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

woman.

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

The nurse said so. However, there was no report of another

a week before and after

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

Assistant and best friend, she had asked Alice a couple of times

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

all was that, in the Chen family’s record book, Alice wrote the two children’s names. One was Rossa

made the names that

1. be.

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was this

hospital as my twin sister. What do you expect? You can’t find anything

was mine!

there truly weren’t. However, that’s not the case. You didn’t treat

love, and her child. Not only that, you caused my father to die and made my daughter suffer.

punish you? Nah, asking for forgiveness is not a part

suicide by hanging, or I can burn your

Chen widened her eyes in alarm. She tried so hard to say something but couldn’t. She started to say something with her hands flinging around in panic

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

bottle from her backpack and sprinkled the content around the room. She walked to the window and before she could jump down, Alex lit a lighter and threw