"That's enough! Stop!" At the moment of the stalemate, Margaret finally screamed to stop the embarrassing scene in front of her. Margaret looked at an agent beside her angrily. Judging from the way the other agents obeyed his orders, he must be the leader. This guy's appearance seemed familiar to Kai. After thinking about it carefully, he realized that he looked a bit like I watched a movie in my previous life that featured the male protagonist. I forgot his name. Anyway, it was a movie about a Roman general who somehow became a slave and then became a gladiator. Because I watched it on the movie channel at the time, I didn’t watch the whole movie. The content has almost been forgotten. Anyway, I remember the bitterness and hatred on the male protagonist’s face.
"Banning! I told you, I'm meeting a friend!"
Kelly looked at the First Lady of the United States in front of her with curiosity. She never knew that her boyfriend knew such a person. In her impression, Kai never seemed to have a good impression of politicians and had never been in the habit of voting.
Of course, even if she was curious, Kelly did not stop the movement under her hand. She shook the muzzle of the gun and asked the agents who were under the muzzle to throw the gun over.
The Secret Service agents naturally refused, but Kelly didn't care about this and simply loaded the gun. The meaning was obvious, if he didn't drop the gun, he would be shot. Several agents' faces turned red. They were actually being treated by several call girls (at least to them, Kelly and the others did look like call girls. After all, a group of women... dressed up like that... it's really easy to get people thinking wrongly. ).
Of course they didn't want to just give in, it would be too embarrassing.
It's a pity that those women are more ruthless than the other. From the look in their eyes, several agents can tell that they really know how to shoot.
In desperation, they could only drop their guns and walk aside.
Banning's lungs exploded with anger when he saw his men's actions. Damn it, if this is really a gangster, wouldn’t the safety of the president’s wife be completely ruined?
"Banning!!!" Seeing that Banning was still unmoved, Margaret immediately raised her voice.
Banning looked at Kay, who was sneering on the side, and then at the president's wife, whose face was getting more and more ugly, and had to explain: "Madam president, I am doing this for your safety. After all, Chicago is not safe right now. The house has also not had a safety inspection...so..."
"I said, Kai is my friend! As long as he is here, there is no safer place in the world than here!"
Kai was a little angry at first, thinking that Margaret was causing trouble for him. Didn't he see his family partying in Kai's underwear? As the only man in this house, this is such a rare welfare time, but now it is all messed up.
But with Margaret's support, Kai suddenly felt much more comfortable.
Faced with Banning's dissatisfaction, Kai just raised his eyebrows, glanced at him provocatively, pointed at the door with his hand and said, "Get out!"
Banning was so angry at this attitude that just when he was about to say something, Margaret immediately shouted loudly: "Banning!"
No matter what, the leaders always take the side of others, and nothing they say will help. So he could only let a few embarrassing men follow him out. As soon as they walked out of the door, they heard a knock behind them and the door was closed.
…
"What's going on with these idiots?" Kay asked Margaret.
Unexpectedly, Margaret, who was very high-spirited just now, now covered her face with a haggard look.
"What's wrong?" Kai asked curiously.
"It's because of Benjamin..." Margaret said weakly.
Others also looked gossipy. Even a person like Catherine, who had been aloof from worldly affairs for many years, knew that the current president of the United States was named Benjamin. As the president of the world's most powerful country, this position itself represents extremely huge influence.
And looking at Margaret’s expression and tone, it’s typical that if there’s something to eat, and it’s the President of the United States’ melon, it’s even more important to eat it!
Then, as if Margaret had found an outlet, she vented her anguish all at once. In fact, it is basically a matter between husband and wife, but because it is a family matter of the president, it is particularly special.
Simply put, Margaret felt like she was losing more and more of herself. She doesn't like her current life.
Margaret is not a typical housewife. She has her own ideas and does not want to stay at home to raise her husband and children. Before Margaret married Benjamin, she was a reporter, and she was a relatively famous reporter. She had two dreams.
One is to be a war correspondent. The second is to travel the world as a nature photographer.
But since falling in love with Benjamin, Margaret stopped her career and concentrated on raising her husband and raising children. But as time went by, Margaret gradually became tired of this life. She felt that this was not the life she wanted.
As Benjamin rose rapidly in the political arena, Margaret felt more and more depressed, and she was imprisoned in the identity of 'Benjamin's wife'.
It is also because of this that the marriage with Benjamin is in crisis.
Sometimes Margaret wonders whether Benjamin really loves her. Maybe he just needs her to play the role of a 'good wife'.
After all, as a political star, he needs this role.
Many people say that the United States is a superpower, developed and advanced, but in fact, the United States has always been a conservative country. They care very much about their traditions, such as the president. In American history, no president has ever been divorced while in office. Even now, only one US president has been divorced. President Reagan divorced his first wife in 1948, and four years later he married Nancy, the future first lady.
When Americans choose presidents, they always want to believe candidates who have happy families, children and wives.
This is why Margaret doubts whether Benjamin maintains this marriage because he loves her.
If Benjamin wants to get more support, he must give people a positive image in terms of family relationships.
Even though Benjamin went on a trip with her on the eve of the general election to save his marriage, Margaret suspected that it was a ploy for the election.
But unfortunately, they encountered a sea monster.
But equally fortunately, Margaret confirmed Benjamin's heart, whether it was protecting her and the children when danger came, or never leaving, it was enough to explain Benjamin's feelings for her.
This also saved their immediate marriage.
But the essential problem between them has still not been resolved, that is, Margaret has never been able to accept her role. She has her own career ambitions and has never wanted to be a man's vassal.
