Rebirth on the Doors to the Civil Affairs Bureau-Chapter 3

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Xia Feng left to change into more comfortable clothes, and when he came back to the living room, he saw Yu Dong looking through the things he bought.

“Scarves, watches,” Yu Dong rummaged through the bags. “There’s also some nutrient supplements, are these for me to bring tomorrow?”

Seeing Yu Dong take the initiative to raise this matter, Xia Feng didn’t bother to open his mouth and just nodded.

“The silk scarf is OK, but look at the quality. This watch is at least 40,000 to 50,000 yuan. How can a poor graduate like me afford this?” Yu Dong picked up the box and said, “When your mom sees this she’ll think how dare this shameless goblin spend my son’s money to buy me gifts?”

(T/N: MTL gave me leprechaun as an option, and I had to hold myself back from putting that there)

“…..” Xia Feng sighed and retorted “My mom won’t say that.”

“You don’t know women!” Yu Dong, a person with a woman’s mind, had an expression that said ‘you don’t understand!’

“But didn’t you say what’s mine is yours? you were very clear about that.” Xia Feng said to Yu Dong, suddenly remembering their conversation this morning.

“Although I’m very pleased that you acknowledge that,” Yu Dong said with a comforting expression on her face, “This and that are two different things. It’s necessary to pay attention to etiquette, especially to the other party, and to at least have the impression that one would be willing to spend money for each other.”

“How do you, a freshly graduated student, know of such strange things?” Xia Fend had no words.

“It’s not strange, just an everyday, worldly situation. You engineering guys…” Yu Dong shook her head and said, “You all have high IQ yet such low EQ. I guess you still don’t know why An An abandoned you.”

“You know An An?” Suddenly hearing his ex-girlfriend’s name, Xia Feng was stunned.

“Didn’t you accidentally spill it yourself this morning.”

Xia Feng really didn’t want to talk about his ex-girlfriend with Yu Dong, so he stopped talking.

“Still concerned about this? If you want to talk about it, I’ll help you analyze, analyze.” Yu Dong sat on the sofa and boasted, “There aren’t many wives like me who are willing to talk to their husbands about their ex-girlfriends.”

“Your previous relationship wasn’t cleanly resolved before you married me either!” Xia Feng reminds Yu Dong, alluding to the fact she too was abandoned by her ex-boyfriend just yesterday.

“I know!” Yu Dong looked calm.

Xia Feng saw that she didn’t evade the topic and became interested. He usually didn’t like digging through other people’s private circumstances, but how did he meet a girl like this? He couldn’t help but continue: “Then let’s talk.”

“Well then let me tell you about your advantages. Remember that I asked you a question before I proposed marriage yesterday?” Yu Dong asked.

Xia Feng thought for a moment and with a furrowed brow asked: “Because I have a house?”

“That’s one of them. Also, you have plenty more advantages.” Yu Dong began to count her fingers. “You’re tall, by the looks of it around 175 cm. Education-wise you don’t have a masters but you studied medicine, and you’re on your way to becoming a doctor in a few years. Your looks just barely pass my attractiveness requirements, but you’ve got a good temperament. You’re a gentleman. You’re older, but that isn’t enough to turn me off.

(T/N based on his age I’m only guessing that he’s only in his residency?? or is the author just like naw he’s a genius genius)

The more Xia Feng listened to her, the darker his face became: “According to all that, more than half of our hospital is eligible!”

Yu Dong shook her head in disapproval and insisted: “None of them are you. I only like you!”

Unexpectedly he was confessed to. Xia Feng’s face became red again, and he decided that now might be the time to retreat.

“We’ll go see my parents at 10 a.m. tomorrow.”

Yu Dong saw Xia Feng escape and couldn’t help but cover her smiling mouth. She never thought that this great person’s face was so thin ten years ago, ah.

(T/N: having a thick face is called being shameless so having a thin face is the opposite.)

Next Day

One of the great benefits of summer in addition to the warm weather was that almost every summer morning would be beautiful.

Yu Dong pulled back the curtains to let the sunlight come through the windowsill. Hugging her legs while comfortably sitting on the windowpane, she couldn’t help but think that the greenery of this apartment complex was very good.

There were areas of lush greenery all over the front of the complex. Downstairs there was a colorful garden. Many elderly people were doing morning exercises with their grandchildren. She could see the Huangpu River in the distance, with many people jogging alongside it this morning.

While Yu Dong went to the bathroom to wash her face, Xia Feng who went on an early morning run came back and happened to bring breakfast with him.

“Have you woken up? Come over and have breakfast!” Xia Feng said while settling the plastic on the table. “You can eat first; I’m going to take a shower.”

When Xia Feng finished his shower and came back, she had already eaten a bun, a fritter and had greasy hands as she drank the soy milk.

Xia Feng’s cleanliness gave him a compulsive urge and with a frown said, “Why didn’t you use some cutlery?”

“There are paper bags; why would I need to use cutlery when I’d just have to wash them after?”

Yu Dong had no knowledge of his inner conflicts. After eating the last bun, she threw out the plastic bag and soy milk cup into the trash can and with a clap of her hands said: “I’m going to change clothes, go ahead and eat slowly.”

Xia Feng nodded, and when Yu Dong left the room, figuring that she shouldn’t return in a while, silently went into the kitchen to grab some cutlery. After eating quickly, he washed off the dishes.

