Signed the Divorce & Returned to My Billionaire Family. Now My Ex Is Bankrupt & Kneels at My Door . I didn’t lose him — he lost everything. | HO

The Zenith Group’s private jet cut through clouds like a blade. Below, Vidia shrank to a grid of lights and lies. My father’s voice echoed from the speakerphone. “Sweetie, you’re back.”

“Dad.” The word tasted like forgiveness I hadn’t earned yet.

“It’s good to have you home. What about that boy of yours?”

“Dad, Ethan Key and I are already divorced.”

Silence. Then a dry laugh. “Good riddance. The Key family was always a low-tier family in Vidia. How could they ever measure up to our Wen family from Ethgard? Four years ago, you even changed your name just to be with that Ethan Key. Now it’s obvious—the Key family never had the good fortune to be worthy of our Wen family.”

I pressed my forehead to the cold window. “Dad, I’m sorry. All these years, I’ve let you down. From now on, I am only the heiress of the Wen family of Ethgard. Aurora.”

His voice softened. “My sweetie has grown up. The president’s seat at the Zenith Group in Vidia has been waiting for you. However, you just got back from there.”

“Don’t worry, Dad. Ethan Key and I are done for good. I’ll take over the Zenith Group, and I won’t let you down.”

“Good. That’s my good daughter. Someone take Ms. Wen and get her properly dressed and made up. Look at you—there’s not a trace of our Wen family left in you.”

I looked at my reflection in the window. Plain sweater. Worn jeans. The same face, but different eyes. “All these years, I’ve neglected myself for too long.”

Ryan appeared in the reflection behind me. “This way, Miss Wen.”

The jet landed in Ethgard three hours later. A fleet of SUVs waited. So did my father’s Chief of Staff, a gray-haired man who’d known me since I was a child. “Sir, all these years, the business dealings we’ve secretly helped the Key family with—”

My father’s voice cut through the speaker again. “Cut them off. All of it. My daughter looked after Ethan Key for four years, and he still threw her away. His Key family doesn’t deserve to work with ours.”

“Yes, sir.”

I stepped into the car and didn’t look back.

—

Three weeks later, I sat behind a glass desk on the forty-seventh floor of the Zenith Tower in Vidia. The city sprawled below me, and my phone buzzed with a name I’d deleted but couldn’t forget.

Ethan Key.

I let it ring.

Ryan knocked twice before entering. “Miss Wen, Mr. Key has been calling the front desk for three days. He’s claiming his company is in crisis.”

“All those major clients in Ethgard terminated their cooperation with him?”

“Every single one.” Ryan didn’t smile, but his eyes did. “He’s desperate.”

“Good.”

The phone buzzed again. Then a text: Aurora, I know you’re not answering. But I need to see you. Please.