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A Love So Beautiful (致我们单纯的小美好) –

Chapter 1

December 15, 2017April 18, 2018 dolly

Comrade Old Chen, aka my dad, formally retired February of this year. Old Chen who had been
doing hard labour his whole life couldn’t sit still after just spending half a month idling at home. It so
happened that the Senior Citizen’s club in our town was recruiting members, so off he went. Once he
got there, he then found out that his 50-something age was considered the young backbone in the
Senior Citizen’s club where the average age was 70. Because of that, Old Chen’s passion from long ago
was ignited. Every day, he’d be pedalling his bike towards the club to organize their recreational
activities. This kind of passion, is the kind that has been burning for years.

It’s just that his passion also hasn’t been burning for quite some time, and had only given him an initial
show of strength for the first few years. This old man got on a stool to hang their activity banner when
his foot stepped on air, causing him to fall down.

When I got a call from my mom, I was on the highway, looking out at the billboards. My entire body
broke out into a cold sweat though it was one sunny day. Even though I was always being beaten by
Old Chen when I was young, I was also thinking of beating him as soon as I grew up. But despite that,
I really love him.

On the way to the hospital, I kept on crying while talking endlessly with the cab driver about how
On the way to the hospital, I kept on crying while talking endlessly with the cab driver about how
good my dad is. The driver, a 7-feet tall sturdy-looking man, was seemingly moved by me, and floored
the gas to its maximum extent. When I paid him, he offered to just round up the fare, and told me,
“Young child, remember my plate number, XXXX, by all means, don’t flag down my cab again. I have
a blabbermouth wife and mom at home so when I listen to other people talking nonstop I can’t help
but tremble. Forgive me, I wish your father a speedy recovery.”

………

I rushed inside the hospital crying, when I got there my mom was paring apples while scolding my
dad: “Your weary old body is still considered backbone? Fall one more time and I’ll push you straight
to cremation. Your backbone I’ll upgrade it into bone ash.

I held unto the door frame, in tears, “Mom, how’s dad?”

Mom looked up at me, “Oh, stop crying, what are you crying for, I’ve endured so much to raise you
just so your face won’t be covered in snot and tears.”

I held back my tears and went over to sympathize with the old man who has been oppressed for such a
long time, “Dad, are you alright?”

My dad looked helplessly at the apple mom was holding, “No, your mom already pared three apples,
and didn’t even give me one to eat.”

I‘ve been thinking there was no way of knowing things straight from their mouth, hence, I simply
picked up the thermos and said, “I’ll go get hot water.”

I went straight to the nurse’s station carrying the thermos, and didn’t mind my mom who was crying
out behind me, “This damn child, the thermos is full!”

Probably because I looked too menacing, the nurse quickly got the doctor. The doctor described my
dad’s condition with a blank face, he said the fall affected his lower back — the vertebra was
compressing the nerves. In other words, he needs to go through surgery, and made me prepare 30,000
bucks.

I asked the doctor a few specific questions but he gave me a pointed look, “If I would tell you, you still
wouldn’t be able to understand it, just prepare the money alright? Leave the rest to us doctors.”I asked
again, “Then, when’s the surgery?”

He said impatiently, “Line up, when it reaches your turn then we’ll do it.”

I was itching to cough out a big mouthful of thick phlegm on his face, and then tell him, “Sorry, I have
tuberculosis.”

But I couldn’t, I could only fish out a few hundred bills from my pocket, and force it on him, “Then, I
can only bother you to take care of it……”

He glared at me and pushed away the money, “What are you doing?! I understand your sentiments as
He glared at me and pushed away the money, “What are you doing?! I understand your sentiments as
a family member but this is against the hospital regulations! You really don’t have to worry, I will find
time to give you a detailed explanation.”

I was so beside myself with guilt, thinking that I pinned my narrow-minded yardstick* to gauge a
gentleman‘s heart. Indeed, some doctors were just born ill-tempered. As I was deeply reflecting on my
personal integrity, the doctor then turned around to leave, but before leaving, he raised his chin and
gave me a meaningful look. I pondered for a long while if he was having cramps or if he was implying
something else with his action, till I copied him and raised my chin as well, only then did I understand
— a CCTV was mounted on the wall…… (T/N: To judge a person’s actions with one’s narrowed
perspective.)

I was just about to ask the nurse where the doctor’s office was located when my phone rang. I took it
out and looked at who it was. My heartbeat quickly went downhill at lightning speed, as if stepping on
an accelerator, that I’ve almost wanted to go to to the Cardiology department to have myself checked.

Jiang Chen, my ex-boyfriend.

Shaking, I politely picked up the call, “Hello?”

