Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

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command you now, take me back!!"

Maverick paused at her scream with his eyes still on her.

Rex, who had been watching the show with his pointed finger following Jeslyn around, knitted his brows and let out a sound to show his confusion. "Huh?"

"Wait," he put down his finger. "You think you are dreaming? Is that what I think it is?" He hurried over to stand beside Maverick.

"Of- of course. Does this look real to you?" Jeslyn replied while blinking.

"Pfft... hahahaha...." Rex couldn't keep his snicker and laughed so hard that he held his stomach. He pointed a finger at her and said amidst laughter. "Jeslyn Lee, you are... hahaha..." 3 "Wh... what is it? What's so funny?" Nobody answered her and she watched the man walk towards a single couch and sat down with one leg over the other.

After Rex had laughed his intestines out, he also sat beside Jeslyn and said while trying to look

serious. "This is no dream, Lee."

Jeslyn looked around the house one more time and shook her head, "You can't be serious." She

refused to believe it.

The first reason was that she was clearly sleeping in the car and when she woke up, she met herself here.

Secondly, this house is too luxurious to be owned by someone in Rose City. Her Lee family was the richest. If they cannot afford a house like this, then no one in the whole City would dare. Unless they want to relocate to the slum.

Thirdly, Jeslyn was brought up in wealth and spoiled rotten with the latest brand of everything; from accessories, and clothes to furniture. She knows most of the brands and from all she had seen, starting from the room she woke up from, to the sitting room and even the style of the interior decor," no designer in the whole of country A does it.

"You are not in country A." Maverick finally spoke. From the way she was looking at the decorations in the sitting room, he figured out what she was thinking.

If Jeslyn had been shocked, now she was more flabbergasted at what she just heard.

"Wh- where am I?"

"Country M," he answered.

"Ahhhh!" Jeslyn screamed and jumped up to her feet.

Rex sighed. He was still wondering what his brother was thinking. How could he bring someone from another country into their country? Not even a strong-hearted person but a little puppy like Jeslyn

Lee.

Now, he's only going to sit back here and watch how his brother explains to her....

'wait, let me get my popcorn. Drama is about to begin! Hehehe!

Just when Rex was attempting to stand up and go get himself popcorn, he heard the devil say, "Rex, explain to her."

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"Eh?" Rex looked at his brother and saw that his eyes were already closed and his head was resting on the chair.

'Why again was I born as his junior brother?' Rex asked himself with sorrow in his eyes.

How was he going to explain the situation he doesn't know to this dumb young lady?

'Why is my life so hard?'

If only that idiot didn't fail her mission, she wouldn't have been sent to prison and would have been the one doing this trouble right now. 3

Rex sighed and motioned Jeslyn to sit down before he started to explain things to her, but what?

30 Country M

Jeslyn sat down with a skeptical look on her face. She had heard of country M. In fact, the whole world knows of country M, but what she doesn't understand is why she is in this villainous place. (1) Country M is known for her two names 'paradise in hell' and 'kindness is lost.

Country M is the house for the wealthiest and most demonic set of humans that could ever exist in

the world.

Committing all the sins there are in the book is their fort. Although, they do it diplomatically.

They don't go about stealing along the streets or picking up a lady on the road to rape. Carrying out 'petty' crimes like that is considered the work of a weakling and such practices are frowned upon. Being able to survive in country M automatically means the person has a dead heart.

From the police to the citizens are horrible humans and only a handful of people could be said to be 'kind' and that 'kindness' is extended to some members of their families and friends alone. Although that might be it, there are still few who know what love is and they aren't stingy to show it.

However, the lover and the loved has to be at the top of the game, or else the enemies lurking around would use that against them. After all, the struggle to be at the pinnacle is no joke. Getting dragged into a country like that would certainly make a faint-hearted person like Jeslyn pee on themselves.

"Miss Jeslyn, I don't know what happened, but from what I understand, I don't think it was my brother who married you, but rather, you married him, correct?"

