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)

of him was what looked like a holographic image of himself floating beside numbers that appeared to be stats.

class descended into chaos as the children screamed, while the teacher panicked. She immediately

wrong with the child. Meanwhile, the school had

child had been sleeping for two

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

“What happened?”

been with the child since 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

and stayed by

“Where is Mom?”

her out a lot today,” Maverick replied.

his lips and looked remorseful. “Did she worry

she’s fine.”

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

system.

“Hereditary system?”

it said system

the system told him back at the Dark Age and he

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

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

Matt’s

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

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

flooded Matt’s mind. The pictures were blurry

anger, hate… everything rushed into him at once. He was so into his world of mystery. So much so that he couldn’t feel his nails digging into his palm.

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