Chapter 68: Purchasing power
Ever since the Bentley had been driven to campus and parked at the Journalism Department building, Su Can had felt a little more confident. Apart from Tang Wu and the endless daily coursework, there was finally something else to love about this university. He even had another attachment weighing on his heart. It was hard to explain the feeling. In his previous life, he had ridden in quite a few luxury cars, often in the back seat-the seat generally reserved for the boss. Although he had enjoyed that treatment, unfortunately, none of those cars had been registered to anyone named Su Can. Generally, they belonged to his company's valued clients, who gave him a lift when they happened to be heading to the bank to handle business. Afterward, he would return to the investment company to retrieve files for those bosses and valued clients. He had been an utterly unknown little nobody. Sometimes he would smugly think that he qualified as a Master of a Hundred Chariots, which was practically on the same level as having known countless women. It was quite an exercise in Ah Q-style self-consolation.
And now he truly owned his first luxury sedan.
That afternoon, he had driven out of the auto show and kept driving until evening before attending the family dinner at the Tang Residence. To Su Can, it had been the most perfect day.
He pressed the accelerator, and the engine's power carried both him and his car forward. Along streets lined with plane trees, he took in the bustling pedestrians, shops with young women, old men waving palm-leaf fans in wicker chairs by the roadside, and gaps of blue sky between the towering buildings overhead. The space before his eyes receded layer by layer.
He had never observed