Chapter 103: I'll Shoot You
While Su Can was enthusiastically preparing a class gathering to build solidarity, he had not expected it to cause such a stir. In fact, it was perfectly normal for Nanjing University students to hold parties at hotels or more commercial entertainment venues. Once, a small class had even organized a group holiday to Greece during the National Day break. In 1997, an unassuming senior had chartered a cruise ship on the Huangpu River upon graduation and thrown a lavish banquet. Some lecturers and department leaders at Nanjing University who had attended still remembered it vividly. That senior now worked at Cold Spring Harbor in the United States and had emigrated.
Within Nanjing University, where hidden talents abounded, there was certainly no shortage of unusual ways to get together. It was far from uncommon for groups of girls to party all night at clubs, then turn up in their professors' classrooms the next day with dark circles under their eyes, looking every bit the well-behaved students.
Influenced by Haipai culture, Nanjing University had a relatively open atmosphere.
These students might discreetly slip in earbuds during class, listen to MP3s, and discuss popular music, then rush straight to an internet café afterward to play StarCraft and other games. There were also plenty who frequented bars or wandered around other university towns, using their status as Nanjing University students to mingle at parties and pick up girls.
But these gatherings and minor acts of rebellion were relatively discreet; nobody really dared put them on public display. Even the seasoned juniors and seniors had mostly mastered the art of going wild behind the scenes while keeping up an innocent exterior. Even the university's elite FEEC Club quietly held such gatherings out of the spotlight.
A class monitor like Su