Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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After pulling Lin Nantian in, Gu Nian finished speaking a few words, then she went upstairs and changed into a set of daily clothes and came down.
Lin Nantian was still standing downstairs: “I’ve been thinking about it for a long time. Why does the old man sounds like he’s having a banquet?”
Gu Nian hesitated: “I don’t know, but there’s no point in guessing. I’ll call you when I get back.”
“Then you should take care.”
Gu Nian: “Well, will you go out by yourself later?”
“Okay, you go.”
“…”
Gu Nian’s figure disappeared and Lin Nantian just stood there. She waited until the car outside had driven away before she walked out.
After standing in the yard and hesitating for a while, Lin Nantian took out her cell phone and dialed a number.
After a long time, the person on the other end finally picked up the phone.
Lin Nantian: “Mr. Luo?”
The person on the other side seemed to recognize her voice. After a moment, the gentle but indifferent voice shook slightly: “Miss Lin Nantian?”
Lin Nantian breathed a sigh of relief: “I, I’m Lin Nantian.”
“Are you looking for something to do with me?”
“I don’t know if you know this, but I thought I’d tell you – I was with Gu Nian just now, and then your old man suddenly drove over and took Gu Nian back to Luo’s house to have a casual meal or something.”
There was sudden silence on the other side.
After waiting quietly, Lin Nantian panicked for a while and asked uncertainly: “You didn’t know?”
The person on the other end didn’t answer. When he spoke, the fake gentleness in his voice was gone, leaving a bit of cold coolness: “If Niannian doesn’t agree, just say I won’t care.”
“Um, um,” Lin Nantian looked up awkwardly and glanced at the car, which had long since disappeared, “It’s probably too late.”
“Already picked up?”
“Right.”
“…I see.”
“?”
Lin Nantian sensed the other person’s intention to hang up the phone and hurriedly raised her hands in the air: “Wait!”
The other person paused: “What’s the matter?”
“You know-what does this mean?”
Probably because he was worried about her friend and his identity, Luo Xiu suppressed his coldness and said, “I will leave for home immediately.”
Lin Nantian: “…”
It’s not really a banquet, is it??
Gu Nian didn’t know whether there was a grand banquet. She only knew that the journey from the villa to the Luo family was more like torture.
The dignified old man of the Luo family was sitting next to her. Gu Nian wanted to turn herself into a piece of paper-thick cake paste on the car to keep herself as far away from him as possible, but she didn’t dare to be too obvious about it.
She was frozen all the way, and by the time she got off the car at Luo’s house, Gu Nian couldn’t help but secretly hit her sore back with her hand.
Following Mr. Luo into the main building of the Luo family house, Gu Nian was worried about what conversation would happen next, when she saw the old man in front of her turning sideways: “There’s still some time before lunch, let’s go to the study and sit for a while?”
Gu Nian didn’t dare to refuse and nodded obediently: “Okay, Grandpa Luo.”
As they walked into the study room, Gu Nian kept pretending to be well-behaved. After sitting down on the moderately comfortable leather sofa in the study, the Luo family’s servant brought two cups of black tea.
After a while, Gu Nian also remembered that she had forgotten to wash the coffee pot at home.
But the next second her mind went blank——
Luo Jingyuan: “Do you like children?”
Gu Nian: “…Huh?”
Gu Nian raised the black tea cup in front of her face, neither holding it nor putting it down. She just sat there in a daze.
The old man didn’t know that his kind yet majestic eyes had made Gu Nian stunned for five seconds before she slowly came back to her senses. But she was still a little unsure of what she just heard: “Child, child?”
“Yes, kids.”
Gu Nian slowly put down the cup and compared it with his side: “Just that kind of thing, kids?”
“Um.”
After confirming the answer, Gu Nian awkwardly retracted the gesture that seemed to make her look like a retard: “I quite like it. Children, I love them very much.”
“Nice! You love it.”
Mr. Luo nodded and picked up the black tea cup.
Luo Jingyuan drank tea for a few seconds while Gu Nian couldn’t drink it anymore. Her mind was filled with countless scripts she had read and written before, dangling in front of her.
Her thoughts had already stopped at “Did Luo Xiu make a mistake when he was young and leave an illegitimate child outside?” When she was still immersed in the bloody script, Mr. Luo finally finished the sip of black tea and had enough to interest her.
Luo Jingyuan put down the black tea cup and said quietly: “Luo Xiu doesn’t like them, and neither does Luo Zhan.”
“…?”
Gu Nian failed to follow this turning point of thought.
