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Julian’s Stand-In Wife Chapter 1257
Seeing Julian's thoughts drifting off into outer space, Oliver couldn't help but groan miserably and say, "Why are your thoughts so bizarre right now?""Sorry," Julian replied, his hands in his pockets.Julian was dressed in a black shirt that highlighted his sculpted body, making him look irresistible to onlookers. Only Oliver knew how much of a troublemaker this man was right now.Oliver even subconsciously didn't want Julian to continue speaking, but Julian had already started, "I have a wife and children at home. I spend a lot of time with them. It sometimes makes my thoughts wander. You know, women and kids have a lot on their minds."Julian was once again indirectly boasting about his affection for his wife and children.Oliver was utterly speechless about Julian's behavior. He lowered his head and muttered, "I'll probably have children eventually."A genuine smile gradually spread on Julian's lips again. He had been waiting for Oliver to say those words. It was like receiv
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It was so quiet, one could hear a pin drop.Even someone like Julian, who was accustomed to grand scenes, was thunderstruck by Oliver's words. His eyes widened. His usual cold demeanor was absent; there was a hint of anger in his voice as he asked, "And Fanny has no idea? She even regarded your family as benefactors?"Oliver remained silent. Although summarizing the situation this way seemed a bit absurd, it was the truth—especially when it came from someone else. It made Oliver feel that the Channings, his own family, was heartless."We owe her a lot." Julian couldn't help but get angrier. "That's not the only thing! This is a fraud! There's a clear feud between Fanny and your family!"This was precisely what Oliver was afraid of. Judging by Julian's explosive reaction, he dreaded the consequences if Fanny were to find out about everything."She's been asking a lot of questions lately," Oliver admitted. "If this continues, I'm not sure how to keep things from her.""Don't
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Kenneth had thought he would meet his end that day, so he finally said the words he had kept hidden in his heart for a lifetime."Do you think I’m a kind person?" Kenneth asked his son."No," Oliver answered sincerely. In Oliver’s eyes, Kenneth was a shrewd businessman, and that could be seen from how he treated Simon. The secret adoption of Simon years ago was also motivated by the benefits the Fulchers offered."Why do you think I would adopt Fanny out of the goodness of my heart?" Oliver was instantly struck by this question. It was as though a hammer had hit him on the head, and his temples were pounding.He instinctively asked, "Why?""Because her parents were killed in a car accident caused by my drunken driving." Back in the early days, the city's surveillance system was not yet as advanced. There were many areas lacking camera coverage. At the time, if an accident occurred and the parties involved were quick to respond and had enough money, they could cover up any
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Julian turned around in a hurry. "Betty! Why did you come out?" He had no idea how much of his and Oliver's conversation she had overheard. It was a good thing Betty was the one who came out. Even if she had caught some of their words, she was probably too young to fully understand.It seemed Diana and Julian's intelligence had all been passed on to Sean, who had upgraded himself to be better than them. Betty, on the other hand, was like a slowly blooming flower bud.As long as Julian could change the subject quickly, he was confident Betty wouldn't pester him with questions."What's going on?" Julian crouched down to look at his adorable daughter. He couldn't resist pinching her chubby cheeks. "Daddy saw you happily eating in the private room just now. Why did you suddenly come out? Do you need something?"Betty nodded, indicating she was on board with Julian's approach. "There's Daddy's favorite meat." She took hold of Julian's hand, and led him back into the private room
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However, that didn’t mean that Julian was biased. They were all his children. How could he not care for any of them?Rather, he just saw Sean as a man.As a man to another, Julian was more reserved in expressing his emotions.Sean deliberately turned his face away, giving Julian some time to calm down and pretend not to see the boy’s eyes turn red. Oliver patted Julian’s shoulder, saying, “See the way Sean talks. His logic and way of thinking isn’t like a three-year-old at all.“I used to hear about children skipping grades in school and being seen as prodigies after graduation, but I had my doubts.“After seeing Sean, I finally understand how different talented people can be.“Just because you’ve never seen it, doesn’t mean that others are lying.”Julian glanced at Oliver.“You’ve only just realized? Seems like I’ve been too kind to the Channings. To think you just understood the huge disparity in intelligence between people through my son.”Oliver suddenly had the urge t
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This seemed to be a case of the lower downs having ways to get around established policies.Sean suddenly became even more curious about the inner workings of the squad. At the same time, it made him more cautious.However, sometimes, simply being cautious wasn’t enough.He recalled the older boy’s cold eyes, and tried his best to suppress the uneasy feeling in his heart as he waved Julian and his sister goodbye. “Daddy, Mr. Channing. Quickly take Betty back home. I’ll be fine in the training squad. If you don’t go back now, Mommy might think something happened and get worried.”Diana was pregnant, and it was of paramount importance that she remained in a good mood and emotionally stable.Just like that, Sean bade them farewell.Julian and the rest finally drove away, and Sean’s little figure disappear in the distance. The entire time, Sean never looked back.Julian couldn’t help but say to Oliver, “What a calm and composed boy. He’ll certainly be more successful than I am in
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The dark sky looked as if a huge hand had torn a hole in it. Everything was still hazy and gray; Diana could barely see the flowers that had bloomed outside the window.She pulled the curtains close and glanced at Julian, who was deep asleep.Quietly, she tiptoed out of the room. Diana had no idea what time Julian returned home. At first, she really wanted to wake him up and ask him about Sean.Seeing him sound asleep showed her how tired he was. Sean had just joined the training squad and didn’t come back with Julian, proving that he didn’t change his mind at the last minute as Diana had secretly hoped.She and her son were probably going to meet only one year later.The thought made her uncomfortable.She could only try to distract herself by not thinking about what could happen to her son at the training squad.As she forced herself to calm down, a thought sprung to her mind. Suddenly, she recalled where she placed the folder Jim had given her. She smacked her forehead. T
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Diana hurriedly wiped her tears away, then gazed at her daughter. She calmed down, so that Betty wouldn’t become more upset. “I’m okay. Come here.”She carried Betty up on the stool before the sink. “Mommy will help you squeeze out some toothpaste and brush your teeth.”Betty behaved and did what Diana told her to, but she was clearly in low spirits.Memories of Sean kept running through her mind. She remembered how she would stand at the sink and brush her teeth with him by her side. Sean had been with her ever since she was a zygote. Now, she suddenly found herself apart from her brother after being with him for four years.“Sean’s heartless,” she said out of the blue, not in a rush to brush her teeth.Her brows were knitted tightly, and she was pouting so hard that her lips could pull a horse cart.Seeing her daughter looking like that, Diana’s low spirits were lifted. She pinched Betty’s cheeks. “Sean just left and here you are, badmouthing him and saying he’s heartle
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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
