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The moment she asked Julian the question, she immediately regretted it. Julian was Simon’s older brother!As much as she didn’t fancy Simon and Simon didn’t like her in that way, they were going to get married in name.But now, she was asking Simon’s brother such a strange question. “I’m sorry.” Fear flashed past the depths of her eyes, one that stemmed from sensing that she had stepped out of line.That fear always surfaced more clearly whenever she faced Julian.She didn’t understand why she felt this way toward Simon’s brother.She could only instinctively hug Betty tighter, and leave as if she were fleeing for her life.This time, Julian didn’t stop her.He sunk into a chair and stared at Diana leaving in a hurry. His deep, dark eyes were as unfathomable as the night sky and his brows were furrowed, as if deep in thought.Diana didn’t go home straight away.She was worried the wound on Betty’s face would leave a scar.After all, she should be careful in this regard fo
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Betty saw Diana remain silent for a long time, and finally couldn’t hold herself back any longer. She buried her little face in Diana’s neck and rubbed back and forth in a bid to attract Diana’s attention. “Mommy!” “What’s the matter?” Diana caressed the fleshy part of Betty’s little ears. “Tell me, Betty. I’m listening.”Mommy became gentle again. This was nice.Betty couldn’t help but blurt out the thing that troubled her the most. “Mr. Julian…is someone else’s daddy.”“Huh?” Diana’s heart leapt. She had never heard Simon mention that Julian was married with kids.Based on Simon’s explanation, Julian was probably waiting single-mindedly for Kayla to come out of jail. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be going around treating other ladies who resemble Kayla as her replacement.“Doreen,” Betty reminded Diana. “He’s Doreen’s daddy.”She heard Doreen call him “Daddy” with her own ears.That was when realization dawned upon Diana.For some reason, fury filled her heart and burned her throa
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Simon’s heart skipped a beat.His throat went dry and his lips turned stiff. “You…recall something?”Ever since they returned from Stirling City, many of Simon’s behavior and expressions didn’t seem right.Doubt flashed past Diana’s eyes, but she smiled as if everything was normal. “A little.”How could that be?!Simon’s fingers were trembling.The hypnosis back then…was done by an expert hypnotizer whom Simon had to scour through many contacts before finding him. Unless he hypnotized the person under hypnosis again to release her locked-up memories, it was impossible for the person to regain her memories of her own accord.That was also one of the reasons why Simon agreed to come to Richburgh in the first place.He was absolutely confident that he could keep Diana well within his web of lies and live there her entire life.However, everything seemed to be unraveling when Julian brought Betty home.His mind was in a mess, and the tips of his fingers were turning numb. “Is tha
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Anyone could say that she was a replacement for Kayla, but Diana alone had seen how he risked his own life to save hers. She alone knew how deep the wound in the chest went, and she alone was clear how disgusted he was with Kayla and how much he wanted their babies to come back to them. According to common sense, Diana couldn’t possibly consider the possibility of herself being a replacement again.A spark of long-lost hope and excitement rekindled in Julian’s heart.It was through this loophole did he find a sliver of hope that his relationship with Diana might be strengthened. If she did everything because she was threatened, would Betty and Sean, whom he had never seen before, be his children? The thought made Julian’s heart leap to his throat.He stepped hard on the accelerator and charged in the direction Noel pointed out to him.-“I’m not going.” This was the first time Diana rejected Simon’s suggestion so firmly.Simon was stunned for a moment, the fear hidden in hi
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Diana was flabbergasted.She looked at Simon in disbelief. “What…what did you just say?”“Everything I said is true.” After holding it in for so long, he finally dared to admit it, face up to his own feelings, and declare his feelings for her. It brought a long-awaited relief to him. “I’ve liked you even before you lost your memories.”He shrugged. “It’s just that I stood no chance back then.”He was speaking the truth. Before Diana lost her memories, she only had eyes for Julian. Bystanders stood no chance of interfering in their relationship.Diana was completely stunned.So, what he was hiding from her was his feelings for her! She had thought so badly of him…She suddenly felt guilty and ashamed of herself. “I’m not worthy of you liking me,” she said. How could she doubt Simon just because of something a stranger said?Doubt that he had an ulterior motive in staying by her side.From what she could see now, Simon did have an ulterior motive, but even that was for her
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She called his name once more. Her voice was mesmerizing, wrapping around Julian’s heart like a twine.His long fingers slid down her lower back as he mumbled in a low voice, “Diana Winnington, what do I do with you?”He couldn’t bring himself to hate her.But he couldn't love her.His words were too amorous.Diana instinctively took a few steps back as she looked at him with fear. “Don’t come close to me.”Each time he drew nearer to her, she never failed to feel a strong sense of attraction to him.Julian standing in the narrow hallway suddenly made her feel like the tiny hallway was as vast as the ocean.As much as she wasn’t desperate for romance, it was hard remaining ambivalent toward his outstanding appearance.He was just too outstanding.Diana fingers intertwined as panic and shame at her own thoughts filled her eyes.“Simon Channing…” He finally broke the silence and turned away from her flushed face, suppressing the urge to take her right there and then. He aske
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Julian looked tenderly at Diana’s face.Over the years, her figure had become fuller.There was a motherly glow to her, which added to her graceful and dignified aura.She was a mother of two.Since she denied that she was being threatened by Simon, he wanted to ask her another question in hopes that he could find out from her personally about the children. He surely had a right to know that.Be it Kiki’s words or other people’s claims, he didn’t believe them all.He only wanted her answer.Finally, his thin lips opened as he asked the woman right before him with sincerity and a strong sense of expectation, “Are Betty and her other half my children?”That was the worst slander she had ever heard spoken of her!Diana’s chest heaved as anger took over her upon hearing his words.“Mr. Fulcher, please consider Simon’s feelings before saying such things!”No matter what, Simon was still his brother.How could he have designs on her, his sister-in-law to-be, and proclaim it so bo
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Julian shut Diana inside the room.The children’s cries immediately sounded, like hammers against the wall. Thankfully, Julian was strong enough to keep both of them under control.Diana had rushed out of the room, her eyes bloodshot.She glared at Julian like he was her greatest enemy.There was no hint of trust and relief that Julian had expected. Did he really have no relationship with these two children whatsoever? When they were in Diana’s womb, he frequently caressed them, thinking that Aster and Star must have returned for them.But standing before him were one girl and one boy, not Aster and Star.Even if they weren’t, he would love them as long as they were Diana’s children.Yet, everyone denied that he was their father. Yet, when Julian saw Sean…Others might be ignorant, but he knew.If Julian were to compare Sean with his photos when he was a child, they had at least 50% resemblance with each other.Since his doubts couldn’t be verified, he had no choice but t
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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
