Chapter 106: Honey
For Su Can, bringing his no-longer-young heart to somewhere as exuberant as Hengshan Road in Shanghai was not really a sound idea. It always reminded him of making the rounds of pleasure spots in Northern and Southern California while raising funding for Facebook in the United States...
Back then, they had entered yacht restaurants, attended investors' cocktail parties, and experienced the lavish sugar-coated cannonballs behind Silicon Valley capital, yet every exchange with investors concealed its own thrusts and parries. Suppressing the enormous thrill of being courted in those extravagant surroundings, keeping a clear head and stopping short before offers that could make them rich overnight-even give them luxury cars and mansions the next morning, a single step into paradise-was no easy task.
Even Su Can had wavered, but what alone kept him and Zack clearheaded was their belief that the Facebook in their hands could change the world.
After returning to Nanjing University and making the most of his time to enjoy college, however, Su Can actually led a fairly monotonous life. After all, it could not always be full of twists and turns like a movie.
For instance, despite having been in Shanghai for so long, he had never visited Hengshan Road, nor had he explored Xintiandi, completed the previous year and much talked about. Zhang Xiaoqiao often talked his ear off, inviting him to various moderately famous spots where plenty of people were waiting to meet him. Yet Su Can had only ever pedaled his Giant along the Bund. Compared with the strings of luxury cars and the helmeted cycling groups that left him behind, his receding figure looked solitary.
The group on Hengshan Road now was probably a small circle on the fringes of Song Zhen's social world, but it was still dazzling enough