Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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A week later, at K University’s outdoor basketball court.
The sun was scorching, and the field seemed to be roasted and smelled like hot rubber.
Lin Qianhua led his group into the basketball court, and the first person he saw was a girl with striking white skin under the basketball hoop before the game started.
Lin Qianhua was stunned for two seconds, then he shook off a few people and walked over quickly: “Sister Tang Ran, you-why are you here too?”
Tang Ran looked up when she heard the voice. Just as she was about to explain, she heard Xu Xuanqing beside her laugh: “Surprising, right? Surprised, right? Hahaha, of course I abducted Xiao Ran here by force – the preparations were rushed, and someone had to support our graduation season competition.”
Xu Xuanqing said, putting her arm carelessly on Tang Ran’s shoulders, tilting her head and smiling like a female gangster: “Isn’t it, Xiao Ran?”
Tang Ran looked at Lin Qianhua helplessly: “That’s probably it.”
Lin Qianhua had a subtle expression: “Have you told Brother Zhan about coming here to watch the game?”
Tang Ran: “Luo Luo seems to be busy with something recently, I didn’t disturb him.”
“Well, is that so…then you guys chat first, I’ll go over there and warm up.”
“Okay, good luck in the game.”
“Uh-huh.”
Lin Qianhua turned and walked to the preparation area but did not rush to warm up. Instead, he took out his cell phone and called Luo Zhan.
“Hello, Brother Zhan? Are you busy? Oh, I’m fine. I just came to the basketball friendly match today. Guess who I met on the sidelines?”
“…”
Forty minutes later, Young Master Luo arrived at the scene.
As soon as he entered the basketball court, he received a “warm welcome” from Lin Qianhua who was standing on the sidelines: “Brother Zhan, weren’t you outside the school? Why are you back? Look at your heavy breathing. Did you run from the parking lot?”
“…”
Luo Zhan ignored Lin Qianhua’s teasing. He swept his eyes across the field and locked onto Tang Ran’s position at the fastest speed. Luo Zhan breathed a sigh of relief, bypassed Lin Qianhua and walked straight there.
Outside the court, Tang Ran was sitting in the audience area, watching with curiosity the junior and senior students who were sweating hard in the game, when suddenly she felt a shadow covering her head.
Tang Ran looked up blankly, then froze for a moment: “Luo Luo? Why are you here?”
Luo Zhan lowered his eyes, looking lazy: “Does it look good? You were so focused that you didn’t even notice me coming over.”
Tang Ran nodded: “It’s really interesting, do you want to sit down and watch…” After looking around, Tang Ran realized that the seats around her were full of people and there were no empty seats.
Luo Zhan bent down, pulled up his trousers which were straight and neat at the knees, and sat down on the aisle steps next to Tang Ran’s seat without any hesitation.
Tang Ran subconsciously asked: “Isn’t the ground dirty?”
“Not bad. I’ll get up after sitting for a while.”
“Yeah.” Tang Ran skipped this and thought again, “Didn’t you have something to do outside the school? Why did you come back suddenly?”
“Lin Qianhua called.”
“What did Qianhua ask you to do?”
“He said he was standing outside the wall of my house and when he looked up he saw a small apricot flower almost poking out.”
“Ah?”
Tang Ran was stunned for several seconds, then suddenly realized. The girl’s fair cheeks were flushed with light red, and it was unclear whether she was amused or wronged: “How could I?”
“If not, why were you so focused on watching that you didn’t even notice me coming over?”
“It’s obviously because you walked too lightly…” Tang Ran muttered softly.
“What?”
“Nothing.” Tang Ran raised her head with a sincere look in her eyes. “Nothing.”
Luo Zhan sighed: “Our little girl has also learned to lie.”
“I didn’t.” Tang Ran was quiet for two seconds, and then lowered her voice, “It’s obviously Luo Luo who got jealous and is the first to complain.”
