Chapter 327 - 325: I'll Only Bow Down To You

"You're pregnant?" Mei also asked after she heard Celine.

Eunji immediately shook her head to prevent further misunderstanding later on.

"No! We're not expecting. It's still so early to have a child again. At the sane time, very risky and dangerous." Eunji said.

"Oh, I thought that's what you are going to say. I'm sorry." Celine immediately apologized.

"It's fine." She said and smiled gently..

"But first, let me give you a question that you should answer in the end." Eunji continued.

"And what is that question?" Mei asked.

"Are you going to change how you will treat me after you heard what I'm about to tell you?"

That was the question.

"Stop that! I don't like how this talk would lead us, Eunji." Angelina also said but Eunji stood firm to what she said.

"Okay. We will answer that later on. Don't worry." Grandma Sana reassured giving the hint for Eunji to start.

"Everyone, there's something that I have found out about me just recently." She continued making them to be more intrigued.

"What about you?" Layla naturally asked.

"Eomma, I'm not the original Eve."

She may had addressed this to Layla but everyone had the same confused reaction.

"What?!" Mei and Celine uttered.

"Eunji-chan, are you trying to prank us? It's not a good idea to do so. I think you're already drunk. Niichan, bring her to your room so she could rest." Celine added.

But then she stopped when she saw how serious Eunji's face was.

So she uttered, "No way! Are you serious?"

And Eunji nodded her head while bitting the inside of her lip.

Angelina also spoke, "Eunji, can you elaborate further?"

To explain herself Eunji decided to narrate what had happened during her stay in Beijing.

"Before I left Beijing, I had a confrontation with Anastasia."

"She's your twin sister, right?" Celine and Angelina asked in unison.

"Yeah." She answered faintly.

Eunji narrated to them what they talked about during the confrontation.

Her explanation brought more confusion to her listeners aside from Nathan. He already knew what they had talked about as she had already told this to him.

But still, Nathan could feel that Eunji was trying to be strong while narrating this to them.

Nathan knew that what she was about to tell them would greatly affect Layla whether she liked it or not.

So while Eunji was narrating, he was gently squeezing her hand with his and rubbing it gently with his thumb.

When Eunji saw Mei's reaction, Eunji felt sad.

"Eomma, I have planned to hide what had happened from you. I don't want you to be in pain. You have just gotten back after that accident eight years ago. But then I realize that the more I'll hide this, the more you'll get hurt when you knew about this from other people. But that's how our conversation ended."

Eunji could not explain what she felt deep inside. Her eyes were like burning as her hot tears were threatening to fall down.

She could feel a lump forming inside her throat.

But despite everything, Eunji held all of her emotions back.

"Is this what you're telling me that night before you went overseas?" Layla asked.

"Most of it. Yeah. I have a lot of questions in mind back then and you can't give me the answer I needed. Obviously because you were kept in the dark about this." Eunji softly said.

Then she looked up at Nathan then to everyone.

"I went to Switzerland to stand looking for answers and I found them on Appa's journal, Eomma."

"I have read that you had become a participant in (Nam Joon) Appa's research and it was (Min Joon) Abeoji who brought you in."

She didn't hide to Layla that she knew about this.

"Yes, but I did not continue with the experiment because I become sick and unfit to become surrogate. And that experiment was stopped long time ago." Layla explained herself.

"That's true. However, you and Abeoji approached Appa to help in getting pregnant."

Eunji gulped hard as she tried to not be emotional even if she could feel her nose already stinging.

"Appa did stop the experiment but he continued it to the fertilized egg that was implanted inside you." Eunji revealed and that really took Layla by surprise and was replaced by anger.

"What?!"

"But the babies formed were healthy. Not until you had an accident and had to deliver them prematurely." She said.

"One of the babies were also hurt intentionally by Abeoji's enemies. To the point that Appa had to take that baby to his lab to receive the treatment. And that baby was the original Eve, Eomma." Eunji gave herself an imaginary tap on the shoulder to console herself for not breaking up to this point.

"That baby died Eomma and Appa did something." She softly said because she was trying to lessen the impact of it.

But it only showed how painful that news even for her.

"What did Nam Joon do?!" Layla felt tensed all over her body as she could feel that she would be receiving something bad tonight.

Eunji gulped once again. The gentle squeeze on her hand gave her the courage to finally tell the truth.

"Appa made a clone from her and that clone is none other than me." Eunji finally revealed what exactly she was.

And this revelation really caught everyone speechless.

"This is the reason why I was younger than Ana. Not because I had stayed so long inside the treatment capsule. And also explained why Ana-unnie said that we're not sisters. Because I'm just a clone." She continued explaining while holding back herself to not show her tears. But she was already pouting, her nose were already hurting and her throat already had a big lump in it.

She could also feel her eyes stinging as the hot tears were making her eyes red.

