Chapter 170: Are you scared?
"Duolun Road is just outside Lu Xun Park. It's a street of cultural attractions, with quite a few bronze statues of famous people and their former homes, Shikumen houses, and some of Shanghai's outstanding old buildings. People from our university often take their cameras there to snap pictures. It's really popular. I'll take you there sometime when we're free."
The situation was strange, yet dazzling: lights shone through the trees from European-style buildings, and students on the road gave the two of them sly, suggestive smiles as they approached and passed. Here was a beauty in a plain dress, top-notch in both bearing and looks, gazing into the distance while acting as Su Can's guide to the university.
All that colorful scenery suddenly seemed less lovely than this simple gray cotton dress.
In Su Can's faded memories, visiting other universities usually meant getting together with a hometown association or some such group for a good meal. Occasionally, he caught a fleeting glimpse of someone reasonably attractive, but she was either taken or too far out of reach to approach. Anything a little more exciting involved drinking heavily at some university's hole-in-the-wall eatery, then staggering off to squeeze into an upper bunk with someone else, waking the next day and returning to his own university to obediently resume a life of getting screwed over by college. Or there would be fights that disturbed the peace, incidents of someone grabbing a knife and stabbing someone else, and another two or three people would be gone just like that. Much later, he could not even remember their faces.
This was possibly the most distinctive university visit Su Can had ever experienced, practically VIP treatment among campus visits. A bona fide campus beauty personally welcomed him and explained everything: