Tang Shuang denied this, saying, "I can't completely agree with your approach, simply because our starting points and values are different. But in essence, what we pursue is quite similar."
"No matter what your purpose is, I cannot deny that everything you have done is beneficial to this city, so I must accept your actions and will not blame you or anything for it."
That's what she said, but she wasn't without emotions. Her lukewarm attitude towards Xu Shi perfectly illustrated this point—she dared not say that she had no feelings for Xu Shi, otherwise she wouldn't have become so conflicted and even tormented when their opinions differed.
If it were just a simple cooperative relationship, she would feel more at ease accepting it all.
In short, this guy is really annoying! Tang Shuang knows that there is a perfect Xu Shi in her dream, but in reality, she is sometimes very close to that Xu Shi and sometimes very far away from that Xu Shi. Anyway, she is being pulled in and out of place, which makes her very uncomfortable.
"Nothing in this world is perfect, Miss Tang Shuang."
It was rare for Xu Shi to call her by her first name, just as she had said to him earlier, "If everything could go according to our imagination, then everyone would just be a dreamer."
"I'm not a child anymore, I understand this principle."
Tang Shuang nodded. "So I accepted it, didn't I? I didn't stubbornly refuse to comply, otherwise that would have been acting on impulse."
"According to you, this is called 'each getting what they need,' right?"
"Absolutely correct."
Xu Shi was quite satisfied with this.
Tang Shuang... how should I put it?
At first, he did dislike her, even hate her, since she condemned him without any explanation. But later, he found her more and more pleasing to the eye.
After all, Tang Shuang genuinely harbored the ambition to eliminate the city's ills and make a significant contribution. In this respect, she was quite similar to her grandfather, which was exactly what he needed at the moment.
Such character is truly rare. She is probably the only one so far who remains consistent in personality even though the plot has changed drastically, even though Su Lin is not normal now.
This might also be related to how I treated her? I never used my abilities to influence her from beginning to end, otherwise, no matter how strong my will was, things wouldn't be like this now.
However, rationally speaking, using her abilities would have been the most advantageous way for him to deal with her... Just kidding, a fuzzy ball that obeys your every word would certainly be easier, but unfortunately he didn't do that at the beginning, and now it seems a bit too late to find a way to change things.
I guess people are just inherently shameless. (doge)
"You... sigh."
Seeing his nonchalant demeanor, Tang Shuang chuckled, "He always has this attitude; it's impossible to dislike him even if you want to."
Even if she is aware of it, it's the same - if you have to categorize, her little brother is definitely the kind of person who is cunning and wicked. He deliberately does you a favor while pretending to be indifferent. In fact, this makes the recipient feel even more guilty and more uncontrollably think about how to repay him. This must be the legendary NBA, right?
"Is there?"
Xu Shi pretends to be stupid all the time. It's all your own overthinking, it has nothing to do with me.
"Anyway, I owe you a huge favor."
Tang Shuang didn't mince words and spoke frankly, "But that doesn't mean you can do whatever you want in the future. If you do something too outrageous, I'll still have to deal with you."
"Definitely, definitely."
Xu Shi raised his hands in surrender, saying, "I am a law-abiding citizen."
The fact is that he no longer needs to go against Tang Shuang—as she just said, their goals are similar, and as long as they are based on this premise, they can always work together.
Besides, she couldn't do anything to me when we had conflicts before, so it's even less likely she will in the future... Since that's the case, letting her vent her anger isn't a problem, there's no need to take everything so seriously.
Governor Tang still thought of herself as the older sister in front of Xu Shi, but in reality, she was already the bratty younger sister.
"Alright, since you put it that way, I'll choose to believe you."
Tang Shuang smiled with relief and extended her hand to him, "Then, in my capacity as the Governor of Night Sin City, I wish you a pleasant cooperation with Chairman Xu in the future?"
"OK."
Xu Shi was also in a good mood, and shook her hand firmly, saying, "It's a pleasure working with you."
Then.
He then discovered that he couldn't pull his hand back.
What are you going to do?
Xu Shi immediately had a bad feeling. "Trying to be a hooligan, is that it? Guards! The governor is abusing his power and harassing an innocent young man!"
"What? Are you in a hurry to leave? I haven't finished speaking yet."
Governor Tang wasn't buying it. His smile became sly. "Of course, I was speaking to you as Governor just now, but now I'm speaking as the Director of the Inspection Bureau."
What do you mean?
Xu Shi was a little confused for a moment.
"What I mean is that although the handover has been completed, according to the normal procedure, I have not officially stepped down yet, and I am still nominally the director of the inspection bureau."
Tang Shuang explained very seriously.
"so?"
Xu Shi's eye twitched involuntarily. No wonder you haven't changed your clothes yet...
"So I need to take advantage of this time to finish the last piece of work that's been piling up."
Tang Shuang laughed even more unrestrainedly, "If I remember correctly, some people still owe 120 hours of community service."
"You're not going to take this so seriously, are you?"
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