Feeling nervous about what might happen, Diana asked Brian, “Will everything be okay?”

Brian looked at her with a warm smile, “I won’t let anyone hurt you.”

Diana was moved. “What if I had taken her necklace?” she asked naughtily.

Brian laughed. “I know you never would, that’s how I knew she was lying.”

Everything Brian said really made Diana feel he had changed. She didn’t want to show how happy she was, so she turned her face to the other side and said, “I’m going to have some food. I am starving.”

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At that moment, Carol was at home, gazing at a test paper in her hand. She...