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

and passed out. The class descended into chaos as the children screamed, while the teacher panicked. She

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 and

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

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 an illusion,

“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 time, she looked sick and exhausted. So, Maverick lulled her to sleep, cancelled

and stayed by his son.

“Where is Mom?”

stressed her out a

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

said she’s

don’t know, Dad. I saw a holograph of me. A

system.

“Hereditary system?”

system activated,” Valen

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

to deactivate the system, but Valen has no child to pass the system

hereditary system came about, no one knows. Just like the rainborite stone, the hereditary

Matt’s

was lying on 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 is a Certified obstetrician too?

old newspaper beside him. He took it and the front page was a

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

his world of mystery. So much so that he couldn’t feel his

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.