Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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5. Graduation season, proposal record.
Tang Ran and Xu Xuanqing were both natives of K City. So at the end of the graduation season in late June, they became the last batch of students to leave K University.
On the night Xu Xuanqing left, Tang Ran was the only one left in Dormitory 716.
Their dormitory building faced the No. 2 football field on the campus of K University. The largest spotlights, several stories high, were turned on in the field. The school student union held a graduation ceremony there, and the sounds of singing and dancing echoed in the vast night sky.
Every factor in the air was cheerful and restless, but in this nearest dormitory building for graduates, there was an inexplicable silence and sadness.
Xu Xuanqing’s eyes were red from crying.
She stood at the open door of Dormitory 716, holding Tang Ran tightly with both hands, refusing to let go: “I don’t want to leave, Xiao Ran, I regret it, wuwuwu… I don’t want to work so far away by myself, I want to be with all of you… Let’s go back to freshman year and repeat our studies, wuwuwu…”
Tang Ran’s eyes were also wet, but she wanted to laugh after hearing Xu Xuanqing’s childish words. In the end, she just patted Xu Xuanqing’s shoulder gently: “We have been together long enough, Xuanqing, long enough for us to remember these four years forever.”
“But I can’t bear to leave you…”
“No matter how reluctant you are, life must go on.” Tang Ran comforted softly, “Didn’t someone say that life is a journey? Different people get on and off at different stops. We meet, get to know each other, and then separate. At these stops where we have to say goodbye, the only thing we can do is to properly store and treasure the memories of this stop. Then we set off to the next stop and meet new friends. In this way, when we open our collections again after a long time, those memories will still be as fresh as if they just happened yesterday – isn’t that good?”
Xu Xuanqing thought about it again with tears in her eyes, her face reddening. She squeezed her eyes and burst into tears again: “No, not at all. You saying that makes me feel even more reluctant and uncomfortable!”
Tang Ran was at a loss as to what to do after hearing her cry. She looked up at the corridor behind Xu Xuanqing – two boys were standing outside.
Luo Zhan had been holding back his anger and when he saw Tang Ran’s pleading look, he simply stopped restraining himself. He walked forward with a sullen face and pulled Tang Ran out from Xu Xuanqing’s arms, who was holding her like an octopus and wiping her tears.
“Ran Ran’s eyes shouldn’t be emotional or shed tears. If you’re sad for yourself, don’t bring her along with you.”
Xu Xuanqing opened her eyes wide and cried, “Luo Zhan, you are so inhuman!”
Luo Zhan: “…”
The other boy in the corridor, Xu Qingfang, who was Xu Xuanqing’s junior from the Sports Department, saw this and stepped forward and patted Xu Xuanqing on the shoulder: “Senior sister, Senior Luo Zhan is also worried about Xiao Ran – and if you don’t come downstairs with me, the plane will really be delayed.”
“It’s okay if it’s later. I won’t leave if it’s later!”
“No, senior sister, these tickets are expensive. It will cost a lot of money to cancel one…”
Xu Qingfang persuaded her gently and finally calmed Xu Xuanqing down.
After saying goodbye again and again, Xu Xuanqing left with her suitcase, accompanied by Xu Qingfang.
Watching the figure getting smaller and smaller in the corridor and finally disappearing in the stairwell, Tang Ran’s eyes, which had been trying not to cry, slowly turned red.
Luo Zhan sighed softly and held her in his arms: “What I said just now was not a joke. Don’t be sad, and don’t cry.”
Tang Ran’s voice choked up: “You are too strict, Luo Luo. I can’t control my emotions.”
“I know.” Luo Zhan endured it and stroked the girl’s hair with the lightest force. “But if you cry, I will have no other options, so I can only threaten you like this.”
“You still mentioned Xuanqing,” Tang Ran held back her tears and hid in Luo Zhan’s arms to vent her sadness in a low voice, “At this time, she is so upset. It’s really a bit too much for you to say that.”
“Only a little?” Luo Zhan lowered his eyes and asked with a helpless smile.
“No… more than that.”
“Yes, I know.”
“You know but you still say that about her.”
“Because I knew that, I didn’t mind her calling my name like that.”
“…She called you by your name?” Tang Ran recalled, half a beat late, and burst into laughter, “Xuanqing is usually scared of you. She must have been so angry at you that she forgot to call him senior.”
Luo Zhan lowered his head, his voice hoarse, gentle and smiling: “Are you sure it’s not because of you?”
“I think so.” The girl didn’t raise her eyes guiltily.
Seeing Tang Ran calm down a little, Luo Zhan also breathed a sigh of relief. He glanced at the empty dormitory 716 and said, “Don’t live in the school anymore. Come to my place tonight. It’s closer to the school and more convenient to go there, okay?”
Tang Ran imagined how it would feel to be alone in the dormitory. Her heart sank, and she immediately nodded: “Okay.”
“Then just pack some clothes and I’ll drive downstairs to wait for you.”
“Um.”
Luo Zhan’s private residence outside the K University was nominally a single apartment, but it was actually a large flat of 200 square meters.
The decoration style of the flat was the same as Luo Zhan’s bedroom in the Luo family – there were no walls as you entered the entrance hall, and except for the necessary load-bearing columns, only bookshelves or bars were used as partitions to separate the rooms.
The only rooms with doors and windows were probably the two bathrooms and toilets located in two corners of the large flat, which were enclosed by frosted glass.
Tang Ran had been to Luo Zhan’s residence before, but had never stayed for long, let alone overnight.
After coming in, she sat on the sofa. Facing the bar and bookshelf that could not hide any sound or scene at all, as well as the room that was vaguely visible in the back, Tang Ran inexplicably felt a little nervous.
