Duncan Manor.
"You're back."
The moment he entered, Karen greeted him with a light expression.
"I'm back... Are you okay?"
Adam looked strangely at her.
Although they had long lived under the same roof, Karen's relationship with him had always been mediated through Juno. He had never seen Karen like this before.
"Don't worry."
Juno, who was sitting on the couch tutoring Little Sweet Bear, smiled. "Karen was just moved by that case. She wasn't targeting you specifically."
"Oh."
Adam was immediately relieved.
The case involving Laila was now the hottest topic around—not necessarily worldwide, but at the very least throughout Greater Los Angeles. Everyone was following it.
There was no helping it.
Celebrities naturally drew attention, and this case also piled on murder, love between best friends, and a whole series of other attention-grabbing buffs. Unless something even bigger happened now, this topic simply would not die down.
Karen, meanwhile, felt especially invested in it.
After all, she had almost become Laila's best friend.
"The murderer was sent to a psychiatric hospital."
Juno smiled.
"As always—when there's no solution, psychiatry!"
Adam quipped.
Karen and Little Sweet Bear both looked over, one turning her head and the other raising her eyes.
"I meant those criminals."
Only then did Adam remember his own family's situation. He gave an awkward smile. "Someone who didn't know better might think psychiatric hospitals were sponsoring them, trying to take on the booming fourth industry of the United States—the prison service industry."
If every criminal in American TV Show World started being linked to mental illness and sent to psychiatric hospitals, wouldn't the prisons be left completely empty?
It would not matter in the short term. Before private prisons were established, they had already signed agreements with the players from House of Cards.
Occupancy rates had