No, I just asked because I believed. Lin Ran said calmly, "Mr. Zhou, we have a part of the connected bloodline, so I don't want to say it too bluntly." It's a pity that some things are not straightforward and not good for each other. ”

"Actually," Lin Ran lowered her eyes, her long eyelashes casting a small trembling shadow on her fair face, "I trusted you before you came to me. ”

It's a trust in you that I used to have.

She added in her heart.

"Listen to me first," Seeing that Zhou Huai'an wanted to say something, Lin Ran interrupted him loudly, "I know what you want to say, I want to say what you also have a purpose or something, but the point is not here." ”

"So what's the point?" Zhou Huai'an laughed mockingly, "Like I said, you must attribute everything to debts, and you have always thought that the two of us only have this relationship." ”

"The point is," Lin Ran continued as if he hadn't heard what he said, "what do you want from me?" ”

Zhou Huai'an was stunned.

It was something he had never thought about.

Lin Ran was not in a hurry to hear his answer, and maintained this posture to look at him directly, those eyes seemed to be able to see his heart, this discovery couldn't help but make Zhou Huai'an want to escape.

"I didn't want anything from you," Zhou Huai'an said a little angrily, "Why don't you believe that I am just a responsibility to you, just that I want to protect you?!" ”

"Even if it's a responsibility, you'll want something from me." Lin Ran was still extremely calm, and the corners of her mouth even hooked up slightly, which made her seem to smile, "Watch me study hard, and then get married and have children...... Even the same response to your affection is what you want from me after giving a relationship. ”

After Zhou Huai'an listened to her words, he immediately wanted to stand up and refute Lin Ran, but when he really stood up, he found that he couldn't say anything.

Lin Ran understands people's hearts, as if they are not obsessed, Zhou Huai'an thought, she really knows people's hearts too well, or rather, she didn't believe in people's hearts from the beginning.

That's why she was able to say these words as if she had no feelings.

Zhou Huai'an had to admit that Lin Ran was right, even if he could not consider the previous items, but he didn't want the feelings he paid to be like a stone smashed into a pool of stagnant water - not even a single wave - just like disgust, rejection or acceptance, people always want to get a response;

"Won't you respond to feelings?" Zhou Huai'an asked.

This question seemed to make Lin Ran a little embarrassed, she tilted her head and thought for a while before answering: "Yes, but not the kind you imagined." ”

She would never give Zhou Huai'an a positive response, or rather, she would not give Zhou Huai'an until her goal was achieved, whether it was despair or hope, she didn't want to give Zhou Huai'an.

Fundamentally, the two of them can't be relatives at all.

Lin Ran knew very clearly that although Zhou Huai'an seemed to be a rebellious person on the surface, even after getting along with him for a long time, in his bones, he missed his family before he was torn apart.

But Lin Ran is different.

After all kinds of things, she has gone further and further on this path she has chosen, and even in the distant future, she will not stop moving forward in order to create a warm family.

"I really want to know," Zhou Huaian sat back on the sofa dejectedly, burying his face between his hands, "You don't even believe in family affection, will you like it in the future...... Even fall in love with someone. ”

"Theoretically, it should be," Lin Ran seemed to think of something, and showed a slight subtle expression, "But I'm not sure if that feeling should be called love." ”

"But you can't even give me affection, can you?" Zhou Huai'an didn't raise his head and asked sullenly.

Lin Ran sighed: "Listen, Mr. Zhou." You know, your feelings for me are not as deep as you think, and after a few years, you will slowly realize that your current love for me is nothing more than a full infatuation, mixed with inquiry - and regret that I don't know where it came from, but that you have always carried in your words. So it's not affection at all, it wasn't from the beginning. ”

"Do you regret it?" Before Zhou Huai'an stood up and decided to go back and sort out his thoughts, he looked into Lin Ran's eyes and asked.

"Regret what?" Lin Ran raised her eyebrows.

"I regret taking this road, I mean," Zhou Huai paused, and finally said, "This road that made you the way you are now?" ”

Lin Ran laughed, that smile was so beautiful that Zhou Huai'an choked his breath for a moment.

Zhou Huai'an heard her say-

"I can tell you this at any time, I never regret it, and I even feel happy because I have such a chance to choose to walk on this path."

"I'll send you out," picking up the bag she was carrying, Ye Jinyan took the lead and walked out, "Be careful at night." ”

Looking at his back, Lin Ran shrugged helplessly, it seems that no matter when, this man's machismo style can't be changed.

But fortunately, she is slowly getting used to it.

Because she met Zhou Huai'an and talked to him for such a while, she went back a lot late, and when she opened the door and entered the house, Hu Ting couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief: "I just wanted to call you, why did you come back so late?" ”

"There's something going on the road," Lin Ran didn't want to say something to make Hu Ting worry about her, so she vaguely changed the topic, "I didn't expect it to be delayed until now." ”

"It's good to come back, hurry up and take a shower to get ready for bed," Hu Ting rushed her to the bathroom, "You sleep a little longer, I always feel that the bags under your eyes will never go away." ”

Lin Ran went to take a bath with a haha, and decided to completely forget the day of tired and tired love.

But...... If it passed so smoothly, it would mean that Lin Ran, who had never been very good, suddenly exploded.

Lin Ran never believed that she was a person who was easily manipulated by emotions, she was cold and calm, and she could maintain the most rational side in any scene, not that she was fearless, wise and brave...... It's because of the desolation of her heart - because of what happened to her in the past years, she has begun to stop believing in feelings.

I don't even believe in feelings...... She doesn't have to be expected to trust others.

They took Xiao Zhou's turn the next day, which was the only day in two weeks that Hu Ting and Lin Ran and other top fifteen people did not have to go to morning class, but because of the biological clock, Hu Ting got up early, went out for a run, and came back by the way.

Lin Ran, who was woken up by the movement she pushed the door back, couldn't sleep, and after washing up, she pointed to the bookshelf she had filled and asked, "Hmm...... Can I borrow a book to pass the time? ”

Hu Ting walked over, took out the book and handed it to her, with a little smile on her face: "Then I'm afraid you'll be disappointed, I don't have a romance, and I don't have a collection of cases you like." ”

Lin Ran was helpless when he took it, it was actually a vernacular version of "Thirty-six Strategies" with war examples.

Sighing, Lin Ran sat down on the chair, sitting elegantly as if he was in the study of some mansion, and said slowly: "I was advised that you take a good look at this back then, but I didn't expect you to have a ...... here Speaking of which, this was thrown to me by my second uncle, saying that it was for me to study hard, not to be sold, and to help others count the money. ”

After a pause, Lin Ran continued to add as if he remembered something: "Of course, I remembered it when I said this, I have been wanting to tell you for the past few days, for the inexplicable proposal of your minister, don't rush to agree, I will find out the bottom of it." ”

Hu Ting lowered her eyes and put aside the book she handed back: "At first, I thought you were a true temperament - especially after seeing you help Xiaoxin, who would have thought that you were actually ......"