Chapter 19: Happiness at a roadside stall
He met Tang Wu on the path in front of the Administrative Building. Su Can remembered that, when he first saw Tang Wu at No. 27 Middle School, he had paid little attention to the seasons in this city. She had come down this very path after school, her ponytail swaying behind her head, her figure slender and tall. Only then had the lush green trees beside her told Su Can that spring had already arrived.
"Sorry." Tang Wu had hurried over, and the zipper on her backpack was still open. Her cheeks were slightly flushed. "When class ended, I realized my pen was missing. It took me ages to find it. Have you been waiting long?"
"'Sorry' seems to be your favorite thing to say today," Su Can said with a smile. "That doesn't sound like something the Tang Wu I know would say."
There was a double meaning in his words. Naturally, it was not something the girl he had known in his previous life, before his rebirth, would have said either.
Before Su Can's rebirth, if her life had not vanished from this world, if there had been such a day, such a moment and coincidence, they might have walked toward each other, drawing closer and closer, until they passed. This girl probably would not even have glanced at him, let alone recognized him as her former middle school classmate. Looking at things as they had stood in that previous life, he simply had not possessed what it took to enter her world.
But Su Can had a fair idea why Tang Wu was acting this way. It was all because she cared. That was why, in front of him now, she would never wear the cold, guarded look familiar