The Wife Is A Superstar 4

Chapter 699 - Hypocrite

Dragon Palace Home #10.

Later that night, Jennie sat on the chaise longue in the bedroom with her arms crossed over her chest and a stern expression on her face, waiting for Lisa's full explanation. He stood by the bed, his tall stature giving the illusion that the huge bed was smaller than it actually was.

There was only the two of them in the room. Louis was told to stay away because Mommy and Daddy had something important to talk about.

Lisa originally wanted to sit beside his baby girl but she told him to keep a distance because she didn't want him distracting him from their important talk with his kisses and hugs. It seemed that she had already seen through his plans. He was wearing a black satin sleeping robe with nothing underneath. The robe was open on top, revealing his muscled chest for his baby girl to see. Her eyes flashed with unmistakable desire but unfortunately, it only lasted for a few seconds before she moved her eyesight upwards, not straying to anything below his neck.

"It's almost midnight now, Lisa. You and I are both tired. Hurry up and explain," she told him.

Sighing at his failed attempt at distracting her through seduction, he nodded and sat down on the bed before explaining. He didn't notice that he went into professional businessman mode as he presented Jennie various advantages of allowing Louis to run his own business.

Long story short, the main point was to give the cat AI a productive outlet for his boundless energy, curiosity, impulsiveness and desire to learn more.

"I only gave Louis 8,000 to force him to start small. This way, it would be easier for us to monitor what he can and can't do when running whatever business he wants to start," he told his baby girl. "I spend a lot of time with him every day while he assists me at work, so I notice a lot of things about him. Love, Louis is growing at a fast rate. But it's not only his abilities that are growing quickly. He's also developing more and more human-like characteristics that I'm often left dumbfounded. I'm sure you've noticed it, too."

A furrow formed between Jennie's brows but she still nodded. Indeed, she had already long noticed it, especially since she performed regular checks on Louis' system. After removing the corrupted part which made Louis lose control during the bomb incident back then, Jennie was sure that the cat AI's system was running smoothly and there was nothing wrong with it. As for the reason why Louis was developing more and more human-like characteristics, Jennie also felt dumbfounded like Lisa, and of course, proud because she was the one who created the cat AI. There were still many things that Jennie needed to study and observe regarding Louis and his extremely powerful self-learning function despite being the cat AI's creator.

"Louis has become more obedient after you fixed him, but we can't grow lax just because of that," Lisa continued saying. "I'm afraid that with his increasingly human-like characteristics, he'll one day rebel if we try restricting his freedom too much. Even if he doesn't rebel, he might start developing feelings of resentment against us. And if that happens, who knows what
he'll end up doing in the future?"

Jennie froze when she heard his words. Her eyes and hands trembled but Lisa didn't notice.

"I know that Louis' existence is very special and we need to keep him a secret because it's too dangerous, not only for him but for all of us as well. But love, Louis isn't just an AI. He's our child! I don't know how you did it, but I really do feel like he's...real. He's my son and I'm his father. And as a parent, I don't feel comfortable caging my child forever and ignoring his aspirations. Unless we shut him down completely, which I'll never want to do because it'll feel like we're killing our own child, we can no longer stop him from developing his own aspirations. All we can do is guide him into the right path so he won't be in any trouble or danger."

That did it.

Jennie burst into tears, shocking Lisa. She bit her lower lip hard to try to stop herself from sobbing out loud.

"What happened? What's wrong?" Lisa hurried towards her and pulled her into his arms. He wiped her tears but they wouldn't stop flowing, making him panic a little. "Don't cry."

She grabbed the lapels of his robe and cried on his chest. Lisa heard her say something but couldn't hear it clearly.

"What did you say, love?"

"I'm...I'm a...hypo...crite."

"A what?"

She lifted her head and looked at him. "Lisa, I'm a hypocrite."

"No, you're not. What are you talking about?"

He didn't understand why she was acting like this, making him feel confused and also worried because she still wouldn't stop crying. Did he say something that made her cry?

"Tell me what's wrong, love," he encouraged her but she shook her head. He could only sigh and continue comforting her in his arms.

Inside Jennie's mind, images of her past life as Maria began flashing. This was the first time in a long while that she remembered her past life's memories so vividly, as if they only happened yesterday.

Her father always used to tell her, "I know that you resent us because we're not allowing you to do many things that you want to do. But I can't stress this enough, my princess. The world outside is an extremely dangerous place for us Vetrovs, especially for you, my daughter. We're only doing this to protect you, my dear Maria, so be a good girl and stay inside the estate."

Hearing Lisa talk about not wanting to restrict Louis' freedom and block his aspirations felt like a brutal arrow was shot and pierced Jennie's heart.

She wanted to protect Louis from danger but wasn't that also the exact reason why the Vetrovs caged her in her past life?