Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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The door of the ward closed behind him and Luo Zhan walked towards Tang Ran.
The girl had already groped her way back to the bedside. After hearing the footsteps, she hesitated and moved a little further inside.
Then Tang Ran patted the empty space on the left side of her and said, “Luo Luo, come and sit here.”
“If the dean sees me, I will be scolded.” Luo Zhan said this but still followed Tang Ran’s instructions and walked to the girl and sat down.
Tang Ran’s eyes curved: “Don’t be afraid, if he scolds you, I will block it for you.”
“You will block for me, but can I bear to let you get scolded?” Luo Zhan asked with a smile.
Tang Ran thought for two seconds and shook her head: “The dean won’t scold me. In the past two days, even the fiercest head nurse in the hospital won’t speak loudly to me. They are especially afraid of my mood swings.”
“…”
“Luo Luo, why are you silent?”
Luo Zhan sighed softly, raised his right hand, walked around the girl, and touched her head from behind: “Knowing this, why did you confront your new driver?”
Tang Ran was slightly stunned.
After a moment, the girl lowered her head and said, “You know.”
Luo Zhan: “He is not such a tactless person. If you hadn’t asked him, he wouldn’t have talked to you about this at this time.”
Tang Ran: “Then why do you still blame him?”
Luo Zhan looked sideways: “Did you hear that?”
Tang Ran: “The soundproofing effect of this ward is not particularly good. And I am quite sensitive to sound, Luo Luo, you know.”
“Yeah.” Luo Zhan said frankly, “I didn’t think of it at first, but I figured it out later.”
Tang Ran lowered her eyes: “Does Luo Luo regret it?”
Luo Zhan sneered: “What’s there to regret? These are all my true feelings. I have been unhappy with him for a long time.”
Tang Ran lowered her head and chuckled, “Oh.”
Luo Zhan waited for a while, then turned his head to observe the girl’s expression: “Aren’t you angry that I knew it but didn’t tell you?”
Tang Ran raised her head and shook her head: “What is there to be angry about this?”
Luo Zhan was speechless for a moment.
Tang Ran laughed again: “Luo Luo was obviously so humble to him because of me. It must be because of me that you have been holding back those words and temper. If you hadn’t concealed it for me, you would have been much more comfortable – if that’s the case, then why should I be angry with you.”
Luo Zhan came back to his senses after a few seconds: “Hearing you say that, I am almost convinced that I have done nothing wrong.”
“Luo Luo was right to begin with.”
“So, are you mad at him?”
“…”
The girl’s laughter stopped.
Luo Zhan said: “If you don’t want to mention it, then let’s not talk about it.”
“Actually, it’s nothing.” Tang Ran turned around and said, “Luo Luo, there’s no need to worry. I’ve been thinking about this for a long time and had guessed all kinds of results. Although this answer really surprised me, it’s not unacceptable.”
Tang Ran paused for two seconds and whispered, “I seem to have accepted it pretty quickly.”
Luo Zhan was helpless and amused: “Are you sure it’s not because you haven’t woken up yet?”
The little girl pursed her lips: “I’m not that stupid.”
“…” Luo Zhan’s uneasiness in his heart completely faded, and his eyes relaxed, “If that’s the case, then why don’t you want to see him?”
Tang Ran said: “It’s not that I don’t want to see him, I just don’t know how to get along with him.”
“Haven’t you known each other for a long time?”
“Not quite the same.” Tang Ran paused hesitantly, as if she didn’t know how to express it. “He did say that he didn’t know I existed. I can understand that, and I don’t think he did anything wrong, because I believe that if he knew, he wouldn’t abandon me. Luo Luo, am I right?”
“Yeah.” Luo Zhan remembered something, his eyes darkening deeply, “If they remember… then no one will let you go.”
Tang Ran didn’t notice: “So I think he did nothing wrong, but he doesn’t seem to think so. His mood swings are much greater than mine, and he apologized in a very painful and self-blaming way. I’m not used to this…”
Luo Zhan understood.