What's worse is that after Benjamin became president, Margaret found more and more that she began to lose herself. She turned into a person who wore a formulaic smile every day and did things that she was not interested in and didn't want to do at all. You have to pretend to be happy to the outside world.
It was driving her crazy.
This trip to Chicago was originally supposed to wait a few days before she and Benjamin came to Chicago together. But she couldn't bear it anymore, so she left the entire presidential team and went to Chicago first.
As for why she came to Kai... the reason is actually not complicated. It's because Kai is not only her savior, but he also doesn't know her that well.
Margaret has always been very grateful for Kai's life-saving grace, so when she learned that Kai was in Chicago and was responsible for the safety of their family, she made up her mind to meet Kai and express her gratitude. .
And the reason why she is not that familiar with her is because basically everyone she knows has tried to persuade her overtly or covertly to settle down in her current role, which is good for her, Benjamin, and the family.
These people were right, and they really had their best interests in mind, but that was not what Margaret wanted to hear.
She came to Kai just because she wanted to find a friend who would not persuade her to vent. As for getting any advice from Kai, she had never thought about it. To put it bluntly, he was just a tool.
Banning is the president's personal bodyguard and has a good rapport with Benjamin. This time he followed Margaret to Chicago because of Benjamin's request.
As for being so rude to Kai, it was entirely on his own initiative, hoping to give Kai a blow.
He doesn't want any scandal to happen to the president's wife.
As a result, others didn't accept his behavior at all.
A group of women were fascinated as they listened to the First Lady's marriage story, but Kai found it boring.
For Kay, the President of the United States may be very influential, but the wife of the President of the United States...then who cares? If you don’t believe me, go and ask on the street what is ***’s wife’s name. I’m sure many people don’t know it (I don’t know, am I proud?).
"If you can't survive, then divorce him!" This was Kai's advice to Margaret. Well, Kai is serious.
Although Kai was not too petty, he thought about how the goat had been sacrificed to save Benjamin. In the end, Benjamin only cared about the deal with the military and kept silent about the goat's sacrifice. This annoyed Kai. Benjamin, a politician, can forget that Rose wanted to silence him too for the sake of political gain, but Keke cannot forget the revenge of his comrade who was killed by Rose!
So Kai has always been very cold towards Benjamin. Even though Benjamin contacted him several times as president, he didn't give a shit.
If he could see this guy being upset because his wife wanted to divorce him, Kai wouldn't think there was anything wrong with it.
…
How could the president's wife's visit to Chicago be concealed? After all, the president's family also has great influence in the United States, especially the first lady.
In short, Chicago already knew everything it needed to know an hour before Margaret arrived in Chicago.
The only problem now is how to receive it.
First of all, they had no idea why the president’s wife suddenly came to Chicago early. After all, according to the previous notice from the White House, the president and his wife, their son, should come to Chicago in six days and conduct a series of activities, followed by the opening of the expo, and then return to Washington.
These procedures have been set and cannot be changed casually. After all, the president's schedule requires a lot of coordination and cooperation from the city government, which cannot be changed casually.
Secondly, the president’s wife did not have any communication with the Chicago government before or after coming to Chicago.
This makes Chicago very angry, because this behavior represents serious political immaturity. Although it seems that this is a personal behavior of the president's wife, the problem is that the identity she represents is doomed. Every one of her actions, Many, many people will be involved.
To put it bluntly, if Margaret is suddenly killed by someone, who does it belong to?
No matter what Chicago does then, it will be stigmatized.
If the president’s wife is not safe in Chicago, then who is safe?
In short, the Chicago government was very annoyed, so it quickly sent a protest to the White House.
President Benjamin had no choice but to send a telegram to Chicago, explaining the purpose of the president's wife's visit, to the effect that the president's wife was acting as a frontline for the president. Of course, this is just an official statement. Let's take a closer look. On the inside, the White House has actually reached a series of political deals with Chicago.
There is no way, there is a price to pay for being willful.
Things like those private visits by emperors in disguise on TV are impossible to happen in reality. It is impossible for any mature political creature to do such a thing.
As for the president's wife running to see a small policeman, it is not on the table. Chicago has no interest in making a fuss about this. After all, Illinois has always been a voting base for the Donkey Party (Democratic Party), and the current mayor of Chicago is also a Democrat. As long as his interests are justified, he will not make the president uncomfortable. .
Of course, in order not to affect Kai's normal life, Margaret did not stay at Kai's house, but stayed in a hotel.
If you actually stayed at Kay's house for a night, the headlines the next day would be absolutely terrifying, and Benjamin might become the first president to be accused of cuckolding in the entire history of the United States, which would be a lot of fun.
…
Six days passed quickly. During this period, although Margaret kept complaining, she still fulfilled her obligations as the president's wife very well. On behalf of the president, she visited the injured in the two previous terrorist attacks. , and visited an orphanage with a local charity foundation in Chicago, and had contact and lectures with students in a school.
These things are originally what the president should do, but there is no problem if the president's wife does it.
There are a lot of reasons. For example, the president cares about the victims of terrorist attacks and asked the president's wife to visit him in advance. It is reasonable and reasonable, and it can also give a good impression to the outside world. It is also a very good political show.
At least the public and public opinion have a high opinion of the president sending his wife to Chicago in advance to express condolences.
Even Margaret gained a reputation.
Of course, in return, Margaret also endorsed Chicago's safety and cheered Chicago on in front of the media.
It was also this series of operations that allowed Benjamin to receive a warm welcome from the local people when he came to Chicago.
