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Noel bore under the torment while obediently serving Cecilia the food she requested.When she felt happy, she even gave Betty a high-five.Diana witnessed the heartwarming scene and felt like something was amiss, but she could not pinpoint what was wrong.A thought crossed her mind that if Cecilia really were to recover from her condition, she might become fast friends with Betty.As for Julian…He would undoubtedly be a great father.But no matter how good a father he was, it had nothing to do with her. She retreated silently and told the kitchen staff that she wasn’t having dinner today. Instead, she would be bringing Simon out for dinner.Simon saw how low her mood was throughout the afternoon and how she had avoided the twins for fear that they might notice the wounds on her body. That was why he suggested bringing her out for a meal and a breather.Diana had no choice but to accept Simon’s suggestion.Otherwise, he would definitely complain about his disability and bein
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“And are you willing to come with me? We’ll leave Richburgh and never come back.”-After the meal, Noel brought Cecilia back to the room to rest. In the past, at the Jarvises’ residence, Noel took care of her most of the time, as Cecilia didn’t let Julian get close to her.Cecilia always said that she wanted to keep her distance from him.She needed to be reserved and demure.She wanted “mommy” to take care of her instead.And that “mommy” was Noel.If Sue were here and saw how Cecilia relied so much on Noel and continued to call him “mommy”, she would probably get so angry she might burst an artery.But Julian was not very bothered by it.“I’ll take the night shift again tonight,” Noel said, “I rested for a while in the afternoon, and I’m feeling quite energetic now.”“Okay,” Julian said, nodding. He smiled and continued, “Cecilia can’t do without you anyway.”Noel’s face flushed a bright red.“Sir…”“Say no more,” Julian said. “Just take good care of her.”He knew that
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Diana pondered about that for a long time.Julian went about his day as usual over the past few days, appearing oblivious to the fact that he was being cheated on.Diana kept looking at him with pity in her eyes.One day, Julian finally couldn’t stand it any longer.He hadn’t spoken to Diana for a long time, except for when the twins were around.Yet, the pity in her eyes whenever she looked at him grew day by day.Her pity toward him had grown into overwhelming compassion.Finally, on the way home after sending Sean to kindergarten, Julian pressed Diana against the car passenger seat at the back.His overwhelming presence filled her senses.Diana couldn’t help but shrink back into her seat. “What do you want?”She looked like a deer caught in headlights, feeling helpless and trapped.Julian’s throat suddenly felt dry and parched, his gaze toward Diana turning sharp and incisive. “Don’t you know what I want?”With that, his hands started roaming up her body.Diana was stun
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Diana clenched her fist tighter. Her hands started sweating, making them clammy.Julian's gaze revealed his displeasure. "What about Simon? If I live well with Cecilia, what about you? What about your Simon?"He insisted on an explanation from her."It's fine," Diana said. "He's taken care of.""Are you going to move out of the villa to care for him? Are you going to leave Richburgh?" he pressed. Diana intended to move out of the villa, but not to leave Richburgh. Yet, Julian’s question seemed to align with what Simon had asked her during lunch that day. When Simon asked, it was acceptable. But when Julian did, it sounded like he assumed she would leave with Simon. Did he really distrust her so much? Did he truly believe she had feelings for Simon? Suddenly irritated, Diana replied unhappily, "Where I go is none of your concern. Moving out of the villa is a given. I don't want to be a bother to you all. Who knows, I might end up dead in the middle of the night if I stayed."
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"It depends on what the children think,” she said.The idea of raising the twins separately had been on Diana’s mind for a while, but she hadn't intended to bring it up with Julian. Today, she brought it up...to divert his attention from Cecilia's infidelity.Diana hadn't expected Julian to take it to heart. However, it was better to address it sooner rather than later. The issue had to be resolved eventually.However, what would Julian do once she left Collina Villa with the children and Simon? Would he really go through with the engagement with Cecilia, as planned?Well, she didn't have time to think about that for him.Soon, Julian threw her another challenge.Just five minutes after returning home, Betty approached Diana with a pout. Her eyes were watery, clearly indicating that she was on the verge of tears. Diana hurriedly picked her up. "Sweetie, what's wrong?"During this period, Betty had been eating, drinking, and sleeping well. Diana had planned to send Betty to kin
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Diana sighed in relief, then shot Julian an annoyed glance. With her daughter present, she couldn't say much. She could only warn him not to speak recklessly with her eyes. But with Betty causing a scene like that, Diana's plan to slowly discuss the matter of letting the children choose who to live with was put on hold.Later, Simon urged her a few times, asking if she had talked to Julian and the kids. Each time, Diana said it wasn't urgent.It only made Simon more anxious. "And what about what I said about leaving with you? Have you considered that?"Without waiting for Diana to answer, he continued, "Do you find me repulsive now that I'm disabled, Diana? You...""Simon!" For the first time, Diana snapped at him. Knowing that she had reacted badly, she rubbed her forehead in frustration and apologized, "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to snap."However, his continuous self-deprecation exhausted her. Lately, even in front of him, she found herself speaking with extreme caution.
