Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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The air was quiet.
Tang Ran waited for a long time but got no response. She was even more surprised: “Luo Luo? Why are you silent?”
“…”
In the darkness before Tang Ran’s eyes, someone sighed softly from above her head, with a lazy, helpless, and self-deprecating smile: “You are such a scoundrel, little girl.”
Tang Ran: “Hmm?”
Luo Zhan grasped the girl’s slender wrists and easily clasped both of her hands in his palms.
After clenching his fist to avoid any more unexpected situations like the one just now, he raised his eyelids and smiled: “It’s like before the game, the opponent is still counting down, having just shouted 543, and you have already started – isn’t this cheating?”
Luo Zhan spoke lazily while slowly calming his heartbeat and breathing while the girl wasn’t paying attention: The memory of this dark history of having my heartbeat speed up when I was kissed on the back of my hand must be erased as soon as possible, otherwise I don’t know how the girl after coming to her senses will laugh at me in the future.
Tang Ran had no idea what the young master in front of her was thinking. She was successfully distracted and explained blankly: “But I didn’t compete with you.”
Luo Zhan said: “You asked a question, I gave you an answer, and then added a standard to measure and a test to judge by the standard – isn’t this a competition?”
“…”
This casual sophistry quickly confused the little girl, who had never interacted with her peers and had never experienced any debate situation, into a fog.
Seeing Tang Ran’s expression gradually becoming dazed, Luo Zhan, who had calmed down his disordered heartbeat, curled the corners of his mouth——
After all, she was still a gullible girl. He had to keep a closer eye on her in the future and make sure she didn’t get cheated by others.
In these few seconds, Tang Ran had already sorted out the logic behind Luo Zhan’s words. She nodded seriously: “You are right.”
Luo Zhan continued without any guilt: “In a situation like the one you just started suddenly, being frightened would also cause your heart rate to speed up. That’s why I said you were just like cheating before the game.”
Tang Ran was a little embarrassed: “Did I scare you?”
Luo Zhan felt guilty for a second: “Not too much.”
“However, there is one thing you didn’t mention.” Tang Ran looked up.
“Um?”
Luo Zhan was not worried.
When it came to sophistry, with his intelligence, there was no way he could be defeated by a little girl.
Then Luo Zhan saw the little girl looking up at him, her eyes slightly bent, revealing a shallow, soft dimple on her cheek: “If it’s you and me, there’s no need for a competition.”
Luo Zhan was slightly startled: “Why?”
“Because I’m definitely the loser.” The little girl smiled lightly, “When you touched my head just now and called me an ungrateful little wolf, my heart started beating faster and my palms turned wet.”
“…”
Luo Zhan paused again.
The girl was completely unaware: “Maybe it’s because my excitement threshold is lower than yours, so…”
The remaining words gradually drifted away into the sky.
Ten seconds later, when Luo Zhan came back to his senses, he heard his heartbeat, which had just calmed down, speeding up again like a drum.
Luo Zhan’s hand was holding Tang Ran’s wrist. Perhaps the effect of solid sound transmission brought the little girl’s keen hearing to the best use. As they were talking, Tang Ran stopped in confusion.
She concentrated for a few seconds, then looked at Luo Zhan in confusion: “Luo Luo, are you feeling unwell in your heart today?”
“…”
Luo Zhan was silent.
After a few seconds, he lowered his head and suddenly laughed hoarsely: “No, I lost.”
Tang Ran: “Ah?”
Luo Zhan let go of one of Tang Ran’s hands, pulled up the other one, and pressed it against his chest.
This familiar posture made Tang Ran stunned and made her forget to struggle. When her slender fingers were completely covered by his hand and pressed tightly against the thin shirt, Tang Ran felt the gradually rising heat in her palm and could hear the heartbeat inside most clearly.
Luo Zhan lowered his eyes, tracing the girl’s eyebrows and eyes, and he smiled:
“Did you hear how excited it is?”
“……”
The little girl’s face slowly turned red.
“Now you know why it jumps so fast?”
“…”
The low, hoarse, laughing voice inexplicably penetrated into her heart through her ears, tickling her heart. Tang Ran blushed and wanted to pull her hand back.
