Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Twenty minutes ago.
INT laboratory loading vehicle.
Luo Zhan: “After this call, you will immediately find Qi Jin to investigate something.”
Tan Yunchang: “What’s the matter?”
Luo Zhan: “The specific time and reason why Lan Jingqian went abroad. Especially the latter, I want to know whether the Tang family also played a very important role or were they the decisive factor.”
Tan Yunchang: “He is my idol. I have already checked this – he went abroad exactly 17 years ago. But I didn’t find out the specific reason. It should be an external force.”
Luo Zhan: “External force…”
Tan Yunchang: “Wait, you just mentioned the Tang family? Are you suspecting that my idol was forced to leave the country by the Tang family?”
Luo Zhan: “Auto Technology has not been involved in the domestic field for many years. As far as I know, the Tang family’s industry is limited to the domestic market. Therefore, after Lan Jingqian went abroad, there was basically no basis for the two parties to have animosity.”
Tan Yunchang: “It shouldn’t have happened in China. He was just an unknown college student at that time. How could he have any connection with the Tang family?”
“…”
The phone was silent for a few seconds, then Luo Zhan slowly said a name: “Tang Shiyu.”
Tan Yunchang was stunned for a moment: “Who?”
“Tang Shixin’s sister, Tang Shiyu, I heard from my grandfather that she married abroad sixteen years ago.”
“What does she have to do with my idol?”
“Didn’t you analyze Lan Jingqian’s heartbreak history at the teahouse on Friday?”
“…F**k.” Tan Yunchang swallowed hard, “I have goose bumps all over my body…From what you said, it seems like every link fits.”
Luo Zhan didn’t respond.
Tan Yunchang took a long time to digest it before slowly coming back to his senses: “This chain seems to be fine, but which link did you start to integrate? After all, the amount of information is so fragmented and large.”
Luo Zhan: “We’ll talk about this later. The most urgent thing is to ask Qi Jin to check something as a verification.”
“?”
“Seventeen years ago, the time when Lan Jingqian and Tang Shiyu met, what is the possibility that Tang Shiyu gave birth out of wedlock after Lan Jingqian went abroad.”
“……!”
One minute ago.
Luo Zhan received two text messages from Tan Yunchang on his phone:
“According to Qi Jin’s database matching results, Lan Jingqian and Tang Shiyu did have traces of contact, and there is a possibility of an intimate relationship. As for the unmarried birth, Tang Shiyu’s whereabouts in the year before she went abroad were wiped clean, so it is impossible to judge.”
“That’s all the information you have. What are you going to do?”
After reading it, Luo Zhan tapped two words on his phone: “Defraud him.”
After sending the message, the young man put away his phone, jumped out of the front body of the supercar, and walked straight to the black semi-convertible car.
….
Now.
Lan Jingqian froze in the driver’s seat, almost suspecting that he was hallucinating. After the huge shock, his quick-witted mind quickly figured out the most literal cause and effect behind the name called out by Luo Zhan.
So instead of being shocked, anger appeared on Lan Jingqian’s face: “What did you call me?”
Luo Zhan fully collected the information he needed and came up with the final answer. From seventeen years ago to now, every branch and leaf on the unclear vine related to Tang Ran’s life experience gradually appeared in front of him until the veins were clearly visible.
Luo Zhan came back to his senses and sighed softly. He pulled his hands out of his trouser pockets and lowered his eyes in a rare compromise:
“Sorry, I shouted so quickly – hello, uncle.”
Lan Jingqian was so angry that his face turned pale. His anger rose to a certain extreme, and he laughed angrily: “Uncle? How can I be worthy of being called uncle by Young Master Luo?”
Luo Zhan lowered his eyes listlessly: “I also think that the gap between these two identities is a bit too big. If it were someone else caught in the middle, I would probably pretend not to know. After all, I am the one who has fallen from grace for no apparent reason.”
Lan Jingqian’s cheekbones twitched in anger: “Then just pretend you don’t know.”
