Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

441 Search him yourself

The two–hour nap time was over and the class teacher returned from the meeting she had attended with the other staff. There was no need for her to wake the kids because the school alarm already did. 1

She waited for about thirty minutes for them to get a hold of themselves before she started calling the monthly register.

The school, although documents everything on the system, is still adept at using traditional registers monthly to track the number of times their students appeared in class in a month.

Their reason for doing so was that, a few years back, a student was caught hacking his class‘ system and making sure he always marked himself present, whereas he skips school almost every day. The reason that the junior high schooler wasted so much money to get a hacker was because his grandfather promised to pass on his company to the boy’s younger brother if he skips–class again.

The issue caused a lot of trouble for the school, so because of that, they settled for book registers.

Presently, Valen’s class teacher was calling registers and nothing seemed to be wrong until he got to Valen’s name.

She looked up from the Register to see Valen reading a book.

“Valen Lu!”

The young child raised his gaze and looked at her.

“Come out here,” she instructed, pointing to the space in front of her.

Valen got up and trudged to stand in front of her.

“Do you

school so much?” the class

hate to

you took things

was talking about

“Answer me, boy!”

You haven’t told me what I’ve done wrong.”

at a spot where a black marker was used to erase the column. “This is

conclude that’s

it?” She looked at the register and pointed. “Number 35, isn’t that

my name. You’re accusing

the child, whose hands were inside his pocket. His bangs that were covering one eye wouldn’t

punishment double. But if I wrongly

transferred to class B. I can’t share the same class with

“All

a black marker. After searching the whole 50 students, she couldn’t find

Valen went to get his bag. Fatty was all smiles as he watched from his

clenched her uniform. She didn’t want Valen to

said.

gently placed Valen’s books on her desk and brought out a black marker. She searched all the smaller parts of the bag but

and faced the class. “After the count of three if you don’t come out here, I’ll ask for the CCTV

immediately got up and pointed

lay false

because we saw him. Right, everyone?” he asked his friends and they

saw him writing in that book with that black permanent

the

“Valen?” she called.

her sleeve up and wrote with the marker on her arm. The teacher was startled for a moment that she missed