145. Photos
When Lin Li came back An Ran was looking outside seemingly without spirit.
Lin Li put down the things in her hand in front of her, then waved her hand in front of her, “What are you looking at?”
An Ran only then returned to her senses, looked at Lin Li and said, “I just saw Su Yi Cheng.”
“Oh, really. Why don"t you call him in.” Lin Li said as she sat in front of her, did not notice that An Ran"s expression had turned strange, only took the chicken roll and spread it out on the paper bag and began to gnaw it up, and drank the delicious cola on the side. She took a glance at An Ran, then with a mocking tone, said, “What, don"t feel like eating anymore now that you"ve seen your dear husband?”
An Ran gave her a glare, and just said, “I saw him with a woman.” She did not know, does Su Yi Cheng and Ling Ran still have contact?
Lin Li had taken a mouthful of the c.o.ke, and then let out a large belch as a result of the carbonated drink, did not care about her image, and said, “Woman, what woman?” As she said that she took a piece of the chicken wing and gave it to Xiao Bin, and whispered to tell him to eat slowly, don"t choke.
An Ran shook her head for a moment in silence, only said, “Nothing, I"ll ask him when I get back.”
Hearing that, Lin Li looked up at her, and with worry, asked, “An Zi, nothing will happen right?”
An Ran shook her head and smiled, “What can happen, don"t worry about it.”
“Well well well, look at your happy and contented look.” Looking at her, Lin Li shook her head funnily. Suddenly remembering something, she asked, “Hey, does your Leader Su demand a lot in that aspect?”
An Ran was a little confused, looked at Lin Li with confusion and asked, “What?”
Lin Li looked at her with an ambiguous smile, then said, “I read the newspaper that day.” Her ambiguity picked up, and asked, “Is it true?”
An Ran thought about what she said about the demand. Her face suddenly heated up, and glared at her, “Boring.” After saying that, she didn"t want to look at her again, and looked down and concentrated on eating her rice.
“Hahaha.” On the other side, Lin Li already got an answer from her red face, her entire body shook from laughter at the image, and even incited curious looks from the people around them. On the other hand Xiao Bin who was eating his chicken stopped to stare at her, a little confused as to what she was laughing at.
On account of An Ran being out all day yesterday, plus now she was pregnant with twins, the three did not go for a walk, and sat at the KFC for the entire afternoon. Xiao Bin was also very excited to go to the playground and play with the other children.
Lin Li looked at Xiao Bin, from time to time she would shout, “Xiao Bin, slow down, don"t fall.”
And Xiao Bin at this moment looked like a lively and happy little boy.
“Is this really alright?” An Ran looked at her and just so gently asked.
Lin Li did not look back, eyes still on Xiao Bin who was in the playground. Only a while later did she faintly reply, “Yes, it"s quite good.”
An Ran did not say much more. Sometimes these choices may not be a bad thing.
In the evening, Lin Li drove and dropped off An Ran, and in the backseat of the car was Xiao Bin who had fallen sleep after playing, the corner of his mouth had a faint smile.
Lin Li drove slowly, not only because there was a pregnant woman in the car, but also because there was a tired and sleeping child.
When they got to the complex, An Ran did not hurry to get off, but stayed in the car for a while. She reached out to Lin Li"s hand, held it tightly, looked at her and said, “Lin Li, you have to be happy!”
Lin Li looked at her and nodded with a smile.
Seeing that, An Ran nodded, then silently sighed. She let go of her hand, and said, “I"m going.” Then directly opened the door to get off, did not turn her head, and walked straight to toward the building. Her nose inexplicably started to feel a little sour, even she did not know why.
And Lin Li stayed outside of the building for a while, before driving away.
Back at home Auntie Zhang was preparing for today"s dinner, greeted An Ran. An Ran faintly replied back, looking a little depressed. Not wanting to talk about it, An Ran just said she was a little tired, and wanted to go to the room to lie down for a bit.
Su Yi Cheng came back a little earlier today, and was back before six o"clock.
