Ethan had been kicked out of his house, all his credit cards frozen. It wouldn't be long before the conflict between him and Charlotte would surface.
I patiently waited, meanwhile teasing Liam.
He asked me why I was with Niko, but I didn't respond.
Then, he couldn't hold back and called me.
"Lana, I'm not questioning you, I just want to know… What's going on between you and my older brother? You two never had much contact, right?"
At first, he had approached me, being kind to me, wanting me to fall in love with him and then cruelly discard me, trampling on my pride.
I didn't fall for it.
Now, I was approaching him, teasing him, and he fell for it.
I pretended to be frightened. "Don't ask, don't ask…"
"Click" — I hung up on him.
When he called back, I simply turned off my phone.
I'm curious to watch them tear each other apart.
I kept an eye on Charlotte's situation while pressuring the Cooper family.
In the end, the Cooper family, unable to bear the strain, kicked Charlotte out of their house.
Now, two stray dogs were about to tear each other apart.
I thought I would have to wait a bit longer—at least a week—before they completely broke down, but to my surprise, it only took three days.
When I received the news and arrived at school, the crowd was already so dense it was almost impossible to move.
The bodyguards cleared the way for me. "Please make way."
The closer I got, the clearer I could hear Ethan's roar and Charlotte's shrill screams.
Ethan: "Why are you doing this to me? Didn't you say that I was the one you loved the most? Why are you going after him!"
Charlotte: "The Cooper family kicked me out, all because of you! If you hadn't offended Lana, I wouldn't have been kicked out and left with nothing!"
"You promised me you wouldn't marry Lana, that you only wanted to be with me. Well, fine, then be with me! But buy me some things! A bag costs tens of thousands! What did you say? You wanted me to wait?"
"Wait for what? If you don't have the money to buy it for me, there are plenty of others who can!"
Ethan's voice was hoarse: "But you can't go find him…"
Finally, I saw the person Ethan was talking about.
Tch, it was Ethan's former subordinate, who had been beaten up by Ethan for making a crude joke about Charlotte, then was shunned.
Charlotte mocked, "Because you offended Lana, no one dares to take me, do you think I wanted this?"
"Ethan, I'll ask you one last time: do you want to go back to the Rubio family?"
Ethan looked at Charlotte in disbelief and took a couple of steps back. "What am I to you?"
Charlotte, seemingly certain that Ethan would never abandon her, said nonchalantly, "A cash machine, but now that you're not going back to the Rubio family, you're not even that anymore."
The bodyguard beside me whispered in my ear, and I nodded. He turned and ran out.
Meanwhile, Ethan was still stuck on trying to figure out what his place was in Charlotte's heart.
Soon after, the bodyguard's contact person had arrived, and the news spread like wildfire.
"Rubio family went bankrupt! Rubio family went bankrupt!"
I had prepared everything from the beginning, just waiting for the perfect opportunity.
And now, it was time.
When Ethan heard the news, he froze for a moment, then was filled with disbelief. He grabbed the person who had relayed the message and angrily demanded:
"What did you say?"
"The Rubio family went bankrupt. Don't believe me? Check the news."
The crowd immediately pulled out their phones to look.
"Holy crap, they really went bankrupt!"
"Damn, that was fast. Who did the Rubio family offend?"
"Tch, haven't you heard? A while ago, during Ethan and Charlotte's engagement party, the young lady from the Spencer family tried to steal him right in front of everyone, but Ethan refused to go with her. It must have made the Spencer family furious…"
"Oh my God, how stupid! That's the Spencer family, the wealthiest family! If it were me, I'd have said yes immediately."
Ethan woke up to the reality.
When Charlotte heard about the bankruptcy, she didn't want to talk anymore. She turned around, ready to leave.
At that moment, Ethan spotted me in the crowd.
It was like he saw a lifeline and rushed over.
"Lana, Lana!"
The bodyguards stopped him.
"Lana, I'm sorry! I was blind and deceived by Charlotte, I'm sorry, Lana."
See? As soon as bankruptcy was mentioned, he was willing to apologize.
But I wasn't interested.
Ethan knew himself that the Rubio family would never abandon him, so he wasn't afraid of being kicked out.
But he never expected the Rubio family to go bankrupt.
When Charlotte heard the commotion, she stopped in her tracks and glared at me, but she didn't dare to say anything.
I looked at Ethan, shaking my head. "Such a pity. I'm no longer interested in someone who…"
I shot a pointed glance at Charlotte: "...who's blindly infatuated with a trashy woman."
"Ethan, I really don't understand what you see in Charlotte."
The crowd couldn't help but throw in their two cents: "Right? Lana is elegant and flawless, like a goddess. Why would you go for someone like that?"
"I heard Charlotte even had an affair with her good friend, Zane. Wow… just, wow. Who wouldn't admire her?"
The crowd couldn't resist chiming in, each remark like a dagger in Ethan's side.
He stood frozen for a moment. "Yeah, why… why was I only able to see Charlotte? She lied to me… she cheated."
"Charlotte!" Ethan turned and bellowed, his eyes filled with rage.
"Charlotte, I'm going to kill you!"
He charged toward Charlotte.
Charlotte screamed and tried to run, but couldn't escape.
Ethan grabbed her, and with a loud "slap", struck her across the face.
He was on top of her now, completely lost in his madness.
Charlotte screamed for help, but no one cared.
The man who once worshipped her as a goddess was now mercilessly beating her, his hatred for her palpable.
But even that wasn't enough.
I signaled for my people to act faster.
Eventually, the Cooper family couldn't take the pressure anymore.
In the business world, who isn't dirty?
Now, both Charlotte and Ethan could join Zane in prison.
I made sure to arrange for them to properly "take care" of Ethan.
