Chapter 26

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Luo Zhan didn’t have time to open his mouth before a figure walked to this corner of the lab and stopped in front of the two. It was Lin Qianhua, who was responsible for introducing the robot’s battery life to Tang Ran.

He hesitantly spoke, “Brother Zhan, Senior Tan.”

Tan Yunchang asked, “What’s up?”

Lin Qianhua said, “She said she’s almost done looking and she wants to leave.”

Tan Yunchang was stunned and looked down at his watch, “What time is it? Why is she leaving now?”

As he talked, his eyes jumped over Lin Qianhua and behind him, he saw the girl standing in front of the glass cabinet with her head slightly bowed. Her long soft hair covered most of her face, and her emotions couldn’t be determined.

Tan Yunchang lightly released a breath, “Sure enough, she probably figured it out……”

Before his words fell, the boy sitting lazily at the table beside him had straightened up.

He picked up his jacket with one hand and draped it in the crook of his arm. Luo Zhan walked towards the lab door, “I’ll send her back.”

“Why don’t you just let someone else do it? What if she asks you about it on the way and you expose yourself?” Tan Yunchang worriedly subdued his voice and caught up.

Luo Zhan lightly narrowed his eyes, not speaking.

It was too late to say more. The whole journey was only a few steps away, and the two of them quickly walked to Tang Ran’s side.

Luo Zhan stopped, “I’ll send you home.” Then he bent down to collect the blind cane in the girl’s hand.

A second before the boy’s long and slender knuckles touched the cane, the girl with her eyes closed seemed to notice, and her hand holding the cane subconsciously dodged away.

The cane brushed through Luo Zhan’s fingers and moved to his opposite side.

Luo Zhan’s figure stopped. A few seconds later, he raised his eyes.

The young girl’s head was slightly lowered. The long hair hanging down slightly made a loop, making people want to raise their hands to touch it.

Luo Zhan’s eyes moved down.

Tang Ran’s hand clutched the blind cane tightly. With white fingertips, she said softly: “I already know the way. I can go out without help so I can walk by myself.”

Her voice sounded quite normal and one couldn’t find anything different from it.

At least, Tan Yunchang couldn’t. He was afraid that Luo Zhan would be embarrassed and smiled in relief, “That’s true. Our Sister Tang’s ability to adapt to unfamiliar surroundings is top-notch. She should be able to walk by herself without needing-“

Before he finished his sentence, Tan Yunchang watched with his own eyes as Luo Zhan frowned and raised his hand to take hold of the girl’s blind cane, looking like he wouldn’t take no for an answer: “Give it to me.”

Tan Yunchang: “……?”

“I can do it myself.” Tang Ran, for the first time, was extraordinarily insistent, holding the blind cane without letting go. After speaking, the girl’s lips were pressed together nervously. A little paleness surfaced on her shiny lips.

Tan Yunchang awkwardly turned his head and lowered his voice to persuade Luo Zhan, “Ancestor, why are you arguing with the little girl? Let her go on her own if she wants to-“

“Tang Ran.”

Luo Zhan coldly uttered.

Tan Yunchang heard the rarely seen fierce emotion in Luo Zhan’s tone. His neck shrank, and the rest of his words were swallowed back, not daring to open his mouth.

It was Tang Ran’s first time hearing this voice, which had always been lazy and careless, speak to her in such a fierce and almost harsh manner.

In the end, she was timid. That person’s dark voice could scare away half of the laboratory members when his words fell. Her fingertips lightly trembled, finally slowly letting go.

Only, her lips were bitten even paler.

Luo Zhan’s eyes glanced over, and his eyes stilled slightly. He returned to his senses, took the blind cane, then leaned down and pulled the girl’s thin white hand onto his arm.

Through the thin shirt, he could feel the coolness of her fingertips, but he didn’t know whether she was scared or angry.

Luo Zhan could only slowly press down the restlessness gushing out from the bottom of his heart.

After a few seconds of silence, he sighed silently.

Following the thought that just popped up inside his head—

Luo Zhan lifted his other hand and touched the girl’s hair loop.

“Sorry, it’s my fault. I shouldn’t have been mean to you.”

Once these words came out, all the INT members in the lab, who were still pretending they didn’t exist, stopped moving at the same time. After a second or two, each turned their heads with wide eyes.

Tan Yunchang, who was the closest to the two, was the one to bear the brunt of this, and was dumbfounded with his jaw hanging open.

—The two words “Luo Zhan” and “apologizing” were words they’d never thought could be put together in their lifetimes.

As for the person in question, Luo Zhan didn’t care about how much of a soul-crushing impact he had brought to his lab members. Looking at the young girl’s hand finally hesitantly clutching his shirt’s cuff, Luo Zhan’s expression relaxed.

“Let’s go.”

“……”

Feeling a lot of eyes falling on her, Tang Ran was quiet for a few seconds, but still lightly answered.

Two figures, one tall and one short, disappeared outside the door.

