Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Tan Yunchang leaned on the window of the SUV and looked out. After a few seconds, he leaned back and said, “My ancestor, you really pissed Meng Xueyu off so much that he took a taxi and ran away.”
Luo Zhan crossed his long and tight legs and lazily leaned back in his seat. Hearing this, he said without raising his eyelids: “Oh. Let him ask me to reimburse his travel expenses when he gets back.”
Tan Yunchang: “You are not doing good for the unity of the laboratory.”
“I can guarantee that my personal feelings will not affect the laboratory’s project work,” Luo Zhan asked expressionlessly, eyelids raised, “Can he?”
Tan Yunchang glanced at the rear of the car that had already gone away and said, “I’m afraid not.”
Luo Zhan’s mouth twitched slightly, and his smile turned back cold and mocking: “If that’s the case, then why is it my fault?”
Tan Yunchang was speechless.
After a while, Tan Yunchang finally reacted and turned to Tang Ran in the car angrily: “Sister Tang, with his bad temper, what do you like about him?”
“Ah?” Tang Ran was still dizzy from hearing the sudden confession. At this moment, she raised her eyes blankly based on instinct.
Before Tan Yunchang could get a reply from Tang Ran, Luo Zhan kicked him with his long legs: “Don’t talk nonsense. I like her.”
“Stop pretending, don’t you know that sister Tang Ran also–Ah!” Tan Yunchang bent over and hugged his calf, “Why did you suddenly kick so hard!”
Luo Zhan tutted softly, glanced at Tan Yunchang warningly, and shook his head back: “It’s too crowded, go to the back.”
“This is Tang Ran’s family’s car, not yours!”
“I am hers, why can’t her things be mine?”
“…”
Tan Yunchang was successfully confused by these words, which sounded very reasonable, but upon closer thought, they seemed to be wrong.
But by the time he finally reacted, the driver had already stepped on the accelerator and accelerated, squeezing him tightly into the back seat.
The car drove onto the main road from the airport to downtown K City. After the car was quiet for a while, the driver carefully glanced at the people in the car through the rearview mirror.
“Young lady, where is our destination?”
“…”
“Young lady?”
“…Ah.” Tang Ran finally came back to her senses.
The little girl turned around with her face red, at a loss. Before she could react to where the voice came from, she saw Luo Zhan, who was sitting next to her across the aisle in the car, supporting his chin with one hand and staring at her eyes intently.
The eyes were dark, with deep pupils, giving people a sense of playfulness and affection.
Tang Ran’s face suddenly turned even redder.
Seeing this, Luo Zhan couldn’t help but laugh hoarsely and lower his head, pointing his finger towards the driver’s seat: “He called you.”
“Yeah.” Tang Ran responded in a low voice.
Just as she turned her head, she heard the man beside her laugh happily: “But are you so happy to hear me say that I like you, little girl?”
“…”
Tang Ran froze.
After several seconds, the girl turned back secretly. She looked at Luo Zhan anxiously, and then at some point she finally mustered up the courage to lean on the handrail and lean close to Luo Zhan’s ear.
“Yeah, happy.”
The girl’s breathing was trembling with anxiety, but her tone was soft and serious.
Luo Zhan was caught off guard and sat there in a daze.
After Tang Ran sat back with a red face and started talking to the driver, Luo Zhan slowly came back to his senses. Looking up at the silhouette of the little girl lying in front of him, Luo Zhan laughed dumbly.
In the back row, Tan Yunchang, who witnessed the whole process, snorted contemptuously and lowered his voice: “You are so coquettish, you have been turned against the general, right?”
Luo Zhan: “I just lost my mind.”
“Don’t give me that.” Tan Yunchang leaned forward and put his elbow on the headrest of Luo Zhan’s chair. “You don’t know how many seconds you were stuck, right? I almost moved you just now – it was just because Sister Tang leaned close to whisper something to you, and you failed miserably.”
Luo Zhan didn’t argue anymore, just stared at the girl’s back intently.
As he looked at the beautiful face reflected in the car window, the young man couldn’t help but curl up the corners of his lips.
In order to facilitate follow-up examinations, Tang Ran had been arranged by Jia Junxi to stay in the sanatorium affiliated with his private ophthalmology hospital since the operation.
Luo Zhan had been delayed in Country T for two or three months, and his personal progress in several projects in the laboratory had fallen behind. So after returning to China, he naturally had to make up for it.
The distance between K City and M City was not just a few dozen minutes’ drive. Apart from the daily phone calls and messages between the two, even if Luo Zhan made a special trip to M City, he would often be called back by the people from the INT laboratory after a short time.
This situation lasted for a month and finally eased. On a Saturday morning at the end of the month, Luo Zhan and Tan Yunchang went to City M together.
After entering Tang Ran’s ward, Luo Zhan found that there was only the little girl and a full-time nurse in the room.
The nurse on shift at Tang Ran’s place had already known Luo Zhan for a long time. When she saw him and Tan Yunchang coming, the female nurse quickly stood up, nodded to Luo Zhan, and prepared to go into the bathroom of the suite.
Luo Zhan raised his hand to stop him: “Matthew…Where is Mr. Lan? Why isn’t he here?”
“Ah, Mr. Lan seemed to have some urgent business at the company yesterday. He left after answering several phone calls and has not shown up since.”
Luo Zhan frowned but nodded: “I understand.”
After the nurse entered the bathroom and closed the door, Luo Zhan walked to the window.
Tan Yunchang had already started chatting with the little girl before him. Luo Zhan did not interrupt them when he came over. Instead, he stopped beside the girl naturally and gently touched the girl’s head.
