Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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After Lan Jingqian finished speaking, Luo Zhan, who was leaning on the sofa, didn’t raise his eyelids, but only raised the corners of his mouth. This silent and lazy smile carried a straightforward and undisguised mockery.
“Parents?” Luo Zhan’s voice was cold and indifferent. “If her parents really cared about her, it would not be my turn to care.”
Lan Jingqian raised his eyes unexpectedly: “A girl from an unfortunate family?”
Luo Zhan said nothing.
He held the thin-walled purple clay cup between his fingertips and turned it half a circle, his dark eyes showing fluctuating emotions.
In order to avoid the unknown grudge between Lan Jingqian and the Tang family, Luo Zhan never mentioned Tang Ran’s identity to him.
Lan Jingqian just thought that Luo Zhan was reminded of some unpleasant memories and didn’t mind.
He put down the cup in his hand and said, “Girls from such families are more sensitive than ordinary girls no matter how they look. Don’t hurt that little girl in the future.”
Luo Zhan raised his eyes, his expression was still lazy, but his eyes were serious: “She is indeed sensitive, beautiful but inferior. Because when I was not around before, she was hurt by too much maliciousness, so from now on, not only me, but no one else can hurt her as well.”
“…”
Lan Jingqian looked at Luo Zhan, who looked lazy but with youthful sharpness when he spoke and seemed to be in a trance.
“My male god, why are you looking at our brother Zhan like that?”
Tan Yunchang had always been very outgoing and Lan Jingqian had never put on airs in front of these teenagers, so he had no reservations when talking to Lan Jingqian.
Seeing Lan Jingqian come back to his senses, he smiled even more mischievously –
“Although our ancestor is a little too handsome, and he can attract men, women, old and young, but you are not bad either.”
Having met him several times, Lan Jingqian was already familiar with Tan Yunchang’s playful appearance. He shook his head and smiled: “I just feel a little emotional.”
Tan Yunchang: “What are you feeling?”
“The way he spoke, he was so arrogant…” Lan Jingqian picked up the teacup and pointed in Luo Zhan’s direction.
Tan Yunchang immediately nodded indignantly: “I understand you, my idol! When you see Luo Zhan opening his mouth and saying that he doesn’t care about anything and doesn’t want to talk to anyone, and that he is not targeting anyone and everyone here is trash, do you feel like finding his weaknesses and beating him to death, but you can’t find where to start!? I also–“
“Want to hit me?”
The words floated over from beside him, chilly and with a half-smile.
“You usually cover it up pretty well then.”
Tan Yunchang felt a chill in his heart.
After a few seconds, he turned his head with a stiff neck and smiled awkwardly: “How could that be possible, ancestor? How much do I respect you? Every time I see you so calmly and effortlessly crushing the whole audience, I can’t wait to turn into your fanboy, really.”
Luo Zhan sneered coldly, obviously not believing it.
Lan Jingqian “supported” Tan Yunchang at this time. He smiled faintly and nodded: “Indeed, a little bit.”
“!” Tan Yunchang’s eyes were full of “soulmate”, but because Luo Zhan was beside him, he was sensible enough to remain silent.
Luo Zhan lazily raised his eyelids: “At the international exchange meeting, President Lan took the initiative to come and talk to me.”
Lan Jingqian smiled: “Of course I remember. I said I admired you very much. At that time, all the people present were experts and masters in the field of AI in China. All the students who went with their instructors were very cautious. Some were so nervous that they couldn’t even speak English after going on stage…”
He held the cup, pointed at Luo Zhan with his finger, and smiled helplessly, sighing, “You were the only one who was different. It wasn’t just me at the time. How many people who attended the expert seats at the exchange meeting were discussing you?”
“Although I didn’t go over, just imagining the scene is enough…” Tan Yunchang smacked his lips beside him, “If I could have such a highlight moment in my life, it would be perfect.”
Luo Zhan: “Can’t you have some serious pursuits?”
