Chapter 2857: Dazed

Why did all the beauties around him leave him one by one? Thinking that he was just a small person in the Coal Bureau before, he still had many female confidantes. How come the higher he climbed in his career, the fewer people he had around him? What was going on? Zhao De couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he thought.

Returning to his room in a daze, lying on the bed, he didn't want to think about anything. Too many things had happened recently, especially today. First, he was forced to take the initiative to admit defeat to Sun Changsheng, and then he had to face the danger of Yang Liu being snatched away by another man. Zhao De could handle every matter in his mind very quickly, but Yang Liu suddenly falling in love with another man was really hard for Zhao De to accept for a while. Looking quietly at the sky outside, he thought that he and Yang Liu wouldn't have any results anyway. Yang Liu not only had a good image and a good job, but her family conditions were also very superior. How could a woman like her share a husband with other women? Even if she really fell in love with him, it wouldn't be like this.

The encounters of this day had two things that made Zhao De feel troubled. The first thing was learning that Sun Changsheng had seen through his plan and he could no longer use that method to force Sun Changsheng to serve him. The second thing was seeing Sister Yang Liu with that returnee named Liu Shuai in the mall and learning that it was an object introduced by her family. Compared with himself, although that Liu Shuai was not as handsome as him, he was handsome enough and had the title of 'returnee'. And from Yang Liu's mouth, he learned that the two families were close friends, they had known each other since childhood, and could be considered childhood sweethearts. He had more advantages than him, a Cheng Yaojin who killed halfway. And more importantly, he just wanted to maintain that kind of relationship with Yang Liu and didn't intend to date her, let alone get married. So even if Yang Liu had feelings for him, he was harboring evil intentions, so he had even less advantage in the competition with Liu Shuai. The first thing was enough to make Zhao De distressed. It could be said that this was the first time he had tried to calculate against someone since entering officialdom, only to be calculated against by others. In the game with Sun Changsheng, he lost completely. For the sake of Zheng Jie and Chen Man, women who had paid for him, he bowed his head to his competitor for the first time. People say that good things come in pairs, but why did Zhao De feel that all the bad things came swarming in at once? In one day, he experienced two things that he couldn't face. Lying on the bed, he felt extremely troubled. He tossed and turned on the bed sighing all night. He originally thought about sending a text message to Yang Liu, but he picked up his phone and edited the message several times, only to put it down again. He really didn't know what to do. Should he continue his plan to hunt for beauty, or withdraw from this competition? For him, being able to accidentally meet such a young, beautiful, and beautiful sister who worked as a secretary in the Provincial Government was a rare opportunity. If he could win her over, it would definitely be good for his future in officialdom. Just as Wu Min said, working as a secretary in the Provincial Government, although the actual power on the surface is not great, she often deals with high-ranking officials in the province. As a person beside high-ranking officials, she has extraordinary abilities. If something happens to him in the future, maybe she can help him. But thinking that her family introduced a childhood sweetheart returnee to Yang Liu, this made Zhao De very indecisive. Should he continue or give up? Facing this problem, he tossed and turned for almost a whole night, but couldn't make a choice.

Getting up in the morning and going to the bathroom to wash his face, Zhao De found that he had a pair of panda eyes, neither human nor ghost. Zhao De couldn't help but roar low. He thought about things all night last night, and as a result, he suffered from insomnia. It was really hard to pass the love barrier, and official business was annoying!

Zhao De tidied up somehow. Anyway, no matter how he tidied up, his eyes were like this.

After yesterday's encounter, Zhao De's mood today was very bad. After arriving at the training room, his face was as smelly as shit. Even after sitting down beside Yang Liu, he saw his face pulled two feet long. During the week of training, Yang Liu had never seen Zhao De like this today, knitting his brows, staring at two dark circles, looking absent-minded, dejected, and solemn.

After more than half an hour, Yang Liu quietly asked him: "Xiao Zhao, what's wrong with you today? Why are you so listless?"

Hearing Yang Liu asking him, Zhao De turned his head and looked at her with a dejected face, forced a smile, and said: "Nothing."

Yang Liu put on an unbelievable look and said: "How can there be nothing? Look at you today like a giant panda, listless and dead-hearted. Did something happen last night?"

"No, I just didn't sleep well last night." Zhao De replied with a faint smile.

"Why didn't you sleep well?" In order to make him happy, Yang Liu continued to laugh wickedly: "Did you do something bad last night?"

Seeing Yang Liu's wicked smile, Zhao De suddenly felt a sourness in his heart, and even his nose felt a bit sour. He pinched his nose, with a self-deprecating smile on his face, and said: "Hey, what can I do alone? I just thought about things last night, and it was too late."

