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Diana had never seen Nina like this before. Her heart felt constricted, as if there was a heavy stone on her chest. The feeling was so suffocating that she couldn't speak for a while.She just stared blankly at Nina. The words were at the tip of her tongue. If she hadn't said them, even Nina wouldn't know how to bring this conversation to a close. She was afraid Diana would keep harping on her and Vans, so she had to steel herself and continue to watch Diana coldly, forcing herself to say those words."Before, Julian..." she paused, raised an eyebrow at Diana, and continued, "Didn't he treat you as a stand-in? Essentially, Julian was just as scummy as Vans. Diana's own marriage wasn't that smooth. Her love went through many hardships before reaching today's harvest. Nina didn't think there was any difference between her and Vans and the past Diana and Julian. She couldn't tolerate Diana constantly picking at Vans and calling her a mistress.It was a stain on her and Vans
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Diana didn’t think she should have said that. However, she also didn’t think she should apologize to Nina. After all, she had Nina’s best interests at heart. It was precisely because she had experienced so much pain before that Diana hoped Nina’s relationship would be smooth-sailing, and that she would end up happy.…Instead of hopelessly waiting for Vans to fulfill his promise. Hopelessly becoming a third wheel in someone else’s relationship, treating whatever leftover moments she could have as happiness.That was too cruel to Nina.A pity Nina was too deep in her affections for Vans that she couldn’t pull herself out of it.Diana didn’t open the door for Julian despite him knocking, and he had wanted to key in the password to enter the room. However, he was worried that she would be angry if he did that. He had no choice but to call Betty over.He hoped Betty would be able to cheer Mommy up, enough that she would leave the room.At the moment, Betty was playing in her r
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If only Sean were around!Then, he and Sean could each coax one lady. If Sean were around, Julian wouldn’t need to coax Betty. All Sean needed to do was to stand right there, and tell Betty to smile. Right after that, she would definitely flash her brother her brightest smile.Ever since Sean joined the training squad, there was no one else at home who could handle Betty. Julian suddenly really missed his son.Meanwhile, Sean had never felt so terrified in his life.After he found Leonard’s dead body, he didn’t contact Oliver. He was even seen as a suspect for Leonard’s death, and was sent into the internal police station in the training camp. It was clear that the training camp itself was a self-sustaining society. Everything here mirrored the actual society outside. There were policemen who banned the suspect almost immediately.Age posed no restrictions whatsoever here.Abilities were the most important, followed closely by one’s family background.Nobody Sean Winni
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That shadow traumatized Sean deeply.The interrogator was still chuckling smugly.“Seems like you don’t think this hurts like hell. I was wrong,” he said, in a coarse voice that sounded like sandpaper. “I’m sorry, Sean. Will you forgive me?”Before giving Sean a chance to speak, he stood up and laughed loudly. “You didn’t cry for Mommy despite it hurting so much.”In fact, Sean didn’t even have the energy to say anything. It hurt so much, he felt as though his blood stopped flowing and his skin started puckering up. Sean slumped on the ground, his usual proud and cool demeanor all but gone.Perhaps Oliver was going to break his promise, he thought.Before, he promised Julian that he would keep Sean alive in the training camp.But now…His life was on the line, and no one seemed to be coming to rescue him.It hurt.The pain spread from his fingers to his heart.He finally found the energy to look at his own hands. His hands, that had been with him day and night over the pas
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Julian crouched, and looked straight at Betty. “Of course. It’s important that you’re happy, Betty.” “That’s good.” Betty’s bright eyes glistened with unshed tears as she opened the door to her room. “Please leave, then.”Julian was stunned.“I’ll be happy once you leave,” Betty said as she stared at Julian with her big, bright eyes.She was waiting for his response. Julian immediately felt defeated. “Betty, I…”He had hoped that Betty would come in handy to coax his wife.As it turned out, Betty wouldn’t even allow him through her door and was heartlessly chasing him out.If he didn’t leave, Betty’s tears would fall.Julian didn’t get it. “Are you upset because I came into your room?”Yesterday, Betty was still his thoughtful little darling. Yet today, why did he feel like a criminal who had offended her? Betty nodded. “Yes!”Julian was flabbergasted. What on earth did he do to offend her? Upon seeing Julian still stunned, Betty urged, “Hurry up! You already said you
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Betty held herself back from saying anything for close to half a day. Her mouth opened and closed, but she didn’t dare to speak. Under Julian’s encouragement, she finally said, “Mommy, may I…”Julian thought Betty wanted a lot of money. In fact, before Betty was done speaking, he took out his black credit card and stuffed it in her hands.“Don’t spoil her,” Diana said, uncomfortable with letting Betty own a credit card at such a young age. “She has a seven-figure sum in her e-wallet alone.”What chances would she, a young girl still in kindergarten, have to spend so much money? Julian insisted that it was a token of good luck for her, even adding that children had to be inculcated with the values of wealth management from a young age. Of course, they had to have wealth first before they could learn how to manage it.Julian always had strange logic and reasoning whenever it came to the children, especially where Betty was concerned.Thankfully, Betty didn’t turn out spoiled.
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That was the freedom Betty had been looking forward to for a long time. It was time she had to herself to let her hair down.Julian didn’t want to interrupt her.Julian left her door and turned to walk back to the master bedroom he shared with Diana. He lifted his hand, and knocked on the door.Diana heard the knocks, but didn’t stand up. “What do you want?”She sounded sullen and clearly upset, which frustrated Julian. “Diana…” he coaxed in a low voice. “Open the door for me, come on.”Everyone in this house was ignoring him, and it was souring his mood.He had seen that Diana was clearly in a bad mood, but because he wanted to see Nina off first, he didn’t rush to talk to Diana about it.“Nina has something she wants me to convey to you.”Nina…Diana thought again about her best friend, who said such hurtful words not long ago. She suppressed the pain overflowing from her heart, and said, “There's nothing to be said. I want to be alone.”“What exactly happened between you
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That thought made her relax and give up on the urge to find Julian. She continued talking to Jim. “Professor Hughes, how have you been?”“I’m fine,” Jim said with a smile. “In fact, I’ll continue being very fine from now on.”His health was something he had the most confidence in.“Have you found your father, Ms. Winnington?”Jim always asked the most private questions.The strange thing was, Diana didn’t feel offended by it. She could even sense the genuine concern in his voice.“No,” she answered honestly, opening up to him gradually. “Something happened to a friend of mine recently.”Firstly, Noel broke up.Then, Fanny passed away. Diana didn’t sleep very soundly during the rainy night last night. “Julian and I didn’t have the capacity to deal with this.”She grew up not experiencing the love of her biological parents. Now that she thought about it, life would always go on, whether she could find her parents or not.“It seems you haven’t been in a good mood recently,”
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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