He laughed helplessly: “So, you actually asked him to go out to calm down?”
Tang Ran thought about it and nodded: “I think it would be better for us to wait until after the surgery and then slowly get along with each other.”
“Yes,” Luo Zhan couldn’t help but lower his head, ruffling the girl’s long hair in an almost doting tone, “How come the little girl is so smart.”
“…” Tang Ran’s face turned red from being rubbed, but she remained obedient and allowed the claw on her head to “ravage” her without moving.
When the “violence” was over, Luo Zhan became more serious: “Since your emotions are fine, I’ll call the nurse in.”
“Nurse?” Tang Ran looked up blankly.
Luo Zhan said: “Well, a nurse came with me just now to apply the eye ointment to you for the last time and to tell you some precautions.”
Tang Ran asked blankly: “Then why didn’t she come in just now?”
Luo Zhan said with a half-smile, “Just now? Didn’t she think you were in a bad mood, so her and Lan Jingqian were punished to stay outside the door to sober up?”
Tang Ran: “…”
Tang Ran’s face turned red when she realized what was happening: “I-I didn’t know there were other people here, I thought you were the only one coming back!”
“Okay, okay, it’s okay, I’ll call her in for you. She won’t blame you.”
“Won’t she blame me?”
“Yeah.” Luo Zhan stood up and reluctantly tapped the tip of the girl’s nose. While Tang Ran instinctively hid behind him, he smiled and said, “Our little girl is so cute, who would dare to blame her?”
“…”
Tang Ran’s face turned red and she ignored him.
The nurse came in the evening to apply the final preoperative eye drops to Tang Ran. After saying a few words to the little girl, she looked at Luo Zhan beside the bed with embarrassment.
Luo Zhan noticed it and turned his gaze away from Tang Ran: “Is there anything I can help you with?”
“We really need the assistance of the family members.”
Luo Zhan asked: “What’s the matter?”
“Um, I’m not sure you can do that…”
“I can.” Luo Zhan said, and then asked again, “What is it?”
The nurse looked Luo Zhan up and down and asked hesitantly, “Can you braid her hair?”
Luo Zhan: “……?”
The nurse pointed at Tang Ran, who was sitting innocently beside the bed. “In order to facilitate the operation, the patient’s hair needs to be tied up, and it must be tied on both sides to avoid affecting the supine position.”
Tang Ran, who was sitting beside the bed, raised her hand: “Sister nurse, I can do it myself.”
The nurse turned around and said awkwardly: “It’s still hard for you to judge the position. Forget it, let me do it–“
“Let me do it.”
“?” The nurse turned her head.
The young master had a handsome face and said in a serious tone: “I can.”
“…”
The nurse handed over two hair ties.
Luo Zhan took it solemnly.
There were only two people left in the ward.
Tang Ran sat in the middle of the bed, while Luo Zhan stood beside it. He struggled and clumsily gathered up one half of Tang Ran’s long hair, which he had divided into two parts. He used his left and right hands to gather the soft and smooth hair together, but every time there was always a bunch of hair that slipped through the net.
The young master had grown up for more than 20 years, and this was the first time he had encountered something he was not good at. He became more and more courageous and put all his efforts into fighting against this half of hair.
After finally completing half of the task, Luo Zhan breathed a sigh of relief.
“Okay, try it.”
“Yeah.” Tang Ran raised her hand and touched the top of her head.
Luo Zhan asked proudly and uneasily: “How is it?”
Tang Ran held back her laughter: “Luo Luo is great.”
Luo Zhan stood up with relief and moved to the other side: “That’s good, let’s continue.”
“Um.”
After Luo Zhan finished fighting with the long-haired girl on the other side, the last bit of preparation before the operation was also completed.
The ward fell into an inexplicable silence.
Tang Ran was the first to interrupt: “Luo Luo, what time is it now?”
Luo Zhan: “Five forty.”
“Ah,” Tang Ran said softly, “I will have to go into surgery in a little over an hour.”
Luo Zhan was speechless for a moment.
