Chapter 158: Refusal
Mo Xue told Su Can that the FEEC Club was formally inviting him and Tang Wu to join as provisional members with a one-year probationary period. The so-called probationary period was merely a formality; once someone was accepted into the club, membership was essentially a done deal.
This turn of events surprised Su Can a little. The three men and one woman before him counted among the youngest members of the organization, but presumably, anyone who could join in their sophomore or junior year had considerable resources behind them. They concealed those resources extremely well. Even roommates who lived with them for four years might never learn their backgrounds.
Neither Liu Menghui nor Mo Qinghe showed any of their concealed feelings about the matter. Both maintained much the same polite, neither-close-nor-distant manner they had shown when first meeting Su Can, with smiles on their faces. After all, Mo Xue was playing the good cop, opening the club's door to Su Can. Even if they thought little of the idea, they would not let it show.
Only Zhang Ping, who had come with them, displayed his impatience with Su Can more openly.
Tang Wu sat calmly in the stands. While Su Can had been playing soccer earlier, Mo Xue had made this suggestion to her, only to receive the rather absurd answer that she "couldn't spare the energy for these things."
Mo Xue had therefore stayed beside Tang Wu and explained a few things in accessible terms, including the connection between their families and all the advantages joining would offer her network and career.
Mo Xue had always been an astute judge of people. She believed that someone as outstanding as Tang Wu must be like her, certainly not the sort of woman who would simply graduate, find