Love’s Cunning Ruse

Hearing this, Julie smirked, but it wasn’t out of joy, it was a bitter smile.

She looked at Kieran with a mocking gaze and asked, “Why?”

She bluntly asked, “Why do you get to hide the marriage when you want to, and make it public when

you want to? Why do you get to love me when you want to, and have me chase you when you pretend

not to like me? You want to reconcile and I have to comply, who am I to you? Even if I am an actress, I

don’t need to play along with this drama, right?”

“You’re so high and mighty, never considering others’ feelings. You’re smart, emotionally intelligent,

because you’re capable, because you have your troubles, so it’s always my fault. You said we should

keep our marriage hidden, and I had to listen to you. You said we should remarry, and I had to go along

with it, right? Kieran, tell me, why?”

Julie released Kieran’s tie and gave him a big push!

To avoid hurting Julie, Kieran staggered back a couple of steps.

Just as the atmosphere between Julie and Kieran was tense, there was suddenly the calm voice of

Julien from the balcony outside the window.

“I’ll tell you why.”

Hearing Julien’s familiar voice, Julie was surprised and turned to look in the direction of the balcony.

This was the second floor, and Julien just suddenly appeared on the balcony… Maybe it was because

Julie was used to Julien’s unexpected actions, so she wasn’t scared by Julien’s sudden appearance.

Julien knocked on the balcony door twice, and said to Julie through the glass, “Open the door.”

Julie was still stunned and didn’t react.

Julien frowned in displeasure, took out two lock picking tools from his pocket, quickly unlocked the

door, walked up to Julie, and said, “Because a person’s good luck is limited, and your good luck ran out

the moment you met him.”

Julien looked at Julie and pointed at Kieran.

Julie was dumbfounded.

Kieran glanced at Julien, “Ms. Julien, this is breaking and entering.”

“You used me before, I haven’t settled that with you yet. Now I need to borrow your woman, you can

leave now or fight me and then leave. Your choice.” Julien looked at Kieran.

Julie finally snapped back and asked Julien, “He used you?”

“Who do you think will win?” Julien suddenly smiled at Julie, asking her enthusiastically.

As for the current situation, Julie didn’t want to guess. But knowing the personalities of the two, she

turned her head to look at Kieran and said, “We’ve said all there is to say between us, let’s leave it at

that!”

After saying this, Julie took Julien’s hand and headed directly for the door.

Outside the door, a group of people led by Tina, who saw clearly that Julie and Kieran had gone in

together, couldn’t figure out how they came out as three people.

And…

Mrs. Abraham was actually being led away by a woman with a fierce look on her face, who looked even

more handsome than a man…

To Julie’s surprise, this time Kieran didn’t stop her from leaving with Julien, but let Julien take her

away,”

Julien immediately pulled Julie into the car.

In Julie’s memory, Julien always seemed like a guy who loved making a big fuss. So, when Julien

showed up in front of her out of the blue, Julie had this gut feeling.

“I’m here to spill some truths,” Julien said, getting straight to the point.

Julie looked at Julien in shock, “What truths?”

“Listen to this first, then we’ll talk.” Julien shoved a mini recorder in Julie’s ear and hit the play button.

Julie was puzzled and innocently looked back at Julien.

“Listen!”

Julien was as icy as ever.

The recording was a conversation between Kieran and Julien. It took place while Julie was chatting

with Daphne in the hospital room, with Kieran and Julien talking outside.

After the recording, Julien finally started talking, “Julie, Kieran cherishes you, and I respect him. The

Lucian situation is more complicated than you think. You, being the most important woman in Kieran’s

life, should know better than anyone that Lucian is Kieran’s most important relative.”

Julien rarely stuck up for others, Julie knew that.

“From what we know, Lucian is still alive, but we don’t know why he changed so drastically after the

plane crash, even raping Bertha. But you should know that Bertha chose to have Lucian’s child. She

just made a wrong choice at the time,” Julien continued.

Julie knew what Julien meant by “wrong choice”. It was why Kieran and Bertha had an agreement.

Bertha thought that if the baby was Lucian’s, he would insist on her getting an abortion. The only way

for her to keep the baby was to make everyone believe it was Kieran’s. Despite Lucian’s personality

change after the crash, his affection for Kieran remained the same.

Bertha was right, Lucian never harmed the baby.

Kieran, not knowing the truth at the time, chose to protect Bertha out of brotherly love, to preserve

Lucian’s only offspring.

The whole thing was a setup by Bertha, but Julien said, “Bertha made a wrong choice.”

Julie looked at Julien, waiting for what she would say next.

Julien said, “After the plane crash, Lucian seems to believe that Bertha was in love with Kieran, and he

deliberately framed Kieran by drugging him. That’s why Lucian raped Bertha. More importantly, Lucian

somehow found out that the baby in your womb wasn’t Kieran’s. Given that you once threatened Kieran

with marriage, Lucian decided to get rid of the baby.”

Julien tried to downplay the shocking event.

“At the time, we knew nothing about Lucian, and I believe Kieran was in the same boat. We didn’t know

what Lucian was capable of, or how far he would go for Kieran. So Kieran’s only option was to protect

you by hurting you, even if it meant you hating him. If I were in

his shoes, I probably wouldn’t have the courage to bear the intense hatred from someone I deeply love,

let alone having Daphne constantly badmouth me.”

Julie just listened to Julien’s rational analysis, her mind getting more and more confused.

Finally, Julien asked Julie, “Just answer me this, given your unwavering love for Kieran back then, if a

bullet was heading his way, would you step in front of it?”

The answer to this question was easy.

Julie’s affection for Kieran in the past was indeed a deep, unconditional kind of love. Not to mention a

bullet, even if she were to be shot full of holes, she would probably still go for it without a second

thought…

Although Julie didn’t answer Julien’s question, the answer was pretty obvious.

So Julien continued to say to Julie, “Between having you possibly sacrifice your life for him, and having

you alive but hating him, Kieran chose the latter. It’s a very courageous choice.”