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?”
“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
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
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
“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
“Congratulations, you’re pregnant,” the doctor said.Diana Winnington raised her head in surprise. Her face flushed red in no time.She was actually pregnant?!After three years of marriage, she was finally expecting her and Julian Fulcher’s child. Elated, Diana couldn’t wait to share the good news with him.However, there was no answer when she called. After she asked her driver, she found out that Julian had gone back to the Fulcher Manor on the outskirts of the city to hold a banquet today.Banquets held at the Fulcher Manor were usually private, so Diana presumed that the guests invited were their common friends. Julian usually pampered her, so Diana thought nothing of it and grabbed her coat before she headed to the Fulcher Manor without hesitation.Diana stroked her lower abdomen as she couldn’t help smiling along the way.She got out of the car immediately as soon as she arrived at the Fulcher Manor but was stopped by Albert outside the door. Albert was an old butler
Julian felt heartbroken as he thought of how Kayla had repeatedly sneaked glances at him at the banquet just now. Yet, she hadn't dared meet his eyes at all. Three years ago, when Diana took the initiative to reunite with her parents, she broke the peace the Winnington family had for eighteen years. Kayla, who was adopted after Diana was lost at the age of three, got drawn into the mess. Her excessive anxiety had triggered her stomach cancer.However, Julian didn’t know anything back then.He only knew that Kayla went abroad alone, so he began looking for her like crazy for a whole month, but he never heard any news from her. He took it as a signal that Kayla wanted to break up with him. Therefore, in a fit of rage he married Diana, who looked very similar to Kayla. Three years later, he finally found out that Kayla had been suffering from stomach cancer but endured it alone for fear that the truth would distress him. For the past three years, Diana had enjoyed everything tha
Her leg hurt, but her heart hurt even more.Instantly, she broke into tears. Julian felt the coldness on his hand. When he looked up at Diana, he was distraught.Why was she still crying?!Had… had he really hurt her?Just as he was about to speak, he saw a bruise on her right leg from the corner of his eye.Before he could ask her, Diana blurted out, “Julian, it hurts… It hurts…”‘Julian, it hurts.’It was as if all rational thoughts had flown out the window once he processed those words.“Are you a fool?” he scolded angrily. “Why are you only saying it until now?!”With that, he quickly carried her in a princess style and shouted loudly at Albert, who was standing next to him. “Hurry up and bring the medical kit here!” Diana didn’t have a good constitution.Perhaps it was her experience during her childhood that led to her malnutrition, which left a negative impact on her body. If she had a cold, her condition could develop from a common cough to asthma. Ordinary peop