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Julian’s Stand-In Wife Chapter 1102
"Time flies," Diana said. She raised her glass, and sincerely toasted Nina. "Thank you, Nina, for your unwavering belief in me since I returned."Nina had always supported Diana’s decisions. This included when Zachary came to visit them before. Nina was the one who protected Diana and the twins.Nina was touched by Diana's sincere tone, and her eyes became a little moist. "What's with all this all of a sudden? If you had been willing to discuss it with me three years ago, I would never have let you go on that journey alone. Especially since you were pregnant."At the very least, Nina would have gone with Diana."Although Simon was despicable, thank god he never harmed the twins."Luckily, Diana had raised them safely to this point.If things had been different...Diana couldn't bear to think how the twins would have ended up if Simon had been even more ruthless back then.Fortunately, everything was in the past now.Nina finished her drink, and gently squeezed Diana's hand for
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Diana had gradually learned to let go. Plus, with the recent audit over the past week, she realized that even after repaying Mr. Whatever's investment, she could still afford the down payment on Oliver's house."I bought it on mortgage, and I'll have to make monthly payments."Fortunately, the house was in a slightly less expensive area. Aside from the down payment, the monthly mortgage payments weren't too burdensome.Diana looked at Sean, and continued, "I don't have to cover Sean's tuition fees. Julian may not be great to me, but he's good to the children."She knew Sean harbored some resentment towards Julian at the moment. So, she wanted to say some positive things about Julian in front of Sean. The children had their own thoughts, and she had her own. She couldn't let her relationship problems affect her children's expectations of their father.However, Sean didn't say anything in response. He silently went into the bathroom to run the bathwater himself. The sound of rus
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"Of course." Sean seldom made requests of Diana. So when he did, she was more than willing to oblige. But... When it came time to actually dial the number, Diana hesitated again. What should she say when she called Julian?Should she start with a simple "Hello," or maybe "Long time no see," or "Hey, it's Diana"? Or perhaps, apologize for the interruption? As she pondered all these, the phone was already ringing.In the end, Diana decided not to say anything at all and let Sean do the talking. "You can say whatever you want once the call is answered," she told him.Sean nodded, but the phone continued to ring with no response from the other end. The phone rang, and the name on the screen told him that it was Diana calling.Julian had already sent Noel to Cecilia, and he watched as they began talking. Now, Julian had left the Jarvis family's residence. Noel and Cecilia clearly had feelings for each other. As long as Cecilia personally acknowledged her feelings for h
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Diana reached out to the glass door, and gently wiped away some of the condensation. She could faintly make out that Sean was still frozen in the same position. He was still hugging himself and not moving.Even breathing was painful.The child was suffering.Diana felt her heart break further, as though someone had taken the pieces and stomped on them.Diana stood at the bathroom door, and dialed Julian's phone number once more. This time, he picked up. "Hello, I..."His voice was so indifferent, as if nothing had happened. In fact, he sounded quite joyful.But their child, Sean, who had finally acknowledged Julian as his father after a long journey, was crying quietly in the bathroom.He didn't deserve to be her husband...Even less so, the father of their children!Diana almost hissed through gritted teeth. "Earlier, why didn't you answer the phone?"Julian immediately sensed that something was wrong.But when he thought about how he would soon see her in person to tell
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Even if Diana didn't cry, Julian could still sense her distress and the suppressed anger within her.Diana had said, “Please.”She had said, "Please, don't hurt him."Don't hurt their child. Don't hurt Sean.This almost humble emotion was something Julian had never expected to find in Diana. Even when he had initially acted like a jerk and demanded for a divorce, Diana had accepted it firmly.In their relationship, she had always been the one passively accepting things. She rarely made demands of him. Julian couldn't help but feel a sharp pain in his heart when he thought about this.What had he missed? How could he have been so foolish to insist on not seeing her for so many days? They could have faced everything together!"Don't say that," Julian said quickly, as if he was afraid Diana might hang up the phone. "Diana, you never have to speak to me that way in this life. I have too many things to apologize to you for, and Sean..."He thought about what Vans had mentioned—S
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They used to be as sweet as this before. It was as if they had never been apart—like they had never divorced. But... There was Julian's engagement to Cecilia.Diana was about to ask about it, when she heard him say, "I love you."His voice was soft but swift, like a light breeze in the air.Even after hanging up the phone, Diana still felt a bit dizzy. She couldn't understand how she suddenly found herself listening to Julian confessing his love.Perhaps it wasn't all that sudden. She thought about the repaired bathtub, and couldn't help but smile. Coincidentally, Vans had carried Nina out after she had emptied her stomach.Diana quickly poured a cup of water for Nina. Vans helped Nina drink it, and her complexion visibly improved afterward. "When we went to buy flowers today, Julian came here, right?" Diana asked as she gently massaged Nina's temples, hoping to alleviate her hangover. "And before he came here, he asked about me and Sean, right?"Julian was in the same
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No one understood the pain Nina had gone through in her relationship with Vans better than Diana. This included the growth Nina had experienced through the ordeal with Lina Jennings.Yet, Nina still loved courageously.And she grew even wilder.Diana thought back to a moment ago, when Nina had suddenly attacked Vans. She had pressed his head firmly against his chest, and gnawed on it chaotically. Instead of laughing, Diana felt emotions that she had long since forgotten—shock, and touched.Only with a vigorous love...could one possess an everlasting vitality.Diana seemed to have found a peculiar strength from Nina. She smiled, and went to the bathroom. After opening the door, she went in and gently patted Sean's back. "Sean, Daddy's coming to see you."Sean stiffened.The water had turned cold, but he wasn't in a hurry to get out.Yet, at this moment, it was obvious that he was a little anxious."Really?" he asked. "Really."After confirming that the bathroom was at an a
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Julian had acted far from a typical CEO. Yet, he held the economic fate of so many in his hands. He supported tens of thousands of employees across various corporations, and seemed to excel in everything he did… Including their relationship.Diana felt that she should give him a chance to explain himself when he arrived. However, upon his arrival, the first thing she planned to do was to give him a good scolding. She needed to release the pent-up frustration she had accumulated over the past few days. She would tell him that if he hadn't fixed the bathtub and come to see her and Sean today, she might have never given him another chance.But today, he made her feel his love in such a tangible way."Do you remember the sofa at Collina Villa?" She said to Sean while applying children's face cream to his cheeks."I remember," Sean replied.She spread the cream on his face, gently massaging it until his skin fully absorbed it. Then, unable to resist herself, she quickly cupped
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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
