Chapter 35: Holding your hand
Beneath the grape arbor, time still lay scattered everywhere. As summer arrived, the days gradually grew longer. Rongcheng had yet to suffer the severe pollution of later years, so clear blue skies were still a common sight, even on this afternoon after school.
People passing through this Grape Arbor walkway occasionally looked back and whispered among themselves.
Su Can walked into the arbor and saw Tang Wu standing in the middle.
"There's quite a lot of homework today. I'll have to head back early to do it." Tang Wu frowned. "Two chemistry papers. So annoying."
Su Can almost rubbed his eyes and cleared out his ears. He had actually heard Tang Wu complain. Had he heard that right?
This girl always kept everything to herself. Whether she was happy, delighted, sad, or melancholy, she never let anyone know, presenting only a cold exterior to others. Yet now, in front of him, she actually complained about how much homework they had. These were probably things she would never even say to her parents.
After all, she was not someone like him, someone who had transcended this era. She still had the worries of this stage of life, uncertainty about the future, and things that occasionally troubled her.
It felt wonderful. At least the Tang Wu before him was not the extraordinary woman he had imagined back in middle school: someone far above him, followed by the media, whom he would see in newspapers and magazines in the distant future as an utterly ordinary man.
"If you don't feel like using your brain, I've finished mine. You can copy it." Su Can smiled.
Tang Wu paused, then realized that Su Can was clearly using tricks like doing English homework in math class, math problems in Chinese class,