Chapter 208: Confrontation
Dustin, Katherine, and Qiao Shuxin met Su Can at the airport.
Su Can had not seen Qiao Shuxin for over a month. Wearing a plaid shirt, he looked relaxed and at ease compared with how he had been in Shanghai, as though a great burden had been lifted from him. Su Can knew that Qiao Shuxin had had practically nothing to do at United States Facebook that month. But he believed Qiao Shuxin could not possibly be in a good mood.
Qiao Shuxin helped take a piece of luggage from Li Pengyu and said, "I still call the Meiluo Building often to ask the different departments about progress on the products we planned to develop before I left. I still can't let go..."
Then Qiao Shuxin sighed again. Afraid of spoiling Su Can's mood, he smiled. "Enough about that. You've only just arrived. Just think of this as a vacation."
The California terminal's most distinctive feature was the gently arched roof overhead, which spread like a wing above the surrounding glass curtain walls. Massive cantilevered steel frames "crawled" densely overhead toward the supporting sections ahead, while not a single pillar stood in the central floor space. The same design was reportedly used in United States United Airlines' aircraft maintenance hangar, which could accommodate four DC-8 passenger jets. Looking out from the building, surrounded by its all-glass framework, they could see at least five levels of road interchanges winding around outside the terminal. Although Shanghai was full of expansion sites that year, and the airport's Terminal 2 was nearing completion, it still lagged far behind present-day San Francisco.
At the entrance, they saw Dustin's silver-gray Aston Martin, with its distinctly British styling, parked in the strip outside. Dustin and the blond, blue-eyed Katherine stood beside it, looking quite