Chapter 30: A Bright and Beautiful Day, Gathering Heroes (Part 2)

  The girls were initially stunned, but soon couldn't help but giggle, filled with spring-like feelings. Su Can, on the other hand, was at a loss under their smiling faces. If Xue Yi Yang had previously thought that he wanted to pursue Chen Ling Shan's teasing would make him want to kick his butt, then Xue Yi Yang's bold and straightforward words were enough to make Su Can punch him in the face.

  The Su Can in front of him can be said to be a sudden and eye-catching figure, first of all, he is very rich, and his family background should not be bad. Moreover, he is quite smart, and unexpectedly made Li Ai and Zhang Xi, who are usually arrogant in school, suffer a setback. What's more, he has a sunny disposition, belonging to the kind of boy that makes people feel warm at first sight. As a result, Su Can has aroused the curiosity and attention of these girls.

  "Have we met before?" Chen Ling-shan asked with a smile.

  Su Can nodded, a hint of bitterness and helplessness flashing through his mind. Before his father's unit had raised funds to build a new house and move out, they lived in a small dormitory separated from his mother's trading company, which was less than thirty square meters in size and half underground. The window was right next to the external parking lot, and it was very dark. This was also the financial room of his mother's trading company before it was renovated into a dormitory. The whole family lived in this cramped space.

  Chen Lingshan's father was the deputy general manager of this trading company, which Su Can only found out later. In elementary school, because Chen Lingshan and he were in the same school but not in the same class, many people had a crush on her. Su Can looked forward to seeing her every day on his way to school, but when he saw her, he was so nervous that he wanted to run far away.

  Later, Su Can only occasionally saw Chen Lingshan, who was following her father to inspect the company, in her mother's trading company. She was wearing a white Bohemian skirt with flowers and looked like a princess. When she got out of the car, she was surrounded by countless people, praising and flattering her. Her own mother didn't even have the chance to praise her behind the backs of the high-ranking officials of the trading companies.

  At that time, Su Can was wearing a worn-out sweater with frayed edges that his older brother had discarded. He wore a pair of white mesh sports shoes that were obviously one size too big for him, but very old. He was playing with a small mutt in the parking lot, squatting down and staring at the princess from afar. The little dog was so eager to please that it kept licking his face with its tongue, making "hmm" sounds.

  Su Can may never forget the princess-like Chen Lingshan's unintentional glance at him, from top to bottom, her eyebrows deeply furrowed, and a look of disgust in her eyes, as if she couldn't wait to turn away. Imagine a girl who has grown up in a privileged environment, when faced with a dirty and tattered little boy, perhaps still with snot hanging from his nose, staring at her with a silly expression, she would instinctively look away.

  Su Chan didn't blame her, because that was a person's instinctive reaction to stimuli, just like seeing something unclean, dirty, or something she couldn't understand, and would instinctively avoid it.

  "You're Uncle Su's son, right? It seems like when we were young, your dad and my dad did business together, and we've met before!"

  It's unclear whether it was the beauty who had a poor memory, or if Chen Lingshan had a small gap in her recollection. The person she claimed to have met before seemed to be someone else, and she had mistakenly taken Su Can for another man.

  However, it is also true that people have a self-protective consciousness. Many years ago, on an afternoon when you appeared wearing a magnificent dress, not far away, there was a dirty-faced boy and a dog squatting, both drooling and staring at you. If it weren't for the excessive stimulation, an ordinary person would subconsciously forget this discordant scene.

  Su Can didn't explain to her either, perhaps if he told Chen Lingxuan who he was and forced her to recall the corner of memories she didn't want to think about, it would be better to have a beautiful mistake that often happens in life.

  After all, Su Can didn't think he would be in contact with Chen Lingxuan again. She was his first love princess, but life is not a fairy tale. He might have been reborn under the care of God, but that doesn't mean he has to make up for the regret of his first love.

  Some regrets are beautiful, though heart-wrenching, whether it's that elegant princess dress or the delicate face above it, looking at one's own slightly furrowed brow.

  Chen Lingshan's words seemed casual, but the listeners were aware that Chen Lingshan's father was a deputy general manager of a trading company. The fabricated Su Can's father happened to be doing business with the deputy general manager of that trading company. It goes without saying that both parties were on the same level, and at the very least, Su Can's family was also a wealthy one, which made sense.

