Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

"Oh?" the new groom smiled faintly.

"Or, you two had been cheating, " a lady walked over and stood beside Ray as she glared at the new groom.

They could clearly see that the new groom didn look like someone they should mess with but the Zhou siblings didn care because they know all the affluent and power-holding families in the country and they are aware that this man in front of them, despite having the air of a powerful person, was not on the list of those people they should fear.

They knew that the man cannot be a pauper, but refused to believe that he was wealthier than them.

"So what if it is?" The new groom responded emotionlessly. He glanced one last time at the people that were starting to gather around him before walking towards the door.

"Hey! Stop right there, Im not done with you yet! " Ray yelled as he ran towards the new groom and was about to yank his black shirt from behind when the new groom turned and avoided his hand. He kicked his leg forward and ruthlessly pushed him back, sending Ray falling into the empty seats.

The friends and family remaining in the hall were alarmed and immediately rushed to Ray to help him up, but Ray pushed them away. He got up and pointed a finger at the new groom.

He Ignored the fact that he was just humiliated in the presence of so many people and said: "Divorce her, come with me to the magistrate and divorce her, right now!! " He yelled like a crazy man. He was really going crazy. How dare she do this to him?

The new groom pulled out his phone that was vibrating in his pocket and glanced at the caller before he turned around and walked away without uttering a word to Ray.

The desperate Ray was about to stop him from leaving again when the lady earlier stopped him. "Ray, calm down, there are other ways to get her to divorce that wild man and marry you.' "Sister, how? What other ways?" Ray couldn wait to get back at Jeslyn for humiliating him so much. "She will pay for this!! " He angrily kicked the chair in front of him.

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"Calm down, brother, leave it to me, Ill take care of Jeslyn. You shouldn give the reporter outside the hall the wrong impression that you are a violent man. Grandfather, you all should return home. Ill stay behind with Ray to speak with the reporters.

"Settle things well. " The angry grandfather who had been sitting after the Lee family left, stood up and headed out of the hall with the other members of the Zhou family.

The new groom was seen entering a private room in the hotel. He sat on a couch and placed his hand on the arm of the chair.

A man sipping from his tumbler sighed. "What took you so long? I almost thought you left."

"Just got married, " He answered as he turned to look at the ring on his finger.

The other man choked on his drink and patted his chest to ease the cough.

"Don kill yourself, I won explain to your mom," He said.

"Y-you did what?!"

"Got married."

"Hahahaha... you must be joking. That was a nice joke you just told. "

"OK." That was all. He didn explain further and he never does. He allows a person to believe what they wanted after he says the words he needed to.

He brought his hand from the armrest and started to play with the ring. He removed it and looked at the intricate designs on it. The ring had two initials which he presumed to be the names of the ex-groom and his bride. R heart J.

"Brother, what is that?" Rex stared at the ring in his brothers hand with a lot of interest.

"A bomb," he answered nonchalantly and dropped the ring in the wine glass in front of him. "Get me a set of couples ring.

Rexs jaw dropped when he saw his actions and heard his words. "D- did you really just get married after leaving here?

The new groom ignored him and asked instead. "Have you found the nurse?"

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Rex pulled himself together and became serious. The issue of his brothers wedding was placed at the back of his mind. "N-no, my investigations said she died a few days ago."

"And the hospital where Valen was born?" He asked.

"The hospital was closed down last month. "

"Then look for the higher ups," he frowned.

"Yes, our men are already on it... when are we returning?"

"I might leave you here. Return if you still can find anything after a week. Whoever is obstructing our search is powerful. Ill need to pin him down myself." He said with a small frown on his dashing face. "Ok...ah, I almost forgot. Valens nanny called. The boy is causing chaos. "

"Let him, provided hes fine.... Im heading out." He stood up and walked out of the room.

After he left, Rex picked up his phone and logged into a chat group.

Rex: Hey, guess who just got married!

He dropped the message and left the chat with a wicked smile on the corner of his lips. He wasn going to be the only one to be shocked. Others have to feel what he felt.

d of message didn look weird to her.

She sat on the bed and opened the first video. Instead of her picture, she saw Ray speaking to someone in a car. Somehow, only Rays face was visible and the other persons appearance was blurred. "Ray, what is wrong with you? Do you have to marry her? I thought the plan was different?"

"It was but she wanted the marriage and her grandfather approved of it. Also, if I don marry her on her 26th birthday, the properties will be transferred to the orphanage the following day. Its not like you guys don know that."

"Young Miss knows, but shes not happy about you getting married to another woman.

"I know shes angry, Im also angry too, but what can I do? This whole idea of approaching the Lee family was hers in the first place, so why is she angry at me and not taking my calls? "Young Miss is afraid that you might grow feelings for Jeslyn after you both get married. Shes a woman, so its natural to get jealous and battle insecurities."

"Hahaha... how can she think so lowly of me? Jeslyn and I have been together for four years and I didn fall for her. Will a marriage of six months make me start loving her? After our wedding, III travel with young Miss for six months and when I return, its to divorce her. Young Miss already knows that, so why is she still upset? I only have my eyes for your young Miss-"

"And me?"

"Come on, we both know we don have feelings for each other. We are just f*cking each other and nothing else, so don take it serious. " He touched the girls face and leaned towards her.

A while later, Jeslyn could hear lewd sounds coming from the video as they kissed.

The girls fingers traveled all over his body as she started to hastily take his clothes off, including his pants.

Jeslyn hurriedly paused the video as she looked at her screen dumbly for a long time. She couldn believe what she just watched.

Tears slowly gathered in her eyes as she felt a stabbing pain in her heart. She slowly swallowed the lump that was forming on her throat and scrolled to the next video with her shaky fingers.

It was in a room, a hotel room. Ray and someone were in bed talking. The girls photo was edited again. Her image was blurred, just like the first one. only Ray could be seen stark naked and standing in front o the bed.

Jeslyn closed her eyes for a moment, prompting the river of tears in her eyes to gush onto her cheeks. When she opened her eyes again, there was the determination to watch whatever they would be doing or that bad, after all, she had already heard enough on the first video.

"Ray, I delivered your message. Young Miss isn throwing a tantrum anymore, but she still doesn want to talk to you.

"I know." He sighed and got onto the bed. "She knows that if I don marry Jeslyn, the brat won be able to get those properties, and our plans over the years will be for nought.

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