Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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The receptionist quickly ended the call with her colleague.
After hanging up the phone, she looked up apologetically.
“I’m really sorry, Mr. Luo. According to my colleague, the data of the lady you accompanied had an instrumental deviation after the last examination. Because it may affect the diagnosis results, to be on the safe side, we still hope that she can go for a routine blood test again.”
“Instrument deviation?” Luo Zhan frowned, his voice cold, “Deviation in precision medical equipment is not a small problem. Are you sure that it is enough to just redo the blood test?”
As the receptionist on the floor dedicated to President Jia Junxi, this receptionist was obviously encountering such a fierce and difficult patient’s family member for the first time.
She was embarrassed for a long time and could only apologize: “I’m sorry, Mr. Luo, it should be just a temporary malfunction of the testing equipment for a certain indicator… This is our mistake, please forgive me.”
Tang Ran grabbed the corner of Luo Zhan’s clothes and pulled it lightly in the dark.
Luo Zhan’s emotions softened subconsciously. He lowered his head towards the girl and asked slowly, “What’s wrong?”
On that handsome face, the boy’s eyes changed from cold and sharp to deep and gentle at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The receptionist, who was almost stuttering because of Luo Zhan’s cold eyes, said: “……?”
Was the difference in treatment between people so great?
Tang Ran couldn’t see the change in Luo Zhan’s expression, so naturally she didn’t know the psychological gap that the receptionist was feeling at the moment, or the complicated look she was giving her.
She just pulled Luo Zhan’s sleeve, stood on tiptoe and whispered: “It’s just a little more, it’s okay.”
Luo Zhan frowned: “It will hurt.”
Tang Ran smiled: “Luo Luo, you are already twenty years old, are you still afraid of the pain from needles?”
Luo Zhan lowered his eyes as he recalled the injuries he had sustained in the fight with those people in the parking lot last month in order not to delay his performance as the bionic robot for the little girl, which had not yet fully healed.
“I don’t want to see you in pain.”
Then he raised his hand, touched Tang Ran’s head, and sighed with a smile.
“…You little ungrateful bast**d.”
“?”
Tang Ran didn’t understand.
Luo Zhan said: “Since you are not afraid, I will take you to do it again.”
Luo Zhan helped the little girl to the front desk. By the time his gaze turned back to the receptionist, the smile in his eyes had faded.
“Can I just go downstairs with her to do the blood test?”
The receptionist handed over a form with a frustrated look on her face. “Please take this over here. We need the family members to sign at the end. Are you a family member of the patient?”
This familiar question made Luo Zhan pause.
The receptionist felt that this patient’s family member was not easy to deal with, so when she saw that he didn’t say anything, she picked up the appointment registration folder and opened it.
Following Luo Zhan’s appointment information, she read it carefully and ran her fingertips across it: “The patient’s family relationship is sister… brother-in-law?”
Luo Zhan: “.”
After a few seconds, Luo Zhan narrowed his eyes slightly and looked down at the little girl beside him.
The little girl had turned her face away guiltily a few seconds ago, and now only left the back of her head to Luo Zhan.
Luo Zhan felt both angry and amused.
“Next time…”
After waiting for a few seconds and hearing nothing, the little girl couldn’t help but turn around out of curiosity: “What will happen next time?”
Luo Zhan held the pen and remained silent.
Tang Ran waited for a long time.
The signature pen moved across the paper so quickly that one could imagine how neat and graceful the handwriting was.
When Tang Ran was wondering what Luo Zhan would look like when he wrote, she heard the man sneer helplessly.
“We’ll talk about it next time.”
Even if there really was a next time.
The probability was that he still won’t be able to do anything to her next time.
“The resources of domestic corneal donation banks are limited, and the queuing process is very strict. It is difficult to obtain donations in China.”
After the follow-up visit, Jia Junxi said this on the way to see Tang Ran and Luo Zhan out.
Luo Zhan and Tang Ran had different reactions to this statement. The little girl was obviously not surprised at all, just a little disappointed as expected.
As for Luo Zhan beside her…
Looking at the frowning boy, Jia Junxi’s eyes moved, and he deliberately asked in a nonchalant tone: “Are you planning to ask, ‘Can I give her my cornea?'”
“!”
Tang Ran was so frightened that she froze.
Fortunately, a few seconds later, she heard Luo Zhan, who had come back to his senses, sneer: “I’m not ignorant of the law. How could I not know that living donation is illegal in China?”
What Jia Junxi couldn’t stand the most was Young Master Luo’s unruly temper. So, he sneered: “Did you check it out specifically? If it’s not illegal, you would do this?”
Tang Ran, who had just recovered, was shocked again.
This time Luo Zhan finally couldn’t help it.
He chuckled and turned to look at Tang Ran who was holding his wrist: “Little girl, can you be any less courageous? You get scared every time he says that?”
“…”
Compared with Luo Zhan’s rationality and calmness, Tang Ran felt that she seemed a little easily frightened, so she blushed a little embarrassedly.
Luo Zhan was still teasing her: “You believe in my kindness to you so much that you think I’m going to lose my mind?”
“…”
Another layer of bright color was applied on the red.
Jia Junxi finally couldn’t bear it anymore and started coughing with a dark face.
