Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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The entrance was silent for more than ten seconds before Lan Jingqian found his voice again: “Tomorrow, then——?”
“His friend said he would be freer on weekends.” The little girl’s face was flushed, but her tone was serious as if she was giving an academic report. “When I came out with my uncle today, I was trying my best to adapt to the unfamiliar environment and not be too scared. Then I will definitely perform better tomorrow than before!”
“…”
Being used as a test subject by the little girl, or testing how to get along better with a rascal who might have bad intentions towards the little girl…
The old father’s heart was broken.
Tang Ran was completely unaware.
She waited for a while, but didn’t hear the driver’s reply, so she took the initiative to speak: “Uncle, I’ll go put my coat back in the room first, you take a seat first.”
“Okay.” Lan Jingqian calmed down and said, “Do you need help?”
“No thanks, uncle.”
“…”
After Tang Ran finished speaking, she turned and walked towards the bedroom.
After returning to the room, she had just changed into her home clothes when the cell phone on her coat rang.
“Hello, there’s a phone call.” The AI assistant hiding in the closet spoke in a lazy and cold voice.
Thinking of the owner of the voice, Tang Ran was stunned for two seconds, and couldn’t help but curl up the corners of her mouth: “Luo Luo, who’s calling?”
“From the address book, note ‘store manager’.”
“Yes, connected.”
Tang Ran fumbled to take out the phone from her coat pocket and put it to her ear.
Tan Yunchang’s low voice came from the other side: “I’m sorry, Xiao Ran, we may not be able to send the robot over tonight.”
“Ah.” Tang Ran was stunned for two seconds, and asked worriedly, “Did something happen to Luo Luo?”
“…”
For a moment, Tan Yunchang didn’t react to which “Luo Luo” this was.
He peered through the crack in the laboratory door for two seconds, and after making sure that the shadow lying on the sofa was motionless, Tan Yunchang put his feet back and said, “Well, he’s not feeling well.”
Tang Ran was at a loss: “Luo Luo… is feeling unwell? Is there another bug?”
Tan Yunchang responded: “Ahem, no, it’s not the robot, it’s – oh, it’s Lin Qianhua. He is the only one in our laboratory who has a loader driver’s license. Others can’t drive, so we can’t send the robot over tonight.”
Tang Ran suddenly realized: “Is that so. Is he okay?”
“Not dead.”
“……?”
Tan Yunchang snorted in disdain and walked out from the inner door, shaking his head and muttering as he walked.
“He really thinks he is indestructible. He didn’t sleep all night last night, and this morning he probably took a nap for less than two hours before getting up again. He also worked on algorithm optimization all day. I think he is not sleeping now, but unconscious.”
Tang Ran was stunned for several seconds: “Lin Qianhua…” She felt impolite halfway through, so she quickly added, “Brother Lin Qianhua, is he so hardworking?”
“…”
Tan Yunchang glanced guiltily at the computer desk he had just passed by – Lin Qianhua, who was sitting behind him, vaguely heard his name and was now looking up at him blankly.
“Well, it’s okay. He doesn’t work so hard every day.” Tan Yunchang turned around. “It’s just that his relationship has been a bit bumpy recently. He has to try to make the girl happy while working in the laboratory. He can’t be in two places. Plus, he happened to be feeling jealous because of that girl these past two days…”
Tang Ran felt sympathetic after hearing this: “Then let him have a good rest. It doesn’t matter if you don’t send Luo Luo over these two days.”
Tan Yunchang: “Well, I will pass it on. Sister Tang Ran, you should also go to bed early. Luo Zhan will pick you up tomorrow morning.”
“Okay, goodbye, manager.”
Tang Ran hung up the phone and walked out of the room.
When she entered the living room, she heard her new driver ask doubtfully, “Xiao Ran, is there anyone else in your room?”
“Hmm? No.”
“I seemed to hear another voice just now?”
Tang Ran thought for two seconds: “Ah, it should be my smart voice assistant.”
