Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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“You still can’t forget her, can you?”
“Um.”
“Who else could it be? Of course it’s——”
Jia Junxi’s words stopped abruptly. After pausing for two seconds, he turned back awkwardly: “Huh?”
Lan Jingqian raised his eyes calmly, his expression calm: “I said, well, I can’t forget.”
Jia Junxi: “…”
Lan Jingqian: “Isn’t this the answer you wanted to hear?”
Jia Junxi coughed lightly and lowered his head to drink tea awkwardly: “No… Normal people should pretend to be stupid and ask who I’m talking about at this time. Why are you still playing by your own rules?”
“It’s not shameful to remember,” Lan Jingqian said, “There’s no need to pretend.”
Upon hearing this, Jia Junxi put down his teacup and sneered, “Isn’t this embarrassing? You are the founder and CEO of a startup company that has been listed as a high-quality asset, but you still can’t forget your ex-lover from more than ten years ago. Until today, you haven’t had a relationship again. Aren’t you afraid of being laughed at if you tell others about it?”
Lan Jingqian replied calmly: “Not afraid.”
When he said this, his eyes didn’t even waver.
Jia Junxi was speechless for a few seconds, then laughed: “Alright, alright, alright, I admit defeat. Mr. Lan is a man of high character, and his realm of thought is definitely not something that mortals like us can compare to.”
Lan Jingqian sighed: “If you don’t mock others, you won’t be able to speak.”
“That’s just me.” Jia Junxi turned away. After a moment, he turned back and asked casually, “Since you didn’t forget, then why didn’t you ask around about the situation over there?”
“…”
Lan Jingqian paused for a moment, then suddenly smiled without any warning.
This was the first time he showed such obvious emotional fluctuations since he entered the room
Jia Junxi curled his lips: “Come on. This has nothing to do with moral bottom line. I didn’t ask you to steal or rob. Even if it’s just an old friend from many years ago, is it strange to want to know about their current situation? Even if you know, you won’t do anything. How normal is that.”
Lan Jingqian said nothing.
Jia Junxi snorted softly and glanced at him meaningfully: “It’s you who are like this. You look calm and indifferent, but you completely block out all the people and things related to her from your personal world. I think it’s more like you can’t let it go and are afraid that you will do something if you hear a little news.”
After listening to this, Lan Jingqian thought about it and nodded: “You are right.”
Jia Junxi: “…”
Jia Junxi waved his hand in disdain and sat down on the sofa a little further away: “It’s really boring to argue with someone like you.”
Lan Jingqian just smiled and said nothing.
Seeing his old friend like this, Jia Junxi felt a little disappointed: “Have you ever thought that if you had a lower moral standard, maybe you and Tang Shiyu would have had a completely different ending?”
“…”
When he heard those three words, the smile on Lan Jingqian’s face paused for a moment.
It wasn’t the pain of having his scars exposed, it was just a loss of consciousness. For many years, all those who knew about it were very careful and never mentioned those three words in front of him. Now that they were mentioned, the most intimate whispers in the past made him feel as if he was in another world.
It turned out that even if some names were deeply engraved in our bones over the years, once we hear them from others, we will still feel as if we were struck by a bolt of lightning.
After all, the mark was too deep.
It couldn’t be erased or removed. It was crushed and melted into their bones and blood, so even if the breathing and heartbeat stopped, the person would still be there.
When you died and your body disappeared, that person would still be there in the ashes.
Lan Jingqian lowered his eyes and suddenly laughed.
After laughing, he shook his head: “I haven’t thought about it. My life is destined to be lonely, there is no if. Even if I have thought about it, who can give me a chance to start over?”
Jia Junxi said coldly: “So you didn’t think about it, or you don’t dare to think about it?”
“Unimportant.”
Jia Junxi: “I told you at the beginning that at worst you could get married with the baby, and the matter would be settled. That stubborn old woman couldn’t have any more curses to cast, but you just wouldn’t listen!”
“That would not have been good for her. The Tang family is respectable and won’t tolerate a daughter like this.”
Jia Junxi said angrily: “You cared too much about everything she had, so you ended up losing her!”
“…”
Jia Junxi regretted it as soon as he finished speaking.
