Chapter 133: The lone traveler
Seeing Su Can looking at her, the woman named Song Zhen frowned. "It's rude to learn someone else's name without giving your own."
Su Can found her quite difficult to handle. He smiled and instinctively held out his hand. "Su Can. Nice to meet you."
"Oh." Song Zhen nodded with a sweet smile and extended her slender hand to shake his. "Nice to meet you."
"A good friend?" Hoping to ease the awkwardness, Su Can glanced back toward the man. He thought the fellow certainly kept coming back after every defeat. This girl named Song Zhen clearly had plenty against him, yet he still refused to give up. If thick skin counted as a virtue, this fellow was positively impervious to blades and bullets.
Song Zhen shook her head. "No. He's the son of an engineer at my family's company."
Just as she had smiled at Su Can, a stranger, in the economy-class departure lounge earlier, this girl seemed to handle everything with impeccable grace. Her personality made her responses to everything seem perfectly measured. When others assumed a girl like her would pay no attention to ordinary things, she often gave her smiles freely to everyone whose eyes met hers. Polite and modest, yet her true heart was difficult to reach.
But with Su Can, perhaps because he was unlike the men Song Zhen had met who wanted to lavish attention on her, there was a calm strength in him despite his equally youthful face. He showed no covetous interest in her looks, and that composure made Song Zhen very comfortable around him. Moreover, Su Can seemed even better at maintaining his composure. At least, Song Zhen felt she could not see through him, so she was interested in talking to him more.
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