Carrie decided to tell the truth, “I know what I did was wrong, but I did solve the source of the problem, and now the president’s approval rating is rising.”
“So you sacrificed your marriage?” Paige looked up at her with a cold gaze.
Carrie felt uncomfortable under her gaze, “I don’t think this is called a sacrifice. I don’t have a boyfriend, I don’t like anyone, and I have no plans to get married in a few years. Why can’t I use marriage to help the president win the election? I think it’s a great deal.”
“A bargain.” Paige laughed as she heard this, but her smile didn’t reach her eyes. ‘How long do you want me to owe you? Until I die?”
As soon as these words were uttered, both Nick and Carrie were stunned. ‘Paige…”
“Rey, Mila, and Angie died for my ideals alone. You are sacrificing your marriage. What’s next? Nick, what are you prepared to sacrifice for me?” Paige said.
She left everything behind for Enrico and went to Germany to find the book of secrets, while Carrie gambled her marriage for her sake.
“Paige, you don’t owe us,” Carrie and Nick said in unison.
“Really?” Paige asked indifferently. After a while, she said, “This time, I suddenly left because someone was holding Enrico’s life hostage. I knew full well that my departure would lead to frequent problems during the election, but I still went.”
Now, do they still think she doesn’t owe them anything?
She left for personal reasons, and it was she who gave up on her previous efforts.
Nick and Carrie looked at each other, and saw a trace of astonishment in each other’s eyes, but soon, that emotion faded.
“Brother-in-law treats Sister Paige well, so there’s nothing wrong with this,” Carrie said earnestly.
“Sister Paige only went because she trusts us, doesn’t she?” Nick followed up.
“…”
Looking at the two of them with no complaints on their faces, Paige’s long eyelashes twitched, and for a moment she didn’t know what to say.
“Paige, don’t think about it anymore, I really didn’t make that sacrifice. If I had someone I liked, I definitely wouldn’t do this, and I don’t have anyone right now,” Carrie said nonchalantly.
“That agreement doesn’t do you any good at all,” Paige said, “Carrie is completely handing over her freedom and her life to Rafael’s hands.
Carrie stood straight and replied, “Paige, I’m not stupid. Yes, the agreement doesn’t benefit me, but who will Rafael rely on to become president? He will rely on his brother-in-law, and his brother-in-law will listen to you. And I am your person, Paige. How can you let me suffer?”
Therefore, the agreement was a reassurance for Rafael to accept the plan.
Hearing this, Paige couldn’t help but give her a second look. “You’ve thought of everything. Do I have to protect you?”
Hearing Paige’s voice soften, Nick and Carrie both breathed a sigh of relief.
“It’s okay if you don’t protect me, I’ll listen to whatever Paige says anyway,” Carrie said without a second thought.
“…” Seeing her like this, Paige didn’t know how to punish her for taking the initiative this time.
Things had come to this, and Paige also understood that it was unrealistic to ask them to dissolve their marriage at this time. She looked at them, and her gaze finally settled on Carrie’s cold and beautiful face.
“Whenever you want, for whatever reason, you can dissolve the marriage,” her voice was solemn.
If Carrie wanted, she would take care of the rest.
Nick added, ‘If your future husband has a grudge against you because of this, it means he’s not worth it, I’ll beat him up for you.”
Carrie listened, her heart warmed, and she smiled, ‘I always knew I had Paige and Temple in Heaven backing me up, so I’m not afraid of anything.”
“Okay, back to business,”
Paige sat at her desk and turned the laptop in front of her. “How many casualties were there in the riots tonight?”
Nick and Carrie leaned towards the desk.
“The rioters have all been arrested except for those who died on the scene. There were not many seriously injured, and a lot of lightly injured, because everyone was running around and tripping during the chaos,”
said Nick. “There have been a lot of these kinds of things in the past few days, and everyone is used to it.”
“Carrie,” Paige said, ‘since you’re the First Lady now, take time to comfort the injured. I’ll send someone to protect you.”
“I know,’ Carrie nodded.
“As for what to write about in the media reports on our side…”
Paige pondered for a moment, then reached out and pressed the next news video.
The camera was trained on the podium. A mob rushed onto the stage, and Carrie rushed over to push someone away. Rafael also moved extremely quickly, stepping forward to pull her into his arms, while turning his back to the mob, to protect her as they left the podium.
There were a large number of comments below.
[The president and his wife are completely devoted to each other. They protect each other at the first sign of danger!
[They are so sweet together, oh my god!
[The couple I love is the number one romance in the country!
“It must have been Thomas again. When Thomas was canvassing, the president never did anything like this. As soon as the president arrived, there was a riot. Are we blind and can’t tell whose hand it is?”
“Don’t be too Thomas.”
Comments like these came one after the other, and all the comments smearing the president were all pushed to the back by words like “sweet to death” and “Cinderella princess, flush for me.”
Paige looked at these comments and fell into deep thought.
Are people really that crazy about real-life couples these days?
There’s no need for any media reports, these netizens have already written their own plotline of the male and female protagonists fighting against the villain Thomas.
Thomas has completely set himself up to be harmed by getting so many people to try to harm Rafael. I guess he’s crying his head off right now.
“With your IQ, it’s a pity you’re not involved in politics,” Nick said, leaning half-way over his desk and giving Carrie a glance.
In a way, trading a marriage for a situation like this is definitely a brilliant solution.
“Yes, very clever. It seems that I don’t need to worry about the election anymore, and I can rest assured to go to Wind Island and bring back the people from the slums,”
Paige said, raising her head and giving them a light glance, “then I’ll give you guys credit for this.”
Carrie and Nick didn’t expect Paige to be so easygoing and to give herself credit, and they both stood up straight.
“Go back and copy all the rules of Temple in Heaven 200 times in your spare time, and I’ll check them when I get back from Wind Island.”
“…”
Carrie and Nick froze in place.
The rules of Temple in Heaven… That booklet was not exactly thin.
“Any questions?” Paige asked with a faint smile.
No matter what good idea they had, it would violate the rules of Temple in Heaven.
“No,” Carrie and Nick said in unison again.
“Get out.”
“Yes,”
The two turned in unison, and as soon as they turned, both faces were very frustrated.
After the two left, Paige turned the laptop in front of her back, turned off the video, and her fingers crackled on the keyboard, retrieving the surveillance camera in Zone D of the central square at that time.