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.

Wales Chen 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

woman.

bearing a newborn baby. It was later said that Alice gave birth to twins. One died and

birth to twins. The nurse said so. However, there was no report

week before and after Alice’s child

naming, Alice decided to name the dead child Rossa Lee, while the one she brought home was called Jeslyn. However, at a point, especially when

got confused 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 definite

rose is for love… isn’t love depicted with a heart symbol?” That explanation was weird, so Bella took it as; Alice doesn’t

Chen family’s record book, Alice wrote the two

an explanation why she made the names that way, so Chen Wales left

1. be.

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what was 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

was mine!

no birth records doesn’t mean there truly weren’t. However, that’s not the case. You didn’t treat my daughter well even

love, and her child.

not a part of it. Your only option

to commit suicide by hanging, or I can burn your mansion down. Which do you choose?

to say something but couldn’t. She started to say something with her hands

your child, so I’m sending you all off. Don’t worry, Christine and Emilee, plus your

room. She walked