Chapter 1553 Most Beautiful Family
Chapter 1553 Most Beautiful Family
"What do you mean by that?!" Jin Chonglin demanded.
Lin Dong shrugged, not at all apologetic about what he said. "I'm just saying, have you seen a more beautiful family than Iris and CEO Jin's family? Just look at CFO Long Jinjing and Mr. Lu Zihao's family. Sure, CFO Long's twin babies are both chubby and adorable, but Mr. Lu Zihao is just too scary. Handsome, yes, but still too scary. Just a look from him and my knees are already trembling. With him in the picture, their family isn't exactly what you'd describe as the 'most beautiful', don't you think so, too? Impressive, yes. But 'beautiful'? Not really. At least, that's what I think."
Jin Chonglin curled his lip at his manager. "Wait until I tell Brother Zihao that you said that about his family. See how he sorts you out. Hmph!"
Lin Dong immediately panicked. "Hey now, Chonglin. Let's not push each other under the bus. Have you seen Mr. Lu's muscles? He could crush my skull using his bare hands!"
Just imagining it was enough to make Lin Dong almost pee his pants.
"That's what you get for talking about someone else's family behind their back. Hmph!" Jin Chonglin crossed his arms over his chest, enjoying the look of panic on his manager's face.
"I'm just kidding!" Lin Dong said in a hurry. "Don't tattle on Mr. Lu about me, okay? I didn't mean that about his family. I'm just saying that in my opinion, there isn't any family that is more beautiful than your older brother and Iris' family. Even you can see it with your own eyes. Little Mochi and Little Matcha inherited their parents' best features. Little Matcha looks like a carbon copy of your older brother while Little Mochi resembles Iris more."
"In some angles, Little Mochi looks like me!" Jin Chonglin couldn't help but brag. Pride filled his eyes. "Especially when he smiles! The baby is also a little star and loves performing in front of other people just like me, his Uncle Lin Lin! Like uncle, like nephew!"
Lin Dong just let Jin Chonglin delude himself into thinking this way. It seemed that Jin Chonglin had already forgotten that there were two celebrities in the family—himself and Iris Long.
Why couldn't Little Mochi inherit it from his own mother instead of his uncle?
Lin Dong shook his head, feeling helpless about his artist. Jin Chonglin could really get too absorbed with his own self-importance. Lin Dong must admit, though, that Little Mochi really did resemble his Uncle Lin Lin in some specific angles.
Jin Chonglin became too excited talking about Little Mochi inheriting this or that from him that Lin Dong had to restrain himself hard not to roll his eyes. Part of being a manager was fuelling his artist's confidence after all.
Finally, the man shut up. Maybe he had run out of things to justify his delusions.
He returned to acting like a petulant child, though, and continued their earlier topic about himself and Chen Fei. "I don't care! When my wife and I have our own baby, it will definitely be cuter than my big bro's kids! My family is going to be more beautiful than my big bro's! I'll work hard to make it happen. Hmph!"
'How do you work hard for something like that?' Lin Dong wondered.
He didn't say it out loud, though. He already had enough of listening to his artist's tantrums.
"Yes, yes. Of course, Second Master Jin. You're always right." Lin Dong had no choice but to humour the man. If he didn't, Jin Chonglin would surely throw another tantrum.
Fortunately this time, Jin Chonglin didn't continue yapping his mouth. He picked up the headphones that he had tossed earlier and put it on. In no time, his head began bobbing to the beat of the music he was listening to through his headphones.
Lin Dong sighed in relief.
The vehicle drove until they reached the private airport where one of Jin Liwei's private jets was already waiting for them.
There was also another vehicle following theirs with Jin Chonglin's small entourage who came with him to France. Their presence was almost invisible but this was also one of the reasons why they were the best.
Later, the private jet took off.
Jin Chonglin watched the blue sky and the clouds brushing against the aircraft.
There was an uncomfortable stuffiness in his chest.
Dammit.
He missed Chen Fei already.
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The next morning, Iris and Jin Liwei along with Dom prepared to take the twins for a family trip.
