It’s ironic to say the least.
Back then, when she got into university, her parents actually considered letting her younger brother, who was a year younger and had dropped out of high school, take her place to attend university.
Fortunately, due to numerous cases of identity fraud being exposed in recent years, the state and education authorities tightly control this area, which made her parents abandon the idea.
However, even though he couldn’t replace her at university, they came up with another way to bring glory to the family.
That was to let her go to school under her brother’s name.
At that time, the academic records and graduation certificate would all be in the name of Jessamine Lloyd.
This way, they could also claim that their son graduated from university.
In a way, it’s another way to honor the family name.
Back then, to be able to attend university, Jessamine Lloyd... no, it should be Cadence Lloyd, agreed without hesitation.
Who knows where her parents found the connections, but they managed to change her name before she registered.
"But even if the marriage certificate uses my brother’s name, the birth date and the eight characters of destiny are still mine, aren’t they?"
Cadence Lloyd had calmed down by now, but still felt there was no way out.
Seeing this, Scarlett Jennings explained,
"In the Mystical Sect, a person’s name is another tag besides their birth date and eight characters.
Because normally, a person’s name accompanies them from the day they are born.
Every time someone in the world calls out your name, it deepens the connection between you and your name."
As one gets older, the connection between their name and themselves becomes deeper.
It is also one of the criteria by which Ghosts and Divine judge you.
This is why a Ghost Messenger would call out a Shadow Spirit’s name when guiding them,
when a Demon Ghost tries to confuse your mind, they would first call your name and try to get your response.
Even when people pray to Divine, they would deliberately recite the entity’s title in their mind, hoping the Divine could hear the call and respond.
It shows that a name is not just a simple symbol for a person.
"Even though you’ve lived under the name Jessamine Lloyd in university for over two years, the connection between that name and you is limited.
If the marriage certificate is in the name of Jessamine Lloyd, as long as you revert your household registration name, even if the marriage certificate is burned, there’s a loophole in the marriage contract."
A marriage contract with loopholes is much easier to overturn.
Although it is a ghost marriage, those who match the marriage will only acknowledge the name on the household registration, so Scarlett Jennings determined that the name on the marriage certificate is most likely this one.
However, to be safe, Scarlett Jennings still had Cadence Lloyd make the call.
Cadence Lloyd didn’t hesitate, quickly adjusted her attitude, and pretending to have accepted her fate, asked which name she should use if they got married.
Her mother had no suspicions and only said to use the name Jessamine Lloyd first, then change it after the marriage.
Having confirmed this situation, the so-called ghost marriage did not affect Cadence Lloyd as seriously as before.
It was just that changing back to her original name before the marriage certificate was burned wouldn’t be easy for Cadence Lloyd.
Cadence Lloyd once thought of telling her family about being pregnant with a wealthy family’s child.
In that case, maybe her parents wouldn’t sell her to a dead person for a dowry of two hundred thousand.
But the whole ghost marriage thing disgusted her, and she wasn’t willing to hand money over to parents who didn’t care about her life and future.
Seeing her caught in this dilemma, Scarlett Jennings straightforwardly reminded her,
"The Patterson Family may not be the top elite family, but they have some influence locally, you could change the demand for money into other conditions now that you have their child."
She didn’t specify what those conditions could be.
Fortunately, Cadence Lloyd wasn’t foolish and quickly got the point.
If the Patterson Family could arrange this for her, or even help her change her household registration, then... she could terminate the pregnancy.
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