First Marriage Then Love

142 . Hand in hand 

The latest news replaced the old . After leaving work and becoming pregnant, An Ran lost track of time, until Auntie Zhang asked her to take a few days of absence to see her grandson and grand-daughter An Ran then realized that it was already National Day .  

The nature of Su Yi Cheng’s work had no definite differentiation between holidays and regular days . A phone call came in, because on the first day of the provincial hall had an emergency doc.u.ment, so the original plan to go out with An Ran to go for a walk in the spring had to be set aside, and he returned to the office again to work overtime .  

Hanging up the phone, Su Yi Cheng turned to look at An Ran who had already dressed up in her maternity dress and apologized, “Secretary Zheng called and said there was an emergency file that came, I have to go back to the office . ” 

Although she was disappointed, but she understood, An Ran said, “Go, work is important . ” As she said that, she straightened his crooked tie .  

Su Yi Cheng felt guilty and went to hug An Ran, and quietly whispered into her ears, “Sorry, I never have the time to accompany you . ” Because of work, he doesn’t have the time to rest like the ordinary person . Now that An Ran is pregnant, standing there with such a large stomach, it was difficult to spend an entire day with her .  

“Then you have to go to work, how would you raise me and our baby . ” An Ran reached out to hug him back, chuckling .  

Su Yi Cheng also chuckled, released her, put his forehead against her’s, and asked, “Today Auntie Zhang isn’t home, do you want me to send you to your mom’s home?” 

An Ran shook her head, “Mom and dad are going to my cousin’s wedding, they’re probably not home . ” She remembered that was what her mother told her when she came over yesterday .  

Su Yi Cheng frowned, he was always uneasy when she was at home alone .  

Seeming to see his concern, An Ran muttered, then reached out to his face, tilted her head, and asked, “Su Yi Cheng, you see me so useless? I can be home alone!” As if trying to prove something, An Ran seemed to put emphasis on the word ‘can’ very heavily .  

Su Yi Cheng funnily reached out to put her hand down, and then conveniently put it against his lips to kiss it, then said, “Just you by yourself I would not be worried, but now there are three people at home, how could be not be worried?” Speaking that, the other hand stroke her stomach gently, gently stroking it back and forth .  

“Heng, turns out you’re not worried about me, but your two little lovers!” An Ran pretended to glare at him .  

Su Yi Cheng opened his mouth and put her hand in his mouth, gently bit down, but not so hard to give her pain, looked at her seriously and said, “Because of you, so I’m worried about the babies in your stomach .  

“I know that slick mouth is tricking me . ” An Ran looked at him funnily, knowing that he was the best as such sweet words, but still felt good hearing it .  

After thinking for a while, Su Y Cheng suddenly raised his eyebrows, thought of something, looked at An Ran and said, “Come to the office with me . ” 

An Ran sighed, looked at him and reiterated, “I can be at home alone, don’t treat me like a child . ” 

Su Yi Cheng followed her nod, and just said, “Well I know you can, and did not treat you as a child, you should come and accompany me, okay?” 

“What’s the use of my company!” She wasn’t smart, but she’s not stupid either, he’s treating her as a tempered child, really! 

“If you stay with me, I’ll be more motivated and get the job done faster . ” Su Yi Cheng was simply lying without a draft, nipped on her hand, very smoothly .  

An Ran looked at him, a while later does she sigh, nodded, and said, “Fine . ” She couldn’t refuse since he insisted, and she can’t keep refusing .  

When Su Yi Cheng appeared in the office with An Ran, Secretary Zheng was at the door staring in disbelief, looked at AN Ran unable to come with a reaction . He had been at Su Yi Cheng’s side for so many years, he had always felt that Su Yi Cheng never mixed up his public side and private side, never brought private matters to work, but today he actually brought his wife to work, it really was a bit of a shock .  

An Ran calmly smiled to Secretary Zheng and said, “Hi Secretary Zheng . ” 

Secretary Zheng only then reacted, closed his open mouth from the shock and put on a warm smile and said, “h.e.l.lo Madame!” 

An Ran felt strange being called as someone’s wife, just smiled awkwardly and said, “Call me An Ran . ” 

Secretary Zheng smiled and nodded, enthusiastically said, “An Ran this is the first time to come here, would you like me to show you around in a minute?” 

Not waiting for An Ran to say something, someone beside her spoke up in a cold tone, “Secretary Zheng you must be very idle?” 

Listening to his tone, Secretary Zheng was taken aback, quickly reacted, turned to Su Yi Cheng and said, “No, I’m very busy, there are so many things not finished, I will go now, will go now . ” Saying that he turned around wanting to run away .  

