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.

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

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

but the unrepentant woman

spoon froze in mid–air before he dropped his hand and pushed his plate of food away, and got up to leave.

are you going? You just came

puppet to be controlled,” He stopped by his father’s seat and hugged his neck before

his spirit was obviously down.

very excited,” the father said after

course, my son has agreed to go on a date with his fiance, and he didn’t throw a tantrum

her grilled

the table and roared, “You demon!”

gaze from

looked up at him and smiled faintly, “You

“You-”

walked to stand behind him and leaned forward until her lips were close to his ear. “You know I can stop this 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 that

whispered.

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

changed, and she moved

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

after breaking her with his

teeth and balled her fist so tight that she could feel her nails hurting her palm. “I’ll make you beg to have me but then,

man stopped eating and looked in the direction she left.

found her?”

has entered the city,” came the fearful voice

he immediately bounced

on it. She is hiding too well sir.”

wife’s people

“Yes, sir!”

man left the dining room

inside Nancy’s bedroom, the woman who didn’t change much from how she was 26 years ago when she approached Christine’s father and demanded that Jeslyn be killed, slammed her phone on the bed after making