at him, and doesn’t say anything. She lets go of his hand, and when she let go she squeezes out of the crowd of people, walking towards An Ran and the shrew.
“Auntie Zhang.” Putting a smile on her face, she graciously calls out.
One after another, the people in the crowd turn their head, seeing her put on three different expressions. An Ran looks at her puzzled, not understanding what she was thinking of doing. In contrast, Huang De Xing was happy, because he knew that Zhang’s son was married to the Tong family’s second daughter, Tong Xiao Min, so they were considered family. Additionally, An Ran and Tong Xiao Jie were schoolmates. He saw their interaction earlier, and it seemed like their relationship was pretty good. If Tong Xiao Jie were to be mediator, then the Zhang shrew will definitely give face to her. He then looks at the Zhang shrew, whose face was somewhat unnatural. She looks down at her own sorry figure, and looks up again at An Ran. The look in her eye became increasingly dangerous. To her, having Tong Xiao Jie see her sorry figure like this, her reputation is completely out the window.
“Auntie Zhang, An Ran is my senior sister. You’re our superior and is magnanimous, so please give me face. Don’t be so harsh on her, could you do that?” Tong Xiao Jie intimately takes her hand, currying favour.
The Zhang shrew looks at Tong Xiao Jie. Since the matter came to this stage, letting her push her aside is impossible. If this Tong Xiao Jie had asked for a favour beforehand, then she would have honoured the Tong family’s reputation, and she wouldn’t have bothered about it. But this was about Huang De Xing’s pleading over and over again, and this bitch wouldn’t yield and compensate her, furthermore wouldn’t admit her mistake and says she wasn’t wrong. Since things are this way now, then wouldn’t it look like she was surrendering her own status, the mother of Dong corporation? Could it be that she can’t even manage this little architect, her words would drop in status, that she couldn’t even handle this thing.
She clears her throat, looks at Tong Xiao Jie, and says, “Xiao Jie, it’s not that Ah Yi doesn’t want to give you face, it’s that your senior sister is a bully. You’ve just seen what happened too, she wouldn’t even take my friendly advice. So she must give me her own statement about this matter, otherwise, your auntie will lose face.”
“This….” Tong Xiao Jie helplessly turns to look at Mo Fei who was in the crowd. She wrinkles her brows. She tried the best that she could, but there really isn’t any other way.
Silence at the scene of the crime, the music that was playing had unknowingly already stopped. More and more people start to surround them. Those who weren’t so sure of what was going on had asked those around them.
“Director Huang, what do you say?” Zhang family’s shrew turns to look at Huang De Xing. Now, whatever compensation was offered is tossed aside. Right now she wants to pressure Huang De Xing to let go of this dumb girl who doesn’t know Heaven from Earth, to let her know, that at this kind of reception, that she isn’t just a nobody who had been offended.
Huang De Xing was also stuck. He looks at An Ran, thinking to himself, that this girl has everything. She has a gift in designing, but in terms of dealing with people, she really can’t be compared with Xiao xiao. He suddenly regrets taking her to this tonight. If not for the fact that she has something with Tong Xiao Jie and Mo Fei, he really wouldn’t have considered her to participate this this stuff.
Her mood had already calmed down earlier. An Ran calmly says, “Mrs. Zhang doesn’t need to make things difficult for our director. This matter concerns only you and me. If you really wanted a statement, I think we should bring this to the police, so we can avoid the influence of this reception.”
With An Ran’s words, the air around the Zhang family’s shrew became unclear. Her face turns scarlet red. She steps towards An Ran and bellows, “Alright! Let’s go to the police station!”
“What’s going on? What’s everyone quarrelling about?”
Behind them, a grand a voice appears at this time. One after another, everyone turns their head. They see a person, but don’t take the initiative to step aside. The person coming forward isn’t just one person, but a group of five men, who were coming over. Four of the five men appear similar in age, all at about 50-60 years of age. Their hair slightly greying, signifying the change due to their age.
One of the four men was Tong Wen Hai, and another was Xiao Ying tian, the chairman to a real estate association. Another was a man who had a protruding belly, clearly gaining weight, the Zhang shrew’s husband, Zhang Yuan Shan. And the last man, the one in front, the one who had just spoken, had a kind face. He was a refined man, and was Jiang city’s mayor, Ling Chuan Jiang!
And among these four men was a comparatively much younger man, an extremely remarkable man. From head to toe, wearing a rich blue suit, his hair combed neatly, his deep-set eyes especially enchanting.
This man, was, was, none other than Su Yi Cheng!
Zhang Yuan Shan looks at his wife, frowning. He mutters a swear under his breath, and quickly steps forward, taking her by the hand and asking what was going on. And at this moment An Ran was staring at Su Yi Cheng in shock, her small mouth open. Too coincidental, he said that he had a reception, but she didn’t expect that he would also be here!
Su Yi Cheng naturally also looks at her. He sees that her orange dress was blackened at the chest. He frowns, but doesn’t say anything. He walks over the crowd towards her, takes off his outer coat, and places it on her body. He gently sweeps aside a loose strand of hair on her forehead, and asks, “How did this get there?”
An Ran was shocked by his appearance. She was dazed for a good while, and can only look at him in a trance. She stutters, “You, you why are you here?”
Su Yi Cheng smiles tenderly at her, and says, “Didn’t I tell you that I was going to the same reception?”
Looking at him, An Ran shakes her head woodenly. He definitely didn’t say that.
Su Yi Cheng laughs, and only says, “Then remember to ask me next time.”
“Yi Cheng.” From behind, Jiang city’s chief Liang Chuan Jiang’s magnificent voice calls out once again. He looks at An Ran, and asks puzzlingly, “This is?”
Su Yi Cheng turns his head, and chuckles as he says, “My spouse, Gu An Ran.”
---END OF CHAPTER---
Next Chapter
T/N: Woooo Yi Cheng to the rescue!!! *celebratory dance*
The shrew doesn’t anything. She just looks at An Ran, unable to say anything, but also, not saying anything doesn’t feel right.
Seeing her like that Huang De Xing assumes that she is agreeing tacitly. He quickly turns his head, and gives An Ran a signal, “An Ran!”
An Ran looks at him, and looks into the eyes of that temperamental arrogant shrew. In her mind she naturally wasn’t able to say that she was feeling wronged. She does believe that the fault doesn’t entirely lie on her, and she also doesn’t have any reason to wrong herself. Thinking in that way, she makes eye contact with the woman, and says, “I won’t apologize to you, as I don’t think that I did anything wrong, or said anything wrong.”
“Ha, listen to that. This is her attitude. Well, very well.” The shrew was ashamed into anger, gnashing her teeth as she says, “Director Huang, don’t say that I didn’t give you face, it’s that SHE doesn’t want to give you face.”
“An Ran!” Huang De Xing turns his head, glowering at An Ran, thinking that she doesn’t understand the severity of the case.
An Ran avoids his gaze, and turns her head, not looking at him.
In the crowd, Mo Fei couldn’t watch anymore. He didn’t want to leave An Ran feeling wronged, so he was thinking of stepping forward, but was stopped by Tong Xiao Jie who pulled on his hand, shaking her head.
Mo Fei frowns, looking on at An Ran worriedly. He turns to Tong Xiao Jie and whispers, “Xiao Jie, let go of me.”
Tong Xiao Jie looks at him, and doesn’t say anything. She lets go of his hand, and when she let go she squeezes out of the crowd of people, walking towards An Ran and the shrew.
“Auntie Zhang.” Putting a smile on her face, she graciously calls out.
One after another, the people in the crowd turn their head, seeing her put on three different expressions. An Ran looks at her puzzled, not understanding what she was thinking of doing. In contrast, Huang De Xing was happy, because he knew that Zhang’s son was married to the Tong family’s second daughter, Tong Xiao Min, so they were considered family. Additionally, An Ran and Tong Xiao Jie were schoolmates. He saw their interaction earlier, and it seemed like their relationship was pretty good. If Tong Xiao Jie were to be mediator, then the Zhang shrew will definitely give face to her. He then looks at the Zhang shrew, whose face was somewhat unnatural. She looks down at her own sorry figure, and looks up again at An Ran. The look in her eye became increasingly dangerous. To her, having Tong Xiao Jie see her sorry figure like this, her reputation is completely out the window.
