“I just think it’s too much of a rush.” Rafael said.
“You think you’re sitting pretty in your current position, that the current situation is peaceful?” Enrico’s voice was cool.
Hearing this, Rafael leaned back and frowned, “I know that the current peace is still unstable, those plutocrats wouldn’t have held back if they weren’t unable to fight us, but there’s no guarantee that they won’t be plotting for the aftermath, and the one thing that I’m most afraid of is some black hand from abroad.”
Speaking at the end, Rafael’s gaze changed, “Paige is in a hurry to change the education, also because she doesn’t want those plutocrats to be too idle and have the mind to plot any big moves, so she shifts their focus a bit?”
Enrico listened, lifting his two long legs and resting them directly on his presidential desk, a touch of smugness swept across his eyes, “Isn’t my woman icy smart?”
Yes yes yes.
Your woman is number one in the world.
“Will it push anyone over the edge?” Rafael said worriedly.
“The effectiveness of changing education is to be seen in the long run, it’s not like we’re moving their cake right away, do these plutocrats dare to get tough with me now?”
Enrico sneered, it’s nothing more than coming to stop them and make some small moves, just enough to get through an unstable period of eliminating conflicts.
“Also, then I’ll make this matter a priority next, Paige is really going through a lot of trouble to make equality for the sake of peace.”
There’s a lot of bending and twisting going on here, and I’m guessing it’s been thought about for a long time.
Rafael said, then waved his hand, “Okay, okay, that’s enough business talk, I really don’t want to talk about it.”
“I’m off then.” Enrico tossed off the words coldly, and made to retract his legs.
“Where to?” Rafael looked at him.
“To find my wife.” Enrico said matter of factly.
“Wait, I have something personal to ask you.” Rafael said.
Enrico looked at him coolly, in a big brotherly “if you have something to say, say it” kind of way.
Rafael looked hesitant, and after a deep exhale, he sat up straight and pulled his chair forward, elbows against the edge of the table, arms crossed against his jaw, “Enrico, are this Carrie and Nick really a couple?”
“What?” Enrico looked at him quizzically.
Carrie and Nick?
How did he know, it was none of his business.
“Last time at your family’s celebration party, I was bitten by your family’s dog, Carrie came up and had to protect me, and almost got bitten by the dog, so I hugged her, and I realized that Nick’s eyes were the least bit jealous, which is strange.”
Rafael said in a hushed voice, “And usually the two of them have especially little contact, occasionally I heard them twice, and all they talked about was business, and the communication wasn’t at all like a young couple.”
“So?” Enrico looked at him as if he were looking at an idiot.
Were Carrie and Nick a couple? What business was it of his, weren’t they a couple by agreement?
“I …”
Rafael paused and looked at Enrico for a long time as he struggled, but finally said, “Let’s put it this way, ever since Carrie stayed at the Presidential Palace, I’ve felt that she’s kind of special, as far as being special to me, you know?”
His tone was almost stiff.
“…”
So it was looking at this subordinate of Paige’s?
But tell him what?
Enrico gave him a cold look, “Are you sick?”
After saying that, Enrico puts down his leg and gets up to leave, not bothering to listen to him about this.
Rafael hurriedly said, “I suspect that the person Carrie likes is not Nick, but is it your Paige.”
“…”
Enrico’s steps instantly paused, a cold and hostile gaze was thrown at Rafael, “Are you looking for death?”
“Don’t you think Carrie’s admiration for Paige is a bit too much, as long as Paige is around, she can’t see anyone in her eyes.”
Rafael follows, stands up, puts his glasses back on, and voices his thoughts, “She’s already in the position of First Lady, so it stands to reason that any normal person would have some vanity, right? But if Paige is standing, she won’t sit, if Paige hasn’t moved her chopsticks, she won’t take a sip of water, if Paige asks her to copy, she won’t sleep a wink.”
Enrico listened coldly.
“More than that, years ago she suddenly began to study up on cooking, and invited me to dine with her, I thought she … coughed.”
Halfway through his sentence, Rafael stiffened and coughed twice, continuing after the jump, “Turns out she was treating me like a little mouse, and took all of the final successes to your house Paige, and you know how I know that?”
“…”
Enrico grimaced.
Rafael said it with a raw look on his face, “That night a year ago, I suddenly realized that the Eight Treasure Duck I was eating had been touched by someone’s chopsticks, so he came with me and Paige’s sister didn’t eat it anymore to avoid wasting it, so she brought it back to me.”
“…”
“I’m the president of a country eating people’s leftovers! Do you realize I almost lifted the table on the spot!” Speaking of which, Rafael’s usual elegance flared up.
He had never been so speechless in front of a woman in his life.
As he grumped, Enrico’s face in front of him had gone completely black, standing there with a sullen face, unbuttoning his cufflinks and slowly rolling up his sleeves, the muscular lines of his arms taut, and dark clouds rolling in suppressed under his eyes.
Stunned, Rafael busied himself, “I didn’t touch where Paige had moved her chopsticks, I swear! I didn’t move a single chopstick when I knew it was Paige who had eaten.”
At that, Enrico’s eyes clouded over, “What, you resent it?”
“…”
Oi.
Can’t say it any other way can you?
Rafael quickly stood back, “Enrico, I’m telling you this, you should know where the point is.”
It wasn’t on that dish of eight ducks!
Enrico’s hand that was rolling up his sleeve paused and looked at him grimly, but he didn’t step forward again.
In the middle of the day, he said, “From today onwards, I won’t give the two of them any private time together.”
Saying so much to him wasn’t waiting for this sentence.
He was not capable of taking a woman himself, and he had to rely on him.
Rafael knew that his own mind had been seen through by Enrico, and with some slight embarrassment, he smiled and said, “Don’t worry, Enrico, give me a bit of time, I guarantee that Carrie won’t be pestering Paige in the future.”
He can’t help it, this Carrie has her heart set on Paige, to follow Paige to do great things, he has no way to start ah.
“…”
Enrico gave him a cold look and turned away.
Really, just after settling a minor love interest a year ago, here comes another female.
Who cares if she is or isn’t, if there’s this kind of seedling, it needs to be snuffed out.
…
“Sister Paige, I’m so happy for you to see that my brother-in-law favors you so much and listens to you so much now.” On the bench under the moonlight, Carrie and Paige sat side by side.
Paige raised her eyes to the night sky in the distance and smiled at her words, “He really has changed a lot for me.”
In the beginning, he only wanted her to be a canary in a cage, then, step by step, he compromised for her, supporting the rebuilding of the slums, and today, supporting her to change education.
He didn’t even frown once at anything she said.
Always went along with her.
“That’s nice.” Carrie said emotionally as she followed her gaze toward the bright stars in the sky.
Paige looked at her sideways, “You want to fall in love too?”