Luo Du has inevitably had to work overtime recently and return home late. He asked Chi Jing to go to bed first. But every time, he was able to see Chi Jing waiting for him in the living room, sometimes dealing with work, sometimes reading a book, and sometimes sleeping with his eyes closed.
He could only try his best to make arrangements and come back as early as possible.
Given their long life expectancy, people in this era were accustomed to working from nine to five, taking a two-hour break at lunch, and working less than eight hours a day. After all, there was no need to work so hard every day, and it would take decades to retire.
It was really rare to see people like Luo Du and Chi Jing work overtime every day and work so hard at such a young age.
Oh, and marry young.
According to the behavioural laws of human physiological functions, the Alliance had set that one reached adulthood at the age of 22 and set the legal marriageable age at 25. But in fact, people generally consider getting married after the age of 40. With advanced medical technology, a long life expectancy, and considerable social welfare guarantees from the Alliance, people didn’t seem to be in a hurry to do anything. There was a lot of time to consider a partner with whom they wanted to spend a lifetime together. You could fall in love a few more times and make a few more friends. If the marriage between the two is not suitable, then you can separate.
Luo Du became the Minister of Political Affairs of the Alliance at 30 and got married at 35, which was really surprising. But when he revealed that his marriage partner was Chi Jing, people felt that it was understandable. After all, the marriage between the Chi family and the Lou family could be said to be a matter that was similar to the case of how ‘one plus one was greater than one’, and the benefits were twofold. If the business family united with the government family, Luo Du’s position would be more stable, and the Chi family’s commercial empire would also grow.
At first, everyone thought that the two of them were in a normal marriage of convenience. Maybe it was in name only, and they were each looking for a lover and cheating on each other with that lover.
Comments like this were flying all over the Interstellar Internet. But Luo Du’s father himself knew nothing about the marriage of convenience between the two families. After seeing the remarks on the Internet, he specifically talked to Luo Du to ask him if it was true, as stated on the Internet, that his marriage was a cooperative relationship with Chi Jing and no feelings were involved.
Lou Du’s face was full of question marks, and he denied it.
Father Lou said with a serious face, “Luo Du, you should rely on your own ability to stabilise your political power. We are a family, so, understandably, your family supports you. But it doesn’t mean that you have to use your own marital happiness as a bargaining chip and marry others in exchange for benefits. If the children of my Lou family are not free to make their own decisions and marry someone they like, then what’s the point of us working so hard!?”
Lou Du: …… Dad, what you told me when I was a kid was that we were for the Alliance and the people.
Lou Du, “Then why did you arrange for me to have blind dates for two months without any breaks?”
“Tsk, how old are you? And you don’t even have a partner. Isn’t your mother just afraid that you won’t be able to do it? She asked you to make friends. She didn’t ask you to get married immediately.”
“…… That’s not what you guys said at the time. You all wished that I would have kids within three days.”
Father Lou was embarrassed, “Uh…… Anyway, you don’t have to get married for other reasons.”
Luo Du sat upright on the couch and said seriously to Father Lou, “Dad, I really like Little Jing, and he also likes me very much. We don’t think there is any need to wait any longer. We are who each other wants. Just like you and Mom are.” And what I want is to mark him legally, and he also wants to be marked by me, so what else should we wait for?
Father Lou was so sick at heart that his teeth ached. So he even said that he understood it and waved his hand to let him go out quickly.
Later, there were a lot of photos taken by the media and netizens on the Interstellar Internet. They were all of two people. You take me to work. I pick you up when you get off work. We even have lunch together at noon. We also go in and out together on weekends. Wherever one was, the other one was also there. There was no third party at all.
Everyone lamented: Young couples in love may not be as clingy as these two.
An insider in the Ministry of Political Affairs also secretly revealed: Our entire department is extremely grateful to the minister’s wife. Because since the minister has been with him, we no longer have to work overtime on weekends!
Netizens commented: It’s pitiful. There are still people who work overtime on weekends these days.
The employees of Chi Jing cried: We! We still work overtime, although we can work from home. Can the big shots in the Ministry of Political Affairs talk to Minister Lou and ask him to occupy more time with our boss?
Netizens commented: You are not worthy of sympathy. Who doesn’t know that your salary is ridiculously high! There are also all kinds of shocking employee benefits! I’m sour.
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Luo Du was busy because he wanted to flush out the benefit chains of the Military, Political, and Legal Departments of the Alliance in an attempt to get rid of the rotten ones and clean out the rebel forces that had been hiding behind them for decades.
Although he and Yan Sibai of the military Department were at odds on the surface, they had friendly relations for many years in private and could be considered friends. Their goals and desires were the same this time, and they cooperated quite well at the critical moment. It speeded up the process a lot and, at the same time, made the people behind it and the galactic cornered dogs who wanted to attack the Alliance jump over the wall1to be driven to desperate action.
It was only a while ago that the matter concerned with Chi Jing happened in Y Star.
That was just the beginning. And since then, there have been continuous riots, which were dealt with by Luo Du and Yan Sibai one by one.
Chi Jing was injured in that riot. If it weren’t for their specially customised ring that saved his life, if it weren’t for his habit of being cautious and taking more inhibiting drugs, if he hadn’t brought two assistants with him and there was almost no wine left before the last sip…… Luo Du couldn’t imagine what kind of harm he would have suffered.
Luo Du would love to quietly accompany Chi Jing to relax and rest for a longer time. But with the war coming, his work became more and more urgent, and he had to handle it well. Moreover, Minister Auston, the former Minister of the Y-Star Military Department who injured Chi Jing, was still at large. He must completely end all this to feel at ease and make Chi Jing safe.
The war was about to start. The popular sentiment of the Alliance was very stable, and people’s daily lives were hardly affected. These were all the achievements of Luo Du and Yan Sibai, who led the Military and Political departments.
Therefore, Lou Du had to sacrifice a lot of his valuable time with Chi Jing.
Perhaps due to the influence of Luo Du’s original words, if one was busy, the other would be free. He needed to work overtime recently, and Chi Jing had a lot of free time to spend with him.
He couldn’t go to see Chi Jing at noon. So Chi Jing would bring lunch packed by the butler to the Military and Political building.
Although he often came expressionlessly, ate expressionlessly, and left expressionlessly.……
Those who didn’t know would think that his office was a canteen and that he was a professional who specialised in accompanying people to eat.
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