Chapter 1088: Theory of the Remnants (1/2)
Indeed, Jin Liwei didn't bother haggling prices with Amanpio Kileksky. The inventor blurted an exorbitant amount as his fee but Jin Liwei didn't even blink before agreeing right away.
”I'm paying you this much so make sure that the product is of the highest quality,” he said to the inventor.
”Of course! What I'm planning to make Xiulan is a one-of-a-kind product that exceeds the effectiveness of anything available on the market right now.”
After the satisfying deal with Amanpio Kileksky over the phone, Jin Liwei's mood felt much better. He resumed reading the pregnancy books while Ketchup went to gossip with her Uncle Dom. There was finally some peace and quiet. He loved his AI daughter but the kid could be too chatty most of the time. [Read official chapters on W e b n o v e l (dot) com. Please stop supporting piracy. Also follow author on Instagram: @arriacross]
While reading the books, his pregnant wife was always at the forefront of his mind. He learned a lot about pregnancy and became even more amazed at women's ability to grow new human beings inside them and give birth. As a husband and would-be father to their first human babies, he needed to step it up so his wife would never feel alone in her pregnancy journey to the birth stage and of course when raising their children.
There was something that had been bothering him ever since his wife started showing pregnancy symptoms. Although he and the others including the doctor attributed it to the common extreme mood swings of pregnant women, Jin Liwei sometimes felt that his wife would turn into a completely different person that he didn't recognize.
He took a break from reading and leaned back on the couch while staring at the slightly ajar door of their bedroom.
Based on what he remembered about his wife's personality when he first met her in person and started pursuing her shortly afterwards, she was mostly a calm and unflappable person. Her innocence was also very endearing. It still was even today. She was completely different from the Long Xiulan that he heard from the tabloids and the reports from his private investigators.
Now he knew that she was no longer Long Xiulan, a.k.a. Iris Long, but a reborn soul occupying the original's body instead. She was Evelina. His beautiful wife, Evelina.
During the course of their relationship, he noticed how she had become much more expressive in her emotions. There was a brief period where her emotions became extreme like they were now. It was after they made up and returned home from Europe.
”It was the remnant,” he murmured.
The little clues that he hadn't paid much attention back then now seemed significant in understanding what was happening to his wife. All the pieces were gradually falling into place and he could finally understand more of the bigger picture. Not everything but definitely more than he understood in the past.
From what he knew of his wife's innate character and from his brother-in-law's infrequent stories about the siblings' past lives, Evelina was indeed a very calm person. She was a Vetrov after all. Although she refused to become directly involved in the family organization, she was still forced to undergo the basic training that all the Vetrovs and their subordinates had to go through.
”Even if a war were to break out in front of her, I always believed that Evelinka would be able to maintain most of her composure without breaking down,” Jin Liwei remembered his brother-in-law telling him one time.