After hanging up, I turned to Jade, reassuring her: “Don’t worry about leaving Blackwell. You’ll still have the Reid family, and I’ll triple your salary.”
Calvin, you dare treat me like this? Then get ready for bankruptcy!
I had my assistant drive Jade home and told her to wait calmly for my update.
Then I drove myself back to the Reid family mansion.
Just as I stepped through the door, my phone screen lit up.
Naomi had updated her Instagram again:
[BOSS says whatever I want, he’ll give me~]
The photo showed her wearing my new collection designs, standing intimately beside Calvin at the launch event.
In the background was my carefully designed stage and logo.
[ immediately called the Reid family’s attorney:
‘Harrison, get the divorce papers ready–exactly how we planned.”
‘Right away, Ms. Reid.”
Meanwhile, the lights in my father’s study burned bright into the night as the plan to dismantle Blackwell Industries began taking
hape.
Calvin and I entered a complete cold war.
No calls. No messages. As if we’d never known each other.
During this time, Naomi’s Instagram updates became suspiciously frequent.
One day she’d post a massive bouquet of blue roses, claiming it was a “surprise from the CEO’s office.”
The next day she’d share a photo wearing expensive jewelry, hinting she would soon become the new Mrs. Blackwell.
Every post was a deliberate taunt aimed at me.
looked at my screen and laughed coldly.
ike a turkey in November, her days were seriously numbered.
A week later, the curtain rose on our grand performance-
Jnder my direction, the Reid family led Blackwell Industries‘ major shareholders in announcing simultaneous withdrawal of
nvestments.
Next, a large contingent of Blackwell’s core technical staff and executives submitted their collective resignations.
When the stock market opened, Blackwell Industries‘ shares plummeted to their limit.
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The second day: another limit–down.
The third day: still firmly sealed at the bottom.
Just then, the Reid family’s official website released a strongly–worded statement:
[The Reid Group hereby terminates all business cooperation with Blackwell Industries, effective immediately.]
[Ms. Violet Reid’s marriage to Mr. Calvin Blackwell is also terminated as of today.]
For a moment, the announcement dropped like a bomb-
Those business partners who had been waiting on the sidelines scrambled to cancel contracts;
Several major projects in Blackwell’s portfolio instantly became disasters;
Their cash flow ruptured completely.
Calvin ran himself ragged, frantically seeking solutions.
He tried approaching investment banks for financing, only to discover that the managers who once fawned over him with obsequious smiles now wouldn’t even grant him a meeting.
His appointments were all rejected by secretaries claiming “the manager is unavailable.”
His parents swallowed their pride and begged old business friends for help.
The responses were remarkably consistent:
‘Look, old friend, it’s not that I don’t want to help, but we can’t afford to cross the Reid family.”
‘What was your son thinking? Throwing away the blessing of the Reid connection for THIS? Foolish!”
Massive breach of contract penalties piled up, and the Blackwell empire teetered on the brink of collapse.
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