Chapter 1935: Has the President Died from a Difficult Labor?

The next day.

Presidential Office.

The Secretary pushed open the office door, extremely excited, and said loudly with agitation: "Good news, President, earth-shattering good news! The representatives of those two countries have both agreed to lower their prices. R Country lowered theirs the most, a 50% reduction..."

Before he could finish his sentence, he was met with Qi Shishi's icy gaze.

And even icier words: "To be so unable to keep your composure, it seems you are not suited to be my Secretary. You had better go to the grassroots level to gain some experience for a while."

"I'm sorry, President, I was wrong. I was just too excited." The Secretary apologized in a hurry and tried to explain.

He felt wronged.

For L Country, R Country, and D Country to close this deal, it had already been going on for nearly a year. The difficulty of the negotiations—others might not know, but he knew.

Now that there were finally results, it was inevitable to be happy. Showing one's emotions on one's face is a human instinct, right?

However, the President demanded that one must control human instincts, requiring that no matter what happened, even if the sky were to fall immediately, one was not allowed to make a fuss.

The Secretary's apology was of no use; he was still transferred away by the President. The new secretary who was transferred in didn't need any instructions at all; they knew exactly what they should do immediately.

The two countries that held the core technology finally lowered their noble heads, but it was still no use!

The Presidential Secretary relayed the President's opinion separately: "After the contract is completed, the technology must be given to L Country for free, otherwise, there is no deal!"

The representatives of the two countries were almost angered to the point of fainting.

Too excessive, this is outrageous!

The R Country representative wanted to leave immediately, but thinking of his more than a year of hard work, he couldn't let it all go to waste. He was very unwilling to give up just like that.

Thus, he swallowed his pride and indicated a concession in price, which they considered to be a very humiliating thing.

However, L Country pushed for more, wanting them to also cede the technology. Absolutely not!

He refused point-blank.

The Presidential Secretary left, but the people under him said: "President of the company, if we concede and the D Country representative agrees, we won't have this opportunity anymore."

"After returning to the country, you will also be treated as a disgrace to the nation. The people in your Clan will all be implicated by you and will be unable to hold their heads up."

Everything the Assistant said was the truth. Although it wasn't entirely for the sake of the President of the company, as he had his own selfish motives, these words were like a basin of cold water poured over his head, making him calm down instantly.

That's right, if this business were snatched up by D Country, he would only be able to commit suicide to apologize upon returning home.

However, if he agreed, it would likely be hard to explain as well.

"Let me think, let me think."

The Assistant took the initiative to offer to go and scout for information, saying that the other side's assistant had a good personal relationship with him and he could go and probe.

He agreed and told the Assistant to go and find out quickly.

Soon, the Assistant returned, saying that the other side was about the same as them; they hadn't agreed immediately either, but were hesitant. It seemed the people from D Country were more inclined to secure this project and were determined to get it.

R Country and D Country, two people who originally stood on the same front, now had different positions and immediately became different.

Now they were enemies, competitors.

Both sides were harboring their own ulterior motives. When they met, they spoke nicely, but then turned around and each sent people to negotiate with the President.

Their little schemes couldn't escape the eyes of Qi Shishi and Sheng Zirui at all. In fact, the R Country assistant had already been bought off.

In the end, Qi Shishi signed agreements with the people from R Country and D Country simultaneously; this project was handed over to both countries to do together.

However, the profit margin had been squeezed to almost nothing, and the technology from both sides would be transferred for free after the cooperation ended.

L Country won a complete victory.

At the celebration banquet, the representatives of R Country and D Country saw that the representative from Jiangzhou had not only appeared but was also there as a close partner of L Country, and only then did they realize they had been tricked.

But realizing it was too late. Everything on the contract was written in black and white, clearly and distinctly; there was simply no room to go back on it.

The people from R Country suffered a huge loss. The representative refused to let it go just like that. His eyes rolled, and he came up with a wicked idea, quietly having people spread rumors to frame President Qi Shishi for treason!

And the reason was the Jade Bracelet on her wrist.

The Jade Bracelet on Qi Shishi's wrist was something every daughter-in-law of the Sheng Family in Jiangzhou wore. Did her wearing it mean she was also a member of the Sheng Family?

The Sheng Family were people from Jiangzhou. If the President was a daughter-in-law from Jiangzhou, this was very thought-provoking.

Originally, this was already something the whole world knew, and everyone was already tired of gossiping about it. Now that it had been reframed with a conspiracy theory, it sparked a new round of controversy in L Country.

People who had only been able to eat their fill for a few years, under the manipulation of those with ulterior motives, took to the streets one after another to protest, protesting the President's treason and demanding that the President abort the child in her womb, otherwise, they would replace the President!

With such a big event happening outside, Qi Shishi's heart remained completely calm and unmoved.

