Marriage First, True Love Later

The cold voice shocked Anran and Lin Anjie.

In the dusky lighting, Anran saw a man who was standing a couple of meters away from them. The light was too dark and he had his back to the light. Therefore, Anran could not see what he looked like. However, these things were not important. Anran very quickly realized her current situation, and she pushed Lin Anjie away, retreating a couple of meters away from him.

“Who are you? It’s none of your business that I am being intimate with my girlfriend.” Lin Anjie turned around and walked toward that man, his tone vigorous. He was obviously unhappy that his happy occasion was interrupted.

“I’m not his girlfriend,” Anran, who was on the side, quickly explained, clearly distinguishing the relationship between her and Lin Anjie. Originally, she had planned to go out with him and see where it went. However, now there was no need.

The man in the dark looked at Lin Anjie and said, “Did you hear?” As he spoke, he took out his phone and made the motion of calling the police.

“Wait.” Lin Anjie thought that he was going to call the police and quickly opened his mouth to stop him. He was a civil worker and was going to be promoted to a secondary location in the second half of the year, and therefore, could not afford this type of lawsuit. Then, he turned around to look at Lin Anjie before leaving quickly, cursing under his breath.

When Lin Anjie left, the man slowly walked toward Anran.

When he walked closer, Anran saw that he had an extremely handsome face, with dark eyebrows, deep eyes, a high and straight nose, and thin lips. He was a rare, handsome man.

“Are you okay?” The man asked her softly. His voice was not as cold as before. It was extremely pleasant to hear.

Anran was shocked and did not respond for a while. She quickly shook her head and said, “I-I’m fine, j-just n-now, tha-thank you!”

The man softly said and shook his head, turning around to leave. However, he suddenly seemed to have thought of something. He turned back around and asked, “Do you need me to send you home?”

Anran was not in her right senses, and when he asked, she quickly shook her head and refused. “No, there’s no need. I can go home by myself.” She was still scared from the big incident before, however, she was not so weak that she couldn’t return home by herself. Also, she did not know him and, therefore, did not want to inconvenience him.

The man took in her embarrassment and the corner of his mouth half twitched as he smiled and said, “That man is not suitable for you.” After he finished speaking, he turned around and exited the dim alley before Anran was able to react.

Anran stood at her original spot for a while, not understanding the man’s last sentence. In the end, she shook her head, walked out of the alley, and called a cab home.

Lin Anjie was someone who was the lowest of the low. He had used coffee vouchers for the blind date dinner, evaded paying the bill for dinner, and was even the first one to snitch on her despite being the bad person.

When Anran returned home, Lin Xiaofen and Gu Hengwen were both sitting in the living room with ugly complexions. Before Anran arrived home, Lin Anjie had snitched on her first despite, being the bad guy, to Lin Xiaofen’s colleague, Aunty Zhang. He had asked her how she could introduce him to a woman like that. On their date, she went to the most expensive restaurant and picked the most expensive dishes. After dinner, they did not even hold hands, and she had said that she was going to report him for harassment. He was so angry that he even yelled at Aunty Zhang.

Aunty Zhang had originally wanted to do something good and play matchmaker. Now, not only did she not do a good thing, but she had also given in her reputation for no reason and had been angrily yelled at. The more she thought about it, the angrier she got, so she directly called the Gu family to ask Lin Xiaofen and Gu Hengwen. They had just ended the call right before Anran arrived home.

Anran saw that her parent’s complexions weren’t right. After asking, she found out just how shameless Lin Anjie was. Fancy that she had thought about seriously going out with him. It seemed like the earlier they cut their interaction, the better.

“Ranran, what exactly happened? Your father and I won’t believe that you are such an unreasonable person,” Lin Xiaofen said. She knew her daughter the best, but Aunty Zhang was not the type of person who would talk nonsense to incite a quarrel. There must have been some sort of misunderstanding here.

“That man wanted to force a kiss on me. Luckily someone walked passed by and prevented him from doing so. However, I didn’t say anything and even paid for dinner,” Anran said. She lifted her head to look at her mother and continued to say, “Mom, call Aunty Zhang. I’ll talk to her.”

“That’s preposterous.” Lin Xiaofen was furious when she heard her daughter say that she was almost sexually harassed by that man. “Ranran, I will call your Aunty Zhang right now. What kind of person is she introducing? Does she want to harm my daughter?” As she spoke, she picked up the phone to call Aunty Zhang.