Luo Zhan paused.
After a few seconds, he supported his chin and turned to look at the little girl who was sitting next to him and was more than ten centimeters taller than him.
After staring at them for several seconds, Luo Zhan lowered his eyes and smiled: “Okay, I am jealous – are the juniors better looking than me?”
When Tang Ran heard the question, she instinctively looked up at her fellow students.
Luo Zhan narrowed his eyes: “It seems that this question still needs to be carefully compared and thought about?”
Tang Ran retracted her gaze and looked at the man in front of her who was wearing a white shirt and long trousers that he hadn’t had time to change out of. She then smiled and said, “Luo Luo is the best looking.”
Luo Zhan’s expression relaxed a little, but he was still jealous: “Looking at the young juniors, don’t you think your best-looking boyfriend is a little old?”
Tang Ran was stunned for two seconds, and couldn’t help laughing: “Luo Luo, no one is as boastful as you are.”
“Yes, I.” Luo Zhan took the girl’s cool hand and held it against his face. He sat on the steps, leaning sideways and looking up at the girl, “Don’t avoid the question.”
Tang Ran smiled: “No.”
“Really?”
“Not at all, and…” Tang Ran smiled, “You are obviously getting more and more childish as you grow older. You don’t age at all.”
Standing among a group of young people aged eighteen or nineteen, the “old man” who was already twenty-five or twenty-six suddenly felt that the crisis had dissipated and felt much more relieved.
In the silence between the two of them, laughter sounded behind Luo Zhan.
“Brother Zhan, who was it that said so righteously last week – ‘Am I the kind of person who would even be jealous of such a small thing’?”
“…” Luo Zhan turned around lazily, and sure enough, he saw Lin Qianhua walking down the steps behind him, then walking around and stopping in front of the steps below him.
Luo Zhan held Tang Ran’s hand tightly, and at this moment he only supported his face, half-squinting his eyes lazily: “Did I say that?”
Lin Qianhua: “Yes.”
Luo Zhan replied calmly: “Then just pretend I didn’t say anything. When it comes to my Ran Ran, there is no small jealousy, only big ones.”
Lin Qianhua couldn’t help but sighed: “You’re such a bit*h, Brother Zhan, you weren’t like this before.”
“When was this before?”
“When else? Of course it must be two years ago. No, four years ago—six years ago?”
Lin Qianhua paused, and after a few seconds he couldn’t help but rub the back of his head and laugh: “We have known each other for so long and you have been together for so long without realizing it?”
“It’s been a long time.” Luo Zhan smiled indifferently. He then lowered his head and kissed the back of the girl’s hand unconsciously. “It seems like yesterday.”
Lin Qianhua was filled with mixed emotions. Just when he didn’t know where to start, a joyful tune interrupted their conversation.
“Ah, Senior Luo Zhan is really here! I thought those guys from the Sports Department were seeing things!”
Xu Xuanqing jumped to Tang Ran’s side and peeked at Luo Zhan through Tang Ran: “School Prince Luo, you are leaving school with Xiao Ran this year, right? You said that you entered the school at the age of 14, and all these years, all these girls, none of them had the chance to watch you play a basketball game – don’t you want to solve this regret for us before you leave, so as to be worthy of the many girls whose hearts were broken again and again for you?”
Luo Zhan glanced over with a half-smile: “I don’t want to.”
Xu Xuanqing: “…”
Xu Xuanqing turned to Tang Ran in anger and complained, “We can’t deal with this cold-blooded man. The sisters’ last hope lies on you, Xiao Ran.”
Tang Ran didn’t know whether to laugh or cry: “You only make things difficult for me.”
“I didn’t.” Xu Xuanqing rolled her eyes and came up with a plan. “Well, I don’t need you to say anything to Senior Luo Zhan. Just tell us the truth in front of us.”
“Say what?”
“Have you ever seen Senior Luo Zhan play basketball?”