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Diana's face turned red all of a sudden. She hadn't expected Julian to voluntarily admit that he had been cheated on.Very quickly, she realized she didn't need to feel sorry for him."So, you're using me as a backup plan now? You knew Cecilia fell for someone else, so you turned to me?" She was back to blaming him. Julian was speechless at her line of thinking.Never attempt to reason with a woman.Still, he couldn't help but try. "That's not what I meant."There seemed to be plenty of grief in Julian's eyes. Before Diana could react, he suddenly buried his face in her embrace. "From the start, I only thought of you. Agreeing to Sue's engagement request and bringing Cecilia back was just a situation I couldn't avoid."Otherwise, he could never get Shiloh to treat Cecilia.The Stewarts and the Jarvises were part of high society. For Cecilia's long-term well-being, they had to control her illness with slow-acting Western medicine. If news of her illness spread, it would be
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They all had their own responsibilities to bear, and everything that happened was intertwined with her. Even Julian's responsibility over Cecilia wouldn't have existed if she hadn't interfered in the first place. In the end, she blamed herself, sobbing, "It's all my fault. Sniff, sniff... Now, Heaven’s punishing me…” She held onto him, crying sadly. Her accumulated frustration and suppressed emotions flew out in a torrential flood. Julian's shoulder soon became wet.She cried and cried, and his heart shed tears for her as well.Julian embraced her. "Heaven can't punish you. If it dares to, I'll stab it through the sky!"She laughed softly. In the dim yellow light, her eyes glistened with tears. She was smiling through her tears. "How can you be so powerful as to do that?""That's how powerful I am—"Before he could finish his sentence, Diana pressed her lips against his. "Mmm..."Although their situation was still a mess, Julian quickly turned the tables.Before anything
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“Life is all about reconciliation.” Decades passed in the blink of an eye. Diana’s children had all grown up.Kate and Isaac had both passed away. Even Diana’s old friends, Fanny and Oliver, had left the world too.Fanny was never able to get pregnant again after that rainy night. She had gradually let go of her desire to get pregnant under Oliver’s persuasion.They stayed relentlessly by each other’s side, albeit childless. Over the years, having experienced all that life had to offer and being each other’s best friend, Oliver died on a peaceful night, never awaking again.Fanny held his hand while sending him off, and closed her eyes forever as well.Diana had seen too many people off in her lifetime.She had grown old herself, too. She could see her life slowly ebbing away.“Julian, I’m so happy to have lived my life with you.” She had transformed from a disgraced young woman to Mrs. Fulcher, respected by all in Richburgh. Julian even took care of her in person when she
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He blurted those words instinctively.He had been waiting so long for a pair of daughters, yet when the doctor came over, he saw a pair of sons instead.Diana thought the hospital must have made a mistake and kicked up a fuss, insisting that she had a pair of daughters. She insisted for them to check the footage from the surveillance camera to see if there was a mix-up. The culprit, Julian, could only stand guiltily at a corner and mumble, “Actually…sons are fine too.”As long as it was their children, it didn’t matter whether they were girls or boys. Either way, Diana was the only woman he loved his entire life. Even his love for his only daughter Betty didn’t match up to that.After witnessing Diana giving birth, Julian’s love for Diana went up a notch, to the point of paranoia.For the rest of their lives, he made sure to never let her worry or touch cold water.He took great care of her.Kate finally appeared two years after Diana gave birth.When the mother and daughter
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Nina mentioned the Jenningses. “The Jennings family is gone overnight, just like that.”Diana wasn’t shocked.She guessed that Julian had wanted to do that for a while. Not just for her and to seek justice for the Lemmington family, but also for Simon.Although Julian never allowed Simon to call him his brother, he had wanted to annihilate everything that was involved with the Hughes family since Simon’s death.Him making his move on the Jenningses indicated that the time had come.“Congratulations,” Diana said to Nina. “Has Vans come back to you?”“No,” Nina said with a shake of her head. “Lina Jennings isn’t the only thing standing in between us. We have problems of our own to overcome.”Diana sighed. “I think Marcus is pretty good.”She felt relaxed and comfortable around him.Even if Vans came round and worked with Julian to bring down the Jenningses, and had no feelings whatsoever for Lina, Diana wasn’t exactly eager to be with him.As if they had telepathy with each oth
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“He doesn’t need to be jailed,” Fanny said, confused. “One word from him, and his lawyers will be able to exonerate him. I just don’t understand why he’d rather go to jail.”“He wants to pay for his father’s sins,” Diana said with a sigh.Fanny didn’t know what to think of that. Was Oliver innocent, or not? He even went to such great lengths to stop her.Yet, the moment she declared that she would never compromise and would rather be under the protection of Diana than to be involved with Oliver, he clearly looked like he was in a daze.Diana noticed that Fanny hardly smiled over the past few days, and rubbed her hand comfortingly. “He just wants a clean start with you.”Fanny’s heart shook. She couldn’t sleep the entire night.The next morning, she told Diana, “Today’s the day of his trial and sentencing. I want to see him.”Diana asked Julian to send a few bodyguards with Fanny on her trip there.When she returned, she looked as if a heavy burden had been lifted from her shoul
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Fanny bet that he wouldn’t dare.That was equivalent to eliminating all chances he stood with Diana.Julian witnessed the scene unfolding before him. Instead of getting frustrated, he stood quietly there, ready to protect Diana, as he watched Fanny and Oliver fight it out with each other.Oliver was confused. “Why not?”He glanced at Diana, and went on, “I did like Diana in the past, but I have since given up on those feelings for her. Fanny Smith, is your heart made of stone? Can’t you tell who the woman I like is after all this time?”Fanny was stunned, feeling suffocated as if something was stuck in her throat. “Don’t tell me it’s me.”Oliver was dumbfounded. Who else could he be talking about? The stars in the sky?Fanny felt indignant under his glare. “If you like me, why did you say that I’m just a child-bearing tool for you?”“If I didn’t say that, would I be able to keep you confined in the villa? Would I be able to dash all your hopes and make you feel hopeless?”