Lan Jingqian paused and nodded: “Is that so?”
At that time, he felt that the vague voice was a little familiar…it should just be his illusion.
“Oh, uncle,” Tang Ran said regretfully, “I can’t introduce my robot to you today – the person who sent it has something tonight and can’t come.”
Lan Jingqian’s eyes moved slightly.
After a moment, he lowered his eyes and smiled gently: “It’s okay, let’s do it another day – this is the first time I’ve heard of a robot with such intelligence as you said. I will definitely not miss it.”
“…”
Tang Ran looked up into the darkness blankly.
The driver, whose voice had always been gentle, seemed to suddenly become a little sharp when he said this.
Lan Jingqian quickly hid the slightly cold edge in his eyes, and instead bent down with a smile and touched the top of the girl’s head.
“Then you take a rest, Xiao Ran. Uncle won’t disturb you anymore.”
“Goodbye, uncle.”
“Well, bye.”
Lan Jingqian reluctantly lowered his hand and turned to leave the side house.
Luo Zhan’s sleep was indeed more like a coma.
When he woke up, he could only see that the whole room was in a blur and there was no light. He rubbed his sore shoulders and neck, slowly stood up, and stepped on the ground with his long legs wrapped in straight trousers.
After bending over and rubbing his temple for two seconds, the young man’s eyelids suddenly twitched in the darkness.
His wrist then fell in front of his eyes.
The watch automatically sensed and lit up in the dark. The time on the dial showed 20:42.
“…Tsk.” After a low murmur of annoyance, the young man on the sofa suddenly stood up, picked up the coat draped over the back of the sofa, and walked out with long strides.
The door from the inner room to the outer room was suddenly opened.
The few people who were still outside were startled and stopped what they were doing and looked over.
“…Brother Zhan?”
Luo Zhan frowned, suppressing the gloomy irritability in his eyes: “Where are Lin Qianhua and Tan Yunchang?”
“They just went out—”
“Hey, ancestor, are you awake?” The outer door of the laboratory happened to open at this moment, and Lin Qianhua and Tan Yunchang walked in carrying two bags.
Luo Zhan frowned and walked over: “Let’s talk about it downstairs.”
“Hey, hey, hey, why are you going downstairs?” Tan Yunchang hurriedly stopped Luo Zhan who was about to pass by him, “I told Sister Tang that Qianhua is not feeling well tonight, so we won’t go over.”
“…”
Luo Zhan stopped moving.
After a few seconds he looked back and frowned.
Before he could speak, Tan Yunchang raised his hand and patted Luo Zhan on the shoulder. He sighed, “Ancestor, even if I owe you my life, I can’t repay it with someone as desperate as you.”
Luo Zhan: “What’s wrong with me?”
“Look at yourself, there’s a light blue color under your eyelids, and you’re still asking me what’s wrong?” Tan Yunchang said helplessly, “Even though you’re handsome, the dark circles under your eyes make you look decadent, like you’re wearing makeup – but you still have to cherish your life, right?”
Lin Qianhua nodded vigorously at the side.
Luo Zhan stood there for two seconds with his hands in his trouser pockets, and raised his eyelids helplessly: “Have you told her that you can’t go?”
“I said it. It’s been several hours since the phone call, and the matter is done.” Tan Yunchang spread his hands.
Luo Zhan lowered his head and groaned in dissatisfaction. He turned and walked to the sofa outside, threw himself in, and closed his eyes.
Tan Yunchang and Lin Qianhua looked at each other helplessly.
Tan Yunchang took the initiative to walk over and pulled a chair over. He straddled the chair and leaned against the back of the chair to persuade him, “Grandfather, don’t you feel that you have been working a little too hard recently?”
The young man on the sofa lazily closed his eyes and said nothing.
Tan Yunchang didn’t mind and continued, “I’ve seen you work hard on a project before. But I’ve never seen you work as hard as you have recently. You’re almost forgetting to eat and sleep and even your life.”
Luo Zhan still didn’t speak.
