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

to be in school, but hate to be in this

took things

no idea what she was

“Answer me, boy!”

what I’ve done wrong.” Valen stood

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

conclude that’s my doing?”

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

didn’t say that wasn’t my name. You’re accusing me without

His bangs that were covering one eye wouldn’t

I’ll make your punishment double. But if I wrongly accused you, then I’ll apologize,” she said.

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

him and nodded. “Fine.” She stood up and yelled, “All of you, bring out your bags and leave them on your desks!”

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

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

and clenched her uniform. She didn’t want Valen to be punished like the teacher

said.

and brought out a black marker. She searched all the smaller parts of the bag

up and faced the class. “After the count of three

got up and pointed at Valen, “He

mustn’t lay

because we saw him. Right, everyone?” he

writing in that book with that black

teacher looked at Valen with a frown. Ever since he came into this class, the boy had been finding ways to get suspended, which is why she

“Valen?” she called.

and just grabbed his teacher’s hand. He pulled her sleeve up and wrote with the marker on her arm. The teacher was startled for a moment that she missed the time