Chapter 1509 Miracle of a Caged Bird Rising Like a Phoenix

Chapter 1509 Miracle of a Caged Bird Rising Like a Phoenix

Iris had no time to overthink the French magnate's overly generous apology gifts because Ashandra Knightson called and informed her that she had arrived in Paris.

Iris was happy to see her friend again, so she invited the genius artist to her family's Parisian residence.

Ashandra arrived by dinner time. The two friends greeted each other with a tight hug.

"Thank you for coming!" Iris said.

"Anything for you, Xiulan," Ashandra replied. "The others would have come here as well but they're too busy."

"That's okay. I'm already happy that you came." Iris pulled her inside the house. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Ashandra greeted Jin Liwei, Dom, and of course, the adorable twins.

"Ah, Mochi and Matcha!" Ashandra hugged the twins and refused to put them down.

The twins were familiar with the gorgeous foreign woman. Although they couldn't remember the last time that they met the foreign woman in person, they were familiar with their Auntie Asha because their mother would sometimes video call her.

Little Mochi was especially drawn to Ashandra's beautiful face. He couldn't stop looking at her.

"Asha, yah!" Little Mochi said while tapping her face.

Ashandra's big beautiful eyes crinkled with joy. "Yes! I'm your Auntie Asha." Then she looked at Little Matcha.

The other baby hid his face on her neck but peeked at her shyly. Even the usually indifferent Little Matcha couldn't resist Ashandra Knightson's piercing beauty.

Iris and Dom laughed at the twins' reactions.

Jin Liwei's expression didn't change much, but his gaze was soft when he looked at his sons. Unlike most other men, he wasn't affected by Ashandra Knightson's beauty at all.

"You have a beautiful family, Xiulan," Ashandra commented with a sigh.

"Yes, I do." Iris' smile shone under the moonlight.

"I feel a bit envious," Ashandra confessed.

Iris glanced at her.

Ashandra sighed again. "You know that I married very young at nineteen but I still ended up divorcing that son of a b*tch because he was—no, I hear that he's still a serial womanizer and a total gaslighter. Even now, I still have complicated feelings about my ex. Maybe that's why I still fail to have long-term romantic relationships until now."

Iris settled into a more comfortable position on her seat. She didn't say anything and continued listening to her friend.

Ashandra continued, "We are proud Cross Academy students, certified geniuses. We can reach the top of the world just with our status as Cross Academy students alone. But what's the use of extremely high IQ if we're all alone in the world? That's how I feel sometimes, Xiulan. No, I feel like that more often these days. Perhaps because I see you and our other friends building your own beautiful families—well, except for Florence, she's too busy travelling and making the world a better place with her sustainable inventions—but you know what I mean."

"I know what you mean," Iris whispered and thought about her past life as Evelina Vetrova.

What she experienced in her past life should be worse than what Ashandra Knightson was feeling right now. At least, Ashandra was free to do whatever she wanted to do, go wherever she wanted to go, and decide how to live her life on her own terms.

Evelina Vetrova didn't have that right at all.

She was a caged bird dying little by little each day.

Then she died.

But unexpectedly, a miracle occurred.

She was reborn into a different body.

Now she felt like a phoenix that had risen from the ashes.

This life of hers as Iris Long was something that she would never trade for anything in the world, especially the beautiful family she built with Jin Liwei.