Chapter 28

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Luo Zhan looked down, the emotions in his dark eyes rising and falling-

In his life, no one had ever acted this sullenly towards him.

Of all people, he couldn’t get angry at her.

Half a minute passed.

Tang Ran finally slowly stopped, “My phone, I seemed to have forgotten it at home.”

The corners of Luo Zhan’s mouth coldly quirked. He took the blind cane and lightly tapped the girl’s palm, “I didn’t leave you with no choice.”

Tang Ran: “……”

She was silent for a few seconds and sullenly held on.

Young Master Luo suddenly felt the shadows in his heart sweep away. He turned around and led her towards the apartment building in a pleased mood.

The apartment building was one with three units on a floor, and Tang Ran lived in the middle unit on the 12th floor that faced the south.

Unfortunately, Young Master Luo couldn’t even get to see the door. He was “dismissed” by Tang Ran in the elevator.

“Thank you for sending me back.” Standing in front of the elevator door, she held her blind cane, her voice as calm as her expression.

Luo Zhan frowned, “I specifically came all the way here to pick you up and drop you off, but you won’t even invite me to drink a glass of water?”

Tang Ran thought for a moment, “Do you want some water?”

Luo Zhan: “……”

He knew that if he said yes, she would probably tell him to wait here and then go back and get him a bottle of water.

This idea instantly made Luo Zhan’s disastrous face darken. He irritatedly scoffed, “Do I look like a beggar?”

Tang Ran tilted his head blankly: “?”

Luo Zhan withdrew from the scene in his imaginations, only to find she was standing in front of him, still waiting for his answer.

Luo Zhan frowned, “…… Nothing.”

Tang Ran nodded, “Then I’ll go home? You take care on the road, bye.”

After saying that, Tang Ran turned around and left without looking back.

Luo Zhan didn’t even think about it and went forward, stopping her by catching her arm.

Yanked by the sudden pull, Tang Ran became unstable. She reached out to the side in panic. Someone immediately clutched her hand in the darkness and steadied her.

After Tang Ran regained her footing in shock, she reacted and pulled her hand back from Luo Zhan at once.

His suddenly empty palm made Luo Zhan’s feel as if a piece of his heart had been cut out.

Luo Zhan finally could not repress it any longer. He frowned: “Is being Luo Zhan a crime? Did I do something unforgivable to you?”

“……”

Tang Ran clenched the fingertips that still felt some of the remaining familiar temperature.

After a long time, she lightly shook her head, “No. I don’t hate you.”

Luo Zhan: “Then why are you avoiding me?”

Tang Ran lowered her head.

Only after a long time did Luo Zhan hear her say in a very soft voice, “Because you’ll be engaged to Tang Luoqian.”

Luo Zhan smiled coldly, “Who said that? When did I agree to that? It’s a criminal offense to have arranged marriage that interferes with one’s freedom in the 21st century.”

The girl lowered her head, “And Granny also said that I will have a very powerful brother-in-law in the future. I can’t provoke or offend you…. otherwise, I’ll have even less ways to return to the Tang family.”

“–“

Luo Zhan’s eyebrows furrowed.

The downcast tone when she was speaking at the end made his heart clench up, for no rhyme or reason. The irritation that was hard to put in words slowly surfaced from the depths of his heart, making it hard to breathe, like flickering tongue of fire licking his wound.

When reason returned to him, he leaned down to a position extremely close to the girl. The irritation in his eyes slowly grinded away, finally returning to his lazy and cold laugh: “Who are you calling brother-in-law? Are you trying to con me?”

“……”

Looking at her pale face, Luo Zhan lowered his eyes. After a moment’s pause, he straightened up. He lazily dropped, “Won’t drink then won’t drink.” The young man turned around, turning his eyes back, “Who lacks your house’s glass of water.”

Luo Zhan walked back to the elevator room and stopped.

A second before he pressed the elevator button, he was listening to the sound of the girl behind him slowly walking away with her cane tapping. He asked without turning around, “You really don’t have anything else to say to me?”

The sound behind him stopped.

In Luo Zhan’s eyes, a little hope and pleasure poked through the deeply repressed annoyance-

“In the future,” The young girl softly, earnestly, and sincerely advised, “Don’t bully Luo Xiu anymore.”

Luo Zhan: “……”

Luo Zhan: “?”

When Luo Zhan turned around in annoyance, the young girl behind him had already walked out of the elevator with her blind cane.

In the emptiness, Young Master Luo was alone in the elevator room, seething with anger.

He walked into the elevator with a cold and handsome face.

As he left the apartment building without looking back, the teenager’s side profile was cold. When his cell phone rang, his voice sounded dull and irritable: “Speak.”

The other side was silent for two seconds then smiled warmly, “Who made you so angry?”

“……” Luo Zhan lowered his phone and looked at it. It was Luo Xiu’s number.

Thinking of the “parting words” he received from some unappreciative girl, Luo Zhan had the mind to take the person on the phone for a fight.

His voice went heavy once again, “Have something to say, say it.”

On the other side of the phone, Luo Xiu smiled and asked, “Is it considered as something if it’s something related to the little girl named Tang Ran?”

Luo Zhan’s tone was indifferent, “Anything related to her from today on has nothing to do with me.” As he spoke, Luo Zhan walked to his car and took the remote to prepare to unlock it.

“Oh. Then, if she might have to sleep on the streets tonight, it’s also none of your business, right?”

“–“

Luo Zhan’s figure suddenly stopped.

Luo Xiu: “Well then, I’ll pretend I didn’t get a call from that Ms. Yang….”

“What’s up with her?” Luo Zhan frowned and interrupted Luo Xiu.

Luo Xiu smiled warmly, “Isn’t it none of your business anymore?”

“……”

Luo Zhan turned around expressionlessly and leaned against the front hood of the car. His voice was lazy and indifferent: “I’m just asking.”

Luo Xiu: “A Ms. Yang was given my number from Grandpa and called me, saying that her daughter-in-law at home suddenly went into premature labor and had to go back—asking ‘me’ to take care of Tang Ran who was ‘picked up by me’ earlier.”

Luo Zhan lowered his eyes, “It’s not like she can’t take care of herself.”

“Oh,” Luo Xiu remembered something, “It seemed that she didn’t take either her phone or her keys. Ms. Yang said she left the keys under the carpet and told ‘me’ to let her know.”

“……”

“Done being curious? Sounds like you weren’t together with that little girl. Just pretend you didn’t hear, go about your business.”

Luo Zhan smiled indifferently, “I will.”

And hung up the phone.

Luo Zhan’s handsome face was cold as he unlocked the car.

The red supercar sharply and nimbly reversed then drove out.

Under the apartment building.

The two people passing by showed envious expressions.

“So cool. If only I had one too.”

“Yeah, who wouldn’t want to…. hey? Why is that car driving back again??”

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