Chapter 4

Mr. Richards pointed at my nose and cursed.

“Mr. Wilson’s already here with his legal team—go sign that contract immediately!”

I looked down at the contract that had fallen to the floor.

Just flipping to the first page, my brow furrowed tightly.

This contract was full of holes.

Not only were the profit margins completely wrong, even the breach of contract clauses were reversed.

“Mr. Richards, this contract is unusable.”

“Shut up!”

Mr. Richards rudely cut me off.

“This is the proposal Marcus personally revised. He’s an elite returnee who understands advanced management concepts far better than you!”

Marcus chimed in smugly from the side.

“Exactly. Your outdated negotiation tactics are ancient history.”

I looked at this ridiculous uncle-nephew pair, hardly believing my ears.

Signing this hole-riddled contract would destroy my industry reputation and lose all client trust.

Mr. Richards and Marcus could easily deflect all blame, but I’d be finished in the industry.

Mr. Richards glared at me viciously.

“Sasha, stop being alarmist! I’m ordering you to go to the conference room and handle this right now, or you’ll bear all the losses and get out immediately!”

He shoved me, pushing me straight through the conference room door.

Inside the conference room, the atmosphere was oppressively tense.

Mr. Wilson sat across the long table with his elite legal team, their expressions dark.

I looked at the wound on my knee from Derek’s trip, then at the disgusting faces of this uncle-nephew duo.

Then at Mr. Wilson’s extremely displeased expression across from me.

Five years of grievances, humiliation, and resentment reached their peak in this moment.

Mr. Wilson pushed the contract toward me.

I took a deep breath and picked up that contract.

Then I announced loudly to Mr. Wilson: “On behalf of the company, I reject this partnership!”

As soon as the words left my mouth, I gripped the contract with both hands.

With a loud rip—

In front of everyone, I tore that billion-dollar contract to shreds.

Paper fragments floated down like snowflakes in the conference room.

The smile on Mr. Richards’s face instantly froze.

“Sasha, have you lost your mind!”