Chapter 31

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When Tan Yunchang walked back into the lab, his face looked like his soul had departed from his body.

The lab members sitting around the table heard the sound of the door opening, stopped their discussion, and turned to look over.

“Senior Tan, what did Brother Zhan say?”

“……”

“Senior Tan??”

“Huh?” Tan Yunchang was slow to catch up, “Oh, I just called him. He has something today, can’t come back.”

“What will we do about the bionic robot’s malfunction?”

Tan Yunchang: “Luo Zhan wants to put fixing the malfunction on the backburner. He wants us to pick a voice changer with enough voice alteration in the next two days.”

Several people were confused: “Voice changer?”

Tan Yunchang: “Mhm. And Qianhua, you’re in charge of the robot’s battery life, right? You should look for a few papers related to solar power charging robots this afternoon and study them.”

Lin Qianhua froze: “Solar power charging? What’s the point of looking for that, that’s not how this robot gets charged though?”

“It really isn’t, but Luo Zhan needs you to come up with a theory and pretend that it does.”

“?”

Everyone was even more dumbfounded.

Lin Qianhua couldn’t hold back and said, “Senior Tan, how exactly does Brother Zhan want to handle this matter? After all, it was us who caused the malfunction, so tell us straight, we can afford it.”

Tan Yunchang’s expression was a little distorted, “He said, considering the laboratory’s new endeavor is tentatively set for generalization of home service robots, he, as INT team leader, decided to take the lead to dive into the targeted user group, do a good job of market research on consumer demand and facilitate timely closed-loop feedback, in order to ensure that our research work is carried out smoothly.”

“……”

The bunch of simple engineering students in the lab were lost in a fog by this attention-grabbing spiel.

After a few seconds, one of them finally raised his hand cautiously and asked, “Senior Tan, can you translate it into English? I don’t understand.”

Tan Yunchang slowly let out a sigh, as if he had finally finished digesting the indigestible news he had just heard from his phone call.

With an overwhelmingly complicated feeling, Tan Yunchang spoke:

“Luo Zhan’s going to send himself as a birthday present to Tang Ran, pretending to be the bionic robot.”

“–?”

The laboratory members sucked in a breath of cold air before freezing in place.

Tan Yunchang sighed again and shook his head as he walked towards the inner room.

“Fortunately, Xiao Meng isn’t here ah. Otherwise, if he heard, he would carry a circuit board to find Luo Zhan and fight for his life….”

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Tang Ran walked out of the bedroom with her cell phone, her brow slightly knitted, seemingly troubled thinking about something.

Luo Zhan, who was leaning against the sofa, heard the sound of the bedroom door opening and immediately straightened up to look over.

Tang Ran stopped across the coffee table from Luo Zhan. After a moment of hesitation, she lowered her head and said, “Granny might not be able to come back today. She told me to, told me to eat by myself.”

Luo Zhan paused for a moment, lowered his eyes, and smiled lazily, “Is this your first time lying so that’s why you’re so horrible at it?”

Tang Ran blushed.

Seeing the little girl lie as soon as she came out, Luo Zhan held back his laughter: “What exactly did she say?”

After nearly half a minute of silence, she finally gathered enough courage to speak: “Granny said, told me follow you today…. to freeload food.”

Her last word was said in an extremely small voice, so small that it seemed that once the girl in front of him finished speaking, she would embarrassedly squeeze into a hole in the ground.

When she was told not to lie, she was honest enough to repeat the original words, without even paraphrasing the statement to words she found less embarrassing.

Luo Zhan held back his laughter and pushed off his knees to get up, “Don’t you listen to your Granny the most?”

Tang Ran tilted her face up and softly retorted, “But Granny doesn’t know you’re Luo Zhan so she said that. If she knew, then she definitely wouldn’t have asked me to follow you.”

“Oh.” Luo Zhan nodded lazily, lifting his eyes with an unfathomable smile, “Then why didn’t you tell her that I’m not actually Luo Xiu, but Luo Zhan?”

Tang Ran: “……”

After a long moment, the young girl answered honestly in a whisper, “I didn’t dare.”

Luo Zhan smiled.

Tang Ran was still lost in thought when she heard the person on the sofa get up and walk around the coffee table. Tang Ran turned toward the sound of footsteps, “You should still have things to do this afternoon, right? I won’t bother you….”

“I’m free.” Luo Zhan didn’t feel an ounce of guilt, his tone lazy and confident, “The lab is off this afternoon. Everyone is very free.”

Tang Ran paused.

After a few seconds, she said softly, not giving up: “There’s instant noodles and sausages at home. I can also make something myself.”

Luo Zhan: “It’s not healthy.”

Tang Ran: “I can also order take-out….”

Luo Zhan: “Even more unhealthy.”

Tang Ran was silent for two seconds, tilted his head, and asked curiously, “But, do you know how to cook?”

“……”

Luo Zhan was silent for a moment.

In the silence, he subconsciously looked down at his own hands.

Both hands were white, well-defined, slender and strong.

It had held all sorts of soft and hard pens, able to skillfully write strong and soft calligraphy; it could also code, able to write hundreds and thousands of lines of beautiful programs; he didn’t know how many instruments he had touched since childhood, just randomly choosing one, he was able to play a masterpiece….

There was only one thing he couldn’t do.

In terms of household chores, it wasn’t much of a reach to say that Young Master Luo’s hands had never touched spring water1—let alone cooking.

Tang Ran could also guess this. At this time, she earnestly said: “So it’s the same whether you’re here or not. Don’t need to further inconvenience you….”

“Who said I couldn’t.”

Young Master Luo lazily raised his eyes, and his beautiful strong hands slipped into his trouser pockets.

Tang Ran was unexpectedly stunned, “You can cook?”

“Well, I’ve taken cooking classes.” Luo Zhan said calmly.

During that doggone time in a boy’s childhood where he dared to do everything but behave, Young Master Luo had a whim one day.

Afterwards, the Luo residence got a new kitchen.

Still suffering from the aftermath, whenever those senior chefs of the Luo residence saw Luo Zhan now, they would feel a deep psychological shadow.

Tang Ran didn’t know the inside story. At this moment, she was fooled by Luo Zhan’s lazy, cold and lordly tone. Only after thinking about it did she seriously say: “But my house may not have much raw ingredients.”

“That’s okay.” Luo Zhan walked towards the double-door refrigerator next to the counter. After pulling open the door, he quickly swept through the levels from top to bottom.

Then Luo Zhan calmly closed the refrigerator door, “I’m going to the bathroom.”

Tang Ran nodded blankly, “Okay.”

Luo Zhan went into the guest bathroom, took out his cell phone, and dialed a number.

“Young Master?” When the call was answered, the other side asked in surprise.

“Butler Lin, there’s a list for you to write down.”

“A list? Okay, go on.”

Luo Zhan utilized his memory and reported, “One box of dried sea cucumbers, three cabbages, five tomatoes, and ten eggs………… Okay, that’s it.”

From the first ingredient reported, the Luo family’s butler on the other side of the phone already started to get confused. After he recorded the last item by professional instinct, he looked at the list under the tip of his pen and suddenly felt like he was in a dream.

Quite a while later, Butler Lin found his voice with difficulty: “Young Master, these things are?”

Luo Zhan: “I’ll send you an address later. Find a private chef’s restaurant close to here, have them use the things in this list as the ingredients and make a lunch to be delivered to the address I gave you.”

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