The Mysterious Billionaire And His Substitute Bride | Best Romance Review:

True to the novel’s title, The Mysterious Billionaire And His Substitute Bride tells us a romantic story between a mysterious billionaire named Ethan Lester and his substitute bride, Janet Lind. Ethan’s bride should be Jocelyn, his fiance; however, the mean-spirited Jocelyn intentionally frames her sister in the arranged marriage setting because she doesn’t like Ethan.

Not stopping there, in The Mysterious Billionaire And His Substitute Bride, Jocelyn also uses her mother’s preference to her to help her force Janet to marry Ethan. After all, she lives with the family because the family has promised to help her with her old maid’s medical expenses.

Jocelyn and her mother in The Mysterious Billionaire And His Substitute Bride are not only intentionally throwing Janet away to the countryside, but they also set Janet up with Ethan, the illegitimate and loser son of the Lester family. They don’t know that Ethan is a mysterious billionaire.

• Part 1: Meet The Characters Of The Mysterious Billionaire And His Substitute Bride
• Part 2: Story Of The Mysterious Billionaire And His Substitute Bride
• Part 3: Meet The Author Of The Mysterious Billionaire And His Substitute Bride
• Part 4: Alternative To The Mysterious Billionaire And His Substitute Bride

Part 1: Meet The Characters Of The Mysterious Billionaire And His Substitute Bride

Janet Lind

Janet Lind of The Mysterious Billionaire And His Substitute Bride used to live with Bernie and Fiona, a husband-wife couple, and their biological daughter, Jocelyn. It was because the couple originally wants a daughter, and once they give birth to Jocelyn, they throw Janet outside to the countryside and sets her up to marry the illegitimate son of the Lester family.

Ethan Lester

Ethan Lester of The Mysterious Billionaire And His Substitute Bride should be Jocelyn’s fianc However, Jocelyn intentionally flees from the wedding, because she wants to set Ethan up with Janet. While Jocelyn and everybody else thinks Ethan is a sore loser with his appearance as his only asset, we may never know how much wealth this powerful man acquires.

Part 2: Story Of The Mysterious Billionaire And His Substitute Bride

The Mysterious Billionaire And His Substitute Bride novel are like an adaptation of the old Cinderella tale, with Janet Lind as the Cinderella. After all, the Cinderella of this story lives with a pair husband and wife, and their only biological daughter, and they are not her biological parents and daughter.

In The Mysterious Billionaire And His Substitute Bride, Janet lives there because her stepparents used to want a daughter before they gave birth to Jocelyn. Janet suddenly becomes the scapegoat after the Golden Child Jocelyn has been born.

Jocelyn has a fiance named Ethan Lester from the Lester family. However, she intentionally flees from the marriage, and instead, frames her stepsister to marry Ethan, the good-for-nothing son of the Lester family in The Mysterious Billionaire And His Substitute Bride. Little that she knows who Ethan truly is.

Later on, in The Mysterious Billionaire And His Substitute Bride, we know that Ethan is more than his handsome face and laid-back attitude. He is also a humble man behind his magnificent wealth.

Part 3: Meet The Author Of The Mysterious Billionaire And His Substitute Bride

Roana Javier, the author of The Mysterious Billionaire And His Substitute Bride novel, seems to be in love with romance stories that involve mystery marriages. The Mysterious Billionaire And His Substitute Bride isn’t the only mystery arranged marriage novel that Roana Javier has written.

She also writes another arranged marriage-themed novel with identical storylines. Furthermore, Janet Lind and Ethan Lester, her husband, become the two MCs in another novel by the same author.

However, The Mysterious Billionaire And His Substitute Bride focus more on Ethan’s similarity to the most well-known billionaire in the novel, and less on Jocelyn’s hatred toward Janet.

I am glad that I don’t see many portions of the bully stepsister in The Mysterious Billionaire And His Substitute Bride by Roana Javier. As I read further into the novel’s chapters, it seems to me that Ethan has been accustomed to Janet’s appearances and behaviors, and we can only wait for the right chapters to describe that Jocelyn becomes a total stranger to the couple.

Part 4: Alternative To The Mysterious Billionaire And His Substitute Bride

Being forced to marry somebody is the recurring theme of The Mysterious Billionaire And His Substitute Bride novel. So, the alternative on the Dreame platform should at least has the same theme as this novel. At the same time, Dreame is well-known for romance stories that involve werewolves.

We have been Forced To Marry The Bad Boy Alpha as an alternative to The Mysterious Billionaire And His Substitute Bride you can consider. Ethan Lester in this Roana Javier novel seems lazy and blunt in many ways, which makes him somewhat equal to Alpha Roderic, the domineering bad boy in Dreames Forced To Marry The Bad Boy Alpha.

Summary of Forced To Marry The Bad Boy Alpha:

Like The Mysterious Billionaire And His Substitute Bride, Dreames Forced To Marry The Bad Boy Alpha is also focused around a family with two daughters.

However, the difference lies in the family systems: Instead of having a scapegoat versus the Golden Child dynamic in the family setting, it is the family themselves in Dreames Forced To Marry The Bad Boy Alpha that gets banished from their pack for many years.

This family has two daughters, Lucea and Ruth. However, in Forced To Marry The Bad Boy Alpha, Lucea becomes a central character, mainly because she is the center of attention to Alpha Roderic, the bad boy Alpha in this novel.

Alpha Roderic was a serial playboy before he meets Lucea. At first, he also thinks Luceas’s look is not good enough to be his Luna. So, he doesn’t understand why he feels a sudden attraction to the young Lucea. To make matters worse, Lucea also refuses to give up on him. So, there are lots of love-hate scenarios here.