Chapter 12: Ordinary
With the lights off, he lay in bed, looking through the window at the deep darkness of the night sky. The evening breeze was cool. He liked to reflect on and take stock of recent events. His mother was opening a shop in Rongcheng, and he needed to do something too. The stationery retail market was currently booming, but every boom would bring its own bottlenecks.
He believed that once the market opened up, traditional marketing methods would struggle to keep up with its flourishing activity. That was when the real bottleneck would arrive. As the saying went, today was brutal, tomorrow was brutal, and the day after the day after tomorrow was brutal, but the day after that would be beautiful. Yet a great many people died in the darkness just before that beautiful dawn.
Would he die in the darkness before dawn?
Su Can had a dream. He dreamed of a vast plain, with banners standing thick across it and sturdy horses, and a million mighty soldiers gazing at him. He was the commander of that immense army. A river ran through the plain, and towering cliffs stood at its end. Columns of dazzling rosy light rose from beyond the cliffs. The whole scene resembled something out of Greek mythology.
When he woke, it was already the next morning. The rosy light in his dream had become sunlight spilling across his face. Yet at that moment, Su Can still remembered the scene in his dream and the pounding of his heart. Was this dream an omen? Could he become the commander of a million mighty soldiers, as the dream had shown?
Su Licheng was rather dejected at the company's strategic planning meeting. Headquarters had other arrangements for him, the newly appointed deputy head of the