Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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When passing the nurses’ station, a young female nurse was walking out from the opposite side of Luo Zhan. Luo Zhan had never seen her before, and didn’t care, so he just lowered his eyes and prepared to walk away.
However, the other party glanced at Luo Zhan when passing by, then suddenly stopped and turned to look at Luo Zhan: “Ah, it’s you.”
Luo Zhan stopped and raised his eyes faintly: “Do we know each other?”
The nurse was stunned for a moment, then smiled apologetically: “Did I scare you as I called out a little too suddenly? Sorry, but you should be the boyfriend of the girl living in room V1, right?”
“…”
Luo Zhan looked back.
The room he had just walked out of was VIP Ward No. 1 of the sanatorium affiliated with Jia Junxi’s private ophthalmology hospital.
Luo Zhan’s cold mood eased a little. He neither admitted nor denied it. He just turned sideways and said, “I don’t remember seeing you in Ward V1.”
“We have certainly never met each other, but I have seen you,” the nurse laughed. “To be precise, I have seen your photos, many, many photos.”
Luo Zhan was startled and frowned: “Where is my photo?”
The nurse pointed and said with a smile, “It’s in that little girl’s ward. In the past two months, this little girl came to our nurse station every day to get some science and technology-related newspapers that no one else reads, and she would cut out all the follow-up reports about a competition called the Songke Cup. One day when I went to change her dressing, I saw it, and she showed me her collection – the little girl must have spent a lot of time looking for newspaper clippings of all the competitions you participated in.”
Luo Zhan was stunned for a long time before he reacted: “All?”
“Yes.” The nurse smiled defenselessly and said, “I see the oldest newspaper photo in there should be from six or seven years old, right? You looked only about fourteen or fifteen years old in there. If it weren’t for this little girl collecting your photos from every year, I would definitely not be sure it was you.”
“You just said, when did that happen?”
“Yes, it was two or three months ago. The little girl had just had her eye stitches removed. At that time, I warned her not to stare at these things all the time.”
“…”
Luo Zhan froze in place for two seconds, then slowly turned his head and looked at the ward he was walking towards with complicated eyes.
If she had collected photos of him participating in competitions every year, that would explain why Tang Ran didn’t show any surprise when she saw him at K City International Airport more than a month ago.
She had made all the mental preparations and had practiced their meeting countless times before going to the airport.
Even including her answer when they mentioned the young boy –
[Actually, I have forgotten what he looks like. It has been so long.]
The truth was, she never forgot.
Just for him, for all his guilt and self-blame, she pretended in front of everyone that she had forgotten the “culprit” who had made her blind for ten whole years.
Luo Zhan lowered his eyes and slowly clenched his fists.
“You clearly said you wanted to learn to be ruthless, but you forgave me so easily in the biggest matter.” Luo Zhan said in a hoarse voice and loosened his stiff fingers.
He raised the corners of his mouth in self-mockery, put his hands back into his trouser pockets, and his slender figure slowly walked down the stairs.
“But what can I do? I can’t just forgive that coward who only knows how to run away.”
A week had passed since Tang Ran’s birthday, and she hadn’t received any news from Luo Zhan.
Until a call from Tan Yunchang came suddenly and without any warning on that Sunday afternoon.
Tang Ran had just picked up the phone when Tan Yunchang’s voice rushed into her ears: “Sister Tang Ran, have you contacted Luo Zhan in the past two days?”
Tang Ran was stunned for a moment and shook her head instinctively. Then she realized that Tan Yunchang couldn’t see her reaction, so she said, “No, we haven’t been in touch since my birthday last week… Did something happen?”
Tan Yunchang gritted his teeth: “It’s okay, I ‘ll -“
“Store manager,” Tang Ran clenched her phone tightly, her voice unconsciously tense, “I hope you won’t hide anything about Luo Luo from me anymore.”
Tan Yunchang choked.
After a while, after Tang Ran urged him again, Tan Yunchang had no choice but to speak: “I don’t know whether I should tell you this. If Luo Zhan finds out, he will probably chase me around the street and beat me up…”
Tang Ran was so nervous that she held her breath: “What happened?”
Tan Yunchang: “From Thursday to today, Luo Zhan has not shown up in the lab these three days – his phone is also unreachable, so I called Luo family, but they refused to tell me, and I went to Luo house to look for him, but they wouldn’t let me in.”
Tang Ran felt a buzzing in her head, and all her thinking ability was cleared in an instant.
After several seconds, she asked with a pale face: “Luo, Luo Luo, has something happened?”
“That’s what I guessed too. We have a friend named Qi Jin who is very well-informed. We ask him about many things, so when I couldn’t contact Luo Zhan, I went to ask him.”
After Tan Yunchang finished speaking, he seemed to pause with some hesitation. After pondering for a second or two, he spoke awkwardly:
“According to Qi Jin, Mr. Luo’s birthday banquet this year was postponed to this Wednesday for some unknown reason. Tang Shixin came to visit on behalf of the Tang family, and Luo Zhan openly disobeyed and contradicted Mr. Luo in front of many guests from prominent families, directly breaking off relations with the Tang family and severing the possibility of the marriage between the two families without any room for negotiation…”
Tan Yunchang fell silent.
Tang Ran’s breathing was trembling slightly. She clenched her fingertips tightly, pinching her palms so hard that they turned red and sunken without her realizing it. “And then?”
Tan Yunchang sighed, “Yes, it is said that Mr. Luo was furious and asked the family stick from the Luo family ancestral hall to be brought out and then he demanded that Luo Zhan agree to the marriage proposal and apologize to Tang Shixin. If he doesn’t agree…if he doesn’t agree, he will beat him until he changes his mind and gives in.”
Tang Ran’s eyes trembled: “Did he agree?”
Tan Yunchang was silent for a long while, then sighed quietly: “Qi Jin said that even after the brick where Luo Zhan was kneeling turned into a pool of blood… He didn’t say a word until he passed out.”
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