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.

shock flashed for a moment. What followed was

sorrowful 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 and exposing all the unpleasant aspects without

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

“Nina.”

couldn’t speak.

“You…”

bring herself to utter words of

also couldn’t pretend that nothing had happened at that moment and to continue

“You should leave.”

downstairs, instructing Julian to

two friends wasn’t quite right,

Having had her heart practically

told

also provide Diana with

and Julian

started crying as soon