Chapter 35

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Luo Zhan came out of the bathroom, walked to the armchair in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, and picked up the phone vibrating on the coffee table.

The caller ID showed “Tan Yunchang”.

Luo Zhan lowered his eyes, wiped his half-wet hair and sat down on the seat. With a swipe of his finger, the call was dragged to the green side.

He spoke in a lazy voice: “What’s up?”

Tan Yunchang: “What else could it be, ancestor―of course it’s about your plan. Has your brother agreed to cooperate?”

“Mm.” Luo Zhan answered lazily.

“He really agreed? I thought for sure he wanted to make things difficult for you.” Tan Yunchang finished and asked skeptically, “Luo Xiu wouldn’t have given you any conditions, like if you want him to cooperate with you in covering up the truth from the Tang and Luo families, you’ll have to go back and inherit the family business or something?”

Luo Zhan looked at the night scene outside the floor-to-ceiling window and narrowed his eyes slightly. After two seconds of silence he spoke, “No.”

“That’s good then, that’s good. It’s rare for your brother to do a good-“

“But it’s pretty much the same.”

“……?” Tan Yunchang choked on his words. After taking a long time to return to his senses, he said anxiously: “What do you mean, pretty much? Our INT team still has old and new members. You aren’t really intending to abandon us to go back to inherit the family business.”

There was a long silence on the phone.

Tan Yunchang was getting increasingly anxious as he worriedly tapped his fingers. He practically wanted to straightforwardly fly to Luo Zhan with the army of INT team members to make him change his mind when he heard the other side lightly snicker.

“No.” Luo Zhan’s still hands once again moved, wiping dry his damp hair. Between his front pieces of hair, his pair of dark eyes smiled mischievously and coldly. “After being forced to take the Luo family’s mantle for so many years, a small opportunity for me to grasp finally appeared. How can I give up at this time?”

Tan Yunchang let out a long sigh of relief.

Then he asked, “Then what did you mean by that just now?”

“That…. Luo Xiu’s ultimate goal is naturally that. But not as a condition, but as the punishment of the bet.”

Tan Yunchang was bewildered, “A bet?”

“Well,” Luo Zhan dropped his hands, “We made a bet. Mine is to go and be a robot for Tang Ran for two months without being exposed.”

Tan Yunchang hurriedly asked, “What about him?”

The corners of Luo Zhan’s mouth hooked, and he said a few short words.

After a long length of silence on the other side of the phone, Tan Yunchang sighed: “You’re awesome. Do all of you rich kids like to do these ‘leisurely and refined’ things?”

Luo Zhan smiled coldly: “He wants to screw me over. Should I let him have a good time?”

Tan Yunchang: “But the duration of your bets aren’t proportional at all. Obviously, he’s on the losing end. Yet, Luo Xiu actually agreed to it?”

Luo Zhan’s smile faded.

After a few seconds, he lazily leaned back into the sofa, “Can my difficulty be compared to his difficulty?”

“That’s true.” Tan Yunchang sighed, “You need to pretend for two months…… By then, I’m guessing that the new robot we ordered should have arrived?”

“Mm.”

Luo Zhan listened to Tan Yunchang report the lab’s progress in preparing his disguise then was ready to hang up the phone.

But Tan Yunchang didn’t let him go, and fawningly called out, “Brother Zhan.”

Luo Zhan: “……”

Luo Zhan was cold and disdainful: “I can’t afford it. Have you forgotten you’re five years older than me.”

“Since you came from the junior class, everyone else in the lab has been older than you.” Tan Yunchang was asking for a favor, so he didn’t dare to complain more, “There was something I wanted you to help me with.”

Luo Zhan heard him say “Brother Zhan” and guessed it was like this. His eyes lowered as he leaned lazily into the sofa, “Go ahead.”

Tan Yunchang: “I heard Qianhua say that you and Lan Jingqian know each other?”

Luo Zhan frowned, “Who?”

Tan Yunchang: “Lan Jingqian! The newly-promoted, eligible bachelor of the control field for the past two years, the founder of Auto―Lin Qianhua told me that you met him when you went to the International AI Conference last year. He also said that you two had a good talk.”

Luo Zhan already reacted as he spoke, “You mean Matthew?”

“Huh?” Tan Yunchang was confused for a moment, then realized, “Oh that’s his English name, right? Let me check…… right, it’s him, it’s him.”

Luo Zhan got up from the sofa and casually asked as he walked into his room, “What up with him?”

“He’s coming back to the country!”

“……” The sudden happy and loud shout made Luo Zhan’s figure stiffen. He frowned after returning to his senses and looked in annoyance at the phone, “Is he your father so you’re this happy?”

Tan Yunchang was so excited that he didn’t care what Luo Zhan was saying, “I would like him to be my dad, but unfortunately he’s only thirty-six or thirty-seven this year. Unless he made a mistake at the age of eleven or twelve, I’m guessing the two of us aren’t father and son.”

“Then what do you want?”

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