President's Substitute Wife

“No, I’ll leave alone. I promised Sean I will leave on my own.”

I just told Sean that.

I wanted to reassure him.

Ming was reluctant. I went on persuading him. At last I convinced him.

It rained that night on this island where it didn’t often rain.

Sean stood with me in the cabin on the dock.

It was raining all the time.

A sailor ran in from the outside. “Mr. Jessop, I think it’s going to rain for hours. It will be dangerous if we go by boat.”

“Then don’t leave.” Sean looked at me.

It was too dark for me to see his expression.

He reached out and wanted to put his big hand behind my back. I took a step forward and took out my cell phone and said to Sean, “President Jessop, it’s past twelve. In a sense, you are Miss Lewis’s husband today.”

“Yes.”

Sean responded to me.

I thought for a moment, “since God doesn’t want me to leave, I won’t leave. I really want to see President Jessop as a groom. The last time I married you, you just walked the red carpet.”

“June…”

“President Jessop, please call me by my full name.”

With that, I took my luggage and was about to walk out in the rain when I saw a man coming with an umbrella under the dim yellow light not far away.

Ming.

He went to the cabin and looked at me, “it’s been raining. I don’t think you’ll leave, so come to pick you up.”

“OK.” I felt warm when I saw Ming. I smiled and said, “thank you. I was just thinking about how to get back.”

With that, I went directly to Ming’s umbrella.

smiled, “President Jessop, go back, or you’ll

there without

on his face, but

By the time Ming and I

stood at the window and seemed to see a man standing in the rain. But I didn’t seem to see

stayed up all night

next morning, Jessie came to make me up as usual.

his best to make me beautiful.

But the face he adjusted for me

on the dress I had

already many people at the wedding site. Ming was with me. As soon as we arrived, a middle-aged

they were familiar

up and looked at me. He smiled mysteriously. “When did you have a

are

Simon and Monica.

I just remembered that I gave tea to these two elders at the wedding.

seem to recognize me. I quickly respectfully said, “Hello,

“Aren’t you Sean's ex-wife?”

Monica recognized me before I introduced myself.

froze and didn’t know what to say.

“no, it’s her sister Molly. She’s June.”

so?” Monica looked

Ming’s parents had been doing business abroad for many years and rarely came back, so they didn’t seem to know what happened

reminded, “we met her then. Her experience is similar to Ming’s. She lived in an orphanage as a child

her eyes were still unfriendly, and she said, “why do you sisters

Simon and Monica said made me a little

Ming said quickly, “we have to leave first. See you later.”

“All right.”

Monica said. I walked a long way and looked back to see that she was

eyes were strange.

apologized, “I’m sorry. I don’t have a high position in Jessop Family so they

smiled, “I’m almost like you, and I was sneered at every day in the Carter Family. I’m used

to such an activity in the future.

at him and didn’t understand

It sounded like we were not just

Because it was a western wedding, there were only