After sending Lao Xiong home, Shen Hua told Huang Xi to go back directly: "Huang Ge has been driving for Secretary Tan all day and is tired. I'll just take a taxi back to Mei Xi..."

  "Secretary Tan instructed me to send you back home, and this is making me disobey Secretary Tan's instructions." Huang Xi turned the steering wheel and insisted on sending Shen Huai back to Meixi Town.

  Shen Hua smiled and gave up insisting. He opened the car window a crack, letting in the cold air, and handed Huang Xi a cigarette. As they smoked, they talked.

  "I didn't expect Secretary Shen to be several years younger than me, yet you're managing such a large factory so well. People really can't be compared," Huang Xi took a drag on his cigarette, holding it in his hand as he spoke to Shen Hua, "By the way, I heard in the reception room today that your factory is giving out bonuses to ordinary workers at the end of the year, possibly several thousand yuan each, is this true?"

  "Hmm, the profits for these two months are not bad. I was thinking of giving the workers some extra bonuses, but it's not as exaggerated as several thousand," Shen Hui said, "Huang Ge, is there anything we can't discuss openly between us?"

  Huang Xi smiled awkwardly and said, "Isn't it because of your sister's job? Director Xiong helped introduce two jobs, but she thought the salary was too low and wasn't willing to transfer over. She's been making things difficult for me, so I was thinking if I could find her a job with a slightly higher salary."

  "I told Huang Ge honestly, I don't suggest sister-in-law come to our steel factory,"

  Shen Huai thought that Huang Xi's wife was also a person who didn't understand things. Huang Xi could drive and had even become the driver for the municipal party secretary, so why was he still being so stubborn? However, since Huang Xi had spoken up, Shen Huai couldn't completely brush him off either. He puffed on his cigarette as he spoke.

  "Government employees' salaries seem to be a bit lower than those of well-performing enterprises. However, the government's financial situation will necessarily get better year by year, while corporate profits are unstable, especially for steel mills. Your sister is an employee of Guoxin Department Store in the provincial capital, right? It would be best if she could transfer to Donghua or enter a good performing state-owned unit. If Secretary Tan doesn't think it's suitable and doesn't want to speak directly, I'll ask Old Hu to help you inquire about it, and we'll make sure your sister is satisfied..."

  "I'm counting on you then, another day Secretary Tan will give me a holiday and I'll treat you to a drink..." Huang Xi said.

  Shen Huai smiled indifferently, but in his heart he was quite moved:

  Donghua City's development has been slow, and there are few institutions with good welfare benefits, but they do exist. Huang Xi's wife's transfer was delayed for nearly two months, which shows that Tan Qiping's current work in the city is still somewhat passive, so he hopes that the Tianheng Building project can achieve a good result and open up some opportunities for Tan Qiping.

  Shen Huai arrived at the alley entrance and saw Chen Dan and Xiao Li coincidentally walking back from the hotel, so he got off at the alley entrance and let Huang Xi drive back to the city.

  Xiao Li cleverly went into the house first, and Shen Huai asked Chen Dan to come to his room to talk.

  In the dead of night, smelling the wine on Shen Hua's breath, Chen Dan knew he wasn't up to any good. She bit her lip hesitantly and took Shen Hua's hand, half-pushing and half-pulling him into the house.

  Turn on the heater, and the room quickly warmed up. Shen Hua took off his coat and sat cross-legged on the sofa, his home was also simple, in addition to a bed and a set of combination cabinets in the inner room, there were only two single sofas and a small square table in the outer room.

  The loan crisis of Yeshin Bank has passed, Shen Huai let out a sigh of relief, curled up his legs and sat on the sofa, stretching his waist and said: "After being busy today, I can take two days off next," looking at Chen Dan standing far away, patted the seat beside him and smiled: "Why are you standing so far away? I won't eat you."

  "I'm afraid you'll eat people." Chen Dan's eyes were shining with tears as she looked at Shen Huan, a faint smile on her lips, standing still by the corner of the table.

  Shen Huai knelt on the sofa, his body stretched out to reach her, holding Chen Dan's soft hand and pulling her over, asking her: "Aren't you hot?"

  "Cold." Chen Dan knew what Shen Hui was thinking and hugged her body, pretending to shiver as she said.

  "I'm also cold, my hands are numb, come into my arms and warm up; let me warm you up," Shen Huai reached out to unbutton Chen Dan's coat, as he undid the buttons, Chen Dan re-buttoned them, Shen Huai could only pull Chen Dan's jacket open a bit, slipped his hand inside her clothes, over her sweater-covered breasts, pulled her onto his lap and said, "Warm up for a while before going in, or you'll be too cold..."

  Chen Dan raised her head and gave him a sideways glance, then leaned into his arms, grasping his hand, not letting go, just so that his icy hand wouldn't be stuck to her skin.

  Whispering in her ear, Shen Hua's words made her heart itch.

  Chen Dan and Shen Huan's relationship has developed to the point where she lets him explore her upper body, and for half a month, even her underwear feels half a size too small.

  Every time they were intimate, she could feel Shen Hua's intense and surging desire, that bulge of hardness, like an indestructible mountain standing in front of her, making her know that one day her persistence would be crushed by this mountain.

  She is also a woman with normal needs, every time she gets intimate with Shen Hua, she teases him with her fiery passion, and every time they are together, she has to change her underwear when she gets home, all sticky and wet with love stains...

