Contract Marriage: The Cursed Tycoon’s Obsession

"Make me marry into the Howard Family in Lenora's place? In your dreams!"

Victoria Getty, who had just been brought back to the Getty Family, never imagined she'd hear such an absurd demand.

Her father Felix Getty nervously wrung his hands and started playing the victim: "Victoria, just think of it as helping out the family. That fortune teller insisted our daughter would bring good luck. Your sister Lenora is already pregnant with Mr. Kennedy's child—we can't possibly send her... If there were any other way, I wouldn't want you to suffer!Worst case, I'll go to the Howards myself and face whatever comes."

"Then go ahead and do it," Victoria said coldly, watching Felix perform his distress with nothing but contempt.

If Felix were really a loving father,he wouldn't have packed her and Camila off to the countryside the day Bianca arrived and kept them there.

Fortunately, when Victoria was eight and nearly died from a high fever, she unexpectedly awakened a superpower.

What took others years came to her in an afternoon.. Over the years, if she hadn't used that gift to teach herself medicine, finance, programming, whatever survival demanded she and Camila would have died long ago.

"Victoria, don't be ungrateful!" Bianca crossed her arms, her perfectly made-up face showing undisguised disgust. "The Howards are old money. This is your one shot. So he's dying so what? You'll be rich and free. Where's the problem?

Bianca looked Victoria up and down, the disgust on her face deepening. Bianca's eyes said it all just like her mother. She had deliberately cut them off from Felix, dumped them in the countryside, and waited for them to be ruined.

And yet she turned out so stunning. Porcelain skin, those wide, dark eyes that held a man's gaze before he knew what was happening..If William Howard hadn't been disfigured and given a year to live, someone like Victoria would never have been considered for this at all.

Victoria almost laughed out loud.

Her brain was her greatest treasure.

Her medical skills were unmatched, and the international coding community had been built in part on work they didn't even know was hers.. The Howard fortune couldn't buy an hour of her attention.

"If you like it so much, why don't you marry him? After all, stealing other women's husbands is your specialty, isn't it?" Victoria looked up, her gaze cutting across Bianca's smug face.

"You little brat! How dare you talk to your mother like that!"

Felix's hand moved before his mouth did.

A bright red handprint immediately appeared on Victoria's delicate face.

She tilted her head, pressed her tongue against the inside of her cheek, and turned back to face them.

Though she was young, the fierceness in her eyes made Bianca freeze for a moment.

It took Bianca a while to recover. She threw several photos at Victoria. "Look at these, then decide whether you want to throw your tantrum."

In the photos, Camila looked so thin it hurt to look at her.

The last one clearly captured the moment she walked into the side entrance of the Howard Family estate.

The date was exactly one week before she died.

Victoria went cold then the cold broke into something white-hot.

She stared at those photos, her nails digging deep into her palms.

Three months ago, Camila was supposed to start college at Empire City but died mysteriously. Victoria had come back specifically to investigate the cause of Camila's death.

Bianca's voice dropped to something soft and deliberate."Before Camila died, she only went to the Howard Family. If you want her death to remain a mystery, you don't have to marry."

The air fell deathly silent.

A few seconds later, Victoria loosened her clenched fist. "Fine, I'll marry."

Bianca smiled triumphantly: "Wouldn't it have been easier to agree earlier? Did you have to get slapped first? Don't worry, the Howard Family won't treat you badly. At least there'll be plenty of money."

Victoria didn't look at them again. She bent down to pick up the photos and turned to go back to her room.

Closing the door, she took out some ointment she'd made herself and applied a bit to her face.

In under three seconds, the mark was gone her skin flawless, as if nothing had happened.

She would definitely find out the cause of Camila's death and make the killer pay.

As for this slap, she'd remember it too.

Early the next morning, Felix packed her into a car and sent her off without so much as a glance at what she was wearing.

The Howard Family's butler was already waiting at the door.

When Victoria got out of the car, the old butler Trevor's eyes widened in shock, and he nearly fell over.

Was the Getty Family's daughter really this ugly?