Chapter 99: The class monitor's duties
This was truly Su Can and Tang Wu's first Christmas as university freshmen. In a city steeped in Haipai Culture, the Christmas atmosphere was especially strong. Colored lights began going up across Shanghai's bustling urban districts, and the mid- and senior-level white-collar workers at the City VCD Center began smiling at the prospect of the approaching holiday.
Department stores and shops threw themselves into a last-minute Christmas Eve offensive, preparing special Christmas sales areas. They could hardly let a money-making holiday like this slip by.
Su Can understood this business well. After their trip around Shanghai, Wang Yue, Wang Feng, and the others soon returned to Rongcheng. At their Rongcheng headquarters, they would battle through a succession of meetings large and small, while preparing for media coverage and internal adjustments at the mall, making one preparation after another for Jiaohuang Mall's upcoming Christmas promotion.
As Christmas and New Year's Day-the Chinese-Western combination known as the "double egg holidays"-drew closer, festive excitement infected the city's crisscrossing streets inch by inch. Every district, organization, and workplace gradually caught the mood, and Nanjing University was no exception. The school's various halls were beginning to fall short of demand, and some departmental student organizations had set their sights on the teaching buildings.
As class monitor, Su Can felt the weight of his responsibilities at this time. He really had been busy with business recently and had consequently neglected his studies. Now he began catching up on his coursework while immersing himself in university life.
University life was wonderful, and Su Can's business ventures were just getting started. Since he was not seeking global supremacy or world domination, he had plenty of opportunities to develop them, so he treasured his fleeting university years all the more.
Ultimately, his academic