Chapter 71: A Troublemaker
Su Can felt somewhat guilty. After all, he had kept so much from his parents. Although Zeng Ke and Su Licheng had not interrupted him over the phone, even his mother, who invariably paid close attention to his every word and action, had let him speak. Contrary to the strong reaction he had initially expected from her, she simply listened quietly as he finished explaining everything. As Su Can went through the whole story, his parents grew increasingly quiet on the other end. Had it been sixty thousand yuan, Zeng Ke could still have scolded him and asked where it came from, accusing him of being just like Su Licheng, intent on squirreling away private savings instead of spending the money on better food and clothes and the nutrition he needed for his studies. Nor was it six hundred thousand, which, though staggering, might still have been within their ability to accept. Naturally, their praise would have come with plenty of parental advice.
But six million? No matter how clearly Su Can explained how he had progressed step by step, how he had built the magazine up in stages to its current market value, Su Licheng and Zeng Ke were left speechless. Any words seemed pale and powerless in the face of Su Can's explanations over the phone, delivered in a voice at once utterly familiar and profoundly strange.
They had already formed a certain impression of Su Can's maturity and good sense. Yet what was happening now clearly went beyond those descriptions. Out in the wider world, he had swiftly grown into an adult. Someone whose future and prospects no longer required so much of their concern and planning. Someone who had transformed the entire family's existing values.
Before this, their dinner-table conversations had revolved