Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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“Xiao Ran, you…” Lan Jingqian was completely unprepared and froze for several seconds before reacting, “Why do you suddenly ask such a question?”
Tang Ran shook her head: “It’s not sudden, I have been thinking about this problem for a long time.”
She hesitated and said honestly: “Actually, after knowing my uncle for a while, I began to doubt it.”
“What did you doubt?”
“…Uncle is not my new driver at all, right?” Tang Ran supported her legs on the bedside, slowly raised her face, and then she chuckled. “It may not be nice to say this, but since we met, when I was with uncle, your conversation and vision were not like those of an ordinary driver.”
Lan Jingqian had a complicated expression: “Just because of this, Xiao Ran is suspicious?”
“Of course not.” The girl shook her head again and counted on her fingers, “Also, my uncle seemed to be able to enter and leave the Tang family at any time without prior approval, and there were also all those places where my uncle took me to relax and unwind, and there were…”
At this point, even if Lan Jingqian didn’t want to upset Tang Ran at this juncture, he had to admit it.
He smiled helplessly: “Is it that our Xiao Ran is too smart, or am I showing too many flaws?”
The girl who was listing the doubts was stunned. After a few seconds, she slowly put down her hands and whispered, “In fact, there is one most important point.”
Lan Jingqian asked: “What is it?”
Tang Ran said: “Luo Zhan.”
Lan Jingqian was stunned.
The ward fell quiet for a moment.
The girl sitting on the bed then shook her dangling legs slightly: “Uncle’s attitude towards Luo Zhan is different from that of others. It seems like you two have known each other since the first time you met, like two old friends.”
“…”
Lan Jingqian felt weak in the heart after being poked, and instinctively concealed his smile: “Xiao Ran, Luo Zhan and I have different personalities. It can be said that we are a bit tit-for-tat. How can we be old friends?”
“That’s right.” Tang Ran nodded seriously, “But your opposition is not malicious, and sometimes even a little childish, so it seems like you are old friends who are very familiar with each other and are now having a disagreement.”
Lan Jingqian froze.
“I don’t know my uncle that well, but I know Luo Luo.” Tang Ran added, “Before my uncle became my driver, I had never seen Luo Luo get along with anyone else like this.”
Lan Jingqian’s thoughts were diverted for a second, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly: “You haven’t known Luo Zhan for much longer than you have known me, right?”
Tang Ran was stunned. Even her legs, which were swinging gently beside the bed, stopped.
After a moment, the girl came back to her senses and smiled a little embarrassedly: “I don’t know why, but I always feel like I have known Luo Luo for a very long time.”
“…”
Lan Jingqian sighed silently.
Tang Ran: “Luo Luo is very outstanding and very proud. I only know one person who is so proud that Luo Luo can be treated as a friend and is of your age.”
Lan Jingqian’s expression froze and he slowly raised his eyes.
Tang Ran: “When I think of that person, I remember that on the day you first appeared, someone at home told me that Luo Zhan’s friend named Lan Jingqian went to the Tang family that day and asked about me.”
“…”
“So uncle,” Tang Ran asked softly, “are you Lan Jingqian?”
After a long silence, Lan Jingqian slowly sighed, “It’s me.”
Tang Ran’s closed eyelashes trembled slightly: “Then uncle, who are you to me?”
Lan Jingqian’s hand hanging by his side trembled, then clenched into a fist. After a few seconds, he tilted his head, his cheekbones trembling slightly due to his clenched teeth.
“Uncle?”
“——” Lan Jingqian let out the breath he had been holding back with a trembling voice.
He turned back and said in a hoarse voice: “Tang Shixin is not your father.”
Tang Ran was suddenly stunned.
As if she was stretched into a still time, she heard a voice beside her ear that seemed to come from the horizon –
“I am.”
“……!”
“There will be no changes in the medication. The main purpose is to lower the intraocular pressure before the operation. 0.25% eselin eye ointment will be prepared in advance for eye wrapping. In order to facilitate the operation, the patient will have some preparations to make before entering the operating room. When I enter the ward later, I will remind the patient and tell the family what to do.”
“Good.”
In the corridor, Luo Zhan listened to the nurse in charge explaining the preoperative medication and examination while returning to the single room where Tang Ran was.
Turning the corner, Luo Zhan saw Lan Jingqian standing in front of the window facing the ward.
Luo Zhan stopped and frowned slightly: “Why didn’t you go in and leave Ran Ran alone in there?”
“Don’t come in yet.” Lan Jingqian turned around and stopped Luo Zhan who was about to open the door.
Luo Zhan frowned and looked back: “What’s wrong?”
“Xiao Ran said she wanted to be alone for a while.”
“Why did Ran Ran suddenly say that?”
“…” Lan Jingqian was silent for a long time, “She knows.”
“Know what—”
Luo Zhan’s voice stopped abruptly.
The overly intelligent brain quickly and instinctively associated the most likely possibility that would lead to the situation in front of him in just a second or two.
Then his hand, which was holding the sliding door of the ward, dropped and clenched into a fist.
