There was indeed such a paragraph.
Paige couldn’t wait to flip back.
The morning had been fine, but dark clouds had swept in, and a light rain was now falling, splashing against the eaves.
Paige sat a little closer to the wall, letting the roof’s not-very-wide overhang protect her from the raindrops.
JT’s handwriting was as sharp as ever,
“This year, I’m 27 years old, and I haven’t yet tasted the pinnacle of power.
I sat in the Chamber of Commerce and watched the way the group of people paid homage to the heads of the three major families. Those three men are the real masters who control Country A.
My heart was itching to take control of them and turn them into pawns in my hands.
But I heard that the Davis family has been full of clever people for generations, that the Gustin family’s villa has a large private army in the south, and that the Folsom family is so rich that its roots penetrate every inch of Country A, so that moving them would easily get them into trouble.
But it’s too late to do nothing. The three families are already investigating the truth behind the chaos of the domestic financial magnates, and they have jointly vowed to give the people an explanation.
An explanation? How would I give them that opportunity.
I sent people to start gathering food and moving it outside the city. I know too well that when people are hungry, they will eat anything, so I collected all the food. I want the city to run out of food overnight, without even any substitute food.
And I had someone burn the few fixed grain depots of the three families.
Soon, the people will discover that there is no food in the city. Because of their fixed and stupid thinking, they will not even go out of the city to find a glimmer of hope, but will instead gather in large numbers in front of the gates of the three families to beg for food.
The three families only have a little food left for themselves, so how could they let anyone have food? Everyone will know that the three families are just hypocrites.
By that time, without me having to do anything, these people will eat the three families, and most likely the three families will collapse and flee.
At that time, I will be the new master of this city.
I am going to marry Hazel, and I will give her a city as a wedding gift.
That’s it.
Paige read the entire handwritten letter in the sound of rain, with raindrops falling on her shoulders.
So, the copycat city began against this backdrop, when JT and Hazel were about to get married, and when there was about to be no food in the city overnight.
Back to square one.
When she first entered the city, she thought that JT must have chosen this time to start because something had happened to the wedding.
Was it the change of having no food overnight?
Could it be that it was because of the food issue that Hazel saw JT’s true colors?
There was no incident of the three big families fleeing the city. If there had been, the Folsom family would not have been massacred in the old mansion…
So what kind of accident was it?
Where did JT’s life go in the second half of the book?
Paige was a little anxious. She stood up, holding the handwritten diary, and frowned slightly as she looked at the rain in front of her.
She still had to solve the problem in front of her first.
It was not yet time to burn the grain. Before support arrived, she had to ensure that the people in the city would not starve to death.
…
Paige returned to the Folsom family in the rain, told someone to go and notify Kevin to come back, and then went upstairs.
In the room, Enrico was still asleep in bed, while Gabriel was lying on the side, with his two small hands propping up his face as he watched Enrico sleep.
Rafael was sitting in a chair by Enrico’s bed.
Seeing Enrico, Paige let out a sigh of relief. Fortunately, she hadn’t turned into Hazel, and she could still use Paige’s thinking to turn this around.
She turned her head and saw Rafael sitting there, staring directly at Enrico without blinking, not even caring that she had entered. They were very close as brothers.
The two of them had also suffered together all the way.
They were no different from real brothers.
Rafael raised his hand, his hand still a little stiff, and slowly put Enrico’s injured hand under the quilt. Looking at the scar on his neck, a smile twitched at the corner of his mouth –
“He’s had it much worse than me.”
His tone was simply too gratifying.
“…”
Paige suddenly lost her emotions.
She stood there and handed Rafael the handwritten note in her hand, “Look at the end.”
Rafael looked at the last two pages with uncoordinated fingers and frowned, “Sure enough.”
“Luckily you reminded me, otherwise before the support arrived, most of the people in this city would have died,”
Paige leaned against the back wall, looked down at Enrico’s face, and said lightly.
“We must let him sleep until the support arrives.”
Rafael glanced at Enrico, “Enrico, who possesses JT’s thinking, can do more than JT.”
He knew Enrico too well. Ever since he was a child, Enrico had been full of tricks and was always scheming, but he had also inherited a little of his late sister’s kindness and would not act without thinking.
Now, that had all gone, and it had merged with JT’s perverted thinking, and the result was someone who was even more outrageous than JT or Enrico himself.
Paige thought about it as she listened, and she suddenly remembered the closing of the city gates and her house arrest.
Indeed, the main plot in this replica city was still going on, while Enrico had branched out in many directions.
“And Kevin,”
Rafael added, speaking with great fatigue and difficulty.
Gabriel was almost falling asleep as he listened.
“Kevin, what about him?” Paige asked in puzzlement.
“Keep an eye on him,” Rafael said with a grave expression.
“What’s there to keep an eye on?” Paige said.
Seeing her question like this, Rafael couldn’t help but shake his head, lifting a finger to point at her, “You’re enchanted.”
“I’m not enchanted.”
She was just too awake, which was why she was troubled.
“You’re enchanted because you still see them as they were.”
Rafael said with difficulty.
She still saw Enrico as Enrico, so she didn’t want to move him unless it was absolutely necessary; she still saw Kevin as Kevin, so she thought Kevin would still unconditionally stand by her side.
But she forgot one thing: Enrico had become JT, and Kevin had become Leonard.
How could the head of one of the country’s leading families remain indifferent to the current chaos and let the devil JT stay in his home without doing anything?
Paige understood what he meant, and said, “I believe he won’t do anything to Enrico.”
Kevin still looked at her with the same eyes as before, and on that basis, she believed his promise.
“If he doesn’t touch Enrico, what about the others?” Rafael asked in return.
Enrico and Kevin could get along peacefully because of her, but a century ago, JT and Leonard had never reconciled because of Hazel, otherwise how could there have been a massacre?
Therefore, she wanted to protect all the innocent people in the city, so how could she just focus on Enrico.
Paige felt like she had been hit on the head when she heard this, her head was confused, and her face quickly turned white.
She clenched her fists and turned to leave, “I’ll have someone keep an eye on Kevin immediately.”
When she reached the door, she looked back at Rafael, ‘Thank you.”
Rafael tugged the corners of his mouth, ‘We’re all in this together.”
They had all been placed in this situation, and naturally they had to work together to break it.