“Auntie Zhang, An Ran is my senior sister. You’re our superior and is magnanimous, so please give me face. Don’t be so harsh on her, could you do that?” Tong Xiao Jie intimately takes her hand, currying favour.
The Zhang shrew looks at Tong Xiao Jie. Since the matter came to this stage, letting her push her aside is impossible. If this Tong Xiao Jie had asked for a favour beforehand, then she would have honoured the Tong family’s reputation, and she wouldn’t have bothered about it. But this was about Huang De Xing’s pleading over and over again, and this bitch wouldn’t yield and compensate her, furthermore wouldn’t admit her mistake and says she wasn’t wrong. Since things are this way now, then wouldn’t it look like she was surrendering her own status, the mother of Dong corporation? Could it be that she can’t even manage this little architect, her words would drop in status, that she couldn’t even handle this thing.
She clears her throat, looks at Tong Xiao Jie, and says, “Xiao Jie, it’s not that Ah Yi doesn’t want to give you face, it’s that your senior sister is a bully. You’ve just seen what happened too, she wouldn’t even take my friendly advice. So she must give me her own statement about this matter, otherwise, your auntie will lose face.”
“This….” Tong Xiao Jie helplessly turns to look at Mo Fei who was in the crowd. She wrinkles her brows. She tried the best that she could, but there really isn’t any other way.
Silence at the scene of the crime, the music that was playing had unknowingly already stopped. More and more people start to surround them. Those who weren’t so sure of what was going on had asked those around them.
“Director Huang, what do you say?” Zhang family’s shrew turns to look at Huang De Xing. Now, whatever compensation was offered is tossed aside. Right now she wants to pressure Huang De Xing to let go of this dumb girl who doesn’t know Heaven from Earth, to let her know, that at this kind of reception, that she isn’t just a nobody who had been offended.
Huang De Xing was also stuck. He looks at An Ran, thinking to himself, that this girl has everything. She has a gift in designing, but in terms of dealing with people, she really can’t be compared with Xiao xiao. He suddenly regrets taking her to this tonight. If not for the fact that she has something with Tong Xiao Jie and Mo Fei, he really wouldn’t have considered her to participate this this stuff.
Her mood had already calmed down earlier. An Ran calmly says, “Mrs. Zhang doesn’t need to make things difficult for our director. This matter concerns only you and me. If you really wanted a statement, I think we should bring this to the police, so we can avoid the influence of this reception.”
With An Ran’s words, the air around the Zhang family’s shrew became unclear. Her face turns scarlet red. She steps towards An Ran and bellows, “Alright! Let’s go to the police station!”
“What’s going on? What’s everyone quarrelling about?”
Behind them, a grand a voice appears at this time. One after another, everyone turns their head. They see a person, but don’t take the initiative to step aside. The person coming forward isn’t just one person, but a group of five men, who were coming over. Four of the five men appear similar in age, all at about 50-60 years of age. Their hair slightly greying, signifying the change due to their age.
One of the four men was Tong Wen Hai, and another was Xiao Ying tian, the chairman to a real estate association. Another was a man who had a protruding belly, clearly gaining weight, the Zhang shrew’s husband, Zhang Yuan Shan. And the last man, the one in front, the one who had just spoken, had a kind face. He was a refined man, and was Jiang city’s mayor, Ling Chuan Jiang!
And among these four men was a comparatively much younger man, an extremely remarkable man. From head to toe, wearing a rich blue suit, his hair combed neatly, his deep-set eyes especially enchanting.
This man, was, was, none other than Su Yi Cheng!
Zhang Yuan Shan looks at his wife, frowning. He mutters a swear under his breath, and quickly steps forward, taking her by the hand and asking what was going on. And at this moment An Ran was staring at Su Yi Cheng in shock, her small mouth open. Too coincidental, he said that he had a reception, but she didn’t expect that he would also be here!
Su Yi Cheng naturally also looks at her. He sees that her orange dress was blackened at the chest. He frowns, but doesn’t say anything. He walks over the crowd towards her, takes off his outer coat, and places it on her body. He gently sweeps aside a loose strand of hair on her forehead, and asks, “How did this get there?”
An Ran was shocked by his appearance. She was dazed for a good while, and can only look at him in a trance. She stutters, “You, you why are you here?”
Su Yi Cheng smiles tenderly at her, and says, “Didn’t I tell you that I was going to the same reception?”
Looking at him, An Ran shakes her head woodenly. He definitely didn’t say that.
Su Yi Cheng laughs, and only says, “Then remember to ask me next time.”
“Yi Cheng.” From behind, Jiang city’s chief Liang Chuan Jiang’s magnificent voice calls out once again. He looks at An Ran, and asks puzzlingly, “This is?”
Su Yi Cheng turns his head, and chuckles as he says, “My spouse, Gu An Ran.”
---END OF CHAPTER---
Next Chapter
T/N: Woooo Yi Cheng to the rescue!!! *celebratory dance*
Saturday, 15 April 2017
First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 64 Translation
064. Gentry shrew (violent woman)
“Whose company do you represent, what kind of basic, why are you staggering around, do you know how expensive this dress is?! You think you can afford to pay for this?!” The lady who she had bumped into swears at her.
So the lady that An Ran had accidentally bumped into is the wife of a CEO of some real estate business.
These people were born as grassroots. They were once chicken farmers in the countryside, but because of a government development, what was once a rail station, became the centre of the city, and this Mrs. Zhang’s husband also has the brains for economics. He took advantage of the huge potential in construction, and decisively gave up the chicken farm. He invested all the money gained from raising chicken to buy the land near the rail station with a low price, and took advantage of the crazy growth of the real estate industry. The price of the land surrounding the station soared, and they sold their tall-story apartment at the right time. This allowed their family fortune to double in tenfold, even a hundred fold, and thus resulted in a real estate company worth billions of dollars.
Even if they got rich later in life, they were still considered the first generation of Jiang city gentry. They attend all kinds of banquets and receptions, however they still could not get rid of the countryside temperament. She was excessively irritable, and thus was well-known as a violent woman within Jiang city.
“Speak! What are you going to do now, my dress is like this because of you, how am I going to take part in this reception?” The violent woman screeched at An Ran with her eyes wide.
An Ran closes her eyes. She was getting angry too, but she still used her reason to calm herself down. She takes a few deep breaths, looks at her and says, “Madame, this can be considered my fault. How about this, I will cover the cost of the cleaning. Is that okay?”
“What do you mean 'considered your fault'? You were the one who bumped into me, don’t tell me that it was me who bumped into you? Also, cleaning cost, ha! Are you trying to get rid of a beggar? You think I want those measly dollars?”
An Ran takes a deep breath, and says, “Then, Madame, what do you suggest?”
“This dress was imported from France. This is worth 10 thousand USD. How about this, you pay me for this dress, then apologize. Then I would forgive you for this issue.” The shrew speaks as if it was expected.
“You!” An Ran’s eyes turn wide. Ten hundred USD, where is she going to get that kind of money? She was getting so unbearably angry. It was the mistake of both parties; she made it as if it were all her fault. Who cares about the apology. What a demand, ten thousand USD, is she being robbed?
An Ran was pissed, but she was never the kind of person to yell at anyone in public. She was pissed, but she could only manage to say, “You, you’re unreasonable!”
“I’m unreasonable?! You’re the one who bumped into me!” The lady raises her voice.
Xiao xiao looks at the person that An Ran bumped into, and she couldn’t help but feel sorry for her, but at the same time she was secretly delighted. She doesn’t like An Ran, since the time that she entered the company until now, she has always loathed this woman. Well, not loath, but envy. She admits that she’s envious of this woman, jealous that Heaven gave her everything including beauty. She has a fine household, loving parents, and she even has a gift in designing. All of this were things that she wanted, but, she has none of those.
