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Julian’s Stand-In Wife Chapter 518
"What? What are you talking about?" Kate continued looking at Diana, anger burning in her eyes, as if they were archenemies rather than mother and daughter.Diana felt her heart grow increasingly colder at Kate's gaze. She gritted her teeth and was about to speak, but then she noticed a flicker of panic on James's face. Suddenly, he raised his hand and slapped himself hard. A loud smack resounded in the hallway.It was even stronger than the force of Diana's previous slap.He looked at Diana with a face bearing the imprint of his palm. "Diana, I'm so sorry. It was my fault. I shouldn't have...""Shouldn't have what?" Diana pressed, sharply and relentlessly."I…I shouldn't have dug up your children's gr-gra..."James couldn't even bring himself to finish the sentence. His whole body was already trembling like the final leaf on a dry branch.Instead, he dropped loudly to his knees and bowed continuously to Diana as he pleaded, "Please, I beg you... I beg you!" This man, who
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When Diana saw Kate's reaction, her smile grew colder.She didn't bother responding to Kate's words and continued, "Or perhaps you want me to forgive James for desecrating the grave of my children?""Or maybe you want me to forgive the coldness you showed when I came to claim my identity?""Or do you want me to forgive your intentions of marrying me off to that old man from the Pabian family?""Or maybe, you want me to forgive you for your choice between me and Kayla?"Who were they to speak of asking for her forgiveness?!"No! There's no need for that!" The string of questions made James's head spin like a vortex. "As long as you're happy, it doesn't matter if you forgive us or not! But I hope you won't be angry anymore. It's not worth harming your health because of parents like us!"James's attitude was completely different than usual.Diana studied him for a while, but she couldn't figure out the ulterior motives behind his change of heart.After a short pause, Diana as
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James's eyes widened at Diana's words.When he showed her his call records, he hadn't intended for this to happen!He wanted Diana to see his good side, to know that he had once wanted to tip her off and that he had once felt guilty. But he didn't expect Diana to be so heartless and associate it with their last conversation.In other words, the one time Diana called with concern about him, he was in the midst of the despicable act of digging her children's graves...James quickly snapped back to his senses and hurriedly explained to Diana, "That wasn't my intention! Everything that day was all Kayla's doing-""That day will be the last time I ever consider you my father from the bottom of my heart," Diana said with clenched fists. Her nails dug into her palm painfully as she issued her final ultimatum to James, seemingly calm.In reality, there were a thousand needles stabbing into her heart.Upon hearing this, James's face turned pale instantly; his hand holding the phone t
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After Kate finished speaking, she hurriedly glanced behind. Soon, someone brought her a pile of nutrient supplements.Kate held them to her chest and walked past Diana coldly.How ridiculous!Diana watched the older woman's retreating back with a bitter smile.She knew Kate would be biased, but she hadn't considered the extent of the latter’s blatant favoritism.Even after making it clear that Diana's disappearance had been deliberate, Kate could still act as if nothing had happened!She was truly...A heartless person.Diana was ashamed to have such wicked parents.Still, she wanted to see if Kate would have even a moment of regret or heartache for her, or if Kate would turn around to spare her a glance.So, she followed them.She followed them until she saw them enter Kayla's ward with a pile of nutrient supplements before returning to her own room.It was pointless to keep hoping.She should stop.For Diana, familial and romantic love were truly the cruelest things in
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Waiting here indefinitely was not a solution.Sooner or later, Julian would come to settle the score with her.Diana pondered momentarily, then tore a piece of paper and wrote: 'I've removed you from my WhatsApp blacklist. Contact me if you need anything.'After that, she stuck the note in a prominent place and went to the pharmacy to get some medication before leaving the hospital.By the time Julian found the message, Diana had long since gone from the hospital.Julian was confused. "What does she mean by this?" The corner of his lips were tilted up in a small as he stared at the paper, then at his phone. Then, he said to Noel, "She said she removed me from her blacklist, and even told me to contact her if anything... What do you think she meant?"Noel considered it for a long time before finally saying, "I'm not sure, sir."Noel couldn't decipher Diana's intentions at all. After all, she and Julian had a massive argument before coming to the hospital.Why the sudden chan
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Julian had only called Kayla that to put Diana's mind at ease.How ridiculous!Kayla once thought that Diana was her substitute. Unexpectedly, Diana was the one he truly cherished, his first love, and the love of his life.But with all that Kayla had done, how could she accept the current outcome?She looked up, revealing her ruined face and eyes filled with resentment. "Daddy, Mommy."As soon as she uttered those words, James and Kate burst into tears."My poor Kayla," Kate said as she gently caressed Kayla's face. Her heart ached at the sight, and her hands trembled uncontrollably. "How... How did you get so severely hurt?"Kayla took a deep breath and said, "It was Diana. Diana did this to me."James knew Diana had attacked Kayla, but he never expected her to be so ruthless. His resentment towards her grew deeper."That wretched girl! We should’ve just killed her from the start! She doesn't deserve to be part of our family! She should just die in a ditch somewhere outsi
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At the moment, Fulcher. Inc's operation and development were very stable, but Julian was never a man who was content with the status quo. As the helmsman of Fulcher Inc., he had arranged detailed and meticulous expansion plans for the company. However, he rarely needed to intervene in day-to-day matters personally, and only important decisions required his input.This meant he could be away from the company and focus all his attention on Diana."I'm telling you, her current physical condition is excellent," Vans told him for the hundredth time. "How many more times do you want me to say it?""But she keeps fainting." Julian still couldn't be at ease. "I've already contacted your director. Let's have a discussion and prescribe some medicine."Was this situation really worth alarming the hospital director...?Vans didn't dare to argue with this young master, so he just raised an eyebrow in surprise. "And then... You want me to deliver the medicine to Diana?"Vans’s relationship
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Then, Julian took the prescribed medication and returned to Diana’s apartment.He assumed she would’ve returned home, but learned from the property management that there had been no movement since yesterday.Strange.Where could she have gone? Julian couldn't wait even a minute longer. He wanted to see Diana as soon as possible.After thinking it over, he went to the cemetery. He rarely came here, and every time he did, he would think about Diana's breakdown and the fact that the Aster and Star were already not in this world. As long as he didn't come, he could continue living in his imagination and pretend that the two children were still alive and well in this world. Pretend... That he was still in that time when he and Diana were eagerly awaiting the birth of their children. Those were the happiest moments in his life.Julian lowered his head and looked at his own hands, reminiscing about the feeling of placing his hands on Diana's belly. The smile on his icy face gra
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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
