Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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When the sound first came, none of the young people outside the villa had any idea what the other person was shouting – or even if they vaguely guessed that the shout was most likely to be based on the pronunciation, no one dared to let it go or think about it themselves.
Until they saw it with their own eyes as the young master of the Luo family who was leaning against the door in front of them looking as lazy and cold as the rumors or seen in the past. However, the next moment, as soon as he heard the voice, he suddenly frowned without any hesitation, turned around thoughtfully and entered the villa.
Actions and emotions were very intuitive——
Qian Shenhao, the leader of the young people, was stunned for a long time. He was the one who had the most contact with Luo Zhan among these people, and this was the first time he saw him in such a mood where he could almost be said to be in a hurry or that there was some anxiousness in this young master who was always lazy and unruly.
Including the stunned Qian Shenhao, the eyes of several young people standing outside the door instinctively followed Luo Zhan’s figure as he moved to the back of the villa’s entrance.
It was getting late, and there were almost no lights on in the villa. Only a broken light leaked from the open door of an unknown room, and fell at the end of the entrance hall, vaguely highlighting a figure there.
Looking vaguely at the petite and delicate figure, the clearest thing was the ankle that was exposed by the light in the dim. The skin color was a very rare and almost frail white, and it looked like snow under the only light in the dim and had a texture like jade.
She seemed to be a young girl.
The young people standing outside the villa wanted to carefully distinguish the appearance of the girl hidden in the darkness, but Luo Zhan’s figure had already blocked the girl’s face before that.
The sound of a conversation came from deep in the entrance of the villa:
“Why did you come down by yourself? Didn’t you agree to call me when you wake up?” It was still Luo Zhan’s voice, but it was indeed a completely different patient tone from before.
“I can come down myself.” The girl hesitated in the darkness, “And that, that would be too troublesome for you.”
“You’re not familiar with this place. What if you had fallen or gotten bumped?” Luo Zhan’s voice became slightly tense.
There was silence for two seconds in the darkness. The girl lowered her head as if she was a little tired, and her voice was muffled, “I’m sorry Luo Luo, I won’t do it next time.”
Luo Zhan couldn’t bear it anymore, just listening to the little girl lowering her head and saying sorry to him, made him naturally not be able to blame her anymore. He was about to ask Tang Ran to go back to the living room on the first floor of the villa, but when he lowered his eyes, he saw that the girl had come downstairs wearing only socks.
Luo Zhan frowned and thought for two seconds before guessing: “Didn’t you find the slippers?”
“…” Tang Ran rubbed her toes awkwardly on the ground. After two seconds, she nodded sheepishly, “When I went up, I only remembered the route and forgot to remember anything else.”
“Is it cold on the ground?”
“Kind of.”
“Then why were you in a hurry to come down?”
The little girl stood with her mouth pursed for a while, then said honestly and quietly: “It’s too quiet up there. I just woke up and I don’t know the time. I didn’t hear any sounds. And I was a little scared, so…”
The rest of the words were not finished, nor did they need to be finished.
Luo Zhan had long discovered that his indifference, where he had rarely been able to empathize with anyone, had been corrected so thoroughly that just listening to her one or two slightly uneasy words was enough for him to imagine what she must have been feeling upstairs. The little girl must have felt so helpless and scared when she first woke up in the strange and quiet darkness.
Luo Zhan sighed softly, raised his hand and rubbed the girl’s head: “That’s why I asked you to call me.”
“…” The little girl knew she was in the wrong, so she shrank her head and said nothing.
Luo Zhan’s slender knuckles rested on the girl’s soft hair. After a pause for two seconds, he suddenly whispered: “Don’t be afraid.”
Tang Ran raised her head in confusion: “?”
Then she understood in the next second——
The scent of cedar wood mixed with amber stone hidden in the darkness in front of her gradually lowered, as if for fear of startling her, the man’s approach was not hasty, but slowed down slowly.
Tang Ran didn’t know what Luo Zhan was going to do. She stopped uneasily in the darkness and bit her lower lip unconsciously.
It was uneasiness, but it was not the same kind of uneasiness as when you’re alone and helpless.
Tang Ran didn’t have time to carefully discern the meaning behind this emotional difference. She only noticed that the crook of her leg was hooked by the man’s slender and powerful arm, and then her center of gravity suddenly lifted up into the air——
Luo Zhan picked up the girl and walked into the main hall of the villa without looking back. When he reached the sofa, Luo Zhan stopped and put the quietly motionless little girl in his arms on the sofa.
After putting the person down, Luo Zhan didn’t get up in a hurry, but stayed there in a leaning posture. He asked in a low voice, a little amused and helpless: “Why when I said don’t be afraid, are you still scared to death?”
