Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Luo Zhan lowered his head and saw that the four-point seat belt in front of him was holding him tightly. The taut arcs and drawn folds seemed to carry some kind of arrogance after victory.
Luo Zhan’s face was expressionless.
For the first time, he hated the higher safety and shorter movable distance safety devices in supercars designed to offset the high speed limit.
Just when Luo Zhan was struggling with the seat belt, the girl’s hand, which was nestled between his palm and the seat, moved.
Luo Zhan woke up and raised his eyes again.
The little girl close at hand had closed her eyes, her slender and slightly curled eyelashes resting softly on her lower eyelids.
He didn’t know if it was because she felt uneasy after waiting for too long, but her eyelashes were trembling slightly at this time, and there was some uneasiness in her voice:
“Luo Luo?”
Although she was uneasy, her hand that was stuck on the seat remained obedient and motionless, and her expression showed a heart-wrenching submissiveness – she was afraid that her best friend would be angry and alienate her, so she kept going no matter how uneasy she was. Hiding and “coaxing” him to become docile and no longer be angry.
He didn’t know how she got used to being “obedient” like this. The little devil waving a trident in Luo Zhan’s heart fell silent.
A few seconds later.
Tang Ran felt the grip on her wrist loosen, and then the man raised his hand and touched the top of her head: “I was teasing you… don’t be afraid.”
Tang Ran recovered from her stupor and shook her head guiltily: “I’m not afraid.”
The car got back on the road.
Tang Ran leaned on the spacious seat and turned sideways toward the outside of the car. She pursed her lips and sat quietly feeling the wind for a while. She secretly raised her hand and touched the top of her head where the man had just touched her.
She could actually feel that Luo Zhan was not just teasing her as he said.
But what exactly did he want to do just now?
In the darkness, the little girl fell into a distressed daze.
As soon as Luo Zhan drove off the expressway from the exit of K city, his cell phone placed in front of the car rang.
Luo Zhan glanced at it and frowned after seeing the caller ID. After two seconds of silence, Luo Zhan turned the steering wheel to the side and the car stopped on the side of the road.
Tang Ran, who was leaning on the seat, straightened up and turned around.
Luo Zhan: “My grandfather’s call, you…”
Tang Ran immediately nodded in understanding: “I won’t speak, you answer.”
Luo Zhan was originally thinking about what Jia Junxi said about the need for a guardian during the surgical treatment stage – Mr. Luo was more suitable than him to come forward to talk to Tang Shixin about Tang Ran’s eye surgery.
So what he originally wanted to say when he spoke was “Do you want to say hello?” But seeing that the little girl was obviously a little bit withdrawn, he had to swallow his words again.
Luo Zhan asked: “Are you afraid of my grandpa?”
Tang Ran hesitated and nodded slowly: “A little.”
Luo Zhan: “Why?”
Tang Ran: “I can’t tell… maybe because he is about the same age as my grandma, and they are both majestic?”
Luo Zhan laughed when he heard this: “Is he majestic? He is just pretending to be majestic. He is just an old man with a bad temper who likes to get angry and blow his beard.”
Before he could finish speaking, Luo Zhan “happened” to be stuck in time and connected the cell phone call one second before it was about to be automatically hung up when no one answered.
And his last words reached the ears of Mr. Luo on the other side of the phone without any bias.
After two seconds of reaction, Mr. Luo thought about who his grandson was talking about – and then he almost lost his temper: “You stinky boy, why are you talking bad about your grandpa behind his back!”
Luo Zhan leaned back and leaned into the leather seat with a lazy and cold smile: “When did I say this behind your back? Wasn’t this in person? I was afraid that you wouldn’t hear me, so I deliberately drove the car on speakerphone.”
This sentence reminded Tang Ran.
Tang Ran immediately shut her mouth obediently and her expression became serious – trying her best to prevent even her breath from being heard.
It was a pity that her teammate didn’t cooperate——
After Luo Zhan finished speaking, he caught a glimpse of the little girl next to him holding her breath as if preparing for an attack. He couldn’t help but reach out and pinch the tip of the little girl’s nose in amusement: “Don’t hold your breath or you’ll make yourself faint.”
Tang Ran: “…”
Tang Ran shrank back after being pinched and did not dare to protest.
Opposite them, Mr. Luo suddenly turned off the engine and asked suspiciously, “Who are you talking to?”
Luo Zhan retracted his hand. He was in a good mood because of Tang Ran’s reaction. He clasped his fingers behind his head and said with a half-smile, “I’m with someone. You didn’t listen to information from the Qian family.”