A long time later, the frozen-in-place and dumbstruck Tan Yunchang finally came back to consciousness with difficulty. He muttered out loud:

“Fucking acting like this, and still dares to say he’s not a pervert.”

When Luo Zhan came, he had deliberately chosen a time when others were in class, and when there weren’t many people on K University’s campus. However, Tang Ran’s proposal to leave early caused a temporary change of plans—

When the two of them came out of the lab building, they were just in time for the first wave of students leaving their first class of the day.

The red convertible sports car parked in the temporary parking area was an extremely conspicuous and rare sight on the university campus. With Luo Zhan’s disastrous face, which was well-known to the people in K University, the amount of people who turned back was basically 100%.

What’s more, K University’s campus prince1, who was known for his “dislike towards female life forms”, was leading a young blind girl the whole way.

As soon as they arrived at the car, K University’s campus forum and message bar were already flooded with photos and discussion posts of the two.

Luo Zhan read the text notification from the lab, put away his phone carelessly, and then lowered his eyes.

Probably because she hadn’t ever experienced such a concentrated stream of people, the young girl beside him was very quiet and nervous the whole time—her white hands were clutching his cuffs at the beginning, but at this moment, she was clutching his wrist tightly, looking like he was her last resort.

On her pretty and delicate face, her anxiousness was pretty much written across her face.

Faced with such a pitiful young girl, Luo Zhan found himself especially sympathetic, but deep in his heart, he also harbored another kind of secret emotion.

If he continued down this path, he would definitely become a real pervert.

Luo Zhan frowned.

“Are we there yet?” Tang Ran waited for a while but they still hadn’t moved so she asked softly.

“…… Mm.” Luo Zhan snapped out of it, took out his keys and unlocked the car. He dropped his hand over the passenger’s side and flicked the door open. The door complied and automatically popped open.

Luo Zhan helped the young girl into the car, and got into the driver’s seat himself.

Before the car key was inserted into the ignition, Luo Zhan heard the quiet young girl beside him suddenly ask.

“Are you….. Luo Xiu or Luo Zhan?”

Luo Zhan’s actions stopped at once.

After a moment, he chuckled lightly and let go of the key in the ignition. Luo Zhan leaned back in his seat, turned his head and stared at the young girl sitting quietly without blinking.

“Why didn’t you ask in the lab just now. You only thought about it now?”

Tang Ran’s hand on her knee unconsciously gripped the edge of her skirt. She lowered her head, but didn’t explain.

Then she heard that lazy, pleasant voice ring out again. This time, the timbre was lowered extremely low, and at a distance that seemed closer than a moment prior.

“Was it because you were afraid that revealing it in front of so many people would put me on the spot?”

Tang Ran’s figure stiffened slightly.

…. He guessed it.

There was nearly half a minute of silence in the car.

The smiling voice was indifferent and mischievous: “But now, they’re not here so you can’t even find someone who can refute my words. How can you confirm it?”

Hearing this, Tang Ran finally made a sound.

“It can be confirmed.” She raised her head, figuring out Luo Zhan’s direction from his voice. The girl’s eyelashes fluttered lightly with unease, “If you say that you’re Luo Xiu again, I can tell.”

Luo Zhan: “Tell what?”

Tang Ran’s voice lightened a bit: “Tell…… whether you’re lying or not.”

Luo Zhan lowered his eyes and smiled, “How will you tell, listen to my heartbeat or by feeling my pulse?”

“……”

The young girl conveyed her protest with silence.

Luo Zhan lightly narrowed his eyes, “Alright. Then let’s test it—see if I’m lying.”

“Mm.”

Tang Ran turned around. Her small face was slightly tense, her attitude serious and solemn.

Luo Zhan was in a good mood and amused. He dropped his hand and pulled, pulling the girl’s thin white hand straight toward his chest, right against his heart.

Tang Ran was blanking out.

Through the thin shirt, she could clearly feel the unfamiliar body temperature and the lines of his muscles.

As if she had been scalded, Tang Ran subconsciously drew her hand back, but it was firmly held by him.

Luo Zhan lowered his eyes, with carelessness in his voice: “So that you can hear more clearly, right, little detective?”

“N-no need-“

“I’ll only say it once.”

“……” Tang Ran stiffened, and slowly stopped struggling. She closed her eyes and strained to distinguish every bit of sound in the air.

“I’m…….”

Luo Zhan’s eyes traced over the outline of the girl’s quiet and serene features, then glanced over her thin strands of hair. In the time it took to slow down, Luo Zhan heard his heartbeat disregard the noises entering his ears and become clear and strong.

All his thoughts and perceptions were finally converging on the hand against his heart.

Luo Zhan’s throat lightly rose and fell.

After a few moments, in the darkness that the girl couldn’t see, he lowered his eyes, revealing a defeated and sorry smile.

“…… I’m Luo Zhan.”

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Luo Zhan: I buried myself.

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Luo Zhan was honestly quite mean in this chapter.

1 School grass as mentioned before in like chapter 4 or something. I just changed to this because I can’t associate grass=handsomeness.

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