Chapter 94: Another Possibility
The car climbed a high bridge, crossed streets, and occasionally passed through gaps in the shadows cast by trees and European-style buildings, mottled light flickering over its body. Scenery like this should have seeped into the heart like autumn in the South. But Lin Luoran's reddened eyes, her gaze growing wet like rising lake water, her stray strands of hair, the perfection in every detail of her and the hurt she revealed-all of it made Su Can's heart sink for no reason he could name.
Life, after all, was not a play. Not everyone made a dazzling entrance, much less an unforgettable one. But Lin Luoran was the girl who had cut sharply into his life. Her pride, her reserve, her fluster and hesitation, the way she looked both utterly composed and at a loss. Even to Su Can's soul, which had lived two lives, all of it left a profound impression.
She had mercilessly mocked his clumsy basketball playing. He had shared a room with her and seen her looking unkempt. He had drunk canned beer with her in the makeshift stands at a basketball game until the sun sank behind the distant mountains. Back then, he had harbored no ambition to change the world, only thoughts of how to change his own life. They had skipped classes together, eaten barbecue at night, gone online, and played games together, shouting until the entire internet café was caught up in their excitement.
They had all been young then, and Su Can, with his aged soul, had also just begun to be young.
Yet Su Can had no idea how to respond to what she had just said, and fell silent for a moment.
Lin Luoran turned sideways and looked out the window. "Do you still remember