Leng Hongyan silently hung up the phone. Liu Lihai said "Hello" twice, but no one responded. Only then did he know that Leng Hongyan had hung up the phone. He then returned the phone to Yao Haidong. Yao Haidong's face was full of anger, but he did not say anything. Until now, he still could not figure out what Leng Hongyan was thinking. If it was said that she just could not let go of this young man, but she was still not willing to retreat behind the scenes to be his wife for Liu Lihai. This made Yao Haidong extremely puzzled.
At this time, Leng Hongyan was actually very conflicted. She did not know what choice she should make. Should she help Liu Lihai, or should she tell the truth to Old Master Ji? If she really wanted to tell the truth, could she say it? Did she dare to tell the Old Master Ji that she did not love him. The person she loved was Liu Lihai, the Little Fool. Did she dare to say it? Could she say it?
But once Liu Lihai became Guo Baoxin's secretary, would he still listen to her? Would he still be so careful in front of her? Although Liu Lihai said it so grandly, she knew that this Little Fool was eager for her to give in. She would make sacrifices for him and retreat behind the scenes. Even Yao Haidong thought so. This point, Leng Hongyan understood. Men would form a consensus that women should always stand behind men. But once women stood behind men, the value and meaning of women would be frozen or even stopped.
If Wu Zetian's life was not threatened again and again, would she hold the power in her own hands step by step? Without power, would there still be so many beautiful men circling around her? Leng Hongyan had tasted the feeling of not having power. Not to mention making the Little Fool listen to her, it was difficult for him to even look at her. This time, she really did not want to lose power again.
Leng Hongyan was not willing to retire from the officialdom. She was only 40 years old, and she did not look old at all. Most importantly, her heart was not old. Her heart was filled with this young man who was younger than her. She needed the power of love to restore her past glory. Only by holding the power in her hands could she make men look up to her. She did not just need to be the wife of the general.
Pillow talk can help others, but pillow talk can't bring Leng Hongyan the love he wants, the youth activities he wants, the drive and struggle he wants.
Leng Hongyan was in a dilemma. She didn't expect that one day, she would fall into such a dilemma. What should she do? She couldn't tell the truth to Old Master Ji on the second day of their wedding, could she? If it was not done well, not only would she not get Liu Lihai, but it was very likely that the Little Fool would disappear because of her. At this point, she believed that she had no ability to compete with the power of Old Master Ji. At this point, there were not many people who disappeared. Some rumors, such as a female host, some daughter-in-law, and so on, which could not be believed before, came to the capital, especially when she was in the center of power struggle, she had to believe it.
No matter how Leng Hongyan tried to please and flatter the Old Master Ji, there was only one desire in her heart, which was to return to the officialdom and let the Little Fool look up to her and love her again. Although, she knew it was difficult, it was okay if she could not get his heart, get him, and get his pretend enthusiasm and flattery.
Besides, when Wu Zetian was in her eighties or nineties, she was infatuated with teenage boys. Could she say that she had love with these boys? But she needed their youth, their vitality, and more importantly, their naivety and simplicity.
In the past, Leng Hongyan couldn't understand why Wu Zetian was obsessed with such young children. As she fell in love with everything about the Little Fool, she understood that the more a woman lacked something, the more she would desperately hold on to it. She was no longer young. She was no longer the Peking Opera actress chosen by Song Lihai when she was twenty years old.
When she lost her youth, power could let her keep all the good things she wanted to keep. At this point, men only thought that all the women in the world belonged to them, but they never thought that all the men in the world should belong to women. When they had all kinds of beautiful women, they never thought that women also wanted to have all kinds of handsome men. Women who said they didn't love young men and women who said they were attached to old men, in fact, to put it bluntly, they had no capital to love young men, let alone to have them. Because they could only rely on their youth, their beauty, to get pleasure and money from the hands of old men.
Whether it was men or women, the essence was the same. When you had a powerful capital, how many people didn't want to have the good things?
To Leng Hongyan, Liu Lihai was a beautiful thing. He was all the motivation for her to live. She, who didn't have children, put all kinds of love on this young boy, and this kind of love had become a habit. If she lost him, she would have to please Old Master Ji. What was the meaning and value of her working in the officialdom?
On this day, Leng Hongyan had a dilemma that she had never been in before.
