Chapter 93: The debater and the thinker
Before his rebirth, and even when he had first returned to his hometown after being reborn, Su Can had never imagined that the course of his life would stray so far from its original path. He had arrived in this world at the very end of middle school, seen the figures who had lingered in his memories of the past, and then gained admission to City First Middle School, something he had never dared imagine before.
Along with that, the strength he accumulated bit by bit had changed his family's fate. They had moved to Rongcheng, he had transferred to No. 27 Middle School, and he had also come to the United States as an international exchange student.
If someone had told Su Can beforehand that he would spend Christmas 2000 and the Spring Festival of 2001 in the United States, he would have thought it pure fantasy. Yet he had indeed spent Christmas 2000 beneath American skies. The school had carefully prepared a Christmas party for all its boarding students, who sat around long tables for Christmas dinner.
The Spring Festival in 2001 fell on January 24. Mark Zuckerberg had returned from his home in Dobbs Ferry, New York, after a family gathering to join Su Can, Tang Wu, and a group of Asian students at the Asian Club's venue, where they made dumplings to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year.
The organizers wore red, while most people wore simple T-shirts and casual clothes. Even the American high school students produced all sorts of oddly shaped "dumplings," but they seemed quite good at exercising their creativity. When asking how dumplings should be wrapped, they would frown, then pinch one into some arbitrary shape themselves and ask why they could not make it