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)

image of himself

thing everyone 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

with the child. Meanwhile, the school had already called his

sleeping for two hours. Even Matt couldn’t find

awakening in the evening sent the house into a joyous mood, but the child was still confused about what he heard and saw in class. He knew it wasn’t

“What happened?”

worry. She offered to stay with her son and watch him wake up, but at the

and stayed by his

“Where is Mom?”

needs to rest. You stressed her out a lot today,” Maverick

his lips and looked remorseful. “Did she worry

said she’s

saw a holograph of me. A computerized voice

system.

“Hereditary system?”

know it said system activated,” Valen

Age and he sighed softly. He talked and reassured his son that he’d be fine.

knows how to deactivate the system, but Valen has no child to pass the system to, which means,

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

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

old newspaper beside him. He took it and the front page was a photo of a pretty woman. Headline read:

of a mother, child, and husband. ] Images flooded Matt’s mind.

hate… everything rushed into him at once. He was so into his world of mystery. So much

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. Are you ok?” she asked. However, what happened next was a tight slap to her