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She gradually stopped expecting him to apologize to her, and come clean with her that he was Mr. Whatever.Forget it.All was good as long as he was still alive.“Diana,” Nina said as she poked her. “A penny for your thoughts? The elevator’s here. Let’s head down.”They agreed to buy some fresh flowers to visit Grandma, Aster and Star’s tombstones. Diana wanted to let Sean see Grandma, too. Grandma was probably looking forward to finally seeing her great-grandchildren.A pity Betty wasn’t with her.Speak of the devil.Diana was lost in her thoughts when she suddenly heard Nina yell out, “Betty! Betty!”Diana was dazed. “Betty?”Betty stood right before Diana, clad in a sky blue princess dress and with tears welling up in her eyes.Diana was about to crouch and shower Betty with kisses, when Betty suddenly pounced on Nina.“Godmother!” She clung onto Nina tightly. “I’ve missed you so much! So, so, so much! Do you miss me?”Diana looked on exasperatedly.Whatever Betty was d
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Betty missed Mommy when she was with Daddy. Now that she had seen Mommy, she missed Daddy.She wanted to be with both of them forever.She didn’t like that they, as a family, had to live apart from each other. It wasn’t as if their house wasn’t big enough for all of them to stay together. If Mommy wanted to be with Godmother, couldn’t they all stay under one roof? Why must Daddy and Mommy live separately from each other? “Where is he?” Diana asked Betty, agitated. “Will he come find us later?”Betty felt put in a spot. Daddy didn’t even want to bring her to the apartment.“Hush.” Betty shook her head, and exposed Julian without any hesitation. “Daddy didn’t let me tell you that he was the one who drove me here, so I guess he won’t come in.”But… “Don't worry.” Betty broke into a sweet smile. “I’ve already asked Godmother to help ask Daddy to stay.”That was exactly what she whispered into Nina’s ears.No wonder Nina and Vans weren’t around anymore.Diana looked outward. J
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Sean looked up and asked, “Daddy didn’t say he wanted to see Mommy or me, right?”His voice was laced with disappointment.Diana’s heart tightened. She subconsciously retracted her steps. “Sean…”“It’s alright,” Sean said, with a smile that everyone could see didn’t come from the bottom of his heart. At that moment, he was akin to a fragile glass doll that could break anytime. “I don’t want to see him, either.”Anyone could tell that he didn’t mean what he said.Tears fell down Diana’s cheeks. She looked at her son standing right before her.Sean was a child who wouldn’t cry, even when he took a fall.When the twins were younger, Diana would often run out of energy taking care of both of them at the same time.Once, she opened the windows of a room for ventilation. She needed to breastfeed them and drew the curtains to protect her privacy, but she forgot that the window behind it wasn’t closed properly.After she was done breastfeeding, she carried Sean over her shoulders to b
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Even Julian, smart as he was, took Sean’s silence for granted. He immediately chose to take Betty away the moment he opened the car door.He and Diana thought the children would be split between them when they separated. Since Sean used to say he would choose Diana no matter what, Julian chose Betty.In the process, Julian forgot to ask Sean if he wanted to choose Daddy and Mommy at the same time.The thought stabbed Diana’s heart; she felt even guiltier toward Sean.She didn’t intend for things to turn out like this. She even told herself she had to pay more attention to Sean, and yet…In reality, she had failed his expectations and dismissed his feelings because of how sensible he was.Diana crouched low and asked, “Sean, do you really not want to see Daddy?”Worried Sean wouldn’t tell her the truth, she answered on his behalf. “You actually really miss Daddy, don’t you?”Back then, Sean was the one who made acknowledging Julian as his father a reality. How could he not care
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The four of them left the neighborhood, laughing and chatting away.Nina couldn’t fulfil Betty’s request of persuading Julian into coming in to see them. Still, she made Vans stay outside to keep watch. That way, she would have an explanation for Betty should the girl demand for one.Thankfully, Vans was still around. That meant that Julian was still around too, even though he didn’t walk in. His car was still around as well.Nina sighed in relief as she brought them all to his car.Yet the closer they approached the car, the more obvious Vans’s displeasure was.“What’s the matter?” Nina asked. A bad feeling rose in her chest. She carried Betty, and walked ahead of Diana. Upon looking into the car, she realized that no one was inside.Panicked, she demanded, “Where is he?”Vans looked helplessly at her.After Nina attended that banquet three years ago, she hadn’t reconciled with Vans. Thus, he aimed to please her as much as he could. If he could help it, he would never let
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But since they agreed to go to the cemetery today, they shouldn’t postpone it.Grandma, Aster, and Star had been waiting for Diana for too long.Nina saw how Sean didn’t insist on seeing Julian, and observed him cautiously. When she saw that Sean was behaving normally and Betty wasn’t fussing over wanting to see Julian, she finally felt reassured. “Shall we go get some flowers first?”Vans didn’t follow them.He didn’t have a good impression of Diana after she left three years ago. When Diana first returned from Stirling City, he didn’t even want to talk to her.But since he found out that she really had lost her memories, and after Julian explained to him the reason Diana lost her memories, he could understand why Julian didn’t dare to see Diana.It was because of an extreme sense of guilt.He himself couldn’t look Diana in the eye.What’s more, Diana had sacrificed and suffered so much in exchange for Julian’s life.Vans clutched Julian’s suit jacket tighter in his arms, and
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“Yeah,” Vans said. “Humidity and moisture are eczema’s best friends. Some children’s eczema conditions flare up during deep winters and intense summers.”Julian turned silent at Vans’s words.Vans couldn’t help but tease him. “Why do I seem to know more about your son than you do?”Julian glared at him, effectively shutting him up.“I’ve said enough,” Vans said, waving his hand.He didn’t understand what Julian was thinking.Julian didn’t care about Diana and Sean, right? Yet, he insisted on coming over to help with their clogged bathtub the moment he heard about it. He even said that hiring a plumber would be a waste of time.Was it really?Getting a plumber to their door and solve the problem was just one phone call away, and cost only a bit of money. Yet, Julian insisted on doing it himself.Perhaps… He just wanted to do something for them with his own hands.However, he didn’t want them to know about it. He also forbade Vans to tell them about it. He really was a contra
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After the water started flowing again, Diana would look at him in worship and exclaim, “Julian, you’re amazing!”The whole process was actually very simple.Julian never let Diana do anything, which made it seem as though he knew how to do everything.Julian savored the way she looked at him. Each time, it made him feel as though he could be content being an ordinary handyman, gardener, or carpenter—instead of the CEO of Fulcher Inc.He used to help her tend the garden, and even made her a sofa with his own hands.She would always be elated seeing him get his hands dirty fixing things.Perhaps because such trivial matters often grated on one’s nerves, and he was always around to help her with these things.After that, he would then stay around and take a bath with Diana. The temperature would start to rise as their desires for each other grew…His mind went back to those swelteringly hot summers, where such passion and joy were a mere touch away.It felt like such a long tim
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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