Tan Yunchang patted the back of his chair helplessly and sighed: “Sister Tang Ran is a good girl, why is it that when it comes to her, it’s like she has cast a spell on you?”
“…Get lost.”
Luo Zhan finally responded.
He opened his eyelids, his mood was obviously sleepy and irritable due to lack of sleep: “I chose it myself, what does it have to do with her.”
Tan Yunchang was both angry and amused: “You don’t even allow me to make a joke, and it has nothing to do with her?”
“…”
Luo Zhan raised his hand and took the energy drink handed to him by Lin Qianhua. After taking two sips, he drooped his eyes and leaned back on the sofa.
Holding the bottle in one hand and shaking it for a few seconds, Luo Zhan said in a low voice: “You were right about something you said before.”
Tan Yunchang: “?”
Luo Zhan raised his eyes, his pupils were as black as ink, and the corners of his mouth curled up lazily without knowing when, as if smiling: “I am repaying a life debt.”
Tan Yunchang froze.
When he came back to his senses, Tan Yunchang lowered his head and sighed: “Ancestor, isn’t your sense of guilt too serious?”
“Serious?” Luo Zhan leaned back on the sofa, sneered and lowered his eyes, “You are not the person involved, you don’t understand. Before her eyes are cured, I will always be the sinner.”
Tan Yunchang was helpless: “Then when she gets better, you will be released from prison?”
“……No.”
Luo Zhan leaned back into the sofa.
Looking at the scorching incandescent light, the young man did not retreat or avoid it. Instead, he stared directly into the dazzling light and smiled deeply with complicated emotions.
“When that day comes, it will be my day of judgment.”
Tan Yunchang was speechless for a long while.
After a few seconds, he shook his head, muttered “It’s hopeless”, and stood up and walked away.
Sunday, early morning.
After resting for a whole night, Young Master Luo finally recovered fully. He drove the dark blue supercar and, under the cover of Tan Yunchang and Lin Qianhua’s INT laboratory loader, arrived near the Tang family’s side residence.
Approaching the back door of the Tang Family compound, Luo Zhan left the supercar on the side of the road and handed it over to Tan Yunchang for care. Luo Zhan got on Lin Qianhua’s loader and quietly entered the back door next to the side house wearing a baseball cap.
The security team was already accustomed to the INT laboratory’s car and let it in without paying any attention.
The car stopped in front of an open space.
Luo Zhan got out of the car: “Wait in the car, I’ll pick her up.”
“Okay.” Lin Qianhua responded.
Outside the car, Luo Zhan looked at the unfamiliar black semi-convertible car next to him and slowed down his pace. He paused for a few seconds, and without stopping, he walked towards the side house not far away with his hands in his trouser pockets.
Then he arrived at the door.
Luo Zhan was just about to raise his hand to press the doorbell when he suddenly heard the sound of a little girl laughing from inside the door.
“…”
Luo Zhan paused suddenly.
After a few seconds, he narrowed his eyes slightly and slowly pressed the doorbell.
The laughter inside the door stopped.
After a while, the door opened in front of Luo Zhan.
Then the little girl’s expectant face appeared: “…Luo Luo?”
“Yeah.” Seeing the little girl sticking her head out, Luo Zhan couldn’t help but smile, “Good morning, Ran Ran.”
“Good morning.” Tang Ran blushed and stood there at a loss for two seconds, then thought of something. “Luo Luo, the new driver from old house came to have breakfast with me this morning. Do you want to say hello to him?”
“New driver here?”
Luo Zhan’s smile remained unchanged, but his eyes became dangerous——
“Of course. I’m looking forward to it.”
Tang Ran breathed a sigh of relief. She then opened the door and turned to the entrance behind her:
“Uncle, my friend is here.”
The door slowly opened.
Inside and outside the door, two men with dangerous expressions raised their eyes and looked at the “enemy” opposite them whose figure was gradually revealing itself.
Until their eyes met——
The air went silent.
Lan Jingqian: “……?”
Luo Zhan: “……?”
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