An Ran was really feeling some gas seep out, so she doesn’t hold anything back, “Everyone knows who bumped into whom. With the way you’re running so imperviously, even if I were careful I’d still bump into you. The first time I apologized was because of courtesy. You made this into a big deal, and it doesn’t mean that it was my fault. If we really looked into it, the fault lies on the both of us, so neither can escape responsibility.”
“So you’re saying that it was my fault?” The lady looks at her wide-eyed, appearing as if she was going to explode.
“What I’m saying, is that we are both at fault, we’re both liable.” An Ran was also getting intimidated by her. When she comes across unreasonable situations, she isn’t one who would be pushed around. If she wasn’t in the wrong, then she would stand up for herself.
“You…..” The shrew steamed. She was pointing at An Ran and was about to speak, but Huang De Xing comes forward at this time. Seeing that An Ran was in a difficult situation, he couldn’t help but furrow his brows together. “An Ran, what’s going on here?”
Not waiting for An Ran speak, the shrew recognizes Huang De Xing. She steps forward and asks, “Director Huang, is she from your company?” Her tone was blunt.
Huang De Xing turns his head, and naturally recognizes her too. Smiling, he says, “Mrs. Zhang, what’s going on here? An Ran is our company’s architect. Whatever has happened I ask for your forgiveness.”
“Forgiveness, ha! No way!” The shrew sneers. She looks at An Ran, gnashing her teeth, “According to her, I’m the one who should apologize, and ask for her forgiveness.”
Huang De Xing stares at An Ran, and smiles as he says, “Mrs. Zhang is too severe. An Ran is still young, she hasn’t been to these much, please don’t lower yourself to her.”
“Insight, she gave me insight, that I wasn’t looking and bump into people, that I’m that unreasonable!” The shrew says dramatically, “Today, Director Huang, do whatever you want. You need to give me a statement.”
Hearing that, An Ran’s stomach starts rumbling. It’s obvious that the issue wasn’t clear, so she gazes out, not looking at her, but unfortunately sees Mo Fei. Four eyes on each other, An Ran could the concern and uneasiness in his eyes. She turns around, withdrawing her gaze.
“Then Mrs. Zhang, how would you handle this. You see, I will deal with An Ran and give you compensation.” Huang De Xing says. Today is where most of the upper-class is going to gather, and this issue has gotten too noisy that they’ll be a joke. Inside he was scolding An Ran, for provoking such a well-known woman!
“Originally it isn’t a big deal, and I’m not the kind of person who likes trouble. If she had just apologized then it would’ve been done, but no she’s so good, speaking in such a thorny way, there wasn’t a single good word. According to her, it’s me who should apologize.” The shrew says without changing colours, “Since it’s this way, then don’t call me bothersome. This dress was imported from France, and now it’s like this because of her, so she has to pay for it. Also, she has to give me an apology in front of everyone here!”
Hearing that, the crowd of people around them started whispering into each other’s ears. In fact, everyone else had seen everything, who was right and who was wrong, they were all aware of it, but they still wanted to enjoy the school. They don’t want to be in a difficult position from that shrew just because of a nameless architect, so, they just circled and watched, not voicing their opinions.
“How about this, Mrs. Zhang, An Ran is a member of our company. She is also someone I brought, so I will compensate for the dress. It’s not right for me to let An Ran to compensate. Since this issue isn’t that big of a deal, is that okay?” Huang De Xing reasons.
“Whose company do you represent, what kind of basic, why are you staggering around, do you know how expensive this dress is?! You think you can afford to pay for this?!” The lady who she had bumped into swears at her.
So the lady that An Ran had accidentally bumped into is the wife of a CEO of some real estate business.
These people were born as grassroots. They were once chicken farmers in the countryside, but because of a government development, what was once a rail station, became the centre of the city, and this Mrs. Zhang’s husband also has the brains for economics. He took advantage of the huge potential in construction, and decisively gave up the chicken farm. He invested all the money gained from raising chicken to buy the land near the rail station with a low price, and took advantage of the crazy growth of the real estate industry. The price of the land surrounding the station soared, and they sold their tall-story apartment at the right time. This allowed their family fortune to double in tenfold, even a hundred fold, and thus resulted in a real estate company worth billions of dollars.
Even if they got rich later in life, they were still considered the first generation of Jiang city gentry. They attend all kinds of banquets and receptions, however they still could not get rid of the countryside temperament. She was excessively irritable, and thus was well-known as a violent woman within Jiang city.
“Speak! What are you going to do now, my dress is like this because of you, how am I going to take part in this reception?” The violent woman screeched at An Ran with her eyes wide.
An Ran closes her eyes. She was getting angry too, but she still used her reason to calm herself down. She takes a few deep breaths, looks at her and says, “Madame, this can be considered my fault. How about this, I will cover the cost of the cleaning. Is that okay?”
“What do you mean 'considered your fault'? You were the one who bumped into me, don’t tell me that it was me who bumped into you? Also, cleaning cost, ha! Are you trying to get rid of a beggar? You think I want those measly dollars?”
An Ran takes a deep breath, and says, “Then, Madame, what do you suggest?”
“This dress was imported from France. This is worth 10 thousand USD. How about this, you pay me for this dress, then apologize. Then I would forgive you for this issue.” The shrew speaks as if it was expected.
“You!” An Ran’s eyes turn wide. Ten hundred USD, where is she going to get that kind of money? She was getting so unbearably angry. It was the mistake of both parties; she made it as if it were all her fault. Who cares about the apology. What a demand, ten thousand USD, is she being robbed?
An Ran was pissed, but she was never the kind of person to yell at anyone in public. She was pissed, but she could only manage to say, “You, you’re unreasonable!”
“I’m unreasonable?! You’re the one who bumped into me!” The lady raises her voice.
Xiao xiao looks at the person that An Ran bumped into, and she couldn’t help but feel sorry for her, but at the same time she was secretly delighted. She doesn’t like An Ran, since the time that she entered the company until now, she has always loathed this woman. Well, not loath, but envy. She admits that she’s envious of this woman, jealous that Heaven gave her everything including beauty. She has a fine household, loving parents, and she even has a gift in designing. All of this were things that she wanted, but, she has none of those.
An Ran was really feeling some gas seep out, so she doesn’t hold anything back, “Everyone knows who bumped into whom. With the way you’re running so imperviously, even if I were careful I’d still bump into you. The first time I apologized was because of courtesy. You made this into a big deal, and it doesn’t mean that it was my fault. If we really looked into it, the fault lies on the both of us, so neither can escape responsibility.”
“So you’re saying that it was my fault?” The lady looks at her wide-eyed, appearing as if she was going to explode.
“What I’m saying, is that we are both at fault, we’re both liable.” An Ran was also getting intimidated by her. When she comes across unreasonable situations, she isn’t one who would be pushed around. If she wasn’t in the wrong, then she would stand up for herself.
“You…..” The shrew steamed. She was pointing at An Ran and was about to speak, but Huang De Xing comes forward at this time. Seeing that An Ran was in a difficult situation, he couldn’t help but furrow his brows together. “An Ran, what’s going on here?”
Not waiting for An Ran speak, the shrew recognizes Huang De Xing. She steps forward and asks, “Director Huang, is she from your company?” Her tone was blunt.
Huang De Xing turns his head, and naturally recognizes her too. Smiling, he says, “Mrs. Zhang, what’s going on here? An Ran is our company’s architect. Whatever has happened I ask for your forgiveness.”
“Forgiveness, ha! No way!” The shrew sneers. She looks at An Ran, gnashing her teeth, “According to her, I’m the one who should apologize, and ask for her forgiveness.”
Huang De Xing stares at An Ran, and smiles as he says, “Mrs. Zhang is too severe. An Ran is still young, she hasn’t been to these much, please don’t lower yourself to her.”
“Insight, she gave me insight, that I wasn’t looking and bump into people, that I’m that unreasonable!” The shrew says dramatically, “Today, Director Huang, do whatever you want. You need to give me a statement.”
