Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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The autumn wind was bleak.
Outside the side house where Tang Ran stayed, the air between the two men standing opposite each other on the stone steps was so cold that it was almost frozen. It made people feel as if winter had come early.
After the dead silence, the silence was finally broken——
“Why are you here?” Lan Jingqian asked.
Luo Zhan: “I should be the one to say this.”
“If I remember correctly,” Lan Jingqian lowered his gaze a little bit, “Even if Young Master Luo has a relationship with the Tang family, he should be engaged to the one in the main house. If that’s the case, why did you appear in the side house, and how do you know Tang Ran?”
“……Laugh.”
The young master’s cold and indifferent expression was broken by a lazy and mocking smile. He lowered his head, put his hands in his trouser pockets nonchalantly, and took two steps forward while laughing.
Then he stopped in front of Lan Jingqian.
Luo Zhan slowly raised his head.
In his eyes, which were always lazy and careless, there was now the coldness of a wild beast whose territory had been invaded: “You are questioning me? In what capacity? The founder of Auto Technology, or the driver of the Tang family’s side house?”
At the end, the young man curled his lips.
Although he was smiling, the slightly tense muscles in his shoulders and arms showed that he was suppressing emotions that were on the verge of exploding.
——Lan Jingqian hid his identity and became Tang Ran’s driver. This incident undoubtedly touched Luo Zhan’s bottom line and high voltage line at the same time.
If he hadn’t been concerned that Tang Ran was in the side house right now and might show up at any time, Luo Zhan would probably have grabbed his “good brother” by the collar and pulled him aside to question him.
It was the first time that Lan Jingqian faced Luo Zhan like this – after taking off the coat that always made him look lazy and indifferent, the young man’s eyes were so sharp that they could cut people.
The layer of paper in Lan Jingqian’s mind was broken by this sharp poke:
“So, the little girl you and Tan Yunchang talked about before and the one you took to Jia Junxi for eye examination and treatment, that is, Tang Ran.”
“Yes.”
Luo Zhan responded with absolute certainty, the sharpness in his eyes not diminishing in the slightest.
“I’ve answered, it’s your turn. Why did you appear in the Tang family’s side house, and why did you become Tang Ran’s driver?”
Lan Jingqian did not answer but nodded slowly: “So the little girl you said you wanted to harm that day was also Tang Ran.”
Luo Zhan frowned, and raised a cold smile at the corner of his lips: “Does it have anything to do with you?”
Lan Jingqian had no expression on his face: “Very good.”
“——”
The two of them stared at each other without giving in.
There were flashes of swords and sabers in their eyes, the atmosphere was tense, and it seemed that a fight might break out in the next second.
“Squeak.”
The outer door of the side house was pushed open, and the little girl, who had changed into her coat, walked out slowly holding a blind stick.
She paused blankly facing the quiet darkness: “Luo Luo?”
“–I am here.”
Luo Zhan, who was confronting Lan Jingqian, didn’t even turn his head and answered instinctively.
He came back to his senses the next second, and under Lan Jingqian’s unexpected and thoughtful gaze, Young Master Luo rarely showed a little discomfort.
But soon, that emotion was suppressed by Luo Zhan.
He did not confront Lan Jingqian again but turned around and walked up the stone steps. Luo Zhan just stopped at the step below where the little girl was standing.
He instinctively took the cane from the girl, folded it and held it in his palm, holding up the girl’s hand with his right arm: “Are you ready to go?”
“Um.”
Tang Ran also habitually grasped the corner of Luo Zhan’s sleeves.
“Let’s go, then.”
“Good.”
“…”
At the foot of the stone steps, Lan Jingqian stood still a few steps away, watching this extremely skillfully coordinated set of movements, until the two figures, one tall and one short, walked past him, and he slowly narrowed his eyes.
After standing there for a few seconds, Lan Jingqian took a step forward and followed.
They then arrived at the open space for parking at the side house.
A few steps away, Lan Jingqian had already opened the door of the semi-convertible car with the remote control.
“Let Xiao Ran get on my car.”
Luo Zhan, who was parked next to the loader in the INT laboratory, looked back with a cold look: “Why.”
“Because I’m Xiao Ran’s driver.” Lan Jingqian glanced to the side, “Besides, do you always drive this kind of car to torment her every time you come?”
Luo Zhan frowned slightly: “It’s not convenient for my car to come in.”
“Aren’t you afraid that the people in the Tang family’s main residence will find out?”
“It’s none of your business.”
“…”
Lin Qianhua heard the noise and got out of the driver’s seat of the loader. He walked around the front of the truck and came to Luo Zhan’s side, subconsciously looking up to see who dared to confront their brother Zhan.
Seeing that very familiar face clearly, Lin Qianhua was shocked and subconsciously opened his mouth: “Lan——”
Before he could finish his words, Luo Zhan, who had noticed it in advance, raised the blind stick in his hand.
The rest of his words were blocked in his mouth by the handle of the cane.
Lin Qianhua came back to his senses and hurriedly retracted his gaze to Luo Zhan in front of him. Facing the young man’s cold and lazy eyes, Lin Qianhua’s heart shuddered.
Shut up.
Luo Zhan frowned and mouthed something to Lin Qianhua.
Lin Qianhua immediately blinked wildly to show that he understood.
Only then did Luo Zhan put down his blind stick.
Before retracting it, he thought of something, and lifted up the handle of the blind stick that was against Lin Qianhua’s mouth and rubbed it on Lin Qianhua’s clothes in disgust.
Lin Qianhua looked at him aggrievedly.
Lan Jingqian watched this “pantomime”.
Tang Ran didn’t know what was going on. After waiting for so long without hearing any sound, she looked up curiously: “Luo Luo, do you know the driver uncle?”
“…”
Luo Zhan and Lan Jingqian looked at each other.
Next second.
Lan Jingqian turned his eyes away calmly: “I don’t know him.”
Luo Zhan snorted and laughed coldly: “I haven’t seen him.”
Tang Ran became even more confused.
Although Luo Zhan was reluctant, considering Tang Ran’s comfort, he personally sent the girl into the black car driven by Lan Jingqian.
As he squatted down to fasten Tang Ran’s seat belt, Luo Zhan spoke lazily and unabashedly: “We’ll change cars when we get to the avenue. If you feel unsafe, remember to press the portable alarm I set for you.”
Tang Ran thought about it for a while before she understood. She said softly, “Luo Luo, uncle is a very good person. Don’t make fun of him like this.”
Luo Zhan lowered his head, buckled her seat belt, smoothed the wrinkles on the girl’s coat, and then raised his eyes.
He then reached out and gently ruffled the girl’s long hair, smiling lazily: “You also said that I was a good person – from this point of view, your judgment is completely irrelevant, I don’t believe it.”
“Isn’t it Luo Luo?”
Tang Ran laughed at his self-mockery, with the corners of her eyes curved like crescent moons.
Sitting in the driver’s seat, Lan Jingqian glanced over expressionlessly.
After enduring for a few seconds, he finally moved his gaze away from Luo Zhan’s hateful hand that was touching Tang Ran’s head.
“We are about to set off.” Lan Jingqian said.
“…” Luo Zhan’s smile faded. After a few seconds, he still only looked at Tang Ran, stepped back half a step, and dropped his hand. “Little girl, see you later.”
Tang Ran subconsciously clenched her hands in the darkness but caught nothing.
Coming back to her senses, she nodded seriously: “Well, see you later.”
“…”
The loader was ahead.
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