Chapter 21

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Behind the Luo residence’s main building’s courtyard. Nighttime.

On the marble road, where few vehicles could appear, there was a rare black open-top convertible parked.

The Tang family’s chauffeur, who was responsible for driver Tang Ran, stood uneasily by the car door, craning his head to look at the double doors on the back veranda of the main building.

The faint sound of lively music swept into the air from the nearest terrace on the second floor, drawn out and drifting around the dimmed sky, winding around the antique lamplights surrounding the building.

The longer the driver waited, the more anxious he was when the back door of the veranda was finally pushed open.

The driver looked up at once and saw a familiar petite figure walking out with a blind cane. She was followed by a slim, handsome teenager, who walked a few steps behind the girl and raised his hand to support her, preventing her from accidentally falling.

The man was wearing a black baseball cap and his face was hidden in the shadows, only exposing half the contours of his fair, sharp jaw. His thin, slightly pursed lips revealed a bit of coldness; the rest was indistinguishable.

Two people, one tall contrasting with one short, walked down the stairs step by step. The lights behind them made it appear like an ancient scene, like a dusty picture scroll unfurled before one’s eyes.

The driver looked distracted for two seconds. Only when he recovered did he rush to pull the car door behind him.

Two people stopped in front of the car.

The driver held the car door. Remembering what Tang Ran had said on the phone, he hesitantly looked at the person beside the girl, “Young Master Luo Xiu?”

”Mm.” Luo Zhan answered perfunctorily in a low voice. His eyes beneath the brim of his hat glanced at the open-topped convertible, and he frowned. “It’s cold at night, shouldn’t you close the top down?”

The driver looked at Tang Ran.

The young girl who was holding the door, ready to get into the car, stopped for a moment, “I…. because of something in the past, am not too used to confined spaces in cars.”

Luo Zhan’s eyes slightly stilled.

A memory emerged from their first encounter in the rain: the girl’s pale face.

Can’t we take a taxi?

No, I can’t.

?

Then I’ll go back by myself. Thank you.

Afraid I’ll kidnap you?

……

Her lack of explanation at that time had been answered at this moment.

Luo Zhan frowned, wanting to ask something, but held back in the end.

”Well,” The teenager held the car door, “Get in.”

Tang Ran: “This jacket….”

Luo Zhan did not interrupt her, waiting until the girl finished.

The little girl was a little embarrassed, but still especially honest: “It’s a little cold at night, can I give it to you the next time I see you?”

Luo Zhan tried to endure but still couldn’t hold back. He lowered his voice, smiling lazily and seductively: “Next time? How many times do you want to see me again?”

Tang Ran, who was sitting in the car, tilted her face blankly, “Grandpa Luo hasn’t told you about going to the lab?”

Luo Zhan stiffened.

Two or three seconds later, he sighed silently and straightened up with a headache, “I was told. I was teasing you.”

The little girl was silent for two seconds and nodded quietly, “Okay.”

Luo Zhan helped the girl arrange her skirt into the car as well, then closed the door, “To conveniently get in touch, let’s exchange phone numbers?”

”Mm.” Tang Ran agreed without having to think. She took out her phone, “Luoluo.”

”…. Here.”

The lazy and pleasant to hear voice was extra clear in the quiet night.

The driver who had been pretending to be a wooden stake next to her finally broke at this moment. He looked up in surprise at the phone in Tang Ran’s hand, then turned to the teenager wearing a black baseball cap that hid most of his face that only revealed half of his attractive chin.

Whether it was the timbre or the unique, cold and lazy tone of voice, the similarities between the two voices was oddly high.

Luo Zhan coughed lightly. He leaned down to the car door and took the phone from the girl’s hand. Tang Ran looked up in surprise with her eyes closed, only to hear the voice of someone who, at some point, had leaned in extremely close, sound low and nice in her ears: “Don’t bother with it, I’ll do it.”

”…. Oh.”

Tang Ran felt the ear that was being approached by him was a little tingly and a bit warm. The voice that was obviously already very familiar flowed into her ears in such a close range, feeling like it came with many small hooks, tickling this half of her body with a fine numbing feel.

The feeling was very strange, making Tang Ran somewhat distracted for a period of time, as well as embarrassed and at a loss.

”Okay.”

After an unknown stretch of time had passed, the phone returned to Tang Ran’s hand. The phone case still had a bit of unfamiliar heat.

Tang Ran snapped out of it. The girl lifted her head in the darkness and asked softly, “Is the contact Luo Xiu?”

