Chapter 69: Su Can's magazine
Su Can broke into a smile. "I bought it myself."
"You mean you bought the car yourself? Your parents or family didn't pay for it?" Tang's father stretched his imagination as far as he could.
"Yes."
Mu Xuan exchanged a glance with Tang's father, then set down her knife and fork with a clink against her plate. Facing Su Can, she adopted an air of waiting for him to continue. It was a clever stance. Any further questions would only make her seem intent on getting to the bottom of things, putting her in a position unbecoming of her status. So she set down her cutlery, stopped eating, and simply looked at Su Can. Surely he would have to explain everything.
At the same time, Mu Xuan felt a surge of irritation. In her current position, what sort of person had she not dealt with? Usually, others tried to guess what she was thinking and took their cues from her expression. Yet now she actually had to work out the truth concealed behind the young man before her.
So Su Can told them about working on the school magazine in high school, how a "flash of inspiration" had shown him that consumer magazines distributed directly to readers could be profitable, and how he had teamed up with the former school magazine adviser, pooled some resources outside school, and launched their first magazine as a business venture. He also explained how their application for a publication number had been rejected, and how he had then sent his university-student employees to "sincerely" approach the cultural review department, persuading it to approve their application on the grounds of "student entrepreneurship" and obtaining a publication number. Then, step by step, they had won favorable reviews at Rongcheng's major universities,