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

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 and headed

wrong with the child. Meanwhile, the school had already called his family. Maverick

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

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

“What happened?”

he brought 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

stayed by his son.

“Where is Mom?”

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

child flattened his lips and looked remorseful. “Did she worry too

she’s fine.”

He finally had the time to respond to the earlier question. “I don’t know, Dad. I saw a holograph of me. A computerized voice spoke

system.

“Hereditary system?”

said system activated,” Valen

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

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

looked at his son without knowing what to think. How the hereditary system came about, no one

Matt’s house…

the lounge with his face facing the evening sky. After the wedding, what comes next? His wife is pregnant. Will

There was an old newspaper beside him. He took it and the front page was a photo of a pretty

Images flooded Matt’s mind. The pictures were blurry but

everything rushed into him at once. He was so into his world of mystery. So much so that he couldn’t

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