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On New Year's Eve, the person Diana had met at the Channing residence wasn't Oliver. Plus, the meeting certainly wasn't as important as Julian had thought. She just went to meet Simon to hear about a secret involving Julian. But this secret... Diana looked up at him, and the ache in her heart settled like a spider's web. It wrapped around her heart and was deeply rooted in her core, as if it had woven a trap in her life. She couldn't afford to be rash and tell Julian the true reason for her absence on New Year's Eve.Diana swallowed hard as she anxiously explained to him, "It was wrong of me to lie, Julian, but I had my reasons. I had no choice." Her own stupidity prevented her from immediately finding a tactful way to inform him, to minimize the impact of Simon's situation on Julian."After your birthday," Diana suddenly said as her eyes brightened. "After your birthday, I promise I’ll tell you everything!" Just give her a few more days. She was certain she could properly di
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Julian seethed and hissed through gritted teeth, "Is it because I've always indulged you too much?" Had he indulged her so much to the point she could act like she was in the right even when she made a mistake? What a joke!Diana countered sharply, "Indulged me?" It was true he had pampered and indulged her during their three years of marriage, but he had treated her as if she were someone else the entire time! Their past was now like seeds in the ground; now, it was yanked out abruptly, roots and all.Diana calmed down, though her voice trembled slightly with grief when she spoke. "If you did indulge me, we wouldn't be having these arguments right now." And he certainly wouldn't be using the topic of remarriage to threaten her.Julian sensed the disappointment in her eyes, and a flash of heartache passed through his gaze. For a moment, he truly wanted to hold her tightly in his arms and apologize to her. But what was he supposed to apologize for? This time, it wasn't
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She didn’t expect Julian to not say anything to her even after a long while.Diana couldn’t stand it any longer, and was about to pull open the sheets and look outside when she suddenly felt the other side of the bed sink down.The sheets were pulled away from her as well.Julian was lying down on the bed.What was the point of sharing a bed when he didn’t bother cajoling her or talking to her?Did she need to wait longer?Did a cold and hard man like Julian need more time to prepare himself before he was willing to coax another woman?That thought made Diana feel better inside.She stopped herself from crying out of indignation.She simply waited quietly.She waited until her whole body went stiff, yet Julian remained silent.Her head was still under the covers, and she just needed to turn her head slightly to see his collarbone peeking out from under his unbuttoned shirt.The sheets were filled with his scent.It was so cold outside; yet with him around, it felt like the
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There was no need for him to eagerly hug her legs and warm them.She was the one who wasn’t being honest. He wasn’t at fault.He didn’t need to be the first to say sorry.The atmosphere in the room began to grow tense once again.Julian’s back was stiff.Meanwhile, Diana’s heart gradually hardened.She couldn’t deny feeling expectant when her legs crossed over.One of them had to be the first to break the ice, after all.She loved Julian, and was willing to be the one to take the initiative.Tet, her fighting spirit would be depleted by the second try and become exhausted by the third try.She had offered an olive branch to him twice: once with the soup, and the second with her leg.What’s more, she didn’t stop him from coming into the bedroom and had actually given him three chances.In the end, he never gave her what she wanted.She had her pride to preserve, too.Since he wanted things to stay this way, then so be it.However, she didn’t expect things between the two
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Diana didn’t speak in the nicest tone.The caller on the other end didn’t care, though, and went on, “It’s my brother’s birthday today and you’re still not up yet?”His brother’s birthday?Who was Julian Fulcher’s brother?Simon Channing!Diana’s heart leapt as she glanced guiltily at Julian.She immediately ran out of the study, closed the door, and leaned against the wall. With a guilty conscience, she hissed, “Who’s your brother?! Whether Julian acknowledges you as his brother or not is a completely different matter! Don’t just call him your brother like that.”“Oh, so he’s not my brother, and you’re not my sister-in-law.”Diana sighed. “What exactly do you want?”It was so annoying how he always managed to pick the most critical point of time to interrupt her and Julian.Simon deliberately ignored the annoyance in her voice and said shamelessly, “Ms. Winnington, may I ask you out for lunch today?”May he?Of course he may not! Today was Julian’s birthday.What’s more
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Wasn’t it disrespectful of him to pull out the card from her phone?Diana stared at him, a slight annoyance in her eyes, as she took a deep breath and said solemnly, “Julian, my life can’t possibly consist of you alone.”It was just an ordinary statement.However, it sent Julian’s keen senses into overdrive. He looked at her in disbelief, “Are you giving up on me just because of a phone card?”Diana was baffled. “What nonsense are you spouting?”She just didn’t want him being so overbearing.She had done so much and worked so hard in running her work studio. She had rebuilt her own career and expanded her network just so that she could earn the ability to stand side by side with Julian and be seen as his equal.As much as she knew that her achievements were nothing compared to his.All along, she had been working so hard to achieve equality and respect in their relationship so things could be sustainable between them.But right now, him pulling out the card from her phone made
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Julian and Simon met by the road of Winding Highway.By the time Julian rushed there, Simon’s car was already parked at a bend. He was seated on the roof of the car, swinging his legs in the air while waiting for Julian.This spot was a blind spot. If they weren’t careful, cars zooming past might just crash into them and send them flying into mid-air.Not just the car, but even they would fall off the cliff and end up with their bodies nowhere to be found.“Come down.”Although Julian didn’t acknowledge Simon as his brother, he didn’t want to see the latter courting death right in front of him.Of course, Simon refused to listen. “The view here on the roof of the car is great.”He stretched out his hand to Julian. “Come on up and have a seat?”“No need.” Julian looked at him and said coldly, “No view is better than any view by my wife’s side.”His words were a direct attack on Simon for contacting Diana in the morning.He was both implicitly and explicitly telling Simon tha
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That encounter they had before at the Pabian family was enough for Simon to learn a hard lesson.He no longer dreamed of swallowing Julian’s business empire.“I just want 10% of the Channings’ business,” Simon revealed his intention. “Help me get it.”And then…“As for the Fulchers, I want to be acknowledged as a member of the family.”“What grand plans you have!” Julian had to admit, this brother of his had some brains.Knowing he couldn’t get his hands on the Fulchers’ assets…Simon set his mind on the Channing family, who had raised him.When did he begin harboring such thoughts?He was as vile and cunning as a serpent.Julian couldn’t help but sneer, “But they remain as mere thoughts. Right now, you have no right to negotiate with me.”Conversely, him not chasing Simon out of Richburgh was the greatest mercy he was showing to this illegitimate brother of his.“What if I stake things on Diana?” Simon taunted. “No matter how powerful you are, there will be times when you
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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