"Are you sure that you don't want to come with us?" Iris asked.
Chen Fei shook her head. "I want to stay here in Paris and observe how Clover runs Liberté. This is a new market, completely different from what we're used to in our home country, so I want to learn more about it. Orchidia is launching our new international bases soon. Although I won't personally run the international bases, as the COO of the headquarters, I still need to stay on top of things to make the correct decisions for the best of our entire company."
Iris smiled. She loved how dedicated Chen Fei and Long Jinjing were when it came to running Orchidia. It wasn't a stretch to say that Orchidia was their baby together.
It was just that she and Long Jinjing had to balance work with raising their families. Chen Fei was still unmarried and childless, so she had more time and energy to dedicate to the company.
Iris didn't want try to persuade Chen Fei to come to their family trip anymore. Chen Fei looked excited learning new things at Liberté.
"Okay, got it," Iris said. "If you need anything, just tell the staff here. Clover will also help you. We'll be back here in Paris soon and we'll fly to Germany together."
"Don't worry about me, Xiulan. Just enjoy your family trip." Then Chen Fei remembered something. "How about Grandpa Lu? Is he coming with you?"
Iris sighed. "We invited him, too, but he declined to come. He said that he still wants to meet up with some of his other old friends who he hasn't seen in years. I guess he just wants to relax on his own without the babies for a while. Grandpa Lu hasn't been on a real vacation since the Jin and Lu twins were born. He's an awesome great-grandfather to the babies but he also needs to enjoy his retirement on his own terms."
Everyone chuckled.
"The Jin and Lu twins are mostly good, well-behaved babies, but I agree that it can sometimes be too much even for a baby-loving and baby-doting great-grandparent like Grandpa Lu," Chen Fei said. "One baby is already more than enough to handle but you sisters just had to have twins one after the other."
Everyone laughed.
Chen Fei looked at Jin Liwei. "Your younger brother keeps on asking me to give birth to a baby for him. He even dreams of having twins just like you and Brother Zihao, but thank goodness that the genes for twins are with Xiulan and Jinjing, and have nothing to do with Chonglin. My gosh, just imagining myself giving birth to twins already makes me feel exhausted. Add Chonglin to the equation and I'll probably go crazy."
Iris just smiled. She didn't correct everyone's assumption that the genes for twins came from the Long family. As far as she knew, there had never been any twins in the Long family throughout the centuries of their long history. This was the first time.
She was 99.99% certain that it came from the Vetrov genes. She wasn't sure how it could happen, scientifically speaking, but after she and her big brother had been reborn into different bodies after their deaths, everything should be possible at this point.
Actually, the genes for twins didn't come directly from the Vetrovs either. It came from their mother who married their Vetrov father. Iris—no, Evelina's maternal side of the family had plenty of twins.
It was a miracle that although it was her and her big brother's souls that got reborn into completely new bodies, the genes for twins still managed to survive and even already produced results.
Iris gave birth to twins first. Then her big brother also impregnated Long Jinjing, causing her to give birth to twins as well.
It was just that nobody except them and Jin Liwei knew about it. Even Long Jinjing wasn't aware of it.
The three of them didn't dare to correct other people's assumption that it was because Iris and Long Jinjing were sisters that they shared the genes for twins. Even Long Tengfei had always been proud that both his daughters gave birth to twins one after another.
Back to the present, Chen Fei said goodbye to the family plus Dom.
"Bye, Sis Fei!" Dom waved at her.
"Don't forget to buy me lots of souvenirs," Chen Fei said.
"Give me money to buy."
She rolled her eyes. "Never mind!"
Dom laughed. "Just kidding. I'll buy you lots of souvenirs, so you must help me keep an eye on handsome French boys here in Paris. I need some new chat mates."
Chen Fei raised her hand, showing off her huge diamond ring, before folding her other fingers and only leaving the middle one. "You're asking me, the recently engaged woman, to help you look for handsome French boys? Are you insane, Dominic Chua? If the paparazzi take photos of me talking to handsome French boys, Chonglin will go crazy and be annoying again!"