She knew that the chaos outside couldn't topple her regime at all, but it was truly disgusting!

She had worked so hard, exhausting herself for the country, sacrificing her own love and personal happiness, just to give the common people a happy and stable life.

But her contributions were wiped away by a single light sentence, and her pregnancy was being made a big issue by those with ulterior motives.

The outside was in a state of total chaos, but the people in the vortex of public opinion were all fine, eating and drinking as usual, not taking the earth-shattering events to heart. Shi Youxuan even thought of a brilliant idea...

However, the hot-tempered Wang Yong couldn't stand it. He began to stand up for Qi Shishi and sent troops to suppress it!

Wang Yong was not like an ordinary Military Region Commander; he could not only control the military but also win the hearts of the people.

The effect of his stepping in was twice the result with half the effort, and the demonstrations on the streets were quickly suppressed.

And the mastermind also surfaced; it was actually foreigners wanting to stir up trouble in the country. Qi Shishi was not someone to be trifled with; she immediately made everything public, and R Country's international status plummeted!

After finishing all this, Qi Shishi suddenly had a stomachache and was admitted to the hospital.

Zirui paced back and forth anxiously outside the delivery room, completely losing his usual calm and composed demeanor.

Everyone says pregnancy lasts ten months, so why was Qi Shishi giving birth after only seven and a half months?

Shi Youxuan looked at her son as if he were a fool and said to him: "The ten months of pregnancy in Jiangzhou refers to small months, with four weeks to a month."

"And your calculation method is large months, the kind where months overlap. So even if it's a few days early, it's not actually that early. Besides, twins are naturally early; it's normal for them to be early. What are you anxious about?"

Zirui stopped talking, but his anxious mood didn't ease at all.

Inside the delivery room.

Qi Shishi screamed in pain: "Sheng Zirui, you bastard! If I had known giving birth was this painful, I shouldn't have gotten pregnant in the first place!"

"Ahhhhh! I regret it!"

Qi Shishi, the President of L Country, who had been even calmer than Zirui, could no longer remain calm now.

The pain made her scream and shout, and she kept complaining about Sheng Zirui.

Anyway, the doctors and nurses in the delivery room were her own people, so she was not afraid of it getting out, no matter how loudly she yelled.

"President, you had better lower your voice. The cervix has only just started to dilate; if you waste your energy now, you won't have any left when it's time to actually give birth."

"I won't!"

Not only did Qi Shishi not lower her voice, she shouted even harder: "Sheng Zirui, you bastard!"

Outside the delivery room.

Zirui suddenly stopped pacing and pressed his ear against the door to listen: "Shishi is scolding me."

He was not angry at all about being scolded; he looked incredibly happy.

At this moment, a doctor walked out: "Special Envoy, please come in with us."

"Okay."

In Jiangzhou, husbands are allowed to accompany their wives during childbirth, but L Country does not have such a custom; however, Shishi wanted Zirui to accompany her.

She wanted to be willful for once; a person must be willful a few times in their life, or it wouldn't be worth having walked this earth.

Zirui was by her side, holding her hand, comforting her: "It's okay, listen to the doctor, the baby will be born in a little while."

At this moment, during a gap between contractions, Qi Shishi suddenly gripped Zirui's hand tightly and said to him: "I want to take a gamble."

"You are not a willful person, my mother's idea is too risky..."

"Let me try."

"Okay, thank you, Shishi."

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Zirui was chased out of the delivery room, his expression grave and his brows tightly furrowed.

The red light above the delivery room had been on for a day and a night, and the President's child had yet to be born!

Countless reporters were stationed at the hospital entrance, racking their brains to get inside, but the security was too good, and they simply couldn't get in.

But no matter how tight the security, there are inevitably lapses; one clever reporter, taking advantage of the bodyguards' lack of vigilance, disguised himself as a nurse and snuck in through the side door...

He arrived outside the delivery room and took photos secretly from around the corner of the corridor.

At this moment, the doctor walked out, covered in sweat, and asked anxiously: "If the President encounters a problem, should we save the mother or the child?"

"Save the mother," the people outside said in unison.

The doctor looked troubled: "But the President's wish is to save the child."

"No."

Zirui looked agitated, and he objected very loudly: "Save the mother, you must save the mother!"

Although he was also very reluctant to lose the child, Shishi was the most important person to him; he must save the mother.

Qi Shishi insisted on saving the child, and the doctor produced a recording of the President.

She said intermittently: "Zirui, if I live, we still cannot be together, but if the children live, they can be with you. You must raise them well and find them a stepmother who can love them."

"You must get married. Tell the woman who loves you that your children were born without a mother; as long as she loves the children, the children will treat her as their own mother. Then your family can live well, and forget me..."

"No, impossible, I cannot forget!"

Zirui was streaming with tears.