Well, Luo Jingyuan didn’t seem to want to force her to follow him and continued on by himself: “But you can’t blame them, blame me, blame the Luo family. Especially for Luo Xiu, who hasn’t come back in two years? When something happens, I will think, no, the education method that I thought was ‘for their own good’ has made them go astray.”
“…”
Gu Nian did not dare to speak, I think you are still humble——
As for Luo Xiu’s evil dragon temperament, there were no sideways in the road. It was probably impossible to teach him by an education method other than a 90-degree straight dive and falling off a cliff.
Luo Jingyuan spoke slowly and continued: “But the child is innocent.”
“——”
Gu Nian was immediately alert and tensed up her back, waiting for a story about Luo Xiu’s experience as a young boy who had lost his footing.
Then she saw Mr. Luo looking at her faintly: “Especially the unborn child.”
“?”
Gu Nian was stunned.
Not yet born, that was to say, she was nine months pregnant at most, and it had only been one month now. Pushing back eight or nine months took her to the time when she and Luo Xiu met in the crew for the first time.
The crew didn’t have the time or conditions, so then…
Gu Nian’s face turned pale.
After being frozen for a few seconds, she frowned: “I don’t believe he is that kind of person.”
“?”
This time it was Mr. Luo’s turn to be stunned.
He obviously didn’t know that in just a few seconds, the little girl sitting in front of him had gone through thousands of words of nonsense in her mind.
Both sides turned silent.
Finally, a certain understanding was reached in each other’s eyes.
Gu Nian pursed her lips in embarrassment: “It seems I made a mistake…who is the child you are talking about?”
Luo Jingyuan: “Your future children.”
Gu Nian: “…”
The way the topic was opened was outrageous.
However, after the previous shock, even the topic that should have shocked Gu Nian seemed like nothing.
She hesitated for a moment and said honestly: “Luo Xiu and I are both still young. We agreed to get married in two years, and we are not so anxious to think about–“
“But I’m old.”
Luo Jingyuan sat on the sofa and suddenly sighed deeply.
Gu Nian choked.
She subconsciously raised her eyes, her eyes drifting over the old man’s white hair——
The majesty of the old man of the Luo family made her and others instinctively forget that he was already an old man and might have health problems.
Luo Jingyuan’s voice revealed his old age: “Not long ago, the doctor at home just gave me a check-up for the first half of the year…”
“——”
Gu Nian’s heart tightened.
After the sound died down and he sighed, Luo Jingyuan was silent and then raised his head: “Tang Ran is still young and the variables are unknown, so I can’t rush them. You and Luo Xiu are of the right age. If you didn’t like children, then naturally I won’t say it, but since you don’t reject such ideas, no matter from the perspective of a mother or a child, it is better to take care of when you are young, what do you think?”
Gu Nian hesitated for a moment: “It’s true…”
“And I also know that even if you are trying for children, you can’t do it in a day or two. It still takes time.” The old man tapped his cane and was very considerate, “Have you ever thought about it? No? Although you are engaged, there was no banquet after all, and the relationship has not yet been consummated. The child can’t appear earlier than the wedding. There is always the issue of attracting gossip in the circle after all.”
“Uh.”
Seeing Gu Nian nodding, Luo Jingyuan also showed a satisfied look: “I knew you were a sensible child, so is the matter settled?”
“——?”
Gu Nian looked up in shock and confusion. Before she could ask what was going on, she saw Mr. Luo raising his head and shouting outside the study: “Lin Yi!”
The room door opened and a figure walked in quickly and stopped next to the sofa: “Old sir.”
Mr. Luo changed his sullen expression from just now and his brows and eyes seemed to be glowing: “Since Gu Nian agreed, then Luo Xiu’s opinion is only for reference. Let them choose the best day of the year and send out the invitations. This is the most important event for the Luo family in the past twenty years, and it must be done well, you know?”
“Understood, Master.”
Gu Nian was dumbfounded as she watched the old man and the housekeeper singing each other’s tunes in front of him.
After a few seconds, she struggled to find her voice, “Grandpa Luo, I -“
“Hey, oops, my body feels uncomfortable.” Mr. Luo held his chest with one hand.
Lin Yi stepped forward: “Old sir?”
“No, I’m going back to my room to rest first. You can send Gu Nian to Tang Ran’s place. They must have more topics to talk about as sisters.”
“Okay, old gentleman.”
A few seconds later, only Gu Nian and the smiling butler Lin Yi were left in the study.
Gu Nian felt sluggish.
After being stiff for a long time, she slowly turned around and said, “Butler Lin, what did I agree to do?”
“Miss Gu, look at what you said, what else could you have agreed to?”
“?”
Butler Lin smiled like a fox——
“Of course it’s your wedding to the eldest young master.”
Gu Nian: “…”
Gu Nian: “??”
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