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)

holographic image of himself floating beside numbers that appeared to be stats.

heard was a loud ‘thud.‘ Valen fell off his seat and passed out. The class descended into chaos as the children screamed, while the teacher panicked. She immediately carried the child and headed

on him but couldn’t find anything wrong with the child. Meanwhile, the school had already called his family. Maverick arrived a short while later

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

the evening sent the house into a joyous mood, but the child was still confused about what he heard and saw in

“What happened?”

him from school. Jeslyn couldn’t contain her worry. She offered to stay with her son and watch him wake up, but at the same time, she looked sick and exhausted. So, Maverick lulled

and stayed by

“Where is Mom?”

needs to rest. You stressed her out a

his lips and looked remorseful. “Did she worry too much?”

she’s fine.”

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

system.

“Hereditary system?”

said system activated,” Valen

told him back at the Dark Age and he sighed softly. He talked and reassured his son that he’d be fine.

but Valen has no child to pass the system to, which means, the system can’t be deactivated right

came about, no one knows. Just

Matt’s house…

the lounge with his face facing the evening sky. After 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 was a photo of

took the life of a mother, child, and husband. ] Images flooded Matt’s mind. The

He was so into his world of mystery. So much so that

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