“…” Tang Ran finally came back to her senses, and her face felt hot for no reason in the darkness. After two seconds of silence, the girl muttered softly, “I didn’t. I just didn’t react.”
“Well, you didn’t.” Luo Zhan responded with a half-smile, straightened up, put his hands in his pockets and walked behind the sofa.
Keenly aware that Luo Zhan was about to leave, Tang Ran trembled in the dark and instinctively reached out and grabbed the corner of the man’s shirt.
Luo Zhan’s figure stopped.
He lowered his eyes slightly, looked at the girl’s delicate white hands that were clenched at the corner of his clothes, and then asked, “What’s wrong?”
Tang Ran whispered: “Where are you going?”
Luo Zhan reacted and smiled dumbly, “I won’t abandon you. I’ll just go get you a new pair of slippers.”
“……oh.”
Tang Ran felt that her face was getting hotter. She slowly and without trace took her hand back, trying to pretend that nothing had happened.
A smile appeared in Luo Zhan’s eyes.
But he was always very kind to Tang Ran, and he even resisted the urge to make fun of her – the light was better here, and the girl’s beautiful face under the light was almost red.
Luo Zhan walked towards the entrance.
At this time, the young people headed by Qian Shenhao outside the villa were still standing there.
In fact, the scene that just happened in front of them, whether it was the picture or the dialogue, had a devastating impact on their cognition.
So it wasn’t until Luo Zhan stopped in front of the shoe cabinet in the entrance, his facial expressions returning to the lazy and cold mood they were most used to, that they finally slowly came back to their senses.
Qian Shenhao was not particularly clever, but he still had common sense and survival instincts. So when he saw Luo Zhan carrying people directly into the villa without saying hello to them, he realized that they couldn’t look at this little girl.
Qian Shenhao immediately signaled with his eyes and sent the curious friends beside him outside the villa courtyard: “You guys get in the car first…get in the car and wait for me. I will come to you later.”
The young people were reluctant, but they also knew what kind of excitement they could appreciate and what kind of excitement they could not.
——The little girl that the young master of the Luo family hid in the golden room was the kind of person they could not look at the most in the excitement.
After the few young people who had come had gone away, Qian Shenhao opened his mouth with difficulty, “Brother Zhan, was that person just now…?”
Luo Zhan stood in the hallway of the villa’s entrance, showing no reaction at all. At this time, he was only half-bent, choosing the model that was most suitable for a little girl among all the unopened new slippers in the shoe cabinet.
Hearing Qian Shenhao’s question, Luo Zhan didn’t even raise his eyes and replied lazily: “I asked you to prepare clothes before, they were to be given to her.”
“I, I know,” Qian Shenhao glanced subconsciously at the villa where the girl was no longer visible. He turned back and forced out a difficult smile, “That’s right, originally I thought it was Brother Zhan’s girlfriend?”
“…”
Luo Zhan finally found a suitable pair of slippers and reached out to take it out. When he straightened up, he happened to hear Qian Shenhao’s words. Luo Zhan lowered his eyes, sneered coldly, and glanced lazily at Qian Shenhao with a bit of coolness.
“Did you think I brought a girlfriend, or did you think I brought a bed partner?”
Qian Shenhao froze.
A few seconds later, he carefully observed that Luo Zhan didn’t look like he was angry. Instead, he didn’t know why, but there was a vague sign of being in a good mood——
After all, if his mood had been different, Qian Shenhao would have suspected that his life was almost gone when Luo Zhan asked this question.
Qian Shenhao became a little bolder.
He carefully considered and spoke: “She’s not a girlfriend… I think this young lady’s attitude toward you, Brother Zhan, is quite intimate.”
“Intimate?”
Luo Zhan once again thought of the girl who was at the entrance hall just now, standing still but slowly breathing faster as he approached… It was as if he was going to do something else at that time, and she wouldn’t hide from it.
What a temptation that was.
He almost couldn’t hold it back.
Luo Zhan lowered his eyes and curled his lips in a very good mood.
Qian Shenhao realized that what he just said was right.
He breathed a sigh of relief, became more courageous, and finally couldn’t help but curiously ask the question he wanted to ask the most: “Brother Zhan, since this young lady is not your girlfriend, who is she to you?”
“…” Luo Zhan raised his eyelids, “Are you here to inquire about news?”
Qian Shenhao was stunned for two seconds, and his head shook like a rattle: “How dare I? I don’t dare even if you were to lend me two cars of courage. I’m just purely curious, purely curious.”
Luo Zhan: “Really want to know?”
Qian Shenhao nodded vigorously: “I’m so curious.”
“Then come here.”
“Hey!” Qian Shenhao immediately jumped forward and listened.
“You asked who she is?”
“Yep.”
“…” Luo Zhan said hoarsely, smiling lazily and coquettishly, “Master.”
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