His Genius Wife Is A Superstar novel Chapter 414

Chapter 414 - Look A Little Like You

"Yes, Madam. I am indeed Jin Liwei of Jin Corporation," Jin Liwei confirmed in a calm tone. "And I’m going to marry your daughter."

Iris tightened her arm around his waist while focusing all of her attention on observing Wei Lan’s reaction.

Wei Lan blanked out for a few moments, as she stared at Jin Liwei and Iris together. Her brain couldn’t seem to immediately process the idea that her daughter was engaged to the most powerful man in the country’s business world of his generation. Although younger, Jin Liweiwas certainly wealthier, more powerful and influential than her ex-husband, Long Tengfei.

But this was Wei Lan. Her opportunistic nature allowed her to recover her senses fairly quickly. After the initial shock and disbelief, pride and elation immediately filled her.

Her daughter was really her child! She already knew that her daughter would be able to marry well because Iris inherited her beauty. However, even Wei Lan never expected that her daughter would marry the most eligible bachelor in the country. Her daughter had done extremely well—even better than Wei Lan herself—in choosing the best husband.

A glint of avarice flashed in Wei Lan’s eyes.

Then a peculiar thing happened.

Realizing the direction of her thoughts, Wei Lan visibly paused and even faintly shook her head, as if forcing the avarice out of her.

Afterwards, Wei Lan expressed her excitement at learning that the two were engaged. She congratulated them and gushed about such a perfect match. Everything that came out of her mouth were all very nice and warm words. Although her voice was still annoying, she didn’t seem like she was faking her well wishes to the couple. If she was acting, then she was an excellent actress—better than Iris, at least.

Iris, who had been closely observing Wei Lan, saw all the changes in her expression. She caught the earlier glint of avarice in the woman’s eyes before it either disappeared or was covered up. Iris felt extremely curious and confused at this new Wei Lan.

However, Iris remained vigilant. Perhaps Wei Lan was just presenting a good impression to Jin Liwei because they were meeting for the first time. Iris was expecting that Wei Lan would revert to her usual self and start requesting some mother-in-law perks from Jin Liwei, like borrowing his yacht or private plane, for example.

Inside Iris, there was a mixture of different emotions.

There was a longing for Wei Lan to become the mother figure that she craved, especially this nice Wei Lan. At the same time, there was also apprehension that this good change wouldn’t last, that Wei Lan would continue being the opportunistic woman that she was, even to her own daughter.

And finally, there was indifference. It was an almost dismissive attitude towards the woman whom Iris didn’t really have much of a relationship with, except for the occasional communication whenever Wei Lan had the whim to contact her daughter.

Even to the original Iris, Wei Lan wasn’t much of a mother. Now that the current Iris was a different soul, the blood connection didn’t really apply to them anymore. The current Iris was just being respectful to the previous’ Iris’ parent-child connection with Wei Lan, just like how she handled her relationship with Long Tengfei after waking up in this new body.

All of these different emotions were a result of the remnant fusing with her. The fusion had greatly slowed down lately but it had already reached around 90% completion. Despite this, 90% was already enough to completely change Iris’ overall personality.

She had become a bit more emotional and empathetic and also much better at reading other people. Her range of emotions definitely widened, but she attributed this as the effect of falling in love with Jin Liwei and having the freedom to experience new things. Even now, she had no idea that the remnant was permanently changing her from deep inside.

But because the remnant opted for a fusion instead of an aggressive takeover, she still retained her original calm and logical personality as Evelina. It was just not as extreme as before. At least, she didn’t act like a cold robot anymore.

These two conflicting personalities were balancing each other out. They were melding into one personality, instead of remaining as two separate ones. However, there was still the remaining 10% that hadn’t fused yet.

Back to the present,Iris requested for Wei Lan not to divulge the truth to anyone else.

"Mother, we’re keeping our relationship a secret for now. We want to be the ones to announce it to the public."

"Don’t worry, honey. Mother understands. My mouth is zipped," Wei Lan promised.

Despite this, Iris was already anticipating that a leak would somehow occur because Wei Lan was a known gossip. She was already mentally making other contingency plans if Wei Lan couldn’t keep her mouth zipped like she promised. Iris wanted the official announcement to be special, but if others discovered the truth before that, then she would just announce it earlier than she planned.

After the future in-laws met, Iris introduced the rest of the group next.