Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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So when Tang Ran came out of the bathroom after changing into her pajamas, she was surprised to find that Luo Zhan was no longer outside.
Judging from the sound of water and lights indicating that someone was in the guest bathroom, Tang Ran behaved in a completely different way from that person. She snuggled down on the sofa and called Xu Xuanqing.
Xu Xuanqing, who had already arrived at the airport, was much calmer. After a few words of small talk, Tang Ran was able to find out that she was at Luo Zhan’s residence.
Xu Xuanqing still held a grudge against him for what happened before she left and grumbled in dissatisfaction: “I don’t think Luo Zhan has good intentions in bringing you home right after graduation. Xiao Ran, you better be careful, don’t let him trick you into eating you for dinner.”
“Luo Luo won’t.”
“Why not? Aren’t all men like that?”
“…” Tang Ran hesitated for several seconds but still told Xu Xuanqing what had just happened with a blushing face.
Xu Xuanqing became even more suspicious after hearing this: “This goes against his nature, there won’t be any problem with him, right?”
Tang Ran was stunned: “Problem?”
“Oh, I’m not talking about that. I just suddenly remembered that we were wondering before the basketball game whether Luo Zhan was always off campus for something this semester?”
Tang Ran was stunned for a moment: “He should be busy…”
“What was he busy with? He never told you, did he?”
“Um.”
“I remember you said that starting this summer, he always wore long-sleeved shirts, buttoned up to the top, whether indoors or outdoors… as if he was afraid that you would see something…” Xu Xuanqing muttered more and more in her heart, and her tone changed from joking to serious. “Since he became busy this semester, have you seen his body?”
“——!”
Tang Ran blushed the moment she was asked this question. After a long while, she stammered, “I, I, I have never seen him before…”
“Oh, I’m not talking about other places, like above the collarbone, below the neck, places like that.”
“Well, it seems not.”
“F**k!” Xu Xuanqing jumped up and down on the other end of the phone. “I said it’s strange for a man to be able to hold back, let alone for four years – this bast**d man wouldn’t really be doing something dirty outside!”
Tang Ran didn’t know whether to laugh or cry: “Luo Luo wouldn’t be like that.”
“You just trust him too much. I’ve never seen a girlfriend as obedient as you. You never ask about your boyfriend’s personal friends! This kind of indulgence is the easiest way to breed crime!”
“…”
“Where is he now?”
Tang Ran turned her head: “In the bathroom.”
“That is great.”
“Why?”
“You pretend to want to go to the bathroom, and when he finishes showering and leaves the shower to put on his bathrobe, you rush in.”
“Ah??”
“I didn’t ask you to do anything else. Just go in and take a look and come out.”
“What am I looking at?”
“What else can you see? Of course you have to see the places that he hides. The temperature in K City is nearly 40 degrees today. But your boyfriend even buttoned the top button. Do you believe him when he says it’s okay?”
“…”
“And even if I misunderstood him, nothing will go wrong if you go in and take a look.”
Tang Ran grasped the edge of her nightgown in confusion: “Is this not good?”
“If you don’t go and see it, won’t you find it strange? Won’t you wonder what he did?”
“Yes, I will.”
“Right, this kind of suspicion is the worst thing for lovers – nothing is more destructive to a relationship than growing suspicion, so you should go in and take a look!”
“…”
A few minutes later.
After being successfully brainwashed by Xu Xuanqing, Tang Ran clenched her phone tightly with difficulty and turned to look in the direction of the guest bathroom.
It was also made of frosted glass. Although the bathroom light seemed to be turned off intentionally, leaving only the wall light of the restroom on the inner side, Luo Zhan’s figure was still vaguely projected on the glass.
Tang Ran took a deep breath and slowly stood up.
Xu Xuanqing was still saying indignantly on the phone: “Go and check it out boldly. If nothing happens, that’s fine. But if you really see any marks on him, call me immediately. I can even skip the plane and go back to help you beat up this bast**d!”
