Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

425 Story behind the two Cults

Jeslyn suddenly jolted awake with sweat all over her. She looked almost out of breath. Seeing where she was, she took a deep breath to calm her racing heart. (1)

She just had a bad dream that someone she couldn’t see his face broke her family apart, killed her husband, son, and married her. She grabbed her phone and called Yellow, who assured her that Valen was fine. Then she called Rex, who was also doing great at the hotel.

Even though Jeslyn was told that her family was okay, she still couldn’t feel relaxed or sleep anymore, so she got down from bed.

A while later, she was seen strolling around the Hwang’s–garden, allowing the cool breeze to blow away her uneasiness. The fresh smell of flowers assured her that it was just a dream.

Lost in deep thought, she was startled when a weight was placed on her shoulders. She touched it and simultaneously looked back. It was a white–furred coat that was placed on her.

“You’ll catch a cold.”

“You aren’t wearing much either. You should take it. You haven’t fully recovered yet.” Jeslyn was about to take the coat off when Nancy walked away from her and sat on the bench under a tree. “Thank you. You also can’t sleep?”

“Sleep?” Nancy looked into space. The full moon was just too beautiful to look at, “I smell trouble in the air.” She returned her gaze to Jeslyn. “The world’s power is about to change, and I don’t know how this trouble would affect me.”

“What do you mean?” Jeslyn took a seat beside her.

asked, “Where is your husband?”

urgent work,” she replied.

only shook her head. “Your husband is missing, the Yu family’s unpopular son, Reuben, is missing… His brother also went missing. It’s been over a month,

you talking

also don’t know where he went… meanwhile, after everyone disappeared, Davis started amassing power–stealing people’s territories and forcing smaller

before continuing like she couldn’t believe his audacity. “The President did it without my consent,

“Gossip?”

try to fight the government and the power behind them end up being used as fertilizer for

rather moan and gossip amongst themselves.”

“You mean to say that the Fengs are kidnapping people and the President is taking orders from a

you want to know how this is

didn’t tell me before leaving and I have a hunch that everyone is lying to me. Maverick doesn’t want me to know his whereabouts because he knows it’s

are indeed the obedient one.” Since

at the sky and sighed. “The moon is full today and a lot of souls will be wailing

frowned. “What is

“The Dark Age believes that in order to maintain the control they hold a pool of blood is needed as a sacrifice for their idol. So, every full moon, cases of missing people

of the media and satellite.”

cringed. “That’s barbaric!”

chuckled lightly. Jeslyn is fun to speak with. “You want to know what’s barbaric? It’s the story behind the Dark Age and Half–Heart.”