Chapter 35: Good days, good times
On his way back, Su Can saw Zhang Xiaoqiao below the dorm building, along with the girl who had intervened between him and Qian Zhongyuan during the cafeteria fight at the start of term.
The two were talking. The girl's eyes were red, and Zhang Xiaoqiao had his head turned aside. He froze for a moment when he saw Su Can. The girl probably did not want any questions; her reddened nostrils twitched, and both of them stopped talking.
Su Can nodded to the two of them and went upstairs past them.
Without tears and tangled relationships, it would hardly have been college life. But judging by Zhang Xiaoqiao's expression, he clearly was not without feelings for the girl. Yet he had let things reach this point, which rather suited his usual melancholy disposition.
When he walked in, Li Han was working his well-developed biceps, raising and lowering dumbbells in alternating hands. Xiao Xu had commandeered his computer to play StarCraft. Seeing Su Can enter, he pushed up his glasses. "Boss, want to play? Those three guys next door are giving me some practice."
Quite a few people on their floor played StarCraft. Xiao Xu had once scoffed at it, thinking it was nowhere near as entertaining as rereading Jin Yong's novels. He had also been an outstanding student at his high school, practically the standard positive example his homeroom teacher chose every time. He had held considerable contempt for those students who formed little gangs and headed to internet cafés after school, refusing to spare even the little time before evening study.
But one day, one of the guys gathered around Su Can's and Zhang Xiaoqiao's laptops turned around. Probably feeling that monopolizing someone else's computer in their room was not quite right,