Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

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Christine on the other hand has been discharged from the hospital and was just entering the Chen

mansion.

Getting out of the car, she looked around her environment and got lost in deep thought for a while before she stepped into the house.

The minute she did, confetti and cheerful voices welcomed her.

"Welcome home, young Miss Christine!"

The rows of servants in brown uniforms and white aprons exclaimed.

Christine nodded with a faint smile while her eyes darted around the luxurious sitting room. It was beautiful, but the Lee house was prettier. "Welcome back home, child," Mr. And Mrs. Wales stepped forward and hugged Christine in a tight embrace.

"Thank you mom, dad," she smiled stiffly.

"Older sister, welcome home!"

The cute voice of a little girl of about 6-7 years old sounded, and very soon, a girl in a braided

ponytail, decorated with a pink tiara and pins, wearing a pink school uniform trotted over and hugged Christine's thighs.

Christine looked down at the child and smiled brightly before picking her up.

"Older sister, Chi chi missed you," she hugged Christine around the neck.

"Older sister missed you too."

"Are you going back to those bad people?"

"No, not anymore. I'm done with work and will stay here with you."

"What about older, older sister? When will she join us?"

Christine stayed silent for a while before she said: "Call her eldest sister and call me older sister." "Ok, eldest sister" 1

"That sounds better... As for when sister would return, I have no idea, she's very busy at the moment." Christine said that while looking at her parents who shook their heads.

"Chi chi baby, come, let your nanny take you to school before you get late." Mrs. Wales peeled the child out of Christine's arms and handed her to a lady in a servant's uniform. "Bye, the child waved at them as she was being carried away.

After the child left, Christine brushed her gaze through the servants that had their heads down and said: "you all should return to your duties and sweep this rubbish off the floor. They look disgusting." The voice was not as welcoming as it was a while ago.

"Yes, miss, the servants scattered after that. Some went to get cleaning tools to get rid of the confetti

littering the floor.

"Christine, see me in my study," Mr. Wales said and headed upstairs.

Christine and her mother followed behind him, with Christine's mother holding her arm.

Inside the study room, Mr. Wales looked at his wife and daughter sitting on the couch in front of him with a stern look on his face.

"What is that sister of yours up to? What does she mean by the whole property should be transferred to her? Jeslyn is my daughter too and I have the right over those properties more than your sister does!" "Father, I don't care what you and my older sister had. However, I'm not in for your drama. Sister wanted the properties and she plotted for years to get them.

If you had also wanted the properties, you should have plotted when you married Alice, but no, you were busy enjoying the marriage... as if cheating on mom wasn't enough, you got her pregnant and she gave birth to that idiot, Jeslyn.

Don't get me involved in your fight with my sister. Sort out your problems. I'm heading back to transfer all the properties to her like she instructed." Christine stood up, ready to leave but her father's roar made her sit back down.

"You dare take a step from that place!"

"Dad, what exactly do you want? You don't expect me to disobey sister for you, do you?" She raised a brow at him.

"Both of you take it easy. Wales, Christine is not wrong. You know the daughter you gave birth to. You know what she's capable of doing if she doesn't get her way. She wouldn't mind striping you off everything you own just to prove a point. Let Christine give her the properties. After all, we already have enough wealth.

As for you, Christine, I have told you times without numbers that your father did nothing wrong by staying with Alice for so long. I permitted it and thanks to that decision, we are this wealthy..."

"Notwithstanding, he deserves to be hated. A man who could do that to his wife and daughter isn't worthy to be called a man!" With that said, Christine glared at her father and got up before storming out of the

room.

It wasn't that she found fault with what they did to Jeslyn and her mother. She was only upset that people kept rubbing it in her face that she was enjoying the privilege of being rich because she was adopted. She had spoken to her father multiple times to tell the world that she wasn't adopted, but he wouldn't, saying it was for the greater good.

Now, after the greater good, he got nothing from his sacrifices and he's mad about it.

Well, let him be mad because Christine is also angry at him for how her life had turned out.

She would forever be at the mercy of Jeslyn and her family for the rest of her life. Who likes that?

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