I Love My Wife Section One

I Love My Wife, is a moving love story which I like very much.  I translated it to share with you all.  Hope you also like it.

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If one day I was going to leave this world, I hope I could die in your arms.  Even if after drinking Mengpo soup of Naihe bridge, in the other life, I still can find you by the memory in your arms.

Section One

On the wedding night, I asked Ding Yu a question: “Yu, all of us will grow old and die one day.  If you can choose, where is the ultimate destination you want?”

As soon as I spoke out, I regretted for asking such a ridiculous question on our wedding day.

Sure enough, Ding Yu was silent.

When I was going to retrieve the situation, Ding Yu said “If one day I was going to leave this world, I hope I could die in your arms.  Even if after drinking Mengpo soup of Naihe bridge, in the other life, I still can find you by the memory in your arms.”

I couldn’t see him clearly in the dark.  However, the earnest and determination in his words made me feel a huge shock and an impact on the soul.

Yes, at that time, I was the happiest woman in the world.

Ding Yu is a very gentle man.  I do not know whether it is because of such a character which prevented him and made him still a regular clerk in his company.  When got married, many friends did not understand why I chose him.  Though he earned only one fourth of my salary, I still believed that his soft heart would ease my daily hard working.

Having married for six months, we still lived in a three-story apartment owned by the company. We didn’t complain for this small set of apartment with two bedrooms and believed Ding Yu’s words “we will have a house and bread one day.”  Although I would also like to live in a beautiful house, the city of high prices made me just want to arrange daily life properly first.

However, as time went by, I gradually felt a kind of sadness. I once believed that plain life was the true meaning of love.  However, this same life day after day made me sick. The daily necessities replaced the romantic passion and the monotony in the marriage gradually made me confused about its future.

How I wish Ding Yu can also have the same feeling, or he would make some changes.  However, Ding Yu was unaware of this and was all the same as usual.  Ding Yu’s writing was very good, had published some small articles.  After work, he liked to write or paint.  However I wanted him to put more focus on his work, there were always no changes.  Over time, the confusion and sadness to marriage made my heart gradually numb and closed up, no longer felt any trace of Ding Yu’s love.

At this time, Xu Yong entered my life.

It was on a company party.  I sat alone at the side of the dance floor and sipped wine, was very bored.  A middle-aged man invited me to dance.

Many men had invited me to dance on that night but were declined for various reasons.  This man in front of me turned on his unique charm of maturation and successful career through his gestures, I could not refuse.

We danced gently in the crowd with the music.  Psychedelic lights made me dizzy.  He whispered in my ear: “Chen Ran!  Right?  Planning Department.”

I was surprised and looked up at him.  This man was not very tall, only about 1 meter 76, however, that kind of momentum made me look up at him.

“It’s strange, isn’t it?  If I do not know even my employees’ names, how can I survive!”  His frivolous tone made me nervous, doubted and asked directly: “You are … …”

The dance music ended at this time.  He held me into his arms and whispered lightly: “My name is Xu Yong.  You are the only woman who danced with me tonight.”  And then he walked away, leaving me frozen there.

This man was the Vice President of our company.  And I, was the only woman dancing with him tonight!

A trace of vanity climbed up my heart quietly.

Back home, it was early morning.  Opened the door, Ding Yu was still busy writing.  Seeing me come back, Ding Yu put over the manuscript, and took a bowl of noodles out of the kitchen.

“Ran, tired?  This is your favorite … …”

“Pork egg noodles, right?” I interrupted him. Ding Yu, was embarrassed and scratched one’s head. Married for so long, he was still often using this same action to express his loss just like when we fell in love.  I did not know why I interrupted him, but today I felt like myself a thief and said: “Besides writing and writing, making egg noodles, what else can you do?”

Ding Yu’s face suddenly changed. I looked at the steaming noodles in his hands with a little shame, softly said: “Sorry, Yu, I might be too tired.”

Ding Yu relaxed his face, and softly asked me: “well, how about go to bed early?”

“Ah.” I nodded.

First time I slept with my back facing Ding Yu.  When he embraced me from behind, I shook lightly.

DING Yu’s arm froze and shrank back.

I did not speak, in the dark, my mind had been emerging in the vigorous and graceful stature of Xu Yong.

Section Two

Dull day was continuous for a week.

It was just on weekends.  Xu Yong called me when I just got off work.  I was not surprised at how he knew my phone number as he is my boss.

When I got home, Ding Yu suggested we go lakeside park, because from today it was open to visitors free of charge.  I told him apologetically that I had to go to a party with my colleagues that night.  Ding Yu was very disappointed, but instead he asked me with smile to enjoy myself.

Huang Lun Hotel is a well-known four-star hotel in our city.  People who can often come here must be rich or noble.  When arrived in the door, I saw Xu Yong standing there in a navy blue suit.

As I entered the lobby with Xu Yong, I was when he was overawed by the luxury in front of me.  A colored fountain was at the center and a small round table was behind the fountain behind.  An elegant woman was playing the piano with a soothing music.  At both sides of the table are all men and women in fancy and faddish clothing.

Subconsciously I glanced at my own dress which was out of fashion, and I cannot help being ashamed.

We sat down behind a palm tree in the lobby.  This place was very hidden out of sight, where you can glimpse the entire lobby without being seen easily from the outside.

After a few glasses of wine, I gradually relaxed himself.  Xu Yong holding his glass and smiling, asked: “Do you know why I just invited you to dance?”

I was puzzled.

“Because your gesture of sitting there alone impressed me”.  I was even more puzzled as I was not outstanding in my company which was full of beauties.
“I’m quite envious of your husband. If I have such a beautiful wife, I will not let her hands become rough in such youthful years”

The meaning of Xu Yong’s words made me confused. Such an attractive man spoke of such suggestive words to you; I suddenly became a little afraid.  I didn’t know what I was afraid of at that moment.

I almost struggled to say : “No, President Xu.  My husband is a very competent man.”

Xu Yong laughed: “You are deluding yourself! A happy woman would not have those helpless and dazed eyes!  It makes your beautiful eyes lose their spirit!”

At that time, those words hit my heart and I cried like a child.  This man uncovered my over six months of confusion easily.

Xu Yong’s touched my hair in the piano music and said gently beside my ear: “Ran, let me bring the glory back into your life, will you?”

As if there was a vortex which sucked me up, I subconsciously nodded.

That night, I did not go home.

A man, ignited my passion, brought me into – Paradise Lost.