1 The Wedding Proceeds With a New Groom

The interstellar date: August 3021. The Third District.

The Sullivans and the Holts were both noble families in the Third District. Today, they were celebrating a marriage between the two families.

Everywhere in the city, wedding videos of the happy couple were played in a loop on large screens.

The bride looked sweet and gentle. The groom was handsome and refined. Anyone would say they were a good match.

The wedding would be held in the banquet hall on the highest floor of the Third District's Central Building—the eighty-eighth floor.

The ornate crystal chandeliers and gleaming utensils illustrated the extravagant nature of the affair.

It was not just the nobles of the Third District who were attending this wedding. Apparently, two big shots from the First District were coming as well.

Evidently, this wedding had attracted much attention. The Sullivans and the Holts still commanded a lot of respect.

However, in contrast to the lively mood in the banquet hall, the atmosphere in the bridal lounge next door was tense.

Ruth asked worriedly, "Val, you still can't reach Isaac? Did something happen to him? Why don't I check in with the Holts again?"

Valerie Sullivan, who was in a white wedding dress, lowered her gaze, looking at the diamonds on the hem of her dress.

Just then, her SmartBit beeped. Isaac Holt was calling her. Valerie lifted her hand and accepted the call.

"Val, I'm sorry. Maddy's aircraft had an accident in the Seventh District. I have to go and rescue her!"

"Isn't there a rescue team?"

"Val, how can you say that? How can I stand by when something like this has happened to Maddy?"

Valerie said calmly, "Isaac, have you forgotten that, in a few hours, it'll be my twentieth birthday? If you don't come back and marry me, the System will assign a compulsory husband to me."

"Val, I'll try my best to come back. No one wanted this to happen."

Try? That meant he might not make it back in time.

Valerie said nothing.

It was Isaac who sounded indignant as he chastised her, "Val, I know you're unhappy, but you can't be so selfish. Maddy is your sister! She has been seriously injured, and I can't leave her! Forget it. How about this—I'll try my best to come back, but don't bother my parents about this."

The call ended.

The bride in the mirror smiled to herself mockingly.

Heh, her sister?

Heh heh, she was being selfish?

When Valerie was thirteen years old, she was attacked by space pirates while riding a spaceship. Fortunately, the Interstellar Guards arrived in time and rescued her.

However, she was still seriously injured. She was placed in a cryo-chamber where she was preserved for five years.

No one knew that during her five years of sleep, Valerie had transmigrated to the ancient earth of more than a thousand years ago.

When Valerie woke up, there was a girl six months younger than her in the family, adopted from the Seventh District. This girl called Madeline was the child of her father's best friend.

Madeline Sullivan was shrewd and adept at winning people over. Not only did Valerie's father, Zachary Sullivan, treat her as his own daughter, but Valerie's two brothers also treated her as their own sister.

Oh, now even Isaac, who had been betrothed to Valerie ever since they were kids, was flaking on the marriage because of Madeline.

What a coincidence that something like this would happen.

"Val…" Ruth was worried as she stared in distress at her daughter. Still, she did not know what to say at this point.

Valerie in turn reassured Ruth. "Mom, it's okay, the wedding will go on as planned."

"It will?"

"Yeah. Please socialize in the banquet hall on my behalf. I'll pop out for a bit."

Ruth hurried behind her. "Val, what are you going out for?"

As the door closed, Ruth received a reply.

"The groom is gone, so I'll find a new one."

Ruth: "…"