When Luo Zhan turned his head back with a half-smile, he saw Jia Junxi glaring at him coldly: “You are indeed rational and sober enough. I thought you were one of those young people who watched too many Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils[1] and always wanted to learn from You Tanzhi.”
“…”
Luo Zhan didn’t say anything and just focused on helping the little girl walk.
Tang Ran asked curiously: “Luoluo, who is You Tanzhi?”
Luo Zhan said: “A fictional character in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils. He gave his eyes to a blind woman.”
Tang Ran was so scared that she stopped talking.
The head of the family, who was not criticized, narrowed his eyes unhappily, turned away and snorted, “Yeah, how could there really be a person like You Tanzhi in reality? Who could do this for a little girl who is not related to him?”
“…”
Luo Zhan raised his eyes and said, “Dean, you are still angry about your disciple’s incident.”
Jia Junxi replied calmly: “I just feel uncomfortable when I see you acting like you have everything under control and have never been frustrated.”
“Then there’s no point in you saying that.”
Jia Junxi was silent for a few seconds, then turned his head to look at the little girl who was walking quietly with her arm around Luo Zhan’s.
He looked away regretfully.
Indeed, the little girl probably didn’t even have a vague idea of what Luo Zhan was thinking about her, let alone expecting her to wake up after listening to his own provocations.
“But it’s not that I can’t do it.” Luo Zhan said suddenly.
Jia Junxi paused and glanced sideways: “Are you thinking of making amends for yourself now? It’s a little late.”
Luo Zhan raised his eyes, smiling: “I never considered that crazy idea because I knew she wouldn’t accept it.”
Jia Junxi paused and asked: “Are you trying to save face?”
Luo Zhan sneered: “If you don’t believe me, ask her.”
“…”
The little girl nodded vigorously before he could finish speaking.
Luo Zhan lowered his eyes to look at the well-behaved girl and couldn’t help laughing, “If I really did that, she’s so soft-hearted… she’d cry until her eyes are broken again.”
Jia Junxi inexplicably felt as if he was choked by something.
He didn’t know that according to what young people today say, this thing was called serving invisible dog food.
Jia Junxi only knew that he felt a little angry after choking: “If she was willing, would you really be willing to give it to her?”
This time, without waiting for Luo Zhan to speak, the quiet little girl became anxious and pulled Luo Zhan’s hand to stop him, her face slightly flushed: “I don’t agree!”
“Okay, I know you don’t agree.”
Luo Zhan rubbed the little girl’s hair soothingly, then he frowned and glanced at Jia Junxi: “You are the elder, don’t tease a little girl who is not good at being teased.”
Jia Junxi sneered: “She doesn’t like to be teased or you don’t let others tease her?”
“Same.”
After arriving at the front desk, Tang Ran followed the receptionist to the high counter at the front desk to get the blind stick that had been deposited there.
A few steps away, Luo Zhan stood next to Jia Junxi.
“I can.”
“…”
The sudden words made Jia Junxi stunned. He turned his head and looked at the young man’s handsome profile. After several seconds, he finally reacted –
Luo Zhan was answering his question, “If she was willing, would you really give it to her?”
Jia Junxi was silent for a long time.
The young man in front of him had a half-smile on his face and had half-lowered his eyes. He was no different from the rebellious teenager in the academic debate a few years ago – except that when he looked at the little girl, he always looked lazy and unserious.
But when he heard him say that answer, Jia Junxi could feel it –
He was serious.
It was a joke that was a bit too much, especially when put on a serious person, and Jia Junxi himself didn’t find it funny.
He frowned, and then tried his best to choose a less serious and slightly mocking answer: “I didn’t realize before that the young master of the Luo family has the potential to be a lovesick man?”
“Not really. I owe her.”
Luo Zhan answered calmly.
After a few seconds, he looked away.
“I won’t do something so irrational. But there is one thing that I don’t need to say. Please keep it a secret for me, Dean.”
Jia Junxi didn’t understand: “?”
“…”
Luo Zhan thought about his wording.
After all, he was only a young man of twenty years old, and he hesitated before making that decision.
But he did it in the end.
Just like now.
Luo Zhan thought for a few seconds and smiled with relief.
He said calmly in a plain tone, “Early this month I signed the body organ donation agreement, and the cornea donation intention was directional.”
Jia Junxi was stunned.
“You……”
Luo Zhan’s tone was still flat, he just smiled lazily.
“I hope it’s not necessary. I didn’t feel that attached to being alive before, but then I met her… On the day I signed the agreement, I was thinking that I couldn’t let this agreement take effect. Otherwise, the little girl would be alone in this world that is not friendly to her at all. What if someone bullies her again? I can’t just jump out of some coffin and help her.”
It was the first time that Jia Junxi heard a young man of this age talk about the issue of life and death. Although he spoke with a smile, his words were spoken with a seriousness and confidence that showed who knew how long he had been thinking about it.
The more he listened, the more complicated his mood became, and he didn’t know how to respond for a moment.
“But if one day, it really becomes necessary.”
“…” Jia Junxi subconsciously turned his head to look over.
Luo Zhan had put his hands in his trouser pockets while he slightly narrowed his sharp and beautiful peach blossom eyes, as if he was imagining such a day.
After a long time, the corners of the peach blossom eyes drooped, and the boy smiled helplessly.
“That is the last gift I will leave for her in this world.”
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[1] Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils is a Chinese television series adapted from Louis Cha’s novel of the same title.