Chapter 102: No answer
For Su Can, whether he had mentioned Tang Wu ten times and Lin Luoran seven times after getting drunk, or had mentioned Lin Luoran even once, the final outcome might have been no different.
When he missed his footing on the stairs and fell, Su Can managed to grab a step at the last moment, twisting his body sideways and scraping the skin off his hand on its iron edge. Everyone was startled at first, but then a few heartless souls started laughing. Thoroughly embarrassed, Su Can tried to put a stop to it with a dry cough, his face alternating between red and pale.
"What did I tell you?" Li Han laughed. "We'd barely mentioned Lin Luoran from Shanghai International Studies University, and look at him. That already tells us plenty. Last time I went to a hometown gathering, there was someone from her university. Over dinner, I asked her if she knew Lin Luoran. She looked at me like I was an idiot. Lin Luoran's famous there, and she thought I was one of her countless admirers. It was so embarrassing. I told her I didn't stand a chance, but a guy in our dorm was pretty close to her. When we parted, she was still looking at me skeptically. From her expression, I reckon she would've found it more believable if I'd claimed I owned a Bentley like Su Can's."
Su Can narrowed his eyes. "You mean what you just said was made up?"
Xiao Xu grinned at Su Can with ingratiating envy. "Did you really think you were starring in A Chinese Odyssey? Playing Zhi Zunbao, caught between Bai Jingjing and Fairy Zixia? Calling Tang Wu's name ten times and Lin Luoran's seven times? We were all drunk then. Who knows what