C23 Part2

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Tang Shixin looked at her strangely: “Why don’t you just ask someone to buy it for you and send it over?”

Tang Luoqian pouted: “No, I just want you to give it to me, Daddy.”

“Okay, okay, okay. I’ll get it……” Just before Tang Shixin agreed, he noticed something.

After two seconds of silence, he glared reproachfully at Tang Luoqian before turning to Tang Ran: “Xiao Ran, your birthday’s tomorrow. Do you have anything you want?”

Tang Luoqian instantly showed disbelief on her face. She turned her head and looked disgustedly at the girl sitting alone on the armchair.

Tang Ran closed her eyes and didn’t speak.

Even if she couldn’t see, she could guess how Tang Luoqian was looking at her, with a proud and self-content look and her chin raised.

After all, before Tang Luoqian appeared, she was brought around by Tang Shixin to see the Tang residence. The illusion that “she was home” was so easily shattered by a few short words between Tang Luoqian and Tang Shixin…

Tang Luoqian was showing her what a father’s natural closeness, indulgence, and love for his daughter was.

She also woke up to the fact that the warmth from Tang Shixin that gave her a misconception was just someone giving their leftovers after they were full, a little warmth from someone who was giving charity labelled as “kindness”.

Some people had to depend on false charity to live.

Tang Ran tilted her face, the corners of her eyes slightly curved, and a light smile: “I don’t lack anything. Thank you.”

“……”

Feeling the girl’s sadness and alienation, Tang Shixin sighed in his heart.

Although his heart ached for Tang Ran, Tang Luoqian was his only daughter, after all. If he hadn’t spoiled her, then Tang Luoqian obviously wouldn’t have this dominating-young-miss personality today.

So even if he could see it at this time, in the end, Tang Shixin didn’t say anything, so as not to make Tang Luoqian unhappy again.

Inevitably, the atmosphere in the drawing room became awkward with Tang Luoqian present. When Tang Shixin was worrying how he should adjust the atmosphere, one of the family’s maids came over.

“Mr. Tang, there is a rather young guest outside the door who wants to see you.”

Tang Shixin immediately got up, “Then I’ll go check it out first. Luoqian, your younger sister hasn’t come back home for a long time, you accompany her to talk for a while.”

“Got it.” Tang Luoqian agreed perfunctorily.

As soon as Tang Shixin left, Tang Luoqian looked at Tang Ran with even more unconcealed dissatisfaction in her gaze.

At first, she didn’t pay any attention to Tang Ran, deliberately wanting to give her some embarrassment, thinking this was the best way to make Tang Ran reveal a helpless look. However, after waiting for a while, Tang Luoqian herself was bored with waiting. The little girl sitting there didn’t even change her posture.

Tang Luoqian was furious: “Are you dumb or slow? Did you not hear my dad telling you to talk to me?”

Even though it had been a long time, Tang Ran was still familiar with her sister’s temper, and she wasn’t surprised by what Tang Luoqian said.

After hearing her speak, Tang Ran also just raised her head slightly towards the other person present.

“Say it. I’m listening.”

The little girl’s voice was soft and gentle, so that people who wanted to lose their temper had nowhere to direct it.

Tang Luoqian was so angry she gnashed her teeth. Thinking about it, she straightened her waist and raised her chin, opening her mouth to coldly ask: “You and Luo Zhan, do you know each other?”

Tang Ran’s fingers on her lap trembled slightly.

A few seconds later, the little girl closed her eyes, “I only know ‘Luo Xiu’.”

Tang Luoqian was obviously relieved, but still uneasily pressed, “Then where did you get that jacket you had draped on when you went to the Luo residence last time?”

“……”

Seeing that Tang Ran didn’t say anything, Tang Luoqian raised her chin unhappily: “Speak. I’m asking you something.”

Tang Ran slowly opened her mouth, her voice soft and quiet: “That’s my business.”

Tang Luoqian froze. She obviously didn’t expect Tang Ran to dare to contradict her like this, and stilled for a few seconds before her face went cold, “Let’s make something clear. I’m the eldest miss of the Tang family―don’t think that you’re a master of the Tang family just because you’ve come back. You dare contradict me when I’m talking to you? “

“……”

Tang Ran didn’t speak.

Tang Luoqian thought she had gotten her point through, and a pleased look flitted across her face. She was about to continue asking when she heard the girl suddenly say softly: “You don’t like me, hate me, and look at me like I’m a little beggar. I don’t blame you.”

Tang Luoqian was stunned and subconsciously sneered: “You’re quite self-aware. You know that you have no qualifications to blame me?”

Tang Ran nodded seriously: “I know.”

Tang Luoqian became more confused.

Tang Ran spoke again: “If I were you, I probably wouldn’t welcome an extra daughter that suddenly popped up. Whether you hate or ignore me is a personal choice, so I don’t blame you.”

Tang Luoqian inexplicably lost a little confidence, but also felt that if she didn’t open her mouth, she’d lose the momentum of miss from the Tang family. She stuck out her neck and coldly snorted: “It’s good that you understand!”

“So, I won’t bother you, and you won’t bother me.”

“…… What?”

“Your business is your business, my business is my business.”

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