Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom
Chapter 381

381 Madam Caroline's past (2)

"Hey, don't be so mean," Hao said and tapped Vance on the head.

"Stay out of this," Vance glared at him.

"Brother Hao, can you please excuse us for a moment?" Caroline pleaded with her eyes.

Hao looked confused but nodded. Hepatted Caroline on the head and warned, "Don't go anywhere, if you're done, come look for me in class. I won't be able to explain to your parents if anything happened to you"

"Mn, I won't go anywhere, I promise," she raised a pinky finger.

Hao still didn't feel alright. He went to Vance and pulled him up by the collar, "I won't warn you again, if anything like what happened before repeats itself, I won't forgive you."

Vance slapped his hand off, "What would happen? She's your friend, so is she mine. Our families are discussing our engagement, so what can I do to her?" He rolled his eyes.

Vance and Hao are best friends like brothers but the only time they quarrel is when it has something to do with Caroline.

Hao left the two under the tree, trusting that Caroline would be fine. After he left, Vance turned his back to Caroline with his hands folded on his chest.

Caroline walked around him and stood in his front like a drenched little kitten. "Brother Vance, 1- are you still angry?"

"Should I not?" He raised a brow.

"I- I'm sorry."

"Will that fix anything? Caroline, what are you scared of? That I won't marry you after that or what?" "No, no, I didn't say that, I'm just afraid that... That....."

"I'll take care of everything, I promise... It's my eighteenth birthday today and I'll be graduating highschool next month, but you'll still be here for two more years. It's only right that you bid me farewell with it?" Caroline didn't want to give in, yet Vance pressured and emotionally blackmailed her until she succumbed.

The two left school and went to a hotel. Sixteen years Caroline and Eighteen years Vance were soon seen under the duvet as they made love passionately.

Caroline cried a few times from the pain but later, her sweet cries for more could be heard.

A few days later, videos of two students from Jace highschhol entering a hotel room and ending up having sex was posted online. Although the faces were blurred, Caroline knew it was her and Vance. She went to him but Vance blamed the hotel for it and told her not to worry.

However, a few days later, the unblurred video that had only Caroline's face showing was sent to Caroline's family, and her engagement with Vance was called off.

Due to the incident, Caroline's father died from a heart attack and her mother also died a few months later when she found out her daughter was pregnant. Even though the incident was fishy, the girl refused to blame Vance for anything because Vance met

up

with her a few times, explaining that it wasn't his doing and blamed his enemies. Caroline believed him and they continued seeing each other behind everyone's back. One day, Caroline caught Vance with another girl behind the school, kissing. Feeling hurt, she barged in on them and started fighting the girl.

Vance didn't try to stop the fight and left the two to kill themselves. The other girl was eighteen. She almost killed Caroline, but God intervened and Hao ran into them.

He separated the fight and took the injured Caroline to the hospital, that was when he realized she was pregnant.

Caroline didn't want to say who was responsible untilher mother forced her to speak up. Her sick mother couldn't take it and died.

Hao saw how everything unfolded. After the funeral that Vance and his family didn't attend, Hao started suspecting a dirty game, so for that, he stopped being friends with Vance until one afternoon after their final year exam.

Hao was walking down the corridor when he heard Vance telling other guys about the girls he had slept with. Hao would have ignored him if he didn't talk about Caroline.

So he confronted Vance but the bastard denied the pregnancy at first, claiming that Caroline slept with another man at a hotel.

Hao had seen the video trending for weeks and didn't know it was Caroline's. Refusing to believe it, he called an expert to return the video to its original form and that was how he saw the two people in the video.

He approached Vance with the evidence, this time, Vance didn't deny it.

"Hahaha... What can you do about it? Her parents are dead, she has no power to fight me. What, do you want to break our family's old ties for a girl? I already ate her, you should do the same. To be honest, she was sweet and submissive in bed. I can't take the image of her pleading for more, away from my mind. The way she begged me to go harder...

"The way she called my name and told me 'I love you so much!' Oh Lord, I can't forget those words, too bad she's pregnant now, I don't want to be a father yet, so let her get rid of it, who knows, we might get back together after. But she definitely cannot be my wife, she can only be a mistress-"

"Vance!!" Hao was so angry that he punched Vance in the face.

Vance burst out laughing. "Hahaha... Fool in love. Look at you, you've loved her all these years, yet she doesn't like you one bit. She knows I don't like her, yet she's willing to die for me, fool..."

Hao threw a punch at him again but Vance deflated it and the two got into a fierce fight.

The students in the school had no idea why the two best friends were fighting. Some thought they were sparing but the amount of injuries on them were more than just sparing.

They fought from the corridor to the top of the stairs. Just as Vance pushed Hao off the stairs, Hao

instinctively grabbed Vance's hand with one hand and held the railing with the other.

He pulled Vance who lost his momentum and fell off the stairs. Before he got to the end of the stairs, he had hit his head countless times, so even when he was immediately rushed to the hospital, he couldn't make it.

When Caroline heard the news, she concluded that Hao killed her boyfriend out of jealousy and that hatred had been in her heart and grown with her. 2

Hao felt guilty and wanted to make amends but he didn't know how until his mother brought him Caroline as a bride.

He loved her, plus the guilt he felt towards Vance, he allowed her to do everything she wanted without reprimanding her, including when she threw little Rex away.

Madam Caroline snapped back to reality.

"Your father was a monster! A bad man, he killed the love of my life because he was jealous, then told

his mother to give me to him in marriage. He deserved what he got! I'm just sad that I couldn't kill him myself!.. Hahahahah...!" 3

myself..

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