Before officially leaving for the Far East, Karen Whitehouse returned home.

In the '80s, when the Irish Republican Army was at its worst, Miss Whitehouse's father was a vigilante sent here as a vigilante in Lisbon, a town near Belfast, and later became a prison warden, so he settled his home in Hillsborough, near Lisbon.

Mr. Whitehouse is most proud of his daughter, who went to university at Durham and studied in London, and his son had a falling out with his family when he was at university, and he had not been in contact with them for a long time.

Katie didn't go back to Northern Ireland during the Easter holiday this time, so she took advantage of this time to go home to have a look.

The Whitehouse home is a very standard semi-detached three-bedroom house, with two bedrooms on the third floor overlooking almost the entire Hillsborough Forest, and the view from the living and dining rooms on the second floor is also good.

When Katie was picked up by her father, the Whitehouse house had such a relaxed atmosphere.

Parent-child greetings and chats as usual.

Several times, Katie tried to tell her parents what had happened to her parents in London, counting on her experienced parents to give her advice on the immoral relationship, but she found that now was not the right time. The relationship between her parents and her younger brother John has not been restored, and she has cheated a lot of money on herself, and she will probably be blamed by her parents.

Talking to his parents as normal, Mr. Whitehouse brought the topic to Miss Whitehouse's ex-boyfriend.

"Are you still in touch with Tom?" asked Mr. Whitehouse.

Mr. Whitehouse points to Tom as Katie's childhood sweetheart, a devout Catholic who strictly adheres to the rules of Catholicism, and the two go to the same elementary school, middle school, and even a university together—except that Tom is studying theology—and the two are so close that as long as Tom agrees, Katie contributes. But in the end, maybe Katie was a little tired of waiting, or maybe there was a difference in the two views on marriage, Katie broke up with Tom very peacefully, went to London to continue her legal professional course, and finally entered Alan Binghamton. The two broke up peacefully and were still able to maintain a very close friendship, and the Katie ex-boyfriend mentioned by Lin Yilong was him.

"One more point, but we don't have much to do with it anymore. Katie replied.

"He's going to be a priest here, you know that old Ernest in the church, he doesn't have a few years to live, Tom will be a priest in a few years. Mr. Whitehouse said regretfully, "I am waiting for you to appear in the House of Lords and make it a good story." ”

"Dad, the Supreme Court has been split from the House of Lords. "Last year, the Supreme Court moved to Middlesex Hall in Parliament Square. ”

"That's a pity. Mr. Whitehouse said, "You have no plans for London." ”

"I'm still in my apprenticeship, Dad. Katie replied, "I may be going to Cardiff in a while." ”

"Why go there, it's better to stay in Belfast than to go to Wales with a bunch of lazy people. Father said.

"Well, I ....." Katie didn't know what to say, solicitors are different from barristers, they don't need to be argued in high courts, and many companies don't expect solicitors in London to help them with anything immediate, hire local people to think about compliance or simply set up their own legal department to do contract audits, and came up with a standard answer, "You know, Northern Ireland law and English law are not the same legal system." If I want to return here, I'll need a licence from the Northern Ireland Bar Union. ”

Mr. Whitehouse turned his head in embarrassment, and the United Kingdom was the only country in a unitary country where there were several parallel judicial systems.

"Then why not do it in London, but run to what Wales does. Katie's mom asked.

Katie is very embarrassed, she can't escape Lin Yilong's control, but Lin Yilong's advice alone can't make Katie organize a suitable and effective excuse.

"My boss, who was going back to Wales to set up a law firm, invited me to be his senior assistant. Katie said.

"Your boss, the Asian?" asked Mr. Whitehouse, "then why didn't he continue in London? ”

"Yi graduated from the University of Wales, has a deep affection for the place, has close ties with the local area in Wales, and can guarantee the source of cases and income. Katie explains, "I feel like if I could skip junior assistant and go straight to senior associate, I could save a lot of effort for the direct partner, especially since I was trained at Alan Binghamton." ”

"I always felt that something was wrong. Mr. Whitehouse said, "Since your boss is a senior assistant, according to the promotion rules of your law firm that you told me, then he is not far from being promoted to partner, why not continue to be in the top 20 in London and choose to go out and become a law firm himself?"

"This ...... I don't know. Katie hadn't thought of this yet, "Anyway, it's such a job offer, the salary is good, I owe him a lot of favors, so I want to ....."

"...... between you," Katie's mother said, looking into Katie's eyes, "there won't be any misunderstanding." ”

Her mother's questioning made Katie furious, and she replied tremblingly, "No." ”

"Don't hold it in your heart if there's anything you have been like since you were a child, say it and see what we can do for you. "Mothers are very sensitive to changes in their children, and they will not be untargeted," is it related to your Asian boss? ”

Katie shook her head, realizing that her lies had been exposed, and the first thing she did was not to tell her parents about the challenge in London;

Seeing that her daughter was determined not to speak, and naturally could not ask anything to say, Mrs. Whitehouse had no choice but to give up her entanglement in this question.

"I'm going to Yanjing the day after tomorrow. Katie told her mother about her trip, and her expression was a little gloomy, "With my boss." ”

Under the hint of his wife's eyes, Mr. Whitehouse held back the question he needed to ask, and then the family turned the conversation to the preparations for the long flight.

After Katie leaves, the Whitehouses talk about Katie's unnatural behavior in talking about her Asian boss.

"I always feel that Katie is being threatened by her boss, and looking at her expression, it is very similar to the characteristics of being held hostage. The former warden concluded, "It's like Katie is crying out for help." ”