"Just remember," Secretary Li said as they lowered their glasses, "to actually come back from this honeymoon. We do still have a company to run."
"I'll come back," Huo Ting Cheng assured him. "Eventually. Maybe. If I feel like it."
The men laughed, and the conversation gradually shifted to other topics, but the camaraderie and understanding remained.
These were men who understood the complexities of balancing power and vulnerability, strength and tenderness, professional responsibilities and personal desires.
And in this moment, sharing drinks and honest conversation in the afternoon sun, they were simply close friends.... Brothers... Brother who had been there for him.
As the afternoon progressed, the conversation wandered into lighter territory, sports, recent movies, and ridiculous news stories that had caught their attention.
