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.

flashed for a moment. What followed was an extreme

past role as a substitute in Julian’s heart, and not because of Nina’s expression when she said

It was because…

best friend all of her vulnerabilities and exposing all the

Diana the most in her

“Nina.”

speak. Her voice

“You…”

bring herself to utter

happened at that moment and

“You should leave.”

instructing Julian to

the mood between the two friends wasn’t quite right, Julian tactfully agreed and called

personally send Nina home. Having had her heart practically

told him to

Diana with a

got into the car, and Julian wanted to ask

silent. She started crying as