“It’s already been one night and now it’s noon of the next day, and you’re still with that little girl?” The old man almost fainted from anger. “Are you really crazy, kidnapping an underage girl? If someone really spreads the word, can you still gain a foothold in the industry?!”
Luo Zhan said casually: “Whatever other people say, I don’t care.”
“You–“
Mr. Luo felt that his blood pressure was rising, but there seemed to be the butler beside him who gave some gentle words of advice.
After about ten seconds, he heard the old man say in a rough voice: “Okay, now, bring that little girl to me now, and let me see who it is that can charm you.”
Luo Zhan chuckled and did not deny the old man’s words. He turned his eyes sideways and looked at the little girl in the passenger seat: “Do you want to see him?”
Tang Ran was stunned and immediately shook her head.
Luo Zhan smiled lazily and turned back: “Grandpa, you have a bad temper. The little girl is afraid of you and doesn’t want to see you.”
Old man: “…”
Luo Zhan: “Since she doesn’t want to see you, then don’t check her out.”
The old man sneered: “If I must investigate, can you stop me?”
The smile in Luo Zhan’s voice faded: “My adolescent rebellious mentality has not passed yet, you know. If you go to check and scare the little girl again, then I might commit an act because of the rebellious mentality, I am so fascinated by her that I can’t think straight. Maybe I’ll just turn around and run away with her?”
“…”
The old man was choked for a long time before finally finding his voice: “Are you threatening me for a little girl?”
Luo Zhan replied casually: “Yes.”
The old man was so angry that he blew his beard and glared: “Okay, Luo Zhan, if you can, never come back to Luo’s house again.”
When Luo Zhan heard this, he laughed lazily: “I don’t have to go back to Luo’s house? That’s great.”
“Aren’t you afraid that I will cut off your financial resources?”
Luo Zhan snorted lightly: “Butler Lin has been watching some messy idol dramas with you during this time, right? If you have that time, why not listen to the general accountant at home report to you about the income and expenditure bills and see how my brother and I haven’t used your old family fortune for years.”
Old man: “…”
Luo Zhan added: “To be honest, I can transfer the money for the meals that I have eaten at home for the past two years to the Luo family’s account at any time – the matter of fulfilling the filial piety will be left to my brother from now on. Don’t worry about me; delete my phone number and let’s use the drift bottle method[1] to keep in touch.”
“——”
The old man was so choked that he couldn’t speak.
A few seconds later, the other side of the phone rang softly and hung up.
The study room in the main building of the Luo family was silent for a long time.
Butler Lin stood next to the desk, trying hard to hold back his laughter, and had to peek to observe the old man’s dark face: “Old sir, you know the young master’s temper now, so don’t go against him, okay?”
“Don’t go against the grain, are you going to continue to spoil him?” The old man reacted with a dark face, “Look at how you’ve spoiled him over the years – his tail is almost up to the sky!”
Butler Lin smiled and said, “It is inevitable to be arrogant if you are talented. What’s more, the young master is not only talented?”
“That’s right…” Mr. Luo nodded midway through his reaction and turned back to glare at Lin Yi angrily: “You are the one who has taken the lead in spoiling him!”
Lin Yi smiled bitterly: “If you say this, then I can’t complain, I can only admit it.”
The old man snorted coldly.
After a few seconds, he remembered something, turned around and asked, “What is the drift bottle connection this brat mentioned?”
The corner of Lin Yi’s mouth subconsciously raised. The old man glanced at it and quickly pressed it down. He lowered his head and said in a serious tone: “The drift bottle is a way to make friends online.”
“How to make friends?”
“Yes.” Butler Lin briefly introduced the rules of the drift bottle.
The more the old man listened and thought about it, the less interesting it became.
After Lin Yi finished speaking, he frowned and asked, “Then what does this kid mean by saying this?”
“This,” Butler Lin raised his eyes to look at the old man, then lowered his head, “Do you really want to listen?”
“Nonsense. If I didn’t want to listen, why should I ask?”
Butler Lin coughed lightly and suppressed a smile: “It just means that we will not interact with each other in the future, but we will see each other again if we are destined.”
Old man: “…”
After a few dozen seconds, the old man turned back expressionlessly: “Next Friday night, I will ‘take’ Luo Zhan to visit the Tang family as planned.”
Lin Yi hesitated: “Wouldn’t this be inappropriate?”
“What’s inappropriate?” The old man snorted coldly, “I think he just needs to be dealt with, so it’s just right.”
“……Yes.”
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[1] A drift bottle is a very simple piece of scientific equipment, made up of an empty glass bottle with a watertight lid and a note inside it.