Hearing that, An Ran’s stomach starts rumbling. It’s obvious that the issue wasn’t clear, so she gazes out, not looking at her, but unfortunately sees Mo Fei. Four eyes on each other, An Ran could the concern and uneasiness in his eyes. She turns around, withdrawing her gaze.
“Then Mrs. Zhang, how would you handle this. You see, I will deal with An Ran and give you compensation.” Huang De Xing says. Today is where most of the upper-class is going to gather, and this issue has gotten too noisy that they’ll be a joke. Inside he was scolding An Ran, for provoking such a well-known woman!
“Originally it isn’t a big deal, and I’m not the kind of person who likes trouble. If she had just apologized then it would’ve been done, but no she’s so good, speaking in such a thorny way, there wasn’t a single good word. According to her, it’s me who should apologize.” The shrew says without changing colours, “Since it’s this way, then don’t call me bothersome. This dress was imported from France, and now it’s like this because of her, so she has to pay for it. Also, she has to give me an apology in front of everyone here!”
Hearing that, the crowd of people around them started whispering into each other’s ears. In fact, everyone else had seen everything, who was right and who was wrong, they were all aware of it, but they still wanted to enjoy the school. They don’t want to be in a difficult position from that shrew just because of a nameless architect, so, they just circled and watched, not voicing their opinions.
“How about this, Mrs. Zhang, An Ran is a member of our company. She is also someone I brought, so I will compensate for the dress. It’s not right for me to let An Ran to compensate. Since this issue isn’t that big of a deal, is that okay?” Huang De Xing reasons.
Saturday, 8 April 2017
First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 63 Translation
063. Reception 03
On the way to the washroom, Tong Xiao Jie follows An Ran’s steps, “Senior sister, why are you walking so fast.”
An Ran looks at her, and only says, “I thought Mrs. Tong, that you were in a hurry.”
Tong Xiao Jie laughs, and walks to her side, “I am in a hurry, but not that much. Let’s walk slowly. My heels are quite high, so I can’t walk that fast. Anyways, we can chat a little bit too.”
“I don’t think there’s much that we can talk about.” An Ran was direct. She’s not a person that says things in a round-about way, and she isn’t the kind who is skilled in talking either.
Tong Xiao Jie smiles, “Senior sister, you can just call me Xiao Jie. No need to be such a stranger.”
An Ran stops, and turns to look at her, “I thought this was the first time that we met.”
Like before, Tong Xiao Jie keeps a smile on her face, “It’s the first time that we’ve officially met. However, I believe that we must know about the other quite well. At least, I know you quite well, An Ran. I’ve known about you for six years.”
An Ran looks at her, and doesn’t say anything for a while. She doesn’t understand what this woman is trying to do. She thought that she had already made herself clear earlier that afternoon.
“Mrs. Tong, if you have anything you want to say to me, we can speak one-on-one to get everything cleared.” An Ran looks at her and speaks after a while. There are some things that she doesn’t want to talk about, but if a conclusion is needed, then they should get it done now. There are some wounds, that look like they’ve been healed, but not only to say that it hasn’t been touched again, and the pain has completely gone.
“Miss Gu, don’t you want to know the real reason as to why Mo Fei left you that year?” Tong Xiao Jie changes the way she addressed her. Her expression also changes to a more serious one. Although she’s still wearing the same smile, her eyes did not show the same warmth.
“No.” Anyways, the past can’t be changed, and it doesn’t matter how much pain she went through back then. In the end she isn’t living in the past anymore. To her surprise, she felt that her life now is really good, and there’s no need to look back, to look back at the words that that gave her pain!
Hearing that, Tong Xiao Jie was taken aback by An Ran’s answer. It was contrary to her expectation, however she immediately gave a gentle smile, and said, “If I told you that Mo Fei had only loved you, but married me, because he was forced?”
An Ran was surprised, and raises her head to look at her, “What do you mean by that?” Forced? Was he forced by someone that year?
Seeing her reaction, Tong Xiao Jie smiles in disdain, apparently knowing that she would react this way. She only coldly says, “Do you still love him?”
An Ran frowns. “What did you mean by that?”
“Hehe.” Tong Xiao Jie smiles, “Nothing.” She looks up to see Mo Fei running out, and lowers her cold eyes. One side of her smile lowers. She looks at An Ran again, and her tone softens by a lot, “Senior sister, weren’t you going to show me to the washroom. Can we go now?”
An Ran looks at her, and doesn’t say anything for a while. In the end she turns towards the direction of the washroom. At the entrance, she turns and says to her, “You can go.” After that, she turns to leave.
At the moment An Ran brushed Tong Xiao Jie’s shoulder, she hears Tong Xiao Jie say, “Six years ago I made him leave you. Six years later, of course, I can make him never cross path with you. I left to live with him for six years, and will keep on doing that for another sixty years.” Saying that, she walks into the washroom.
An Ran looks at the closed washroom door. Even after a while she couldn’t recover from that. When she got back to the meeting place, she ran into a frantic-looking Mo Fei. He also looks at her, and was about to step forward, but thought of something, and doesn’t move.
An Ran stares at the man in front of him. In the past, she and that man had sweet and happy days. But ultimately, things are this way, like silence. She doesn’t know why he left her that year, but ultimately that doesn’t change the way things are now. Perhaps he had some sufferings that year, and perhaps it was as they said, that all along he had only loved her. But what about it? He’s married, she’s married. They can only sigh. The reasons between them are all too shallow.
She was about to look away, and just look ahead, about to go back into the dining hall.
Mo Fei tightens his fist, and was about to take a step, but sees Tong Xiao Jie at the corner of his eyes. He releases his fist, then tightens it again, doing this several times. Ultimately he doesn’t take that step, and turns around, giving a smile to the woman who was walking towards him.
When they came back Xiao xiao was with Huang De Xing and someone else talking about something. Tong Wen Hai was nowhere to be seen. Thus, An Ran was somewhat relieved. She could feel that Tong Wen Hai was treating her differently, and she knows that it’s not because he knows her mother. Even though she isn’t sure what exactly was between those two, but she remembers her mother’s reaction when she saw his back the other day, so she thought, if necessary, she should try to avoid him.
An Ran walks over to towards Xiao xiao, her eyes fixed ahead, that she did not see the other person walking over towards them.
“Aiya.” A voice cried out.
The person walking towards them seemed rushed, and An Ran, who was beside her, was not paying attention, so when they bumped the glass of wine in her hands was spilled. And because of the buzz from the wine, the small bump became a big wave of wine, thus both her and the other person’s clothes became soiled. An Ran’s was really soiled, while the other person less so.
An Ran raises her head, only to see a woman approximately 40 years old, slightly stout. Her white dress was soiled by the wine, so An Ran immediately apologizes, “Sorry, I didn’t see you coming.” She really did not see her, and she appeared too suddenly. She was completely off-guard.
The other person stares at the large spot of red staining her white dress, and her expression immediately sinks. She looks at An Ran and starts to yell, “What’s wrong with you, are you blind or something! Such a big person like me and you didn’t see me at all, are you blind?”
An Ran felt flustered. The collision was the fault of both parties. She was walking, and she was also walking. Even if she didn’t see her, then doesn’t that mean that the other person didn’t see her too?
“What are you staring at, what am I supposed to do, my dress is completely ruined because of you, you tell me what I’m supposed to do!” The other person’s tone was excessively overbearing, and because of her shouting it attracted a good amount of people’s attention. Someone recognizes his lady, and stepped up and said, “Aiya, Mrs Zhang, what’s the matter!”
The so-called Mrs. Zhang was about to explode. Half of the gentry of Jiang city was present. If she was provoked like this, how will this reflect on her! She thinks about it, and resolutely stares at An Ran as she says, “I don’t know where this girl came from, walking around without her eyes, pushing through and shoving.”
The music concealed the dispute occurring from one side, however Xiao xiao and Huang De Xing who were not too far had heard it. They turn around, only to see An Ran standing in the middle of the crowd, her clothes stained red and black, looking like a sorry sight.
