Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

140 Alex and Alice

*TAUNTING comes before this chapter. **

They walked to the bed and stood beside Madam Chen. The person stared fervently at Madam Chen’s face for a long while before they cleared the bedside wardrobe and sat on it while staring at the sleeping woman.

Some time passed and for some reason, Madam Chen opened her eyes only to see a shadow looming above her. She instinctively wanted to scream but her voice couldn’t be heard.

“Hi, long time no see, Bella.”

Madam Chen froze when she heard her name. She looked at the person in front of her, she was wearing a mask and when she removed it, she got the biggest shock of her life.

‘Alice?! How is that possible? They attended her funeral!

“Don’t worry, I’m not who you think I am. I’m not Alice, but Alex. Does that ring a bell? Probably not.”

That’s right, Alex doesn’t ring a bell. Is she Alice’s twin?

“That’s right. I’m Alice’s twin sister, Rossa’s mother!”

Madam Chen’s eyes widened in horror. Of course, she knew who Rossa was.

married Alice Lee, she gave birth to a girl and Madam Chen paid a nurse to kill the child because she didn’t want her husband to have another child with

woman.

was later said that Alice gave birth to

The nurse said so. However, there was no

hospital only recorded one birth a week before and after

dead child Rossa Lee, while the one she brought home was called Jeslyn.

as to why Alice would call her child Jeslyn and Rossa. As her Assistant and best friend, she had asked Alice a couple of times but she wouldn’t give her a

and rose is for love… isn’t love depicted with a heart symbol?” That explanation was weird, so

surprising thing about it all was that, in the Chen family’s record book, Alice wrote the two children’s names. One was Rossa Lee and the

wouldn’t give an explanation why she made the names

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this woman

child, I happened to have also given birth at the same hospital as my twin sister. What do you expect? You can’t find anything even though you searched

was mine!

not the case. You didn’t treat my daughter well even

her wealth, her trust, her love, and her child. Not only that, you

should punish you? Nah, asking for forgiveness is not a part of it. Your only option is death, so how do you choose

have here; a gun, a whip, poison, I can force your to commit suicide by hanging, or I can burn your mansion down.

to say something but couldn’t. She started to say something with her hands flinging around in panic as tears of remorse streamed down her cheeks,

from your child, so I’m sending you all off. Don’t worry, Christine and Emilee, plus your husband will join you two after

room. She walked to