“Where am I going to sleep tonight?” Tang Ran turned around and asked Luo Zhan, who was helping her pull in the suitcase.
Luo Zhan put the suitcase next to the corner of the bookshelf in the “master bedroom”. Hearing this, he looked back and said, “I have three beds here, you can pick any one you like.” He paused and smiled frivolously, “If you want, you can choose the same one as me.”
Tang Ran glanced at him secretly, then looked away before being discovered and scanned the surrounding area: “It looks like they are all in the same room.”
Luo Zhan came over: “Well, I basically lived alone before, and it wasn’t inconvenient.”
Tang Ran was silent.
Luo Zhan poured her some water and brought it down, only then did he notice the girl’s strange silence. He paused and sat next to Tang Ran: “What’s wrong?”
Tang Ran raised her head and asked seriously, “What does ‘basically’ mean?”
Luo Zhan was stunned.
After a moment, he lowered his eyes and laughed: “Is our Ran Ran jealous?”
Tang Ran held her breath and said, “You said before that you never had a girlfriend.”
“Um.”
“Then why is it basic…basically?” Tang Ran clenched her fingers and seemed to be staring at Luo Zhan’s eyes nervously.
Luo Zhan didn’t have the heart to tease her anymore.
He leaned over and ruffled the girl’s long hair with a smile: “What are you thinking about? I was basically alone, because occasionally Tan Yunchang and my friends come to stay for a day or two.”
“……Ah.”
Tang Ran was stunned for two seconds, then suddenly responded.
Luo Zhan didn’t take his hand back after touching her. He put his claws on the girl’s head and hooked her towards him: “So what did our little girl think of just now?”
Tang Ran blushed: “No, I didn’t think about anything.”
“Really?”
“…”
Tang Ran’s hands on her knees slowly clenched, and at a certain moment, she seemed to have mustered up her courage and suddenly looked up without any warning.
Luo Zhan approached the girl to tease her and was caught off guard. The girl’s soft breath and faint fragrance brushed against his lips.
His figure froze.
The little girl blushed and stopped very close to him, staring at him with her dark eyes without blinking: “What do you think, Luo Luo, what am I thinking about?”
Luo Zhan froze for several seconds. And when he came to his senses, his Adam’s apple rolled. He stepped back a few centimeters and glanced down in embarrassment.
Without waiting for Luo Zhan to speak, Tang Ran couldn’t help but chuckle, her tone rarely playful, “Sure enough.”
“…What sure enough?” Luo Zhan raised his pair of dark eyes and asked in a helpless and hoarse voice.
“Someone told me that Luo Luo is a paper tiger, and I don’t need to be afraid of him. When I can’t hold him back, I can just ‘fight back’ like this.”
Luo Zhan paused for two seconds, narrowed his eyes unkindly, and said, “Who told you that?”
Tang Ran looked at him obediently and said nothing.
Luo Zhan pulled his stagnant thoughts out of the “quagmire” just now. After thinking for a few seconds, he showed an understanding emotion: “Tang Shi…your mother said so.”
Tang Ran smiled and nodded.
Luo Zhan sighed: “You and she have different personalities. Live your life in your own way and don’t just listen to her.”
“I know,” Tang Ran smiled, “but in this matter, mom is right.”
“Is that so?”
Luo Zhan leaned his elbows on the sofa behind Tang Ran and leaned forward, easily forcing the girl into the corner of the sofa.
Tang Ran blushed: “Luo Luo, you can’t get angry out of shame.”
“Why can’t I?” Luo Zhan lowered his chin deliberately, and his slightly burning breath brushed across the girl’s lips. He seemed to want to kiss her, but he just raised the corners of his mouth. “Didn’t you just say I was a paper tiger? Why are you afraid now?”
“…”
“Do you know why I am a paper tiger?”
Tang Ran’s originally fair face was now almost red to her neck. She had lost her ability to think and could only shake her head with the smallest amount of difficulty.
Luo Zhan laughed softly, his breath brushing against her lips: “Because…”
The last bit of distance was wiped out.
Luo Zhan kissed the girl’s soft lips gently, stroking her lip line with the lightest force, and finally stood up.
“Because I can’t bear it.”
“?” Tang Ran, who had already closed her eyes, opened them blankly, only in time to see the man pulling her suitcase towards the big bed behind the bookshelf.
That low, hoarse laugh still lingered in her ears: “I always feel that our Ran Ran is still young, and if I touch her, she will get bruises, so I can’t bear to do it.”
“……!”
Tang Ran lowered her eyes, bit her lip and muttered softly: “I’m not a kid anymore.”
“What?” Luo Zhan, who was helping Tang Ran put her luggage away, turned around and asked.
“Nothing…” Tang Ran looked up, “I want to take a shower. Is that the guest bathroom?”
Luo Zhan: “Yes. But you can use the other one.”
“Ah?” Tang Ran, who had already stood up, turned back in confusion.
“The guest bedroom has been used by others, and the one next to the master bedroom is only used by me.” Luo Zhan said, frowning, “But the housekeeping comes to clean every day, this reason doesn’t seem to make sense… It’s up to you.”
Tang Ran stayed there for a full ten seconds before she picked up her bathrobe and spare clothes from her luggage, then slowly moved to the bathroom next to the master bedroom.
“…”
Standing beside the bed in the master bedroom, Luo Zhan’s lips curled up silently.
Unfortunately, after ten minutes, Luo Zhan couldn’t smile anymore——
Under the light of the bathroom and reflected and refracted by the water vapor floating in the air, the frosted glass could not hide the girl’s figure and curves at all.
Even the fair complexion could not be concealed at all.
After trying countless methods of diverting attention and failing one by one, Young Master Luo “escaped” in a panic into the other guest bathroom.
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