Chapter 89: Slip away
Seeing Su Can walk straight into Li Changlong's line of fire, Qian Zhongyuan and his friends in the front rows were the first to jeer. They watched with gloating eyes as Su Can stood in the aisle, unable to go either up or down. Classes at Nanjing University had a relatively relaxed atmosphere, which only encouraged Qian Zhongyuan's friends to direct their taunting cries at him.
Li Changlong, one of the Four Great Talents, had chosen to make an example of Su Can. He rarely lost his temper, but once someone crossed his bottom line, he might well abandon all civility and strip away every last shred of their supposed pride and dignity.
Su Can had not expected Li Changlong to lash out suddenly just because he had stood up to leave. As a lecturer teaching a class of two hundred by word and example, his stopping to direct his attack at Su Can placed an imaginable weight of pressure on him. Many of Su Can's classmates broke into a cold sweat on his behalf.
Tang Wu also stopped taking notes. It was rare for her to share a major lecture with Su Can, but she had never expected this teacher to have already formed such a poor opinion of him.
"As a teacher, I teach twenty periods a week. I'm working hard to get through the material before the end of term, yet my students feel none of that burning urgency. Actually, I don't find this sad at all," Li Changlong said coolly. "Do you know why? Because it can only be a tragedy for that individual student, a tragedy for his own life. A tragedy for a school that admitted such a student."
"Ooh" sounds rose from the crowd. Those were harsh words. It