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Oliver would never let her go. “Fanny Smith, don’t even think about leaving me in this life!”That was when Diana and Julian hurriedly made their way.Sean located Oliver very accurately. Diana saw the scene unfolding before her, and couldn’t help but recall everything that happened in Jacroaof. She hurriedly told Noel to take Sean outside and wait. She couldn’t afford to gamble on Sean’s safety. She didn’t want Sean exposed to any form of danger right under her nose.Her actions made Oliver tense. “Diana, do you think I’ve gone mad?” He grabbed Fanny’s hand, as if he was holding onto the most precious treasure in the world.Diana didn’t answer him, but she threw her bag that Julian was helping her carry toward Fanny.She was exerting so much force for a pregnant lady, looking as if she wanted to fight with Fanny.Even Julian didn’t know what Diana was trying to do, not to mention Fanny herself.By the time he snapped back to attention and wanted to stop Diana from doing s
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However, Fanny must let go of her hatred and past grudges first.The mention of children made Fanny waver. The hatred in her eyes grew even more intense. “Oliver Channing! The cheek of you to mention children!” What gave him the right to say that?!“We agreed,” Oliver said. He didn’t find anything wrong with that. “Fanny, if you want to leave that villa and be free once more, you must give birth to a child of ours.”“What about the child I lost just a few days ago?” Fanny demanded. She found him unreasonable. “Over the past few days, have you ever thought of him, or felt like you let him down? We haven’t even resolved the issues between us, and you want me to get pregnant again. Are you really ready to be a father?!”“I want you to get pregnant again?” Oliver said as he drew closer to her. His eyes were dark, looking as if he wanted to crush Fanny and put her in his pocket. “Weren’t you the one who tried to seduce me by wearing a revealing dress in my house? Fanny Smith, do
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Julian stopped talking to the butler, but he was already making plans in his heart.He returned to the study, and told Diana, “Fanny and Oliver have been fighting for a long time, and it might be over something that might potentially destroy their relationship.”In fact… “Fanny might no longer love Oliver right now.”However, the fact that Oliver faked her death and confined her was enough to show that he still cared for her.If he realized that Fanny no longer loved him, he might do something even crazier.“Let’s hurry up and save her, then!” Diana said.“Wait,” Julian said calmly, “I’m not done with my prediction.”“What?”“Oliver really doesn’t like you now.” Julian’s mood lifted as he arrived at his final conclusion. “We can step in to help Fanny.”Diana was dumbfounded.She had thought that Julian went to such great lengths to analyze the situation for the sake of saving another. To think that his possessiveness took over, and he prioritized figuring out Oliver’s feeli
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The three of them entered the study.None of them expected to see a portrait of Diana right in the middle of the study.The portrait was most likely drawn by copying a photo. In the portrait, Diana was eating something with a smile. It looked like the day when Diana encountered a pervert on the train and Oliver stepped in to help her and treated her to a meal.Did she smile so tenderly at him at that time?“You couldn’t have smiled so happily at that time when we were fighting over Kayla.”It was a portrait, not a photo. It was likely that the owner of this portrait added his own interpretation and features when he commissioned this portrait.“He still has feelings for you,” Julian said coldly.He no longer wanted to interfere with the affairs of the Channings.However, Diana disagreed. “If he really had feelings for me, he wouldn’t hang my portrait up so boldly right here.”The fact that Oliver could display the portrait for all to see proved that his feelings for Diana were
