After the Vows Burned

I stood in front of a massive nude portrait.The painting was so realistic that anyone could immediately see that the woman in it was me.The mocking voices around me never stopped.“Mr. Fuller, the Jackson Group just got involved in a tax scandal a few days ago, and a grave was accidentally dug up on the land they just bought. The project was halted and their capital is running low. Raquel Jackson is so broke that she might even have to sell herself soon. She wouldn’t have the money to win the bids now, would she?”“Exactly. With the crowd hyping it up, just this painting alone could sell for millions. Even if she wants to win the bid, she can’t afford it.”“But if Ms. Jackson is willing to spend a night with me, I wouldn’t mind helping her win one.”The moment he finished his sentence, the entire exhibition hall entered a state of uproar.Countless malicious gazes fell on me, as if I were some irresistible commodity on display.Matthew Fuller merely raised a brow at the comme

Tiara held his hand. Only then did his gaze soften a little.He clearly cared more about her. To avenge the humiliation she had suffered years ago, he had spent two entire years planning all of this just to make me pay a thousandfold.He had won, completely.I had finally been hurt enough.My fingers clenched so tightly they shook. I refused to look at him again.Disgusting comments kept flooding my ears.“Damn! I love girls who get all slutty after drinking. Ms. Jackson, I’ll bid ten million for you. One night with me wouldn’t be too much to ask, right?”“You actually think you can sleep with her? If it’s real, I’ll join the bid with eleven million!”My hand trembled as I raised my bidding paddle. “I’m going to buy it out.”Everyone looked at me.The host sneered. “Ms. Jackson, you’re sure you want to buy it out? There are over five hundred paintings left.”I slumped back into my seat. “I’m sure.”“What a pity. I really like pool play.”“What are you scared of? The others

On the big screen, the balance that had shown twenty-five cents suddenly leapt from single digits to four digits, from four digits to nine — the total assets skyrocketing at a crazy pace.Finally, the number settled in the hundreds of billions.The man beside me pointed at the screen, stunned.“Impossible! Even if the Jackson Group weren’t bankrupt, it could never be worth that much!”“What the hell is going on? Is this some sort of hacker prank?”“It has to be… Among everyone in Astrid City, even Mr. Fuller’s assets don’t reach hundreds of billions, let alone someone like Raquel Jackson.”The host’s expression froze.Even the security guards who had approached to throw me out stopped blankly.I leisurely glanced around the room.“Sorry, due to the size of my transfer request, the amount took some time to credit to my account. Now that it’s here, I’ll use a tenth of my personal assets to play this game with all of you.”“With this amount, I’m qualified to buy out every bid, a

“Stop pretending to be the good one.” He glared at me. “I married you because I thought you were the one quietly supporting me…”“But now I know exactly who that person really was.”“Not only did you steal Tiara’s credit, you even leaked our company’s design drafts to a competitor. I gave you the dignity a wife deserves and you repaid me by cutting off every path I had. As such, sorry… letting the Jackson Group perish was my only choice.”I frowned in confusion. I had no memory of anything he just accused me of.The next second, I turned toward Tiara.Panic flickered in her eyes. She quickly tried to shut down the topic.“Raquel, I know you’re angry, but you can’t sell your body and hire thugs to torment us like this…“How about this? Let go of him, and we will try to help you pay whatever you borrowed.“After all, the Jackson family is already bankrupt…”I sneered and grabbed the host’s microphone, letting my voice fill the hall.“Tiara, you are just the daughter of a mistre

Back then, my mother used her family’s resources to turn that “gold-digger husband” of hers into the richest man in Astrid City.Naturally, I could take all of it back.Most of our family’s businesses were overseas anyway.After resolving all of the remaining problems in the country, finalizing the divorce and recovering all of my mother’s marital assets, I prepared to move abroad and live with my grandfather.The next time I heard about Matthew was through the news.The once-up-and-coming Fuller Group in Astrid City had collapsed completely in less than a year.The cause was that the rich heirs who attended that auction were investigated by the police for group misconduct, harming minors, drug involvement and other crimes.Many successors of major corporations ended up in jail.And the hatred ran deep. After all, the person who took their sons to that “art auction” was Matthew.One small company could not destroy the Fuller Group, but dozens or hundreds of companies together?