Before Secretary Zheng turned around and wanted to walk away, Su Yi Cheng leisurely said, “I see that you are very idle, make a detailed table of the city construction project for me . ” 

Secretary Zheng turned his head, and said somewhat excitedly, “Mayor Su, I already gave that table to you!” At that time because of that complicated table, he was busy for two days and two nights, so busy that he had no time for his girlfriend, his girlfriend nearly broke up with him because of it! 

“En, I know . ” Su Yi Cheng slightly nodded, the expression on his face has not changed, only calmly said, “But I lost the copy you gave me, you’ll have to help me make another copy, sorry to trouble you . ” 

Hearing that, Secretary Zheng cried in the inside, “Mayor Su, you cannot play like this!” He was afraid that An Ran was uncomfortable being here for the first time so he said he would show her around, he was just being kind okay, why mess with him like this! He knew Su Yi Cheng, there was no way he’d lose such an important doc.u.ment! 

Su Yi Cheng raised his brows, turned to look at him, faintly asked, “Have a problem?” 

In response, Secretary Zheng just felt a shiver, he was looking at him but did not want to look any longer, he turned around and took large strides to walk away, spoke as he walked, “I will immediately do it!” 

“Hehe . ” An Ran couldn’t help but laugh at the interaction between those two . She had been with Su Yi Cheng for almost half a year, she can’t say that she knew his affairs more than the others, but for his character and other things she understood that much, naturally she can see that he was just taking revenge on Secretary Zheng .  

Seeing her laugh, Su Yi Cheng turned to look at her, reached out to touch her long soft hair, casually asked, “What’s the matter, what’s so funny?” 

An Ran put her nose on him and sniffed, then slyly smiled and asked, “I smell something sour, do you smell it?” 

Su Yi Cheng laughed, nodded and said, “En, it’s me I’m jealous . ” 

His confession instead surprised An Ran and she stared at him blankly . She thought he would deny it, the person who was trying to poke at him instead felt embarra.s.sed! 

Su Yi Cheng reached out to caress her face, looked at her, expression slightly distressed, and said, “What to do? I seem to be getting more and more irrational, and I’m even starting to mix public and private matters . ” 

An Ran looked at him, somewhat speechless, but her heart was feeling odd, silky sweet .  

Holding her face, Su Yi Cheng carried a faint smile and continued to say, “I wanted to hide you away, not let anyone else see you, so that you can only smile at me, your eyes can only look at me . ” 

An Ran laughed and put his hand down, “I didn’t know you had such a strong appet.i.te for possession . ” That slender finger poked his solid chest, “Tyrant!” 

Su Yi Cheng smiled, leaned over and kissed her on the lips, said, “Only to you, okay . ” 

An Ran smiled sweetly, her brows and eyes were bent in a good-looking arch, looked at him, and nodded heavily, “Good!” She liked his overbearingness, it made people feel that they were the most precious and cherished .  

The two smiled like that for a while, Su Yi Cheng took her into his office, found the least boring book from the bookcase for An Ran to read, let her sit down on the sofa to read it, while he sat on his desk to deal with the emergency doc.u.ments that Secretary Zheng had put on his desk earlier .  

The book that Su Yi Cheng gave her was incredibly boring, it was densely packed with words, and all of it were very academic terms, An Ran only felt her lids get heavier and heavier, then slowly slipped out of consciousness .  

When Su Yi Cheng was finished examining the doc.u.ments and looked up, he saw that An Ran had fallen asleep on the sofa . He got up and covered her with his coat, gently sat down on the sofa, reached out push her bangs aside, and gave her a kiss .  

“Knock knock knock . ” Suddenly, someone knocked on the door . Secretary Zheng pushed the door in and said, “Mayor Su, Secretary Zhang has arrived, tell everyone—” 

Suddenly there was no sound, because of the sight he saw with Su Yi Cheng there silenced him, he then noticed that An Ran was asleep on the sofa .  

Su Yi Cheng got up and went over to him, and with a low voice he asked, “What’s the matter?” 

Secretary Zheng was well-intentioned, and like him lowered his voice and said, “Secretary Zhang has arrived, tell everyone to meet at conference room 1 for a meeting, it’s probably about the emergency doc.u.ment from earlier . ” 

Su Yi Cheng nodded, “I got it . ” 

Secretary Zheng nodded, and turned to withdraw from the office .  

When An Ran woke up again, the office had long gone lost the trace of Su Yi Cheng . Somewhat puzzled rubbing her eyes, just as she was about to call him she saw his cell phone on the table .  

Thinking he might have gone to the toilet, she was bored and took the book that she had been reading earlier . After waiting a while but not seeing anyone back, she frowned somewhat puzzled, not sure where Su Yi Cheng had went .  

She cautiously got up to open the door, and saw that Secretary Zheng was not outside . A little cautious, but also curious about the building, she walked to the entrance of the building, only to see two people going up the stairs, who saw An Ran at the same time she noticed them .  

