Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Jia Junxi’s question caused the office to fall into silence again.
Tang Ran didn’t understand why the problem suddenly changed to this. She knew that the answer was a natural no, but in the delicate atmosphere at this time, it seemed that her answer was very important.
So Tang Ran didn’t answer immediately.
Perhaps seeing through the little girl’s scruples, Jia Junxi “reminded” as if he didn’t care: “Think slowly and think clearly before answering – after all, your answer is likely to affect my final decision on whether to be your doctor or not.”
“…”
After hearing this sentence, Tang Ran understood.
Jia Junxi had determined that Luo Zhan and her were boyfriend and girlfriend. The reason why he asked so many questions at this time was to deliberately embarrass them: if Tang Ran admitted it, he would refuse treatment on the grounds of Luo Zhan; but if Tang Ran denied it, she would have lost Luo Zhan’s face in front of Jia Junxi, embarrassing Luo Zhan.
No matter which it was, as long as they were boyfriend and girlfriend, there would be a gap between the two.
After thinking about it, Tang Ran’s expression became more and more serious: “Uncle, did Luo Zhan scold you in that academic debate?”
Jia Junxi was stunned for a moment. He didn’t expect that this seemingly well-behaved little girl would ask him a question first, and it was also a very inexplicable question.
However, the little girl seemed to be asking sincerely, almost putting on a serious look as if she was asking for advice humbly. It would not be good for Jia Junxi not to answer.
Jia Junxi frowned and said, “That was an academic debate among college students, and the tutors and experts did not participate.”
Tang Ran: “Then he scolded your student?”
Jia Junxi: “This was an academic debate, not a scolding.”
Tang Ran nodded after being taught, then raised her face and asked, “Then where did Luo Zhan go wrong?”
Jia Junxi was stunned.
At this moment, the ignorant and asking for advice tone in the girl’s voice had faded away. She reached out in the darkness, felt for Luo Zhan beside her, and then held his finger.
The shape of that person’s hands should be very good-looking, with long fingers and well-defined joints. The right amount of warmth and coolness slowly entered her sensory system through the fingertips.
——This was the temperature she was most familiar with in the recent darkness.
So she hoped he could also rely on her.
Tang Ran thought this way, so trying hard to suppress her uneasiness and timidity, she said seriously: “Is it wrong to argue for one’s own opinions in academic debates? Uncle Mingming, you also know that it is not the case. Since Luo Zhan is not wrong, then he should not apologize – even if it’s to let a stingy uncle treat me, that’s not what he should do.”
Jia Junxi was stunned for a long time before finally reacting. Then he laughed angrily: “Are you calling me stingy now?”
Tang Ran was silent. She had never said such words to her elders before. But after the silence, the little girl gathered up her courage and asked, “Isn’t uncle stingy?”
Jia Junxi: “…”
He really couldn’t seriously say “I’m not” to a child.
After turning his back on the pretty sixteen-year-old girl, Jia Junxi could only turn his attention to Luo Zhan again.
Turning around, Jia Junxi discovered the reason why Luo Zhan had been silent right now: his attention was not here at all, and he might not even be in the room at all – the man had lowered his head with a subtle expression, looking at the hands on his knees.
To be precise, it was his hand that was tightly grasped by the little girl’s middle finger and ring finger.
Jia Junxi suddenly had doubts about his previous judgment.
He didn’t think any normal boyfriend would have such a reaction just because his girlfriend held his finger.
Jia Junxi asked Tang Ran again suspiciously: “Is he really not your boyfriend?”
Tang Ran said seriously: “He is my best friend.”
Jia Junxi pondered it over and understood: “…ha.”
It turned out that young genius in the AI field was so high-spirited and unruly, but in the end, he was still a little five who couldn’t catch up with a girlfriend.
Tang Ran couldn’t read minds, so she naturally didn’t know what the doctor was thinking at this time. She only took this sneer as a refusal to provide treatment, so Tang Ran stood up on her own initiative.
“Luo Luo, let’s go.”
Jia Junxi, who had not kept up with the progress, instinctively stopped her: “Wait, I haven’t spoken yet, why are you leaving in a hurry?”
“Uncle,” Tang Ran turned around, frowned slightly, and said a little seriously, “even if you are an adult, you can’t do this.”
