Iris blinked, not recognizing the woman who spoke to her, nor the other two women accompanying her.
Meimei stepped out from behind Iris and exclaimed, "Long Jinjing! It's me, Yang Mei!"
"Oh, Yang Mei. You're here, too?"
After hearing the woman's name, the original Iris' memories flooded her mind. Only then did Iris recognize the woman to be Long Jinjing. She was Long Tengfei's illegitimate daughter with a former mistress. Meaning, she was Iris Long's older half-sister.
She didn't recognize her right away because for some reason, there was a bit of a repelling force surrounding the original Iris' memories about Long Jinjing. Then she understood why.
“We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.”
― Rick Warren, 'The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?'
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