Before the nurse could react, Luo Zhan, whose expression had suddenly turned cold, walked in front of Lan Jingqian in a few steps, raised his hand and grabbed the man by the collar——
“Are you fu**ing crazy? Why did you tell her at this time? Didn’t you hear Jia Junxi say that she can’t have any emotional fluctuations before the operation? What will you do if it affects her operation?!”
The nurse who came with Luo Zhan came to her senses and her face changed. She hurried forward to stop the two people: “Family member, calm down – don’t quarrel outside the ward, it will disturb the patient!”
The last sentence successfully made Luo Zhan suppress his emotions. He then turned around and looked at the closed ward door.
When he turned back, Luo Zhan’s eyes were as cold as ice: “You’d better explain it to me clearly.”
Lan Jingqian smoothed out his wrinkled shirt and said calmly, “Tang Ran is my daughter. What happens between us has nothing to do with you.”
“She is your daughter, but she means no less to me than to you.” Luo Zhan gritted his teeth, his cheekbones trembling. “I swore that I would not let anyone hurt her again – even if you are her father!”
“Yeah?”
After a long silence, Lan Jingqian slowly raised his eyes.
“But how far can you go for her, Young Master Luo?”
Luo Zhan: “I will do everything I can for her in the future, one by one, for her to see. Others don’t need to know and don’t deserve to know.”
Lan Jingqian said in a deep voice: “I am her father.”
“Father?”
Luo Zhan turned his head and let out an angry laugh. He then turned back, his eyes as cold as ice.
“Tang Ran is soft-hearted. I knew that one day she would recognize you, so I respect you – but don’t think that this means you are qualified to speak shamelessly in front of her!”
“——!”
Lan Jingqian’s sore spot was touched, and he couldn’t suppress his anger and glared at Luo Zhan.
Luo Zhan met her gaze without letting her down: “Why, Mr. Lan doesn’t agree? But I was too tactful and cautious before, which made Mr. Lan really think that you have the capital to think too highly of yourself with the identity of Tang Ran’s biological father!”
Lan Jingqian frowned: “What did you say?”
Luo Zhan raised his right hand, clenched his fist and slowly punched Lan Jingqian’s shoulder.
“Remember what I said today, Lan Jingqian.”
“In front of Tang Ran, whether it’s you or the Tang family, or even your old lover who married abroad – you have no right to say anything to Tang Ran. Even if you are her parents and family, so what? You have ignored your daughter for 17 years and let her suffer all kinds of hardships. What kind of shitty parents are you?! Who the hell cares what your difficulties are!”
Lan Jingqian was so angry and ashamed that soon his eyes were bloodshot: “What about you?”
Luo Zhan said nothing and looked at him coldly.
Lan Jingqian raised his head: “Yes, we are not qualified, so after I knew the truth, I blamed myself and suffered day and night. I tried my best to compensate her and make her happy – but why did you do that?”
Luo Zhan’s eyes froze.
Lan Jingqian’s voice became deeper: “Do you know why I don’t want you to be with Xiao Ran? Because you are too weird, Luo Zhan.”
Luo Zhan’s eyes were cold: “I’m weird? I like Ran Ran, what’s weird about that?”
“Like?” Lan Jingqian repeated mockingly, “I know what kind of person you are better than Xiao Ran, so everything you do to Xiao Ran is only intensifying my suspicions. The better you treat her, even going against your own nature for her, and even against the selfishness in human nature and animal instincts, the more uneasy I feel, and the more I want to know what the deepest reason you have hidden is!”
Luo Zhan clenched his fists: “Like I just said, any reasons or difficulties are not important, only the actions and results are important.”
“No, it’s very important to me.” Lan Jingqian said, “If you want to protect Xiao Ran, I will do the same. Even if you hate me for not being qualified to be a father, even if you condemn me, I will accept it all. But at the same time – before I know your reason, I will never accept you as Tang Ran’s biological father.”
“……!”
In the tense atmosphere, the nurse standing nearby stared at the two men, who were fighting like bulls. She was afraid that if she wasn’t careful, the two would start fighting.
Fortunately, before the anxious nurse was forced to call security, the closed door of the ward was opened.
When the door rang, the two people who were still confronting each other froze at the same time. Luo Zhan came to his senses and lowered his hand, and quickly turned around to look behind him——
The girl in hospital gown held onto the warm wooden sliding door, her eyes calm and peaceful.
There was no sign of excitement or loss of control as he had imagined.
Luo Zhan’s stiff body suddenly relaxed.
After he exhaled the breath he had been holding high, he felt as if someone had just pulled him back from the edge of a cliff.
When he saw Tang Ran, safe and sound, and still calm, the heart in Luo Zhan’s chest finally relaxed from being frozen by fear and started beating again.
The nurse also showed a relieved expression.
Tang Ran’s surgery was being performed by their director himself, who also followed the progress personally, which showed the background of this patient.
And these two accompanying “family members”, who were much older than her, looked dressed and had a manner that made it seem like neither of them was easy to mess with – if something really happened to the little girl, she would probably not end up well.
“I came out because I heard some noise outside,” the girl holding the door said softly, “Is Luo Luo back?”
Luo Zhan didn’t even think about it, he just suppressed his emotions and walked forward: “It’s me.”
Tang Ran nodded and turned around.
She then groped and moved back carefully.
“Then come in.”
The girl paused.
“You alone.”
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