Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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“I know, but he doesn’t count as an acquaintance.”
Tang Ran was slightly startled: “Then how did you recognize…”
Jia Junxi said: “You and the brother and sister of the Tang family look like you are carved from the same mold. You have obviously inherited half of their genetic genes.”
Tang Ran fell silent.
The office fell silent.
A few seconds later, the girl’s slightly uneasy voice sounded softly again: “Doctor, do you not like the Tang family, so you don’t want to treat me anymore?”
“…”
Jia Junxi was originally prepared to look like he wanted to rush away the guests at least at the beginning, but seeing the little girl’s quiet and well-behaved look, and her efforts to hide her uneasiness, he couldn’t get the words out of his mouth.
After an awkward stalemate for a few seconds, Jia Junxi said helplessly: “It’s not that I have any issue with the Tang family – the guy who introduced you here, that kid had some disagreements with the Tang family when he was young – well, he definitely must not know that you are a child of the Tang family? Otherwise, even if he was willing to introduce you, he would at least inform me.”
Tang Ran wanted to say something, but Luo Zhan took the initiative to intercept her words. He just calmly said: “Matthew and I are friends. I had heard before that he had some grudges with the Tang family. I don’t know if it is good or evil, but I didn’t want to delay my friend’s illness, so I kept it secret.”
Jia Junxi glanced at him with complicated eyes, and after a moment he chuckled, “Young Master Luo is very protective of his friends.”
“…”
Luo Zhan frowned.
In fact, from the moment he entered the office and briefly met each other’s eyes, Luo Zhan vaguely noticed that Jia Junxi seemed a little hostile to him.
From the exchange of words just now to the change in the tone now, he finally confirmed this.
Luo Zhan asked: “The dean seems to be very familiar with me?”
Jia Junxi: “It’s not really a familiarity. It’s just a one-time acquaintance. It just left a deep impression.”
Luo Zhan: “It seems that my memory is too bad.”
Jia Junxi laughed and said in a cold tone: “I’m afraid Young Master Luo doesn’t have a bad memory, he just has a high vision and an arrogant temper. He doesn’t look down on anyone, and he doesn’t like to talk to anyone.”
Luo Zhan frowned.
It was not that he didn’t like hearing Jia Junxi’s words, but he fully admitted that what Jia Junxi said was the truth – at least it was the truth before meeting Tang Ran.
He had a top-notch mind and an excellent memory. But he never bothered to waste space in his mind for unimportant things, including the names, looks, and identities of people he didn’t need to remember.
This “unnecessary” basically covered everyone except the Luo family and the INT team.
——So even if Jia Junxi ridiculed him like this at this moment, he still had no impression and no clue. After all, he used to “treat them equally”.
Probably because he saw that Luo Zhan had no impression at all, Jia Junxi laughed angrily: “It’s not that I have a grudge against you. There is no need to make it difficult for Young Master Luo, a top-notch future academician, to waste time thinking about it.”
Luo Zhan seemed to have caught something, and his frown relaxed.
“Future academician? It seems that you have a grudge against me in the professional field. My professional direction is artificial intelligence, and you should have been engaged in professional ophthalmology-related aspects at the age when you may have intersection. An overlap between these two majors …”
Luo Zhan quickly checked through his memory and located it somewhere.
After a few seconds, he raised his eyes and said thoughtfully: “On June 17, four years ago, I participated in an academic conference and debate titled ‘Can artificial intelligence partially or completely eliminate the value of purely academic medical personnel in the future? I remember that there were many people in the medical field attending the meeting. If unfortunately, I had a problem with you, it would probably be that time, right?”
After Luo Zhan finished speaking, he got the answer from Jia Junxi’s eyes.
Jia Junxi withdrew his complicated gaze from Luo Zhan and sneered.
“You are indeed the most highly anticipated genius in the junior class of K University. Even in the past four years, you can still show off the aura that you used to do in academic debates anytime and anywhere, overwhelming the opponent’s position and making all the seniors speechless. “
Luo Zhan clenched his fist slightly. After a few seconds of stalemate, he lowered his eyes and smiled lazily: “…I was young and careless, and my sharp edge is too obvious. If I have offended any of the dean’s disciples, please forgive me.”
“…”
Jia Junxi was guessed to the core again, and he was too lazy to be surprised or ask questions. He only frowned and glanced at the young man in front of him who lowered his head slightly.
In his mind, he still remembered two completely different images of that academic debate –
On one side, the young disciple whom he regarded as his most favored disciple was eager to refute his performance in an academic debate but was crushed by logic. After the meeting, his peers were either sighing for him or ridiculing him. From then on, his disciple became decadent and slack, unable to recover, and soon left the industry.
In another picture, compared to the young man on the stage who was full of energy and talking to everyone, standing in the audience among a group of senior brothers and sisters who were much taller and older than him, the young man’s eyes were lazy and cold, and he looked at everyone with the appearance of an ordinary boring worm.
The contrast between these two scenes left a deeper impression on Jia Junxi than the academic debate that was completely crushing and almost tragic just because of the existence of one young man, or in other words, much more profound.
Jia Junxi believed that everyone present at the meeting would never forget the boy’s name.
Just like not long ago, when he heard Luo Zhan introducing himself on the phone, he almost crushed his phone.
But even at that time, Jia Junxi never thought that the unruly young man from a few years ago would really bow down to him for the sake of someone.
Jia Junxi suddenly felt a little angry, a little relieved, and a little helpless like he had punched cotton.
Amidst the mixed and complicated emotions, he raised his eyelids and looked at the quiet little girl sitting next to Luo Zhan.
“Tang Ran, right?”
When her name was suddenly called, Tang Ran was stunned for two seconds before coming back to her senses: “Yeah.”
Jia Junxi asked: “What does this person who brought you here have to do with you?”
Tang Ran: “…”
The answer “brother” obviously could not be used.
While Tang Ran was hesitating, she heard the doctor suddenly sneer unkindly in the darkness –
“Is he your boyfriend?”
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