“No.”
“Then do you want to watch? Watching these seniors and juniors running, jumping and shooting on the court, have you ever imagined what it would be like if Senior Luo Zhan played?”
“…”
Tang Ran stopped hesitantly.
Xu Xuanqing showed a look of success: “Don’t lie, Xiao Ran.”
Tang Ran came back to her senses and said helplessly: “Although I have thought about it, but——”
“No buts.” Xu Xuanqing smiled and tilted her head, looking at Luo Zhan, “School Prince Luo, you really won’t play?”
Luo Zhan: “…”
Tang Ran reacted and turned to look at Luo Zhan: “I just thought about it. If you don’t want to go, then don’t go.”
“Have you thought about it?” Luo Zhan asked.
“…”
“Have you ever thought about it?”
Tang Ran nodded slowly: “I thought about it.”
Luo Zhan’s eyes drooped slightly, then he raised his hand and touched the girl’s head and smiled: “Since you really thought about it, the wishing well should go to work.”
He paused and said to Xu Xuanqing, “I know you are going to prepare materials for the Sports Department for filming and promotion – you are using Ran Ran, so I will only shoot once.”
Xu Xuanqing was happy: “No problem!”
After watching Luo Zhan walk down the stairs, Tang Ran turned to Xu Xuanqing hesitantly: “He’s still wearing a shirt and trousers, can he shoot?”
“It’s just one shot, what’s the problem?” Xu Xuanqing grinned. “What’s more, Luo Zhan is the most handsome boy in K-school. Have you ever seen a handsome boy in school who doesn’t have the skill to show off on the basketball court? This is their charm weapon!”
“Oh.”
Tang Ran turned back.
After dozens of seconds.
Luo Zhan stood in the center of the basketball court, raised his hands, held the basketball above his head, and his slender and powerful knuckles perfectly controlled the curve of the basketball.
From the wrist downwards, wrapped in a translucent white shirt, the neat muscle lines were faintly visible.
The undergraduates of these years entered K University too late, and in the past two years, they had rarely seen this elusive school hunk on campus. When they saw him this time, naturally, they couldn’t take their eyes off him.
Most of the attention outside the venue was focused on Luo Zhan.
Watching that hand that looked like a work of art exert a little force, the basketball drew a beautiful arc in the air——
As the basketball was thrown, the schoolgirls cheered like crazy:
“Wha—…oh?”
Snap, click, click, click…
The basketball, which couldn’t even touch the hoop, rolled out of the boundaries of the basketball court lonely.
Standing in the focus of everyone’s dull gaze, Young Master Luo calmly withdrew his hand and walked back to Tang Ran.
Xu Xuanqing, who was sitting next to Tang Ran, hadn’t come back to her senses yet. She was dumbfounded and murmured, “So… basketball isn’t a required skill for the school hunks…”
Tang Ran was not surprised at all.
Before Luo Zhan came over, she had already stood up and stepped forward to hold the hand that Luo Zhan extended.
They walked out side by side.
Luo Zhan smiled: “Did you see it?”
“Yeah.” Tang Ran also smiled, “Not bad.”
“What’s good?”
Tang Ran thought about it, tilted her head, and chuckled: “It looked good.”
“It didn’t damage my image in your mind?”
“In my heart, Luo Luo can always do anything.”
“Well, how about the juniors?”
Tang Ran laughed: “That’s enough, Luo Luo. You’ve been jealous for so long.”
“Not enough. I have a feeling it’s not enough.”
“Um?”
“In a few years, decades, when I am in my 80s or 90s and too old to even lift a basketball, I will still be jealous of my Ran Ran.”
“Will we…walk together till then?”
“Certainly.”
Under the scorching sunlight, Luo Zhan slowly held Tang Ran’s hand tightly and smiled dumbly:
“After all, the omnipotent Luo Luo in your heart will live the rest of his life just to fulfill this one wish.”
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