Chapter 116: Internal conflicts
What was a true life? It was a question Su Can sometimes pondered. Was it the courage of an ordinary man in The Shawshank Redemption, enduring humiliation and hardship before finally breaking free, or the struggle of human nature in The English Patient, pitting a frail body against human love and morality?
For Su Can, who had been reborn, perhaps all he needed from life was to come into this world and live once without regrets. There were no heroes or saints in the world. Those were merely idealized figures found in epics and written books, created by religion or politics to guide people by magnifying the positive episodes of someone's life.
In reality, everyone was merely an ordinary person. It only depended on the position they were placed in.
There were many things he could change. With his memories aligned with the pulse of this era, Su Can could grasp many opportunities, enough to develop several businesses and smoothly join the ranks of those worth tens of millions.
Such growth was bound to draw attention. After all, many of his ventures were ahead of the curve and would become focal points in their respective industries. Business competitors would emerge endlessly, and enemies would never pass up an opportunity to strike at him. Moreover, the larger his territory grew and the more it flourished, the greater and more sensitive the attention these businesses received would become.
Su Can knew that once an industrial chain grew strong, outside forces generally could no longer shake him. But he had weaknesses too. If anyone with an agenda discovered his presence behind these increasingly prominent, pioneering businesses, the fact that a high school student could own such enterprises, despite coming from a family with nothing and no connections, would instinctively