Chapter 2

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Silence and waiting have always been boring for most people. If one had to endure both by themselves, it was probably even more unimaginable—Tang Ran was used to it, the girl next to her obviously wasn’t.

Probably really bored, after a few minutes of waiting, the girl couldn’t help but strike up a conversation with Tang Ran: “You look about my age, how old are you?”

“16.”

“Ah, so we sure are about the same, I’m 17 and I’m studying at K’s Senior High School, how about you?”

I don’t really get the Chinese school system but most schools offered services sometimes from preschool (in our terms) to university. you had to test to get into the senior high school (our high school equivalent) and into the university.

Tang Ran was momentarily silent, “I take classes at home with a teacher who teaches Braille classes.”

The girl listened for two seconds before she felt something was wrong, and suddenly became flustered and at a loss, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry…. I didn’t mean to mention that.”

“It’s okay.” Tang Ran snapped out of it, laughing lightly, “I’ve accepted my eyes being bad, it’s just a bit unfortunate that I can’t go to school normally.”

Likely infected by the girl’s soft smile, the girl standing next to Tang Ran stared at her for a few seconds before she came back to her senses and sighed in a low voice, “You’re really good-looking, it’s a pity that you can’t see your own appearance…. Were your eyes always bad?”

Tang Ran shook his head, “I had an accident when I was a kid, and it made me blind.”

“Huh? What accident?”

“At that time, I met a boy who escaped after being kidnapped and tried to help him, but we were chased onto the street and had a car accident. After, I woke up like this.”

“….”

The girl standing next to Tang Ran paused for a long time before she recovered and asked, “What about…. that boy?”

Tang Ran was slightly startled, her hand holding the blind cane unconsciously gripped a little tighter then loosened. After a moment, she gave a light smile and shook her head, “I don’t know.”

“Huh? How could you not? He wasn’t there when you woke up?”

“I heard from the doctor that he woke up a few days later with almost no memory of what happened. Maybe the kidnapping was too traumatic for him so it he forgot as a defense mechanism.”

“Then, then, wouldn’t you have saved him for nothing!” The girl wailed resentfully on her behalf.

“No,” Tang Ran smiled, revealing a soft dimple, “I didn’t tell you that I lived in an orphanage when I was a child. It was only after that hospitalization that my family found me. So it was only because I saved him that I found my family.”

“Ah….”

The little girl didn’t know what words to use to express her feelings, and opened and closed her mouth several times before she swallowed the words, “You are too miserable.”

She looked somewhat sympathetically at Tang Ran in front of her and sighed, “That’s great, at least there was some profit from the disaster (idiom).”

“En.”

The two girls exchanged names after chatting for a few sentences, and the girl called Xu Xuanqing also exchanged her phone number with Tang Ran.

In the middle of talking about the interesting things at her school, Xu Xuanqing suddenly paused, and a few seconds later she exclaimed in surprise, “Ah!”

Tang Ran was busy following the sound and turned around, “What’s wrong?”

Xu Xuanqing had taken hold of her wrist, her tone unable to hide her excitement, “There’s a particularly superb and particularly handsome boy coming over across the road—oh my god, oh my god he’s coming this way towards us! Ahhhh….”

Tang Ran closed her eyes blankly, feeling that this peer’s emotions weren’t at all familiar to her.

Then her ears caught the sound of footsteps amidst the noise.

Tang Ran turned her face slightly to the side.

Those footsteps were different from the other hurried passersby. It was as if he alone was lazy and careless, and the chirping of the cicadas and the restless summer breeze also quieted at his feet. Finally, the sound stopped beside her, also in front of INT’s locked door.

They shouldn’t be that far apart. Tang Ran could smell the harmonious mix of the boy’s sandalwood and bitter orange scent as the wind blew by, probably from snow incense. In the summer heat, his ice-cold indifference also was apparent.

It was a good smell, but unfortunately she didn’t know what kind of fragrance the end result will be.

I literally had no idea what these past paragraphs meant so I translated as literally as I could? I think she was trying to figure out what the scents were but couldn’t place them??

Tang Ran hesitated and softly tried, “Shop manager?”

“….”

Luo Zhan, who had taken the spare key to unlock the door, stopped moving and glanced lazily sideways.

He had noticed the girl who looked fifteen or sixteen years old standing outside INT’s shop with a blind cane, and the girl with red cheeks looking at him with excitement.

He had seen the latter a lot, and was used to it.

As for the former….

Luo Zhan’s gaze lazily and coolly swept over the girl’s eyes: eyelashes slightly curled, the ends of her eyes slender and lightly raised.

They held a rare resemblance to the pair of beautiful eyes from his dreams…. Unfortunately, she was blind.

Luo Zhan swept over the blind cane, not bothering to explain the question of where the store manager had gone, so he gave a perfunctory “en”.

The door was unlocked, and he pushed the door open.

“Wait here.”

Tang Ran was startled.

By the sound of footsteps, the man had already entered the shop.

But that voice just now….

“Ahhh, he’s so dreamy! He would be K’s School Grass!” Xu Xuanqing finally came back to her senses, excitedly raising her voice, “The voice was also good to listen, hands also good-looking, eyes deep and charming—oh my god, I really didn’t expect to meet my soulmate here, oooh he really is too handsome…. “

The prettiest girl in school would be the school’s flower (校花) while the most handsome guy would be the school’s grass (校草). The author used xiao/small (小) instead of xiao (校) but I assume it’s the same.

Standing beside Tang Ran, Xu Xuanqing sounded like she was going crazy, so excited that Tang Ran was sure it was an emotion she couldn’t understand, so she just listened quietly.

