Chapter 9
When the shell company that Claire invested in ran away, Avery Group faced an even greater crisis.
Avery Group’s finances were in disarray, with outgoings exceeding income.
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Chapter 9
When the shell company that Claire invested in ran away, Avery Group faced an even greater crisis.
Avery Group’s finances were in disarray, with outgoings exceeding income.
On top of that, the factory had already produced the first batch of goods, but Avery Group hesitated to settle the payments.
After delaying, again and again, the factory took Avery Group to court.
The court summoned the company’s legal representative, and Eleanor, unaware of the situation, was taken away.
Claire began to realize the severity of the problem. She tried borrowing money from relatives who had helped her before, but all those relatives avoided her.
Desperate to get Eleanor out, Claire took a risky route and considered taking out a loan.
However, after a thorough assessment, the bank determined that Claire’s ability to repay was too low and thus refused the loan.
Meanwhile, the shareholders of Avery Group began selling off their stakes and looking for other opportunities.
A month later, the court’s ruling came down, and Eleanor was completely imprisoned.
Claire started sending me threatening messages, one after another.
[Keith, you and Ellie are married, and you’re jointly responsible for her debts. Hurry up and find the money to get her out.]
[Don’t think you can run away just because you hide. You’re married, and you can’t escape!]
[Keith, I really misjudged you. You keep saying you love my daughter, but when something happens, you’re the first to run!]
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“Claire, I don’t think you realize, but from the moment she cheated me, Eleanor and I have had nothing to do with each other.
“She’s already signed the divorce papers. We’re no longer married.”
“You, you’re truly a sly little person! You’ve been planning all of this, haven’t you?”
“As for slyness, how could I ever compare to you? Claire, after all these years of living well, have you forgotten how Avery Group came about?”
There was a brief silence on the other end of the line.
“Avery Group, who established it in the first place? Your family profited by taking someone else’s company. I bet you’ve long forgotten what you all did back then.”
Avery Group used to be called Aurora Group a few years ago.
It was founded by my mother, Aurora Dixon, and the company was responsible for overseas trade.
My parents, busy with work, still managed to spoil me quite a bit.
The year I graduated from high school, I went on a trip abroad with my classmates.
When I returned, I found that my parents had both died in a car accident, and the company was suddenly taken over by someone else.
That man, Derek Avery, was just an assistant to my mother. But by using the company’s official seal, he took control of the entire company for himself.
He publicly declared that my parents had no relatives or children and that, before their death, they entrusted the company to him.
My parents kept me hidden well, so Derek didn’t know I existed, but that didn’t justify his taking over our family business.
After returning from abroad, I didn’t follow my parents‘ plan to study overseas but chose to attend the best economic schoolin
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From that moment, I knew I would reclaim everything that belonged to me.
During college, I happened to meet Derek’s daughter, Eleanor.
At that time, she was laughing at the poor students in our class with a group of boys.
Later, one of the girls she bullied had to drop out, and when Eleanor’s mother found out, she praised her for what she did.
At that moment, I realized that there wasn’t a single decent person in Eleanor’s family.
In the first year after graduating from college, Eleanor was drinking at a bar with some friends when someone introduced her to male stripper services.
She happily accepted all six male strippers who came to the private room, and that night, the lavishly spent money, stroking the male stripper’s abs and saying she only loved them.
While she went to the restroom, I overheard a conversation between Eleanor and her nother.
It turned out that all of Avery Group’s assets could only be inherited by Eleanor after her arriage.
Claire told Eleanor to quickly find a submissive man to marry, so she could get more
oney.
Eleanor pretended to agree, and soon after, she returned to the private room, clinging to e of the male strippers.
After drinking for a while, she took the male stripper home, to the house that had been ught with my parents‘ money.
At that moment, a plan for revenge was ignited in my heart.
| deliberately created opportunities to meet Eleanor and pursued her relentlessly for three
onths.
When she said she just wanted to get married, I didn’t i
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Every step of my relationship with her, which appeared to be based on love, was intentional.
She lived a life of partying and frequent infidelities, while I pretended not to notice and quietly endured.
Everything, every action, was just me playing along with the game.