An Ran was surprised, she recognized the person who came up was Xudong Real Estate’s Xiao Ying Tian . Xiao Ying Tian apparently recognized her, smiled and nodded to An Ran and said, “An Ran, long time no see . ” 

An Ran also smiled at him and said, “Long time no see, Chairman Xiao . ” 

When Su Yi Cheng came back from the meeting, he saw An Ran and Xiao Ying Tian in the office chatting very intensely .  

“How did Uncle Xiao come here?” Su yi Cheng said with a smile, put the doc.u.ments on his desk, then walked over to An Ran’s side, sat on the side of the sofa, his hand naturally rested on An Ran’s shoulder, and An Ran turned to look at him and smiled .  

“I am to find Lao Zhang, pa.s.sed by your floor when I happened to meet An Ran, so I want to chat with An Ran for a bit . ” Xiao Ying Tian said with a faint smile, then stood up, “It seems like your meeting is over, I shall go look for Lao Zhang now that he is free . ” Saying that, he got up and turned to leave the office .  

Su Yi Cheng politely said, “Uncle Xiao doesn’t want to sit for a little longer?” As he spoke, he stood up with An Ran .  

“No no, I am in the way of you husband and wife, I read the newspaper the other day . ” Xiao Ying Tian said mockingly .  

Upon mentioning that day’s newspaper, An Ran’s face suddenly turned red, her entire person became embarra.s.sed, she casted a blaming glance at Su Yi Cheng .  

Su Yi Cheng had a faint smile, not at all embarra.s.sed or awkward .  

Sending Xiao Ying Tian out the door, when they got to the door, Xiao Ying Tian suddenly turned his head, looked at An Ran with a mysterious smile, “An Ran, please consider what we just talked about, don’t waste your talent . ” 

An Ran nodded with a smile, “Okay, I’ll think it over . ” 

Su Yi Cheng raised his brows . When he wasn’t where, he seemed to have missed something? 

After Xiao Ying Tian left, closing the door again, Su Yi Cheng looked at An Ran and asked, “Just now what was that with Uncle Xiao?” 

An Ran turned to look at him and asked, “What do you think about me taking a few cases home?” 

When she said that, he understood immediately . He frowned, and disapprovingly said, “An Ran, have you forgotten that you are still pregnant?” He has seen how she gets when she designs, he doesn’t want her to work that hard, besides, she is with child right now .  

An Ran pouted, her finger drew a circle around his chest, and muttered, “I knew you wouldn’t agree . ” She knew he wouldn’t agree, so she didn’t give Xiao Ying Tian an answer right away .  

Su Yi Cheng reached out to caress her long soft hair, looked at her seriously and said, “An Ran, we should put the children first, okay?” 

Although An Ran was somewhat defeated, but she also knew that he was well-intentioned, so she nodded obediently, and promised, “Okay . ” 

Su Yi Cheng naturally saw the loneliness on her face . He looked at the doc.u.ments on his desk, and thought to himself, good that it’s not urgent, it can wait until later tonight! 

He made up his mind . Su Yi Cheng rubbed her head and said, “Let’s go, I am done . ” Speaking, he looked at his watch, and it was almost lunch time . “Let’s go eat and then drive and watch the scenery?” 

“En . ” An Ran smiled and nodded, reached out to let him take her hand .  

Due to it being the holidays, there were especially a lot of people on the streets, many were couples, friends, of course, the road was also full of cars, almost all of the streets were jammed with traffic .  

Su Yi Cheng and An Ran were blocked in front of the government building, until finally it got to a point where it was not easy to move forward . Su Yi Cheng directly and decisively parked the car in front of a restaurant, and then led An Ran directly out of the car .  

As they were walking, An Ran was smiling, seeming to be in a particularly good mood .  

While Su Yi Cheng was a little depressed, he completely did not think that the streets and road would be like this, even walking down the road was blocked .  

What made him even more depressed is that even if they want to find a restaurant it’s full . They left the office almost an hour ago, and they are still walking down the street, unable to find even a small restaurant .  

He asked An Ran, “Are you hungry?” 

An Ran snuck a gaze and nodded . Recently she has gotten used to eating a lot, every day she has been eating more meals . Since the meal this morning until now, she really was a little hungry .  

Su Yi Cheng felt a little guilty, reached out to pull her over a little, lest the other pedestrians on the street b.u.mp into her . “Why don’t we go back, I’ll make you lunch . ” Su Yi Cheng said .  

An Ran shook her head, “I’m always at home and I’m getting moldy . ” 

“But you’re hungry . ” Su Yi Cheng said with a frown .  

An Ran thought for a while . They weren’t too far from the pedestrian street, she slyly looked at him and said, “Come shopping with me . ” 

“Shopping?” Su Yi Cheng raised his brows .  