Yu Dong didn’t bring many clothes with her when she eloped. After sorting out her jeans and short skirts, she was left with two skirts, a floral skirt and a knee-length white skirt.

Yu Dong then, at last, decided on the white one, as it looked pure and made her well-behaved, something the elders should like.

After getting dressed, she started on her makeup. Looking at the mirror, Yu Dong once again lamented that young people had such good skin. There was almost no need to put on foundation, but to make her face look natural and bright, she wiped a little BB cream with sunscreen. Then she swept her eyebrows and put on a bit of eyeliner finally finishing with a light-colored lipstick.

Around this time Xia Feng knocked on her door: “Well?”

Yu Dong glanced at herself at the mirror one last time, thought it was perfect, and took her small bag opening the door.

Xia Feng was still in front of her door and was caught off guard when he saw a sweet and pure-looking girl in front of him. It took him a second to react: “Why do you look like that?”

“Is it no good?” Yu Dong wondered.

“It’s pretty good; it just feels different from your usual temperament.” Xia Feng explained.

“This is my first time meeting your parents. According to countless idol dramas, dressing like this is more popular with elders.” Yu Dong said, twirling once.

The bright room with a girl in a white dress caused Xia Feng’s heart to throb and reminisce about a certain sunny afternoon. An An, a pure looking brunette, calling out to him after a lecture with a delighted voice. fre𝑒𝘸𝚎𝚋n૦ѵℯl.c𝒐𝘮

“That look in your eyes right now makes me wonder if you just saw your first love in me.” Because of her salesman past, a superb eyesight was forged and enabled her to detect Xia Feng’s strange look.

“Cough!” Xia Feng’s reaction was clearly abnormal.

“If this first love is An An, I’ll go change my clothes right now.” Yu Dong continued to stare at Xia Feng as she stated this.

“Why?” Xia Feng was surprised.

So it IS like that! Yu Dong had no expression on her face as she closed the door again, quickly changing into the long floral skirt. Yu Dong’s height was 158 cm so wearing a long skirt must be paired with high heels.

Just when Xia Feng was about the knock on the door again, the door opened. With Yu Dong’s change, the pure girl in the white skirt turned into an elaborate ancient literary painting.

“Do I still remind you of your ex-girlfriend?” Yu Dong asked with a raised eyebrow.

“I never said you looked like her!” Xia Feng wanted to disappear into the ground.

“I’ll let you go this time, but the next time you dare to look at me with those eyes, I’ll…” threatened Yu Dong.

“You’ll?” Xia Feng asked.

“I’ll tell you later; we should go!”

Xia Feng agreed as they were running late, so he went and grabbed the gifts previously prepared.

Yu Dong glanced at the bag and took out the scarf and watch box. “Didn’t we agree last night that these aren’t suitable? Just bring the nutritional supplements.”

Last night? Xia Feng tried to recall, what did she say again?

“Besides, it wouldn’t be too late to just send these things to your parents as a present for your mother when she gets discharged from the hospital.” explained Yu Dong.

Xia Feng felt that this made sense and listened to her. The two finally went downstairs with just the nutritional supplements.

Because they left late in the morning the roads weren’t jam-packed and nearing hospital; Yu Dong stopped at a flower shop to buy a bunch of flowers.

At the store, Yu Dong turned to Xia Feng and lectured: “Women can’t resist the charm of flowers no matter how old they are!”

Just buy your flowers already, it isn’t rocket science! Xia Feng complained in his heart as he followed her silently.

“Dr. Xia, you’ve come.” As soon as they entered the hospital, a nurse came forward and greeted Xia Feng.

Xia Feng saw the nurse, and with a smile nodded gracefully.

Yu Dong looked around, this person’s girl-pulling skills are quite high; she never noticed until now.

“What’s wrong?” Xia Feng noticed her actions as they stood to wait for the elevators.

“What peach blossoms, did you buy a carnation?” Xia Feng asked with doubt.

“….Being a fool can be such a blessing!” Yu Dong sighed.

“Stop talking to yourself, and walk!” Xia Feng saw that the elevator had arrived and reached out to block the elevator doors, beckoning for Yu Dong to enter.

Yu Dong, who was about to step in the elevators, suddenly thought of something and froze.

Seeing that there were a lot of people gathered around the elevator, he could only let others go ahead.

“What now?” Xia Feng was running out of patience.

“Don’t rush me!” Yu Dong glared and Xia Feng and said, “I just realized that although your parents have never seen An An, they’ve heard the name and know her occupation, which isn’t in line with my age, ah.”

Can you please not talk about An An as if you know her!

Xia Feng, who infinitely regrets yesterday’s slip of the tongue, took deep breaths and said, “Rest assured, my parents aren’t prone to gossip. Other than mentioning that An An was a junior in my university, I haven’t said anything, and they didn’t probe.

“But I’m not called An An, and I wasn’t your junior at university.” Yu Dong yelled, “I’m obviously called Dong Dong. I don’t want to change my name.”

“…..” Who wants to change your name? And what Dong Dong?

“If they don’t ask, then don’t say anything.” Xia Feng thought this was becoming a real bother. He had already known that he couldn’t tell his parents the truth. What on earth did he think when he agreed to get married?

“Alright, I will reluctantly agree to be called An An!”

Yu Dong grudgingly entered the elevator.

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Haha, Xia Feng is so done with life.