On the way to the washroom, Tong Xiao Jie follows An Ran’s steps, “Senior sister, why are you walking so fast.”
An Ran looks at her, and only says, “I thought Mrs. Tong, that you were in a hurry.”
Tong Xiao Jie laughs, and walks to her side, “I am in a hurry, but not that much. Let’s walk slowly. My heels are quite high, so I can’t walk that fast. Anyways, we can chat a little bit too.”
“I don’t think there’s much that we can talk about.” An Ran was direct. She’s not a person that says things in a round-about way, and she isn’t the kind who is skilled in talking either.
Tong Xiao Jie smiles, “Senior sister, you can just call me Xiao Jie. No need to be such a stranger.”
An Ran stops, and turns to look at her, “I thought this was the first time that we met.”
Like before, Tong Xiao Jie keeps a smile on her face, “It’s the first time that we’ve officially met. However, I believe that we must know about the other quite well. At least, I know you quite well, An Ran. I’ve known about you for six years.”
An Ran looks at her, and doesn’t say anything for a while. She doesn’t understand what this woman is trying to do. She thought that she had already made herself clear earlier that afternoon.
“Mrs. Tong, if you have anything you want to say to me, we can speak one-on-one to get everything cleared.” An Ran looks at her and speaks after a while. There are some things that she doesn’t want to talk about, but if a conclusion is needed, then they should get it done now. There are some wounds, that look like they’ve been healed, but not only to say that it hasn’t been touched again, and the pain has completely gone.
“Miss Gu, don’t you want to know the real reason as to why Mo Fei left you that year?” Tong Xiao Jie changes the way she addressed her. Her expression also changes to a more serious one. Although she’s still wearing the same smile, her eyes did not show the same warmth.
“No.” Anyways, the past can’t be changed, and it doesn’t matter how much pain she went through back then. In the end she isn’t living in the past anymore. To her surprise, she felt that her life now is really good, and there’s no need to look back, to look back at the words that that gave her pain!
Hearing that, Tong Xiao Jie was taken aback by An Ran’s answer. It was contrary to her expectation, however she immediately gave a gentle smile, and said, “If I told you that Mo Fei had only loved you, but married me, because he was forced?”
An Ran was surprised, and raises her head to look at her, “What do you mean by that?” Forced? Was he forced by someone that year?
Seeing her reaction, Tong Xiao Jie smiles in disdain, apparently knowing that she would react this way. She only coldly says, “Do you still love him?”
An Ran frowns. “What did you mean by that?”
“Hehe.” Tong Xiao Jie smiles, “Nothing.” She looks up to see Mo Fei running out, and lowers her cold eyes. One side of her smile lowers. She looks at An Ran again, and her tone softens by a lot, “Senior sister, weren’t you going to show me to the washroom. Can we go now?”
An Ran looks at her, and doesn’t say anything for a while. In the end she turns towards the direction of the washroom. At the entrance, she turns and says to her, “You can go.” After that, she turns to leave.
At the moment An Ran brushed Tong Xiao Jie’s shoulder, she hears Tong Xiao Jie say, “Six years ago I made him leave you. Six years later, of course, I can make him never cross path with you. I left to live with him for six years, and will keep on doing that for another sixty years.” Saying that, she walks into the washroom.
An Ran looks at the closed washroom door. Even after a while she couldn’t recover from that. When she got back to the meeting place, she ran into a frantic-looking Mo Fei. He also looks at her, and was about to step forward, but thought of something, and doesn’t move.
An Ran stares at the man in front of him. In the past, she and that man had sweet and happy days. But ultimately, things are this way, like silence. She doesn’t know why he left her that year, but ultimately that doesn’t change the way things are now. Perhaps he had some sufferings that year, and perhaps it was as they said, that all along he had only loved her. But what about it? He’s married, she’s married. They can only sigh. The reasons between them are all too shallow.
She was about to look away, and just look ahead, about to go back into the dining hall.
Mo Fei tightens his fist, and was about to take a step, but sees Tong Xiao Jie at the corner of his eyes. He releases his fist, then tightens it again, doing this several times. Ultimately he doesn’t take that step, and turns around, giving a smile to the woman who was walking towards him.
When they came back Xiao xiao was with Huang De Xing and someone else talking about something. Tong Wen Hai was nowhere to be seen. Thus, An Ran was somewhat relieved. She could feel that Tong Wen Hai was treating her differently, and she knows that it’s not because he knows her mother. Even though she isn’t sure what exactly was between those two, but she remembers her mother’s reaction when she saw his back the other day, so she thought, if necessary, she should try to avoid him.
An Ran walks over to towards Xiao xiao, her eyes fixed ahead, that she did not see the other person walking over towards them.
“Aiya.” A voice cried out.
The person walking towards them seemed rushed, and An Ran, who was beside her, was not paying attention, so when they bumped the glass of wine in her hands was spilled. And because of the buzz from the wine, the small bump became a big wave of wine, thus both her and the other person’s clothes became soiled. An Ran’s was really soiled, while the other person less so.
An Ran raises her head, only to see a woman approximately 40 years old, slightly stout. Her white dress was soiled by the wine, so An Ran immediately apologizes, “Sorry, I didn’t see you coming.” She really did not see her, and she appeared too suddenly. She was completely off-guard.
The other person stares at the large spot of red staining her white dress, and her expression immediately sinks. She looks at An Ran and starts to yell, “What’s wrong with you, are you blind or something! Such a big person like me and you didn’t see me at all, are you blind?”
An Ran felt flustered. The collision was the fault of both parties. She was walking, and she was also walking. Even if she didn’t see her, then doesn’t that mean that the other person didn’t see her too?
“What are you staring at, what am I supposed to do, my dress is completely ruined because of you, you tell me what I’m supposed to do!” The other person’s tone was excessively overbearing, and because of her shouting it attracted a good amount of people’s attention. Someone recognizes his lady, and stepped up and said, “Aiya, Mrs Zhang, what’s the matter!”
The so-called Mrs. Zhang was about to explode. Half of the gentry of Jiang city was present. If she was provoked like this, how will this reflect on her! She thinks about it, and resolutely stares at An Ran as she says, “I don’t know where this girl came from, walking around without her eyes, pushing through and shoving.”
The music concealed the dispute occurring from one side, however Xiao xiao and Huang De Xing who were not too far had heard it. They turn around, only to see An Ran standing in the middle of the crowd, her clothes stained red and black, looking like a sorry sight.
---END OF CHAPTER---
Friday, 31 March 2017
First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 62 Translation
062. Reception 02
An Ran walks towards them, and when An Ran was about 10 feet away Huang De Xing noticed her. His expression towards her was that of displeasure, An Ran knows, that he wasn’t happy that she left without permission.
An Ran walks over to him without a rush. As she gets closer she then found out that Tong Wen Hai had his back turned at her, with a slight hunch. Recently she is apparently detested by the Tong family.
Seeing her approach, Huang De Xing immediately changes his displeased expression, and smiles at An Ran as he says, “An Ran, come here. Chief Tong just mentioned you, asked why you aren’t here.”
Speaking of that, Tong Wen Hai and Xiao xiao who had their back towards her turn around. Xiao xiao still has a faint smile, while Tong Wen Hai seemed as if he were glad, and smiles, “I thought you didn’t come, since I haven’t seen you once.”
An Ran smiles, and excuses herself, “I had to go to the washroom.”
Interrupting the conversation, just in time someone came to find Tong Wen Hai. Taking the opportunity while Tong Wen Hai was occupied, Huang De Xing pours a cup of alcohol and gives it to An Ran. Then using this as a pretext he whispers into her ears, “Bureau chief Tong seems to have a good impression on you, why don’t you carefully accompany him this evening.”
Hearing that, An Ran frowns, and was about to say something, but sees that Tong Wen Hai had finished discussing with that other person, and had turned back to them. He smiles at them, and asks, “The city hall building, ‘Jing Cheng’… Do you guys intend to make a bid on it?”
“Of course. These past few days An Ran and Xiao xiao have been preparing designs for it, and the submission is already underway. When the time comes, we ask for Chief Tong’s interest.” Huang De Xing jokes.
