Chapter 150: No one to cheer him on
People said life was like a journey. Living meant traveling on foot, never knowing when a surprise might come.
Like sorting through old belongings after graduating from college and discovering a reply to the love letter you had written to the prettiest girl in your department. Like coming home drained and exhausted after a day at work to find a lavish meal waiting on the table. Like holding a promising stock that suddenly hit its upper trading limit day after day amid a stream of good news. Like Gardner, the salesman in The Pursuit of Happyness who was so destitute that he had to sell blood for his son, standing out through hard work and becoming a stockbroker earning eighty thousand dollars a month.
Or, even more, like this evening, when Tang Wu suddenly told Su Can at the door, "Don't go."
He could stay, too.
Yes, it was freezing outside. Although modern transportation could reduce a journey of over a thousand kilometers to just a few hours, traveling all the way from Rongcheng to Shanghai was still tiring. Especially on a night with Tang Wu beside him, why would Su Can want to return to cold, empty Nanjing University and face Li Han, Zhang Xiaoqiao, and Xiao Xu, those three fellows waiting in the dorm to divide up the local specialties he had brought?
If he really compared the two, Tang Wu's home at Xuehai Yiju in Peninsula Bay was a paradise he would gladly sink into. Even that ordinary glass of mineral water tasted like heavenly nectar. Meanwhile, Nanjing University, which so many students across the country yearned for, now seemed like a cold iron plate. Going back would mean pressing himself against it, so naturally, Su Can had no