Although he had always had a sharp tongue, he knew how much of a blow this incident had dealt to Lan Jingqian. Even when he mentioned it vaguely in the past, he was always careful. This was the first time he had worded it like this.
In the end, he was still troubled by the doubts about the little girl’s background.
Jia Junxi frowned and looked at Lan Jingqian, then lowered his head and rubbed the rim of the teacup unconsciously.
Lan Jingqian saw this when he came back to his senses and couldn’t help but smile: “What important issue are you struggling with?”
Jia Junxi was distracted for a moment and instinctively asked, “How do you know?”
Lan Jingqian pointed at the movement of his hands: “You were also like this when you were a student. Whenever you encountered a difficult decision, you would do the same thing.”
Jia Junxi looked down and saw that his finger had stopped at the edge.
After a few awkward seconds, he frowned and looked up: “I might give you a call in a few days.”
Lan Jingqian raised his eyebrows in surprise: “It’s related to me?”
Jia Junxi hummed perfunctorily.
After a few seconds of silence, he added, “There is one thing I want to confirm. If I call you, you will understand; if not, just pretend I didn’t say this.”
Lan Jingqian smiled calmly: “You are just as cautious as you were in college. You must have everything ready before you act.”
Jia Junxi snorted, turned away, and muttered in a low voice: “You’d better be able to laugh at that time.”
“…”
After seeing Lan Jingqian off, Jia Junxi returned to the office, picked up the phone on the desk and made a call.
As soon as the call was connected, the voice on the other end said, unsurprisingly: “Dean, I have obtained the two blood samples.”
“As long as everything goes well, send it for DNA testing as soon as possible.”
“Yes… But if the person concerned doesn’t give his permission, wouldn’t that be a bit of an invasion of privacy?”
Jia Junxi snorted: “I am different from my old friend. My moral bottom line follows my temper. In this matter, if I can help my friend of 20 or 30 years find his biological daughter, I will accept the invasion of privacy.”
“So, do you need to expedite it?”
Jia Junxi asked: “Is the probability of deviation greater if the process is expedited?”
“Yes.”
“Then proceed as normal – it doesn’t matter if it takes a few more days, but the accuracy must be as accurate as possible.”
“Understood, Dean. I will give you the results before next Sunday.”
“Good.”
After Luo Zhan drove Tang Ran away from Jia Junxi’s Eye Hospital, he set the destination of the car’s navigation to the coordinates sent by Tan Yunchang and drove there.
On the way, Luo Zhan received a call from Tan Yunchang and turned on the Bluetooth headset.
“Ancestor, when will you two arrive?”
“What’s the hurry?” Luo Zhan whispered.
“How can I not be anxious? Who can control the temper of the eldest daughter of the Tang family? Qianhua was circling on the overpass before, and she almost grabbed the steering wheel in the end! We had no choice but to drive down and find a random place nearby, saying that it was the destination we agreed to meet at.”
Luo Zhan glanced at the navigation and asked coldly, “We agreed on a place, but you just picked an amusement park?”
“This is just an emergency measure.” Tan Yunchang said helplessly.
Luo Zhan: “What should we do when the little girl goes there?”
Tan Yunchang took two seconds to react and scratched his head awkwardly: “I almost forgot about this… Can she walk with me? It’s not impossible for her to use the facilities. If they dare not let us, we can sue them for discrimination.”
Luo Zhan: “Let’s talk about it later.”
After two seconds of silence, Tan Yunchang asked, “I wanted to ask this from the beginning, ancestor, why is your voice so low?”
Luo Zhan paused, glanced at his side, and said in a cold and low voice: “She is asleep.”
“Oh, this is really——”
“Are you done? You hang up if you are finished. I’m still driving, so it’s not convenient for me to talk.” Luo Zhan interrupted.
Tan Yunchang was choked by the cold and heartless tone.
But before he could say anything, the voice on the other end of the phone suddenly softened without warning.
“Why are you awake? Did I wake you up?”
“…”
“Still sleepy? If you feel sleepy, then sleep a little longer.”
“…”
“Yeah, it’s okay, they’re not in a hurry.”
“…”
Listening to the gentle voice on the other end of the phone, which was completely different from the one just now, Tan Yunchang: “…”
Was Luo Zhan the contemporary descendant of the Sichuan Opera face-changing art family??
T/N: Oh Papa Lan is a romantic….
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