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Her eerie smile gripped Diana’s heart.Diana’s heart sank as her eyes widened.Her expression amused Cecilia greatly. She chuckled as she removed the clothes from Diana’s mouth. Her body was relaxed, and wasn’t tense at all. She even told Diana, “You can yell out loud if you want to.”Diana’s cries for help died in her throat.She simply stared at Cecilia, and asked in a tiny voice, “You’re not crazy?”Smack!Cecilia slapped Diana hard. “Is it important whether I’m crazy or not?”Her hands were so petite, so tender. She even had to shake out the numbness in her hands after the slap. Her eyes were crystal clear.“What’s more important is that I want to take revenge!” Cecilia roared. “No matter what I do to you, Julian will never defend you.”That was the most important!Her words were knives stabbing Diana’s heart.She belatedly realized the pain on her cheeks from Cecilia’s slap. Her cheeks felt hot and searing. The stinging sensation set her pores on fire, scorching her
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However, he was cold about it.He didn’t rush to Diana’s side the moment he saw her. He didn’t look at her with worry, nor did he pull her in his arms immediately.He didn’t even call a doctor to tend her wounds.He was like a high and mighty deity, with a bright halo around him. Diana’s hope and expectations for him shattered into little pieces. His first show of concern was for Cecilia. “Are you alright?” Diana’s fists clenched tighter, and the muscles on her face were tense. She bit her lips and looked down in silence, refusing to watch Julian showing Cecilia concern.It was too painful for her.She was clearly the one on the floor, suffering under Cecilia’s hands.Cecilia was the one who made a move on her. Yet now, Julian was most concerned about Cecilia. “I’m okay.” Cecilia shook her head, pulling Julian toward Diana and stopping before her. She looked at Diana and said, “But I hit Diana, and I even dragged her around on the floor.”She didn’t look apologetic at all
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Diana was stunned for a moment.She gripped her shirt so tightly, she almost tore it. It took her everything she had to keep listening to him. “Diana, Cecilia’s a patient.”His brows were furrowed, as if Diana was the one hurting Cecilia.And yet, she was clearly the one being hurt. She was fast asleep when she was suddenly dragged to the floor. She even got hit over the head.Right now, she didn’t even know whether she had sustained a head injury.Bruises were starting to appear on her arms and legs where she had been bound, but the pain was nothing compared to the pain in her heart.“Try to be understanding.”Damn his understanding!Why couldn’t he objectively, fairly, and reasonably judge who’s in the right and wrong?!Why did she have to bear with all these, just because Cecilia was sick? Diana knew she should keep silent right now. She knew she shouldn’t argue with Julian right now.Even so, she couldn’t hold herself back—not because she couldn’t take the indignation
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She was thankful she had finally realized how cruel she had been toward Julian after what happened tonight.She couldn’t stand it after experiencing Julian’s biased treatment against her just once.What did Julian feel when he, the great CEO of Fulcher Inc., had to hear her scolding him incessantly while her attention was fully on Simon? Julian even personally wiped Simon’s hands and shoulders for her sake.If it weren’t for her, he wouldn’t have done all these.Allowing Simon to move into Collina Villa was his greatest act of mercy toward this illegitimate brother of his.Julian suddenly laughed at the sight of Diana rubbing her back. He knew he had pushed her roughly against the cupboard.“I’m not in pain,” she said, as she looked at Julian. “It doesn’t hurt at all.”She deserved everything that had happened to her! She didn’t blame it on anyone.But…“Is it really true that you’re engaged to Cecilia?”“Yes.” Julian nodded, his eyes flashing in displeasure. “Why would I b
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Noel was on the verge of kneeling before Julian. But Cecilia was holding his arm tightly, stopping him from doing so. Noel had known that he wouldn’t be able to hide his feelings for Cecilia from Mr. Fulcher. Still, he looked down and tried to keep them a secret. “I didn’t have the chance to leave Collina Villa just now…”“Oh.” Julian’s eyes were imperceptibly dark, his thoughts unreadable. “You were still around even when it’s so late. I should probably give you a pay raise to reward you for your passion and dedication to your job.”Noel could sense the obvious sarcasm in Julian’s tone. However, it was true that he had feelings for Cecilia. Even since she started relying on him and calming down at the sight of him, he had fallen for her—perhaps right from the moment she hugged his waist that day.Despite that, she had become Julian’s fiancée—the future Mrs. Fulcher.He could only bury his feelings for her in the depths of his heart.Yet, Julian had to dig it out right now
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“But…”He looked down, and pulled the sheets over his body. “Without you around, there was no one to help me on the wheelchair.”He had no way of leaving the room and checking things out without his wheelchair.“I’m really useless,” he said, looking at Diana with a bitter smile. “I’m no different from an invalid now, aren’t I?”It had been many days since he got into that car accident. He had never looked so heavy-hearted and sorrowful because of his injured legs.Yet right now, he was upset with his disability for Diana’s sake.Sorrow spread in Diana’s heart. The love Simon felt for her, his entire life, and his aspirations weighed upon her.She felt so tired.If she could, she really wanted to bury herself in Julian’s embrace. She wanted nothing more than to hug him. One hug was enough to give her the courage to go on.Alas, she no longer had a right to that.She was the one who lost her right to hug him.She had mistreated him.That was why he agreed to getting engaged
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Simon was probably more important to Diana. Shiloh came today with the intention of coming clean with Julian, about how he had joined hands with Kiki to make Diana leave Julian before he would treat Julian. However, Julian’s unhappy face and hostile countenance made him swallow the words that were at the tip of his tongue.After a moment’s silence, he said, “Where is Ms. Jarvis’ room?”“Come with me.” Julian took Shiloh to the room. Noel was standing guard at the door.He didn’t sleep a wink last night, out of worry that Cecilia might do something again.Although Cecilia was engaged to Julian on paper, if she really did hurt or even kill Diana, the consequences would be utterly frightening.He would do all he could to protect her while he had the chance to, before she officially became Mrs. Fulcher. He would stand vigil for her all the way.When he saw Julian glance his way, Noel greeted Julian in a tired voice. “Mr. Fulcher, regarding things at the office…”“I won’t let progr
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“Okay,” Julian said with a nod, even before Noel completed his sentence.He was probably annoyed with Noel.Noel smiled bitterly. He did something he shouldn’t have done. It was right of Mr. Fulcher to be annoyed with him.To his surprise, Cecilia refused to let him go.“Mommy, where are you going?”Her words stopped Noel dead in his tracks.“I…” Before Noel could say anything further, Cecilia pulled her wrist out of Shiloh’s grasp and clung to Noel. Her touch made him feel like he was being thrown into a furnace. His entire body burned as he stood stock-still, staring at Julian.Embarrassing.Noel felt utterly and completely embarrassed.He shoved Cecilia away, and said defensively, “Mr. Fulcher, please don’t misunderstand. Ms. Jarvis sees me as her mother. She’s not…”“I know.” Julian pulled Cecilia back gently, and pressed her down on the stool. He said firmly, “Sit still and let the doctor check on you.”With that, he gave Noel a look and dismissed the latter. Shiloh
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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
