as long as I’m not causing him trouble.
Dr. Clinton stood upright against the wall and replied respectfully, “For the time being, things are still relatively peaceful in the country. Temple in Heaven has the Peak Club, and the Gustin Group has Jaden as an assistant. It’s just that there’s been a lot of unrest at the Presidential Palace. The old butler said that the President is recuperating due to illness, and there are many voices at home and abroad, all kinds of voices.”
Upon hearing this, Rafael’s face fell.
“What are you worried about? You still have political enemies in the country?” Enrico gave him a sideways glance.
“…”
That’s true.
Since Enrico and Paige purged the country of those unruly chaebol families, the political scene has also become much clearer.
Since there are no major internal problems, there can’t be major external ones either. He just needs to go back and take charge.
Thinking about it, Rafael said, ‘I’ll return to the country tonight.’
Even if he is in his current state and cannot preside over the situation for the time being, he can let Carrie go out in public to dispel other people’s doubts.
“Mm,” Enrico nodded indifferently.
He really wasn’t suited to stay any longer.
“So you’ll go back after you’ve settled things?”
Rafael looked at him and said, ‘There’s still a whole bunch of things to deal with in this city, ‘JT and the Folsom family, you take care of it.”
If these two gangs can’t be dealt with properly and cause trouble again back home, then there won’t be any peace in the country.
Enrico looked at him and said, “You don’t need to tell me. You bring Kevin back with me.”
“You’re so afraid of him?” Rafael finally caught him off guard and couldn’t help but laugh. ‘That’s right, they almost consummated their marriage.’
“…”
Dr. Clinton’s sweat was dripping down his head. Could a doctor like him listen to Mr. Gustin’s private matters?
Let him go.
Enrico’s face turned pale, and he looked at him coldly, “Dr. Clinton, check him again, it seems like his leg is broken.”
If it’s not broken, then break it now.
“…”
Rafael couldn’t stop smiling.
…
Paige was sitting on the sofa in the Folsom family hall, and Carrie was reporting to her.
“Half of the people in the city have already been awakened, and many of them are not adapting well. They still need to be slowly counseled by psychologists,”
Carrie said, “Now it’s a matter of whether they stay or go. After they were awakened, many of them remembered that they grew up in this city, and it sounded like JT had been keeping them for hypnosis experiments. They also don’t remember where their hometown is.”
Upon hearing this, Paige frowned, and then said, “After everyone in the city is awakened, the Folsom family and JT will have to settle this. We’ll discuss this in detail with… Alonso at that time.”
“I understand,”
Carrie nodded, and after a moment of thought, she said hesitantly, “There’s one more thing…”
“What?” Paige looked up at her.
“Sister Paige, after you and Brother-in-law left, President Rafael pulled me aside and told me to go find the head of the Lautners family and bring him to Justin. At this moment… the head of the Lautners family should have already woken up,” Carrie said.
Paige sat on the sofa, thinking about the blood on Kevin’s lips this morning, and it made her feel bad. “Do you know where he is?”
Paige never imagined that Kevin, after being awakened, would go to the Folsom family ancestral hall.
Braving the wind and snow, she stepped into the ancestral hall. The candles were burning, the offerings were fresh, the tablets were hanging high, and the ancestral tablets were standing in the ancestral hall like a mountain.
Kevin was sitting in a wheelchair, still wearing the eye-catching wedding clothes.
He sat quietly, quietly looking at the ancestral tablets. Paige didn’t say a word, just quietly stood behind him, looking at the names of the ancestors on the tablets.
“I’ve never had such a long dream.”
Kevin suddenly spoke, his tone extremely light, revealing a little fatigue.
“I’ve caused you trouble with this.”
Paige apologized, saying that he had nothing to do with the Folsom family, but was forced to have this dream.
“That’s not true. If you hadn’t told Nick to come find me, I would have died at the hands of my uncle.” Kevin didn’t turn around, just stared at the Folsom family’s mountain of tablets.
Paige walked up to him, looked at him sideways, and saw that he was pale, full of gloom, and there was even a touch of red on his lips.
“What are you looking at?” she asked.
Kevin smiled, but his eyes were pale. “I’m looking to see if Kevin became Leonard or if Leonard became Kevin.”
“…”
Paige looked at him.
“Sorry, I almost ruined your plan.” Kevin then turned to look at her, his face pale, ‘I almost got you and Enrico into trouble.’
Paige said without thinking, ‘It’s not your fault, you were just hypnotized.’
Kevin looked at her in silence.
“Back then, Leonard had his own plan to get Hazel,” Paige said, convinced that Kevin’s previous words and deeds were influenced by Leonard’s way of thinking.
But she forgot.
No matter how similar they are, he wants her, not Hazel.
Kevin gave a bitter smile and said, “Do you think Leonard was wrong?”
Paige looked at a bundle of incense on the incense stand, thought about it, walked over, picked up three incense sticks and lit them on the candle flame, bowed her head towards the tablet, and said, “Later generations can hardly judge past events.”
“But I admire him,” Kevin said.
Paige paused for a moment as she held the incense in her hand, and then she heard Kevin say, “He was the head of the Folsom family, and he could be considered the head of the three families. In his position, he could have been an unparalleled benevolent sage, as long as he didn’t fight with JT. When JT’s underhanded tactics came back at him, he wouldn’t have to keep parrying between good and evil.”
Paige stuck the incense in the incense burner, and the smoke curled up.
“He didn’t become a sage, he knew from the beginning that he had to let go of everything to get Hazel,” Kevin said. ‘Not every man would dare to do that.’
“…”
“I know, you’re thinking of the Folsom family massacre,”
Kevin said. “But that’s a later story, and Leonard wouldn’t have thought of it. He thought that he was just giving up his good intentions, just his character…”
Paige looked back at him, “After this, you know Leonard better than the Folsom family.”
I’m afraid that’s what he was thinking when he hid Enrico’s threatening note.
“After all, I lived for a few days in his story.”
In Leonard’s story, he got Hazel.
In his story, he couldn’t even get her in a dream.
Kevin looked at the person in front of him with a deep gaze, and it took a long time before he said, “It didn’t end well after all, and I let Leonard down.”
Paige looked at him and said, “You’ve been immersed in this story for too long, and you can’t extricate yourself for the time being. It’ll be fine once you leave here.”
She thought that he was just like those people under hypnosis, who had just woken up and couldn’t return to their senses for the time being.
“Yes, it’ll be fine once I extricate myself,” Kevin smiled and said.
“Do you still feel any discomfort?” she asked.
Kevin shook his head, ‘It’s fine, I’ve already woken up, and it’s time to go. The Lautners family has a bunch of things waiting for me to take care of.’
Once he woke up, he didn’t even dare to dream anymore.
“Okay, then I’ll have someone arrange for you to go back as soon as possible,” Paige said.
Kevin sat in the wheelchair and looked at her quietly, “There’s one more thing I took the liberty of doing.”
“What?”
“Nick was supposed to be hypnotized after me, but I pulled him out,” Kevin said, looking at her. ‘Wake him up when you all need to evacuate here.’