Auntie Zhang saw him come in, somewhat worriedly told him that An Ran was acting a little abnormal after she came back. Su Yi Cheng only raised his eyebrows. He did not put down the briefcase in his hands in the study, directly carried it with him into the room, only to see An Ran lying sideways on the bed, eyes closed, eyebrows slightly furrowed.
He reached over to flatten her furrowed brows. An Ran did not seem to be in a deep sleep, so with just that slight touch she woke up. Seeing him in front of her, she was blank for a little while, until she managed a smile, and said, “You"re back.”
Su Yi Cheng smiled back, nodded, and responded, "Yes, I"m back.” Saying that, he took off his coat and lifted the blanket up, took her shoulders, and let her lean against him in his arms.
An Ran rubbed her head against him, found a comfortable position, then rested her hands around his waist.
Su Yi Cheng"s hand was gently rubbing her back, slowly caressing down along her hair, and then softly asked into her ears, “Auntie Zhang said that you came into the room as soon as you came back, what"s wrong, did you encounter unhappy things when you went out with Lin Li?”
An Ran hugged him for a while, then faintly starts to say, “Yi Cheng, would you say being pregnant people are always emotional, think too much?”
Hearing that, Su Yi Cheng raised his brows, smiled and asked, “What are you emotional over? Can you tell me?”
“Lin Li married Zhou Han.”
Su Yi Cheng raised his eyebrows, obviously very surprised. But he still replied faintly, “Really.”
An Ran leaned into his arms, slowly said, “I don"t know if this is a good thing or not, Lin Li can marry to start another new relationship, I am happy for her, but with this way to their own marriage, I feel pain for her.”
Su Yi Cheng did not speak, but his hand was still gently, irregularly patting her back.
“Married… She just wanted to give her parents an account.” An Ran whispered. She understood the helplessness, because she had done it too. Whispering softly she said, “Looking at her, it"s like looking at myself.”
Hearing that, Su Yi Cheng smiled softly and asked, “Even if you decided to marry only to give your family an account, but we are now very good, aren"t we?”
An Ran retreated from his arms, looked up at him and said, “But are Lin Li and Zhou Han like us?” Zhou Han is not Su Yi Cheng, and Lin Li was deeply hurt by Cheng Xiang!
“Fool.” Su Yi Cheng pinched her nose, and said, “Leave the emotions up to fate.” He held her in his arms again, intertwined his fingers with her fingers, put them on her bulging belly, tightly attached, so that the family are having the closest contact, and said, “Sometimes fate is so wonderful, when you want it to come it doesn"t necessarily come, when you don"t want it to come, suddenly turning back, you realize that it was already there unknowingly. In fact, we are all the same, for each relationship we always treat it with a serious att.i.tude, but sometimes we learn how to cherish through experience, experience is to meet the right person later. Perhaps Lin Li"s fate is Zhou Han, who is to say? What we can do for her is not to sigh, do not feel wronged, we can only bless, bless her that she can live better, only pray, pray that they are fated together.”
An Ran did not speak, but leaned against his chest to listen to his words quietly.
"An Ran, you know what? I had been afraid to accept these feelings before I met you, because I have been unable to forget the feeling of being betrayed. I thought I wouldn"t touch that thing called love all my life, but I met you.” With that, Su Yi Cheng lowered his head and kissed her hair.
An Ran had not spoken, but squeezed her hands with his. In fact, it was the same with her, before meeting him she felt that she will not love again. Her first purest love during her schoolyears had changed her, not to mention with such circ.u.mstances, getting married to someone you"ve only known for a day. The unexpected beginning did not expect to have these unexpected results, the present her is so happy for that impulsive decision.
“At the beginning we are all the same, just like you said, towards our parents we cannot get rid of the responsibility, but only to find out that we are the same, have paid a price on that road, we all know how painful that pain is, so we know how to cherish. It"s not easy to meet someone who will be walking with you through the next few decades until your hair grows white. Sometimes I will think, did I get hurt so that I could wait for you to appear, so that I would know how to cherish you.” Su Yi Cheng smiled and asked into her ears, “Don"t you think so, you got hurt so that you could meet me later?”