I’ve been saying ‘hello’ for a very long time, but all I could hear was a cacophonous of noise, it seems as
though he had just accidentally pressed the phone. I was about to hang up the call but I heard a
delicate female voice saying, “Doc, I’m having chest pain.”

It was only then that I remembered how Jiang Chen as a doctor now, was said to have a bit of
reputation. I hung up the phone, confused for a while, then finally decided that if I have to wallow in
the darkness of our motherland’s healthcare system, I might as well be transferred to the hospital where
Jiang Chen was working. On the account that I’ve helped him peel around thousands of tea eggs back
in the days, he has to consider that somehow, right?

I went back to tell my mom regarding this matter, and she told me, “Jiang Chen, that kid whom you
had a puppy love back then?”

Uh……..your memory sure knows the more important parts.

Mom asked again, “If we go to the hospital he’s working at, will he help us? I mean does both of you
still have mutual affection?”

Truly a “hit the nail on the head” question, I stammered, “He will help us that’s for sure, it’s just
that……..”

“Just what?”

“It’s only that, our current situation is something scissors couldn’t sever, and when sorted out, is
tangled again*.” (T/N: too complicated)

The old lady scoffed, “Stop using big words on me. Can’t cut with scissors then you shave it all up! You
The old lady scoffed, “Stop using big words on me. Can’t cut with scissors then you shave it all up! You
are going to contact him right now. Your dad must be transferred tomorrow. I can’t stand that bastard
doctor here anymore.I was expecting for my mom to tell me lovingly, ‘Child, we must have integrity,
ex-boyfriends and what not, one shouldn’t go around bothering them.’ But sure enough, I’ve really
overestimated my mom this time.

Jiang Chen showed no hints of being surprised when he got my call that it makes me want to become a
doctor, so used to seeing strong winds and big waves*, even dead bodies and internal organs don’t
scare him, how can I, an ex-girlfriend, scare him. (T/N: difficulties, struggles)

I was stuttering the entire time I was explaining the situation to him, but managed to tell him in the
end, “Is it okay to transfer my dad to your hospital?”

“Okay.” He replied concisely that I was too ashamed to mention the thing about peeling tea eggs.

He added, “Get everything ready, I’ll find an ambulance to pick up your dad for the transfer.”

Finally, he was silent for a long time, and then asked me, “You okay?”

Okay.

After hanging up the phone, I clutched my chest and leaned against the wall of the lobby, breathing
heavily. A young nurse next to me helped me up, “Are you alright?”

I shook my head, also feeling very glad that at long last I have finally seen the light of humanity in this
hospital.

She then went on, “Who did you just call? Seems like you’re going to be transferred. Do you know
some bigshot in other hospitals? Can you introduce me? I only have a month before I finish my
internship yet I still haven’t found a hospital who would hire me. Can you help me? My grades are
actually very good, it’s just that I don’t want to accompany hospital directors to bed.”

There’s really no other way but for me to be entangled with her, so without any better option I said,
“Actually, that person I called is a janitor in a hospital, I promised to accompany him to bed, so he
promised to help me ask around and see if I could transfer.”

………

Three hours later, Jiang Chen, with an ambulance whizzed in front of me. I haven’t seen him in 3 years
yet I didn’t dare raise my head to take a good look at him. I just kept on staring at what seems like a
very expensive fountain pen in the pocket of his white coat. I don’t know if he already learnt how to
write the new characters used in medicine.

When I was at university, I’ve always been worried about Jiang Chen, for fear that his beautiful
penmanship’s small script would face difficulties in the medical profession. In order for him to achieve a
penmanship that would let him evade responsibility even if he prescribed the wrong drug, I once forced
him to copy my penmanship. It’s a pity that in the end, he failed to learn its true essence.

Discharging procedures, admitting procedures, Jiang Chen settled everything by himself. My mom
Discharging procedures, admitting procedures, Jiang Chen settled everything by himself. My mom
and I were terribly idle, just chatting near the hospital entrance, each with an apple.

Mom said, “This young man is indeed whom I looked after growing up, really good.”

She made it sound like she should be given credit for looking after him when growing up because he
turned out be a good young man, really shameless.

She added, “Such excellent goods, how did you miss it back then? You’ve almost succeeded.”

I took a bite out of the apple, “Dad is bored being alone in the ambulance, you go eat an apple and
make him watch.”

Mom heaved a sigh, then gladly and diligently went to where the ambulance was, yelling while
running, “Old man, your daughter made me eat an apple for you to watch.”

Jiang Chen was holding a large document and some small receipts when he chanced upon this scene,
he smiled and looked skeptically at me, “You’re really too filial.”

I looked up at him, he was slightly bent over, bowing his head to look at me. The tips of his hair that
were drooping were glowing in the morning light. He smiled at me like how he used to, his left cheek
was squeezing out a deep dimple, it was as though we just ate and watched movies together yesterday.

