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Julian’s Stand-In Wife Chapter 553
The hospital dean feared that Kayla would hurt herself with the broken glass, so he had the staff remove all the mirrors from the room and leave it completely clean.Julian noticed this change as soon as he entered the room. His steps hesitated slightly at that, but after some thought, he still approached Kayla.She appeared to be asleep.The scar on her cheek resembled a centipede, giving her a somewhat pitiful appearance.After about half an hour, she gradually woke up. When she opened her eyes, she blinked a few more times, thinking she was seeing things.She rubbed her eyes and confirmed that the man before her was real, and she called out tentatively, "Julian?"Her tone was filled with shock and surprise.Julian didn't want her to misunderstand anything. His face was icy, and he went straight to the point. "Kayla, have you been spreading rumors in the hospital recently?"Rumors?Kayla's heart skipped a beat, feeling somewhat at a loss for a moment.She didn't dare look u
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"If you didn't love me, you shouldn't have given me the illusion that you couldn't live without me all these years!" Kayla yelled, clenching her fist as she mustered the courage to glare at the noble man before her, expressing her deepest dissatisfaction.Julian seemed to have been waiting for those words. He remained calm, not a trace of guilt on his face. Instead, a sense of composure that hadn't been there when he first entered the hospital room surrounded him.A foreboding sensation suddenly crept up on Kayla. True enough, when Julian opened his mouth to speak, his words were as cutting and as sharp as a blade; his deep eyes looked down at Kayla with a sense of superiority."Were you really wholeheartedly in love with me for all these years? Have you truly loved me for all this time, and no other?"The more he spoke, the more absurd it sounded.Kayla looked at him in sheer disbelief."How could you say that?"Julian raised an eyebrow, completely unperturbed. There was not a
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Yet, Julian hadn't done that.In fact, he shoved the truth down deep in his heart and pretended not to know anything about it.The reason was simple; he didn't care one whit about it.Kayla seemed to realize this, and she could feel a thousand knives driven through her heart; the agony was such that she trembled in pain.She was wrong.She had been completely wrong!She should never have gone abroad!She shouldn't have succumbed to such temptation!And she absolutely shouldn't have lied to him about her illness!She should’ve known long ago that he wasn't an ordinary man...She should’ve known that the more lies she told, the more likely she would be exposed one day."So you're saying that the only reason I have the right to talk to you now was because I saved you," Kala whispered."Yes," Julian replied without hesitation. "If it were anyone else, you wouldn't be able to repay the atrocities you've committed even if you had ten lives."Kayla's heart beat wildly in her ches
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A plan began to brew in her mind.At this moment, Kayla stopped being anxious. “Okay.”“I understand,” she said to Julian. “I won’t pester you from now on. Don’t worry about the rumors in the hospital, I’ll make things clear to them.”Julian was satisfied to hear that. “Have a good rest.”He glanced at the calendar and said, “The hospital director told me that you want to be discharged, but I’ve arranged for a throat surgery for you on the day you’re scheduled to be discharged. Think about whether you want to go ahead with the surgery.”If she went ahead, it’d be a long while later until she could be discharged.What’s more…It also meant that after her throat was healed, Julian would owe her no more.Kayla began panicking. “No… I’ve been hospitalized for so long, and it's putting me in a bad mood. I’ll think about the surgery after the scars on my face heal, okay?”Finding a chance to make Julian marry her was more important than treating her throat.Julian was rather surpri
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She handed the promotional pamphlet to him and said, “I’m facing some difficulties.”Julian kept the medicine the moment he heard it, and said in all seriousness, “What difficulties?”It was rare of Diana to take the initiative to ask him for help, so he was glad to be of service.“I don’t know how reliable this event is,” she said with feigned ignorance. “Can you help me take a look if it’s convenient for you?”Julian took the pamphlet.He was well-versed with such things, and came to a conclusion right after glancing through it. “It’s very reliable. Many listed companies back this event up, and your popularity will likely skyrocket if you can come out on top in this event.”Of course, Diana knew what Julian was talking about. She wouldn’t treat her career as a mere tool for revenge.Mr. Whatever’s investment, Fanny’s trust in her, and her own career aspirations demanded her to make proper plans for the growth of her studio.“What about Fulcher Inc.?”Julian didn’t understand
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Seeing how anxious Diana was, Julian felt the same sense of urgency as well. “One minute.”He tapped away on his phone screen as he texted Noel. Noel immediately understood him without any further questions. One minute later, he replied, “Done.”Julian showed Diana the text. Although Diana had always known that Julian was quick and decisive, she didn’t expect him to be efficient to this extent.She immediately felt a weight lifted from her shoulders. “Thank you.”Julian didn’t need her to thank him, and didn’t want to hear it from her. He wished she would simply take it for granted when he did things for her.That would prove that things between them have returned to how they were in the past.Yet, he knew full well that it was impossible for them to return to the past.They could only start anew.“If you really want to thank me, are those two words enough?” His words were like a weight hanging above her head, so heavy that she couldn’t bring herself to lift her head up.Diana
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It might not be able to heal the wound and restore her lips back to their original state overnight, but it could at least prevent the wound from exacerbating.Her health wasn’t in tiptop condition, so it was best to pay close attention in all areas.Julian cared for her very deeply and thoroughly.Diana could sense how careful he was in applying the ointment on her lips with the cotton bud. The serious look on his face and the deep affection in his eyes were much too overwhelming.However, she wouldn’t fall for it again and her heart would never be moved by it.She treated herself like a fish on a chopping board, to be dealt with by her owner in any way he wished.After all, she still needed him to deal with Kayla.“Alright.” He chucked the cotton bud aside and ordered Diana, “Don’t sleep in tomorrow morning. I have some health supplements that you need to finish on an empty stomach before six in the morning, after which you can only have breakfast two hours later.”Medicine, m
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Kayla agreed. “Well, she grew up in the countryside. I suppose someone who learned how to fight for food with dogs wouldn’t have much of a spine.” To think that at times, she would be frightened by Diana’s aura. Now that she thought about it, Diana wasn’t the one who frightened her.It was Julian Fulcher behind Diana.“At the end of the day, she’s still a country bumpkin,” James lamented as he grew angrier at the thought of how she humiliated him at the hospital.He shouldn’t have been frightened by her at that time.He should have just slapped her. She would have immediately knelt down to beg him for forgiveness! Even if Julian were there to punish him, Diana would be cheap enough to fight to protect him, her father!“Yeah,” Kayla said. “I wonder why Julian is so blind as to fancy her.”James glanced at the frightening scars on Kayla’s face and noted her hoarse, scratchy voice. He contrasted that with Diana’s graceful poise and felt something was off, but he couldn’t pinpoint
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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
