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"My car is in front, do you want me to take you back?" he said suddenly.

Su Fann looked at him and wanted to refuse, but somehow or other she followed him into his car.

Huo Shuqing's driver and secretary were waiting at the intersection. When he walked to the car, secretary Feng Jihai got off the car and opened the door for the Leader. He was surprised to find a girl beside the Leader. Feng Jihai and Su Fann nodded their heads in greeting. Su Fann hurriedly greeted them and got into Huo Shuqing's car.

Su Fann didn't know what to say to the Leader, so she just sat there quietly.

"Ah, is that a car crash?" She was surprised to see a car parked outside on the edge of the tape.

"It's hard to walk when the snow is thin." Huo Shuqing said.

Luckily, Su Fann thought, she was riding in his car, or else she would not know what to do. He could not help but feel grateful to him.

Feng Jihai listened to the rare voice in the backseat and wondered where Su Fann came from. When Huo Shuqing was in the provincial capital, Feng Jihai was his subordinate. Therefore, Feng Jihai knew Huo Shuqing quite well.

"Oh, Little Li, go to the city's Environmental Protection Agency first." Huo Shuqing suddenly remembered that she hadn't told the driver her destination.

Environmental Protection Agency? Check in the middle of the night? Feng Jihai thought.

However, when Mayor's car smoothly stopped at the Environmental Protection Agency entrance, only after Su Fann got off the car did Feng Jihai realize that he was wrong.

Feng Jihai took a glance at Su Fann who was waving goodbye to Mayor and noted down her looks.

Soon, it was the 22nd. Sun Mann came to the Cloud City as scheduled.

On the 23rd, Huo Shuqing took her to Secretary ofProvincial Committee Tan Chunming's home and gave her a small present from Jiang Prefecture. In the next few days, Sun Mann and Huo Shuqing invited some of the main leaders of Cloud City to some important social events.

Huo Shuqing looked at Sun Mann, who was beaming at others, and had a strange feeling in her heart.

"Can you help me clean up my new home in the next two days? I plan to move there as soon as possible." Huo Shuqing said to her wife on Christmas night, when they were on their way home from a meal.

"Tomorrow?" The expression on her face looked as if she was thinking about something.

"I just want to buy some bedsheets. I've already prepared everything else, so I won't spend too much time." Huo Shuqing said.

"But I have a date tomorrow —" Sun Mann looked at him.

Huo Shuqing paused for a moment before saying, "Then forget it. We'll talk about it when you are free."

After finishing his words, he remembered that Sun Mann had booked the flight back to Jiang Prefecture on the afternoon of the 27th —

"You're not in a hurry to move in, are you? We've lived here for so many years, why are you in such a hurry to move to your new home? " Sun Mann said as she looked at him. Then, she went back to watching the news on the internet with her cell phone.

She did not say that in such a big place like her new home, it would be better for you to live here by yourself.

"That Chen Yufei, do you remember him?" Sun Mann changed the topic.

"What happened to him?" Huo Shuqing asked.

Chen Yufei was a favorite student of Sun Mann's father, a deputy director of a department in the Department of General Affairs.

"I heard he just became the director the day before yesterday," Sun Mann said, glancing at Huo Shuqing.

"Oh, that's nice." Huo Shuqing's tone was also very light, as if she had no interest in what Sun Mann had said.

Huo Shuqing, a director of the department, is obviously not a match for me." However, Huo Shuqing could not bear to see the Department of Commerce in such a state. She was only in charge of the Cloud City. Even if she was in charge of that land, it was not something that she could decide.

Seeing him act this way, Sun Mann didn't say anything else.

The car stopped below the building where Huo Shuqing lived in the provincial capital, and the couple got out of the car.

After entering the house, Huo Shuqing laid down on the sofa and covered her eyes with her hands …

He could hear his wife's voice on the phone. It sounded like she was talking to a friend and was very happy. Huo Shuqing got up and walked into the bedroom. Sun Mann glanced at him and continued to talk on the phone with her friend with a smile.

The bedroom was dark. Huo Shuqing took off her coat and lay on the bed with her eyes closed.

"Have you got a cold?" Sun Mann turned on the light and walked in.

"No, I just have a headache." "No," he said.

"Try to drink as little as possible in the future, it's not like you're a young man in your twenties —" Sun Mann said.

"I've already drunk very little tonight. If I simply don't drink, how will others look at me?" He sat up in frustration, wanting to prove that he was still young, and went to the bathroom to wash his face.

Not long after the bathroom door closed, Sun Mann heard the sound of vomiting from inside. She didn't go in, but only took off her clothes and changed into her housedress before going to the other bathroom to take a bath.

