Chapter 25: A little family meeting
The facts proved that no one was a fool. Even though he had been reborn, the people from his previous life were not so easy to hoodwink.
Su Can overdid his prophet act, making Wang Yue laugh despite herself. She reached over and scratched the top of his head, ruffling his short hair. "Honestly, you almost had me fooled. You made it sound as though you'd been to big cities and seen the world. Let's head back. We shouldn't stay away too long!" This left Su Can thoroughly deflated.
Despite saying that, Wang Yue never brought the matter up again after they returned. Presumably, although she did not quite believe what he had said, she still felt some gratitude toward him and a vague confidence in him. She probably really looked forward to his mother incorporating her family's shop into a chain.
Thinking it over, Su Can realized he was at fault too. He had so readily said all that to someone else, but what influence or ability did he have now to promise someone their dreams and a beautiful tomorrow? The world could be cruel sometimes. Plenty of people harbored dreams, and just as many died still holding on to them. The world was so vast that not everyone could realize their ambitions. Even having been reborn, Su Can dared not claim any certainty about such things. Wasn't he already mired in trouble over Wang Haoran and his gang?
That evening, when his parents had come home and were stretched out on the sofa watching television, Su Can stepped out of his bedroom during a break to move around a little. As he entered the living room, his mother immediately brought out shelled walnuts and fruit and called him over to sit down,