Chapter 15: Four years
"Su Can, you're going to the Shangshi Summit? Great. A few friends of mine are going too, so I can introduce you. Those guys have been saying they wanted to meet you for ages. They're all worth knowing-either family acquaintances or childhood friends... You seemed to be enjoying university life at Nanjing University before, so I didn't let them bother you. But you're different now. We're still in college, and you're already an entrepreneur. Plenty of people will probably be trying to get close to you. To stop you from drifting further and further away from our world, I've decided to bring you into my social circle immediately." That was what Wang Weiwei said when he called.
"How did you find out about this?" If Wang Weiwei wanted to introduce people "worth knowing," they naturally ought to be people Su Can could get along with. Though Wang Qiqi had a gentle disposition, she was no naive child of privilege. She understood many things deeply and saw through them clearly; she was just a little thoughtless at times. What surprised Su Can now was where Wang Qiqi had gotten her "intelligence."
"Do you think being at university means I'm completely out of touch, some cutout-record kid drifting around the edges of our little alleyway campus, wasting my days?" Wang Weiwei laughed on the other end. "I'm still actively facing the outside world, welcoming spring and its flowers, constantly taking in everyone's news. That's keeping up with the times too. I read a book a few days ago that said your circle of friends determines your destiny and the level you reach. If I want to get closer to you, naturally I have to study harder."
Su Can laughed and told him to keep laying it on. Inwardly,