Substitutee Marriage: Fallingg For My Ugly Wifee

With her back turned to Hans, Laurel indulged in an eye roll. Naturally, the Thomas family held greater wealth than ours,

The Ruiz family’s assets amounted to nothing in their presence.

“Why the silence?” Hans inquired with an anxious edge.

“They can’t measure up to us. The man she married is financially challenged,” Laurel fibbed, leaving guilt in her wake as she disappeared into her room. She would never admit that Millie had chosen a well-off partner.

However, her untruth bore unexpected gravity in Hans’ perception.

“Millie, I presumed you’d wed someone influential, thus cast disdain on my son, Yet, it seems you’ve simply married a penniless fellow. A lesson is due.”

she found herself

air of arrogance as he strolled the streets. Their family’s involvement in the medicine trade, yielding more earnings than any other household in town, had inflated

Ruiz.” Millie addressed him

a few more years of schooling. You reckon the schoolding guarantees marrying a wealthy

the neighbors had taken

individuals; otherwise, he wouldn’t have been so

rejected his

voice projecting with volume, a spectacle that drew

your intent?” Millie

straight. No matter how many years you spend in school, women end up marrying well-off men, raising kids, and managing households, That’s a woman’s role, What’s the point of a few extra

escaped Millie’s

you pursued higher education, your perspective might be less narrow- minded, Women aren’t born solely to wed men, and such antiquated beliefs have been discarded long