Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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“What the hell? You’ve had amnesia? Is that true?”
In the cool evening breeze, the voice coming from the mobile phone receiver startled the birds in the bushes opposite the terrace.
Luo Zhan, who was holding the mobile phone, was the first to be hit.
He was distracted by wondering whether the little girl standing on the other side of the terrace would be cold, when he was suddenly startled by the words from Tan Yunchang opposite him and almost threw his phone away.
Coming back to his senses, Luo Zhan frowned——
“I told you the conclusion directly, but you asked again, is it because the recent workload has pushed you to the limit of your brain capacity?”
“Oh, I’m just expressing my surprise.”
After Tan Yunchang finished speaking, he changed the subject and spoke in a heavy tone full of worry.
“But ancestor, your brain is an epic treasure of our laboratory. So many ideas and problems in the future will depend on it. Amnesia sounds too dangerous. Let me say this, shall we consider taking out insurance for your brain? I feel that your brain is worth tens of millions, so the insurance price should start at, at least tens of millions–“
Luo Zhan snorted coldly and interrupted Tan Yunchang: “It’s not over yet, right?”
“…It’s over.” Hearing the bad words, Tan Yunchang stopped for a second: “Ancestor, please continue.”
Luo Zhan: “Tell Qi Jin that there is no need to investigate the boy’s case.”
Tan Yunchang quickly responded: “Okay, I’ll notify him tonight.”
“Yeah. Nothing else, hang up-“
Tan Yunchang: “Hehe, then I’m still waiting to congratulate you, ancestor.”
Luo Zhan’s fingertips stopped before the hang-up button and paused for a second. He raised the phone to his ear again and asked lazily, “Congratulations on what?”
Tan Yunchang said as a matter of course: “Although you have lost your memory, it is better for that boy to be you than anyone else. Otherwise, if you really wait for sister Tang Ran to regain her eyesight and then pull another childhood sweetheart in front of her…tsk tsk, the ending will be hard to predict.”
Luo Zhan lowered his eyes.
After a few seconds of silence, he asked, “Is that all?” His voice was low and deep, and he obviously didn’t seem to be in a good mood.
Tan Yunchang asked in surprise: “You don’t sound very happy. Didn’t Tang Ran’s reaction to you being her childhood sweetheart meet your expectations?”
“…”
Luo Zhan narrowed his eyes slightly.
After a few seconds, he turned around without showing any expression. Luo Zhan leaned his back against the balcony fence and silently looked at the little girl in the dim light not far away.
The night was fading, blurring the girl’s silhouette. He could only vaguely see her long hair being blown by the night wind, and then the girl raised her hand to hook it as she gently pushed it behind her ear.
The men’s black contrast jacket she was wearing was obviously one or two sizes larger than her body shape. The sleeves hung down on both sides, and the tail covered her legs.
In the dim night, the girl’s figure looked even more petite.
Luo Zhan leaned against the fence, watching silently.
After waiting for a long time without any response, Tan Yunchang asked in confusion, “Hello? Is the line disconnected on my end? Why is there no response all of a sudden?”
“…No.” Luo Zhan came back to his senses and lowered his eyes, “I was distracted.”
Tan Yunchang: “…”
Tan Yunchang: “Allow me to speak a little nonsense. What were you looking at that distracted you, ancestor?”
Turning his eyes away from the little girl, the tall boy in front of the railing resumed his lazy and casual tone.
He turned sideways, leaned against the railing, and chuckled faintly: “So you also know it’s nonsense?”
Tan Yunchang felt a little annoyed: “Does she really look that good? Don’t you secretly watch her for two or three hours every night? And it’s a special show for a special person, with a special seat and ticket.”
Luo Zhan asked back: “Not good-looking?”
“Well, even if I had thirty guts, I wouldn’t dare to say that your little girl is not pretty,” Tan Yunchang paused and grinned, “Besides, sister Tang Ran is really good–“
Luo Zhan suddenly interrupted: “Shut up.”
Tan Yunchang: “?”
The young master sneered: “I am only allowed to say that she is pretty, you are not allowed to say it.”
Tan Yunchang: “…”
This guy was a real dog.
Luo Zhan obviously didn’t realize this, and calmly changed the subject: “Don’t make this public, especially in front of Tang Ran.”
“Ah? Why?”
Luo Zhan was silent for two seconds: “I haven’t told her that I am that person yet.”
“——?” Tan Yunchang was stunned for a long time, and asked hurriedly: “Why don’t you say it? She doesn’t blame you, but she really wants to see you, otherwise her birthday wish won’t be this.”
“I know.”
“Then why didn’t you say it?”
This time the silence was particularly long.
Then Tan Yunchang heard a cold and indifferent laugh from the other end of the phone, full of self-mockery, and another emotion that was buried deeper:
“How should I say, ‘I’m sorry, I’m the one you saved, but I left you alone in this ice hole waiting for ten years’?”
Tan Yunchang was speechless for a while, and reluctantly advised: “But it was not your fault.”
“If it’s not mine, whose is it?”
“No matter who it belongs to, you can’t keep the truth from her forever, right? You promised Sister Tang Ran that you would help her find her childhood sweetheart.”
Luo Zhan slowly stood up and walked towards the dimly lit corner: “I will tell her…when I have enough courage to speak.”
After hearing this, Tan Yunchang was speechless for a moment, and finally said helplessly:
“Ancestor, you are the omnipotent and ambitious young master in our hearts. Many girls who couldn’t get you joked that you were a male god. How could you still need courage one day? How can we mortals live like this?”
