Chapter 74: Where the Heart Turns
Su Can received a call from Tang Wu first thing in the morning, and some of his drowsiness immediately vanished. "Did you go get into a fight?"
Her voice was as lovely as ever, but Su Can knew Tang Wu all too well. He could hear the displeasure in it.
If Tang Wu had known nothing about it, that would have been that. Now that she had somehow found out, Su Can could only recount the details of what had happened at Xiling.
Tang Wu quietly heard him out before asking, "Why-why didn't you ask me to come?"
The question left Su Can speechless. Even if Tang Wu's family had agreed to let her stay overnight with friends at Snow Mountain Hot Spring, part of his intention that day had been to have a run-in with Young Master Yi. Under those circumstances, he naturally hadn't wanted to drag Tang Wu into the center of the maelstrom.
He could only evade the question. "Two friends of Lin Zouwen's, Li Pengyu and Lu Nannan, were visiting. Of all the places around Rongcheng where we could take them, Snow Mountain Hot Spring was one of the more distinctive ones, so we decided to go. Besides, we had to spend the night on the mountain. Your family would have worried, and you've never really liked these kinds of outings anyway."
"You never asked me. How did you know I wouldn't like it?" Tang Wu's voice remained clear and lovely.
But it was thoroughly cold, calling him to account.
She really was somewhat angry with Su Can. She had only just learned about what had happened, and she had heard it from her parents at that. Only then had she found out that Su Can, Wang Weiwei, and the