An Ran laughed, why with a clearly very heavy topic he can always put a smile on her face, can always make her heart feel like being injected with a warm current, warm ocean.
Retreating from his arms, she fixed her eyes on him and looked at him, and asked, “Leader Su, did you go into political school to learn how to say such pretty words!”
Su Yi Cheng smiled, seeming like he was thinking about it seriously, shook his head, and said, “It seems not.”
An Ran poked her hand into his chest, “Then tell me, where did you learn these words?” What"s most hateful is that she always enjoyed his sweet words, and this cannot be ah, she can"t ignore him when she wants to, always cajoled by him with less than three words, how spineless is she ah!
Su Yi Cheng smiled, and bent over to kiss her on the lips, “Self-taught, seems like I could do it when I met you.”
“Such a glib.” An Ran pouted childishly.
Su Yi Cheng rubbed her head dotingly, and asked, “Are you still emotional?”
Hearing that, An Ran smiled and shook her head, only said, “Perhaps, as Lin Li said, I met you, so she will also meet her prince.”
Su Yi Cheng nodded, pulled her back into his embrace, and said, “En, she will.” Hands gently covered her bulging belly, gently asked, “Has baby move a lot?”
An Ran smiled, and joked, “Wow, Mayor Su, you have no common sense ah, it"s only a little more than 4 months, how could it move so often. Didn"t the doctor say last time ah, at four months the fetal movement is generally weak.”
“Is it?” Su Yi Cheng frowned, said to himself, “No wonder, I was wondering how could I not feel one movement, so it turns out it was weak!”
An Ran laughed. Suddenly remembering something, she grabbed the hand that was rubbing back and forth on her stomach, and asked, “Tell me, what did you do today?”
Su yi Cheng raised his brows, and said, “I went to work ah.” She grabbed his hand back, and wrapped it around him.
An Ran turned to look at him and said, “Then tell me, who did you see today?” She does not want to guess, does not want to make these endless guesses, although she does not understand, and does not have much experience regarding husband and wife affairs, but she felt that they both got along well, no matter if they were friends or lovers or married, at the very least they should be honest, this is the most basic foundation, must have respect.
Hearing that, Su Yi Cheng raised his brows and said, “Saw Secretary Zhang, Secretary Zheng, bidding people, some of the project team leader and…. Lin Ran.”
Hearing Lin Ran, An Ran felt relieved, at least she knew that he was not deliberately concealing it, at least she knew that he had respected her.
“When I went out with Lin Li today, I saw you and Ling Ran driving by while I was eating lunch.” An Ran said, “I don"t really have any other meaning by asking you, but I"m afraid of thinking too much, making guesses.” Saying it so clearly, knowing that he did not mean to hide it deliberately, then she will be at ease, will not think too much. He is willing to be honest and give her respect, and so she will learn to trust him, believe in him.
“Ling Ran came to me and wanted me to help her father.” Su Yi Cheng opened up to explain, “In fact she called me last night about this matter, I refused, I—”
An Ran reached over his mouth, looked at him carefully, and said, “I believe in you, so there is no need to explain.”
Su Yi Cheng stared at her and smiled, nodded, then said nothing more. In fact, not too long after he arrived at the office Ling Ran had came, must ask him to take her to see Ling Chuan Jiang, he refused, but she wouldn"t leave no matter what he said, and because he did not want to make it a huge issue, finally he agreed to move a little and find someone at noon to arrange for the father and daughter to meet once.
An Ran also smiled, snuggled up to his chest, small hand playing with his big palm.
It was a holiday so Su Yi Cheng"s work was not really too busy, although he went to work every day, but came back quite early in the evening.
The two sometimes go out for a stroll together, but considering An Ran was pregnant, they walked for only half an hour, because if too long An Ran"s feet would always hurt at night. And after the pregnancy An Ran suddenly liked to watch movies, some of the last century"s old movies, always liked to sit on the sofa with Su Yi Cheng, then snuggled up in Su Yi Cheng"s arms, watching the movie on the TV screen. But each time An Ran would not last long, always only watched half of the movie and then fell asleep in Su Yi Cheng"s arms.
