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"There is indeed such a thing, but I still recommend you to check it thoroughly," Diana said. "Does Oliver know about this?"If two people really have a child, their relationship will definitely get increasingly better.By then, Oliver's secret might truly remain hidden for a lifetime. Being happy together was always better than being miserable together."For now, don't tell him," Fanny said. She still believed she might not be pregnant. "I'm most likely experiencing a false pregnancy. I've been so engrossed in reading scripts lately that I might have gone overboard. After I buy a pregnancy test kit and check, I'll tell him."As Fanny chatted with Diana, she became even less convinced that she was actually pregnant."A few days ago, I spontaneously acted out a scene where I was pregnant to Oliver, and he almost believed it." Fanny thought back to that time. She felt proud of her acting skills, despite having left the entertainment industry for a long time.With just one move, s
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Diana didn't disturb Fanny. She was still concerned about Noel's situation. After taking a bite of chestnut cake, she could stand up and walk again as if she had regained her strength."Shall we go to the restaurant?" Diana suggested. If they waited too long, Noel might become impatient over there. It wouldn't be conducive for him to have a good conversation with Cecilia in that case.This time, Diana genuinely wanted to play matchmaker for them."Is your stomach okay now?" Cecilia and Fanny asked Diana together.Diana nodded. "It's fine."She stood between the two, holding one of their arms with her hand. The three of them walked side by side, like sisters, creating a lovely scene in the shopping mall.In the restaurant, Noel had been waiting for a while. It was a Japanese restaurant with great privacy. Noel was seated in a corner of a private room. From the outside, he couldn't be seen from outside as long as someone didn't fully enter.Cecilia was the first to enter.Her
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With each drag, her heart would ache. In the midst of trying to pull the cigarette from Cecilia's lips, some ash from the cigarette fell onto Noel's hand. The sudden burn made him reflexively shake the ash off, causing his facial features to scrunch up in discomfort."You're so ugly," Cecilia remarked bluntly, "I have no idea how I ever fell for someone like you." She even managed to blow smoke rings, causing Noel to cough once again.A waiter approached them in the hallway, reminding Cecilia that smoking wasn’t allowed in this area. Cecilia apologized, and changed direction towards the restroom. There was a window over there, but the corridor was narrow. When Cecilia stood there, Noel had no space to stand. He had to press himself against the wall to look at her.Cecilia smiled. "I can't stand the sight of you, no matter how I look at you now."She didn't give Noel a chance to speak. Instead, she preemptively said, "Whether you're standing, sitting, or doing anything e
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Noel was dumbfounded.He wanted to speak several times, but Cecilia kept throwing money at him, preventing him from opening his mouth.His head was spinning, completely bewildered.Noel reached out to remove the bills that had been thrown at his face.But Cecilia had thrown too many, and he couldn't catch up.He felt a series of impacts on his face, and the edges of the coins kept scraping against his skin, leaving a small trail of lines."Cecilia!" Noel was starting to get angry. Even with the best manners, one couldn't withstand this barrage of coins hitting their face."What are you doing?!" Sue's humiliation was one thing, but the way Cecilia treated him... It was as if she wasn't sincere in wanting to meet him to talk!"What am I doing?" Cecilia raised an eyebrow and mockingly smiled. "I'm doing what I want to do!"She looked at Noel, all the while continuing to toss more money.The entire corridor looked like it was raining pink petals as the paper notes flew around
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Unfortunately, she had thrown all the money in her bag.She wanted to continue pelting Noel, but there was nothing left to throw.In Cecilia's eyes, there was a profound lack of trust. At this point, whatever Noel said was useless—Cecilia simply didn't trust him. In fact, it felt like she had never trusted him!At this point, Noel didn't say anything further.He simply crouched down, quietly picking up the scattered bills from the ground slowly. He lost count of how many bills he'd collected when he couldn't pick up the next one.It was because Cecilia's foot had landed on his hand as he was trying to pick up the bill. She pressed down slowly, almost breaking his hand.Seeing the conflicted and pained expression on Noel's face, Cecilia felt a surge of satisfaction in her heart. It was as if the pent-up frustration of these days had finally found an outlet."Does it hurt?" she asked him.Noel replied truthfully, "Yes, it hurts.""That's good!"Why should she be the only on
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Drip.Noel was in tears.After going through the ups and downs of a romance, the final words he received were, "A princess and a pauper should never have started in the first place." A princess? A pauper?A painful smile played on Noel's lips as he picked up the money and rose to his feet, returning to the private room where he had been moments ago.Upon seeing Cecilia's return, Diana thought that everything had been resolved between them. Without even getting a chance to ask, she heard Cecilia say, "Do they have thick-cut salmon? I'd also like some drunken prawns."She seemed to be in a good mood.It must have been settled.Diana's lingering concerns were finally put to rest. As long as they were on good terms again, she had no intention of prying into their privacy. She called the waiter over, and ordered, "Bring us some drunken prawns, with the top-grade tiger prawns."The waiter glanced at the room's number plate and said, "I'm sorry, but this room has been marked as
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It was a silent admission to Cecilia’s question. Noel was indeed the boss of this restaurant. Cecilia nodded. “It’s probably him.”Now that she thought about it, what she said to Noel earlier along the corridor probably sounded like a joke to him. “How evil could he be?” Cecilia snarled, angrier than she was before.Even her heart was thumping madly, rising to her throat. She felt embarrassed, amidst mixed feelings.Diana became increasingly confused. “How is he cruel? Did your chat with Noel not go well? You didn’t reconcile with him?”Reconcile?Cecilia sneered, then looked at Fanny. “You’re more familiar with business. How much money do you think is needed to open a restaurant like this?”“From investment to promotion, which is akin to going from zero to one, which includes rent, renovation, various materials and prepayment of labor, it’s around 1.5 million.”1.5 million.What a familiar figure.Cecilia turned to look at Diana. “He took 1.5 million from my family to
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Diana burst out laughing at Cecilia’s question.“Would you believe me if I said that I don’t know?”Cecilia was stunned for a moment. “You dared to get pregnant again before thinking things through? Doesn’t the internet advise you not to get pregnant before you think things through? What’s more, you’re carrying twins. Are you really prepared to have four children all of a sudden?”“Actually, sometimes, being muddleheaded is pretty good,” Diana said. She glanced at Cecilia before slowly shifting her gaze to Fanny. “Being muddleheaded certainly feels better than thinking through every single thing.“Sometimes, being happy is the most important thing in life.“Thinking too much and too clearly often makes you obsessed.“That would in turn make you feel less happy.“What’s more…“Who could be prepared for everything in life? “When you can accept something, you’ll be able to wait for it to happen naturally.”Cecilia looked confused as she listened to Diana. Many of her life philo
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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