Tan Yunchang felt wronged: “Why don’t I have any pursuits? Who is like you, my ancestor? Any frame in my life can be picked out at random, and they are all fu**ing highlights.”
After Tan Yunchang finished speaking, he turned to Lan Jingqian to find a sense of comradery: “What do you think, male god?”
Without waiting for Lan Jingqian to answer, he sighed again: “No, you must have been a little male god when you were young as well, probably on par with our ancestor.”
“No.”
“?” Tan Yunchang looked up unexpectedly.
Lan Jingqian leaned back on the sofa and smiled faintly: “I was impressed by Luo Zhan at that time, probably because of envy.”
Tan Yunchang: “???”
Even Luo Zhan was a little surprised and looked over: “You are successful and famous, why would you envy me?”
Lan Jingqian was silent.
He didn’t know which past event of his was touched upon, but the smile on that person’s face faded, and the coldness in his nature also emerged.
It took more than ten seconds for him to smile again.
“Young and promising and letting things take their course, although they lead to the same end, they are still different paths after all.”
Luo Zhan’s eyes brightened slightly, as if he understood something.
Tan Yunchang scratched his head in confusion: “Ah? But isn’t the result the same? My male god, you are so good now.”
Lan Jingqian smiled and didn’t mind pointing out: “On the road of letting things come naturally, there will eventually be too many missed opportunities due to inability to do so.”
He looked at Luo Zhan again: “I don’t know how many people will envy you like I do when they see you. After all, there are really few people in this world who deserve the word ‘blessings from nature’.”
Luo Zhan heard the vague reminder in Lan Jingqian’s words. He was used to it and just curled his lips lazily: “You can’t avoid it.”
Lan Jingqian asked: “If you can’t avoid it, what do you want to do?”
“Just go your own way and leave them far behind. Would a person be afraid of an ant?”
Luo Zhan said nothing serious and drank the tea in the cup which had finally cooled down a little.
Then he frowned, sighed softly, and looked at Lan Jingqian with disdain: “You are not that old, why do you like this kind of drink like my grandfather?”
Lan Jingqian laughed at the young man’s temperament, “I’m happy to do that.”
Tan Yunchang was silent for a long time, then said with a complaint: “My male god and my ancestor, you two are really close friends regardless of age, aren’t you? I can’t even interrupt you.”
Lan Jingqian smiled with a few faint wrinkles at the corners of his eyes: “Really?”
Tan Yunchang: “My male god, you are so calm, self-controlled and steady. But look at how you were smiling just now.”
Luo Zhan snorted coldly: “An incurable fanboy mentality.”
Tan Yunchang: “…”
Tan Yunchang learned from his mistakes and tried to be nice to Lan Jingqian again: “But my male god, you still have to talk to me about your innermost feelings. Luo Zhan has put all his skill points into his appearance and brains. He is a level 0 rookie in terms of emotions.”
Luo Zhan: “?”
Tan Yunchang: “Look, for example, the two sentences you just said have already been integrated into one thing by me.”
Lan Jingqian smiled: “Really? What did you integrate?”
Tan Yunchang winked at him and said, “My dear, had you ever been hurt by love when you were young?”
“…”
Lan Jingqian’s smile paused.
Luo Zhan didn’t take it seriously at first, but when he saw Lan Jingqian pause, he glanced at Tan Yunchang.
“How did you come to that conclusion?”
“Ah, ancestor, I just listened to my male god.” Tan Yunchang was very proud and counted on his fingers to Luo Zhan: “No matter how this kind of girl looks, she is actually more sensitive than others – you should treat her carefully.”
Luo Zhan curled his lips, “What else?”
“And just now, the feeling of different paths, how did the song go?” Tan Yunchang hummed with his eyes closed, “If I were young and successful without feeling inferior, I would know what is precious…”
Luo Zhan didn’t finish listening and looked at Lan Jingqian.
Just then, Lan Jingqian came back to his senses and said to him helplessly, “Classmate, it’s a waste of your talent to work in our engineering field.”
