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Julian’s Stand-In Wife Chapter 990
Now, Julian seemed like a child who had done something wrong. His thoughts were a mess, and he was unable to understand where Diana's sadness was coming from."In our children's hearts, you want to replace me, their dad. Shouldn't I be the sad one?" Julian quickly took Betty in his arms. Like coaxing a child, he used a tissue to gently wipe Diana's face. He comforted her softly, "Shh. Don't cry. Be good. Let me wipe away those tears, okay?" Seeing his slightly hunched and nervous appearance and his increasingly soothing tone, Diana's heart suddenly softened. It was like being brushed by a feather, a gentle touch.She lowered her head. She acknowledged his words, like a child admitting her mistake. "I won't cry."She had such a good boyfriend. In moments when she was being difficult, when she was stubbornly trying to take everything on herself, thinking she could handle and balance everything, he always offered her the greatest patience.Independence...It wasn't about not rely
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Julian’s eyes gleamed coldly. When he turned to look from Diana to Simon, his demeanor changed. It transformed from a burning flame to a piercing chill.Diana poked him, reminding him to watch his attitude.Julian started getting impatient, but he remembered the vulnerable look Diana gave him when she hugged him. He controlled himself. “Okay,” he said. He removed the massage device from Simon.Simon looked cautiously at him. “Julian…” Simon kept ruffling Julian’s feathers, but Julian went on smiling. “What’s the matter?”“Nothing.” Simon glanced at Diana, looking slightly anxious. “It’s just that… Next time, let me remove the device myself.”His words made Diana immediately notice that something was wrong. “Was Julian too rough on you just now?” “No, no.” Simon waved his hands. “He’s just very strong. He probably didn’t do it on purpose.”Julian’s face darkened with displeasure.How was he strong just now? How did he not do it on purpose just now?Julian reined his temp
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Diana felt uneasy, and grabbed his arm. “Julian, what’s the matter?”She pressed Julian down on the bed, wanting to rub his shoulders.But Julian stood there, unmoving. He stared at her, his eyes cold, as if he were looking at the stranger. It sent chills down Diana’s spine. All the warmth she felt toward him dissipated in an instant.Before she could speak, Julian pursued the matter further. “Then when shall we go to his place?”“Hmm…” Diana pondered for a moment, her fingers interlacing anxiously. “After Cecilia and Simon’s conditions improve… We’ll go after we’re relieved of our responsibilities.”“After their conditions improve?” Julian glared at her with a hawk-like sharpness. He paid attention to her every breath, his eyes still cold. “Then tell me: When will they get better? What is ‘better’?“If they always need our care, will you never need to find Shiloh and get him to concoct the medicine to help you regain your memories?”Julian’s voice was dangerous, and sounded
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To say wholeheartedly that she loved him.Julian wasn’t a robot. He needed to vent his frustration. He needed a sense of security, too.Diana knew she wasn’t dealing with Simon well enough. Given her abilities, though, this was all she could do.She tried to consider everyone’s feelings, but the results proved that she couldn’t. Someone was bound to be neglected, and someone was bound to be unhappy.“This has nothing to do with us getting remarried or not,” she said.She had been running around the entire day, taking care of and thinking about so many things. If she could be honest, she wanted to say that she was exhausted and just wanted to sleep, especially now that it was so late. That was what she thought, and that was what she did.Julian stood there, waiting for her for a long time. He didn’t hear anything from Diana.When he looked up, he realized that she had fallen asleep.He felt as if his feelings were mud on the floor that she couldn’t be bothered to spare a thoug
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“Layla,” Julian said, as he retracted his gaze from Diana. “Take good care of Ms. Jarvis. Get more servants on the night shift.”At night, Cecilia tended to be more temperamental. People had to watch her to prevent accidents from happening.Layla took note of it.“Also,” Julian said, staring at Diana standing at a corner, “Cecilia will be Mrs. Fulcher from now on. Pay attention to what you say.”Hearing that, Layla subconsciously turned to look at Diana. Shock filled her eyes. “Mr. Fulcher… Then, what about Mrs—”Sensing the displeasure in Julian’s eyes, Layla immediately swallowed the rest of her sentence. Instead, she asked, “What about Ms. Winnington? And the twins…”“The twins will find out sooner or later,” Julian said, which meant that he intended to keep it from them for the time being. “In the future, I’ll give them time to adjust and get used to it.”He had to be the one to see to it personally.Cecilia becoming Mrs. Fulcher was almost a fact that was cast in stone.
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Diana gave him a hint. “Your engagement with Cecilia.”“This morning.”So, him bringing Cecilia back home was really due to their fight last night.Diana couldn’t tell if she felt relieved, or even more burdened. She just wanted to clear things up with him, so that there would be no regrets between them. “Last night, I…”“Say no further,” Julian said, cutting her words. His eyes were so cold, it could freeze ice. They were so mysterious. When he looked at her with eyes filled with love, she could feel a spring breeze blowing into her face. She let herself indulge the sensation, and it softened her heart into a marshmallow.But now that the love was gone from his eyes, they felt like a hard, frozen pond. Anyone who fell into it was bound to freeze.“Things are over between us.”Her silence and show of impatience last night was akin to her asking him for a break-up.Otherwise, he wouldn’t have agreed to Sue’s request and brought Cecilia home.Diana choked on his words. “Do y
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Diana’s eyes showed her stubbornness. At that moment, Julian looked at her. He wanted to say something, but nothing concrete came to mind.Then, he remembered that he had already agreed to the engagement with the Jarvis family. The moment he brought Cecilia back home, there was no point pursuing the thought that crossed his mind—no matter what it was.“You have your responsibilities, and I have mine,” he said. Things had come to this point; whether he genuinely loved Cecilia, or simply felt a sense of responsibility toward her.There was no reason for him to give up on Cecilia, who had already lost her senses.Diana thought so as well—but when she had to face up to reality, all she could think about was Julian looking tenderly at Cecilia, helping the latter straighten the hem of her shirt with a bright smile.“You and my brother…” Julian started.Meanwhile, Simon had heard about Cecilia moving into Collina Villa.Things were getting lively here, with him and Cecilia moving i
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She pondered for a moment. She then switched on the main lights and looked at Cecilia’s room, where someone was standing outside standing guard. Perhaps she really was thinking too much…Cecilia did curse Diana to death, but that didn’t mean she would really do anything to Diana. Still, the creepy feeling of someone watching Diana everywhere she went affected her so badly that her head hurt.Eventually, she could bear it no longer and knocked on Julian’s door.He didn’t respond.Diana had no choice but to look for Layla, and tell Layla to remind Julian to keep a close watch over Cecilia.Under the harsh, bright lights, Julian’s face was pale as porcelain. His sharp eyes were cold and piercing.“Ignore her,” he ordered.Before he agreed to get engaged to Cecilia, Diana didn’t care about him at all. Now that he brought Cecilia home, she was trying to insinuate that Cecilia was trying to hurt her.He didn’t even give Cecilia a chance to see Diana! He even made sure they had thei
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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
