Chapter 39: A tower on the verge of collapse
"Not interested?" Fan Qiyi raised his eyebrows slightly. He had thought he had offered generous enough terms. So many people wanted to join the Student Union. Contact with the university's senior administrators alone could strengthen a student's ties to the university, an unparalleled advantage.
And Su Can had contributed to the Student Union's debate competition, which would silence a good deal of criticism. Recent internal meetings of the university Student Union had also discussed recruiting him. With someone like him in reserve, the Student Union would undoubtedly become stronger. It would no longer need to rely on those formidable clubs that paid it little attention and had embarrassed Fan Qiyi several times. If a similar situation arose again, there would be no repeat of their last failure to persuade those grand old men of the Speech and Debate Club to help.
Fan Qiyi still brooded over the last debate competition and was thoroughly displeased with the Speech and Debate Club. But it was a five-star club receiving university funding through the project approval system... None of that went through the Student Union. The club also had tremendous influence among Shanghai's universities, organizing intercollegiate events on a larger scale than even the Student Union could manage. There was nothing he could do if they refused to take the Student Union seriously, so thinking about it sometimes filled him with frustrated anger.
Yet this Su Can standing before him had unequivocally rejected the tempting deputy minister position he had offered, plainly stating that he did not want too many activities distracting him. He had chosen too many courses this year and would not survive unless he got through them.
Fan Qiyi let out a long breath and nodded to show he understood. Still,