The Wife Is a Superstar 2

Chapter 210 - Face The Phantoms

Everyone started crowding around Jennie. Lisa cradled her in his arms, repeatedly calling her name. Although her eyes were closed, she still appeared conscious. They could hear her soft whimpers. However, she was totally unresponsive to them.

"Third Brother, calm down. Lay her down on the couch," Haruto instructed.

Lisa immediately obeyed.

"All of you, don't crowd too close. Let her breathe."

Haruto began instructing everyone on what to do.

Jennie began mumbling something. They thought she was just speaking incoherently due to her condition. Nobody understood her except for Jiyong who was standing near. She was actually mumbling in Russian.

Jiyong's eyes darkened hearing her words.

Jackson finally returned with the medical bag. Haruto immediately went to work, taking out his medical instruments to examine Jennie. First, he took out scissors and moved to cut Jennie' shirt open.

Lisa looked enraged and was about to snatch the scissors but Haruto calmly explained, "She needs to breathe."

Jennie was wearing a long-sleeved body-hugging turtleneck shirt. It wasn't too tight but in her current condition, it was definitely restricting her breathing. Haruto cut the shirt open, including the bridge of her bra. It exposed her upper body, but the cups of her bra still covered her breasts.

"Don't look!" Lisa barked at everyone. He could tolerate Haruto because he was a professional doctor but not the others.

Mingyu, Jackson and the servants quickly looked away. Jiyong, however, continued to look. His eyes looked unfathomable. Fortunately, Lisa was too preoccupied with Jennie to notice.

"Second Brother, will Jennie be okay?" he asked. His distress was clear in his voice.

Haruto didn't respond, concentrating on checking her blood pressure.

"She'll be fine," Jiyong suddenly said. "She needs to go through this. This is necessary or she won't be able to move forward."

Lisa glared at him.

'What's he talking about?' everyone thought. However, nobody asked Jiyong to clarify what he meant. They were all too concerned about Jennie to bother with him. They waited anxiously for Haruto's verdict.

"Her vitals are too low for my liking," Haruto finally said. "I don't think she's in any danger but I want her in the hospital to find out what's really happening to her. Let's go to my hospital. It's nearer here than the hospital Jennie usually goes to. I'll contact Dr. Ching to let him know what happened to his patient. We're acquaintances."

Jackson ran out to prepare the car. Haruto rearranged his instruments back into his medical bag, continuing to instruct everyone on what to do. Lisa covered Jennie with a thick blanket provided by a maid and then carried her out to the car. Jiyong moved to follow them.

"Stay here with me, Fifth Brother," Mingyu stopped him. "Second Brother is with them. He's a doctor. Jennie is in good hands."

"I'm going with them."

"Fifth Brother, your health isn't the best. You'll just get tired and stress yourself out if you go with them. Just stay here and rest."

"No, I'll go." Jiyong's tone was final. His usual easygoing self was nowhere to be seen. There was intensity in his expression that silently dared anyone to go against him.

Mingyu felt intimidated. He could only watch as his Fifth Brother followed the others outside into the waiting car.

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Within the world of endless white mist, she sat frozen on the ground. Her eyes were wide in fear staring at the huge mirror in front of her. Behind her was nothing but endless whiteness, yet the reflection on the mirror showed the Vetrov estate during its final moments before their annihilation.

She wanted to run away but it was as if she was rooted in place, forced to watch the nightmare all over again. She closed her eyes, refusing to look any further.

"Why are you closing your eyes?" a beautiful voice asked.

Her eyes snapped open. The reflection on the mirror showed a woman in a white dress standing behind her. The woman's golden hair and emerald eyes were very familiar to her.

The image of past self, Maria, gracefully knelt down and embraced her from behind. She rested her chin over her shoulder and pressed their cheeks together. Their reflections on the mirror showed two very different yet equally beautiful women.

One was her face from her past life while the other one was the face of Jennie, her current self. Though at the moment, Jennie's face looked pale and horrified.

There was actually nobody behind her. Everything was only in the reflection. However, she could feel the phantom embrace of her past self even if nobody was there.

"Even if you close your eyes, your past will still be there. It will never disappear. Our past will always exist," Maria whispered.

"I am...Jennie now," she managed to croak.

"Yes. But you are also Maria."

The mirror started to waver and tremble. The images on the reflection started to seep out of the mirror over to her side.

"No!"

She wanted to run away but Maria held her tightly, locking her in place.

"You can't run away from your past. And you definitely can't run away from yourself. Aren't you happy? Big Brother Nikolai is back."

She sobbed. Of course she was happy. She loved her big brother very much. However, she was also afraid. She wanted to start a new life as Jennie, and that was what she had been doing ever since waking up in her new body. But now her Big Brother Nikolai turned out to be Jiyong, a very close person to her lover Lisa. His existence alone was a strong connection to her past life.

"Why are you crying? Your big brother and lover are both with you. You are all together. Isn't it wonderful? You have the best of both worlds. You should be happy."

Best of both worlds? Past and present?

"No!" She didn't want it. She wanted the past to stay in the past and not interfere with her present. She didn't want to be caged again.

Maria's expression instantly turned cold. Her embrace also tightened until she gasped in pain.

"Just because you're Jennie now doesn't mean that you were born as her. Don't forget who you are. You're Maria Armanovna Vetrova living inside Jennie's body. You can try running away from your past, but you can never escape from who you are."

"I..."

"Why are you still afraid? So what if your past is intersecting with your present? You are not what happened to you. You are what you choose to become. You can never be free if you keep running away and being afraid. You can only be free if you accept your past and use it to live your present and create the future that you always dreamed of."

Jennie conversed with her own phantom in this dream-like state. This place had no concept of time. She didn't know how long she had been in this world of endless white mist. All she knew was that she needed to face the phantoms of her past before she could leave this place.

The fear within her didn't disappear. It was still there, but she realized that as time passed, it didn't overwhelm her as much as before. She began to accept that her past life would always be a part of her. It was futile trying to run away from it.

While all of these were happening within herself, she had no idea that everyone was in a panic because of her.

By the time she was admitted to the hospital where Haruto worked, she already fell unconscious. An hour after being admitted, she began to suffer from high fever, alarming everyone. Despite this, she remained unconscious. Haruto and the other doctors managed to control her fever, but they still couldn't wake her up.

Later that night, Haruto pronounced Jennie as comatose once again.