Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

42 First fight.

“Yoo, wait for me.” Rex’s voice sounded from the sitting room and his hurried steps could be heard a while later. (1

“Ah, the family is gathered and you all were about to exclude me? What a- Jeslyn, good morning” He

beamed at her.

“Good morning,” Jeslyn answered.;

“Your night must have been good, right?” Rex walked to the dining and took the only vacant seat while. a maid wearing a black gown and a white napkin tied around her waist hurried to start serving him.

“Hmm, that can also be said,” Jeslyn answered ambiguously.

While Rex and Jeslyn were talking, Mulan’s head was aching. From what she knew, none of the Lu brothers had ever brought a woman home before, so who is this Jeslyn? and what position does she hold to be at the table with the Lu family, and also able to hold a smooth conversation with Rex?

“Father, I just asked you a question.” Valen interrupted the conversation between Rex and Jeslyn, prompting them to shut up and look at him.

Looking at what was placed in front of Valen, Rex sighed. He doesn’t need to be told of what was

going on.

“Darling Valen, it was prescribed by Matt, so you can only take that,” Rex intervened.

“Uncle Rex, if I recall correctly, I wasn’t talking to you, right?” He glared at Rex who immediately shut. his mouth and turned to focus on his food.

Jeslyn knitted her brows but said nothing.

“Valen, don’t say that, he’s your uncle,” Mulan said in a soft voice.

Too soft for Jeslyn’s liking which made her frown grow deeper. She narrowed her eyes at the child and scrutinized him all over one more time.

but rude, huh?” She snorted.

attention to her. Like she wasn’t being looked at, she continued to eat

Veggies out of my sight and get me something appetizing.” Valen said to one of the maids who had her head down.

head and confusion

she do? Disrespecting or disobeying Master Maverick was never an

do?’ The maid stood

roared with his small voice and slapped the table. His aura suddenly

voice sounded fearful and pleading.

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head and shot Mulan a

tried to talk him

go and get you the meal you want,

Mulan’s words, Valen tuned down his anger and glared at his father.

up in her.One of the things she hates in her life is spoilt children. She’s allergic

all the spoilt kids she had seen, Valen seems

calm, Jeslyn, stay calm, she told herself while breathing in and

watched as Mulan rushed off to get Valen different dishes while the maids hurried over to clean out the healthy food they had left on his

and Rex’s naturally cheerful face was replaced with bitterness and

deadpan look on his face. Only his mouth opening once

she saw the table had become a

the cause of everyone’s misery. The boy was

later, Mulan hurried in with a few servants holding

front of Valen. Most of them were fried food and raw food like

yoke pouring out. Maverick wasn’t saying anything but the hand holding his cutlery was having veins popping out at how tightly he was

pursed her lips as she looked at

What’s wrong with the kind of food Valen was eating? She also eats oily and uncooked food too, especially the egg.

Valen was about to put the egg in his mouth…

“Put it down.”

like he would be