Everyone was speechless including Nathan.

Layla on the other hand didn't know how to process this overwhelming piece of information that Eunji had told her.

She could feel her world spinning in front of her and she was trying to catch her breath.

"Eomma?" Eunji called but Layla didn't respond and then moments later, she passed out.

"Eomma!" Eunji cried in alarm and she immediately reached out to catch her head using her reflex.

She checked her mother's pulse and it was very faint.

"No! Please wake up, Eomma!" Eunji gently tapped Layla's face.

Eunji was pleading to Layla who had become unconscious.

Eunji knew she had to be calm especially in situations like this to have a better judgment and that's what she was trying to do. To not let her emotions overwhelmed her.

She gulped down the lump in her throat together with a sniff and pushed those tears back inside her tear ducts as she started responding to her mother.

Eunji loosened her mother's upper garment and even unhooked her mother's bra to promote better air ventilation and blood flow. She also elevated her a little.

She then checked her pulse again but it still remained the same.

Everyone were already panicking as they started calling for help. Angelina went out and called for Master Liu.

They were all caught off guard when Layla fell down and Eunji thankfully caught her.

Nathan asked them to give his wife and mother-in-law the space needed.

So Eunji decided to start compression.

She pumped her mother's chest and then checked on her pulse but there's no response.

"Eomma!" She called once again hoping to hear response from her mother. But it was still the same.

Nathan moved behind her to give support to his wife.

So Eunji had no other choice but to resort to another method that she knew.

Eunji felt Layla's pulse and she then cradled her mother in her arms.

Eunji then lifted her skirt exposing her thigh which had a black strap wrapped around it.

The strap had a pouch and Eunji opened it and took silver needles from it.

After she saw the acupoints that she needed to target in Layla's body, Eunji immediately poked those points with the needles.

She was so careful in what she was doing because her mom might die if she missed the point.

After inserting the three needles, she then checked Layla's pulse once again.

She heaved a sigh of relief when she felt her pulse getting stable.

But still Layla was still unconscious.

Master Liu also came to the scene and he immediately went to Eunji and Layla.

"What happened?" He asked.

"Syncope, Master." She calmly answered.

Master Liu also examined Layla's pulse and he heaved a sigh of relief when he found out that she was getting stable.

"You have done a good job here." He commended.

"You still have your charm." He added.

"Thank you, Master."

"Well, let's not wait for her to wake up here and bring her to her room." He suggested.

"Yes."

Eunji was willing to carry her mother but Master Liu told her to let one of her men to do the job.

But Nathan volunteered to do it instead.

Nathan carried Layla to her room with everyone following him.

Nathan gently placed her on the bed and the girls took over to help in changing Layla's clothes making Nathan to go out of the room for a while.

After tucking her mother to bed, Eunji checked on her mother's pulse again and she heaved a sigh of relief.

She then called Master Liu to check on her mother.

Nathan then went behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist as he hugged her from behind.

"How is Eomma doing, Master?" She asked.

"She's stable now." He said then shook his head as he continued, "Eve, are you doubting the medical skills that you have?"

And Eunji was silent. She knew that Master Liu would then again ask her to not stop practicing her skills that could save lives.

But then she knew she should give him a valid answer.

"Master, my hands are already stained with other people's blood. So using it to save someone's life would be no longer right."

Though he was uncontented with her answer, Master Liu decided to not push Eunji. There were other time than that.

And besides, he could read that the atmosphere was not pleasant for that.

So after checking Layla, he excused himself and left the room.

Eunji walked towards Layla and took her hand and held them.

"I'm sorry, Eomma." She said. And this time, all the pent up emotions that she had broke free.

Nathan immediately wrapped her with his embrace and gave his shoulder for her to cry on.

Mei, Grandma Sana, Angelina and Celine also comforted Eunji by tapping her shoulder.

"It's fine. You saved her. She'll be fine." Grandma Sana consoled.

"Don't hold back. There's nothing wrong with crying."

"Celine's right. Eunji, your origin must be something beyond what humans could understand but know that how I look at you will never change." Angelina said.

"Angelina is right. You will always be my forever daughter-in-law." Mei emotionally said.

"You have already exceeded what a normal human can do. And no one should dare to tell you that you're just a clone because you are much better than majority of humans in this planet."

Even Sam had her opinion about it.

She then looked at Nathan to see his reaction but Nathan immediately caught her by surprise when he suddenly kissed her in front of everyone.

Eunji squirmed under his kiss as she was starting to feel breathless.

Nathan did release her after some time and then spoke, "Clone or not. You'll alway be my empress. You'll forever be the mother of my children and my one and only wife. I'll only bow down to you and only you."

"And to answer your question, nothing has changed. We have accepted you when you told us that you're an assassin. And this could not change our impression of you. You'll always be our Eunji or whatever name you have. We acknowledge you as a good person." Mei added.