Chapter 106: Three lives
"I just feel like you're so close to me, yet so far away," Lin Luoran said.
Su Can did not know how to answer. Their first meeting in that small city, the days when shared interests had bridged the gap in their backgrounds and let them play together, buying barbecue to eat and drink together at night in the Municipal Party Committee Family Compound, visiting her and watching her rush downstairs from the second floor to grab a Coke from the fridge, skipping class and idling on the school sports field while waiting for sunset, or talking freely in a bar after graduation about their future dreams and choices, and Lin Luoran saying she wanted to study finance and philosophy-it all seemed to have happened only yesterday.
But Su Can did not tell Lin Luoran that back in Xiahai and Rongcheng, when he looked at her, he had felt she was far away too.
Still, Su Can changed the subject as quickly as he could. "Wei Ding Ding's here too?"
From his end of the terrace, he had spotted Wei Ding Ding inside the hall, chatting and laughing with several young men. When Lin Luoran had pulled Su Can over here earlier, she had deliberately ignored that side of the room.
Lin Luoran withdrew her gaze from Su Can and looked toward Wei Ding Ding. While talking to the others, Wei Ding Ding raised his head and glanced their way, still exchanging the occasional remark with his companions. It made Su Can feel that things seemed a little strained between Wei Ding Ding and Lin Luoran.
Wei Ding Ding had an absolute desire to conquer Lin Luoran, but he seemed to have landed himself in an awkward position because of Su Can, and he deeply regretted