Luo Zhan: “Single word, Luo.”

Tang Ran asked in confusion, “Why not Luo Xiu?”

Luo Zhan lightly narrowed his eyes, “Are you also going to save the phone numbers of other Luo family members besides me?”

”……”

A bit of chilliness came out of nowhere, causing Tang Ran to fall into silence.

After a few seconds, she seemed to have an understanding and shook her head, her tone earnest: “Don’t be afraid. I won’t be friends with Luo Zhan, I’ll only be friends with you.”

Luo Zhan: “…………”

Luo Zhan was helpless. While straightening himself from the car door, he touched the top of the little girl’s head, “Good. Wait for me to pick you up.”

”Mm. Bye, Luo Xiu.”

Enduring the discomfort of hearing that name, Luo Zhan sighed, “Bye.”

”……”

The car started and drove out.

With Luo Zhan’s advance notice, the road back was smooth and unimpeded.

Leaving the walls of the Luo family’s manor, the driver couldn’t help but glance in the rearview mirror at the little girl who was quietly holding her blind cane.

”Xiao Ran, was that Young Master Luo Xiu just now?”

Tang Ran turned her face, “Mhm.”

The driver was silent.

Tang Ran heard some unusualness and asked softly, “Uncle, what’s wrong?”

”Nothing.” The driver frowned, “It just feels like, this young master of the Luo family seems to be younger than his age.”

…… Personality was also far from being as unassuming and approachable as rumored.

The driver thought with a frown.

Although it wasn’t shown tonight, he still felt, from the bearing and temperament, that the teenager wearing a baseball cap appeared cold, detached, and arrogant. It wasn’t as if he was deliberately acting in front of him, but more like a habit he had grown up with.

But that Eldest Young Master wasn’t favored in the Luo family, so he really shouldn’t have such a temperament…..

”Uncle?” Tang Ran didn’t understand his silence.

The driver couldn’t help but ask: “The phone call to let us pass, was it from this Young Master Luo Xiu?”

”Mhm.”

”Then it should be that I’m overthinking it.” The driver smiled in apology.

Those in Luo family who could allow people into the main building, except for the Old Master and Luo Zhan’s parents who had settled abroad, only left the two young masters.

If not Luo Xiu’s order, it couldn’t be the youngest Young Master……

Thinking about Luo Zhan’s personality from the rumors among the influential families, and then thinking about the teenager whose words and actions could be described as gentle when he sent the girl to the car tonight, the driver didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at his own delusions.

He shook his head and forced a laugh, “Today, I’ve been so dazzled by the Luo family’s manor that I’m a little out of my mind. Well, Xiao Ran, be careful not to catch a cold. I’ll send you back now.”

”Mm.”

The darkness of the plants and curb was torn apart by the car’s tail lights, then recovered little by little.

At the end of the road, the Luo family courtyard seemed to come out of a vast night scene from a painting, reflecting the river of stars above that filled the whole sky.

In the night sky, the returning birds rested on branches that blocked the emerging clear moon, watching out for the lamp lights below the trees.

There was a figure standing in the shadows of the light.

Luo Zhan slowly relaxed his body and leaned on the antique street lamp. He half tilted his head, lazily looking at the mystifying birds that weren’t afraid of people among the branches of the trees above his head.

From a thin pair of lips escaped a low, mocking laugh: “What did you say?”

In the night, the voice on the other side of the phone was also exceptionally clear, exposing a kind of gentleness and calmness: “I said, since it was your people who broke the robot, then it’s better for you to go and become the robot for Tang Ran—I’m only responsible for transferring the gift, I won’t take the blame for your people.”

Luo Zhan’s eyes became cold, “Didn’t ask you to be responsible. But to have me be a robot….. what are you thinking?”

Luo Xiu smiled and asked, “You have a better way?”

Luo Zhan’s voice was cold: “It wouldn’t suck more than this method.”

”Oh, is that right.”

”You’re just trying to make me laugh, right?”

”Right. What could be more pleasant than watching the most uncontrollable young master of the Luo family hide his claws and fangs to put on a gentle and obedient face to take care of a little girl. What could be more pleasant?”

”…………”

Half a minute later, Luo Zhan sneered.

”You’re dreaming—I’d be crazy to do something like that.”

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Author’s Note

Two days later.

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From now on, you guys don’t call him Dog Zhan, call him Luo Zhenxiang ✓

(Once again, zhenxiang means really awesome, a popular online term used when someone’s determined not to do something but the final result was the exactly what they didn’t wanna do).

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