Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

392 Toxic family

Today was the third day Brian returned home feeling relaxed, calm, and happy. The servants knew he must have encountered something interesting because he had never been this content for a long while. 1

The young man entered the house and blessed all the workers with a smile. The servants were scared to get accustomed to their young master’s new behavior for fear that he might just be having mood swings.

Brian’s new behavior didn’t go unnoticed by his parents. Mr. Hwang was quite excited about his son’s happiness but not his wife, Nancy.

She felt that Brian had started communicating with Piper behind her back, and so she sent out people to monitor his every move… her belief wasn’t unfounded. Three days ago, she received a phone call from the communication department stating that someone had made a call out of the city with a burner phone that couldn’t be traced.

She had been keeping watch to know who that person was but failed, so now that her son was unnecessarily happy, it has to be connected, She thought.

Sitting at the dining table and eating breakfast, Mr. Hwang’s hardened gaze was on his wife after she made a statement that didn’t go down well with him.

“Ok,” unlike before, Brian didn’t argue or refuse. His response not only shocked his mother but also left Mr. Hwang feeling uncomfortable.

“Are you

sure about that?” he asked his son.

“I’m cool with it,” Brian declared.

“Don’t do something you’ll regret, son.” The father was skeptical. He knows his son and understands

him well.

“I’d be ok, Dad, I got this,” he smiled faintly at his dad and continued eating.

Madam Nancy cleared her throat and waved the servants away. “I don’t know what you’ve been up to lately, but it better not be a scheme to humiliate your bride and her family!” she warned.

answered sarcastically. “You’re the almighty, the most feared. Who am I to make you lose face in the presence of the world?”

that you understand that. I sent your retirement letter to your agency. You are

the unrepentant woman didn’t

before he dropped his hand and pushed his plate of food away, and got

are you going? You just came back.”

feel like a human and not some means for business deals and a puppet to be controlled,” He stopped by his

time, his spirit

the father said

course, my son has agreed to go on a date with his fiance, and he didn’t throw a tantrum when I broke the retirement news to him. So why won’t I be excited?” She didn’t

her grilled turkey bacon.

he slapped the table

gaze from

at him and smiled faintly, “You are losing it. Do

“You-”

marriage from happening. I can quell interfering in our son’s life. All you need to do is get me the rainborite Ore or have sex with me… I’m your wife, Hwang Min, and

whispered.

than come to you. You’ll forever be rusty down there without me to make you feel like a woman, Nancy Rong.”

and

her disdainfully before he snorted and continued, “You are not and will never be fit to have me inside you. Whatever brought about Brian’s existence was a mistake you know too well… Nancy, you thought only my life would be ruined when you created the misunderstanding that drove her away?” He shook his head and

vegetables suddenly taste more delicious after breaking her with his words.

make you beg to have me but then, it will be too late.” She turned

eating and looked in the direction she left.

you found her?”

she has entered the city,” came the fearful

eyes dilated and he immediately bounced up from his seat. “Where is she?!”

it. She is hiding too well

wife’s people do… be

“Yes, sir!”

left the dining room after that.

years ago when she approached Christine’s father and demanded that Jeslyn be killed, slammed her phone on the