"What did you want to tell me that you waited until you’re sure nobody else will be listening in on us?" Iris asked her brother after Ketchup left to gossip with her Uncle Dom somewhere in the mansion.
Lu Zihao splayed his long arm over the back of the couch he was sitting on while his other arm lay loosely to his side, the fingers on that hand tapping rhythmically on his thigh. His entire posture looked relaxed yet his gaze remained heavy and indecipherable on her.
She waited for him to speak, no longer feeling as nervous as before. Since he hadn’t turned violent or started beating up Jin Liwei yet, then she would just take that as a good sign that perhaps her brother might just accept the current situation without giving her too much grief.
"Do you still remember what I told you before?" he asked in Russian, finally speaking after a long silence.
She tilted her head to the side and also spoke in Russian. "Which one?"
"The one about marriage and pregnancy."
"Yes, I remember," she said, sighing.
"And? Did you listen? No, you didn’t. Because if you did, then you would’ve married first before letting a man impregnate you. Marriage first before pregnancy. I drilled that to you so many times, and yet look at you now." His tone was cold and flat.
It was obvious that he was trying to intimidate her. And she would’ve felt intimidated if they spoke about this earlier at the height of her apprehension. But after stuffing her stomach with delicious food and feeling reassured by Jin Liwei, her nervousness regarding her brother was being replaced by the urge to relax and take a nap instead.
She knew what her brother was like, how dominant and protective he was of her, and how scary he could be even to her. Right now, however, she was beginning to feel irritated at him. [This novel is a contracted work with W e b n o v e l . c o m (remove spaces). If you’re not reading this chapter on W e b n o v e l, it has been stolen. It’s very discouraging to see thieves profitting from my hard work. Please read this novel on W e b n o v e l. Thank you! -Arria Cross]
He continued to lecture her. "You assured me before that you’re always taking proper contraceptive measures, that he’s protecting you all the time even when you yourself become careless and forget. What happened then? Why are you suddenly pregnant?"
"Pregnancy occurs when a man and woman have intercourse and the man’s sperm cells fertilize the woman’s egg cell—"
"Don’t give me that attitude, young lady," he warned.
"Don’t treat me like a child!" Iris retorted, keeping the volume of her voice low to prevent Jin Liwei who was still inside the bedroom from hearing them. "You’re still calling me ’young lady’? I’m a grown woman, Big Brother! This body might be young but you need to remember my real age. And you should remember yours as well. What Fifth Brother? Liwei and the others should be calling you ’Uncle’ instead."
In a voice devoid of any emotion, she continued the sentence she cut off earlier. "There’s a gap at the time of our deaths and the time we were reborn into these new bodies." ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com
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