Rich Family's Substitute Sweetheart

Rich Family's Substitute Sweetheart

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Introduction

In order to get her family's love, she always pretended to be ugly and dumb. But instead of getting her family's attention, what she got was hatred and disgust.

What's more her family set her marriage, instead of her sister, to a cripple and impotent man.

On the day of her wedding, her own mother came to her and begged her. "Your sister deserves much better. You have to help her!"

Lost in despair, she agreed to meet her family's decision and married to her sister's fiancée.

On her wedding night, her husband looked at her and frowned, "You are too ugly."

So what do you think will happen when she marries to that man? Will she regret or there will be some miracle in her life?

Chapter 1

Ellena sat in front of the vanity mirror and waited for the makeup artist to apply her makeup. Her eyes were lifeless and mind was blank.

Suddenly, the door opened, and her mother, Madeline, hurried in. she saw Ellena’s messy hair and her long gray jacket that went with the gray look on her face. She instantly got angry.

“The Arnoults are here. Why have you not changed your clothes?”

Ellena pushed the black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of her nose and looked dumbfounded. “Mom, do you really want me to marry my sister’s fiancée?”

Madeline thought she was making a big mistake by doing this, and her face turned white with anxiety. The Arnoults were waiting outside, and a simple mistake could destroy her whole family!

She knelt in front of Ellena and anxiously said, “Ellena, I beg you. Your sister deserves better, why don’t you just help her!”

Ellena’s hopeless eyes gradually became cold. Althought Madeline was her biological mother, she had favored the children of her father’s deceased ex-wife. Madeline knew that Ellena’s sister’s finacee was ugly and impotent, but she wanted Ellena to marry him anyway.

The servant’s pleadings could be heard outside the door. “Madam, the Arnoults are upstairs.”

Ellena didn’t reach out to help Madeline, and indifferently said, “Get up. I’ll go.”

This time, she really has lost her all hope to this family.

Opening the door, she saw a group of strange bodyguards standing outside the door.

These were the people the Arnoults sent to pick her up.

She is going to marry someone today without a wedding or a groom.

“Let’s go.” She said and walked straight downstairs first.

The Arnoults were the richest family in H City. Their only heir, Edward, was disfigured and was impotent after he was kidnapped more than ten years ago.

Since then, he had not appeared in public. He was rumored to be brutal and ugly, and no woman sent into his house came out alive.

There is no greater sorrow than heartbreak caused by the betrayal of your family.

Even if he was a devil, it did not matter. Her mother had abandoned her to this monster.

Ellena was completely alone in this world.

…

Arriving at Edward’s villa, the bodyguard took her into the room, and then they all left.

It wasn’t until the sky outside the window was getting dark that the door was opened again.

Ellena turned her head and saw a tall and strong man walk in from the door.

He closed the door and turned on the lights.

Ellena outstretched her hand to block the blinding light. Then she raised her head to see the man in front of her.

At a glance, she froze.

It wasn’t because the man was ugly and terrifying, but because he was incredibly handsome.

A dark suit wrapped around his tall, muscular body. His pair of long legs strode towards her confidently.

His facial contour was deep and perfect, like an exquisite work of art.

Edward looked at Ellena for a few seconds, his eyebrows twisted slightly. “Very ugly.”

He said this with a calm tone, no extra emotions could be discerned from his voice.

Ellena looked back in shock. She didn’t care much about him saying she was ugly. She only looked at him with a look of defense and said, “Who are you?”

His ink-colored pupils radiated a harsh light, and his voice was deep. “You don’t know who you’ll marry?”

As he got close, his brisk breath sent a shiver down Ellena’s spine.

His powerful aura stifled her slightly, but she still straightened her back. “Of course, I know the person I’ll marry is named Edward!”

Edward heard the words. The sharpness in his eyes gradually converged, and then flashed a trace of clarity. Another woman who believed the rumors, destined to marry an ‘ugly and impotent’ man.

But compared to other woman, her expression seemed to be too calm. This made Edward interested in her.

He smiled, acting calm and collected. “So you are my sister-in-law? I am Nicklaus, the cousin of Edward. I guess at the wedding night, nobody wants to be with such a waste of a man, not even you!”

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