Tonight An Ran dragged Su Yi Cheng along to watch another movie with her, then at this moment in Su Yi Cheng"s arms her eyelids began to fight, clearly getting heavier and heavier and constantly sinking. Suddenly remember something, her whole person had spirit again and then suddenly opened her eyes, mouth also muttered, “Don"t sleep, this time must watch…”
Su Yi Cheng smiled in defeat, shook his head, and touched her head with his hand.
Only in the end An Ran could not help but meet the G.o.d of Dream"s calls, after several struggles even though her mouth was still muttering about how she wanted to sleep, eyes could not stay open, her eyelids were getting heavier and heavier.
Su Yi Cheng just laughed and lowered his head to kiss her on the crown, and then maintained the previous posture and held her for a while, until the end of the film, then carried her into the bedroom.
He gently put her down. Suddenly feeling the lack of embrace, An Ran was unaccustomed at first and muttered, but did not wake up.
Su Yi Cheng subst.i.tuted her pillow with his arm. Then the phone beside An Ran suddenly rang, and the sleepy An Ran was startled by the bell, her entire person was somewhat shaking down. Su Yi Cheng for the first time took the phone and directly pressed mute, then reached out to lightly pat An Ran"s back, until she calmed down then he took the cell phone out.
It was Lin Li, directly picked up, not waiting for Su Yi Cheng to say anything, on the other side Lin Li opened to say, “An Zi, that photographer that I asked for you said that he was free tomorrow, why don"t you ask your leader Su, see if he has time, if he does have time then I can help you book a time. You also know, you"re pregnant with twins, the longer you put it off the bigger your stomach will get, you won"t even have strength. If you can come tomorrow, you should take some pictures first.”
Hearing that, Su Yi Cheng started to filter through tomorrow"s work in his head. There was nothing particularly important, so it was not a big problem to take half the day off.
For a while she didn"t hear An Ran"s reply, so Lin Li couldn"t help but ask, “An Zi, are you listening?”
Su Yi Cheng returned to Earth, and said, “Then arrange it for tomorrow afternoon, I have time, can shoot.” In fact, a few days ago he inadvertently went into the bedside table drawer, and inadvertently saw a picture of a piece of paper. It was just a photo of them from the newspaper, but An Ran had cut it out separately.
“Heng, Leader Su?” Lin Li was taken aback, obviously surprised that the person who answered the phone was not An Ran but Su Yi Cheng.
Su Yi Cheng smiled and explained, “An Ran fell asleep.”
“Oh.” Lin Li understood, then said, “Then Leader Su tomorrow if there is time, I will tell the photographer to prepare the room for tomorrow.”
“Okay, thanks a lot.” Su Yi Cheng said politely.
“Che, An Zi is my best friend, and on this, it"s not a ha.s.sle.” Lin Li does not care, and spoke straightly, “Well, I"ll call the studio first, you will go directly tomorrow.”
“Okay, thank you.” Su Yi Cheng thanked her and hung up the phone, and then took his cell phone again to call Secretary Zheng, ready to arrange for his work tomorrow.
An Ran woke up the next day, when she got out of the bathroom and went out into the living room she unexpectedly saw a certain someone still in their home clothes, their hair still damp, eating their steaming breakfast, while Auntie Zhang was wiping the table. Seeing An Ran, she smiled, “Madam has woken up.”
An Ran nodded to her, and then turned back, only to see that the man who had just turned his back to her at the moment, holding the spoon, was smiling at her.
An Ran went forward, sat down at the bar and asked, “Don"t you have work?” Why is he still at home at this time?
Su Yi Cheng nodded, and said, “En, there"s nothing much today, I"m not going to go over.”
“Really?” An Ran frowned, and muttered, “How come I heard you say yesterday that there was a meeting to be held in the morning.”
Su Yi Cheng gently smiled, and did not explain much, just said, “Sit down first, breakfast will be ready soon.”
