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Diana was the one who kept treating Sean as a baby who needed protection and had to be in her arms, whether the situation called for it or not.Yet Sean had already taken the first step bravely, charging forward and waging war against the future.Diana had mixed feelings about it.Rationally speaking, she knew she had to do as Julian said and let go of Sean. She needed to respect her son’s opinion and thoughts. Emotion wise, however, she was unable to separate from her children so soon, and let him face such cruel and strict training.“If he really joined the training squad, he couldn’t come home for at least one year, right?”“Yes. He’ll come home once a year. When his training ends depends on the child’s wishes and speed of growth,” Julian said. That was what Julian knew.Many families in Richburgh would choose to send their children to it.Sean was indeed a little too young. However, that only meant he would receive more training and become stronger than others.“But I hav
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Julian tilted his head, grabbed the back of her neck, and aimed straight at her lips.He had always been like that.Aggressive and passionate.From when they first got married till now, he had always been passionate about Diana.Diana felt dizzy from his aggressive attack, and even forgot about her son joining the training squad for a few seconds.But the moment Julian left her and gave her some air, the gears in her brain started shifting again. “Julian.” She grabbed his collar. “Quick, tell me.”She truly didn’t know how tempting she looked right now.Julian stared at her tummy, feeling slightly annoyed.It was all this pregnancy’s fault!He hadn’t slept with her for a long while. The lust rising in his chest was enough to burn all reason in his mind.Yet the culprit, Diana, looked completely ignorant of what she had done. She stared innocently back at him with her swollen red lips, waiting for his answer.He had to give it to her.Julian undid his tie and rushed to the
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Fanny felt uncomfortable under Oliver’s glare.She pushed him lightly. Out of spite, she grabbed his phone. “I’ll help you call him back.”There was no need for him to glare at her like that. Fanny didn’t want to give him. She did love him, but it didn’t mean that she accepted his behavior—especially when it involved another woman.She wasn’t so desperate to the point of being unable to live without him.Oliver held her hand down.“My anger just now had nothing to do with Diana, but everything to do with your attitude,” Oliver said. He looked straight into her eyes, as if wanting to see through her. “Fanny, there’s no need for you to get sensitive every time you hear Diana’s name.”She was a good woman in her own right. Why did she have to live in Diana’s shadow?In fact, the two of them were rarely associated with each other. Aside from the dividends issued by the studio, they were practically strangers.Fanny burst out laughing.Oliver was being overly serious.“I got i
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The next second, she heard Oliver say, “It’s fine. I don’t regret marrying Fanny.”She was overjoyed when she heard that.She experienced happiness like never before, as if fireworks were exploding in her heart. There was an itch in her throat, almost driving her to push that door open and calling Oliver her honey sweetly.However, Master Channing’s next words stopped her hand, which was almost reaching the door handle. “Do you love her? Do you have no regret because you’re making amends on my behalf, or because you really love her?”Making amends for Master Channing? What wrong did Master Channing do to her?Over the years, it was all thanks to the Channings for taking her in that Fanny was able to grow up peacefully and healthily.Although she wasn’t their darling, the Channings’ influence and Oliver’s presence gave her an admirable life during her youth. Later when she joined the entertainment industry, despite having to walk on eggshells at home with the Channings, she ne
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Oliver was made to drink till he was wasted.His room was filled with women waiting for him to return, so they could eat him up alive.Women weren’t the only ones who had to resist the advances of men they didn’t like. Men may sometimes find themselves in such a situation, too.If those women were to pounce on him and do as they liked with him while he was drunk, then he…Would be utterly destroyed.His dignity and his mental state would take a beating.These people were too sordid.Fanny heard about their schemes, and drove straight to Oliver’s place without any hesitation. She chased all the women away, claiming to be Oliver’s official girlfriend, and seized the chance to sleep with him to put on a complete act.She had been fantasizing about him for a long time, anyway.She seized the chance to blow up the matter involving the Channings’ adopted daughter and the family’s successor. She also kicked up a huge fuss, insisting Master Channing to identify all those women who wer
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Fanny walked into the washroom for a shower.By the time she was done, Master Channing had left. “It wasn’t appropriate for Dad to be around while you were showering,” Oliver said.Fanny nodded as she blow-dried her hair. “So?” she pressed. “What wrong did he do to me? What did he do that made it worth for you, the son he was most pleased with, to make amends to me with your entire life?”“Your hair is still wet,” Oliver said, not replying to Fanny’s question directly.He even blew her hair dry for her for the first time, just to avoid answering her question.He didn’t even know how to do it properly.Blow-drying someone’s hair had to be done slowly, from the front to the back. Alternatively, one could hold the ends of the hair and slowly dry it. However, Oliver flipped Fanny’s hair over and blew at her scalp at the maximum heat.Water dripped from the ends of Fanny’s hair that Oliver flipped over down her face, which eventually dried up. The entire process left her at sixes
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Oliver had been keeping his eyes on Fanny all along.He paused for a moment before finally walking out. He thought the same way as Diana, not wanting Fanny to misunderstand things between them just because of this phone call.There wasn’t anything to hide in this phone call.Diana’s husband was right next to her. With both of them around, they definitely had something important to discuss with him.Fanny had already walked downstairs.Oliver followed her, his heavy footsteps down the stairs making Fanny turn back.He deliberately made his steps loud and heavy. He wanted her to look back.When he saw Fanny looking back at him again, he felt satisfied knowing how much influence he had over her mood and her thoughts, seeing how his every move possessed her.His footsteps became lighter.Julian spoke. “It’s like this. Our son Sean wants to join the training squad. You’re the in-charge right now, aren’t you? The mother of my son wants to ask you about the living conditions and tr
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“Why not?” Diana chuckled brightly. “A divorce means that two people have decided to stop living with each other and put an end to their suffering. That naturally calls for a celebration.”Oliver nodded. “That makes sense.”He had put the phone on loudspeaker mode. Fanny could hear everything that he talked about to both Diana and Julian.This was the first time he allowed her to overhear his phone conversation.What’s more, it involved Diana.Hearing them talked so casually about each other’s marriage, even joking about divorce, made it clear that there was no romantic inclination between both of them.Things were clear and non-ambiguous; like a ray of sunshine shining into a river, making the water glisten. So crystal-clear it was, the fish swimming in it could be seen.Fanny’s mood turned for the better the more she thought about it.A bright smile lit up her face. Although she didn’t look up, Oliver could sense that she was in a good mood from her side profile.Despite b
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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
