Chapter 27

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The answer was completely different from what she imagined, so Tang Ran was frozen in her seat.

In a daze, the voice of the person in front of her filled her mind, the words from when she met him once again replaying in her mind.

I’m not Luo Zhan…. I’m Luo Xiu.

I have a bad relationship with my younger brother. I’ve been bullied by him since childhood, and everyone in the family favors him.

If that’s really considered pretty, then wouldn’t Luo Zhan have married you?

But he only likes beautiful eyes, so he won’t like you.

Luo Zhan is a jerk, don’t pay attention to him.

You’re the prettiest, no one’s prettier than you.

Luo Zhan left. Next time, I’ll take you to say hello to him.

Are you that afraid of him?

In the darkness, all of the scenes were still the same and only his voice existed.

Unlike the mockery, disdain and disgust she had experienced from other—he forever had that careless, indifferent tone. Like their first encounter that day in the long and noisy street, he was always unaffected.

When she was at her most anxious and helpless, it was he who pulled her out of the mire-like darkness and said softly to her, “I’m here.”

But it turned out to be a complete lie.

He casually spun a tale, portraying himself as a pitiful young man with a tough life, and she was so convinced that she often thought about it when she got home, worrying that the arrogant young master of the Luo family would bully her friend “Luo Xiu”.

…. Liar.

Tang Ran lowered her head. The wronged feeling that came up from the bottom of her heart made the tip of her nose a little tingly.

She bit her lip, not saying a word. She only quietly and stubbornly pulled back the hand that was pressed against his chest.

After all, she was only a blind young girl of 15 or 16 whose strength was pitifully small.

And with such slender and fragile arms, Luo Zhan was sure that he could hold her two wrists with one hand, and easily render her motionless.

But the young girl didn’t hold back in the least. Not caring at all about her delicate skin that, with a little heavy pressure, would leave red imprints, she only stubbornly drew her hand back.

Seeing the girl’s delicate white hand slowly become red, and Luo Zhan’s brow furrowed.

After a second or two of them being in a stalemate, he unwillingly let her hand go.

Tang Ran, who drew back her hand without the slightest hesitation, immediately shrunk against the car door, away from Luo Zhan.

Luo Zhan made a low tsking sound and suppressed the agitation in his heart. He frowned and leaned over to pull the girl’s seat belt.

“What are you doing hiding so far away? Sit up straight, I’m not going to abduct you.”

“……” The young girl scooted closer without saying a word.

Luo Zhan, who was putting on her seatbelt, frowned with lowered eyes.

An arm’s reach away, the young girl’s thin body was tightly glued to the leather seat, her whole body avoiding and resisting having the slightest contact with him.

The little head was also bowed very low. If he didn’t lean over to put on the seat belt, he almost couldn’t see the delicate face under the soft long hair.

Even now, from his vantage point, he could only see the girl’s lip that had been bitten white. The color of her lips went from vivid to light from her pearly white teeth, contrasting very much with her skin.

Luo Zhan felt his temples jump violently.

Who knew what image surfaced in his mind that scared him, but the young master who was forever lazy and casual had his rare moment of panicking.

The seatbelt was buckled twice before finally successfully inserted into the buckle.

Luo Zhan gripped the steering wheel.

The long and slender knuckles slowly tightened and stiffened for a while before slowly letting go.

After taking the sunglasses from the car’s compartment and putting them on, Luo Zhan started the car.

A second before the sports car’s superb engine rumbled, Tang Ran, who had her head down, heard a little sound that seemed like a figment of her imagination passing by her ears: “Don’t bite your lips.”

“?”

Tang Ran was blanked for two seconds, slowly releasing her lower lip that she had unconsciously bitten.

After revealing his true nature, the youngest young master of the Luo family was really like the rumors said, with an eccentric and untamed temperament….

The young girl thought with a frown.

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Luo Zhan brought Tang Ran to right below her apartment.

Because they came back early, there was no one downstairs to pick her up. Luo Zhan stopped the car and looked at the passenger seat beside him.

The young girl’s left and right hands held the four-point seat belts1 taut all the way, not saying a single word to him.

“We’re here.”

Luo Zhan leaned over and prepared to unbuckle her seat belt.

But, without waiting for him to do it, he saw her hand had already pressed the red releasing buckle before he could, undoing the seat belt with a click.

Then Tang Ran tilted up her pretty face and said softly with little emotion, “Thank you. Please give me the blind stick.”

Luo Zhan’s hand midair dropped back down. He frowned and repeated, “‘Please’?”

The young girl didn’t say anything.

Luo Zhan laughed in exasperation, pressing his tongue to the roof of his mouth. His pair of pitch-black eyes looked down with irritation, “Do you want to cleanly cut off relations with me?”

Tang Ran still didn’t speak.

“Because I’m Luo Zhan and not Luo Xiu, so you’re discriminating against me?”

Tang Ran was quiet for a few seconds and spoke seriously, “You were the one who lied to me first. You can’t distort the truth here.”

“……”

Luo Zhan lightly narrowed his eyes. He put a hand behind her seat, leaned forward, leading the sensitive young girl to retreat back into the cramped triangular space.

When Tang Ran backed away until there was nowhere to retreat and her back was against the car door, Luo Zhan took the initiative to stop.

He scoffed lightly, “I’m distorting the truth? Do you dare say that you aren’t discriminating against me—when I was Luo Xiu, would you have also avoided me like this?”

The young girl was sheepishly silent. A few seconds later, she whispered, “Then you shouldn’t have lied to me either.”

Luo Zhan: “If I didn’t lie to you, you would’ve already been avoiding me since that day, right?”

Tang Ran: “……”

Luo Zhan: “Tell me, yes or no.”

Tang Ran lightly pursed her lips.

After waiting for a while, she nodded slowly and honestly: “Mhm.”

Luo Zhan: “…………”

Luo Zhan’s eyes sank. Looking at her quiet and unperturbed eyebrows, her small nose, then at her mouth pursed lightly due to uneasiness and nervousness.

After staring for a few seconds, he withdrew his eyes, “Forget it. I’ll walk you upstairs.”

Luo Zhan got out of the car, picked up the blind cane behind the seat, and opened the door on Tang Ran’s side of the car. The young girl reached out her hand. After touching the car door, she carefully got out.

“Giving me the blind stick is enough.”

Looking at the white and beautiful hand beneath his eyes, Luo Zhan slowly frowned, “If I’m not Luo Xiu, I don’t even have the qualification to send you upstairs?”

Tang Ran hesitated but still didn’t speak.

Luo Zhan stared at her for two seconds, turned his face away and laughed in exasperation. He put the cane into the girl’s hand.

Tang Ran felt around to hold it. Just as she wanted to take it back, she found that the other end was still being held by Luo Zhan who hadn’t let go. She was a little confused and tilted her head slightly.

“Tell that Granny of yours to come down and send you.” The voice in front of her had suppressed a bit of its displeasure and irritation.

Tang Ran: “I can do it myself…..”

Luo Zhan: “Or I’ll send you up.”

The girl stopped for two seconds, let go of her blind cane, looked down and started looking for her phone.

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1 Appears to be this? I didn’t even know they existed in cars nowadays?? As you can see, there’s four parts and three places to buckle.

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