I averted my gaze, this is a sinister dimple. Back then my little heart was drunk and fell in this dimple.
Now that I think about it, this pit in his face was just a giant fraud.

Jiang Chen’s existence used to be just like one of those lamp post in the alley. He lives in the house
across ours, the mayor’s son, the class monitor, looks good, could play the piano, writes calligraphy,
has good grades, and speaks nice Mandarin. Television and novels label us boys and girls who are
friends, and live awfully close together since young as “childhood sweethearts”, moreover, they
generally divide it into two categories: one, the “in love with each other” type. Two people who are
close together like siblings, poking honeycombs and getting stung by bees together, stealing sweet
potatoes and getting beaten together. By the time the two would look back, only then would they
realize that the friendship from long ago has slowly blossomed into love. The other one is the “sees and
hates each other” type. Two people who opposes the other with equal intensity, already itching to rush
ahead to bite the other when spotted from a distance. When they get the chance, they’d pull the tire
valve of each other’s bikes. But later on, when the two would grow up, they would suddenly realize —
Ah! This is true love.

Unfortunately, Jiang Chen and I are neither of the above mentioned. In a very long time, me and him
were simply just neighbours who live across each other. Him playing his piano daily, me watching
Chibi Maruko-chan with gusto. Occasionally, when I’d forget the content in our homework, I would
press the doorbell of their house. He would always mock me, and impatiently ask why I didn’t
remember. Probably, because I’m seeking out a favour, so I never bickered with him. Of course, it
might also be because I don’t like to argue with people since young. I’m someone calm and collected, a
bit extraordinarily.

Summer vacation of 2nd year middle school going 3rd year, our class secretly organized a picnic after
Summer vacation of 2nd year middle school going 3rd year, our class secretly organized a picnic after
the exams. During the picnic, Jiang Chen and I was assigned to wash the sweet potatoes. There were 40
people in our class but we bought 44 sweet potatoes. Jiang Chen just washed those four extra sweet
potatoes, and after that, played skipping stones with the boys on the side.

I was crouching at the lakeside, forced to keep my anger in check as I was washing the potatoes. The
more I wash, the more I get mad. By then a small slab of rock was dropped right in front of me and
splashed me on the face. As I looked up, Jiang Chen was putting on an air of nonchalance as though
nothing has happened. He raised his hand, and a stone skipped across the water surface, piercing its
stillness in four beautiful successive skips, along with it were ripples of varying sizes, colliding together
and then dissolving.

It was pretty logical for me to have scolded him, splashed water on him, pressed his head into the
water, or perhaps, pushed him into the lake to drown.

But I did nothing. I just stared at him with a silly look on my face.

The breeze lifted his loose, white school uniform. The sun wascasting a golden light on his lashes and
the tips of his hair. The slightly raised corner of his mouth was squeezing out a proud smile adorning
his left cheek.

Right there and then, time and space froze leaving only the furious thumping of my heart.

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Translator’s Corner:

Hi! Dolly here. I don’t know how people found out about this translation (which was intended for my
real-life friends who were bugging me about it) but thank you for reading.

Tagged A Love So Beautiful, 致我們單純的小美好

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39 thoughts on “A Love So Beautiful (致我们单纯的小美
好) – Chapter 1”

LYSA says:
December 15, 2017 at 1:29 pm
1. thank you for translating. Thank you very much. How many chapters are in ALSB?

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HAYMAN says:
December 15, 2017 at 1:31 pm
2. Thank you

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KHENROSTAATDIENAPUTRI says:
December 15, 2017 at 1:36 pm
3. Omg thank you so muchn.. ive been searching for this ever since i found out thata the drama was
based of a novell.. thankk youuu.. and are you going to continue translating the novel or not? If not
its okay.. im not going to pressure you to do that..

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MQPOSTOR says:
December 15, 2017 at 1:56 pm
4. Thank you so much for translating! I hope you finish it ’til the end. I will be patiently waiting for it
Jiayou!

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MUSHIEEEPLUMP says:
December 15, 2017 at 2:12 pm
5. It’s soooo beautiful thank you

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ZARA says:
December 15, 2017 at 2:45 pm
6. Thank you so much……..

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DD says:
December 15, 2017 at 3:56 pm
7. Thanks u for doing this trans, u will be blessed

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YUL says:
December 15, 2017 at 11:46 pm
8. Oh my gosh.. Thank you for this.
 8. Oh my gosh.. Thank you for this.

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WENDY_HNIN says:
December 16, 2017 at 12:54 am
9. thz u so much ! hope u could update the other chapters as much as u can !! international fans are
too thirsty to read !!!