“Good afternoon,” while Tan Yunchang was talking nonstop, Luo Zhan leaned down and greeted Tang Ran softly with a smile in her ear, “Ran Ran.”
Tang Ran seemed to be burned by the breath and shrank to the side a little, then her face turned red and she nodded obediently and seriously: “Good afternoon, Luo Luo.”
“Oh my god, I really can’t stand it.” Tan Yunchang took a big step back in disgust, “Luo Zhan, please save your precarious image as the aloof school hunk of K University. Can you please stop sticking to our sister Tang every time you come?”
After greeting her, Luo Zhan leaned against the wall beside her. At this moment, he just squinted lazily and sneered, “When did I ever have that kind of shitty image?”
“Bingo.” Tan Yunchang snapped his fingers, pointing at Luo Zhan, “I’m talking about your nonchalant, ‘I’m the best in the world’ look that you have right now.”
“…”
Luo Zhan was too lazy to pay attention to him. So he just lowered his eyes and looked back at the little girl: “Next week is your birthday. Do you have any birthday present you want?”
Tang Ran was stunned.
After two or three seconds, she came back to her senses, clenched her right hand into a thin white fist and knocked it on the palm of her left hand, and suddenly said, “Did I forget to tell Luo Luo?”
Luo Zhan hesitated: “Tell me what?”
“My birthday has been changed.”
Luo Zhan: “?”
Tang Ran was thinking about how to explain, when Tan Yunchang, who was sitting diagonally opposite them, took the initiative to take over the conversation: “I know this, let me tell you!”
“…” Luo Zhan raised his eyes unhappily, “Why do you know things about her that I don’t know?”
Tan Yunchang chuckled twice: “Maybe it’s because I’ve become more and more familiar with my male idol in the past few months. As the saying goes, if you use the hoe well, there is no corner that cannot be dug down.”
Luo Zhan glanced at him coldly.
Tan Yunchang no longer dared to challenge Luo Zhan’s extremely high bottom line on issues related to Tang Ran and said bluntly: “During the two months when you were in Country T, my male god somehow contacted the Tang family and got Tang Ran’s sister’s birth medical certificate and changed her date of birth back to the correct date.”
Luo Zhan paused, then lowered his eyes to look at Tang Ran: “I remember that birthday before, was when you entered the orphanage?”
“Well,” Tang Ran’s eyes curved slightly, “Now, I also have my own birthday, Luo Luo.”
“…”
Looking at the girl’s smile, Luo Zhan’s heart trembled.
Tang Ran excitedly lowered her head to pick up the small calendar on the table and did not notice Luo Zhan’s expression at the moment.
She flipped to December, then held it up and pointed it to Luo Zhan happily: “This day will be my coming-of-age ceremony!”
Luo Zhan was slightly startled: “Isn’t it your 17th birthday?”
Tan Yunchang reminded carefully: “When they sent Tang Ran to the orphanage, she should have been almost one year old. If they directly regarded admission to the orphanage as her birthday, then they underreported her age by nearly a year.”
“One, year?”
Luo Zhan’s hands hanging by his side slowly clenched.
Tang Ran heard the emotion in Luo Zhan’s voice this time and she looked up blankly: “Luo Luo?”
Luo Zhan frowned.
After a moment, he slowly suppressed his emotions and lowered his eyes: “Even so, I still want to celebrate Ran Ran’s birthday next week – from now on, our little girl will have two birthdays every year to make up for what she missed before, okay?”
Tang Ran’s eyes were full of joy, but she hesitated before she was happy: “Will this be too much trouble?”
Luo Zhan: “The people who care about you the most are me and Lan Jingqian. For us, it won’t be a bother to spend 365 birthdays with you in a year. We will just feel as happy as you. What are you afraid of?”
Tang Ran thought about it seriously, then smiled with crooked eyes: “You are right.”
Luo Zhan asked: “What gift do you want for your first birthday this year?”
“Well, let me think…”
Tang Ran began to think seriously.
After thinking for less than half a minute, Tang Ran slowly raised a thin white index finger in front of him.
Luo Zhan lowered his gaze.
The little girl was raising her finger, looking at him anxiously: “I do have a birthday wish that I want to fulfill, but I don’t know if it will bother you, or… if it can be fulfilled.”
Luo Zhan smiled. He raised his hand and hooked the girl’s finger, stroking it subconsciously, and pressed it back to his side: “You thought of it so quickly, it seems you have wanted it for a long time. Tell me, what is it?”
Tang Ran pursed her lips and whispered, “Luo Luo.”
“Um?”
“Luo Luo.”
“I’m–” Luo Zhan stopped talking.
The next second, he realized something and lowered his head in surprise and astonishment: “You want, that Luo Luo?”
Tang Ran nodded uneasily: “If I get it to City M and want to bring it into the ward, wouldn’t it be a bit difficult? But I haven’t seen it for a long time. Maybe one day when I return to City K, I can go to your school’s laboratory to take a look at it. Is that okay?”
Luo Zhan lowered his eyes with a complicated expression and did not answer.
After a while, Tan Yunchang finally reacted and kept winking at Luo Zhan anxiously.
Seeing that the two of them were silent, Tang Ran’s eyes dimmed: “If it’s really inconvenient, then forget it.”
“No, it’s not a matter of inconvenience!” Tan Yunchang quickly replied.
Tang Ran: “What’s the problem?”
Tan Yunchang was so anxious that he was almost sweating profusely.
As Tang Ran stared at him with clear eyes, Tan Yunchang gritted his teeth and said:
“I’m sorry, Xiao Ran. A few days ago, there were some stupid kids in our lab who accidentally broke the robot.”
Tang Ran was suddenly stunned.
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