Chapter 40: Debt
Su Can had to take the information revealed by this incident seriously, because it might very well overlap with what he had encountered in his previous life. It might also confirm his long-standing, vague suspicion that Tang Wu's family had later suffered a reversal that shook its very foundations, enough to change Tang Wu's personality and fate.
He called Tang Wu. "Tang Wu, have you read today's magazine? Is your dad the chairman of Tang Corporation?"
Tang Wu sounded down, but she still replied, "Yes, I've spoken to my family. There's nothing wrong. Can you not listen to all that nonsense in the papers? It's not true."
Su Can had never asked about Tang Wu's family background or pressed her about what her father did, and Tang Wu had never told him any of this. The two shared a natural understanding: these were things he would find out sooner or later.
Tang Wu did not tell him, and he did not ask. Su Can felt that perhaps, by the day he found out, everything would already be clear.
When Su Can chose to take Tang Wu's hand, he had also completely cast aside the self-interest in his soul. He simply wanted to find out for himself whether what he loved was Tang Wu, or the radiance she had once possessed in his eyes as someone at the bottom of society.
Did he love this girl, or did he love the goddess who, in his former world, would only ever dance gracefully at the very top?
And so the answer was certain. In the end, he and she were growing up together, rather than passing each other by.
Her mother had told her that nothing serious had happened at home. They were all minor matters, and the media