"What are you thinking about?" Yang Liu looked at Zhao De with that kind of eager-to-learn look, seemingly very interested in what he was thinking.

Seeing Yang Liu's attitude of getting to the bottom of things, Zhao De stared at her affectionately for a few seconds with his eyes, smiled 'hehe' a bit embarrassedly, and said: "Thinking about you, Sister Yang Liu."

Zhao De's answer made Yang Liu feel very surprised, and at the same time, because of embarrassment, a shallow blush appeared on her face. She smiled embarrassedly: "What are you thinking about me?"

"Sister Yang Liu, do you and that returnee Liu Shuai know each other since childhood?" Zhao De suddenly changed the subject, pretending to smile lightly and asked Yang Liu.

"Hmm." Yang Liu nodded noncommittally, "We grew up in the same family compound since childhood."

"Then you are really childhood sweethearts." Zhao De said with a bit of jealousy.

Yang Liu was a smart woman. As soon as she heard Zhao De say this, and then looked at his jealous eyes, she immediately understood why Zhao De was listless today. Hearing Zhao De's jealous words, how could there not be a sourness rippling in Yang Liu's heart? For so many years, she had never met a man who made her fall in love at first sight. And when she finally found a man who made her heart beat, and when the relationship between the two was progressing smoothly, her family introduced Liu Shuai, who grew up in the same family compound since childhood. The two families were close friends, and they worked together in the Provincial Government before retirement. Coupled with the fact that her father and grandfather had always had a good impression of Zhao De, and he returned with the halo of a returnee, now her family intended for her to date Liu Shuai and continue the friendship between the two families. And Yang Liu grew up under her father's strict education since childhood. Her father's words were like orders to her, like military orders, difficult to resist. Seeing that a love that hadn't been spoken out was about to end like this, how could Yang Liu not feel sad and helpless? But who could she tell these things? At this moment, she was even less willing to tell Zhao De. She was afraid of affecting him. After Zhao De said the jealous words, Yang Liu was stunned, and then smiled extremely embarrassedly, explaining: "What childhood sweethearts, we just knew each other since childhood, but later the family building was rebuilt, and we haven't seen each other since. We just met again recently."

Zhao De said with a thick jealousy, 'hehe' laughed: "Lost and found, isn't that more fate?"

Originally, Yang Liu's heart was uncomfortable, and Zhao De's words were like needles piercing her heart, making her feel as if her heart was bleeding. But who knew about such pain? "Actually... actually I have no feelings for Liu Shuai..." Yang Liu still couldn't help but speak out the real thoughts in her heart.

Hearing Yang Liu's words, Zhao De couldn't help but turn his head and frown slightly. For a while, he was a bit confused, stammering: "No way? Sister Yang Liu, Liu Shuai is a returnee, very excellent."

Yang Liu hung a bitter smile on the corner of her mouth and said: "Liking someone is not about whether he is excellent, but whether the two have feelings for each other. If there are feelings, even if the other party is worse, in the eyes of the person who likes him, he is also very excellent."

Yang Liu expounded her view of love to Zhao De, and also tactfully expressed her thoughts to Zhao De. The meaning was self-evident, telling Zhao De that she had no feelings for that Liu Shuai.

For the subtext of Yang Liu's words, Zhao De heard it in his ears and understood it in his heart. After learning that Yang Liu had no feelings for that Liu Shuai, he breathed a long sigh of relief in his heart, and his expression became more natural. He nodded and agreed with Yang Liu's view of love. He said: "Sister Yang Liu, you are right. As the saying goes, 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder'. I also think so. If you meet someone you like, a turtle can also become a returnee."

"Giggle..." Yang Liu, who was originally a bit depressed and helpless, couldn't help laughing out loud at Zhao De's witty remarks. That series of silver bell-like laughter rippled in Zhao De's ears, making him feel sweet. The reason why Yang Liu liked Zhao De, besides having a very good first impression of him, was that Zhao De's most attractive point to her was his cheerful personality and humorous conversation. He always popped out a witty remark from time to time. Being with him, Yang Liu felt that she had always lived in a kind of carefree happiness, and was almost made to laugh by him every once in a while.

After talking it over, both of their emotions recovered a lot, but Yang Liu also knew that such a relationship probably wouldn't last long. Maybe when the study at the Provincial Party School ended and the two returned to their respective posts, such fate would come to an end. Thinking of the result of ending in a few days, it was Yang Liu's turn to feel sad. Gradually, she fell into a kind of fear that the fate of the two would come to an end. After chatting for more than an hour, Yang Liu stopped talking, sitting there in a daze, her eyes empty, and her heart aching faintly.