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

in school so much?” the class

hate to be in this class,” he

you took things into your own hands?”

idea what she was talking

“Answer me, boy!”

what? You haven’t told me what I’ve

register and pointed at a spot where a black marker was used to erase

conclude that’s my

register and pointed. “Number 35, isn’t that

my name. You’re accusing me without proof and it’s wrong!”

bangs that were covering one eye wouldn’t give her access to

your punishment double. But if I wrongly accused you, then

an apology. Whoever did it should be transferred to class B. I can’t share the same class with

teacher looked at him and nodded. “Fine.” She stood up and yelled, “All of you, bring out your bags and

classroom, searching their school bags to find a black marker. After searching the whole 50 students, she couldn’t find a black marker. She went

smiles as he watched from his seat. He believed that Valen would be caught red–handed and

her lower lip and clenched her uniform. She didn’t want Valen to be

said.

her desk and brought out a black marker. She searched

and slapped the table. She stood up and faced the class. “After the count of three

pointed at Valen,

mustn’t lay false accusations.”

everyone?” he asked his friends and they all

saw him writing in that book with that

into this class, the boy had

“Valen?” she called.

argue and just grabbed his teacher’s hand. He pulled her sleeve up and wrote with the marker on her arm. The teacher was startled