Chapter 59: Elements
Su Can bore Tang's mother no resentment. What had seemed like a final show of contempt for him was better described as encouragement in disguise. A snail crawled slowly no matter how it crawled, but sprinkling a little salt behind its tail could speed up the process.
In any other circumstances, Tang's mother would have had no need to say those things to him. Or, as she had said, she had met countless people, some whose names she had not even cared to learn. She could simply have taken Tang Wu away without another word.
With her position and standing, why would Tang's mother need to care what he, Su Can, thought?
Yet she had chosen to say that. If Su Can had been a boy with even a little depth, he would have been angered, too, and resolved to work hard to climb higher. Her words would have made him resent her for looking down on him, and that resentment would have become the drive to rise.
Tang's mother had shifted from disregarding him to taking him seriously, probably because his composure had revealed something of what lay within him. Combined with what he had said, although Tang's mother had appeared quite dismissive, inwardly she must have been rather surprised. That was why she had set this instructive hurdle before Su Can, to spur his fighting spirit.
If Mu Xuan, driving swiftly away, had known how easily Su Can had seen through her thoughts, that black sedan might have spun through a startled hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.
Su Can smiled faintly. The situation was becoming more and more interesting.
In most romance novels, childhood sweethearts separated in their childhood or adolescence met again years later amid falling peach blossoms, only to find wedding rings on each other's ring