  It was Xue Yi Yang and Liu Rui who looked at Su Can with a surprised expression, they didn't understand when Su Can's father, Su Li Cheng, had contact with Chen Ling Shan's father.

  Everyone was eating barbecue by the sea while chatting about everything under the sun. Su Can, who was reborn before, wasn't good at speaking and wasn't diplomatic material, but facing a group of junior high school students from 1998, his knowledge acquired in the information explosion society far exceeded everyone's vision in this era.

  Many people were amazed, but Xue Yi Yang and Liu Rui felt their thunder stolen by Su Can for the first time. However, they were also surprised by Su Can's recent change.

  The girls naturally have their own pride and did not deliberately pry into Su Can's family background, but in their hearts they envied Chen Lingxuan. Having a boy like this secretly in love with them is undoubtedly something that makes many girls' hearts flutter.

  Moreover, the sudden appearance of this young man might possibly put an end to Chen Lingxuan's single myth.

  Chen Lingshan's beautiful eyes occasionally glanced at Su Can. Steady, introverted, and profound eyes, although not very tall, yet gave people a sense of security, was this boy her own Prince Charming?

  Everything should be like a fairy tale or 2B's YY, developing with a beam of light descending from the sky, then along a track filled with fragrant camphor wood, leading to a distant place covered in golden happy ginkgo leaves.

  Except when everyone was sitting around the big table with sumptuous food, a word from Classmate Wang Xuebing, who wore thick glasses, opened the prelude to the fall of this fairy tale.

  "Hmm... right, Xue Yiyang, this friend of yours, why haven't I met him before at No. 1 Middle School? Where did he go to school? Did you guys grow up playing together? Is he a friend from Chengdu?"

  Su Can is currently the focus of everyone's attention, with an unclear background and an extraordinary origin. Even Zhang Xi and several others are watching his every move with a measuring gaze. In this circle, people respect those with real power. If Su Can has a wealthy family backing him, Li Ai will be cautious no matter what. This is why he remained silent despite being provoked, choosing to quietly observe instead.

  In that circle, there are many uncertain things. It's possible that the new student who transferred in is a rich merchant's son from Beijing or Guangzhou, and although he seems like an ordinary person, his family might have connections with some city official. Li Ai, who has been around for a long time, also knows how to observe the situation quietly without making any moves. Earlier, when Su Can was chatting with everyone, it seemed like he was part of Zhang Xi's circle, but in reality, their main focus is still on Su Can.

  It's said that Su Can has a secret crush on Chen Ling Shan, which is both surprising and astonishing. Meanwhile, class monitor Wang Xue Bing was already one step ahead with his own heart knot. Many people openly like Chen Ling Shan, and there are also many who secretly do so. He at least counts as an underground party member. But Li Ai and her group, along with some others who have a mind for these things, can't figure out Su Can's background. Now they can't help but take the initiative to ask and chat him up.

  Wang Xuebing didn't quite understand Su Can's background, so he spoke in a relaxed tone, trying not to show any hostility, and immediately positioned Su Can as someone from the provincial capital of Rong City. Everyone was eager for an answer, and seeing Su Can like this, they thought she should be a city girl too. Many girls couldn't help but feel jealous of Chen Lingxuan.

  Although this circle is quite large, compared to the provincial capital of Chengdu, it naturally pales in comparison. They also subconsciously think that their side is inferior.

  "Su Can, we grew up together, does he look like a person from Rong City?" Xue Yi Yang and class monitor Wang Xue Bing had a good relationship, so she gave him a glance.

  "I studied at Municipal Third Middle School." Su Can added with a smile.

  The crowd fell silent, the girls' smiles paused, and the expressions of several easy-going boys became awkward. Li Ai and Zhang Xi raised the corners of their mouths eerily between the beams of light that slanted down through the camphor tree above them.

  Is there a distance between heaven and hell? It seems that there is, as they are all sons of rich families gathered together, with generally outstanding grades, and the quality of students is mostly biased towards the upper part of the school in everyone's eyes, this is Municipal No. 1 Middle School.

  Poor quality, city's lowest score, constant fighting and brawling, a third-rate school where third-rate students gather, this is the Third Middle School in everyone's eyes.

  Such distance is enough for heaven to overlook hell.

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