Chapter 68: Badass
Everyone had scenes and events etched into their bones, things they could never forget even as the years slipped by.
Like the first time fireworks filled the sky overhead. Like the first time they experienced worldly splendor amid glittering luxury. Like the first time the spectacular frenzy at a ball game overwhelmed them. Like the vivid figures who vanished from their lives like showers of brilliant sparks. Like their first heartbreak. The first time they felt the helplessness of their own weakness, the powerlessness of being tossed about by fate.
The people before them certainly had no shortage of unforgettable experiences, and they constantly pursued that thrill. A passionate encounter with an actress, for instance, or racing a high-performance car at over 170, or attending a yacht party in Shanghai today and splashing money around Hong Kong tomorrow. They pursued everything exciting and stimulating to fill lives left hollow by swelling desires.
But the scene before them was utterly absurd.
Enough to leave them standing like rows of wooden stakes beneath the setting sun, each staring woodenly at what had happened.
Su Can and the others turned to leave. The tall, graceful way Lin Luoran turned was especially jarring to the onlookers. They might have seen plenty of women with her looks and figure, but because she stood in the opposing camp, she seemed out of reach. They felt her contempt, and that was enough to send any man's blood surging.
"Just you wait. This isn't over," someone in the crowd said viciously, his voice edged with menace. Everyone around him knew he had the standing to say it. With connections in a provincial department backing him, there was little empty bluster in his words.
A man with prominent cheekbones, whose car was a Land Rover Discovery