An Ran also did not want to think too much, that he did not go to work is good, he can accompany her more. While nodding she sat on the high chair, while saying, “Yi Cheng, since you don"t have work today, then let"s go to my mother"s house, I kind of miss them.”
Su Yi Cheng put the two people"s breakfast away, nodded and said, “We can go in the evening.” As he spoke, he poured her a gla.s.s of milk.
Why did An Ran feel weird hearing this, she asked, “So what are we doing in the day?”
Su Yi Cheng smiled, only dragged it on and said, “Secret, you"ll see in a bit.”
An Ran muttered funnily, “How mysterious.” But she didn"t ask much, she looked forward to him surprising her.
It was really a surprise, a surprise and joy!
After lunch, Su Yi Cheng drove her to the door of a photography studio. An Ran looked at him with some disbelief, “Why are you bringing me here, last time didn"t Lin Li say the soonest time will be at the end of October?”
Su Yi Cheng thoughtfully went around the car to her side and undid her seatbelt, then explained everything Lin Li said on the phone after she fell asleep last night.
Hearing that, An Ran couldn"t help but yell, “Ah, why didn"t you tell me, I wasn"t ready.” She took out the little makeup mirror from her bag, looked at herself, and said, “How is it? Can I go like this? Do I look alive?”
Every woman loves to be beautiful, especially when taking pictures, and is very demanding on herself, because everyone wants to take a beautiful picture.
Su Yi Cheng pulled on her slightly sweaty hand because of the nervousness, and said, “Very good, everything is good, my wife is the most beautiful person in the world!” The soothing patter patted her hand and said, “It"s all right, there"s me.”
An Ran still looked at him nervously, nodded in the end, holding his hand tightly.
An Ran"s nervousness continued until the beginning of the shooting, frequently wanting to go to the washroom to put on makeup, and every time Su Yi Cheng would say no worries, he would always accompany An Ran and go together. An Ran felt that if it were not for Su Yi Cheng" ident.i.ty, she estimates that she would have gotten angry earlier, just a simple makeup look, she couldn"t finish even an hour later.
Finally when the real shooting time started, the tension suddenly disappeared, the whole filming process was still smooth.
Because of the twins, An Ran"s stomach was now small. At the photographer"s suggestion, An Ran prepared to take a set of pregnancy photos, the photographer originally wanted the make-up artist to paint a lovely smiley face on An Ran"s stomach, just like some of the big belly photos on the internet, have Su Yi Cheng be like those baby fathers with the same weird action, that shot should come out very good, but considering Su Yi Cheng"s image, although An Ran was very excited, but refused, and just agreed to wear a set of clothes that showed off her belly, and then have Su Yi Cheng hold her from behind and take a few simple photos.
At the end of the shoot, su Yi Cheng crouched in front of An Ran at the photographer"s request, bowing his head and kissed An Ran"s stomach warmly. Such an action for Su Yi Cheng was second nature, very naturally looked up to look at An Ran, An Ran affectionately will have a kiss printed on her belly. An Ran on the other hand, naturally put her hand on his face, gently stroked his face, everything was very natural.
Only when the photographer said, ‘OK", they kept doing the action for a few more shots. Suddenly Su Yi Cheng raised his head, stared at An Ran, seeming like he had received a great impact. An Ran smiled but didn"t say anything, but her eyes were smiling.
The photographer and the lighting man didn"t know what was going on, and asked, “What, what happened?”
Only to see Su Yi Cheng mutter, did not hear what he said, and then directly put his ears on An Ran"s big belly, hands still attached to her stomach, as if feeling something, mouth kept saying, “Baby, it"s daddy, come say h.e.l.lo to daddy…”
And the people at the scene then knew that it turns out An Ran"s stomach at this time had fetal movement, and Su Yi Cheng"s reaction was precisely because of the feeling of excitement after the fetal movement.
The look An Ran had was just the same, hand caressed Su Yi Cheng"s head, face full with a smile of satisfaction and happiness.
The photographer suddenly found the scene to be more warm and natural than any of the previous pictures, and then took several shots with the camera clicking away.
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Sweetness after sweetness~