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Julian’s Stand-In Wife Chapter 494
Upon hearing those words, Oliver was displeased. "Of course I confessed to her. Did you think Diana was the one pursuing me?"Normally, he wasn’t one to easily get angry with others; but when it came to Diana, he wouldn't tolerate any insult towards her.He even shot Noel a warning look. "Diana has already divorced Julian, so she's free to date whoever she wants, right?"Noel's heart sank.He had underestimated Oliver.Oliver might seem gentle, but he was not someone to mess with. As expected from a member of the Channing family! Noel even felt a sense of guilt growing when Oliver looked at him.He hadn't been wrong. Oliver was indeed a formidable man.That also meant that he was qualified to challenge Julian."I didn't mean it that way," Noel explained without much thought, though he was still in shock. "As you've arrived, Mr. Channing, I'll take my leave."He had to quickly tell Julian that they had been wrong all along. It wasn't Diana who liked Oliver. It was the oth
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Diana was stunned by Oliver's words."What can you do?"Julian's defense of Kayla had reached a point of madness, and Diana didn't have much hope of touching that woman."Just leave it to me," Oliver assured. "Kayla has done so much evil. She must pay the price."Diana felt gratitude rush through her. It was the first time someone had explicitly told her that Kayla needed to pay the price.However, gratitude wasn’t the same as love."If you need anything from me in the future, I'll do everything I can to help you.""I haven't even fulfilled this promise yet, and you're already thinking of how to repay me," Oliver said, and suddenly locked eyes with her. "If it were Julian, would you react the same way?"If it were Julian...Would she?It seemed highly unlikely. She would be grateful and keep it in her heart, but she wouldn't think about how to repay him or give Julian anything.As Diana pondered on the topic, she gradually got lost in thought.Oliver gave Diana a pained loo
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Diana bent down and tried to crawl out from under the man's shoulder, but he didn't allow her to leave."No," Simon said, pointing to the victim's family member. "You leaving the corridor caused him to rush to me and disturb me."Diana felt that this man was being completely unreasonable, and glared at him. "You ran someone over, so you should compensate the victim!" Simon laughed, though there was no humor in it. "It's his lucky day that I hit him, you know? Why would I need to compensate for anything?"He went on to laugh loudly, as though he had heard the funniest joke in the world. As he did so, his hands reached up to pinch Diana's cheek inappropriately."You're adorable."Diana slapped his hand away angrily, and pushed him away."You're crazy!"Instead of getting angry as she thought he would, he continued to laugh maliciously, his alluring eyes fixated on her. "Yes. I'm crazy. Mentally ill, in fact. And you've gotten on my nerves."Diana shivered, not knowing how exa
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Though Diana didn't go looking for trouble, that didn't mean she was afraid of it either. Especially now, when the situation had found her instead."Enough!" Diana yelled as she turned around. She looked at Simon, whose alluring eyes carried a glint of malicious mischief. "What do you want?""Nothing," Simon replied easily, snapping his fan open and lightly placing it under Diana's chin. "I simply wanted to introduce myself to you."Diana leaned back, avoiding his fan. "You're nuts!""Yes, and you should remember that," Simon said. Though his fan had missed its mark, he didn't get angry. He simply moved closer to Diana and said in a low voice, "I am crazy."With that, he tapped her on the head with his fan and disappeared down the hospital corridor. The victim's family member, who had been screaming and shouting earlier, had also vanished without a trace.When the security guard arrived, everything was peaceful again. If it weren't for the blood on the ground, Diana would’ve
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"What will happen to everyone involved in the accident?""The Channings will take responsibility," Oliver replied. "At the end of the day, Simon is still part of the family, so it'll be taken care of properly. Don't worry about it."A serious car accident, at this moment, was reduced into a trivial matter when faced with the Channing family's power.Thinking about it carefully, it was a little frightening.Diana couldn't help but recall how powerless she had been in the face of Julian.As for her encounter with Simon, she didn't pay much attention to it. As long as he wasn't gunning for her, it was fine.Besides, with Oliver around, he could keep his younger brother under control. To Diana, the most important thing right now was to make Kayla pay the price for what the latter had done to her poor babies. If she didn’t, there was no reason for her to live; she would feel like a complete failure.When her babies were well and alive in her stomach, she hadn't been able to pro
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But if Julian had taken Kayla and left back then, things might not have ended well. Besides, he had assumed that Diana preferred Oliver's company to his. Now, it was too late to say anything.Julian felt regret coursing through him once more.At this moment, Kayla approached him. The wound on her face had been wrapped properly, and there wouldn't be any scars due to the timely treatment she had received. However, blood was still seeping through the bandages, and the sight was frightening."Julian," Kayla said gently as she placed a cup of coffee on the table. "Have a drink."For so many days, Kayla had stayed quietly in the background, making coffee for him without complaining or arguing with him. As Julian had always been with her the entire time, he was unable to imagine Kayla having the time to do anything to Diana.The only explanation for Diana's outburst was because Kayla had drugged Diana when she was pregnant, and that she hadn't been able to let go of it."I apologize,
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"Forget it," Julian said. "Let's leave it as it is right now."He wouldn't contact Diana or meet her, just as she had requested on that rainy day. Even after the argument between her and Kayla, he would still obey her wishes.He only hoped for Diana to be a little happier and get out of Kayla's shadow as soon as possible.-"What?!" Nina exclaimed loudly as she placed her camera on the table.Her head was throbbing in anger as she listened to Diana recount her day. Then, she walked to the balcony and looked down at the unit below them.The lights were on, but the sliding doors leading to the balcony were closed, making it impossible to see what was going on inside."Ugh, he's so persistent!" Nina growled, clearly furious. "Why did Julian and Kayla have to live below us?"In the beginning, they had intentionally avoided the apartment Vans had recommended to avoid possibly bumping into Kayla and Julian.It seemed that their efforts were in vain, as they still ended up in this si
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"You already know the answer to that. Why bother asking?"That sentence easily summed up all the bitterness in Diana's heart."At first, I planned to die with Kayla today. That's why I bought the knife. I even slashed her face. I only needed to exert a little more force, and I could’ve cut a major artery on her neck..."Diana said it without any hint of remorse or regret. Rather, her only regret was that she had never done such a brutal thing before, and that she had been too slow to plunge the knife into Kayla's neck."Diana..." Nina was choked up, and her heart ached fiercely. "You should’ve contacted me as soon as possible."Diana shouldn't have had to be alone in such a situation."I can handle myself," Diana said as she pulled Nina away from the doorway. "Even if you were with me, I wouldn't have asked you to do anything. I don't want anything to happen to you."In fact, if Nina had been there, Diana would be in a tougher situation and even more restricted. She was afraid K
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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