In fact, she was a little confused.

She wasn’t sure if it was her own illusion or not, but the laziness and languidness of the voice saying that sentence and the familiarity of the cold tone….

It exceedingly resembled the “listen to my command” she heard not long ago from the imposing-sounding navigation.

Xu Xuanqing was still whispering into her ear, “I guess it’s the clerk of this shop, but unfortunately I don’t stand a chance with my looks or else I would definitely chase him oooh…. Thank you Tang Ran, I will come to this shop more often to visit, coincidentally giving myself some eye candy.”

Whenever XQ goes ‘ooh’, its actually ‘wuwuwu” or whimpering?

Tang Ran replied, “Does he look like a shop clerk?”

“Although he doesn’t look or feel like one, but seeing as he’s familiar with the shop, I guess?” Xu Xuanqing said uncertainly, “You’ve been here so many times, haven’t you met him before?”

Tang Ran hesitated.

Xu Xuanqing only thought she was unsure if she had met him or not, and sighed regretfully, “You really missed out on a particularly, particularly handsome brother, he’s one of those looks that you have to offer up when you bring him home, really!”

You sacrifice good/auspicious things to ancestors to show filial piety so he’s on that level.

Tang Ran was distracted and couldn’t help smiling, “What does that look like?”

“I-“

Xu Xuanqing still wanted to say something, but the phone on her body vibrated.

After a few seconds of silence, Tang Ran heard Xu Xuanqing hesitantly speak, “Ah, my mother is urging me to go home.”

Tang Ran nodded, “Then you should go home quickly.”

“But will it be difficult for you to be on your own?”

Tang Ran’s eyes curved, “I’ve lived like this for the past few years, it’s no problem, trust me.”

“….Alright, remember to keep in touch afterwards ah.”

“En, bye.”

“Bye!”

The warehouse of the INT shop was messed up by Tan Yunchang, and Luo Zhan knitted his eyebrows and rummaged around in the back for a long time before he found the palm-sized box of intelligent robots that Tang Ran had ordered.

After devising a hundred ways for Tan Yunchang to die, Luo Zhan carried the box out of the warehouse with an expressionless face.

Before reaching the storefront, he stopped.

“…. Where’s your friend?”

The girl standing outside the shop slowly raised her head, “looking” at him with lowered eyes.

After a few seconds of silence, she whispered, “She’s gone home.”

Luo Zhan frowned, his eyes flickering to the door, “It’s raining outside. How will you go back if she’s not here?”

“….”

With her eyes unable to see, Tang Ran was naturally much more sensitive to this than ordinary people. In fact, before Luo Zhan came out, she was also troubled by this matter.

The summer showers always came at random. Although it wasn’t very heavy, what could be solved by ordinary people by running a few steps, was like a big rift to Tang Ran.

She sighed softly in her heart, “Can I hide from the rain outside under the eaves for a while?”

“…. whatever you want.”

The response was indifferent and very nonchalant.

“Here’s your stuff. All right, I’m closing the shop.”

“Thanks.”

The girl very quietly held her hand out into the air.

She had very slender hands, very pretty, and the white complexion was a color between snow and jade that was just the right shade to make one feel warm.

Without moving his eyes, Luo Zhan placed the box on it.

Then he took an umbrella from beside the door, turned around to close the INT’s shop door and re-locked it.

A few seconds later, Luo Zhan opened his umbrella and walked into the rain with a cold look.

The thin threads of drizzling rain made his sight become disorderly.

It was as if there was still a remnant of the last scene he had glimpsed when he left—

A thin dress wet from the rain, the girl’s delicate and fragile neck outlined the collarbone and shoulder underneath, a few fine hair strands blown around by the wind and rain, brilliant vivid red lips over the white teeth….

If she wasn’t blind, she would’ve had nice eyes, maybe even the same as the ones in his dream.

Pity.

Luo Zhan held his umbrella and walked into the downpour of rain without looking back.

—

Tang Ran waited alone under the eaves of INT for a long time.

It was as if the rain was punishing her for her disobedience, and it continued to rain incessantly. The air was becoming more humid while the temperature was cooling down. Fine drops of cold rain fell on her arm, making her slightly shiver.

Tang Ran was a little tired from standing.

She put away her blind cane and slowly shrank her body back.

After a few more seconds, Tang Ran touched her phone.

She wanted to call Luoluo to talk with her—she was particularly lonely being home by herself the past years, or perhaps from feeling helpless so that was what she was used to doing.

Tang Ran raised her hand, her lips slightly parted.

But the first “Luo” had yet to be spoken.

The lazy, indifferent and unbelievably arrogant voice of the “navigator” suddenly sounded above her head—

“Where do you want to go?”

The one who left and returned wrinkled his brow icily, with a bit of thin hostility from not knowing where to take his anger out on.

Luo Zhan was silent for two seconds, turning his gaze away from the pitiful looking girl, his tone unconsciously softening a bit.

“…. I’ll send you.”

“!”

Tang Ran finally smelled the boy’s body scent.

Mixed with the cool silky rain and wind, it was a light and deep amber cedar.

The refreshing fragrance must have mesmerized her so it made her unconsciously shout out the unfinished words from before.

“Luoluo?”

“….”

Luo Zhan stiffened, turning his eyes back.

A/N

Tang Ran: Luoluo.

Luo Zhan: ? Dare to call me that, I’ll make sure your grave becomes grassy.

A few months later.

Tang Ran: Luoluo.

Luo Zhan: Don’t call it, call me.

i plan to update once every week or two. i keep saying i’ll do my college apps but i never

Edit: LOL idek what i wanted to say ^. never actually do it?

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