Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

The wind from the fans blew his black coat into the air, giving him a supervillain’s vibe.

"Talking of the devil," the old man mumbled before he roared, "Kill them all!"

His men took positions and started to shoot in Maverick’s direction. Just at that moment, a fighting jet flew by.

When they saw the jet, all the guards forgot about the command to kill Maverick and started to run for their lives, abandoning Old Man Wu and his grandson.

However, would Maverick allow them to leave?

The fighting jet returned and started shooting at the men running for their dear lives.

Maverick stood in front of Old Man Wu and his grandson without even sparing the young man a glance even though the young man was pointing a gun at Maverick.

"Lu Ren, does your grandfather know this?" The old man asked.

"My grandfather is my grandfather. I am me," he replied slowly.

"Very good. Do you think that nobody would know what you have done?" the old man asked again.

"Who cares?" Maverick asked with his head tilted.

"You are not afraid of offending the brotherhood, are you?"

Maverick slightly shook his head, "You just realized?"

"Do you think–"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Maverick didn’t let the old man finish before shooting him in the head. At that same time, Code 2 shot the grandson. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

"Burn in hell," Maverick said and turned to leave.

...

It’s been two days since the matter of the Wu base and the news of the destruction of the Wu base was tightly sealed by Young Master Wu even though he was going crazy in search of the culprit.

Not only was his father killed, but his nephew was also killed and their bases were destroyed, rendering their Wu family useless!

Christine had travelled to another Country for a tour while Young Master Wu was seen in his office, looking extremely serious.

Of course, he has to. The only thing that the Wu family has left to sustain them are the countless companies they have all over the place, but at this moment, all the companies seem to be going through different problems all at a time.

As the most intelligent one in the Wu family, he is left to handle the mess and pull the companies to stability before going all out to look for the enemy.

....

Country Y...

Christine was seen, preparing for her stage performance. It was an event that housed Hundreds of thousands of fans, waiting for their most beloved VJ Cute.

Placards with VJ Cute, Christine, I love you, and so on. Majority of them chose to use colourful light sticks or light bombs. The audience was a beautiful sight to behold.

Although Jeslyn’s concert was bigger than this, to C– list singers, this number of audience was a dream they wish to achieve, yet, Christine would be performing for them today.

Even though the audience was huge, to Christine, it was a ’small group’ and she wasn’t pleased.

Inside her dressing room, Christine was seen throwing a fit.

"How can I perform for this tiny group? My debut had almost the same number of audience! Do you mean to tell me that I haven’t garnered much fans since then?!"

"Take it easy, Christine. Your tour was planned too late. Remember how it happened? You came up with the idea four days ago when you didn’t discuss it with anyone. The company wasted so much just to make this happen, yet we were able to gather 300,000 fans. Your debut had 310,000 fans. Your first and second concerts had 400,000 fans each. You should be happy." Assistant Miles tried to talk some senses into her.

"Happy? You want me to be happy? Jeslyn hasn’t gone to another concert yet. Only her debut which was later turned into her concert had 600,000 fans attending in less than 3 hours! How is that not better than all my concerts put together?

"Jeslyn’s debut/concert music is still topping the charts as we speak! Her music; We Found Love is now in the top 8 on the Billboard. Spirit Leads is in the top 5 on the same Billboard!

"Most streamed music of the month, Spirit Leads! Best-selling music of the month, Spirit Leads! Most loved rookie, Jeslyn! Everything, Jeslyn!!!!" she screamed and swept her makeup off the desk.

Assistant Miles took a deep breath to calm her anger.

"Christine, you... VJ Cute is just a rank below Jeslyn. On the Billboard, your music could be found in the 6th, 7th, 9th, and 10th places. Second most loved rookie, it’s YOU–"

"VJ Cute!! Say it as it is! Everyone out there loves VJ Cute and not me! What do you think would happen if they find out my secret? They would chew me alive!!"

"Then don’t give yourself away due to your jealousy!!" Assistant Miles yelled back. She has had enough of Christine and just wants to leave.

"Your jealousy is poisonous! You should be content now that Young Master Wu has sent out his people to do your bidding. What else do you want?! Jeslyn must have been dead by now, what else are you not satisfied with? What?!!

"Your parents cooked up schemes to ruin Jeslyn and her mother, y’all succeeded. You and your older sister cooked up plots to send Jeslyn to jail and also killed her grandfather, you succeeded!!!

"Jeslyn came out by God’s grace, still, you plotted and almost got hit by her lawyer’s car. Everyone hated Jeslyn on that account and she went into hiding for a year while you took her place in the entertainment industry!

"I betrayed her for the benefit you promised me, I ruined her two friends, Emma and Ava for your sake, I did so many dirty things for you, yet you didn’t give me that benefit you promised!!

"Jeslyn came back and started afresh with a new voice, different from the one you and Maya had me ruined and it became your nightmare!

"You ruined VJ Cute’s dreams just because you couldn’t get rid of your jealousy for Jeslyn. Even though you are getting more than you deserve, you still aren’t satisfied!