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AERA says:
December 16, 2017 at 5:17 am
10. thank you so much for translating this; you are a blessing to this fandom !!

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IRIS S PARK says:
December 16, 2017 at 6:14 pm
11. OMG Bless you for this! Thank you for translating! No words could convey how much happiness I
felt reading this. Hope for nothing but good things for you for being kind enough to translate the
novel for us.

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ANA says:
December 20, 2017 at 12:14 pm
13. Thank you so much! You mad me the happiest of men.

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AZILANA says:
December 25, 2017 at 4:48 pm
1. Made*

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@GARROVAILEEN says:
December 21, 2017 at 4:24 am
14. Thank you for translating!!! I followed your blog because of this. Hope to see more like this from
your blog. Hehehe

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TAE says:
December 26, 2017 at 5:10 am
15. Hello. I’m someone that reads novels on Novelupdate and I submitted an ‘add series’ form for your
translations. Sorry for not asking ahead of time. Was very excited to share this with other readers
on NU so I submitted that form. I’m not sure if it’ll get approved. But if it does get approve, you are
free to edit the description and the summary or if you don’t want your translations to get updated
on the website, I can request it to be deleted so you don’t have to do that extra work since I
submitted it without your permission. Thank you very much for picking this novel up! After the
drama, alot of people would like to read/see more of Jiang Chen and Xiao Xi.
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TAE says:
December 26, 2017 at 5:12 am
1. Oh it got approved already? Really fast?? https://www.novelupdates.com/series/our-pure-little-
beauty/

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NOVELCRAZY says:
December 27, 2017 at 3:07 pm
17. Interesting start…what’s the name of drama? Thanks

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MI says:
January 4, 2018 at 12:55 am
1. A love so beautiful. Chinese drama

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TATIANA says:
January 4, 2018 at 9:05 am
1. any idea how to watch this drama w/ eng sub?

ARA91 says:
January 8, 2018 at 5:10 pm
18. Thank you. Im following this story now!!!

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IORA89 says:
January 9, 2018 at 5:45 am
19. thank you so much for the translation. i just finished watching the drama and found out it was
based from the novel, so i tried my luck if someone has a translation for it and voila! i found your
blog! thank you so much for your hard work ♥

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MEC says:
January 12, 2018 at 1:01 am
20. Thank you for translating the novel. Have also finished the tv serie and read that’s based on a novel.
I wish I could read Chinese. There are a lot of series based on novels, some tv series which are my
top favorites.

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AMEITHYST says:
January 16, 2018 at 5:12 pm
21. I loved the drama series! Thank you so much for translating this!

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BADA says:
January 19, 2018 at 2:41 am
 January 19, 2018 at 2:41 am
22. Omo. I would’ve admired him then still pushed him into the lake cuz let’s be honest, gotta know
how sexy he looks when wet too, right? Thanks so much for translating this series~~ Now, onto
binge read…

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ASHLEY E. ANG says:
January 25, 2018 at 5:22 pm
24. Thank you so much!

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MARIZ RACHEL REGIDOR says:
February 5, 2018 at 10:40 am
25. is this really the chapter 1? im kindah confuse because it seems its in the climax of the story already

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YOUTIAOSHUTIAO says:
February 5, 2018 at 12:57 pm
1. the novel follows a different timeline, focusing on after they meet again 3 years later, and then
presenting uni/high school in flashbacks!

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CYBERMAMA says:
February 9, 2018 at 8:59 pm
26. Thank you very much for the translation. Just finished watching the drama and love it so much. I
am sure the book will be very good too.

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GAYE CINAR says:
March 4, 2018 at 11:17 am
28. dd

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GAYE CINAR says:
March 4, 2018 at 11:19 am
29. Came back here from Chapter 31. This is just so good! I thinking of re-reading it again. Thank you
so much, Dolly, Xri and Amy!

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JEMS says:
March 24, 2018 at 8:33 pm
30. I stumbled upon your site today. It’s really great that you have taken on this translation project. I
saw the drama series late last year and enjoyed it tremendously. I will be looking forward to
reading your posts regularly.

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JENIFFER RAMIZARES SEVILLA says:
April 11, 2018 at 7:10 pm
31. Thank you very much for translating the novel. After watching the drama series, I badly want to
read this heart- fluttering novel. Well appreciated:):)

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PRECIOUS says:
April 12, 2018 at 6:04 pm
32. Thanks for translating the novel . I appreciate it a lot!

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YSNIEL SIETE says:
April 17, 2018 at 5:02 am
33. Hi. Is there a way for me to download its epub? Thank you

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MAUPRODIX says:
April 17, 2018 at 10:44 pm
34. Reblogged this on Mauprodix.

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