“What’s wrong with me?”
“You tricked Luo Zhan into making a trip, taunted him, and even tricked him into apologizing. He has already apologized, but you still refuse treatment. It doesn’t matter, but uncle, you still want to take advantage of my eyes to make him beg you. Is that right? You are like this…” The little girl racked her brains and finally came up with the strongest words. She seriously condemned: “Uncle, you are going too far.”
Jia Junxi: “…”
At Tang Ran’s words, Luo Zhan finally couldn’t help laughing. He looked away from Jia Junxi, whose expression was incomprehensible, and looked up at the little girl standing in front of him: “No hurry, sit down first.”
The little girl turned back aggrievedly, “No, don’t beg him.”
“…How do you imagine he would ask me to beg him?” Luo Zhan asked funnily, “Kneel down or get wet in the rain, or stand in snow at the gate?”
Tang Ran hesitated and didn’t speak, obviously she had thought about everything.
Luo Zhan couldn’t help laughing: “It’s only been a few minutes, little girl, have you already reached this point in your mind?”
Tang Ran blushed.
After a few seconds, she whispered: “He…uncle, wouldn’t he be like this?”
Luo Zhan coughed and looked across: “The dean of our family is highly respected and well-known in the industry. How could he be such a person?”
The little girl turned around expectantly, waiting for Jia Junxi’s answer.
Jia Junxi choked.
After a few seconds, he came to his senses and said with a straight face: “I finally understand. Do you want to use this little girl’s words to push me to the shelf? Luo Zhan, I won’t be fooled like that. I don’t have a name – everyone in the industry knows that I have a weird temper, so when you came here to see me, shouldn’t you have heard of it?”
Luo Zhan didn’t take it seriously and smiled lazily: “That’s easier, as long as the dean of the family draws a line. Whether it’s kneeling, getting wet, or standing in the snow, I will follow the script and beg you properly.”
Upon hearing this, the little girl’s face immediately tensed up again: “Luo Luo, let’s go.”
The little girl’s reaction was so cute that Luo Zhan couldn’t help but want to tease her. He pretended to be serious and asked: “You really don’t want me to beg him?”
Tang Ran shook her head.
Luo Zhan: “Other doctors are not as good as him.”
Tang Ran: “But I still don’t want you to apologize for me.”
Luo Zhan: “Why?”
Tang Ran lowered her head.
After thinking for a long time, she spoke softly: “Because you are not wrong. Luo Luo is smart, capable, and talented. The store manager said that everyone in the INT team admires you… Luo Luo is so good, that Luo Luo should be proud, yes. If people who can be proud cannot be proud, then this environment is wrong.”
Luo Zhan listened with great interest. After listening, a strange emotion flashed across his eyes, which soon turned into a deep smile, “Our Ranran knows so much.”
“…”
It was the first time she was called such an affectionate name, which made the little girl with a serious expression confused.
So in this gap in the conversation, Jia Junxi finally got a chance to interrupt.
He darkened his face with an unfriendly expression: “You two are addicted to singing each other’s tunes, right? Can I still see your illness and cure your eyes?”
Tang Ran turned back in surprise: “Do you want to treat my eyes?”
Luo Zhan was not surprised and looked over with a half-smile.
“When did I say I won’t treat you?” Jia Junxi snorted, “And it’s what you want, otherwise, if I really asked Luo Zhan to kneel at the door of the hospital, then can my hospital still be opened?”
This turn of events was so sudden that Tang Ran couldn’t come back to her senses.
“Also,” Jia Junxi sneered, “you underestimate his ability too much. If they know where I am, then the Luo family could just give a doctor a slap in the face if he wants to torment him.”
Luo Zhan answered calmly: “The dean made a serious statement.”
Jia Junxi sneered, disapproving.
Only then did Tang Ran suddenly realize——
Jia Junxi just wanted Luo Zhan to surrender. Luo Zhan also knew this. There was a tacit understanding between them.
As for what Luo Zhan said just now, it was clearly just to tease her.
The little girl pursed her lips, but finally said nothing. She sat down obediently, cooperated with Jia Junxi in answering questions about her eye condition, and he started the preliminary diagnosis and treatment.
