Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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The young man who had walked to the corner put down the tray in his hand. Then he turned slightly to reveal a handsome face with impeccable features.
The young man placed his slender index finger lightly on the tiny earphone in his ear and lowered his voice: “I checked, she is not in the main hall of the banquet hall.”
“Hey, how come?”
“Please check other places in the hotel to see if there is any possibility.”
“Let me see…”
The sound in the tiny earphones had not yet ended when two young girls walked towards the corner.
Luo Zhan lowered his eyes slightly, and turned sideways to face the wall, avoiding the other person’s field of vision.
The two girls stopped by the long buffet table. One of them picked up a snack on the table, took a bite and laughed.
“This illegitimate daughter is too miserable. Tang Luoqian has been supported by so many people since she was a child, and they must be on her side. Moreover, anyone with a decent background in the circle hates the children of mistresses outside the circle the most, so it would be strange if they didn’t punish her.”
“But I heard that Tang Ran’s eyesight isn’t very good. Is it ok that they secretly added alcohol to her drink, then they also caused her to trip… Isn’t that a bit too much?”
“The mistress’s child deserves it—”
A shadow was suddenly cast on the snow-white tablecloth on the long table in front of them.
The girl, who was still holding a snack in her hand, was startled and looked up subconsciously. Then she saw a handsome face.
It was a pity that those cold eyes, filled with violent emotions, ruined the flawless beauty of this face.
“Where is the person?” The young man’s voice was hoarse and cold.
The girl was so frightened that she dropped her snacks on the table: “Who…who?”
“Tang, Ran.”
Luo Zhan ripped off the bow tie on his white shirt, and light blue veins appeared on the back of his clenched white fingers.
His patience and reason were stretched to the last hair-thin string before the cliff, and the young man’s voice trembled with every word.
“Where is she now!”
It was the first time in Tang Ran’s life that she had spent such a busy yet empty birthday.
She was led by Tang Shixin to greet the elders whom she had never met before, and then she was blessed and received gifts.
Gifts used to be what she looked forward to most on her birthday. What she expected was not the value of the gift itself, but the blessing that the gift conveyed – someone cared about her, cared about her birthday and cared about her feelings. Feeling loved was always a happy and desirable thing.
It was only tonight that Tang Ran discovered that, in this world, only the gifts from a very small number of people embodied what she desired.
The vast majority were not – those adults who were supposed to be scheming and cunning couldn’t even hide the ridicule and contempt in their eyes when they handed over the gifts.
Or maybe they just didn’t bother to cover it up.
After all, in the eyes of people outside the Luo family and the Tang family, she was still just an illegitimate daughter who could not be shown in public.
Tang Ran lowered her eyes slightly.
After greeting those unfamiliar elders, Tang Shixin asked someone to escort her to the side hall next to the banquet hall.
This side hall was slightly smaller, and there was a sofa area for guests to sit and rest. There were also fewer people in the side hall, and Tang Ran felt that she could barely breathe here.
Only……
Tang Ran raised her head and looked in the other direction of the side hall.
The lights in the banquet hall were very bright, and several crystal chandeliers were almost blinding, making it even more difficult for her already inadequately-recovered eyes to see.
So even if Tang Ran tried hard to look, she could only see a few figures standing there: their gender was blurry, not to mention their faces and expressions.
Even though she couldn’t see clearly, Tang Ran could feel that they were discussing her – with malicious intent and some mocking laughter.
“Miss,” the waiter in the banquet hall walked up to Tang Ran with a tray and bowed, “Here is the juice you ordered.”
Tang Ran came back to her senses and raised her hand to take it: “Thank you.”
The crystal glass cup was swaying in the light, and Tang Ran grasped it loosely, adjusting it once or twice before picking up the cup. Although it was not clear, she could see that the waiter seemed to be stunned.
Tang Ran hesitated and said, “Sorry, my eyesight is not very clear, so I didn’t hold it.”
The waiter was stunned.
He subconsciously glanced at the cup in Tang Ran’s hand. Thinking of the alcoholic drink that was replaced by those young men before turning into the side hall, the waiter opened his mouth to say something but heard two sarcastic laughs from behind.
“Since she’s half-blind, why hold this kind of event?”
“That’s right. I was so troubled since my dad pulled me back by my ears. I thought it was something serious, but I ended up attending a birthday party like this.”
“Tang Luoqian’s coming-of-age ceremony wasn’t even this grand, a child born to a mistress… Haha, it’s really ridiculous.”
“…”
When those harsh words came, Tang Ran knew without raising her head that it was the people in the corner who were coming over.
Her fingers holding the goblet were trembling slightly.
The cup wall between her fingertips was icy cold, making her tremble inside, but she knew that she had no one to rely on at this moment and could only rely on herself.
So she must not show any fear, let alone show that she cared at all – otherwise those people would only become more aggressive.
