Lahat ng Kabanata ng Julian’s Stand-In Wife: Kabanata 551 - Kabanata 560

Ms. Winnington.Was he thinking about Diana or Kayla, who was disfigured?Seeing Diana in a daze, Julian couldn't help but punish her for her lack of focus. His voice grew deeper as he said, "Look at me."It was hard not to blush with such a handsome man staring at her. His arms stretched out slowly and encircled her before finally landing on her shoulder.Diana's face flushed instantly.It seemed like...She had misunderstood again.It was no wonder Julian had laughed and called her anxious.Clearly, he was just giving her a regular massage!Diana had misunderstood again.She felt so embarrassed that she wanted to die, and she wished she could dig a hole in the room and bury herself in it.With Julian's playful gaze on her, Diana simply closed her eyes and pretended she was dead.However, the feeling of his hands on her as he massaged her was impossible to ignore, and she couldn't maintain her indifferent expression."I misunderstood," Diana said, taking the initiative

"If you didn't love me, you shouldn't have given me the illusion that you couldn't live without me all these years!" Kayla yelled, clenching her fist as she mustered the courage to glare at the noble man before her, expressing her deepest dissatisfaction.Julian seemed to have been waiting for those words. He remained calm, not a trace of guilt on his face. Instead, a sense of composure that hadn't been there when he first entered the hospital room surrounded him.A foreboding sensation suddenly crept up on Kayla. True enough, when Julian opened his mouth to speak, his words were as cutting and as sharp as a blade; his deep eyes looked down at Kayla with a sense of superiority."Were you really wholeheartedly in love with me for all these years? Have you truly loved me for all this time, and no other?"The more he spoke, the more absurd it sounded.Kayla looked at him in sheer disbelief."How could you say that?"Julian raised an eyebrow, completely unperturbed. There was not a

A plan began to brew in her mind.At this moment, Kayla stopped being anxious. “Okay.”“I understand,” she said to Julian. “I won’t pester you from now on. Don’t worry about the rumors in the hospital, I’ll make things clear to them.”Julian was satisfied to hear that. “Have a good rest.”He glanced at the calendar and said, “The hospital director told me that you want to be discharged, but I’ve arranged for a throat surgery for you on the day you’re scheduled to be discharged. Think about whether you want to go ahead with the surgery.”If she went ahead, it’d be a long while later until she could be discharged.What’s more…It also meant that after her throat was healed, Julian would owe her no more.Kayla began panicking. “No… I’ve been hospitalized for so long, and it's putting me in a bad mood. I’ll think about the surgery after the scars on my face heal, okay?”Finding a chance to make Julian marry her was more important than treating her throat.Julian was rather surpri

Seeing how anxious Diana was, Julian felt the same sense of urgency as well. “One minute.”He tapped away on his phone screen as he texted Noel. Noel immediately understood him without any further questions. One minute later, he replied, “Done.”Julian showed Diana the text. Although Diana had always known that Julian was quick and decisive, she didn’t expect him to be efficient to this extent.She immediately felt a weight lifted from her shoulders. “Thank you.”Julian didn’t need her to thank him, and didn’t want to hear it from her. He wished she would simply take it for granted when he did things for her.That would prove that things between them have returned to how they were in the past.Yet, he knew full well that it was impossible for them to return to the past.They could only start anew.“If you really want to thank me, are those two words enough?” His words were like a weight hanging above her head, so heavy that she couldn’t bring herself to lift her head up.Diana

Kayla agreed. “Well, she grew up in the countryside. I suppose someone who learned how to fight for food with dogs wouldn’t have much of a spine.” To think that at times, she would be frightened by Diana’s aura. Now that she thought about it, Diana wasn’t the one who frightened her.It was Julian Fulcher behind Diana.“At the end of the day, she’s still a country bumpkin,” James lamented as he grew angrier at the thought of how she humiliated him at the hospital.He shouldn’t have been frightened by her at that time.He should have just slapped her. She would have immediately knelt down to beg him for forgiveness! Even if Julian were there to punish him, Diana would be cheap enough to fight to protect him, her father!“Yeah,” Kayla said. “I wonder why Julian is so blind as to fancy her.”James glanced at the frightening scars on Kayla’s face and noted her hoarse, scratchy voice. He contrasted that with Diana’s graceful poise and felt something was off, but he couldn’t pinpoint