Tang Ran’s voice was low and trembling: “He, he seems to be over there, I’ll… go take a look.”
“Okay! The key point is to see if there are any hickeys or scratches. Do you remember what I told you?”
“Um……”
Tang Ran hastily threw the phone on the sofa.
She clasped her fingers together and tightened them, then slowly walked towards the dark corner.
The figure in the bathroom left the shower and went to a corner closer to the door and seemed to be putting on a bathrobe. But for some reason, the shower was not turned off, and the sound of water dripping still came from the well-insulated bathroom, echoing in the quiet and empty room.
Tang Ran stopped in front of the bathroom door.
She raised her hand and grasped the bathroom door handle with her cold fingertips. The cold metal gave her an even colder temperature, which made her heart tremble.
Tang Ran subconsciously wanted to retreat.
But thinking of the possibilities Xu Xuanqing had mentioned on the phone, and the seeds of doubt that had been buried deep in her heart by Luo Zhan’s abnormalities, Tang Ran bit her lip again and forced herself to hold the door handle tightly.
Tang Ran raised her eyes and looked at the figure inside the frosted glass door of the bathroom.
Taking a deep breath silently, Tang Ran exerted force and pushed the glass door of the bathroom open:
“I’m sorry, I—”
The heavy breathing sounds that were covered up by the sound of water, along with the breath of desire that could no longer be concealed and fermented by the hazy and ambiguous water vapor, rushed into Tang Ran’s ears.
The girl froze in front of the bathroom door.
Also frozen was the thin and neat man who was sitting in a corner of the bathroom with his bathrobe untied, leaning against the cool white porcelain surface.
Amid the rustling sound of water, there was a silent stalemate for several seconds.
Luo Zhan took a deep breath and lowered his head. The light blue veins on his cold forehead bulged slightly, but his slender hand slowly and restrainedly pulled the collar of his bathrobe.
“Ran Ran…you go out first.”
The man’s voice was deep and hoarse, it was a tone that Tang Ran had never heard before.
During those few seconds of freezing, Tang Ran’s instinct was enough to confirm that there were no marks on Luo Zhan’s neck as Xu Xuanqing said.
She knew that the best thing she should do now was to pretend nothing had happened and close the door and go out.
But……
“I.” Tang Ran managed to squeeze out a word with difficulty. Her face was red and her hands and feet were a little weak because of what she had just seen and heard, but she still slowly took a step into the hot bathroom, “I can help, help Luo Luo.”
“——!”
The glass door to the bathroom was closed.
The girl’s figure overlapped the man’s figure and was hidden in the hazy water vapor like mist.
Tang Ran woke up around noon the next day, lying on Luo Zhan’s soft, wide bed.
Her physical condition had never been considered good, and it was not much better than what Luo Zhan said, where a pinch would leave bruises.
She didn’t know how long he had been forbearing and restraining myself. Such that he was so tempted by her last night that he lost all his rationality and naturally did a lot of evil. When he woke up this morning and saw the little girl in his arms with red spots all over her body, he felt so distressed that he almost found two durians and knelt beside the bed with them under his knees.
So when Tang Ran opened her eyes, the first thing she saw was a beast covered in human skin again, sitting beside the bed with a gloomy face and looking guilty.
Tang Ran opened her mouth: “Luo…Luo?”
The little girl’s voice was so hoarse that she startled herself when she opened her mouth.
When she thought of the reason why, and recalled the memory of being pressed on the corner of the bed by the person in front of her last night and being asked to do more no matter how hard she pushed, Tang Ran’s face slowly turned red.
Luo Zhan suddenly came back to his senses and lowered his head nervously: “Awake?”
“I’m hungry.” Tang Ran said in a low voice with a red face.
He thought that the little girl would be angry when she woke up after being tormented by him like that, so Luo Zhan was almost unable to react at this time.
“Luo Luo?”
