Chapter 138: The president of Nanjing University
While Su Can was attending his previous Political Economy class, his counselor, Su Yiyi, appeared at the door. The professor stopped his lecture, and whispers spread through the room.
Beside Su Yiyi stood someone from the Party and Government Office and a member of the President's Office. The students did not recognize the latter. He was not well known at Nanjing University, and they had rarely seen him at major occasions or events. The former, however, was familiar to students serving on the university Youth League committee or Student Unions at the school level and above. Sometimes, when Youth League and Student Federation events or activities held by their affiliated clubs needed university funding, personnel, or resources, his signature carried more weight than most people's. The administrative offices of the various schools and departments honored it, too.
Xiao Xu turned toward Su Can beside him and whispered, sounding both wary and inexplicably alarmed, "I heard rumors about how they're going to deal with you are spreading everywhere. Could the university have reached an internal decision about what happened at Homecoming?"
It was not just Xiao Xu. Even Zhang Xiaoqiao, whose family lived on campus and who was most likely to have access to such news, and Li Han, whose bunk was beside Su Can's and who, ever since getting a girlfriend, washed his socks spotless and hung them outside the window every day after returning from basketball, turned to look at him. So did most of the classroom. Their expressions were mostly rather blank, though there were traces of worry and pessimism. Of course, there were also people who had never liked Su Can taking pleasure in his misfortune.
Nanjing University had long since begun investigating the Homecoming incident and discussing internally how