Tong Wen Hai doesn’t comment, and only raises his cup to take a drink.
“Dad.”
They were just standing around, and when Hang De Xing gave a signal to An Ran to say something, a gentle female voice started to call out. An Ran felt a strange sense of familiarity to this voice.
Everyone turned their head, only to see that Mo Fei is walking over to them. And by his side, was a woman, cheerfully talking, looking beautiful. She wasn’t as lavish as Xiao xiao; her beauty was more subtle. Her make up accentuated her delicate nose, and a simple white dress adorns her pretty figure, further accentuating her ethereal beauty, as if she weren’t from this Earth.
An Ran looks at her dazedly. She naturally recognizes her. Tong Xiao Jie. The prettiest girl in T university.
Tong Xiao Jie holds onto Mo Fei’s arm as she walks over to them, her eyes quickly sweeping over everyone. When she stopped at An Ran, her smile changes, however the expression on her face doesn’t change a bit. Compared to An Ran who appeared startled, she seemed very indifferent.
She doesn’t set her eyes on An Ran for too long, and reverts her gaze back to Tong Wen Hai, “Dad, I was just asking Mo Fei if you had arrived or not. Right then, I saw you cracking jokes over here.”
“Xiao Jie, you guys have arrived.” Tong Wen Hai smiles at his daughter, then turns to introduce her, “Everyone, this is Jing Cheng’s Director Huang. This is Architect Xiao, and this Architect Gu. I just heard that Mo Fei was talking about a collaboration project with Jing Cheng these days, so I suppose that you guys will have the chance to get in touch later on. Getting to know one another first is good.”
Tong Xiao Jie smiles and nods at each of them, her expression no less friendly. She puts on a distance. Then she turns to look at Mo Fei, and only says, “You’ve been coming home late these days, I’m guessing it’s because of the project.” Saying this, she reaches out to fix his tie, and adds on, “Ai, you just said you just came back, something about being as busy as when you were in America. Just don’t wear your body out.” Her elegant eyebrows wrinkle with worry as she says this.
Mo Fei smiles awkwardly, and takes her hand, but his eyes were fixed on An Ran.
Tong Xiao Jie follows his gaze, and catches An Ran’s eyes. She smirks, and laughs as she looks at An Ran, “You must be senior sister An Ran. Long time no see. You’ve changed so much that I couldn’t recognize you.”
Senior sister, ah ha, this title ws so strange. They obviously graduated the same year, since when did she become the senior!
An Ran simply smiles, and doesn’t say anything. Actually she doesn’t really know what else to say. Even though they have seen each other at school before, but she couldn’t even get a nod from her. Now that she suddenly needs to form a sentence, she really doesn’t know how to answer.
Xiao xiao watches the interaction between them, and a smile with mysterious intention starts to form. She figures that Tong Xiao Jie had received the photo that she sent, and looking at her now, she thinks, that this Tong Xiao Jie is not so much a virtuous individual, and she understands the way that she is treating An Ran, that she is Tong Xiao Jie’s rival. Thinking so, her smile widens.
The mood became weird because of Tong Xiao Jie and Mo Fei. As Huang De Xing was about to say something to ease the mood, Tong Xiao Jie starts to speak again.
Tong Xiao Jie turns to Mo Fei and says, “Excuse me while I go to the washroom.”
Mo Fei nods his head and says, “Go ahead.”
Tong Xiao Jie smiles and turns around, but doesn’t leave right away. Rather, she looks at An Ran and says, “Senior sister, will you keep me company? I just came back from the US, and I haven’t been to this place before. Will you be able to help me find the washroom?”
An Ran was surprised. From the phone call this afternoon, she knows that it’s not going to simply be ‘keeping her company’. She was going to decline, but Xiao xiao beside her started to say something, “An Ran you should go keep the young lady company. You were just in the washroom, so you know the way.”
Hearing that, Tong Xiao Jie turns to stare at Xiao xiao. She smiles.
“Yes. An Ran, accompany Mrs. Tong.” The oblivious Huang De Xing says.
It was unsure if he was afraid that Tong Xiao Jie would make things hard for An Ran, or he was afraid that An Ran would say something to Tong Xiao Jie, but Mo Fei suddenly interrupts, “I’ll take you.”
Tong Xiao Jie chuckles, and turns to look at her husband, and says, “We’re going to the woman’s washroom, why would you, a grown man, come? Anyways, I haven’t seen senior sister in so long, naturally I want to catch up with her.”
With her saying that, it was impossible for An Ran to decline. She could only nod and say, “Let’s go. The washroom’s over here.” Saying that, she takes the lead to walks towards the intended place.
---END OF CHAPTER---
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T/n: Imma back! Thanks for your patience guys <3
An Ran walks towards them, and when An Ran was about 10 feet away Huang De Xing noticed her. His expression towards her was that of displeasure, An Ran knows, that he wasn’t happy that she left without permission.
An Ran walks over to him without a rush. As she gets closer she then found out that Tong Wen Hai had his back turned at her, with a slight hunch. Recently she is apparently detested by the Tong family.
Seeing her approach, Huang De Xing immediately changes his displeased expression, and smiles at An Ran as he says, “An Ran, come here. Chief Tong just mentioned you, asked why you aren’t here.”
Speaking of that, Tong Wen Hai and Xiao xiao who had their back towards her turn around. Xiao xiao still has a faint smile, while Tong Wen Hai seemed as if he were glad, and smiles, “I thought you didn’t come, since I haven’t seen you once.”
An Ran smiles, and excuses herself, “I had to go to the washroom.”
Interrupting the conversation, just in time someone came to find Tong Wen Hai. Taking the opportunity while Tong Wen Hai was occupied, Huang De Xing pours a cup of alcohol and gives it to An Ran. Then using this as a pretext he whispers into her ears, “Bureau chief Tong seems to have a good impression on you, why don’t you carefully accompany him this evening.”
Hearing that, An Ran frowns, and was about to say something, but sees that Tong Wen Hai had finished discussing with that other person, and had turned back to them. He smiles at them, and asks, “The city hall building, ‘Jing Cheng’… Do you guys intend to make a bid on it?”
“Of course. These past few days An Ran and Xiao xiao have been preparing designs for it, and the submission is already underway. When the time comes, we ask for Chief Tong’s interest.” Huang De Xing jokes.
Tong Wen Hai doesn’t comment, and only raises his cup to take a drink.
“Dad.”
They were just standing around, and when Hang De Xing gave a signal to An Ran to say something, a gentle female voice started to call out. An Ran felt a strange sense of familiarity to this voice.
Everyone turned their head, only to see that Mo Fei is walking over to them. And by his side, was a woman, cheerfully talking, looking beautiful. She wasn’t as lavish as Xiao xiao; her beauty was more subtle. Her make up accentuated her delicate nose, and a simple white dress adorns her pretty figure, further accentuating her ethereal beauty, as if she weren’t from this Earth.
An Ran looks at her dazedly. She naturally recognizes her. Tong Xiao Jie. The prettiest girl in T university.
Tong Xiao Jie holds onto Mo Fei’s arm as she walks over to them, her eyes quickly sweeping over everyone. When she stopped at An Ran, her smile changes, however the expression on her face doesn’t change a bit. Compared to An Ran who appeared startled, she seemed very indifferent.
She doesn’t set her eyes on An Ran for too long, and reverts her gaze back to Tong Wen Hai, “Dad, I was just asking Mo Fei if you had arrived or not. Right then, I saw you cracking jokes over here.”
“Xiao Jie, you guys have arrived.” Tong Wen Hai smiles at his daughter, then turns to introduce her, “Everyone, this is Jing Cheng’s Director Huang. This is Architect Xiao, and this Architect Gu. I just heard that Mo Fei was talking about a collaboration project with Jing Cheng these days, so I suppose that you guys will have the chance to get in touch later on. Getting to know one another first is good.”
