Chapter 069 Part 5

Anran was in the kitchen tidying up her clothes. She patted her hot face, while her ears were listening to the movements outside. She was originally afraid that someone came in. She looked so awkward and didn’t know what to do, but she could not hear any movement outside for a long time. Her heart could not help but have some doubts. She shouted towards the door, “Yi Cheng, who is there?”

Alerted, Su Yi Cheng answered quickly. Looking at the door where Ling Ran was standing, he shouted to the inside towards Anran, saying, “Oh, got the wrong guy.” Then, he pushed the door to close.

When Su Yi Cheng wanted to close the door, the moment the door was about to close, Ling Ran pushed against the door, with one hand, to prevent the door from closing.

Su Yi Cheng glared at the woman in front of him. He didn’t understand what this woman wanted to do, but he didn’t want to create more trouble for Anran. Su Yi Cheng didn’t intend to let her come in, he just intended to open the door to evict people.

Previously, Ling Ran seemed to know his motive. She quickly stepped inside the apartement and shouted, “Anran, are you there?”

Shocked, Su Yi Cheng suddenly glared at her.

Seeming to feel his gaze, Ling Ran turned back. She looked at Su Yi Cheng. The corner of her mouth evoked a slight smile, like a provocation.

Inside, Anran heard her then went out of the kitchen. She saw Ling Ran and Su Yi Cheng standing at the entrance, staring at each other. Anran was a bit surprised why she came to the door at that moment thing, and it looked like they were not really friends. There was heavy tension between them that Anran seemed to be aware of too fast.

“Ling Ran?” Anran wiped her arm when she pa.s.sed him.

Su Yi Cheng glanced at Ling Ran, and then turned around and looked at Anran. He smiled and walked towards Anran, jokingly saying, “Oh, just your husband playing as a bad man.”

Anran gave her a slightly apologetic smile, then turned around and looked Su Yi Cheng. For their introduction, she said, “Yi Cheng, this is my colleague’s sister, Ling Ran. Ling Ran, this is my husband, Su Yi Cheng.”

Ling Ran turned around and looked at Su Yi Cheng, and said, “Today, I had just seen Anran in the company, then I didn’t expect to just meet her back again in the apartment door. You actually live in the same apartment building with me. River City is really small, ah.” Then, towards Su Yi Cheng, she stuck out her hand and said, “After all, we are neighbors. We pay a lot of attention. ”

Su Yi Cheng looked at her hand for a long time. He would be determined, and finally just nodded towards her, reaching her hand. He gently touched her hand down without speaking then he directly went back to Anran’s side. He put his arm around Anran’s waist.

Su Yi Cheng’s sudden movements made Anran’s face slightly red. She glanced at Su Yi Cheng, then she looked towards Ling Ran, smiled and asked, “Ling Ran, did you find me for something?”

Ling Ran smiled and slightly playfully spit her tongue at her, “I was just ready to cook dinner when I didn’t think that I didn’t have the soy sauce at home, and I didn’t think of it when I shopped in the supermarket downstairs, so I think, I come to you to borrow it.”

Anran clearly understood her meaning. She nodded, “You wait here. I’ll get it.” Then, she back into the kitchen.

At the living room entrance, Ling Ran and Su Yi Cheng stood face to face. Su Yi Cheng’s brow raised. His expression was very unhappy with her and his only audible volume, he whispered, “What do you want to do? I think I’ve said it very clearly last night.”

Ling Ran smiled, turned around and looked at him. With the same volume, she said, “If I say that all of this is just a coincidence, will you believe it?”

Su Yi Cheng looked at her. His expression obviously didn’t believe what she just said.

Ling Ran smiled and said, “Well, I just want to give us another chance.”

“Impossible!” Su Yi Cheng flatly refused, “Ling Ran, do not push us, even being friends, we have done.”

Ling Ran was shocked. She looked at him. Just when she was about to open her mouth, she saw Anran holding soy sauce bottles behind him. She looked over his face again, shakily laughed, as if she wanted to leave just before Anran came, but nothing seemed to change.

“Well, I’ll give it to you.” Anran handed her the soy sauce in her hand.

Ling Ran took the soy sauce, apologetically smiled at her and said, “You’re giving me a bottle? How about your family?”

“It’s okay. We have plenty of this. You take it first to use it.” Anran said.

Ling Ran nodded and said thank you, and then before she left, she looked towards Su Yi Cheng, smiled, nodded, then turned to leave.

Anran sent her out, then closed the door. When she turned around, she was stunned, seeing what Su Yi Cheng was doing in the living room. His body sat oin the sofa and his hand was holding onto a cigarette. She didn’t know when he had pulled out more cigarettes and a lighter from his pocket. “Click! -” he lit the cigarette, he hold it in his hand, a little s.h.i.+ny and white smoke spread out at his side.

Anran walked towards him then asked, “How?”

Su Yi Cheng shook his head, smiled at her, just said, “Sudden cravings committed” Then, he severely sucked it in the mouth.

Anran determinedly looked at him, and her heart was sad, and then, for a moment, she only said, “I’ll go to wash the vegetables.” Then, she turned and walked towards the kitchen.

She knew he was lying. He didn’t have cravings. A body with a little faint smoke smell usually didn’t smell like how people who likes to smoke daily. She didn’t know what his relations.h.i.+p with Ling Ran was, but she thought she should know, even if she pretended that she didn’t want to know.

