The silence lasted all night. At first, Ms. Chris was not particularly willing to cooperate with her husband.
From her perspective, this was not a proper "deal." The life they currently enjoyed depended primarily on the president.
Indeed, in some respects, they were not short of money. After all, they still had quite a bit of savings. But money was not what they were pursuing!
Whether it was Ms. Chris or her husband, what they pursued had always been the focus of people's attention, the limelight, and power! Always!
They enjoyed that feeling, enjoyed standing beneath the spotlight and accepting people's praise. That was their life.
In a sense, money could not give them the "respectable" life they wanted, but power could.
Neither Ms. Chris nor her husband realized how obsessed they were with power.
Perhaps it had not existed from the beginning, nor had it appeared all at once. It must have been a process.
It was unclear how her husband had undergone this series of changes, but Ms. Chris herself knew her own transformation very well.
When she had to follow behind Ms. Tracy and treat her with what she considered a "humble" attitude, while adjusting her emotions in time to accommodate the other woman's attitude, she felt exhausted!
She was not much worse than anyone else. Why were some people born standing in places she had to look up to?
She was unwilling to accept that. Everything she did for her husband was, in reality, more about satisfying her own desire for power—
She wanted to hear people say, "That's Mrs. ... Her husband is ..."
In fact, it had been the same while she was in school. She liked hearing people say, "That's the girlfriend of Professor So-and-so's student."
After entering society, she liked hearing people