Chapter 87: Solving Advanced Math with Stray Birds
On Friday, during the school band's and orchestra's distinctive performances, Su Can and Tang Wu sat on a long bench outside the auditorium. He felt the cool breeze lift strands of Tang Wu's long hair and brush them against his neck and cheeks, bringing a ticklish touch and the scent of soap.
Melodious music drifted out of the auditorium, accompanied by bursts of shouting, both real and ethereal.
Tang Wu held a newspaper with a special section devoted to Su Can. Thanks to successful publicity, he had recently become a Chinese exchange student at the academy who attracted considerable attention in Exeter's newspapers.
His dealings with the Dungeons & Dragons club upon arriving at school had immediately made him the first Chinese exchange student daring enough to join an underground club unwelcome at the academy. They had also drawn the academy's close attention, so even as his straight-A assessment grew increasingly precarious, his reputation rose in inverse proportion.
This was also something that worried Tang Wu greatly.
Compared with how difficult it was to get into the newspapers in China, appearing in a newspaper in the United States was remarkably easy and happened frequently. Especially in a small city like Exeter, local newspapers published interesting recent happenings every week.
Some students at the academy were more willing to act as temporary reporters, submitting what they saw, heard, and felt to newspapers, which were happy to pay them something in return. This made Su Can feel that Americans sometimes really had nothing better to do, but it also indirectly showed how good they were at discovering interesting things around them and in their lives, even if there was only a little fun to be found.
But Su Can knew very well what a