With the final conclusion that “corneal transplant surgery is possible,” the diagnosis and treatment ended at noon, and Luo Zhan took Tang Ran out of Jia Junxi’s office.
Jia Junxi rarely gave them a piece of cake in person, but it was obviously not for Luo Zhan – all the way out of the office, Jia Junxi told Tang Ran that while she was waiting for the cornea donation, she needed to prepare for the donor who might arrive at any time and what preparations needed to be made for surgery?
Finally, Jia Junxi stopped at the front desk, “When you go back, you must do as I say, remember?”
“Remember,” Tang Ran nodded, “Thank you, uncle.”
Jia Junxi joked: “Am I not a stingy uncle now?”
Tang Ran blushed in embarrassment.
Jia Junxi looked at Luo Zhan again. The smile on his face faded and he frowned: “I agreed to do the treatment because this little girl has bad eyesight at such a young age and I thought she was pitiful.”
Luo Zhan nodded: “I know.”
Jia Junxi snorted softly: “Since you are not her boyfriend, then why did her family not come and let you come instead?”
This question touched upon the most core and sensitive secret of the Tang family.
Tang Ran and Luo Zhan were silent at the same time.
Jia Junxi didn’t notice it and didn’t take it seriously. He continued what he was saying: “She’s not yet an adult. The official surgery will definitely require a guardian’s signature. Can you come? Let her father come next time.”
Luo Zhan remained silent.
Only then did Jia Junxi notice something strange, “Why, even if Tang Shixin is in charge of the Tang family’s property and takes care of everything, he can’t even spare time to accompany his daughter for an operation, right?”
Tang Ran didn’t want to embarrass Luo Zhan, so she took the initiative to speak: “He is… a little busy. Do I have to have him sign?”
“Of course, otherwise which hospital can be responsible for performing random surgeries?” Jia Junxi suddenly thought of something and frowned, “I forgot to mention that it’s strange that your eye condition has been delayed for so long. With the background of the Tang family, why haven’t they arranged any treatment and surgery for you?”
“…”
The air went stiller.
The original smile on Luo Zhan’s face had long since faded away, and now there was only a frozen coolness in his dark eyes.
Jia Junxi became more and more puzzled.
After a while, the little girl with her head lowered spoke softly: “The Tang family doesn’t want others to know my existence, nor do they know that Luo Luo and I know each other… That’s why Luo Luo hid it before. I hope you won’t misunderstand him, uncle. Don’t tell it to them as well.”
In these few seconds, Jia Junxi suddenly realized that he had touched on some secret that he shouldn’t know.
His expression suddenly became awkward, and his eyes towards the little girl became even more sympathetic. When he spoke again, he carefully considered his tone before daring to speak: “So that’s the case, no wonder… It is a doctor’s basic professional ethics not to reveal patient privacy. Don’t worry.”
Tang Ran nodded: “Thank you, uncle.”
“However,” Jia Junxi frowned, “you just said that the Tang family doesn’t know that you and Luo Zhan knew each other?”
“Um.”
Jia Junxi looked at Luo Zhan: “So the Luo family doesn’t know that you two know each other, that’s why you found me through Lan Jingqian instead of directly using the Luo family’s power?”
“…”
If another person had asked such a question, Luo Zhan would probably have been too lazy to pay attention to him.
But the person standing in front of him at this moment was after all the person who would take the scalpel to Tang Ran in the future, so Luo Zhan frowned and said, “No one knows except Matthew and my two friends.”
Jia Junxi frowned and asked: “It’s not a boyfriend and girlfriend, nor a trust between family friends. Let’s not talk about the surgery for now. Let’s just talk about the preliminary treatment of the little girl’s eyes. Luo Zhan, do you really have the final say? —— At least you have to have a reasonable name, otherwise I wouldn’t dare issue a diagnosis.”
Tang Ran: “He can make the decision.”
Jia Junxi: “In what capacity?”
Tang Ran asked hesitantly: “Can we be friends?”
Jia Junxi sneered: “No, next one.”
Tang Ran was thinking hard and suddenly thought of something.
The little girl raised her head and asked cautiously:
“So, prospective brother-in-law?”
Luo Zhan: “?”
Jia Junxi: “?”
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