  But whether or not to thoroughly entrust herself to Shen Huan, Chen Dan was still somewhat hesitant. After all, they had only been in formal contact for three months, and she couldn't see what the outcome of their relationship would be. She was also afraid that she would get too deeply involved and wouldn't be able to pull out.

  At night, the town officials were having dinner at the hotel. He Qing received a phone call and came back with a mysterious expression, saying that Du Jian was going to be transferred away, and you will definitely become the secretary. Chen Dan told Shen Hui about what she heard at the hotel in the evening, turned her head, looked into Shen Hui's eyes, which were shining brightly, staring at herself, and burst out laughing, "I'm talking to you, why do your eyes look like a hungry wolf..."

  "What do you think, isn't it just to seduce you?" Shen Huai's chin was pressed against Chen Dan's shoulder, his face close to her fragrant cheek, and he could see her captivating lips as he said, "What secretary or not, saying this now is so mood-killing. Right now, my heart is only thinking of you..."

  "Didn't you deceive me?" Chen Dan asked, biting her lip. "You swore solemnly and said a lot, but what I heard from your cousin seems to be quite different?"

  Shen Huai was taken aback, during those days in Meixi, he couldn't always stick to Sun Yalin's side, and Chen Dan thought it would be a waste of the $200 room per day, so she provided extremely attentive service, making Shen Huai worry that she would get too close, but he couldn't warn her about his cousin's promiscuity, and had no idea what bad things Sun Yalin was saying about him behind his back.

  "What did she say?" Shen Huan asked.

  "She said your taste has finally become picky," Chen Dan turned around, looking into Shen Hua's eyes and said, "Do you think she was praising me?"

  I knew that Sun Ya Lin, even if she decided to cooperate with him, would not be obedient and would still guard the rules behind his back. Shen Hua gritted his teeth and said: "Sun Ya Lin has suffered losses from me before, her words can't be trusted."

  "What has she ever done to you? Did you sneak a peek at her while bathing after going to France?" Chen Dan asked.

  Shen Huai felt like his scalp was about to explode, and he was a bit guilty, afraid that Sun Ya Lin would also tell Chen Dan about the time he got drunk and hurt someone.

  Looking at Chen Dan's clear eyes, Shen Huan didn't know how to explain: Should he tell her that his previous life was completely someone else's and had nothing to do with him? Would she slap herself in the face and walk away?

  "Before I met you, my life was a mess and it was terrible. After meeting you, I decided to change for the better," Shen Huai bit his lip, looking into Chen Dan's eyes, and then asked with a hint of guilt, "So, isn't this a bit hypocritical?"

  "Too fake," Chen Dan said with a smile, reaching out to pinch Shen Huai's cheek. "When you say something like that, you have to be more serious and it only works when you say it in front of a younger, more innocent girl than me..."

  Looking at Chen Dan's sudden radiant smile, Shen Hua slightly relaxed and thought: Sun Ya Lin still has a sense of proportion in her words, wanting to make him uncomfortable, but not intending to completely ruin his good fortune.

  However, Shen Hua still had some misgivings in his heart. Since he was living under someone else's identity, he had to bear the weight of someone else's life. Some things might one day be impossible to hide, and would Chen Dan still be so forgiving and accepting of him?

  Thinking of this, Shen Huan tightly wrapped Chen Dan in his arms, afraid that she would leave: perhaps in Chen Dan's eyes, he was just a strong intruder into her life, making it impossible for her to choose, and he couldn't even tell her about the infatuation he had always had for her.

  Chen Dan felt that Shen Huan was holding her too tightly, seeing Shen Huan's silence, his eyes had a faint sadness, thinking he remembered the painful things of the past, stretched out her hand to caress his thin face, and in this moment, her heart was extremely tender.

  She also thought of him holding the gold and crying silently, Chen Dan had to admit that it was at that time with Shen Hui who was silent now, that could move her heart, make her heartbeat skip a beat, make her feelings surge, and make her involuntarily turn her head to kiss him.

  Chen Dan actively came over to kiss, the soft and fragrant lips made people dizzy. Shen Huan's tongue probed in, Chen Dan also cooperated with a slight spit of her tongue tip, her hands no longer grasping Shen Huan's hand that was touching her chest, but instead wrapped around his head, fingers inserted into his hair, passionately kissing.

  Shen Huai's discontented mood was slowly dissolving in Chen Dan's active kiss, when the slightly ajar door suddenly and inopportunely creaked open with a "creak creak creak".

  Shen Huai looked up at the door, wondering who would be so tactless as to visit at this time. His eyes shifted to the thermos on the table, hesitating about whether or not to grab it and smash it over there.

  "Bang bang bang", someone outside the door persisted in knocking.

  Chen Dan quietly smoothed out her clothes, slipped into the inner room, and whispered to Shen Hua to go open the door.

  "Who is it?" Shen Huan asked irritably.

  "Secretary Shen, is it me?" The voice of Huang Xinliang, director of the Party and Government Office, came in.

  Watching Chen Dan retreat into her room, Shen Hua was so angry that he wanted to drag Huang Xinliang in and beat him up.

  Shen Huai was a grown man who hadn't tasted meat for four months, and he didn't know what had gotten into Chen Dan today, but she had actually let her guard down voluntarily. Seeing that there was a chance, Huang Xinliang suddenly ruined it, and Shen Huai even had the urge to chop him up and eat him.