Chapter 29: Tomorrow will be better
Twenty minutes after school let out, when almost everyone in class had left, Su Can finally put away his books, slung on his schoolbag, and left the classroom. Generally, he finished his daily homework during lessons, so he could often be seen doing math problems in English class, working on the English homework assigned that morning during afternoon Chinese class, and then clearing away everything that remained in the final biology lesson. Of course, sometimes he simply did not do his homework.
That was why Xue Yiyang often described Su Can, who got by under Tang Wu's protection, as a kept man.
Yet Xue Yiyang had to admit that even without Tang Wu covering for Su Can, he himself could never learn the knack of doing math problems during English class without missing a single point of the English lesson.
For the most part, he took a numb, indifferent attitude toward it. He had long since grown used to the formidable learning ability Su Can had displayed since entering high school. When Su Can first showed it, he had been terribly jealous, but once something became routine, he could hardly remain jealous forever. Xue Yiyang soon accepted the reality of being screwed by life.
Take the ambiguous relationship between Tang Wu and Su Can, for instance. Or how, in the same exam, Su Can could hand in his paper an hour early and still rank among the top students in class with a score 130 percent of his.
Or how he had to talk himself hoarse and charm everyone around him just to draw an attentive glance from the pretty girls in class, while Su Can sometimes walked down the corridor after PE with tousled hair and a faintly melancholy air, and countless eyes