Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Tang Ran lowered his head in silence.
The stairs were quiet for a few seconds before Luo Zhan heard the little girl say in a low voice: “You are lying to me.”
Luo Zhan: “I’m not lying to you, it’s true.”
“You are lying to me. How could there be such an unscientific folk remedy?” The little girl stuttered in anger.
Luo Zhan couldn’t help laughing at the little girl’s serious expression as if she was discussing academic issues, but he tried to hold it back: “The science you are talking about is medical science. My folk remedy also has science, but it’s not the same subject as the one you are talking about.”
Tang Ran hesitated for a few seconds but couldn’t resist her curiosity. She looked up and asked suspiciously, “What subject are you talking about?”
Young Master Luo smiled lazily and began to talk nonsense: “Psychology.”
“Ah?”
“Psychologically speaking, being kissed can stimulate the brain to produce pleasant emotions, which will help the sensory system ignore the pain to a certain extent.”
“…”
Tang Ran fell into deep thought after hearing this.
Although she doubted the reliability of this folk remedy, what Luo Zhan said seemed to make sense.
Luo Zhan looked at the little girl in deep thought and wanted to tease her even more: “Why, you don’t believe what I said?”
As Luo Zhan spoke, he walked down two steps and stood beside the handrail of the next step down from Tang Ran. He turned sideways and pressed the wooden stair railing to block the space behind Tang Ran to prevent the little girl from stepping on the air and falling.
Then Luo Zhan smiled lazily: “Which of these words do you not believe? I will explain them to you.”
Tang Ran was silent for two seconds, then asked softly, “Why does kissing stimulate the brain to produce pleasant emotions?”
“…”
The air in the darkness was silent for a few seconds, and then a muffled, joyful laugh was heard.
Tang Ran was confused: “What are you laughing at?”
“Because this is a particularly good…” Luo Zhan paused, “Academic question.”
Tang Ran pursed her lips and said nothing.
She felt that Luo Zhan was not praising her question, but rather mocking her.
Luo Zhan could see that the little girl was a little annoyed by his teasing, so he coughed softly to restrain his indecent teasing. After thinking for a few seconds, he said, “There are some neuromodulators in the brain that affect people’s emotions. Kissing only affects the secretion of these neuromodulators, and other behaviors can also achieve the same effect.”
Tang Ran: “Neuromodulation?”
Luo Zhan patiently explained to the little girl: “Well. For example, some of the excitement-promoting neuromodulators, when the brain is stimulated by some external stimuli to produce a regulatory response and its secretion increases, it can enhance the contractility of the myocardium, thereby increasing cardiac output, speeding up blood flow throughout the body, stimulating follow-up reactions at all levels of the system, and finally…”
Luo Zhan raised his hand and tapped the little girl’s forehead. “It will tell you that you are in an excited state with a faster heartbeat, rapid breathing, wet palms, and heat all over your body.”
Tang Ran always had an endless thirst for knowledge in unfamiliar fields that she had never been exposed to. Usually, few people would chat with her, let alone patiently explain to her the questions she was curious about like Luo Zhan did.
So when Luo Zhan started talking, she seemed to have forgotten all the previous unpleasantness and listened to him wholeheartedly.
After listening, Tang Ran asked curiously: “Do you also have this state?”
Luo Zhan looked at the little girl in surprise: “Why are you asking me?”
“Because you seem to know a lot about it.”
“I won’t.”
“Hmm?” Tang Ran was at a loss, “Why?”
“…”
Luo Zhan thought for a moment, then lazily lowered his eyes and smiled: “Maybe it’s inherited from the Luo family? Luo Xiu and I have never experienced this emotional stage. The secretion of this hormone requires a certain threshold of reaction to the outside world – you can understand it as our growth environment makes the lower limit of our threshold to reach a sufficient level much higher than that of other people, and it is difficult to get enough stimulation – the external stimulation that would make most people blush and have a heartbeat reaction is not enough for us, so it is difficult for us to get excited.”
Tang Ran thought about it, nodded, then shook her head and corrected seriously: “Everyone says that Luo Xiu has a very gentle personality, unlike you…” The girl paused here.
But it was too late.
Luo Zhan narrowed his eyes slightly, leaned forward slowly while holding onto the handrail of the stairs, and asked dangerously, “What’s wrong with me, little girl?”
Tang Ran lowered her head and put on a serious expression as if she would never speak.
Luo Zhan raised his hand in anger and amusement, ruffling her long hair: “Am I not gentle to you? All my gentleness is given to you alone, you ungrateful little bast**d.”
“…”
Tang Ran still pursed her lips and said nothing, but her cheeks under her long hair were slowly turning a little rosy.
She counted her own irregular heartbeats and felt the slight heat in her palms, which was a bit strange and unexpected.
Was this what Luo Zhan said about the brain’s reaction to external stimuli?
This feeling seemed to be quite good indeed.
Luo Zhan lowered his hand and said, “But don’t be fooled by Luo Xiu. It’s harder for him to respond to external stimuli than it is for me. That man only looks gentle. Judging from the coldness of his heart, he is probably at the level of an iceberg.”
Tang Ran was stunned and looked up: “Why is this happening?”
Luo Zhan’s eyes turned cold.