An Ran nodded, raised both of their hand, and said, “We went there once, come with me again . Anyway the road is jammed everywhere, we aren’t able to go . I also don’t like to stay at home all day, so, let’s go shopping . ” 

Su Yi Cheng smiled and nodded, said, “We can shop, but we have to find a place to eat, cannot let you starve . ” 

An Ran rolled her eyes, pulled his hand and went forward, said, “I know where to eat . ” 

Su Yi Cheng let her lead him, just shook his head behind her and smiled . As long as she was happy .  

Su Yi Cheng stared at the steaming hot things in her hand, slightly frowned and said, “Is that clean?” People came and went, dust was all over the place, and he didn’t see that the man had anything to use as a cover .  

An Ran looked at him, straightened up with her bulging belly, held up the freshly bought beef soup with noodle, and said with a sweet smile, “Can’t always be so exquisite, sometimes you have to put up with it, otherwise you’ll be missing a lot of things . ” As she said that, she couldn’t stop drooling . It’s been a long time since she’s had this . It seems that starting when she started work, she had been busy every day, the rest in between designs was not always fixed, sometimes she was busy for a few weeks, not sleep for a few days not even close her eyes, when she had time to rest she hid at home to sleep, like visiting streets or something, she never had enough time, designer clothes she always went to those shopping malls to buy, one-time .  

An Ran was somewhat in a hurry, directly with that disposable plastic spoon she put a mouthful of beef soup into her mouth . There was no taste at first, instead she felt the heat on their tongue, yelled out childishly, “Hot hot hot . ” 

Su Yi Cheng sighed and shook his head, reached for the foam in her hand, pulled her into the roadside station, looked at her with an amused look, “Why are you like a child . ” Taking the disposable plastic spoon in her hand, he scooped it up, then put it beside his mouth and gently blew on it, then handed it to her mouth, and gently said, “Come on, open your mouth . ” 

An Ran smiled, obediently opened the edge of her mouth, let him put the food in her mouth, not too hot not too cold, plus the taste of her memory, An Ran was satisfied and closed her eyes, sighed, “Still as delicious as before!” 

Su Yi Cheng also smiled, and scooped a spoon and just like before put it in beside his mouth and gently blowing, handed to her until she opened her mouth and ate it .  

An Ran ate in satisfaction . Waiting until she ate half the bowl, Su Yi Cheng fed her until she stopped opening her mouth, watched her shake her head and say, “I’m full, you eat the rest . ” 

He understood her thoughtfulness, he became helpless at her insistence, and finished the rest of the food, then nodded as she looked with him with expectation and said it was delicious .  

Hearing that, An Ran was very satisfied and smiled with bent eyes . She held his hand again and began walking amongst the crowd .  

Su Yi Cheng was always vigilant, afraid that people would b.u.mp into her, and would always protect her .  

In reality the two did not actually buy anything, they just simply strolled down the street . An Ran loved the feeling of walking hand in hand with the person you love strolling down the street, it was very peaceful, secure .  

Seeing the snack stalls across the street, An Ran swallowed her saliva . Some things were not healthy, even if An Ran acted like a spoiled child, Su Yi Cheng would not approve . Then An Ran would pout unhappily, but after seeing the next thing she would go back to before and forget their argument, point at the vendor and pat on Su Yi Cheng’s hand, like right now, “Yi Cheng, look, it’s sweet corn . ” 

Su Yi Cheng laughed helplessly, and gave in and nodded, “Alright . There’s too much people over there, you stand here, I’ll go and buy it for you . ” 

An Ran nodded heavily, and waited like a hungry child, extremely cute .  

An Ran stood under a eucalyptus tree, and watched the man squeeze himself into a group of people to buy a small corn . He must have not been to these places that often, her heart felt very warm . In fact, it’s not that she especially wanted to eat, just watching him do that for her and squeezing into the crowd, the heart had an indescribable sweet feeling .  

“An Ran?” 

Just as An Ran happily looked up to see su yi Cheng emerge from the crowd, a familiar male voice called out from behind, with uncertainty .  

An Ran turned her head, only to see Mo Fei dressed up behind her, seeing her, his face flashed a little joy .  

An Ran was a little taken aback, surprised that she would meet him here . She just nodded at him faintly, her face did not have much expression .  

When An Ran turned around Mo Fei could see her bulging stomach, the joyous face turned dark . He smiled awkwardly, “Last time, I saw the newspaper last time . ” 

An Ran nodded . Regarding Mo Fei, she really did not have much to say .  

Mo Fei could sense the embarra.s.sment, trying to find a topic, “You---” 

“Mo Fei . ” A woman from behind interrupted Mo Fei .  

Hearing that, An Ran looked up, only to see Xiao Xaio come up from behind Mo Fei holding sugar fried chestnuts .

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