"Hello?"
"Yuqi, what the hell is happening to the office?"
"You're at the office right now?"
"Yeah. So are you going to explain what you did when I was gone?"
"Can you co to the bank? We can talk there."
"Fine. You'd better have a good explanation for this."
---
When Xiaoyun arrived at the bank, he could see Yuqi standing outside waiting for him.
"Hey, babe!"
"Yuqi, you mind explaining what happened while I was gone for two days?"
"Ahem, let's talk sowhere more private."
As Yuqi dragged Xiaoyun inside the bank, he was a little surprised to see that not a single custor was inside.
Not even the bank tellers were working. It was almost as if the bank had been temporarily shut off just for the two of them.
After following Yuqi past the bank counter, the two arrived at an empty eting room.
"Now, do you mind explaining?"
"Take a seat. Why are you in such a hurry?"
"You tell . How co you didn't tell anything about the renovation?'
"Renovating? I'm planning to move out of that awful office completely." Yuqi answered.
"What?"
"Don't what . You heard . We're going to move to Guangzhou to work instead of Luoping in the future."
After a short silence, Xiaoyun's mind only had more questions. But there are so many that he didn't know where to start.
He could only ask a single word summarizing all of his feelings in the mont.
"Why?"
"Because Luoping is not a good geographical location for a capital. It's too remote from our other cities compared to Guangzhou.
It already has all the infrastructure built there. There are so many abandoned skyscrapers that we can even choose as our expansion."
"But how about Luoping?"
"What about Luoping?"
"Are we going to move to Guangzhou then?"
"Of course not... Co on, Xiaoyun, Luoping had always been a district within Guangzhou anyway.
There's no point in separating the two cities. Reintegrating them would eliminate so much of the bureaucratic bloat.
Not to ntion, it's a bad look to handle works from Foshan and Guangzhou in a half-built town in Luoping."
After a short silence, Xiaoyun started to understand what Yuqi was trying to imply.
"You sure this is going to work out?"
" I had already set up all the transition work ahead of ti... Besides, it's only a six-minute drive from here to our new office in Guangzhou."
"Fine. But could you not tell this to in advance next ti?"
"Sorry, babe!"
As Yuqi moved a little closer, holding Xiaoyun's arm, acting all cute, the last remaining bit of anger vanished from his face.
"What's going to happen to Leifeng and all the people who are already working in Guangzhou?" Xiaoyun questioned as the thought popped up in his mind.
"I already integrated them into the existing team and spread them out into the other cities...
Oh, and Leifeng had already signed up to be the mayor of Qingyuan. He said he'd build it into your next crowning jewel."
The way Yuqi responded sent a little chill down Xiaoyun's spine. He couldn't imagine a man saying that out loud.
"Stop being so weird. Can you stay professional for one second?"
"Has Babe not forgiven for keeping it a secret? What can I do to make up for it?"
Seeing Yuqi moving even closer, Xiaoyun quickly moved back a little before clearing his throat.
"Ahem. We can talk later tonight. We have a lot of work moving stuff, don't we?"
---
After following Yuqi back to the administrative building, the two of them moved almost everything out of the old office and into a truck.
"Boo... You're no fun."
---
After following Yuqi back to the administrative building, the two of them moved almost everything out of the old office and into a truck.
All the other employees had already packed their stuff and were hopping on a bus to their new office.
"Yuqi, what are you going to do with this old office?"
"It's going to be a newly renovated office that manages public services within Luoping... I was tired of hearing the public sector team complain about having to work in a shack at the comrcial district."
"That's the real reason for moving, wasn't it?"
"Of course not. It just so happens that everything lines up together. Co on, let's go."
As Yuqi dragged Xiaoyun to the parking lot, he was a little surprised to see an almost brand-new Sedan there.
"Your new car?"
"Duh. How else am I supposed to get to work every day in the future? Do I look like the type of person who takes buses?"
Xiaoyun didn't say anything back, following her into the car as he sat down in the passenger seat.
"You got a car license, right?"
"Of course I do. I was the one driving that old SUV before you took it from ." Yuqi answered as she inserted the car key.
"That SUV belongs to . I was the one who brought it." Xiaoyun argued back.
"Yeah, and who's the one that faked their death and got the car ownership over to?"
Once again, Xiaoyun remained silent as Yuqi switched the gear and started reversing. "It's quiet, isn't it?" Yuqi suddenly murmured.
"Yeah... How is it so quiet?"
"It's an electric car. Duh. I bet your old-fashioned mind had never seen such a car."
As Yuqi shifts the gear out of reverse, Xiaoyun's mind is still a little blown away by the electric car.
At the sa ti, an idea started to pop up in his mind—an idea so great that it would solve all his problems.
"Yuqi, how many electric cars do we have?"
"About several thousand of them, all parking in the storage unit at Guangzhou..."
"Perfect."
"Why are you asking that all of a sudden?"
"I was just thinking, if we have an oil shortage, why don't we just go all in on electric?"
"Do you think none of us has thought of that? Do you realize how much stress our power grid will endure?"
Yuqi's answer put down Xiaoyun's fla a little, but his mind was still adamantly defiant to it.
"We just need more solar panels and batteries, right? I can make them no problem——"
"It's going to take at least several thousand panels and hundreds of thousands of batteries. Are you sure you can do it?"
"Never mind."
As Xiaoyun backed down from the challenge, Yuqi only let out a small chuckle before driving out of Luoping.
---
When the two of them finally arrived at Guangzhou, Xiaoyun could imdiately feel the heavy security on the streets.
Hundreds of police officers were patrolling, with border guards at every tall building, watching down from above.
It was almost as if it was making sure absolutely nothing went wrong on the transition day.
"Yuqi, are we going to start moving everything over to Guangzhou?" Xiaoyun suddenly asked.
"Of course not. Didn't I already tell you we're going to continue living in Luoping?"
"Yeah, but... People are going to start moving back to Guangzhou with all this focus on it, no?"
"That's even better. Imagine hundreds of thousands of people living in a single house family district when there's a more efficient apartnt?"
"I guess..."
"I want Luoping to get less populated anyway... It's so crowded and noisy when it's our ho."
As Yuqi murmured the last part out, Xiaoyun didn't say anything back. In his heart, he agreed with it, even if it sounded extrely selfish.
"Now we're here. Let's go."
As the two of them exited the car, Xiaoyun imdiately noticed the building looked a little familiar.
Looking further up a little, he could see oddly familiar signs right at the door entrance.
"What are you looking at?"
"Why does this building feel so familiar?"
"Because it's your building, you silly."
Following Yuqi inside, he quickly noticed a giant logo of the skyscraper's original owner behind the receptionist's desk.
"Songjia conglorates!"
"You finally realize it? I'm surprised it took you that long. I thought you would have found that out just based on the direction."
As Yuqi headed to the elevator, Xiaoyun quickly squeezed past the crowds of people who were also getting on.
"Good evening, Governor."
"Good evening."
After enduring the elevator's constant stops, all the office workers finally arrived at their floors. Only two remained in the elevator as it continued to go up.
"Yuqi, why did you pick this building over any other buildings in the city center?"
"Because I thought you would like it. Do you not like my choice?" Yuqi questioned with a hint of irritation.
"Of course I like it. I feel almost right at ho with this building."
Just as Xiaoyun finished responding, the elevator finally arrived at the top of the building.
"Then stop putting up a face like that. It keeps making think I made the wrong choice."
As the two of them exited the elevator, they were t with an extrely dark hallway with all the b closed.
After finding the light switch in the dark, a single flick finally allowed them to see what was before them.
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