Chapter 22: The wager (part one)
Xue Yiyang insisted on dragging Su Can along to play soccer, all so he could thank Su Can for his help afterward by treating him to a bottle of soda.
There were plenty of shameless people around, but being as shameless as this kid took talent. So Su Can fell for his persuasion and planned to watch him play after school that afternoon in exchange for a bottle of soda.
What he had not expected was that he would have company in the stands. Three familiar figures were there, either squatting or standing, with two bottles of beer on the ground. They were none other than Wang Weiwei and Lin Zouwen, with Lin Luoran standing beside them. The breeze gently stirred her permed curls, putting the boys playing soccer below through even greater torment.
Wang Weiwei and Lin Zouwen sipped their beer, the sunset draped over them. Two boys and a girl-who knew how many years later they would look back on this scene with nostalgia?
At the entrance to the stands, Su Can looked diagonally upward at the three of them on the concrete steps. He was rather surprised by their loneliness. Wang Weiwei and Lin Zouwen had always been carefree. Whatever bothered them came and went quickly, and they were quite clear about whom they liked and disliked. He had never seen this side of them before.
Seeing the three gathered there drinking dejectedly, Su Can had intended to go over and say hello, but suddenly felt that approaching them like this would be rather intrusive.
Sometimes, whether people were true friends was not a matter of how often they shared nights of revelry and drunken extravagance. It was whether, at their lowest, they would think to call you, or simply bring