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Julian didn’t hear what she said after that.Water splashing from the shower could be heard from the washroom. He came out of the washroom after a while, drying his hair with a towel. Beads of water dripped down from his fringe, sliding down his nose bridge.Splat.It dripped on the floor.Diana’s eyes glazed over as she stared at him. Julian smiled as he walked toward her. “You really don’t want anymore?”She smiled back at him knowingly, chemistry shared only between a couple deeply in love brewing. “What exactly are you referring to?”No matter her desire, he was set on taking her to bed again.The next time they opened their eyes, they were woken up by the twins.Betty found it strange. “Mommy, time for dinner! Do you two take afternoon naps together? You napped longer than Sean and me!”Cough…Diana hurriedly put on her clothes under the sheets.She finally emerged from the sheets after wearing her clothes, and opened the windows. “Betty, how did you get in here?”Be
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Boo hoo.“Honey,” she said, looking up at Julian. “I’m not stupid. Our son is the one who’s too smart, right?”Julian didn’t answer her.He was rarely this stern with the twins. Right now, the warmth in his eyes had completely vanished. He crouched, and looked at Sean. “Sean, what keys did you press?”“Just some lines of code,” Sean said before asking back, “What’s the problem?”Sean’s affections for Julian hadn’t yet returned. He was only willing to stay in Collina Villa for Diana’s sake.From the bottom of his heart, he could still feel that Julian liked Betty more. His father didn’t care about him. Naturally, he didn’t look upon Julian with much affection.Julian didn’t mind. His eyes lit up as he carried Sean in his arms, as if he had found the most precious jewel in the world.No matter how much Sean struggled to come down, Julian didn’t let him go.Sean was furious.Diana was worried that their relationship would sour even further. She was about to urge Julian to let
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Mommy already said that she didn’t want to leave. Couldn’t he hear her?!Julian stared at Sean’s angry little face, and asked the obvious, “Angry?”Sean refused to reply, and instead studied his surroundings swiftly. He then looked down, and tapped on his smartwatch.He had modified this watch.A few days ago, after Julian gave him the laptop, he connected the watch to the laptop. This meant that he needed neither his laptop nor to be in Collina Villa to control the laptop remotely.Very soon, a line of code appeared on his smartwatch. Sean had previously written this code, and just needed to retrieve it from his laptop.Immediately after, the door unlocked with a click.Sean’s tense face relaxed. He glared at Julian, and marched into the living room.Mommy had been forcefully brought back to her room.Sean was furious! He tapped on his smartwatch as he walked.Very soon, all the electronic locks in Collina Villa started beeping. Some even started issuing reminders to reset
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The moment Sean yelled, Julian heard Betty’s voice in the midst of the choruses of the electronic lock warnings. “Daddy! Sniff… Come quickly! Mommy… Mommy’s bleeding…”Bleeding?Julian’s face turned ashen immediately.The image of Diana bleeding on that rainy day emerged in his mind.No!Impossible!She wasn’t pregnant this time.How could she be bleeding?She couldn’t be having a miscarriage, either!“Let me take a look first,” Julian said, striving to keep his composure. He yelled to Diana to stop her from her wild counterattacks, and hurried over to her. At the next second, his countenance changed.His face paled.How did this happen…How did this happen?!Diana really was bleeding. Her blood was bright red, a sharp contrast from her skin.Julian almost fainted from the shock.He quickly hauled Diana up in his arms and yelled for Noel, instructing the latter to fetch the car and take them to the hospital.When he tried to stand up, he realized that his legs were to
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What if it was something even more severe than Julian had imagined?If so, how could he be assured of sending the twins and Noel to the hospital by themselves?Julian’s face was pale as he forced Sean’s hand away from the door handle.At that, Sean grew even more displeased.Betty kept holding her mommy’s hand. Seeing her father and brother looking unhappy, she kept silent. She could only stretch her little arms out and silently pat each of them.Sean and Julian never spoke to each other all the way until they got out of the car.When they arrived at the hospital, Vans hurried over to receive them.After an hour of torturous waiting, Vans came out with the results and stared straight at Julian. He didn’t look very pleased.Julian’s heart sank.He was deathly nervous as he asked Vans, “How is it?”“Not too good,” Vans said, his words sending Julian straight to hell.Julian’s entire body trembled. “How so?” He grabbed the results from Vans’s hands, vexed. His face paled as h
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Enzo stopped the car, then let Lina out before alighting himself. He walked toward Ian’s house, and stood right outside the door. What a familiar place it was.Lina didn’t notice the disdain in Enzo’s eyes at all, and mumbled, “Those two old fogies were so arrogant! They even said that their ugly daughter had a fling with you.”The moment these words escaped her mouth, she knew they were inappropriate. She hurriedly added, “Not a fling, but…”“You’re not wrong to say that,” Enzo said, not minding Lina’s vulgar choice of words.Both of them didn’t excel in school and weren’t exceptionally cultured people. They were considered academic failures by the world’s standards.Despite that, they lived comfortable lives thanks to their parents and the Jennings family’s wealthy background. But when the Jennings family became bankrupt a few years ago, they descended to the bottom rung of the social ladder.Heavens knew what Enzo did to climb up from that bottom rung to where he was right n
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Ian dropped on his knees and begged Enzo.His face turned red as he pleaded, “Please, stop hitting them! Stop hitting them!”Enzo was elated. “Oh dear, you old fool. You despised me so much back then, and kept telling me off even when I kneeled before you. What’s happening now? Why are you kneeling before me?”Ian’s heart was burning, but he knew that what was happening today wouldn’t be so easily resolved. Not just for the two bodyguards who were badly beaten up, but also for his wife in the house.He couldn’t let his wife see Enzo.If she did, she would surely demand to see their daughter.If Enzo got even more irritated, he might even…Ian dared not think further. For the first time in his honorable life, he kneeled to another man. “Mr. Jennings, I was wrong. Please, I beg you. Please let them go. They’ll die if you keep up with this!”“That’s certainly doable,” Enzo said. “You slapped me when you opened the door just now. That’s not the way to treat your guests. The Lemming
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Ian yelled, “Where is my daughter? Where is Anna?! You two have already returned to the country, so why hasn’t she come to visit us yet? What exactly did you do to bewitch her? Give me back my daughter!”His heartbroken interrogation made Enzo change his mind.He smiled as he casually pushed Ian’s hand away from his pants, and replied in a low voice, “Anna…”Then, he laughed. “Hahaha! You stupid old man! Do you still think Anna is alive?”Ian’s face turned ashen. “You… What do you mean by that?!”“Nothing,” Enzo said, “I’m just telling you this out of the kindness of my heart. I had enough of sleeping with that ugly daughter of yours. Since I got tired of her, she died.”“You bastard! Bastard!”Enzo crouched to Ian’s shoulders, and whispered into his ear, “I wasn’t the one who killed her. She loved me so much, she was willing to test some trial drugs for me.”Viciousness seeped through every word he spoke. It sent chills down Ian’s spine.Enzo went on, “She died from trying ou
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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
