Chapter 13: One ball
Zhang Xiaoqiao got up from the floor, patted his trouser legs and brushed off his dirty backside, restoring his appearance, although his cheeks were still red from making such a spectacle of himself. He raised his head and looked at Su Can with complete confidence as Li Han and Xiao Xu watched in alarm and uncertainty. "Boss, I have some friends in Rongcheng, too. I know you have a popular expression there-putting on an act. Go on, keep it up." Zhang Xiaoqiao felt that after more than eighteen years of navigating the world, being reduced to such a sorry state by a little bragging from Su Can was an insult to the unruffled composure he had always admired. It was downright embarrassing. Fortunately, he had only embarrassed himself inside their dorm room, where no one else could see him.
Xiao Xu and Li Han, who had vaguely caught on from Zhang Xiaoqiao's expression and words, exchanged glances. Then they figured it out. Sure enough, Zhang Xiaoqiao was the quickest thinker. Su Can had obviously made the whole thing up as a joke.
All they had to do was think about it the other way around: that bouquet of roses Su Can had presented had been expensive.
It had been such a huge bouquet, and the Student Union had carefully selected the flowers and even stripped every thorn from each little stem. One of those roses would have bought them a fairly lavish meal. Perhaps not three meat dishes, but at least two meat dishes and two vegetable dishes-and on the second floor of the main campus cafeteria, at that.
If Tang Wu really was Su Can's girlfriend, would he have needed to put on a show like that? It wasn't as though he had so much