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"But I've prepared a meal." Larry obediently opened the door, looking at Cecilia with a disgruntled expression. "Won't you stay for a meal and taste my cooking?"He spoke, and made way for Cecilia. "But if you want to leave now, you can. I won't force you."Seeing him being so submissive, Cecilia suddenly berated herself inwardly again. It must have been her overthinking. If Larry had any ill intentions, why would he have opened the door?Cecilia took a few steps back, silently cursing her overactive suspicion. She apologized to Larry again. "That's fine."She placed her bag back on the shelf, and said, "Let's have a meal, and then I'll leave. It's a good opportunity to taste your cooking."After all, he already prepared the dishes. Cecilia wasn't very full, so having an early dinner now and going home after would work out well.Larry immediately smiled, causing the muscles on his face to tremble, making him look like an adorable big tiger.It must have been her overthinking.
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In the end, Cecilia didn't know which button she pressed, but she was forced to take her hand out of the bag to grip the vase with both hands. "Stay away from me, Larry!"-Noel had been driving for over six consecutive hours on the road from Richburgh to Jacroaof. During this journey, he and Julian hadn't even stopped for the restroom to save time and reach Jacroaof more quickly."I can take over," Julian suggested, wanting to switch with Noel for a while.Noel refused. "I'll continue."In the past, he had driven continuously for two days and nights, eventually reaching the destination safely with stable and high-speed driving."As your assistant, I can't lack physical strength."If it were in the past, Julian wouldn't have said anything.But this time... "Noel, let me take over."Julian was restless in the back seat, and he was better off driving.Noel was about to say something, but quickly nodded when he saw Julian's expression. "Okay."At any time, Julian's wishes
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Jim was momentarily stunned. "In love?" He shook his head. "Whether I've been in love or not has nothing to do with Julian and you."Diana shook her head, smiling bitterly. "It does matter. Because I've loved, I know he wouldn't give up on me like this."Ignoring his calls and deliberately not responding to him before was just her being a little petty. She knew he would tolerate her and come to her side faster than expected, because she was loved.Because Julian loved her, she could act without restraint.Hearing Diana's resolute voice, Jim lowered his head. What caught his eye was her brightly sparkling eyes, especially when talking about Julian. And yet, a coldness flickered in the corner of her eyes, seemingly directed at him. She looked at him as if he were a pitiable person.But how could he be pitiable? He became a university professor at a young age, owned a laboratory, had considerable wealth, and had a mother who fully supported his research endeavors.In fact, J
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The afternoon sun wasn’t as scorching as it was in the morning. It felt gentler and made Diana’s dewy skin glow. When a stray lock of hair fell, it seemed like a ripple spreading out on a sparkling lake.Jim’s mood lifted instantly.With her head bent over and her neck exposed, Diana looked like she belonged in a beautiful painting. There was a delightful charm about her, with her hand resting on her swollen belly.“Have you ever fallen in love?” Jim suddenly asked Diana as he looked at her.He had never been in love. Yet, suddenly, he felt an itch in the depths of his heart.He clicked on the browser on his computer and briefly described what he was feeling right now in the search bar. The conclusion he arrived at was, “OP, you want to be in a relationship.”Jim felt as though someone had hit him over the head with a hammer.How could he possibly want to be in a relationship?With a pregnant lady, no less!He should be concentrating on his research. His mother said that o
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Night hadn’t yet fallen upon them, but the room was already getting dark.The curtains in Fanny’s room were drawn such that Oliver couldn’t even tell if it was day or night in the room.All he could see was the woman before him. Her skin was fair and her facial features were striking, and she looked at him with doe eyes. Fanny glanced at the door behind Oliver that he just shut, and chuckled inwardly.Oliver wasn’t as composed as she expected him to be.Over the past few years, she had always thought of him as an insurmountable peak, someone unfathomable. That was why she kept her love for him in the depths of her heart, never daring to say it out.Recently, however, Fanny was beginning to think that nothing in this world was sacred and unfathomable.She was in the depths of hell.Her gaze was raw. Oliver looked away, and his Adam’s apple trembled ever so slightly. He grabbed the first-aid kit in the room and walked to her, then sat down on the bedside.“Are you going to ch
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Oliver was aware of this shortcoming of his, which was why whenever he was with Fanny, he never wore his heart on his sleeve. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be able to stop embarrassing himself before her.What if she didn’t like what she saw of him?Thus, Oliver wanted to hide his emotions from her.Yet now, he couldn’t help but expose his true feelings before her.The moment he sensed his ears turning red, he pulled his hand back in embarrassment and fled to the washroom to hide his anxiety.When he emerged from the washroom once more, he was still his usual polite and gentlemanly self. However, the words he said were cold as ice, breaking Fanny’s already broken heart even further. “Fanny Smith, your parents are watching you from up above. Please have some self-respect.”His words were deeply piercing.It almost made the tears in Fanny’s eyes fall.Thanks to her lengthy experience in acting, however, she was able to go through with this facade.She knew at which angle and which ex
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Fanny recalled the desperation she felt that night and the pain of losing her baby. The memories were like a snake, coiling around her heart and suffocating it.Oliver didn’t have the willpower to resist Fanny’s temptation, especially when she whispered in his ear about pretending that she was Diana.Was that what she thought of him?Why did she choose to mention another woman at such a time when she was so intimate with him?“I don’t love her anymore,” he said. He saw Diana as just a friend right now.In fact, sometimes, he preferred contacting Julian instead. At the very least, Julian could give him some tips on pursuing his wife and help him stabilize his relationship with Fanny.However, Fanny didn’t believe him.She was certain about Oliver’s attitude toward her from the bottom of her heart. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have hidden the truth about his father causing her parents’ death from her!All the more he wouldn’t have told her that she was merely his tool to bear children
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Her diligence at doing handstands coupled with the frequency he was visiting her…Oliver’s brows furrowed. He was getting worried.He was worried that Fanny would soon get pregnant. She might eventually tell him that she wanted to leave him after giving birth to their child!That was her goal, wasn’t it?She was the one treating him as a tool.He could sense her affection for him vanishing, and he felt suffocated. He couldn’t help but look at her; he was about to stop her when he heard his phone ring.It was a call from his father.Oliver’s eyes turned dark. He glanced at Fanny before heading to the washroom. Very soon, he came out of the washroom once more, his face pale.“I’m heading home.”His father was on the verge of death.Shock flashed past Fanny’s face when she found out.She hadn’t taken revenge yet. She hadn’t even found out her parents’ names!How could that man just die like that?!At that moment, she couldn’t figure out if she felt happy or not. She instincti
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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