Luo Zhan obviously didn’t want to be a human being at this moment, and he held the little girl’s hand and refused to let go at all.
He smiled lazily and leaned on the handrail of the stairs. “I was lying when I said I was scared. My heartbeat quickened because of that kiss from you. If you continue to tease me like that, I might actually get heart trouble, like being overexcited and being sent directly to the hospital. So I decided to give in first.”
Tang Ran tried for a long time to pull her hand back but failed. Finally, the little girl gave up and retorted with a red face: “You said it yourself that your and Luo Xiu’s excitement threshold is much higher than that of normal people, so I wanted to try it.”
“Yes, that’s what I said.” Luo Zhan admitted generously.
Tang Ran frowned slightly: “But if it was because of me, then you obviously responded to this slight stimulation, and there should have been a process of accelerated secretion of neuromodulators.”
Luo Zhan: “That’s different.”
Tang Ran: “What’s different?”
“…”
Luo Zhan lowered his eyes and smiled.
Luo Zhan said: “Other people’s actions are external stimuli, which may promote the secretion of dopamine in ordinary people, but it has no effect on me.”
Tang Ran: “You obviously have…”
Luo Zhan: “You are different.”
Tang Ran: “?”
“The actions you make are not external stimuli.” Luo Zhan smiled and leaned over, “To me, you are dopamine itself, the source of all my pleasure and excitement.”
“…”
Tang Ran was stunned.
Luo Zhan asked: “So do you think that when you do those actions or say those words to me, I will still have no reaction?”
After a long silence, Tang Ran finally mustered up the courage to quietly ask the question in her heart: “Why am I dopamine to you?”
Young Master Luo didn’t even think about it: “Of course it’s because of me fe——”
The second before the answer in his heart came out instinctively, Luo Zhan stopped himself in time.
He felt as if two huge mountains were suddenly pressing down on his shoulders:
The one on the left said “16 years old”.
The one on the right said “Starting from Three Years”.
Luo Zhan: “…”
The young master was hit so hard that his face was covered in dirt and he felt extremely embarrassed.
After a few seconds of silence, he spoke with gritted teeth, “Because I’m kind, eager to help others, and overprotective, I tend to get Stockholm syndrome every time I see you, and I feel uncomfortable if I don’t give you friendly assistance for a day.”
Tang Ran was amused by him and laughed: “Actually, I think so too.”
Luo Zhan: “.”
Luo Zhan: “?”
Tang Ran smiled with her eyes curved. “Because there has never been anyone like you around me. Grandma came to me at first because she was hired by the Tang family, but later we got along well and developed a deep relationship… Only Luo Luo is different.”
Luo Zhan was speechless for a long time, and asked in a low voice: “What’s the difference?”
“From the beginning, Luo Luo treated me well without asking for anything in return. Obviously, I couldn’t give you anything in return.” Tang Ran said, “Later, you were the only one who found me in the rain, and you were the only one who would accompany me and talk to me patiently. You helped me with the robot, took me to see an eye doctor, and said you would be a wishing well for me…”
The little girl paused here. After a few seconds, her voice choked slightly, but she still laughed.
“At that time, I thought that Luo Luo was not the proud and cold young master that everyone said he was. He must be very soft-hearted and kind, so he comforted me and accompanied me like this.”
The air was quiet for a few seconds.
“It’s me.” Luo Zhan suddenly spoke.
“?” Tang Ran, who was immersed in her emotions, raised her head slightly.
Then she heard someone sighing, “I am just like what they say. I am cold, arrogant, indifferent, and not serious. I don’t care about anyone and I don’t care about anything… I don’t have the slightest bit of ‘kindness, enthusiasm, or willingness to help others’.”
Tang Ran came back to her senses and argued anxiously: “Luo Luo is obviously very gentle and kind——”
“I’m only like this for you.”
Luo Zhan interrupted her.
His voice was slow, solemn, and serious:
“I only treat you like this, not because I’m nice, but because of you, understand?”
“…”
Tang Ran listened in a daze.
This was also the first time someone had said something like this to her.
Luo Zhan said:
“Because you deserve it, Tang Ran. You deserve all the gentleness and best things in this world.”
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