Su Yi Cheng watched her go towards the kitchen, then looked at the busy figure in the gla.s.s table. Fiercely, he pulled on his cigarette again. The nicotine let his nerves numb themselves. In fact, he hated cigarettes, he even hated smoking, but he was unusually eager to bring the thrill of cigarettes at the moment. It was like a person in that depleted desert without a drop of water. The hungry people’s lips are cracked, but this time, in the sand in front of him, looking to the previous legacy or discarded water bottles, there was not much water, but even a drop, he was also eager to get at the moment.

“Aah–!”

The kitchen knife slammed the floor, and then Anran gasped, “Owh!” She stood clutching her hand, her brows wrinkled tightly.

Having heard her, “d.a.m.n!” Su Yi Cheng cursed. His hands shoved that half-smoked cigarette from his mouth and screwed it onto the ashtray. He got up and went into the kitchen.

Grabbing Anran’s hand over his, he saw a big cut hole in Anran’s index finger and at the moment, the red blood was whirring out, it looked somewhat shocking.

“How were you so careless.” His eyebrows were filled with fear, the tone was blaming, then he took her towards the living room. He found the medicine cabinet near the TV cabinet in the living room, then disinfected the wound with iodine, carelessly touching Anran’s finger. Anran gasped in pain. Listening to her fiercely down a breath, Su Yi Cheng’s twinkling eyes looked at her eyes, “Does it hurt?”

Anran closed her mouth tightly, endured the pain, and shook her head, not speaking.

Su Yi Cheng continued applying the medicine. He dipped into cotton of iodine, again for her sterilization, but this action obviously took a lot of gentleness.

Su Yi Cheng’s wound dressing was very professional, disinfecting, putting the drug, wrapping in gauze, each of these steps were in place. Even the last one, the gauze wrapping, was also done very beautifully, as if it was a hospital nurse that bandaged it, like a professional.

Anran watched him help himself bandaged the wound, and finally, when the two gauze was beautifully knotted, she asked the question, “Do you often help people wrap wounds in the past?”

Su Yi Cheng looked at her eyes, then he put iodine and other things back to the first-aid kit. Putting it aside, he said, “My mother used to be a military hospital nurse. Before, my father was often injured when he exercised. The wounds were treated by my mother. When she did it, I was standing next to the medicine cabinet, to see more. There would be a lesson.”

Anran clearly understood. She nodded, then stood up, ready to go back to the kitchen.

“Where are you going?” Su Yi Cheng stopped her.

Anran turned to him, innocently said, “Uh, prepare for dinner.”

Su Yi Cheng sighed, she really said it. His tone sounded a little bit serious, said, “Are you alright to cut down the fillet to make dinner for me to eat it?”

Anran blushed, debating him, and said, “Just, just, just, I don’t care.”

Su Yi Cheng, a little bit reluctantly, shook his head and tried to pull her back so she sat back on the living room sofa. He said seriously, “Sit here, and wait for my next call to you for dinner.”

“I -” Anran got up to say something, but she was heavily pressed by Su Yi Cheng. Looking at Su Yi Cheng, he said, “Sit.” He took aside the ap.r.o.n and put it on himself, then he turned directly into the kitchen.

Anran watched his back busying in the kitchen. He and Ling Ran, what is their relations.h.i.+p? Ling Ran!

Wait, she seemed to recall. She suddenly remembered a few days before when she received a phone call from a female. Her voice was so thin. She had her convey her words to Su Yi Cheng. She remembered that sentence clearly, ‘My name is Ling, could you tell him, I’m back.’ In addition, she said, she wanted to see him.

That woman surnamed Ling who was the one who called up a few days ago, was she Ling Ran?

Anran was sitting on the sofa. Her thoughts drifted far, far away.

Anran’s belly churned when she imagined her speculation. Suddenly, she heard a voice around. Someone shouted at her, “Anran? Anran?”

Recovered, she remembered. Su Yi Cheng had rushed out of the kitchen, he called her for dinner.

“Just what are you thinking? I called you several times, but you had no response.” Su Yi Cheng asked.

Anran didn’t know what to say. She just smiled at him, shook her head and said, “Nothing, just thinking things at work.”

“Unless there is a problem?” Su Yi Cheng casually asked. He opened the rice cooker from the kitchen and got two bowls of rice into the bar.

Anran shook her head, and didn’t tell him what happened in the company this afternoon. “I can solve it.” Then, she sat down on the high chair at the bar. She saw several dishes spread on the bar. The color, flavor and taste of the dishes, braised eggplant, braised fish, fried spinach, eggs, steamed minced meat, in addition, accompanied by bowls of white rice. They looked very homely, but also invited great appet.i.te.

Anran looked at him. She didn’t believe her eyes. “The …… these are your doing?” Anran did not expect that he would cook it. Although she had not tasted it yet, but it looked good, so its taste should not look different.

Su Yi Cheng handed her chopsticks, then turned to the red corn ribs soup pot, then poured it into a bowl. He fetched the bowl, with a spoon, and handed it to Anran. He said, “Eat the soup first.”

Anran was stunned, then nodded. Holding the soup bowl, she took a small mouthful of soup with a spoon, then drank it. Sweet corn plus the ribs meat, this soup had its unique flavor, light and not greasy.

“Ah, good soup. You cook well!” Anran could not help but praise him.

Su Yi Cheng faintly smiled. Suddenly, he thought of something, the smile on his mouth suddenly froze, and finally, he only said, “Come on.” Then, he didn’t look at her anymore. He looked down to eat.

Anran perceived the change in his att.i.tude. She looked at his eyes, but didn’t say anymore. She just looked down and ate. It was a quiet dinner.