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He was like a robot always on standby, ready in his best condition to double down and work.Yet, this time, he looked so distracted.Sometimes, even when there was a commotion outside, Noel would continue standing rooted to the spot in a daze, as if he didn’t hear anything at all.Seeing him so unlike himself, Diana sighed. She decided to let Julian talk to Noel. Julian’s words carried more weight to Noel. Noel might heed his counsel, and give himself and Cecilia another chance.Julian disagreed, however. Diana out, he analyzed the situation for her. “He wouldn’t listen to me. You don’t understand. Firstly, his pride has suffered a beating. Secondly, he felt like he was let down for trusting her.”The problem between him and Cecilia wasn’t going to be easily resolved.“Noel’s probably going to feel down for a period. The Jarvises clearly have a hand in this, in an attempt to stop them from being together.”New problems would arise even after resolving this misunderstanding. Wh
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He looked at the “chief”, who was fast asleep.Everyone else in the dorm was asleep.Sean stepped out of bed, and carefully walked down the metal stairs.All was silent.Sean’s feet finally touched the ground.He walked on tiptoes to the bed of Leonard Mason, whom everyone saw as the chief of the dorm, and secretly pulled out a small packet of pills from above his pillow.The pills inside were black.Sean put it to his nose, and took a whiff. It smelled surprisingly sweet and refreshing, unlike the bitterness that he had in mind.Each time he saw people in the dorm eat the pills, they would furrow their brows. No matter what the pill’s ingredients may be, Sean was convinced that whoever ate them would become stronger and more powerful during their training.Tomorrow was the start of a new match.He wanted to try and see if the pill really had such an effect.Thus, he chose to seize the chance in the middle of the night while everyone was asleep to throw the pills into the
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Archery was a sport Sean really liked.But…“You can’t even pull a bow, and you want to compete?”“Not just that. He’s barely as tall as the bow!”“What is he doing here, trying to act tough at his age?”“I heard there’s some nepotism involved. He’s just here to try things out. He won’t stay for long.”Everyone at the competition murmured under their breaths, mocking him.They wondered how rich his family had to be to send him into the training camp to pick up skills necessary for a successor at such a young age.“Which family could it be? Leonard knows every rich and powerful family there is in Richburgh, but we’ve never seen him talk to this kid.”“Yeah, and his surname’s Winnington.“I’ve asked around. Among the Winningtons, there’s no one called Sean.” Everyone looked at Sean in disdain, as rumors about his origins started spreading.The training camp itself was a mimic of society. It was filled with relationships, networks and social hierarchies. Oliver never steppe
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The target board fell to the ground with a crash.Everyone’s attention was drawn to Leonard, and they cheered, “He must have scored 10 points again!”“Exactly! Leonard always comes out on top in every match. No surprises there!”Leonard was the only one who knew how badly his heart was shaking. He only…had one pill left.He didn’t take any today, and he clearly felt weaker and less focused than usual. Toward the end… At his last shot, when the arrow left the bow, the impact was so strong that his feet shifted and he lost his balance.Thankfully, he had a good foundation and could keep his feet grounded. He didn’t end up embarrassing himself.Otherwise, his reputation would have been tarnished.If the Mason family back in Jacroaof were to hear about it, they would definitely find him useless and take him back home.If that happened, there would be no place for him in the family—a boy whose mother had died, and whose father got bewitched by another woman and remarried.Leona
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That definitely had something to do with the pills. Sean didn’t care about others. He only cared about Leonard.Defeating Leonard was akin to defeating everyone else in the training camp.Knowing oneself and one’s enemy guarantees success all the time. Sean was now certain that Leonard couldn’t succeed without those pills. He needed to find out where those black pills came from.This potentially involved all the rich heirs of reputable families across Rich burgh and even the whole of Jacroaof. How many of them relied on those pills? The answer to that would reveal the pills’ effectiveness.However, Sean never expected to stumble upon a shocking discovery.Those black pills came from the Hughes family of Jacroaof!Almost half of the members of the training camp were taking them. They were almost as expensive as high-end drugs.Could something with such an explosive effect considered medicine? Sean grew increasingly worried.On a rainy night, Sean saw Leonard take the black
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He tickled Diana under her arm, making her feel itchy.She couldn’t hold back her laughter. She launched a counterattack, wanting to make Julian regret it.He chuckled along with her.The lightning and thunder outside seemed less threatening with the peals of laughter sounding from their villa. Diana started feeling tired and slumped against Julian’s torso, rubbing her stomach and panting.“Take a rest,” Julian said, pulling her back to the bed and making her lie down. He pulled her legs onto his lap, and massaged it out of habit as he comforted her gently, “It’s getting late. You can’t forego sleep just because it’s raining.”Diana was getting a little tired.Julian was getting increasingly better at massage. Very soon, she felt sleepy.Just when she was about to fall asleep…Bam!Loud thunder sounded.Diana’s eyes popped wide open, as if she had witnessed a scary scene. She sat bolt upright and yelled, “Sean!”Uneasiness spread across her heart.Her forehead broke out in
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Julian yelled at the top of his voice a few more times. “Where are you right now? Oliver, can you hear me?”Oliver heard Julian calling his name. “I’m with the crew. It’s raining very heavily today.”With that, a buzzing sound came through once more. Julian waited patiently for the buzzing sound to disappear, before mentioning Sean to Oliver.To his surprise, the call got cut off and Oliver’s end went silent.“Where in the world is he at for filming?” Julian said with furrowed brows. He turned to look at Diana, and told her about the call just now. “How could he not even have a signal? Is he with Fanny? Isn’t Fanny pregnant?”Diana was unable to answer all of Julian’s queries. But now, she no longer needed to worry about bothering Fanny. She took over, and gave Fanny a call. While waiting for her call to be answered, Diana explained to Julian, “I remember Oliver and Fanny use phones of different brands. Maybe Fanny’s phone gets a better signal. I’ll try and see if I can call
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On that rainy night, the roads were practically empty.Rain fell like shards of glass illuminated by the streetlights, making one feel light-headed.Oliver stepped all the way on the accelerator.Fanny was slumped across the back seat, grasping her stomach in pain as she groaned in disbelief. “Oliver…”No matter how many times she called out to him, he continued driving like a lunatic.He refused to look back at her.Fanny curled herself up into a ball as the pain became increasingly intense. She felt as if her body was all drained of blood and her breath was taken away. Her body trembled with excruciating pain.“Oliver…” she cried, tears streaming down her face.Oliver continued looking straight ahead as if he heard nothing, accelerating like a madman.Yet, it hurt so much. “Our baby…”The baby was gone.The baby was gone!She could sense life slowly ebbing away from inside her.As Fanny sobbed in pain, Oliver finally responded.He turned his face around.Gold-rimmed
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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
