Li Ye stayed in Ma Zhaoxian's office for half an hour before coming out. When he did, his face was set hard, with an air that kept strangers at arm's length. It only made the crowd of gossip-hungry onlookers even more excited, and all sorts of rumors grew richer.
The next day, even Zhou Ziqing could not help asking Li Ye, "President Li, are you really going to take up a post in the Southwest?"
Li Ye looked at his assistant, who had always been composed and dignified, and said helplessly, "What is it, Sister Zhou? Even you can't keep your cool now?"
Zhou Ziqing smiled. "It's like this, President Li. My child is still very young, so I can't possibly leave my child."
Li Ye sighed, unable to keep a sense of disappointment from rising in his heart.
Zhou Ziqing was one of the capable assistants Li Ye thought highly of. Like Lu Zhizhang, she was someone Li Ye had resolved to promote all the way. Yet now, the moment something happened, she was already eager to draw a line between herself and him.
Of course, Li Ye could not blame Zhou Ziqing for that. After all, she had finally gotten pregnant and given birth, and her child was still in daycare! If he asked Zhou Ziqing to follow him to the Southwest and go months without seeing her child even once, that would be too cruel for a mother.
But just as Li Ye thought that, Zhou Ziqing spoke the rest of her sentence.
"So if President Li really is going to take up a post at Southwest Heavy Truck Company, then transfer Old Xie over too! I discussed it with him yesterday. If our whole family goes to the Southwest, we can devote ourselves to our work