HIS GENIUS WIFE IS A SUPERSTAR

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Chapter 771 - Consequences

"No!" Iris cried. "Please don't leave. I'll talk! Just don't leave me alone tonight."

Jin Liwei stopped and sighed once again. "As much as I want to know the big secret that you share with Lu Zihao, I don't want to force you if you don't want to tell me. And it's clear to me that you're second-guessing yourself on whether to talk or not."

She opened her mouth but he raised a hand to stop her from speaking. "Let me finish."

Her mouth closed and she nodded.

He ran his fingers through his damp hair. "I feel terrible that I'm upsetting you by wanting to know about the secret, whatever it is. You know that if I could, I would never want to upset you, especially right now that you're pregnant. But baby..." His jaw tightened and his nostrils flared as he tried controlling his temper. "Baby, I'm upset too!"

She hugged herself as she fought another wave of tears from falling down her reddened eyes. She wanted to run to him and throw herself in his arms but she tamped down on the urge. What if he rejected her again?

"I'm not forcing you to tell me all your secrets," he said. "That's not my intention at all. If there's something that you don't want to tell me, I can respect that. It won't diminish my love and loyalty to you. It's just that this particular secret that you and Lu Zihao have is bothering me so much that I want to punch another set of furniture just to ease my frustration. He provoked me with it earlier and now you're reacting so extremely like this as if something bad is going to happen if you tell me. How do you expect me to feel with the two of you doing this to me?"

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"I never want to doubt you. I love you so much. But right now, I can't help but feel suspicious. You share what seems like a big secret with another man who is—was a close sworn brother of mine. Tell me. If our situations were reversed, would you feel comfortable with that? Would you be happy if I share a big secret with another woman and I don't want to tell you?"

Without even thinking, she automatically replied, "Of course not!"

He threw her a hard look full of meaning. There was no need for him to say it out loud. She knew what he meant by that single look. It worsened her guilt as if it was a live creature gnawing at her insides and making her want to vomit.

She closed her eyes and focused on taking deep breaths to regain as much clarity in her mind as possible because she was now feeling lightheaded from all the turbulent emotions.

To be honest, she still felt undecided whether to tell Jin Liwei the truth or not. She really wanted to tell him, especially right now that they reached this boiling point and both of them were hurting because of her not telling him.

There was just so much riding on this. It wasn't just about the danger associated in revealing her past identity as a Vetrov. It was also about the consequences of revealing that the former Long Xiulan and Lu Zihao had been long dead, that they were no longer their original selves but were now completely different people .

It might not affect Jin Liwei that much if she revealed that she wasn't the real Long Xiulan because he really didn't know or cared about that person anyway. In fact, he looked down on the original Long Xiulan, a.k.a. Iris Long, because he thought that she was a shameless girl chasing after his younger brother, Jin Chonglin, and bent on destroying his brother's relationship with his then fiancée, Fan Luo.