After a moment, he sneered, “The Luo family’s elite education is sh*t. Children must be separated from their biological parents only 12 months after birth and cannot have close contact until they are 7 years old. This can completely get rid of the dependence mentality of childhood and they then use this stage to develop the intelligence of children who are still in a fluctuating period to the maximum extent through professional training.”
Tang Ran was stunned when she heard this: “But this doesn’t seem like raising a child.”
Luo Zhan lowered his eyes and sneered, “Yeah, it’s like raising a Gu.”
“…”
Tang Ran didn’t know what raising a Gu meant, but she had a hunch that it wasn’t a good word.
Luo Zhan didn’t know what he was thinking about, but his eyes, which were changing emotionally, suddenly stopped.
After a few seconds, he lowered his eyes slightly and whispered, “Originally, I would have had the same personality as Luo Xiu, but I am luckier than him.”
Tang Ran asked curiously: “Why?”
“Because…” Luo Zhan raised his eyes, slowly brushing across every inch of the girl’s facial features and fell on her lightly closed eyes.
Those eyes used to be beautiful.
Luo Zhan felt a pain in his body, and he couldn’t help but frown. But he still stared at the girl’s eyes like self-torture, refusing to look away.
“Because something happened when I was 11.”
Tang Ran suddenly realized: “Is it the time when you fell off while learning horse riding and were seriously injured and unconscious for a long time?”
“…”
Tang Ran frowned and said, “If I were Grandpa Luo, I would just hope that you live well and I wouldn’t care about anything else.”
“…” Luo Zhan clenched his fists slightly.
Tang Ran didn’t notice it. After thinking about it, she bent her eyes and smiled: “But this can be regarded as a blessing in disguise, Luo Luo? Then Grandpa Luo must be especially indulgent to you in the future, so you have the personality like the rumors say. This is also good-“
“Not good.”
Tang Ran’s words were suddenly interrupted by Luo Zhan.
Tang Ran was stunned, her smile disappeared, and she looked up uneasily – the tone of the person who interrupted her was really too harsh, and it seemed to contain a cold and unwilling restlessness.
It was the first time that Tang Ran felt such a scary negative emotion from Luo Zhan.
Then she heard the man repeat through gritted teeth: “Not good at all.”
Tang Ran was a little scared: “Luo Luo…”
Luo Zhan raised his eyes, his eyes struggling with conflicting and painful emotions. After a long while, he said in a hoarse voice: “Tang Ran, I would rather die than want such a blessing in disguise.”
“…”
Tang Ran was silent. After a few seconds, she slowly lowered her head and said, “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have said that. It must be painful to fall off a horse. If it were me, I would be scared too.”
Luo Zhan’s emotions were suppressed to the extreme, and the corners of his thin peach blossom eyes had turned red.
If that kind of pain was considered…then how painful would an accident that was enough to make a child blind be?
He hated himself for not being able to remember it until now. The pain in that memory was borne by this delicate and fragile little girl in front of him alone, and he was not even qualified to explain his identity to her because he could not remember it.
Luo Zhan’s silence made Tang Ran uneasy for a long time.
After some hesitation, the little girl finally mustered up the courage to speak and comforted him in an awkward manner: “Those things are in the past, Luo Luo. You are doing well now, and you will get better and better in the future…”
Luo Zhan looked at the girl’s peaceful face. After a long silence, he whispered, “Yeah. Everything will be fine in the future.”
“…”
Tang Ran showed a hesitant expression.
She could tell that Luo Zhan was still in a very low mood. According to him, there was a way to stimulate the secretion of neuromodulators in his brain and produce excitement…
Tang Ran hesitated for a long time and asked softly, “If I kiss the back of your hand, will you secrete a lot of those neuromodulators and then mobilize your emotions?”
Luo Zhan was brought out of his depressed mood by the girl’s words.
The devil Luo in his heart had long been trampled under the feet of the angel Luo who was full of self-blame and guilt. He said helplessly: “That was just a joke.”
“Ah,” the little girl sighed in disappointment, “I really thought a kiss could stimulate the brain.”
“In theory, it is possible.” Luo Zhan said, “Kissing is a kind of sexual stimulation… a kind of stimulation. This type of stimulation has a high efficiency and great impact on the brain’s neuromodulatory substances, and it can often be achieved by only visual input.”
For example, some members of the INT team were deeply fond of a certain short film…
Luo Zhan narrowed his eyes slightly, and mentally put these members into the list of “to be isolated from contact with Tang Ran from now on”.
Tang Ran didn’t know that someone had already drawn a protective circle around her. She looked up curiously and asked, “Then why did you say no just now?”
Luo Zhan lowered his eyes slightly: “Didn’t I say that because of the environment in which Luo Xiu and I grew up, our threshold range for external stimulation is generally high – just like the visual stimulation I mentioned, we basically don’t react at all.”
Tang Ran was stunned: “Is that so?”
“Well,” Luo Zhan nodded, “So kissing the back of the hand is just the lowest threshold of stimulation for ordinary people, and it won’t have any effect on us-“
“Yeah.”
The back of Luo Zhan’s hand, which was held by the girl’s hands, was lightly wet.
Luo Zhan froze.
A few seconds later.
Tang Ran felt the pulse under the fingertips that had not yet left, and looked up in confusion:
“Luo Luo, your heartbeat has quickened a lot.”
Luo Zhan: “…”
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