Tan Yunchang: “Hahahaha…my male god, I’ll take that as a compliment.”
Luo Zhan turned around and raised his eyebrows slightly: “So you have really been hurt by love? I have never heard you mention it.”
Lan Jingqian laughed, with a rare hint of mockery in his voice: “Why should I discuss it with you, a twenty-year-old who hasn’t even had a first love?”
Luo Zhan didn’t care: “Now I have.”
Tan Yunchang “cruelly” reminded him: “Ancestor, whether it is a single arrow or a double arrow that has not been made clear and the relationship has not started yet, I don’t think it can be considered first love.”
“…”
Luo Zhan glanced over lazily.
After a few seconds, he curled his lips and smiled sarcastically: “Whether this is considered a double arrow or not, it’s really not the turn of a single dog who can only watch from the sidelines to bring it up.”
Tan Yunchang: “…”
Tan Yunchang: “Pooh!”
Tan Yunchang wanted to say something when a cell phone rang in the private room.
The air was still.
Tan Yunchang opened his mouth subconsciously: “It’s not mine.”
Luo Zhan lowered his eyes lazily: “Mine is on mute.”
“Ah?” Tan Yunchang was distracted. “What if that little… uh, that little girl comes looking for you?”
Luo Zhan didn’t even raise his eyelids and said calmly: “Her ringer is a special reminder sound.”
Tan Yunchang: “…”
Well, you asked for this dog food.
Lan Jingqian smiled as he looked at the two of them. He had already taken out his phone: “Sorry, it’s my call. I’ll be back later.”
“Yeah, you can go ahead, my male god, business is more important!”
Luo Zhan: “Too flattering.”
Tan Yunchang looked back with a guilty conscience: “Is it?”
“Um.”
“…”
Lan Jingqian walked out of the box and the sound behind him was cut off, but his smile was not over yet, and so he answered the phone in a relaxed tone: “How come you thought of calling me when you are so busy, dean?”
“Jingqian.” Jia Junxi’s tone on the other end of the phone was unusually serious.
Lan Jingqian paused and slowly put away his smile.
Having known Jia Junxi for many years, he could naturally hear that something was wrong in his old friend’s voice.
Lan Jingqian walked to the corner of the corridor: “I’m listening, tell me, what happened?”
Jia Junxi was silent for a moment: “Do you remember what I told you when you came last week?”
“Yeah.” Lan Jingqian said, “You said there was something you needed to confirm. If you don’t call, then just pretend it never happened. I remember.”
“…”
On the other side of the phone, Jia Junxi was standing in his office, looking down at the DNA report in front of him.
After struggling for a long time with an uncertain expression, he slowly let out a sigh: “There is something I have been thinking about for a long time, but I really don’t know how to tell you.”
Lan Jingqian said helplessly: “Do we still need to worry about such trivial matters?”
“This is not a trivial matter.” Jia Junxi sighed, and he put the appraisal form in his hand back on the table. “After you returned to China, have you asked about the Tang family?”
Lan Jingqian’s expression changed slightly.
After a moment, he lowered his head and smiled faintly: “The Tang family is a thing of the past for me. I am not so petty about the past.”
Jia Junxi asked: “Tang Shixin has a daughter, did you know that?”
“Is it Tang Luoqian? I remember her. She was just a baby before I went abroad.”
Jia Junxi: “Then do you know that there is a second girl in the Tang family?”
Lan Jingqian paused: “A second one?”
Jia Junxi: “Well, there are rumors floating around that the girl is Tang Shixin’s illegitimate daughter outside, and she was brought back to the Tang family when she was 7 years old.”
Lan Jingqian instinctively sensed something was wrong and frowned, “How could the daughter that the Tang family really wanted to take back have been wandering around out there for seven years?”
Jia Junxi sighed.
“I asked someone to check Tang Shiyu’s medical records. Shortly after you went abroad 17 years ago, she was found to be three months pregnant.”
“And the girl from the Tang family is just 16 years old this year.”
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