Luo Zhan didn’t even think about it: “Ran Ran is the one caught in the middle now, I can’t pretend I don’t know.”
“…”
The silence inside and outside the car lasted for a long time.
Lan Jingqian finally calmed down. He then turned his head and looked at Luo Zhan again: “How did you guess that?”
Luo Zhan lazily raised his eyelids.
After staring at each other for a few seconds, he lowered his gaze again and said at the same time: “Someone told me yesterday that a person who looked very much like you and a little girl who sounded very much like Ran Ran appeared together.”
Lan Jingqian frowned: “So that’s why you called me, were you trying to test me?”
Luo Zhan did not comment: “And what impressed me most during yesterday’s call was your statement that you were going to be a father.”
Lan Jingqian said nothing.
Luo Zhan: “I know your love history very well. At least in the two years since I met you, I have never seen you have any affair with any woman, let alone an intimate relationship. So if there is no accident, the child is basically impossible to be a newborn. It is more likely that it was a ‘mistake’ many years ago.”
Lan Jingqian came back to his senses and looked at Luo Zhan with complicated eyes: “And you guessed it from that? Young Master Luo’s ability to integrate information is really terrifying.”
Luo Zhan lowered his eyes lazily: “Thank you for the compliment, uncle.”
Lan Jingqian: “…”
Lan Jingqian glanced at him coldly: “Even if you are willing to lower your generation, I still have to agree to your title.”
“Doesn’t Mr. Lan agree?”
“Dream on.”
Luo Zhan burst out laughing.
Before the two could continue their conversation, the sound of a blind stick tapping the ground could be heard not far from Luo Zhan’s side. So, Luo Zhan quickly raised his eyes and looked over.
Tang Ran hesitated and stopped a few steps away from them: “Dream on? What dream?”
Lan Jingqian’s expression in the car changed slightly.
While Luo Zhan walked forward and said helplessly: “You can hear it from such a distance?”
“I just heard the last sentence…” Tang Ran said softly, looking up at Luo Zhan, “What were you and the driver uncle talking about just now? Why did he say you were dreaming?”
“Well, you’ll have to ask him himself.”
Tang Ran: “Oh.”
Lan Jingqian: “…”
Luo Zhan helped the little girl walk to the side of the car. Tang Ran then touched the door and asked Lan Jingqian curiously, “Uncle, what were you talking about with Luo Luo just now?”
Lan Jingqian opened his mouth but no words came out.
Luo Zhan watched the excitement for a few seconds and smiled silently. He then lowered his eyes and said lazily, “We were just discussing the name issue.”
Tang Ran: “Name?”
Lan Jingqian paused, then looked at Luo Zhan warningly.
Luo Zhan ignored him and just responded to the girl: “Yeah. You call him uncle and I call him brother. What do you think I should call him?”
Tang Ran lowered her head and thought for a while before she said hesitantly, “Although Uncle sounds very young, he should be our elder, so Luo Luo should call him Uncle, right?”
Luo Zhan raised his lips in triumph: “I think so too. But your driver uncle doesn’t seem to be happy to accept this title.”
“?” Tang Ran turned around in confusion, “Uncle, don’t you like this name? Then, then how should I call you from now on?”
“…”
Seeing the girl’s uneasy expression, Lan Jingqian was speechless for a moment.
After a few seconds of stalemate, Lan Jingqian glanced at Luo Zhan beside the car without any expression. He then turned to Tang Ran and sighed softly: “How could it be? Xiao Ran can shout whatever she wants.”
Tang Ran looked relieved, her eyes slightly curved: “Luo Luo, I told you that uncle wouldn’t disagree.”
“Well,” Luo Zhan smiled, “Please take good care of me in the future – Uncle.”
Seeing Tang Ran’s expectant expression, Lan Jingqian’s cheekbones moved slightly and he smiled, “Sure.”
Tang Ran and Luo Zhan’s “date” did not go smoothly.
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