Since She Met Lucian

"Nicholas, did you hear that? He's your son!" Fannie pointed at Lucian, trying to find some comfort from Nicholas.

"I already told you—they're all grown up now. You have to stop interfering with their lives." Instead of siding with Fannie, Nicholas stood up for Lucian.

"Yeah, Fannie. They're not kids anymore. We need to leave them alone and allow them to make their own decisions," Emma echoed. Emma sighed as she tried to comfort Fannie.

However, Fannie didn't seem to be convinced. In her mind, Emma and Nicholas were only siding with each other for Fiona's sake. Otherwise, they wouldn't be indulging Lucian like this.

"What? In the end, your daughter's going to be left alone and abandoned!" Fannie snapped, deliberately provoking Emma.

Fannie regularly had afternoon tea with Shelly in the Zhan mansion. Every now and then, Shelly would mention Emma and the hatefulness in her tone was undeniable. Fannie decided to use this against Emma—weaponizing her weakness in an attempt to drive a wedge between her and her daughter.

"I'll be sending the divorce papers over to you soon. Take care of yourself." Lucian had already learned from the doctor about Shelly's condition. The doctor said that it was nothing serious and she could be discharged after a week of rest.

Shelly's face turned pale. She couldn't believe this was happening and she refused to accept it. She cried, "Lucian, you can't do this to me! I'm never going to divorce you! Never!"

As soon as Lucian stepped out of the ward, he heaved a huge sigh of relief. With that, he called Jonny and rushed to the villa in the south of the city.

He wasn't a heartless person by any means but when it came to love, he had to prioritize himself—he wasn't going to sacrifice his entire life by not being with the woman he loved.

When he learned the truth from Edmund, whatever little guilt he felt immediately vanished. He felt absolutely no remorse for Shelly since this was all her doing anyway.

Meanwhile, Edmund was exerting all his efforts to stop Lucian from returning to the Zhan Group.

The front yard of the villa was filled with flowers. With nothing else to do, Amelia spent her time watering them and showering them with good words.

Since Courtney and Kent were back together, they talked a lot on the phone and they were very intimate. Not wanting to be a bother, Amelia decided to head downstairs.

As soon as she finished watering the flowers, she heard a car whistling at the gate. Out of instinct, she looked towards the gate and her eyes were immediately glued to the handsome person that was just getting out of the fancy car.

Lucian was exceptionally captivating—his shirt was snug at all the right places and even in his slightest movement, he was elegant and noble.

Every time Amelia saw Lucian, her heart would start pounding in her chest and this instance was no exception. Frozen in place, she lowered her head and averted her gaze.

"Are you watering the flowers?" Lucian asked in surprise when he saw Amelia holding a watering pot.

While she was happy to see him at first, this didn't last very long as her mind immediately went to the fact that Lucian was forcing her to stay here. Her face darkening, she snapped, "Well, since I have nothing to do, I have to entertain myself with whatever I can think of. Wouldn't you do the same?"

sucks," he commented,

felt a

did the cool and refined Lucian ever pay attention

obvious nervousness made

Courtney?" Lucian asked in an attempt to ward off the tension between

on the phone," Amelia answered

faint smile on his face, Lucian sighed. "Finally, I was able

heart. She thought for a

genuinely love each other, I didn't have to do much work." Lucian smiled back

expressed her

In Lucian's opinion, there was no need

doesn't fake her smiles anymore like before." She was happy

his gaze on her,

looked up at the handsome chiseled

There was a certain tenderness to it that as

do so, she wouldn't be able to control her feelings. If that happened, she

we get back together, I hope I'll only ever see nothing but smiles on your face." He closed in the distance between them, a hint of uncertainty in his eyes. He reached

She didn't

on her face as his

to force her to answer his question nor did he want to upset her. So he just smiled and said, "Let's go upstairs to see what Courtney

looked at him. She could hardly open her

uneasiness she felt when she watched the news as

Jonny isn't to blame," he

she couldn't help but think to herself how

are you saying that... You and Jonny are on good terms now?" It seemed that there was no tension between Jonny and Lucian anymore

time when we were

thought inwardly, 'Any time you and Jonny saw each other, you always looked angry. What are you talking

Amelia

was about to head downstairs to look for Amelia, she caught sight of Lucian. Jumping off

"I'm going through

answering Courtney's question, his eyes were

suddenly raised her head and looked

he made sure he sounded as sure as the sun was going to rise in the