So They Were Husband and Wife!

It was after five.

Normally, everyone would have packed up and gone home from work by this time, but today, a commotion broke out outside the Discipline Inspection Commission building. Many people had not left, staring in shock at Director Dong and the beautiful new mayor in the distance. Even those heading out kept looking back with every step they took through the courtyard. Quite a few people inside the Discipline Inspection Commission Office Building heard the noise and crowded against the windows to look down.

"What's going on? What are you all doing?"

"Lao Li, what are you looking at? What happened?"

"Lao Zhang, didn't you hear just now?"

"Hear what? No, I just came downstairs."

"The new Mayor Xie... is Director Dong's wife."

"Huh? Huh? Huh?" The man cried out in shock three times. "Who told you that?"

"Director Dong said it himself. Didn't you see? Mayor Xie is waiting for Director Dong to go home."

"This... Director Dong and Mayor Xie are a married couple? Why has no one ever mentioned it before?"

"Director Dong just took office, and Mayor Xie just arrived too. Where were you supposed to hear about it?"

This was truly huge news. In fact, the people at the Discipline Inspection Commission were not unfamiliar with either Dong Xuebin or Xie Huilan. There was no need to mention Dong Xuebin—he had drawn far too much attention during the earthquake, even coming back from the dead once. Tens of thousands had seen him off, and Fenzhou City Television Station reported on him every day. It was hard not to know him. The same went for Xie Huilan. Her decision to defy all opposition and evacuate the public before the earthquake had also made the news. Besides, she had previously been the County Chief of