Luo Zhan was speechless and even stopped walking.
A few seconds later, he took a long step, lowered his eyes, and smiled: “I need courage. Is that weird?”
“That’s right.”
“…”
Luo Zhan raised his eyes and looked at the little girl who was very close to him.
She probably heard footsteps and slowly turned back.
The girl’s eyes were slightly closed. At such a close distance, Luo Zhan could even see her soft, slightly curled eyelashes, and the faint shadow under her eyelids.
“Luo Luo?”
The girl asked softly.
Her lips were slightly open and closed, with a faint blush on their color.
Made him want to kiss her carefully.
On the phone, Tan Yunchang was sighing: “If this gets out, you will be dethroned, ancestor.”
Luo Zhan came back to his senses.
He lowered his eyes and smiled resignedly, his voice low and pleasant.
“I am willing to do so.”
Tan Yunchang: “…”
K University, in the laboratory.
Facing the hung-up call, Tan Yunchang froze for several seconds before coming back to his senses viciously—
“Damn, bah, bah, a mouthful of dog food!”
The Tang family’s main residence, third floor.
Entering the corridor from the stairs and turning towards the tea room, Tang Ran hesitated for a few seconds and asked the person next to her softly: “Luo Luo, should we go in separately?”
“No need.” The man beside him said lazily, “Just say it was an accidental encounter.”
“……Um.”
“Afraid?” Seeing that the little girl was still a little uneasy, Luo Zhan turned back and asked.
“No, I’m not afraid…” Tang Ran shook her head subconsciously.
A low, hoarse laugh sounded beside her ear.
Tang Ran’s face turned red.
Two seconds later, she honestly changed her words: “A little scared.”
“Who are you afraid of?”
“…”
“The old woman who’s in charge of your family?”
“!” Tang Ran was shocked. No one in the Tang family would dare to say that about Old Lady Hang. She hurriedly raised her head and said to Luo Zhan, “You, you, you, keep your voice down. Don’t scream like that.”
“It seems like you are really scared.” Luo Zhan lowered his head and raised his hand to touch Tang Ran’s head. He suppressed his laughter, “Our little girl was so scared that she stuttered.”
Tang Ran’s face turned even redder, and it was unclear whether she was angry or embarrassed.
“However,” Luo Zhan couldn’t help but lower his tone when he remembered that Tang Ran was sent to an orphanage by Mrs. Hang herself, “She was not good to you. I am being polite by calling her that.”
Tang Ran hesitated: “But if you call her like that, others will just think you’re rude.”
Hearing this, Luo Zhan straightened up slightly, raised the eyebrows on that sinister face, and a cold and mocking smile flashed across his peach blossom eyes.
He sneered:
“Why do I care what they say about me?”
The rebellious temper of Young Master Luo, which had been suppressed for a long time, came to the fore and was fully exposed in this second.
Tang Ran was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly, without any warning, lowered her eyes and said with a smile: “I like Luo Luo.”
“——!”
Young Master Luo’s cold and mocking smile froze, and he instinctively lowered his head: “You…”
Tang Ran didn’t notice his change in mood. The smile on her face had turned into envy and yearning: “I also want to be like Luo Luo, to be very proud and not care about other people’s eyes and words. It must be very happy to live like that. It’s a perfect personality!”
“…”
Young Master Luo thought for a second with his “tens of millions worth of insurance” brain, and soon understood –
What Tang Ran wanted to express was no different from “I like Leonardo da Vinci because he drew eggs in a round way.”
Young Master Luo suddenly felt bored and his eyelids drooped lazily.
But before entering the tea room, he did not forget to reach out and ruffle the girl’s long hair, saying: “Everyone’s personality is unique. There is no scoring standard, and of course there is no full score and zero score. For example, you like my personality, and I like your personality too.”
Tang Ran asked in surprise: “Do you like my personality? But grandma said I’m too introverted, and everyone prefers lively and interesting girls…”
Tang Ran lowered her head in embarrassment, hiding her disappointment, “And I don’t understand anything, it’s very boring.”
“She’s talking nonsense.”
Luo Zhan frowned unhappily.
Tang Ran was stunned for a moment and looked up.
Luo Zhan also realized that his reaction was a bit excessive. So, he coughed softly and lowered his voice.
“I said, everyone’s personality is unique, there is no unified standard for judging it. Just like among all the people I have met, I only like your… personality.”
Tang Ran didn’t notice the strange pause.
She smiled with her eyes curved because of the rare recognition: “Although I know Luo Luo is just teasing me, I am still very happy.”
Luo Zhan disagreed: “It’s the truth, I’m not trying to fool you.”
Tang Ran chuckled: “I don’t believe it. How could you like someone so much that you only like one?”
“Of course. This is nothing.”
Tang Ran was stunned: “Is there anything more powerful?”
“Um.”
The young master spoke lazily and nonchalantly, “Some people like it too much and don’t even want to be human anymore.”
Tang Ran was at a loss: “Not wanting to be a human being, how serious is that?”
“Probably……”
Luo Zhan thought about it seriously.
“They wish they could hang a calendar on their chest, counting the next one or two years, and tear off a page every time a day passes.”
Tang Ran was even more confused: “Why would they want to tear up the calendar?”
“Because,” Luo Zhan poked his upper palate with the tip of his tongue, his eyelids drooped, and he laughed in a low, hoarse voice——
“Once they have finished tearing it apart, they won’t have to be a human anymore.”
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