”Mister, please, will you marry me? ” She asked him, a man she saw entering the restroom of the wedding venue. He must be one of the guests, she thought.
As the man turned to face her, she was taken aback by his cold personality. He wasn just cold, but also had some weird air around him. All her senses woke up, ringing bells in her mind to walk away, but to where? She had been searching for a groom for a long time already and couldn even find a janitor, let alone a waiter, so where else would she see a groom? The auspicious time, according to her grandfather, is already passing.
Looking at her makeup-smudged face and the line of tears on her cheeks, he didn need to be told that she had been crying for a long time. His aura subconsciously lessened, giving her relief and freedom to interact with him like the human he was.
The man looked right and left, there was no one but him there, so he pointed at his nose. ”Young Miss, you mean, me? ” He asked.
She nodded while wiping her face with the back of her hand, ruining the mascara more.
The man chuckled after getting his answer. ”You don know me, do you? ” He asked after his weird chuckle.
She swallowed and shook her head, then said timidly with a tears-filled voice. ”T–that makes it better. ”
The man raised a brow. ”How so? ”
”We will sign a contract, a marriage contract. We will get a divorce after one year, then you can continue your life. ” She explained.
”Oh, so you want to use my service when you don even know me? Interesting. It so happens that I also need a woman for that brat. Deal, Ill marry you. ” He said with a faint smile.
”Good, Ill send my assistant to bring you the contract after our wedding. ” Seeing him nod, she grabbed his hand with her left hand and held up her long, heavy, and white wedding dress with the other hand as she hurried towards the wedding venue.
The tall man looked at her side profile with his dark chocolate eyes as an interesting smile found its way to settle on his lips. If only she knew who he was. If only she knew what she was getting into.
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”Where is the bride? The groom has been waiting here for more than five minutes already. ”
”I wonder what that young Miss problem is. ”
”Young brats from rich families who are also celebrities are mostly like this, making people wait for them, hmph! ”
”The more reason she should be scared of upsetting people, but no, young Miss Jeslyn would never consider her reputation. She knows exactly how bad it would be if word gets out that she kept the guests waiting for 10 minutes on her wedding day. ”
”How can you expect her to be so sensible when her reputation is already as bad as serpents. ”
”I wonder why shes even the one getting married to young master Ray, with her ruined reputation. Her sister, Christine, would have been a better choice. Tch! ”
”Quiet down, don let her grandfather hear you say that. Youll be in trouble. ”
While the murmurs and words of displeasure were flying around in the hall, the relatives of the bride and groom were busy looking at the door, hoping to see the abomination walk in through the entrance.
A man presumed to be the groom stood on the altar with
the priest, waiting for the bride.
The groom had a little frown of impatience settling in-between his brows as he focused on the door with hands balled in tight fists and knuckles turning white. His jaw was clenched to suppress the fire in his heart.
Did she dare to stand me up? Is she going to cancel the wedding at the last minute? No, she can . She knows whats at stake if she refuses to get married today, he thought.
Amongst the guest sitting, an old man was seen resting his jaw on his palms that were placed on his walking stick as he appeared to be lost in thought.
Just when he snapped out of his daze and was about to wave over one of his bodyguards standing around the hall, he heard an uproar from behind and turned sharply to see if it was his granddaughter entering the hall with grace.
Lo and behold, it was his granddaughter, but wasn entering with grace, but rather with disgrace!
The old mans eyes dilated and his lips parted in shock. If her appearance was not bad enough to shock him into a coma, then the fact that she was running in with an unknown man would.
The guest gasped in surprise and watched in confusion as the famous young Miss of the Lee family ran to the stage with a man, an unknown man!
The groom stood there with narrowed eyes, not understanding what she was up to. However, he had a weird feeling that things were about to go bad for him and he needed to stop her real quick!
”What do you think you are doing, Jeslyn? ” He asked her when she climbed the altar. His eyes resting on the man who had a slight smile on his lips.
Ray was the most handsome young man in the city and that was one of the attributes Jeslyn fell for, however, the man in front of him was simply gorgeous– if a man could be called that.
And it stirred something in his heart seeing such a handsome specie with his fiance.
Instead of her answering his query, she pushed him aside in a hurry and said to the priest.
”Im sorry for coming late and wasting your time. I have decided to change my groom at the last minute, please start the ritual. ”
At her words, the hall fell into deep silence for more than two minutes before the hall erupted into a commotion.
”What?! ”
”What joke is this?! ”
”Has she finally gone mad!? ”
”Oh mine, I had thought she was kidnaped on her way here. I never expected this move, ” One of the girls sitting in a corner said with a chuckle.
”Thats right, Emma, it seems shes finally smart and understood what weve been trying to make her understand for the longest time. ”
”She might probably have been hit on the head, Jeslyn loves that idiot too much to leave him, ” Emma said with a deep thought.
”I think something happened, I mean her appearance is too bad for this to be a prank, ” Ava disagreed.
Emma nodded, ”probably. Well ask her later. ”
Jeslyns grandfather composed himself and continued to watch in silence. If his beloved granddaughter who had been the happiest about her marriage, and had the best designers and makeup artists in the city dress her up and made her into a fairy this morning would enter her wedding venue looking like a used woman, then something serious must have happened.
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