Tong Xiao Jie smiles and nods at each of them, her expression no less friendly. She puts on a distance. Then she turns to look at Mo Fei, and only says, “You’ve been coming home late these days, I’m guessing it’s because of the project.” Saying this, she reaches out to fix his tie, and adds on, “Ai, you just said you just came back, something about being as busy as when you were in America. Just don’t wear your body out.” Her elegant eyebrows wrinkle with worry as she says this.
Mo Fei smiles awkwardly, and takes her hand, but his eyes were fixed on An Ran.
Tong Xiao Jie follows his gaze, and catches An Ran’s eyes. She smirks, and laughs as she looks at An Ran, “You must be senior sister An Ran. Long time no see. You’ve changed so much that I couldn’t recognize you.”
Senior sister, ah ha, this title ws so strange. They obviously graduated the same year, since when did she become the senior!
An Ran simply smiles, and doesn’t say anything. Actually she doesn’t really know what else to say. Even though they have seen each other at school before, but she couldn’t even get a nod from her. Now that she suddenly needs to form a sentence, she really doesn’t know how to answer.
Xiao xiao watches the interaction between them, and a smile with mysterious intention starts to form. She figures that Tong Xiao Jie had received the photo that she sent, and looking at her now, she thinks, that this Tong Xiao Jie is not so much a virtuous individual, and she understands the way that she is treating An Ran, that she is Tong Xiao Jie’s rival. Thinking so, her smile widens.
The mood became weird because of Tong Xiao Jie and Mo Fei. As Huang De Xing was about to say something to ease the mood, Tong Xiao Jie starts to speak again.
Tong Xiao Jie turns to Mo Fei and says, “Excuse me while I go to the washroom.”
Mo Fei nods his head and says, “Go ahead.”
Tong Xiao Jie smiles and turns around, but doesn’t leave right away. Rather, she looks at An Ran and says, “Senior sister, will you keep me company? I just came back from the US, and I haven’t been to this place before. Will you be able to help me find the washroom?”
An Ran was surprised. From the phone call this afternoon, she knows that it’s not going to simply be ‘keeping her company’. She was going to decline, but Xiao xiao beside her started to say something, “An Ran you should go keep the young lady company. You were just in the washroom, so you know the way.”
Hearing that, Tong Xiao Jie turns to stare at Xiao xiao. She smiles.
“Yes. An Ran, accompany Mrs. Tong.” The oblivious Huang De Xing says.
It was unsure if he was afraid that Tong Xiao Jie would make things hard for An Ran, or he was afraid that An Ran would say something to Tong Xiao Jie, but Mo Fei suddenly interrupts, “I’ll take you.”
Tong Xiao Jie chuckles, and turns to look at her husband, and says, “We’re going to the woman’s washroom, why would you, a grown man, come? Anyways, I haven’t seen senior sister in so long, naturally I want to catch up with her.”
With her saying that, it was impossible for An Ran to decline. She could only nod and say, “Let’s go. The washroom’s over here.” Saying that, she takes the lead to walks towards the intended place.
---END OF CHAPTER---
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T/n: Imma back! Thanks for your patience guys <3
Friday, 10 March 2017
hiatus for 2 weeks + no update this week
Sorry guys, I think I'll have to put translations on hiatus until the 24th... On the bright side, I'll start my clinical training next month, so no more exams which means more time to translate!
Best wishes,
Anh
Best wishes,
Anh
Friday, 3 March 2017
First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 61 Translation
061. Reception 01
An Ran was still bothered by the phone call earlier, when someone knocks on the door to her office. She raises her head, only to see Xiao xiao standing by the door, with a smirk on her face.
“Is there anything you need?” An Ran asked with a cold tone. She doesn’t know when it happened, but she has felt that Xiao xiao has been targeting her; whenever she spoke it was always prickly.
“Uh, nothing.” Xiao xiao shrugs carelessly. She enters the room, pulling a chair out in front of An Ran and sits down on it, and says, “But I wanted to ask if your weekend went well?”
An Ran gives her a look, lowers her head and goes back to work on her blueprint, grabbing the pen and a ruler, as she mumbles, “It was pretty good.”
Xiao xiao isn’t bothered by her cold attitude, and just sits there and stares at her newly-manicured fingers. She takes a look at her blueprint, and without thinking, says, “Still not done with your blueprint?”
“Yeah.” An Ran answers simply, not raising her head.
An Ran doesn’t know what she’s up to, but ever since she said that she was interested in Mo Fei, she felt that she should avoid her. Before, it wasn’t that she hadn’t heard the rumours; she was always talked about by everyone in the industry, her manners well known. Colleague to colleague, she has observed her capabilities, and she has always felt that the rumours from the others weren’t fair to her at all, but after last time, regarding Xiao xiao, she suddenly thought of an idiom, ‘there is no smoke without fire’, a housefly won’t bite a seamless egg. If there’s nothing about her, then naturally people wouldn’t talk about her.
Everyone at work has always felt that the relationship between her and Huang De Xing wasn’t normal. It can be seen that Huang De Xing had a hand in all of her work. Before she hadn’t really thought about the truthfulness in these rumours, but that day at YouRan restaurant, when she came in, she definitely felt that the atmosphere wasn’t right. Even though they masked it very well, but Xiao xiao’s lipstick was smeared, and Huang De Xing’s lips was stained with Xiao xiao’s red lipstick, which is telling sign for her as to what they were doing in the room before she had entered.
Xiao xiao sits in front of An Ran with a bored expression, and watches her earnestly work on her blueprint. She smirks.
She sits there for a while more, and finally Xiao xiao stands up. When she turned around to leave, she apparently thought of something, and turns back, smiling as she says to An Ran, “Oh, right, I almost forgot. Before I came in the director wanted me to remind you, there’s a wine reception this evening, it’s at Jiang city’s big pub. All the architects in our company have to attend it.”
An Ran looks at her, and nods, “Ok. I got it.”
Xiao xiao nods her head in understanding, reaching out for the door and was about to leave, but right before opening the door, not turning her head, she says, “An Ran, I definitely won’t lose in this project’s draft competition. Oh right, I forgot to tell you, the company is intending to make the winner the chief architect, so, in other words, Jing Cheng’s chief architect. I’m definitely getting it.” After speaking she pulls the door open and leaves, leaving An Ran with the sultry sway of her hips.
An Ran watches the door slowly close, and then slowly regains herself. She once again takes a pen and utensil and goes back to working on her incomplete blueprint.
When she was about to get off work she gave Su Yi Cheng a call, and tells him that she has a wine reception, so she’ll probably get home pretty late. This reporting-if-going-home-late was a request that Su Yi Cheng made this morning when he was driving her to work. He said that he doesn’t want to come home only to a black room that welcomes him, so even if she is coming home late, she should at least call him, so that he’ll expect it.
She didn’t think that he would be the kind of man who was spoiled, but his expression this morning was obviously one of complaint, like he was very wronged, so that made her nod without hesitation, agreeing that she’ll call him if she’s going to come home late, and that she’ll call him after she gets off work to let him know.
By coincidence, Su Yi Cheng also has a wine reception tonight, so he just reminds her not to drink too much, and it appeared that he was pretty busy on his side so he doesn’t say much else and ends the call.
‘Jiang city’s big pub’ is Jiang city’s largest pub house. It is located at the Qing river bank, and on the upper floor of the pub, you can see the view of the entire city at night, as well as the town on the other side of the river, Qing city’s nightscape. Jiang city’s big pub isn’t far, and was right in the plaza, which was especially lively tonight. Some were dancing to music, while some brought their children out to play, and even more were couples who go for walks after eating, walking along the river bank to the dam, the river from the wind blowing, speaking words of love.
The two cities across the river face each other, and as a result the cross-section of Qing river was pretty big. Furthermore, Jiang city and Qing city were both in the southeast coast, so summer typhoons were common, and in cases of typhoons, the waves of the river also became immensely large, which made road repairs quite difficult. As a result, the bridge that was supposed to join the two cities together had been planned for a very long time, but was never carried through. And now, because there wasn’t that connecting bridge, the only link to the two cities was through the ferry boat, and at night time, the ferry boat would circle around the river in bright rainbow-coloured lamps, travelling distantly, with no other word to describe it than, beautiful.
