Chapter 75: You don't understand
While some people were around, others might keep a respectful distance or look up to them. They might avoid bringing her up in conversation. But after Tang Wu truly left, the admiration suppressed by her presence, the appreciation they had not dared openly express, all burst forth because of her brief coming and going.
Some boys sketched her portrait in class. Even the girls in their class, when someone mentioned that their grades were not the best, could not help saying, "Why don't you mention how your class was completely crushed by ours when Tang Wu was here?"
While she was there, they deliberately ignored her presence, perhaps even with a little hostility. But once someone truly left, what remained might be endless longing and fond recollections.
Because Xue Yiyang sometimes stayed to play soccer, Su Can had recently been walking alone down the slope after school. Looking at the old buildings and the clear sky crisscrossed by antennas, he often thought of warm moments with Tang Wu. He remembered the girl standing on tiptoe and measuring the air above his head, saying, "If you can grow this tall, I'll look up to you!" The scene remained vivid in his mind.
Now he was beginning to take flight.
He came down the school slope with the tide of students carrying their schoolbags. People passing him occasionally pointed and whispered. Of course, Su Can could not hear them. When he occasionally glanced over, some groups of more scholarly-looking boys hurriedly turned away upon meeting his gaze.
Su Can suddenly found the scene strangely familiar. Then it came to him: right, whenever Wang Haoran and his crowd looked around among the students, hardly anyone dared meet their eyes either. Given his recent actions and the stories spreading