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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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“You’re so overbearing and selfish!” Those were Diana’s comments for Julian right now. She couldn’t win an argument against him, and didn’t even want to have an argument with him. Deep inside, she was indignant and frustrated. She had to open the window to let fresh air in and adjust her breathing. That was the only thing she could do to lift her mood. Julian wasn’t convinced. To him, Diana was more overbearing than he was. She even stripped him of his right to be a father. She was the one who wanted to get a divorce and leave him with his children in tow! But at the sight of the tears in Diana’s eyes, he swallowed the hurtful words that were at the tip of his tongue. The state that Diana was in right now… Definitely had something to do with what he did in the past. Over their three years of marriage, didn’t he silently strip her of her right to be a mother too? If it weren’t for him accidentally forgetting to replace the pills, she couldn’t possibly be pregnant
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She loved him, but that's none of his business. She would pretend that he didn’t tell her to call him Darling. Julian didn’t repeat himself. He was troubled by what he had said. Was he going crazy? Why in the world did he ask Diana to call him Darling? Inexplicable waves of emotions roiled in the depths of his eyes. He slowly turned to walk through the door as Diana left. “Julian!” Kayla waved her hands at him. Diana was standing right in between them. It seemed like things had always been like that; she was always passively involved in his and Kayla’s world. Julian looked at Diana’s retreating figure and mouthed a silent apology. How would things pan out for the three of them from here on? Especially for Kayla. Julian glanced at Kayla and asked, “Had your shower?” Kayla’s heart was filled with wrath each time she heard those words, but she dared not show her anger on her face. She merely smiled and said sweetly, “Yes. I’ll always listen to you, Julian.” Wit
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After all, he had climbed the ladder of success in the business world to achieve everything he had today. As long as he set his mind to it, it wasn’t difficult for him to see through someone. Especially for someone with a track record, like Kayla. She had deliberately sowed discord between him and Diana, and would sometimes even play little tricks against Diana. He knew all about it, and even covered up for her. He had gone as far as to pretend as if nothing had happened. Whatever it was, as long as Kayla wasn’t harmed, as long as he fulfilled his promise to protect her for life, as long as he was still repaying her kindness. That way, she wouldn’t have saved him in vain. Yet… She repeatedly took him for a fool, over and over again. This made Julian extremely uncomfortable. Especially right now. He turned around, refusing to see the concern in her eyes; the concern for Diana that was merely superficial. “If you’re really concerned about her, you should ask her d
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It was utterly disgusting. Diana rubbed her stomach to calm herself down. She didn’t want the filthy scene before her to soil her eyes, so she immediately went back to her room for a shower and a fresh change of clothes. She never once touched the dress that Julian bought for her at SK Mall. She found it absolutely filthy. … The next day at Hillary Hotel, Kayla was all made-up early in the morning. She had deliberately drawn her eyebrows to resemble that of Diana’s, and it made her look even more like her sister. She came early to the hotel to wait for Michael and the rest. Diana, on the other hand, was being pestered by her colleagues who had work for her to do. She only finally managed to emerge from the crowd when she was almost late to the dinner with the client at the hotel. But when she headed downstairs, she couldn’t get a taxi. She was still feeling traumatized about taking the train, and thought perhaps it was better for her to continue waiting. But the longe
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Tremors of fear crept up Kayla’s spine. She tried opening the door of the room, but no matter how much she twisted the handle, the door just wouldn’t budge. Michael pulled her to him in one swift move. The choking smell of alcohol on his body rushed up her nose, the smell so horrid that it made her eyes water. Kayla pinched her nose and struggled with all her might, but she was unable to resist him. It was true she wanted to make the entire scene look genuine, and make herself look more like a victim in order to sow discord between Julian and Diana. Even so, she didn’t want to be stuck in a situation like this! If she were to lose her innocence in such a way, she would have less leverage over Julian in the future. So, she must… Protect herself well before Julian arrived. However, she was just too physically weak. Under the influence of alcohol, Michael’s strength was unbridled and he locked Kayla tightly in his embrace. “You were the one who threw yourself at me. Co
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With that, he grabbed Kayla’s hair and dragged her to the table. Kayla knew very well what was going to happen next. She also knew that aside from herself, no one would be coming to save her. She could only once again pin her hopes on the many wine bottles lying around, one of which she grabbed and ruthlessly smashed against her own head before Michael could even react. Crash! The bottle broke into pieces on her head. Her action scared Michael, but he recovered very quickly. “You threw yourself at me, yet you’re deliberately showing me such a fierce side of yourself. Looks like you’re really trying to play hard to get.” His words made the fear in Kayla’s heart grow. She threw herself at him, not for the sake of this fat, ugly, middle-aged man! She had done it for the sake of winning Julian’s heart back! She did it for the sake of making his heart ache for her! In that case… Kayla’s eyes narrowed as a vicious look flashed past them. She glanced once more at Mich
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Three years ago, on the day when he realized that Kayla had gone missing, Julian went mad searching for her. He was worried sick that she was in danger. He was worried something untoward would happen to her on his turf. He didn’t expect Kayla to have gone abroad. Three years later, upon finding out that she had gone overseas due to cancer, he looked at his own wife, Diana, with his heart filled with guilt toward Kayla. He thought he could take good care of Kayla from now on. He thought he could give up on Diana and reunite with Kayla in no time, giving Kayla the wedding of her dreams to make up for lost time over the past three years. Yet now, after one month, he had done nothing for Kayla except to allow her to stay in his villa without an official status. He even developed feelings for Diana, and wanted to preserve the babies in her womb. And Kayla… Kayla knew nothing about all these. She had been wholeheartedly dreaming about their future. Yet today, he had let h
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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
