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Julian’s Stand-In Wife Chapter 1109
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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Sean nodded at Diana's suggestion.The mother-son pair walked together to the door, both wearing smiles as they stood at the entrance. They waited for less than a minute, and it was evident that both of them were getting anxious. So, Diana suggested, "How about we move to the elevator area? If Daddy comes up that way, we'll see him a bit earlier."Sean agreed, and they took a few steps toward the elevator. They watched the floor numbers on the elevator display closely, as if they were participating in some race. Suddenly, Sean raised his head and asked, "Mommy?""Yes?""Should we wake up Betty too, and wait for Daddy together?"Before Diana could respond, Sean vetoed his own suggestion. "Never mind."It was only about seeing Julian. There was no need to disturb Betty, who was already asleep.Sean truly couldn't wait to see Julian.Diana understood her son's thoughts, and hugged him tightly. She kept her eyes on the elevator display, and reassured him, "Just a bit longer.
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Julian was clearly tired.His smooth jawline looked hard and cold.The driver didn’t dare to say any further, and subconsciously breathed quieter. “Sir… Your phone keeps ringing.”Julian’s brows furrowed.He knew.The ringing were akin to whips slashing his heart. He didn’t dare to answer the call.Seeing Julian looking helpless instead of flaring up, the driver couldn’t help but add, “Is it Mrs. Fulcher?”Julian nodded.He suddenly asked the driver, “Do you think I should pick up the call?”“Sir,” the driver said solemnly, “why would a smart man like you suddenly forget basic courtesy when it comes to Mrs. Fulcher…?”Julian was stunned.That was true.It was only polite to answer someone’s call.That was basic courtesy.What was he struggling about? In the same way, he had already told her he would be going to visit them. Yet now, when he couldn’t head up, why wasn’t he informing her? Things could always be discussed.As long as he communicated with Diana, she wou
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Diana said through gritted teeth, “Be it Kayla or Cecilia, I’m always the one you end up abandoning.”That didn’t change even after she became a mother.“Things between Cecilia and I aren’t what you think they are,” Julian said, his heart aching at Diana’s words. Finally, he said exasperatedly, “Forget it.”He waved his hands at the driver, signaling the driver to stop the car. “I’ll come to you right now. Wait for me and I’ll explain everything to you.”“No need,” Diana said, “I’m very strong.”She had said it sarcastically. That was how Julian described her with when he suggested a divorce way back.You’re very strong.You can live well even without me.However, Kayla couldn’t live without him.It was the same now. “Cecilia can’t live without you, but the twins and I will just return to the life we had in Stirling City without you.”It had been three years. They had survived without him.Diana’s words were needles that it pierced Julian’s heart.He now knew it was wit
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Diana was at a loss over how to explain things to Sean, when she suddenly felt a strong gust of cold winter wind coming at her, making her shiver involuntarily.At that moment, the chill she felt from her surroundings was suddenly replaced by a warm embrace from a broad shoulders.She felt as if she had dropped into a furnace.She looked up into a pair of familiar eyes.“Julian…” She was shocked and surprised, and comforted by his appearance. “You really came.”“Silly. Would I ever lie to you?” He lifted her high up, just as he did on their wedding night. He held her waist tight, as if wanting to melt her into his body.He missed her terribly.Diana missed him, too.Still, now wasn’t the time for them to express their love for each other. Diana jabbed Julian’s shoulder shyly and whispered, “Sean…”Sean was stunned.He had never seen Daddy and Mommy hugging each other like this before.Daddy had appeared out of the blue, lifting Mommy high up in the air.Although both of t
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Julian asked, “Why can’t I hug Mommy?”He waited for so long, just for a chance to explain things to Diana. Of course he needed to hug and get close to her…But now, his son was staring at him so self-righteously, forbidding him to hug his mommy.At the end of the day, Julian knew he was being too calculative.Sean was but a child.What was he doing, being petty with the boy?After Sean fell asleep, he’d be able to have his way with Diana—and nothing would be overboard.“Where’s Nina?” Julian subconsciously asked. “Why do I smell alcohol here?”“Taken away by Vans,” Diana said, her face flushing.She instinctively rubbed her hands together, betraying the anxiety she felt inside.It wasn’t that she didn’t sleep with Julian when she lost her memories. However, the significance when that happened wasn’t the same now.Earlier, she seriously considered hitting him to vent her anger and making him explain everything clearly to her.They should sit down and have a proper chat, ser
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Diana always felt that the chemistry they shared was an essential element of their marriage.This remained valid even until now.Perhaps it wasn’t an essential element of marriage, but rather an essential element of relationships.As long as they were physically drawn to each other, then…There would certainly be a chance.Diana could feel herself going mad.Why did her mind keep veering in this direction?Even when she tried shutting her eyes, the image of Julian’s stubble would flash past her mind.Right now, he looked as if he hadn’t shaved for a few days. That wasn’t like him at all.How could a clean freak like him allow himself to become so scruffy?She glanced at his hands. The scar was there.The words the security guard said to her at the cemetery resounded in her mind once more.When she had disappeared while still pregnant with the twins, she wasn’t the only one who suffered pain and hopelessness.Julian…felt the same way, too.Sorrow flooded her heart, and she
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It was barely sufficient for all three of them standing in the room.Especially Julian, with his towering figure that made it even more cramped.But Sean and Diana had adapted well. Neither found it uncomfortable, nor were they upset with it.Julian’s heart ached.“How did you guys survive during your time at Stirling City?” he asked. This was his first time asking Diana about the three years she had disappeared.Diana was slightly taken aback. It had been around half a year since she returned from Stirling City.Before, she felt as if everything that her life Stirling City happened just yesterday. Now, however, Julian’s question made it seem like those days were just a blur of memories.“Nothing much,” she said as she snapped back to attention. She laid Sean on his bed, grabbed a storybook, and handed it to Julian. “It was the same as in Richburgh, three meals and one sleep a day.”Julian asked, “What do you eat for your meals?”“Cooked dishes.”“What kind of dishes? Who coo
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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
