Darkstone Code

If possible, people just want more happiness!

Double, even more!

If the President is enjoying doubled happiness right now, then he would surely welcome even more.

"You’re very enthusiastic today." As he enjoyed Mrs. Chris’s exquisite skills, the President reached a new level of happiness—triple happiness.

But this also made him notice a slight difference from before. Previously, Mrs. Chris, though hardworking, always occupied a passive role, being more of a servant obeying orders.

But today, she took the initiative, controlling the bursts of joy, and it had to be said, this was a unique experience.

This transformation of identity and status often leads to more stimulating sensory enjoyment, much like many sadists who also have a latent masochistic side.

Just because people can’t see this side doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

Of course, the President has nothing to do with being a sadist or masochist; this is simply a metaphor, but an apt one.

Watching Mrs. Chris display her knightly skills expertly, the President was more than willing to enjoy it.

These hidden pleasures exploded bit by bit, reaching quadruple happiness.

From start to finish, it took nearly thirty minutes more than usual, which was the utmost limit of the President’s stamina.

As he washed off the sweat and other remnants, perhaps due to his great satisfaction today, or maybe because the Duncan Clan was on the brink of collapse, he casually joked, "... The judge in the city can’t continue working. If you or your husband are interested in this job, I can arrange something."

The city the President referred to is in the neighboring state, not a very large city, with a population of about fifty to sixty thousand, not very industrialized—just an ordinary city.

In such an ordinary city, ordinary things happen usually—it’s either a novice driver damaging someone’s property or some cases not worth people’s time.

Most cities are like this, without constant gang lawsuits or political scandals. Most of the time, the judges in the city court handle fast cases.

Who did what, how much fine needs to be paid, or what community service needs to be performed—these are mild cases. If a case’s value reaches two hundred bucks, it makes the local newspaper’s headline.

Being a judge in a court in such a city... is it interesting?

Having been the wife of a state court Chief Justice, Mrs. Chris knows well that there is no fun in this. People will not respect her just because she is the city’s court judge’s wife.

People will simply wave to her and greet her equally with a "Good morning, madam," and that’s it.

She smiled, "I’ll go back and discuss it with my husband." She said while starting to pack up.

In her tone, the President sensed a subtle hint of something off, but he didn’t mind much.

As he saw it, Mrs. Chris posed no threat to him.

Some might ask, what if someone exposed their relationship?

Of course, Mrs. Chris would end up in jail, what else?

The Federation, though a country pursuing the enjoyment of freedom, does not allow anyone to casually defame or slander others, let alone the President.

According to the judicial process, if someone claims to have an extramarital affair or physical relationship with the President, they must provide evidence first.

At that point, what’s the first thing to activate?

The President?

No, it’s the Party Committee; they react before the President’s response mechanism to ensure their President isn’t impeached because of some "conspiracy," they tell the public these are lies.

Then, the President’s emergency office would do everything to turn such defamations into malicious slander, even a form of ugly political struggle.

Even if the person stepping forward doesn’t have two powerful entities to back them, they must present ironclad facts and evidence.

You can’t just say a few nonsense words and claim the President did this and that.

Without evidence, you are committing a crime, and of course, the ultimate result would be jail time.

Defaming the President isn’t a joking matter; there are plenty of self-proclaimed fans of the President in prison, who would certainly take "good care" of those who defame the President.

Even if there is ironclad evidence, it doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll achieve what they want.

If a country’s leader loses power due to a woman and chaotic personal life, then it must be what the real power core of that country wants people to see!

Yes, that’s not true.

Bluntly put, personal life can’t ruin a country’s leader; if it does, it’s surely because of something else.

People just need a reason, a reason the lower classes can accept.

We can’t have those core politicians backstage telling everyone that because the President or Emperor or some ruler did not meet their political demands or deviated from the overall stance, like attempting to reverse some international situation, such as trying to ease the tense standoff with Peng Jieao.

Such significant incidents would cause a great shock to the political group’s stance, and would be the real reason they lose their President title over lipstick marks on their collar!

So, for this President, there is no issue with his position or attitude, he has almost no problems!

That means neither the Progressive Party nor the Conservative Party has any need to topple him.

So no matter what he does, it can be "forgiven!"

Sometimes politics is just that simple: as long as you stand with everyone, within permissible bounds, you can do anything, whether it’s legally allowed or not.

He merely had a deeper exchange with a female golfer due to emotional outburst; he doesn’t love this woman, it’s not an affair, just... relaxation.

Even if the First Lady knew, she wouldn’t blame him. After all, serving an old man isn’t a pleasant thing for her either.

If she was a woman who easily got jealous, she wouldn’t have sustained her relationship with the President until now.

See, everyone can forgive the President, then what about the first whistleblower exposing everything and the other half in the story?

Of course, of course!

They too could forgive the President, he’s apologized, what more could you want?

The pressure from the Consortium—capitalists wouldn’t want a President they pushed on stage to get off work halfway; that means losing a lot of initial investment and four years of stable returns.

The pressure from political groups—a President’s resignation is always a political scandal, whether the scandal is chaotic or, like the previous President, unlucky, it’s a scandal.

Scandals greatly affect a political group’s influence, which is why the previous President had to display an unreasonable attitude before leaving.

He had to portray himself as a dictator because he needed to take on the negative influence his party suffered.

In the end, the party stands on justice’s side, and there’s only one villain!

Lastly, there’s pressure from society—sometimes we have to assume the worst in everyone and society; someone will always jump out and comment from some weird stance—

"Why reveal all this at this time?"

"Is there a deeper backstory behind this?"

"Was there some deal gone wrong, so they ’ripped the ticket’?"

People won’t stand with the "victim," but on some peculiar stance to maliciously attack the victim, and this narrative sells well. Almost the entire Federation is theorists.

Ultimately, all the "issues" in the matter will transform into one thing—

"They’re all bloody bastards!"

Besides, some institutions in society will treat the whistleblower unfriendly, frequent tax checks, frequent home searches, they always have ways to break people.

And this fits Federational law: if you haven’t committed a crime, why not cooperate?

If you haven’t committed a crime, why feel anger toward justice?

If you haven’t committed a crime, why feel these are unjust?

With so much support and pressure from every corner, it ultimately turns into something that can be done but cannot be spoken of.

It.

Is...

"Privilege!"

Yes, privilege!

Power beyond laws and rules, special power!

Furthermore, the President doesn’t believe, without concrete evidence, a woman could cause him any loss. If such a possibility existed, the thoughtful Mr. Truman would remind him, and the short, elderly man from the Progressive Party would remind him.

But no one has, because everyone understands, this isn’t a "fatal factor."

Mrs. Chris also finished her shower and changed clothes, and they ate something together.

After all, after high-intensity sports, one always needs to replenish some energy.

Later on, the President arranged for someone to send her off, but, of course, before she left, there was still the routine check, and again nothing inappropriate was found.

Like... cameras or something!

Damn this technology!

The only happiness they can have, besides actresses narrating scripts to them, perhaps is the respect from people!