SM Married Life

Translation by: Bull Bull
Writer: Lin Cai (Taiwan)
SM Notebook - Married Life (Part 24)

This morning, the news department had gathered every broadcaster and backstage crew, from all levels for an open meeting. In addition to the examination of the season’s performance, they decided to include some English broadcasting in the second half of the daily news. Their objection was to enhance the broadcast of the International news and publicized their images, and the evening seven news was to launch the campaign. If the outcome were positive, they would then continue with the evening nine news and eventually become MBS news exclusive.

"Alright, that's decided. From next week on, at the last 10 minutes of every Friday's evening seven news, we'll use English to review the main topics of the weekly news. We'll end the meeting here. Keep up with the hard work!" The head of department for news concluded the meeting in an affirmative voice.

Upon the dismissal of the meeting, Sun-Mei sat in her seat looking worried. She had no problem with her news casting but in English... she knocked her head lightly, now that would be a headache.

Xian-Da saw the reaction and walked to her, "Is something wrong?"

"Leader, I'm not confident about this..." she frowned and answered honestly. "This matter was decided too quickly and I'm worried that my pronunciations and graUmmar usage wouldn't be professional. It might cause a negative opinion on the other casters."

"You are already practising professionalism when you have put in thoughts about this issue," Xian-Da patted her shoulder. "Keep it up! I have confidence in you."

Since the time of 'they were a bunch of bastards' and her mobile phone incident, she had become a household name. This supervisor had known her potential better than anyone and fully understood her capabilities; her success wasn’t based on luck or incidental!


Xiang-Zhe returned home tired after working overtime, he found his wife in neither the living room nor the bedroom. He stood there wondering when he heard some murmuring noise from the study room, he turned his heel and walked towards it, only to discover his wife seated at the table surrounded by lots of news scripts, newspaper clippings and dictionary...

"Oh, so hardworking! Once of these days, I might really be frightened off by your powerful English," he smiled and sat down beside her.

My tongue felt like a knot from those practices and he was still being sarcastic.

"The English version of International news will be implemented starting next Friday, how can I not practice?" Sun-Mei gave him a glare and returned to the books.

"The news department did submit a proposal on this issue but I didn't expect the evening seven news to commence." Actually, he wasn't too surprised since the evening seven news had always been their prime program.

"Still talking about it. I'm so nervous," she grumbled without looking up.

"What's there to be scared of? You still have me," he moved nearly, promoting himself.

"That's right. Xue zhang's English is so good, why didn't I think of that?" She spoke with a tinkle in her eyes, what was I thinking? Wasn't my survivor sitting right in front of me?

"However, I must warn you I don't teach for free," he revealed a devious smile and hinted.

"No! I have to practise my pronunciations the whole night," she rejected him directly. Who doesn't know what was on his mind, surely his hug wouldn’t last for 5 minutes, definitely no kissing. I must not fall for his trick.

"What were you thinking?" He returned a naughty gaze, "I was merely asking for you to make a cup of coffee."

"You..." her face was red like a tomato, from his pathetic look, she really wanted to step his foot!

"Ok, that's enough fooling around. Let's start our lesson!" He picked up the news script and taught her word-by-word.

Having a teacher who had been living overboard for years, the vast improvement of her English was something Sun-Mei had not anticipated...


Using English to broadcast had won the audience's support. Again, the evening seven news topped the weekly television chart, Sun-Mei's performance had in turn, amazed her colleagues. On the same night, Sun-Mei was invited for a 'LIVE' interview on another program by MBS...

"Miss Zhen Sun-Mei is a household name for a broadcaster, I'm sure the path to what you are today must have been very tough! Is there anyone you would like to thank?" The host fired off the first question.

"Those that I want to thank! Ow, too many of them, first of all, my dad. Other than being a wonderful father, he also took up the role of the mother. It was tough but he nurtured me well, gave me lots of care and love. There was also reporter Jin Yong-Zheng and his mother, they were like my family so I have never lack any family warmth..." She pondered for a second, "then there is a very good friend who I want to thank, broadcaster Miss Ying-Mei. We grew up together, quarrelled a lot but I learnt quite an amount from her. Too much actually, I don't think I can suUmmarize them..."

"In my opinion, so long as they are friends or relatives of Miss Zhen Sun-Mei, they are all important to you!" The host gave a conclusion on her answer.

"En..., I guess that's the way," she smiled.

"Recently, MBS's evening seven news was in the limelight, Miss Zhen Sun-Mei's presentation was excellent, especially your English. Honestly, I didn't know your English was so fluent!" The success this time round had added to her existing status, bringing her to another level.

"Actually, my standard of English wasn't that good but I have an excellent tutor. He was very patient with me, which was why I could speak fluently. Oh yes, I nearly forgot to thank this tutor. He has always been supporting me, giving me the encouragement and teaching me along the way."

"I assume the tutor you were referring to was your husband ?Mr. Yin Xiang-Zhe?" The host spoke boldly.

"That's correct...!" Sun-Mei nodded her head, this was the first time she had talked about Xiang-Zhe with the public.

"I guess the audience are as curious as me, could you tell us what sort of role did Mr. Yin play in your life?" Following her direction, the host asked what the audience were all interested in.

"Well..., he doted me like my father, took care of me as of a brother, taught me like a student and treated me as a good friend. Most importantly, he was also my boss, without him, I wouldn't have gotten my pay check!" She joked. She also fully understood that xue zhang had slowly became a necessary part of her life...

"Then, what about you? Where do you think you fit in his life?"

"I presume I'm just a nuisance to him since I'm always giving him problem," she couldnt help laughing at her own comments.


Xiang-Zhe who was watching the program from his office, was trying to refrain himself from rushing into the studio to give her a big hug. A nuisance? Yes, since the day she bumped onto my car, she had became my loveable and can't-do-without headache!

Two soft knocks on the door and he knew iUmmediately that Sun-Mei had completed the interview. He opened the door and pulled her in.

"Sorry to make you wait for so long..." Sun-Mei didn't even get to finish her sentence when she was pulled into an embrace.

"According to you, I have to play so many roles, so many identities!" He stroked her silky hair and breathing in her nice fragrance, "but I only wish to be Miss Zhen Sun-Mei's husband..."

"Why?" She pushed him away gently, doesn't he want to be her xue zhang, her friend and her teacher?

"Because only being your husband gives me this special privilege..." He sealed her lips with his.

"We..." He possessed her lips again, even before she could start her sentence. She had wanted to tell him that it was time to go home but she couldn't resist the wonderful feeling of his kiss. Slowly, she hooked her arms around his neck and was soon drifting away in the sea of love...

The journey home didn't seem that far as before, but the kiss was long and lasting......