Outside Gold Building, amid the crowd.
The female store manager noticed the stir in the crowd, and a trace of mockery surfaced in her eyes. They were running a business—if the event were too easy, wouldn't they lose money until they didn't recognize their own parents?
"I can see everyone's enthusiasm is high. How about this? We won't require ten seconds now—five seconds. As long as you hold on for five seconds, it counts as success!" the female store manager kept egging them on.
Amid the crowd, Guo Ran gazed at Jiang Ning. She remembered that when school had just started, he had not been this tall. He had seemed about the same height as her, hadn't he?
She had already forgotten when Jiang Ning had shot up in height. Though he had grown taller, he was still skinny, with the lean frame unique to teenage boys.
She knew Jiang Ning was very good at sports. Gao Heshaui and the others from her former office had even talked about Jiang Ning before, saying that even if he was not good at studying, he could still take the path of athletics.
But he was just a teenager, after all. The fitness coach and the construction worker from earlier had both failed to lift the gold brick. Asking Jiang Ning to try—wasn't that just a joke?
Guo Ran had grown up. She was no longer that naïve, immature little girl from before. She had a clear understanding of the world and no longer believed that there were perfect people in this world.
She could accept imperfection.
"Forget it," Guo Ran said. If Jiang Ning stepped forward and everyone saw what he looked like, they might end up laughing at him.
As his teacher, Guo Ran should have stood up and shielded him