Bai Shuang was slightly disappointed as she stood in the airport terminal with a giant bouquet of oriental lilies. Her face, however, showed no outward sign of this, and continued to give the standard smile of a diplomat as she glanced around. There was no sight of the chief's tall and muscular figure, nor Secretary Zhao's handsome face. She looked down to hide the sadness in her eyes. Under the protection of several police officers, she went inside another Ministry of Foreign Affairs' vehcile and left the airport.
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Gu Nianzhi was completed exhausted by the time the International Teleommunicatons Conference. Dhe slept a full two days before she finally recovered.
Yin Shixiong knew that she had worked hard and was both proud yet worried about her, so he called He Zhichu to request sick leave.
"Another leave? Is she really ill?" He Zhichu picked up Yin Shixiong's call, and he sounded displeased.
