Chapter 48: An unconventional gambit
Su Can had only come to the Municipal Party Committee Family Compound to borrow a computer and some reference materials. He could never have imagined that something like this would happen afterward.
In Su Can's eyes, the Lin family's young lady had an unknown background and identity. Of course, he had speculated about who she was, but this country was vast and rich, and it was perfectly normal for there to be many important people he knew nothing about. He had not deliberately asked around, either. Wang Weiwei and Lin Luoran probably did not want him to know their family backgrounds, and prying too deliberately might sometimes create a certain distance between them.
But however he looked at it, a girl like Lin Luoran was someone people looked up to, at least for now. Her pride was different from Tang Wu's. Tang Wu was cold outside and warm within, while Lin Luoran was much easier to approach, her sweet, fresh appearance itself inviting friendliness. Yet only by truly spending time with her could someone see the solitary pride inside her. Her stay in this little city felt as gentle as winter sunshine, but that gentleness never reached the depths of her heart. She was always standing on tiptoe, gazing from this basin-like inland region toward somewhere far, far away.
On the surface, she could laugh and fool around with Wang Weiwei and Lin Zouwen without a care. Only through the schoolwork she finished so quickly, yet never used to vie for the top, the thick copy of Capital in her bedroom, and the moments when she quietly held The Despotic System of the Zhonghua Empire and read it closely could one sense the bold, sweeping strokes of her inner world.
And now this very girl