On this day, Leng Hongyan went to bed early. She didn't wait for Ji Yunhe to come back. When Old Master Ji came home and saw Leng Hongyan lying down, he thought that she was angry that he didn't accompany her, so he kept apologizing to her. However, Leng Hongyan didn't say a word. Old Master Ji had no choice but to say to Leng Hongyan, "Yanyan, can you understand a little? There was a terrorist attack today. How can I not go for such an important thing? "
"Attack who?" Leng Hongyan couldn't help but speak. Of course, she had to give Old Master Ji a way out. She couldn't keep being angry like this, could she?
"The big bosses of the attack. So, the higher-ups are very nervous. Such an important thing happened, and my honeymoon with you definitely can't go on. Can you understand a little?" Old Master Ji's voice was very gentle. This was the first time he talked about Zhongnanhai at home. He probably really cared about Leng Hongyan. From Old Master Ji's expression, Leng Hongyan already felt the seriousness of the situation.
The political struggle between the higher-ups had never stopped. When she worked in the city, she had long heard about it. However, she was so far away from the higher-ups, so no matter how they fought, it seemed to have nothing to do with her.
Now, when it involved a life-or-death situation, Leng Hongyan was at the center of it. Her feeling was completely different from when she worked in the city. It was as if the struggle between the higher-ups was right in front of her eyes. She began to worry about Old Master Ji again. She suddenly jumped up from the bed and looked at Old Master Ji. "You have to be careful. If it doesn't work, let's escape and live abroad. I don't want to be a useless official anymore."
Leng Hongyan's childish words made Old Master Ji laugh. "Little fool, I will be fine. As long as you stay by my side, I will have infinite power to do a good job in the revolution. Yanyan, believe it or not, when I see you, I feel that I am dozens of years younger. I feel that I still have a lot of beautiful years and all kinds of dreams. It seemed that only in this way could he forget the struggle between the higher-ups and forget that he was ordered to inform a leader. In order to protect his family, he chose to end his own life.
He used to be his comrade-in-arms. They had participated in the war to resist the US and aid Korea. They were brothers who had been through life and death together. But he had to watch him end his own life with his own eyes. He knew that in a few days, all the major newspapers would publish a notice that a certain leader had passed away due to an illness that could not be treated. That was how the news came about. He didn't want to tell Leng Hongyan this, but he was worried that she would misunderstand and be sad because he didn't accompany her. The matter was too serious, and he couldn't recover from it for a while. He just wanted to fade this scene.
In politics, whether you want to or not, once you are in, it is hard to get out. Even if one day you want to, it will be hard to get out. Ji Yunhe wanted to get out now. He just wanted to stay by his little wife's side and enjoy the joy between a man and a woman, the joy of a family, and the joy of an ordinary married couple on their honeymoon. But with a secret message, he had no choice but to leave. He had no choice but to carry out this and that order.
It was said that people in the pugilistic world couldn't help themselves. But who knew that the real people who couldn't help themselves were in the circle they were in? Moreover, everything in this circle was a big deal, and it was a decision related to life and death.
The more Old Master Ji behaved like this, the more nervous Leng Hongyan was. This was the first time she found that this man was not calm. Although she felt the struggle of the top, she could never see the real scene. But Old Master Ji must have seen it, and he had seen it more than once. But why was he afraid?
The more it was like this, the more Leng Hongyan didn't dare to ask for her request. Of course, he didn't dare to ask about her and Liu Lihai. How much did Old Master Ji know? Leng Hongyan wanted to know how much he knew, but he didn't dare to ask. Once some things were asked, there would be a sense of crisis. In this regard, Leng Hongyan was obviously smart and experienced. Otherwise, 15 years of being an underground lover would be in vain. Not every beautiful woman could be the mistress of a high-ranking official, not to mention for 15 years. Moreover, it required something other than beauty. Not every woman who held the power in the harem could become the emperor of a generation. Among the five thousand people in China, only Wu Zetian could sit on the throne like a man.
Leng Hongyan didn't know when she started pretending to be Wu Zetian. She always used her experience, her hardships, her intelligence, and her courage to break the rules to encourage herself. But now, she was very clear that she needed to appease Old Master Ji. No matter what method she used, she must suppress all her desires and distractions, and concentrate on serving this man whose heart was not calm.
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