An Ran looks out the window, watching the nightscape, a smile on her face. Then suddenly, a man’s voice comes from behind. She turns her head, and it was a co-worker.
“An Ran, the director’s looking for you, you should quickly go over there.” The co-worker urges.
The dinner party tonight was held by the real estate association. Apart from the industry people, several celebrities from Jiang city and high officials from the municipal committee came. As a result, Huang De Xing was especially important.
An Ran nods at him, “Alright, I got it.” She looks back out the window, then walks back to the wine reception.
Actually, she doesn’t really like these occasions, and social niceties like these were a pain in the neck. If she had a choice, she would rather spend the night at the office working on her blueprint. And it wasn’t her first time attending these wine receptions. These occasions happen quite often, but she still hasn’t gotten used to it. Because in these occasions, the people who come here are people with great pride and prestige, or they were those so-called government officials. And when those people speak they confuse a person, spend a lot of time talking. These so-called pig-gut brained gentries, high officials, do not even try to mask their expression. So An Ran wasn’t used to these situations, but it was work, so she just has to adapt to it. You have to adapt to any place, so even if she doesn’t like it, she still has to come.
An Ran opens the door to come in, and at that moment the hall was having a waltz. The entire space was flooded with elegant music and dance steps, pairs of males and females met in the middle to dance.
An Ran unintentionally admires the mood, and lookes all over the room to search for her colleague. Then shifted to the right, approaching to the side of the dance floor, and luckily found Huang De Xing laughing and smiling. Xiao xiao was beside him in a low-cut halterneck gown.
An Ran was still bothered by the phone call earlier, when someone knocks on the door to her office. She raises her head, only to see Xiao xiao standing by the door, with a smirk on her face.
“Is there anything you need?” An Ran asked with a cold tone. She doesn’t know when it happened, but she has felt that Xiao xiao has been targeting her; whenever she spoke it was always prickly.
“Uh, nothing.” Xiao xiao shrugs carelessly. She enters the room, pulling a chair out in front of An Ran and sits down on it, and says, “But I wanted to ask if your weekend went well?”
An Ran gives her a look, lowers her head and goes back to work on her blueprint, grabbing the pen and a ruler, as she mumbles, “It was pretty good.”
Xiao xiao isn’t bothered by her cold attitude, and just sits there and stares at her newly-manicured fingers. She takes a look at her blueprint, and without thinking, says, “Still not done with your blueprint?”
“Yeah.” An Ran answers simply, not raising her head.
An Ran doesn’t know what she’s up to, but ever since she said that she was interested in Mo Fei, she felt that she should avoid her. Before, it wasn’t that she hadn’t heard the rumours; she was always talked about by everyone in the industry, her manners well known. Colleague to colleague, she has observed her capabilities, and she has always felt that the rumours from the others weren’t fair to her at all, but after last time, regarding Xiao xiao, she suddenly thought of an idiom, ‘there is no smoke without fire’, a housefly won’t bite a seamless egg. If there’s nothing about her, then naturally people wouldn’t talk about her.
Everyone at work has always felt that the relationship between her and Huang De Xing wasn’t normal. It can be seen that Huang De Xing had a hand in all of her work. Before she hadn’t really thought about the truthfulness in these rumours, but that day at YouRan restaurant, when she came in, she definitely felt that the atmosphere wasn’t right. Even though they masked it very well, but Xiao xiao’s lipstick was smeared, and Huang De Xing’s lips was stained with Xiao xiao’s red lipstick, which is telling sign for her as to what they were doing in the room before she had entered.
Xiao xiao sits in front of An Ran with a bored expression, and watches her earnestly work on her blueprint. She smirks.
She sits there for a while more, and finally Xiao xiao stands up. When she turned around to leave, she apparently thought of something, and turns back, smiling as she says to An Ran, “Oh, right, I almost forgot. Before I came in the director wanted me to remind you, there’s a wine reception this evening, it’s at Jiang city’s big pub. All the architects in our company have to attend it.”
An Ran looks at her, and nods, “Ok. I got it.”
Xiao xiao nods her head in understanding, reaching out for the door and was about to leave, but right before opening the door, not turning her head, she says, “An Ran, I definitely won’t lose in this project’s draft competition. Oh right, I forgot to tell you, the company is intending to make the winner the chief architect, so, in other words, Jing Cheng’s chief architect. I’m definitely getting it.” After speaking she pulls the door open and leaves, leaving An Ran with the sultry sway of her hips.
An Ran watches the door slowly close, and then slowly regains herself. She once again takes a pen and utensil and goes back to working on her incomplete blueprint.
When she was about to get off work she gave Su Yi Cheng a call, and tells him that she has a wine reception, so she’ll probably get home pretty late. This reporting-if-going-home-late was a request that Su Yi Cheng made this morning when he was driving her to work. He said that he doesn’t want to come home only to a black room that welcomes him, so even if she is coming home late, she should at least call him, so that he’ll expect it.
She didn’t think that he would be the kind of man who was spoiled, but his expression this morning was obviously one of complaint, like he was very wronged, so that made her nod without hesitation, agreeing that she’ll call him if she’s going to come home late, and that she’ll call him after she gets off work to let him know.
By coincidence, Su Yi Cheng also has a wine reception tonight, so he just reminds her not to drink too much, and it appeared that he was pretty busy on his side so he doesn’t say much else and ends the call.
‘Jiang city’s big pub’ is Jiang city’s largest pub house. It is located at the Qing river bank, and on the upper floor of the pub, you can see the view of the entire city at night, as well as the town on the other side of the river, Qing city’s nightscape. Jiang city’s big pub isn’t far, and was right in the plaza, which was especially lively tonight. Some were dancing to music, while some brought their children out to play, and even more were couples who go for walks after eating, walking along the river bank to the dam, the river from the wind blowing, speaking words of love.
The two cities across the river face each other, and as a result the cross-section of Qing river was pretty big. Furthermore, Jiang city and Qing city were both in the southeast coast, so summer typhoons were common, and in cases of typhoons, the waves of the river also became immensely large, which made road repairs quite difficult. As a result, the bridge that was supposed to join the two cities together had been planned for a very long time, but was never carried through. And now, because there wasn’t that connecting bridge, the only link to the two cities was through the ferry boat, and at night time, the ferry boat would circle around the river in bright rainbow-coloured lamps, travelling distantly, with no other word to describe it than, beautiful.
An Ran looks out the window, watching the nightscape, a smile on her face. Then suddenly, a man’s voice comes from behind. She turns her head, and it was a co-worker.
“An Ran, the director’s looking for you, you should quickly go over there.” The co-worker urges.
The dinner party tonight was held by the real estate association. Apart from the industry people, several celebrities from Jiang city and high officials from the municipal committee came. As a result, Huang De Xing was especially important.
An Ran nods at him, “Alright, I got it.” She looks back out the window, then walks back to the wine reception.
Actually, she doesn’t really like these occasions, and social niceties like these were a pain in the neck. If she had a choice, she would rather spend the night at the office working on her blueprint. And it wasn’t her first time attending these wine receptions. These occasions happen quite often, but she still hasn’t gotten used to it. Because in these occasions, the people who come here are people with great pride and prestige, or they were those so-called government officials. And when those people speak they confuse a person, spend a lot of time talking. These so-called pig-gut brained gentries, high officials, do not even try to mask their expression. So An Ran wasn’t used to these situations, but it was work, so she just has to adapt to it. You have to adapt to any place, so even if she doesn’t like it, she still has to come.
An Ran opens the door to come in, and at that moment the hall was having a waltz. The entire space was flooded with elegant music and dance steps, pairs of males and females met in the middle to dance.
An Ran unintentionally admires the mood, and lookes all over the room to search for her colleague. Then shifted to the right, approaching to the side of the dance floor, and luckily found Huang De Xing laughing and smiling. Xiao xiao was beside him in a low-cut halterneck gown.
---END OF CHAPTER---
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