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Chapter 9
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You Fired Me, Now Your Empire Burns Chapter 12
The day the official corporate bankruptcy and liquidation trial concluded, I was sitting alone in a high-end, private café overlooking the city skyline. I was expecting to head back to my family’s estate to enjoy my early retirement, but a sleek, black luxury sedan pulled up to the curb, and a familiar figure stepped out.It was Arthur Brighton, the billionaire chairman of Brighton Tech.He didn't bother with empty corporate pleasantries or useless small talk. He walked straight over to my table, pulled out a chair, and sat down, placing a sleek leather folder between us.“Ms. Bennett, I assume you’ve been watching the news,” Arthur began, his eyes sharp, reflecting a deep, calculating respect. “Ethan Miller’s company is officially dead and buried. Justice has been served to those thieves, but as a businessman, I care about the reality of the damage. My company lost a massive amount of infrastructure money during that meltdown. But what breaks my heart more is the shopping app itself.”
You Fired Me, Now Your Empire Burns Chapter 11
Hearing Ethan Miller bring up his late mother Victoria and nervously whine about the tech department employees made a wave of disgust wash over me. It was the ultimate, pathetic display of weaponized guilt from a man who had never spared a single thought for anyone else's livelihood when he was sitting high and mighty in his glass office.Before my brother could even pull his weapon, the heavy double doors of the inner parlor swung open. My mother stepped out into the grand foyer.Originally, she had promised my grandfather she wouldn't interfere in family syndicate business, preferring to let her children handle their own battles. But after sitting inside and listening to Ethan’s endless, sniveling excuses—especially the disgusting way he was trying to use his dead mother to morally bankrupt her daughter—she had officially reached her boiling point.She didn't call for a bodyguard. Instead, she marched straight over, grabbed a heavy, solid wood cleaning broom leaning against the corne
You Fired Me, Now Your Empire Burns Chapter 10
The pouring rain beat mercilessly against the windshield of Ethan Miller’s car as he sped through the exclusive, heavily wooded outskirts of the city's most secure district. He had spent the last half-hour desperately using every corporate contact and tracking tool he owned to find my residential address. He expected to find a modest, middle-class suburban home or a cramped apartment building.Instead, his GPS guided him down a long, winding private road that terminated at a set of towering, monstrous iron gates.Ethan slammed on his brakes, staring through the sweeping windshield wipers in absolute, unadulterated shock. Behind the reinforced iron bars lay a massive, sprawling stone estate that looked less like a home and more like an impenetrable fortress. High-tech security cameras rotated silently along the stone walls, and spotlights cut through the dark, rainy night. This wasn't the property of a regular software engineer. This was the legendary, heavily guarded compound of the
You Fired Me, Now Your Empire Burns Chapter 9
The victorious smiles on Ethan and Chloe's faces didn't even have time to fade before they twisted into an ugly expression of unadulterated shock.Across the massive, high-definition display screens of the Brighton Tech pavilion, and on the monitors of millions of frantic beta-testers watching at home, the shopping app didn't just experience a typical lag. The exact millisecond thousands of concurrent users attempted to log into the payment and checkout gateway, a catastrophic chain reaction triggered within the core code. Every single device connected to the network instantly hit a hard, unrecoverable Blue Screen of Death. The central database servers were literally fried, screaming out a fatal infrastructure error that completely locked down Brighton Tech’s entire regional network.Ethan and Chloe stood frozen on the main stage, looking completely shell-shocked. The confident color drained from their faces in real-time, leaving them a sickly, ghostly pale under the flashing venue l
You Fired Me, Now Your Empire Burns Chapter 8
Chloe timed her response perfectly, her voice dropping into that classic, weaponized humility that made my skin crawl. “Oh, Mr. Miller, you’re giving me way too much credit. Honestly, I was just doing my job. Anyone in my position would have done the exact same thing.”She tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, looking up at him with wide, adoring eyes. “Besides, fixing that little backend issue earlier wouldn't have been possible without the rest of the tech team's support, and, of course, your absolute trust in me, Mr. Miller.”Then, turning slightly toward the camera lens, she squeezed out a look of deep, profound victimization. “As for the... unfortunate drama with Ms. Bennett... I just believe the truth speaks for itself. It hurts to be treated like that, but I know the public can see who is right.”This little back-and-forther, cooked up entirely to farm pity, instantly set the live chat on absolute fire. Ethan’s stream was completely overrun by a massive wave of brain-dead comm
You Fired Me, Now Your Empire Burns Chapter 7
But Ethan wasn't done milking the drama yet.Taking full advantage of the viral algorithm, he immediately jumped back onto his account to drag me through the mud again, this time weaponizing the glitch from the Brighton Tech presentation. He set up his ring light, stared dead into the camera, and flashed a punchable, smug grin at his viewers.“As you can see, guys, some people just can't handle being fired without throwing a temper tantrum,” Ethan announced, his tone dripping with fake sarcasm. “Today, during a high-stakes presentation for our absolute biggest client, the shopping app framework previously coded by Bennett suddenly suffered a complete backend meltdown. It almost cost our company millions in damages.”He leaned closer to the microphone, lowering his voice for dramatic effect. “We have strong reasons to suspect that a certain toxic, disgruntled ex-employee intentionally left a malicious backdoor in the source code out of pure spite to sabotage us.”Then, he clapped his ha
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