Tang Ran’s fingertips trembled slightly, and she hurriedly raised the cup and took a sip of juice, trying to calm the panic and uneasiness in her heart.
However.
“Cough—cough cough…”
Tang Ran choked on the spicy liquid and started coughing unexpectedly. Her face quickly turned red.
Not far from her, malicious laughter sounded.
“Oh my, look how miserable the little girl is, she is choking. You guys are so mean.”
“Tsk, the mistress’s child deserves this treatment.”
“You keep coughing, are you pretending? It’s bad, be careful or this half-blind guy will hold you responsible, how will you handle it then?”
“…”
Tang Ran calmed down her cough with difficulty and grabbed the waiter: “What, what is this?”
The waiter lowered his head in shame: “Sorry, Miss Tang, there may be a little bit of alcohol in it…”
Tang Ran was stunned and stood up hurriedly.
——It had not been long enough since her corneal transplant surgery and stitch removal, and Dean Jia Junxi had strictly forbidden her from touching stimulants such as alcohol.
Tang Ran didn’t bother to argue with those people. She didn’t know if it was the effect of alcohol or psychological effect, but she felt very dizzy when she stood up suddenly.
The scenes and people in front of her, which were already unclear, became even blurrier.
She had to leave here as soon as possible.
“Hey, Miss Tang Ran, right? Don’t be in such a hurry to leave. After all, it’s your birthday party and we are the guests. Please have a couple of drinks with us.”
“That’s right, hahahaha…”
“Hey, is this chick ignoring me?”
“Don’t just stand there, stop her. How can you let her go so easily?”
Tang Ran’s face turned pale. She bit her lip and tried her best to avoid those blurry ghost-like figures.
But something suddenly blocked her calf.
The girl, who was already dizzy, stumbled defenselessly and fell to the ground.
There was a burst of laughter at the back.
Tang Ran fell so hard that it took her several seconds to come back to her senses. When she tried to get up, she was shocked to find that her vision was actually a little dark.
The fear of “going blind again” instantly enveloped the girl’s heart.
A feeling of grievance and the burning pain in her knee from the bump, which she didn’t know whether it was bleeding or not, suddenly surged up in her.
Tang Ran clutched her dress tightly, her eyelashes and lips trembling slightly: “Luo Luo…”
She shouted subconsciously.
The voice was mournful, like a fledgling whose wings were broken in a trap.
There was an awkward silence in the side hall.
Others were standing everywhere looking at this side, some with cold eyes, some hesitant, some mocking, some sympathetic, but in the end, no one came forward.
Hearing the girl’s voice, the evil young men looked at each other:
“What did she yell?”
“It seems to be Luo Luo?”
“Why do I feel like it was more like the Luo from the Luo family? You know, some time ago, that second-generation ancestor of the Qian family said that the young master of the Luo family had a new nickname, Luo Luo.”
“Huh? Who dares to call that young master like that?”
“Do you think she knows the young master of the Luo family?”
“Don’t think about those fantasy stories. Young Master Luo was just punished for refusing the Tang family’s marriage proposal.”
“That’s right. And isn’t that young master famous for his quirks? He likes beautiful eyes the most – he doesn’t even like Tang Luoqian, how could he be interested in this half-blind person?”
Before the voices in the side hall quietened, there was a sudden commotion outside the moon-shaped door leading to the main hall.
The security personnel standing inside and outside the hall door ran towards the main hall at the same time. All the guests stayed where they were, not knowing what was going on, looking around in panic.
Until a vague whisper sounded –
“He’s going into the side hall, stop him!”
As the words were spoken, a thin figure in waiter’s clothes ran inside in a panic.
The man stopped under the moon-shaped door in the side hall. His dark eyes swept around with rare anxiety and restlessness, and then suddenly stopped in this corner.
Everyone in the side hall was stunned.
“Luo—is that Luo Zhan?”
After standing there frozen for four or five seconds, Luo Zhan finally came to his senses.
Without thinking, he ran towards the girl who had fallen to the ground, stumbling after a few steps. When he got to her, Luo Zhan had already fallen to his knees in panic.
The girl in front of him had her eyes tightly closed, her face was full of tears, and her expression was full of panic and fear.
“Luo…Luo Luo…I can’t see anymore…”
Luo Zhan’s heart sank suddenly.
After the huge blank, there was a pain that felt like his heart was being torn apart.
Luo Zhan opened his mouth, but his vocal cords trembled and he couldn’t speak. He stood in front of the crying girl, at a loss, and it took him a long time to regain his sanity.
He knelt in front of the girl, stretched out his hands and slowly hugged her shoulders, then bent down and kissed the girl’s trembling eyelashes devoutly and tremblingly.
“Don’t cry.”
The young man’s voice was hoarse as if he almost wanted to cry out in pain.
“Don’t cry…Ran Ran.”
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