Chapter 98: The phone call
Su Can's room had also been booked at the Grand Hyatt Shanghai, though he was not staying with Tang Wu. "That wouldn't have been possible anyway." Of course, even though they were in the same hotel, Su Can did not sneak into Tang Wu's room in the middle of the night to talk about the scenery and life, working their way from the head of the bed to the foot.
It was not because Su Can was some paragon of restraint, but because Tang Wu's father was staying right next door to her. Both of them were in river-view suites on the seventy-second floor, while he was alone on the sixtieth. Tang Wu's father had arranged everything, so naturally he had no need to worry about the expense or anything else. But it had also successfully kept him apart from Tang Wu.
Standing by the window, looking down at the panoramic view of the Huangpu River and Lujiazui, at the spectacular city lights beneath the night sky, he felt a faint dizziness. But whenever he thought that Tang Wu, ten floors above him, might also be looking out at the river as he was, standing in the dim light and watching the crisscrossing traffic of this bustling world, much of his loneliness faded.
He did not belong to this era, yet he could not share any of what lay before his eyes with anyone. He was a creature existing within space and time, destined to savor this loneliness that did not belong to the present time and space.
Ever since his rebirth, Su Can had taken to reviewing his life at each stage. Looking at this world in which, before he knew it, he had lived for nearly three years since his rebirth, he asked