Chapter 34

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Just before she became engulfed, someone pushed the door open from the direction of the hallway. A few seconds later, Yang Yilan’s voice followed after the sound of footsteps.

“Xiao Ran, did you just call for me? Luo Xiu left after he saw I had come back. Did you guys get along well today?”

“Granny….”

Obviously the first syllable was still normal, but by the end, she didn’t know why she was unable to control her sadness. Tang Ran sat in the darkness and heard her voice take on a bit of a crying tone.

Yang Yilan, who had entered the living room, was terrified.

She rushed to the sofa, embraced the body buried under the blanket that seemed particularly small and delicate at this moment. She patted the little girl to comfort her, “What’s wrong, Xiao Ran? Talk to Granny, what happened?”

“…… I’m fine, Granny.”

Tang Ran lightly inhaled, suppressing her slightly choked breath.

She tilted her face up and smiled softly.

“I just had a nightmare and got scared.”

Yang Yilan breathed a sigh of relief, “So it was just a nightmare? Scared me, I thought there was something wrong with you.”

Tang Ran somewhat clumsily changed the subject, “Granny, what were you doing in the room?”

“Packing for you.” Yang Yilan said, “Aren’t they going to take you back to the Tang residence tomorrow? I did one last check to make sure you didn’t leave anything important behind.”

“…… Mm.”

“But what kind of nightmare did our Xiao Ran just have? What was so scary you almost cried?”

Tang Ran was silent.

A second or two later, she bent the corners of her eyes and smiled as if nothing had happened: “I forgot after waking up. Anyway, it was very scary.”

“You’re quite good at scaring yourself.”

“……”

Tang Ran curled the corners of her eyes and smiled.

Hidden under the blanket, her fingers slowly squeezed and her nails pinched into her palm.

You know.

All beautiful dreams had to end. The second you return to the coldness that is reality, you’re already in the blackest abyss at the end of a nightmare.

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After Luo Zhan returned to the Luo residence, before he could have a talk with Luo Xiu, he was called to the study by Elder Master Luo.

When Luo Zhan entered the study, he had just sat down on the sofa when the Elder Master in the main seat already spoke, “I heard that your brother took Tang Ran to your lab today to see the robot. There were no problems, right?”

Luo Zhan lazily lifted his eyes, “No problem.”

No problem, no problem at all.

Mr. Luo nodded, “That’s good. The day after tomorrow is Tang Ran’s birthday. Why don’t you go to Tang residence the night after tomorrow and pay a visit to your Uncle Tang and Old Madam Hang, and also take that bionic-“

“Whoever wants to go, go.” Luo Zhan interrupted the Elder Master with a frown, “I have something to do. I can’t go.”

Old Mister Luo was angered by his young grandson’s tone, “What could you possibly have to do?”

Luo Zhan snorted coldly, “Drinking and sleeping around.”

The old man knocked on his cane: “You only know how to talk nonsense! I have never seen a time when you were proper and not undisciplined!”

“…… Up to you to believe it or not.”

Luo Zhan was too lazy to argue with him about the engagement and the Tang family. He stood up disinterestedly and walked out: “Nothing else, right? Then I’ll leave. You’d better have a heart-to-heart with your eldest grandson who is proper and not undisciplined―it’s better to give Tang what’s-her-name to him.”

Old Mister Luo had never been able to do much to this young grandson. Right now, he was so angry but he could only harden his voice: “Then bring the robot back. I’ll ask someone else to send it the day after tomorrow.”

Luo Zhan’s pace stopped: “Send it where?”

The Elder Master replied unhappily, “Where else can it be? The Tang residence, of course!”

“Tang Ran isn’t living in the Tang residence yet, right?”

“She’s moving back in tomorrow…” The Elder Master broke off and looked up suspiciously, “How do you know that Tang Ran doesn’t live in the Tang residence?”

Luo Zhan paused for a beat and evaded the question, “My brother said so.”

The Elder Master didn’t think much of it, “Then it’s fine that you know now. From tomorrow onwards, she will officially move back into the Tang residence.”

“It’s just a side house.”

“What did you say?” The Elder Master didn’t hear clearly.

“…… Nothing.”

Luo Zhan inserted his hand into his pocket and slowly pinched the cold coin inside.

He turned back slightly, smiling lazily and coldly: “You want me to go to the Tang residence the day after tomorrow, right? I’ll go.”

The Elder Master was stunned: “Why did you suddenly change your mind?”

“Because this bionic robot can’t be sent by others.” Luo Zhan pressed his tongue to the roof of his mouth and laughed lowly, “I must go personally.”

The Elder Master misunderstood his meaning and said with a frown of dissatisfaction, “You only have AI in your eyes, huh? What’s so great about those cold machines?”

“……”

Luo Zhan didn’t bother to explain. He hooked the corner of his mouth and turned to leave.

Luo Zhan didn’t go back to his room, but went straight to Luo Xiu’s.

After knocking on the door, the man who came out seemed to have just finished taking a shower. He had changed into ash gray silk pajamas, and his black hair was hanging half damp.

His very refined glasses he usually had on were taken off, and his cold, dark eyes were undisguised. Even his usual gentleness had become clearly sharp.

If those people outside the Luo family saw him like this, it was very likely that not many of them would dare to continue gossiping about the rumored “weak” Eldest Young Master of the Luo family.

Luo Zhan had already seen through his facade and wasn’t surprised at all. Without even raising his eyes: “I agree to the plan you mentioned the other day.”

Luo Xiu held the glasses in his hand and wiped them slowly and methodically, “Which one?”

Luo Zhan coldly glanced at him, “Don’t play dumb.”

“……”

Luo Xiu lowered his eyes and hooked his lips.

The smile was light and cold, but he only raised his hand to put his glasses back on―when the clear and cold droplets on the lenses were wiped away, and then his eyes looked back up, the sharpness in his smile had long disappeared like an illusion.

The man’s smile was as gentle as before: “After all, it’s something that requires my cooperation. After seriously thinking it through, I’ve changed my mind.”

Hearing this, Luo Zhan wasn’t surprised.

He lazily leaned against the wall opposite Luo Xiu’s bedroom, “Let’s talk about the terms―first of all, let’s agree that the ridiculous conditions of blackmailing me with this matter then directly asking me to inherit the family business are unequal and shouldn’t be mentioned. Mentioning it is a waste of time.”

Luo Xiu smiled lightly: “It’s meaningless to talk about terms. How about a different way?”

Luo Zhan frowned, his eyes raised, “What way?”

Luo Xiu: “Let’s make a bet.”

Luo Zhan: “?”

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