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When Diana heard the heavy footsteps behind her, insecurity washed over her. She felt a rising pressure crushing her very bones.This man…He seemed to be much more concerned with her health than she was.However, his presence was much too strong, and she was hiding something from him. She would feel a little guilty whenever he looked at her. "I'll go with Oliver. You can wait outside."She didn't want Julian to come along, but Julian wouldn't give in so easily."This involves Kayla. I want to come with you."Only then did Diana realize he was concerned because the scent they carried came from Kayla.Diana realized she was overthinking again.She recalled his warm hand, and the mysterious yet forceful heartbeats she heard in the ultrasound room. She felt a pang of disappointment once more.However, she didn't let it show."Alright." Diana could already behave completely indifferent whenever Kayla and Julian were involved.A brief dimness appeared in Julian's eyes.However,
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Lucy felt equally troubled by what she heard. Mainly, it was because she didn't expect Julian to resist such strong drugs. That man was certainly extraordinary.If she wanted to become his mother-in-law, there was still a long way to go.She needed to be more cruel."That leaves us with no choice." Lucy made up her mind. "Didn't you say there's a company event Diana was supposed to attend?""That's right. The superior who invited her is a scum," Kayla replied. "Are you implying I should make Diana fall into his trap?""No, it's you. You have to fall into it," Lucy said.Kayla and Diana looked very alike. It was time to make use of this fact."You'll attend the event in her place," Lucy explained.Kayla immediately rejected the suggestion. "No way! You have no idea how scary Michael is, Mom. Someone in the company was specifically chosen by him to attend a so-called company event, but the next day, that girl…" Kayla shivered at the thought. "Mom, I really can't do this. If I los
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As for Diana, Kayla would get someone to hold her off.When the time came, Julian would think she didn't have a choice but to attend the event in Diana's place, which was how she bumped into a scumbag like Michael.Kayla was certain Julian would feel bad for her!However, the thought of Michael's bad reputation made her feel a little uneasy.This man had more tricks up his sleeve than Luke.However, Kayla needed to attend the event in Diana's stead. She had to!She wouldn't allow Julian to continue being nice to Diana.-Julian didn't bring Diana home right after the checkup.Instead, he took her to L in SK Mall.The two hadn't been here ever since Diana bought the store."Choose whatever you want," Julian said. He didn't want Diana to feel pressured.After all, they had a bad falling out because he forced her to repay him the money she owed.If they took clothes from this store, it would mean Diana was taking clothes from her own store.To his surprise, Diana chose only
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Diana hadn't put her heart into choosing the outfit.When Julian noticed this, his smile gradually faded."I don't like it." He pointed in a random direction on this floor. "There are many more outfits for men."That meant he wanted Diana to continue searching for an outfit for him."But I'm feeling a little tired." The doctor who did the ultrasound scan told her that she needed to rest more.If she continued shopping, stamina wouldn't be the only problem she faced. There were so many people here in the shopping mall. Diana was worried she would bump against someone and hurt herself.Julian suddenly lifted his hand.Snap!He snapped his fingers.Within a minute, everyone in the shopping mall was gone.After that, Noel came over with an electric wheelchair. "Madam, please have a seat.""Huh?" Diana was confused."Mr. Fulcher thought there were too many people, and it was too annoying," Noel explained. "Besides, you're on your period. It's better for you to be sitting while y
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Was he waiting for her to praise him?Diana resisted the urge for a long while. "They all look pretty good."After saying that, she thought for a moment before making another comment. "But I don't have that much money to buy clothes for you. You can only choose one."When Julian first heard this, the temperature of the air around him instantly dropped by at least ten degrees.When did Julian ever need a woman to pay for his clothes?After some consideration, he remembered that Diana was the one paying for his outfit.Did that mean it was a gift from Diana?Once he reframed his mindset, he agreed to it, and the coldness between his brows slowly faded. He didn't argue with her. "Fine. I'll only pick one."His voice was elegant and deep.After trying on multiple outfits, the front part of his hair had already turned droopy. Now, he appeared completely harmless.For a brief moment, Diana almost thought they had returned to the old days.They used to be so loving to each other.
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Julian's cheeks suddenly turned red. "Okay. I won't regret it."Diana was afraid the previous incident would repeat itself. She reached out with her pinky. "It's a pinky swear!"A pinky swear?That was absolutely dumb!Julian refused to do it.Although he thought about not doing it, he still reached out with his finger.Diana was excited. "The deal has been sealed, and it cannot be changed for a hundred years!"As soon as Diana said this, she wrapped her pinky tightly around his. "Done."She hadn't felt this alive for a very long time.Their fingers hadn't been this close to each other for a very long time, too.At this moment, Julian felt as if he was dreaming. He looked at her in stunned silence while she beamed. In fact, by the time Diana had pulled away, he was still holding out his pinky in the same position.Diana could feel that the wheelchair wasn't moving. She turned around. "Let's go already."Julian's cheeks turned even redder after Diana looked at him like this.
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If Julian were to find out that her stomach was hurting not because of her period cramps, would he consider tearing through her stomach with his bare hands right this moment?Diana was so frightened by the possibility that her whole body went stiff.Julian sensed a change in her and lowered his head to ask, “What’s wrong?”But to Diana, he looked just like a demon from hell. “Jul…Julian.”She began stuttering, “My stomach no longer hurts. I was just joking with you earlier. Just let me sit here, and I’ll be fine.”Julian could tell at a glance what she was feeling guilty about. He didn’t want to tease her about it, but couldn’t help himself.“Relax.” He just wanted to feel his babies. Contrary to his advice, Diana was unable to relax with his hand still there.She felt tense both in her mind and heart and said as she tried to push his hand away, “I’m fine, really. It doesn’t hurt anymore…”“Nonsense!” Julian could see through her and insisted on leaving his hand there, refu
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Julian immediately remembered Diana’s divorce plan and her questions at the dinner table. “Are you so eager to get a divorce?!” Diana was rendered speechless. “Be reasonable, will you?! You were the one who suggested getting a divorce. You were the one who brought Kayla into the house. You were the one who made me a substitute! And now, you’re accusing me of being eager to get divorced?” Silence ensued in the car. Very quickly, Diana went on, “I didn’t want to in the past.” Back then, when Julian had first brought up divorce, she would hide somewhere and cry alone. The feeling intensified after finishing up the bowl of porridge he made for her and sensing that his heart was no longer with her. Subsequently, when she found out that she was nothing but a replacement for Kayla, she felt even more hopeless about their marriage. She no longer wanted to hold out any hope. She didn’t want to allow herself to ask the ridiculous and lowly question of whether the divorce would
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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
