Chapter 137: A sleepless night in Florence
After a brief moment of stunned silence, both sides recovered. Su Can withdrew his arm from Tang Wu's waist. Her face was slightly flushed, but this was hardly the time to reproach him for disregarding their surroundings. Facing Wang Yan and Gu Jun, she immediately resumed her usual demeanor, though the cool expression on her face could hardly be called entirely composed.
As expected of someone who worked in a government office, Wang Yan acted as though she had seen nothing. "If you're renovating, you'll need to register at the property management office first. If you hire a renovation company, there's an entry fee and so on. You get your electricity card there too. Since we didn't know when you'd be coming, we didn't collect it for you." She immediately steered the conversation elsewhere.
This time, all the earlier worldliness had vanished from Wang Yan's tone. Everything she said sounded pleasant, without a trace of the petty vanity she had previously mixed into her words. Her manner was appropriate, neither servile nor overbearing. A phrase like "we didn't collect it for you," for instance, turned deliberate familiarity into something fresh and natural, without seeming affected or costing her any dignity. Had this been Su Can's first encounter with them, he might well have formed a favorable impression.
That was, in fact, how it worked. When he had first brought Lin Luoran over to see the apartment and offer her opinion, their youth, along with certain details, had naturally made Wang Yan less guarded in her speech and brought out more of her innate condescension. People were very good at overlooking things based on their own circles and experience.
Now, although they could hardly claim to have uncovered Su Can's true background, they at