Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

491 Lolita’s troubles

“Congratulations…” Maverick said before hitting the ‘enter‘ button.

“Thank you, br-” Rex was cut off before he could finish.

“… You are 11 billion richer.” Maverick pushed his laptop aside and pecked his wife on the forehead.

“Hehehe, I think I’m rich enough to buy the country!”

“Who did you steal from this time?” Rex took a seat beside Celestine as he leaned towards Jeslyn to hear fresh gossip.

“The former first lady… Wait, that’s not stealing. I only took back what belonged to me!” Jeslyn rolled her eyes.

Celestine shook her head, “You’re becoming more shameless.”

“I learned from the best,” she beamed. “So, about your wedding…”

While Jeslyn and Celestine were discussing the wedding preparations, Rex drew closer to his brother and whispered.

“Brother, I need your Yacht.”

“What about yours?” Maverick glanced at him.

“Not big and luxurious enough.”

Meanwhile at school, Valen was receiving lessons, attentively listening to the teacher even though he found the topic boring. Suddenly, he zoomed out and what appeared in front of him, traumatized him.

[Host found…bond initiating in 3…2…1… complete!… System Activated!] 1)

in front of him was what looked like a holographic image of himself floating beside numbers that appeared to

and passed out. The class descended into chaos as the children screamed,

couldn’t find anything wrong with the child. Meanwhile, the school had already called his family.

The child had been sleeping for two hours. Even Matt couldn’t find out what his problem

joyous mood, but the child was still confused about what he heard and saw in class. He knew it wasn’t an illusion,

“What happened?”

Maverick. He had been with the child since he brought him from school. Jeslyn couldn’t contain her worry. She offered to stay with her

stayed

“Where is Mom?”

stressed her

and looked remorseful. “Did

said she’s

“I don’t know, Dad. I saw a holograph of me. A computerized voice spoke to me out of nowhere and said something about

system.

“Hereditary system?”

it said system activated,”

at the Dark Age and he sighed softly. He talked and reassured

child to pass the system to, which means, the system can’t be deactivated right now…

knowing what to think. How the hereditary system came about, no one knows. Just like the rainborite stone, the hereditary system is also a

Matt’s

the wedding, what comes next? His wife is pregnant. Will he allow other men to see his wife’s body when he

sighed and sat up. There was an old newspaper beside him. He took it and the front page

a mother, child, and husband. ] Images flooded Matt’s mind. The pictures were blurry but the feeling was real. It

his world of

Matt?” Lolita shook him. She had been standing there for about two minutes and talking to him, but he wouldn’t respond. His eyes were red and veins could be seen in his forehead. His hands were scrunching the newspaper so hard that one would think he was holding on to the god of wealth.