The Wife Is A Superstar 7

Chapter 1348 - Nikolai VS. Maria (Part II)

"Whoa!" Lisa appeared all of a sudden and placed himself between the siblings. He blocked Jiyong with a hand and protected his wife behind him. "Easy there. There's no need to shout at your sister."

Jiyong snarled at him. "Don't poke your nosy ass here. This conversation is between me and my sister. Get out of the way!"

Lisa didn't allow himself to be intimidated. He looked at his brother-in-law straight in the eyes. "Your sister is my wife. So no, I'm not getting out of your way unless you stop shouting at my wife."

"You motherfucking—"

"Big Brother, that's enough." Jennie pulled her husband away.

Sensing that the two men might fight each other, her stimulated emotions calmed down quickly. Her logical reasoning returned. She analyzed that it wouldn't benefit anyone if this argument continued.

Unfortunately, her brother remained in a triggered state. This was the first time that he looked at her with such fury as if he wanted to lop her head off from her neck.

"Don't you fucking tell me what to do, Maria," he growled. "Someone who has forgotten her true origins and refuse to acknowledge it has no right to lecture me on how I deal with my own past."

His words were like an arrow shot straight into her heart. It hurt. She actually had to clutch her chest from the pain. "Big Brother, that's not—"

"That's low, Nikolai," Lisa defended his wife.

"What low?" he sneered. "It's the fucking truth! Your wife's soul is a Vetrov! Don't delude yourself into thinking that she's Ruby Jane because she's not! Just like how I'm Nikolai Vetrov and not your fucking fifth brother!"

Lisa snapped. "You fucking asshole!"

"Lisa, no!" Jennie grabbed him by the waist and pulled her husband with all her might. "Stop it, please!"

It was a good thing that Lisa still had a sliver of his sanity remaining amidst his own anger. He immediately stopped when his wife told him to stop. His main priority was to protect his wife. Anything else was secondary, including teaching his brother-in-law a lesson which he wanted to do so badly especially right now that the man was being such a big jerk.

Jennie faced her brother while Lisa embraced her in a protective manner.

She told Jiyong, "It's true that I have been running away from my past, from our past as Vetrovs. But that's because I've never felt so alive than I am right now as Ruby Jane. I was a walking dead as Maria Vetrova, Big Brother. I thought you knew that. I thought you understood me. But how could you really understand what I felt? You were the heir, the one Mother and Father had been grooming to lead the organization in the next generation, while I was the worthless daughter. You know what? You're right. I hold no bonds whatsoever with the past.

"You want to know the truth? I was actually glad to die that night. I thought that I was going to be free at last from the life that I believed was a suffocating cage for me. I thought that there was nothing after death and I accepted that. Then I woke up as Ruby Jane. Do you know how happy, how ecstatic, how thrilled I felt? This new life is a new beginning for me. I love it! You may not like to hear this but I love my life now as Ruby Jane more than my life as Maria Vetrova.

"You may think that I'm a traitor, and in a way, maybe I am. Yes, I'm selfish and only think about my own happiness. But am I wrong to want to be happy? Am I wrong to chase after my passions and dreams now that I'm free to do so? Am I wrong to build a wonderful family with my husband and our children? Big Brother, tell me, am I wrong? In your eyes, am I really wrong?!"

Jiyong's expression was unreadable but his eyes revealed the chaotic tempest of his emotions.

Jennie closed her eyes. When she opened them again, there was only calmness fortified with resolution in them. "Just as you dislike me lecturing you about how you handle your past, then I also dislike you lecturing me about how I handle my own past."