Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

426 How it all started (2)

“The Maid went out on a mission to start recruiting disciples and members. The woman taught some Witchcraft, and others without gifts became members.

“When the cult started thriving, the Maid realized that she was tricked into forming an evil cult, but it was too late to turn back the hands of time, so the Maid was turned into a butterfly that was forced to live inside Zucchini’s statue.”

“Wow!” Jeslyn was short of words. This feels like…

“Yeah. It was indeed a huge conspiracy by the Witch to create a world for herself and her kind… Those members were made to believe they were getting groomed to fight men who betrayed them. Unbeknownst to them, they were being raised as the Witch’s disciples.

“Meanwhile, Zucchini’s ex–fiance was still looking for the Witch but had no idea where she had disappeared to. His reason for wanting to kill her was because the woman was prophesied to be his downfall.

“The King of the land rewarded the hidden Magician with his daughter for his excellent service of getting rid of Witches from the Kingdom. But unfortunately, the King had no idea he had let a serpent into his home.

“The King had only one Princess and numerous Princes. The Magician knew that he wouldn’t be able to get the throne if he didn’t do something, so he killed the whole family, claiming the last Witch did.

set out to kill the Witch no matter what. But before that, the

was flourishing, the Witches were also growing like mushrooms

the Witch met after some decades and killed themselves. Before the witch died, she laid a curse that her disciples and the Magician’s offspring and supporters would forever be mortal enemies.

Army went after the remaining witches but some still got away and continued to carry

hiding couldn’t initiate women anymore, so the senior Witch brought the idea of bewitching

them, and their daughters took over after their mothers. died. After decades, the disciples became numerous and the cult flourished once

the Doyenne of that time introduced the idea of initiating new members from the day they were born. It was a good idea until some girls were unappealing to

and intelligent, so she passed down a new rule- the more stunning the child as they grow, the higher their position, so

one man to procreate with many of them, brewing stepsisters all over the cult… by the way, that was how your grandmother and the present Doyenne of the Half–heart became

exclaimed in shock.

man immediately fell in love with her and also forced your great–grandmother to reciprocate the love. However, because he was the most handsome man then, other women from the cult also wanted him, but the

to mistreat

could effortlessly avoid temptation, he couldn’t throw off the one woman who had always been envious

used witchcraft on him just to have a few nights with her. By the time your great–grandmother undid

but couldn’t run away with the pregnancy like she thought. After she gave birth to your

your great–grandmother and caused the cult to kill her for falling in love and