Tang Ran was also quiet for a few seconds, and then suddenly spoke: “Didn’t the dean also say that I might never be able to come out of the operating room again?”
“——!”
Luo Zhan’s pupils suddenly tightened at this moment.
After this moment of blankness passed, he said in a hoarse voice: “Ran Ran, don’t talk nonsense.”
“But the nurse said that even a small operation can be life-threatening.”
“That kind of thing can’t happen.” Luo Zhan said firmly.
Tang Ran fell silent.
Luo Zhan couldn’t bear it after all.
He sighed softly, propped up the girl’s bed, and leaned over to her. “Ran Ran, don’t be afraid. Corneal transplantation can be said to have the highest success rate of all organ transplants. The dean is an international authority on ophthalmic surgery. With him here, there won’t be any problems.”
“I… I’m just worried…” Tang Ran lowered her head and her voice became softer, “I have something else to say to Luo Luo.”
Luo Zhan’s eyes softened, and his voice became even gentler: “I will listen. When our little girl comes out, I will listen to you in everything.”
Tang Ran looked up.
For the first time, she showed a vulnerable and distressing expression in front of Luo Zhan without disguising: “Can I tell you now?”
“…”
Luo Zhan suddenly came to his senses and almost agreed without thinking.
But at the last second before he could say anything, he held back.
Luo Zhan sighed: “I also have a lot to tell you, but we still have a long, long time to talk. Now is before the operation, emotional stability is very important. After the operation is over, I can talk to you for as long as I want, okay?”
Tang Ran bit her lower lip lightly, her pearly teeth leaving a faint white mark on her bright red lips.
After a long moment, she nodded.
“Good.”
Half an hour later.
Tang Ran was lying on a stretcher outside the operating room corridor.
All the way from the ward to here, Luo Zhan always followed closely beside the stretcher, accompanying the medical staff to send Tang Ran out of the operating room.
“The sterile room is a little further behind the door. The patient’s family members can only go till here.” The nurse beside the stretcher bed said to Luo Zhan and Lan Jingqian who were following behind.
Luo Zhan asked: “Can I say a few more words to her?”
“Yes, but please be quick.”
“Good.”
Luo Zhan returned to the stretcher and gently held the girl’s hand. Tang Ran’s fingers were cold, and they felt like ice cubes in her palm.
Luo Zhan asked worriedly: “Ran Ran, are you okay?”
The girl lying on the hospital bed had put on a sterile eye bag, and the color of her lips seemed much lighter than usual.
After hearing Luo Zhan’s words, her lips moved slightly, and her voice was trembling, which she tried hard to hide but couldn’t.
“Luo Luo, I’m scared.”
“…”
Luo Zhan’s heart trembled suddenly.
He really wanted to say “Don’t be afraid”, “It will be okay”, “I will wait for you outside”… but he couldn’t say any of these words.
He couldn’t be so selfish as to ignore her fear and send her alone into that cold operating room just for what he thought she wanted.
Luo Zhan pressed the cold bed rail with one hand and held Tang Ran’s hand tightly with the other. He then leaned towards her, as if he wanted to kiss her ear.
“If you’re scared, I’ll take you away, okay?”
The medical staff beside the bed and Lang Jingqian looked at Luo Zhan in astonishment.
Luo Zhan didn’t look at anyone.
“Ran Ran, just tell me, do you want to leave here?”
Tang Ran’s fingers, which had turned cold from fear, slowly warmed up in Luo Zhan’s palm.
She suppressed her fear and slowly shook her head.
“I’m not leaving.”
Although the voice still trembled, there was a greater determination in it that was not shaken at all.
Luo Zhan was stunned.
He lowered his eyes to look at Tang Ran, who was palely lying on the stretcher. The loose hospital gown she was wearing only made her look even more frail and pale. The pale blue blood vessels under her collarbone and slender neck were pulsating slightly.
She looked so fragile.
But her voice was firmer than ever.
“I want to…I want to see Luo Luo with my own eyes.”
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