Chapter 52: Please Don't Forget
Everything they did was constrained by their families and schools. In their youth, they had dreamed of jumping around without a care in the school dorms, of recklessly tossing pots and pans out the dormitory window, of playing computer games for an entire day and night, or walking abreast with a few close friends to block an entire street, heedless of the horns blaring behind them.
Or they might picture walking hand in hand with the girl they liked along an old road bathed in the setting sun, watching a movie together, taking her home, then fleeing beneath her parents' murderous gazes. As for playing guitar beneath her window, reciting love poems, or climbing vines to her balcony, those were things Don Quixote or Romeo did. They might not be able to do them themselves, but whenever they saw some fellow doing so in the media, they would often give him a thumbs-up.
His daring feat today, however, had already surpassed the limits of what many people their age could manage. Su Can had even less idea how people would react if they learned of his situation at Tang Wu's house today. Would they sharpen their knives for him, or give him a thumbs-up, thinking this fellow showed promise in both courage and luck?
Su Can felt somewhat overwhelmed. When Tang Wu smiled at him with a faintly alluring look and said, "I'm going to take a shower," he was so dazed that all he could feel was his blood surging and racing through his body.
Sometimes, things began without warning, or even simply took their natural course. Ever since he had entered Tang Wu's home, for instance, neither of them had mentioned when he would leave.
So he had naturally stayed, and even when