Jeslyn slowly nodded and glanced at the man whose head was on the headrest of the chair.

"Good. It was your fault for not knowing who you were marrying, so..."

"I want a divorce!" Jeslyn immediately yelled.

Rex choked on his words and his voice disappeared while he looked at his brother who also happened to be looking at Jeslyn.

Seeing those menacing eyes staring at her, Jeslyn shrank her neck, almost curling on the couch.

"Our deal was one year," he said. From his hard voice, it was obvious he wouldn't be welcoming anything else except that deal.

"B- but what I married you for is over now, I lost." She didn't know where the courage came from, but she was glad it came.

"I also had a condition and I said it, didn't I?" Maverick asked with his thick dark brown raised. "Huh? You said what? I didn't hear you state your condition." She refused to be cornered or forced to live in this hellish country, especially not with this man that reeked of wickedness.

"It so happens that I need a woman for my brat... I said something like that, did I not?" He quoted what he said that day before he agreed to the deal.

Jeslyn blinked and knitted her brows, trying to recall but she couldn't remember much. All she could

recollect was him saying 'brat and deal' before she pulled him away.

"It doesn't matter if you don't remember, the deal cannot be changed. As for the contract, my lawyer will bring it over in a while."

"..." Jeslyn stared incredulously at him. Can this be called kidnapping?

"Valen will be coming home soon, get the servants to return to the mansion and set everything in place for him." Maverick got up after entrusting the task to Rex.

"Got that, brother."

"Come with me," Maverick said to Jeslyn who was wordlessly regretting her actions on that day.

She got up like a confused robot and slowly walked behind him. She didn't know or care about where, he was taking her. She made the wrong decision, so she could only abide by his rules now. She had never heard of where a contractor suddenly became the contracted. What an amazing life she's living. 1

Jeslyn followed Maverick out of the house, wondering where he was taking her until she realized he was showing her around the massive building!

Should she laugh or cry at this predicament? Was this the right time to show her around the house? She was already feeling like dying when she realized she was in country M and this man is showing her around the house, is he for real? What eyes is he expecting her to admire the beauty of the house with?

"Ehm, Mr... don't you think it's not right to be doing this right now when my brain has been fed with too much trouble to swallow? My brain is already suffering from indigestion and you are giving me more, please can I return to the house? I want to rest. She held her head dramatically, feigning dizziness.

Maverick glanced at her. Seeing how 'exhausted' she seemed, he gave a small nod before turning around and heading in the opposite direction.

Jeslyn watched his disappearing back with narrowed eyes for a few seconds before her eyes lit she just got an idea and she ran after him.

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"Mr, wait up!"

Maverick paused in his step and turned to look at her.

She beamed, making her look like a cute fluffy doll. Even though she knew that she was using her cutest expression right now, the man in front of her didn't seem to care at all.

"What?" His voice was so distant like he was stopped by an annoying stranger.

Well, she's an annoying stranger and Jeslyn was aware of that.

"Ehm, you see, I was thinking, ehm... see, I know we are married..." she said 'married' in an awkwardly low tone, like it wasn't real.

...and It's a contract. I understand that you want to stick to the end and I'm not going to oppose, after all, I caused it. However, what I wanted to say is that..."

She walked up to him and grabbed his right hand.

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Maverick frowned slightly at her touch but didn't pull out his hand.

The audacious little bunny was too preoccupied with how to explain her intention that she missed the reaction he gave at her touch.

With his left hand in his trouser pocket and his right hand in her hold, he stared down at the middle. of her head. 1

Jeslyn looked up at his face and wondered why he was so tall.

'If I ever get the chance to kiss him, I'll have to either wear tall heels or stand on tip toes and he will also have to lower his head a little...damn!' 1

Realizing she had lost track, she gently hit her head before she beamed again. "Mr, can I return to my country?" 3