Luo Zhan’s eyes were shocked, and he quickly stood up: “I made porridge for you, I’ll go and serve it for you.”
“Good.”
When Luo Zhan came back, Tang Ran had already put on the clothes placed on the bedside and was waiting by the bed with her hands and feet tucked in obediently.
She was wearing a pink sweater with a slightly loose collar, and there were red marks on her slender white neck.
Luo Zhan’s eyes seemed to be stung, and he subconsciously retracted his gaze. He frowned and put the prepared small table on the bed and even arranged the porridge and rice bowls for Tang Ran.
Finally, he handed the chopsticks and spoon to the girl and said, “I made it, try it.”
“Okay.” Tang Ran lowered her head and scooped a spoonful, then looked up half a beat late and said, “Did Luo Luo make these?”
“Well, I have been taking cooking classes at home this semester.”
“Cooking classes?” Tang Ran was stunned. “So what you were busy doing outside of school before was cooking classes?”
Luo Zhan sat down on the bedside and said helplessly: “Well. Don’t you want to know why I always wear long sleeves?”
Tang Ran: “How do you know…I want to know this?”
“You said it yourself last night.”
“?” Tang Ran was stunned. “Did I say that?”
Luo Zhan lowered his eyes: “Well, you said it when you were half asleep and half awake, just about to fall asleep.”
Tang Ran blushed.
It took her a while to remember something and she looked up from her bowl of porridge: “So, Luo Luo, what were you trying to hide before?”
“…”
Luo Zhan unbuttoned his cuffs and rolled up his shirt. Several scars from oil splatter were exposed, which were particularly glaring on his white and slender arms.
Tang Ran was stunned.
“I wore gloves, but they couldn’t cover them completely, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to feel the oil temperature or anything like that.” Luo Zhan paused, then said helplessly, “I wanted to wait until the scars faded before telling you.”
“Why do you want to learn cooking?”
“Have you forgotten the time when I came to the apartment building where you and your grandmother lived together, and I used the food from outside to trick you into thinking that I cooked it?”
“Of course I remember.”
“Later, in the Qian family’s villa in City M, I promised you, ‘I will learn to cook in the future and cook for you alone.'”
“…”
Tang Ran blinked slowly.
She lowered her head and looked at the scars on Luo Zhan’s arms. Then Tang Ran felt her nose turn a little sour: “That happened a long time ago. Luo Luo doesn’t need to do it just because of a sentence like that…”
“I will remember every word and everything I promised you, and I will never forget it.” Luo Zhan whispered, “And only after I have done this will I feel I am qualified.”
Tang Ran looked up blankly: “What qualification?”
“Being qualified to take good care of you at any time and build a family with you,” Luo Zhan paused and said helplessly, “I had even designed a dinner menu and proposal process that I am very satisfied with.”
“Proposal?”
Tang Ran was even more stunned.
Luo Zhan fell silent. After a few seconds, he leaned over and opened the drawer next to the bed and took out the black satin box inside.
He pressed lightly on both sides of the box, and the box opened automatically, revealing the diamond ring nestled between rose petals.
Luo Zhan said, “I originally wanted to propose to you with a plan that took every detail into consideration.”
Tang Ran stared at the diamond ring box in a daze.
Then Luo Zhan lowered his eyes, feeling helpless and distressed: “…If you hadn’t walked into my bathroom last night, that’s how I would have proposed.”
Tang Ran was brought back to her senses by these words and her face turned red again.
She remained silent and slowly began to shrink under the quilt: “Then let’s wait until you have made a plan and then… we’ll talk about it later.”
“No.”
Luo Zhan caught the little girl who was trying to hide in the quilt.
He lowered his head, endured for a few seconds, and only restrainedly kissed the girl’s lips.
In front of this girl, this man always showed the most tenderness in his life——
“I should be responsible for you, little girl.”
If I give you a word.
I will never forget it even when I am old.
——Luo Zhan
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