Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom novel Chapter 392

392 Toxic family 

Today was the third day Brian returned home feeling relaxed, calm, and happy. The servants knew he must have encountered something interesting because he had never been this content for a long while. 1 

The young man entered the house and blessed all the workers with a smile. The servants were scared to get accustomed to their young master’s new behavior for fear that he might just be having mood swings. 

Brian’s new behavior didn’t go unnoticed by his parents. Mr. Hwang was quite excited about his son’s happiness but not his wife, Nancy. 

She felt that Brian had started communicating with Piper behind her back, and so she sent out people to monitor his every move… her belief wasn’t unfounded. Three days ago, she received a phone call from the communication department stating that someone had made a call out of the city with a burner phone that couldn’t be traced. 

She had been keeping watch to know who that person was but failed, so now that her son was unnecessarily happy, it has to be connected, She thought. 

Sitting at the dining table and eating breakfast, Mr. Hwang’s hardened gaze was on his wife after she made a statement that didn’t go down well with him. 

“Ok,” unlike before, Brian didn’t argue or refuse. His response not only shocked his mother but also left Mr. Hwang feeling uncomfortable. 

“Are you 

sure about that?” he asked his son. 

“I’m cool with it,” Brian declared. 

“Don’t do something you’ll regret, son.” The father was skeptical. He knows his son and understands 

him well. 

“I’d be ok, Dad, I got this,” he smiled faintly at his dad and continued eating. 

Madam Nancy cleared her throat and waved the servants away. “I don’t know what you’ve been up to lately, but it better not be a scheme to humiliate your bride and her family!” she warned. 

Brian chuckled and answered sarcastically. “You’re the almighty, the most feared. Who am I to make you lose face in the presence of the world?” 

“It’s good enough that you understand that. I sent your retirement letter to your agency. You are no longer an artist.” 

“Nancy!!” Mr. Hwang roared, but the unrepentant woman didn’t feel like she did anything wrong. 

Brian’s spoon froze in mid–air before he dropped his hand and pushed his plate of food away, and got up to leave. 

“Where are you going? You just came back.” 

“Somewhere I feel like a human and not some means for business deals and a puppet to be controlled,” He stopped by his father’s seat and hugged his neck before he left the house again. But 

this time, his spirit was obviously down. 

“You must be very excited,” the father said after Brian left. 

“Of course, my son has agreed to go on a date with his fiance, and he didn’t throw a tantrum when I broke the retirement news to him. So why won’t I be excited?” She didn’t even raise her 

cutting her grilled turkey bacon. 

“Bang!” he slapped the table and roared, “You demon!” 

gaze from 

She finally looked up at him and smiled faintly, “You are losing it. Do you need your prescription?” 

“You-” 

“Shhh… don’t say anything, I understand.” She pushed her seat back and got up, then walked to stand behind him and leaned forward until her lips were close to his ear. “You know I can stop this marriage from happening. I can quell interfering in our son’s life. All you need to do is get me the rainborite Ore or have sex with me… I’m your wife, Hwang Min, and that will forever be the truth.” she 

whispered. 

“I’d rather seek pleasure in a prostitute than come to you. You’ll forever be rusty down there without me to make you feel like a woman, Nancy Rong.” 

Nancy’s face changed, and she moved away. 

Hwang Min looked at her disdainfully before he snorted and continued, “You are not and will never be fit to have me inside you. Whatever brought about Brian’s existence was a mistake you know too well… Nancy, you thought only my life would be ruined when you created the misunderstanding that drove her away?” He shook his head and continued eating his meal. 

The vegetables suddenly taste more delicious after breaking her with his words. 

Nancy gritted her teeth and balled her fist so tight that she could feel her nails hurting her palm. “I’ll make you beg to have me but then, it will be too late.” She turned and stormed out of the dining room. 

After she was gone, the man stopped eating and looked in the direction she left. He picked up his phone and called someone. 

“Have you found her?” he asked. 

“S- sir, she has entered the city,” came the fearful voice of the other person. 

Hwang Min’s eyes dilated and he immediately bounced up from his seat. “Where is she?!” 

“We are on it. She is hiding too well sir.” 

“Find her before my wife’s people do… be discreet.” 

“Yes, sir!” 

The man left the dining room after that. 

Meanwhile, inside Nancy’s bedroom, the woman who didn’t change much from how she was 26 years ago when she approached Christine’s father and demanded that Jeslyn be killed, slammed her phone on the bed after making a call. 

“She can’t be found? Huh?… Alex you aren’t tired of this hide–and–seek game? I’ll fetch you out from 

wherever you are hiding!” She walked to her wardrobe and opened a hidden compartiment, then brought out a burner phone and called someone. 

“Why is the almighty calling me?” an advanced woman’s voice sounded from the other end. 

“I give you five hours to tell me where Alex is,” Nancy said cúrtly.