What he said was the truth. At his level, he couldn't do as he pleased, but how many people could do as they pleased? Chinese relations are communicated either at the table or at the card table. In regards to Cloud City, he, Huo Shuqing, was an outsider. If he wanted to continue the work smoothly, he would first have to assimilate into Yun City's official territory.

Huo Shuqing finally vomited out the unpleasant feeling in her stomach. She took off her towel to wipe the corners of her mouth, sat on a stool, and quietly sat down.

Tonight was a banquet hosted by the Cloud City and transportation department's Chief, Sun Yiyue. Because the leaders were busy during the day and could not drink alcohol during lunch, the banquet for the provincial leaders was held tonight. Originally, he did not need to drink, but tonight, Vice President Governor, who was in charge of transportation, was known for being a wine vat. He insisted on drinking with Huo Shuqing, who was also his superior, and ended up having too much to drink.

The bureau chief was about to retire. Huo Shuqing already had a candidate in mind. When she chatted with Zhao Qiming, the secretary of the Municipal Committee, he also seemed to have a candidate.

There were so many departments in the city, and the Transport Bureau was one of the most important one. Every year, there would be hundreds of millions of dollars spent on transportation construction.

In addition to the Transportation Bureau, several departments and counties in the city are facing changes this year. In the half month that he had been in office, he had come to understand the personnel status of these units. Now, his question was, how many units could he win in this transition?

At this moment, Huo Shuqing's brain didn't slow down in the slightest because she drank a bit of alcohol at night. He could tell that Zhao Qiming and him were going to fight in the first round from the next class.

After washing her face, Huo Shuqing walked out of the bathroom. When she found that his wife wasn't in the bedroom, he went to the living room to find some medicine for himself. Although he didn't want to admit it, he was different from when he was in his twenties.

Sun Mann went into the kitchen to get a bottle of milk after she had finished showering. When she saw what Huo Shuqing was looking for in the drawer of the coffee table, she said, "You should go to sleep early after taking the medicine. You still have to work tomorrow."

He nodded and drank the medicine.

However, not long after he laid on the bed, his wife came in and sat beside him and said, "I still have some work to do. I might be late, so I'll go to that bedroom to sleep. Rest well. Call me again if you need anything."

He turned around, a little angry, with his back to Sun Mann.

Sun Mann knew his temper. If she talked too much when he was not feeling well, it would only make him angry. Normally, he was a good-natured person, but once he felt unwell, he would become unreasonable. After so many years, she gradually ignored his bad temper and let him be. Instead of arguing with him over something he didn't need, he might as well let it go. It was too much work.

The bedroom door closed and Huo Shuqing opened her eyes.

Although there was another person in this house, his heart was suddenly filled with a sense of desolation, and this double bed seemed to become even colder.

He really wanted to say to Sun Mann, It's not easy for you to come over, why can't you help me tidy up my new home, and instead go on a date with a judicial person from the Jiangning province and the Cloud City region? Are you here on vacation or at work? I'm not feeling well, and you didn't say you would accompany me to work overtime? What do you think I am?

However, even if he had a lot on his mind, he wouldn't say it out loud. His ten-odd years of career as an official and as a secretary had already made him unaccustomed to expressing the true feelings in his heart.

He couldn't sleep, so he sat up and started flipping through the books. A few days ago, he took out a book on the history of the Qin and Han Dynasties and flipped through it. Perhaps, in this era of national power, the rise of the Qin Dynasty history is more relevant! However, there were still some places that had not changed. They were still based on Jia Yi's point of view in the Han Dynasty's "On the Passing of Qin". This book specifically discusses the Chu Country's influence on the Qin and Han dynasties. The author thinks that Qin Chu has two completely different styles, which are like fire and water. The fire burned everything, but it was eventually extinguished by the water. As for the Han Dynasty, it had merged the essence of Qin Chu's civilization into his flesh. Perhaps everything in this world was like this. Opposition and fusion, the two of them being together.

In that case, should he ignite a fire in Cloud City, or should he —

He fell into deep thought.

Occupational disease, it was an absolute occupational disease. Even at home, one had to think about work.

Realizing this, Huo Shuqing turned off the lamp and lay down.

Today was Christmas. A holiday that Sun Mann had once paid a lot of attention to was now thrown into the corner by her.

Sun Mann's trip to Cloud City ended very quickly. When she left, Huo Shuqing was at work, so she got a driver to drive Sun Mann to the airport.

And a new year came just like that!

In contrast to Huo Shuqing's busy work, Su Fann's work became more leisurely as the weather became colder. The river was frozen, and the work at the water station was affected. However, the people in the station were very relaxed.

Today, she was called over by the bureau chief yet again.

"Su ah, there's something, uh, have you seen Mayor Huo recently?"

"No, no." Su Fann wondered, why did the bureau chief ask about this? She could not even meet the bureau chief a few times, how could she have the chance to meet the Mayor?