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.

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

kingdom was flourishing, the Witches were also growing

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

the remaining witches but some still got away and continued

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

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

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 men because

the more stunning the child as they grow, the higher their position, so mothers made sure to look for handsome

started stealing each other’s inen or allowing one man to procreate with many of them, brewing stepsisters all over the cult… by

exclaimed in

love. However, because he was the most handsome man then, other women from the cult also wanted him,

to mistreat their

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

few nights with her. By the time your great–grandmother undid the charm, it was

found out she was pregnant some months later but couldn’t run away with the pregnancy like she thought. After she

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