“Aunty Zhang is not to one to blame for this. She simply did a bad thing with a good heart. Tell her about the incident clearly. Our Ranran is not the way he says. There is something wrong with that man’s moral character and way of thinking,” Gu Hengwen, who was on the side, said.

Anran looked at her father. She did not say anything as she turned around and went into her room. Anran was a bit gloomy as she laid on her bed. Just thinking about the incident made her scared. If that man hadn’t suddenly appeared, she really didn’t know what would have happened next. She didn’t know if something like this would happen to her again in the future. In the past, she hadn’t been aware that eating dinner together on a blind date would be so dangerous. However, because of her age, she didn’t have any other option besides this. If there was anything to blame, then she needed to blame herself for being stupid. She had hurt for six years because of a scar.

As she thought about it, her heart felt stuffy and uncomfortable. Right now, she really wanted to find someone to talk to.

Anran picked up the phone and called Lin Li. The call connected very quickly, and Lin Li suddenly spoke some lousy Korean. “Annyeong Haseyo!” She dragged the final syllable for a while. The tone was sweet and not suitable for her age. She always seemed to be in a good mood. Anran was a bit jealous about it, but even more than that, she admired her for it.

“Why are you speaking bird language?” Anran angrily said.

“I’ve recently been learning Korean. I told Chengxiang that we will go to Korea for our honeymoon. There are a lot of handsome men and beautiful women in Korea,” Lin Li happily said.

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“Screw you. Be careful that Chengxiang won’t be seduced by beautiful women and then not want a faded old woman like you,” Anran said, with a bad heart.

“Screw you. I am confident in my small Xiang. My small Xiang only has me in his heart.” As she spoke, she seemed to have shouted to the person behind her. “Right, small Xiang?”

Anran could vaguely hear Chengxiang’s response, and then she heard Lin Li ask, satisfied, “How is it? Did you hear him?”

“I heard him, I heard him. You are the grand empress, and your Chengxiang is the eunuch by your side.” Anran laughed.

“Screw you. You don’t curse someone like this.” Lin Li laughed and cursed, “Speak. Why did you call me?”

Anran sighed and roughly explained what had gone down with her blind date that night.

After she finished listening to her, Lin Li exploded and said, “Shit! What a douchebag. How can there be such a shameless person? Do you have a picture? Let me worship him.”

“Just look at yourself. Why are you always shooting your mouth off? Pay attention to prenatal education. Don’t lead my goddaughter astray.” After Lin Li’s jokes, Anran’s heart was much more comfortable. At the very least, it didn’t feel as stuffy and bad.

“Screw you. How do you know that it’s a daughter? I will be giving birth to a son.” Lin Li laughed and cursed.

The two joked around in amusement for a while. Suddenly, Lin Li said, seriously, “Seriously though, I have goods in my hand. Do you want them?”

“What goods?” Anran was mystified and did not understand.

“A man, Chengxiang’s colleague. I’ve met him before. He’s two years older than us–top-quality appearance, top-quality education, top-quality job. He is the top-notch of the top-notch. How is it? Don’t let one’s fertile water flow into someone else’s fields. Should I join your threads?” Lin Li said.

“Don’t. I’m scared of top-notch. You should go find someone normal for me.”

“F*ck off. How can this top-notch compare to your ‘top-notch’? Seriously though, his qualifications are very good. Will you see him or not? If I didn’t already have my small Xiang, I would definitely chase after him,” Lin Li said, fangirling.

Anran blushed with shame. “You caught your small Xiang by shamelessly chasing after him!” It was easier to change mountains and rivers than to alter her character!

“What’s important isn’t how you start, but how you end. Although it was a lot of work for me to chase after him in the past, after so many years, who would dare say that we are not happy?” Lin Li proudly said.

When she heard this, Anran thought in her heart, “Right! Don’t care about what you had in the past. What is important is what you have now. Who would say that that’s wrong?”

When she didn’t hear a response, Lin Lisaid, “Anran, if you don’t answer me, I’ll take it as you agree. I will tell my small Xiang to contact him tomorrow. I will give you a call if there is any news.”

See, it was better to have someone good than someone bad. If she couldn’t marry the person she wanted to marry, what difference was there?