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.

Alice Lee, she gave birth to a girl and Madam Chen paid a nurse to kill the child

woman.

was later said that Alice gave birth to twins. One died and the other survived.

The nurse said so. However, there was no

hospital only recorded one birth a week before and

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

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 answer.

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

surprising thing about it all was that, in the Chen family’s record book, Alice wrote

wouldn’t give an explanation why she made the names that way,

1. be.

1/3

this

birth at the same hospital as my

was mine!

birth records doesn’t mean there truly weren’t. However, that’s not the case. You didn’t treat my daughter well even though she was

wealth, her trust, her love, and her

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

me make things clearer. I have here; a gun, a whip, poison, I can force your to commit suicide by hanging, or I can burn your mansion down. Which do you choose? I give you 5 seconds before I

say something with her hands

child, so I’m sending you all off. Don’t worry, Christine

sprinkled the content around the room. She walked to the window and before she could jump down, Alex