Julian’s Stand-In Wife

Diana had never seen Nina like this before.

Her heart felt constricted, as if there was a heavy stone on her chest. The feeling was so suffocating that she couldn’t speak for a while.

She just stared blankly at Nina.

The words were at the tip of her tongue. If she hadn’t said them, even Nina wouldn’t know how to bring this conversation to a close.

She was afraid Diana would keep harping on her and Vans, so she had to steel herself and continue to watch Diana coldly, forcing herself to say those words.

“Before, Julian…” she paused, raised an eyebrow at Diana, and continued, “Didn’t he treat you as a stand-in?

Essentially, Julian was just as scummy as Vans.

Diana’s own marriage wasn’t that smooth. Her love went through many hardships before reaching today’s harvest.

Nina didn’t think there was any difference between her and Vans and the past Diana and Julian. She couldn’t tolerate Diana constantly picking at Vans and calling her a mistress.

It was a stain on her and Vans’ relationship, a stab of a knife into Nina’s heart.

At the same time, the curiosity and anticipation on Diana’s face all crumbled.

for a moment. What followed was

not because Nina mentioned her past role as a substitute in Julian’s heart, and not because of Nina’s expression

It was because…

all of her vulnerabilities

actually used the thing that had affected Diana the most in her life to cause

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couldn’t speak. Her voice was

“You…”

to utter

that nothing had happened at that moment and to continue talking to

“You should leave.”

instructing Julian to escort her

two friends wasn’t quite right, Julian tactfully

her heart

she told

Diana with a bit of quiet