Todos los capítulos de I'll Stand Tall While Your Clan Falls: Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 9

Jerry's POVWhen Lily returned to the private room with her clothes disheveled, I had just hung up the phone. I stared at her expressionlessly. The hickeys on her neck stood out starkly against the fabric of her evening gown.After sitting down unsteadily, she glanced listlessly at the things I had bought from the auction and said flatly, "Jerry Fuller, this has nothing to do with Cecil. He just didn't want my virginity to be auctioned off to someone else.""Is that so?" I let out a cold laugh. "Have you forgotten what status you hold now?"Lily clenched her teeth and angrily crushed the gift I had bought for her into dust."Don't try to lay down rules for me with that marriage contract! We're not even engaged yet! Cecil just didn't want someone else to take my first—"Before she could finish, Cecil walked in carrying a glass of water and a box of birth control pills."Jerry, don't get the wrong idea. I was only trying to protect Lily. It's not my fault your bid was a second too

Jerry's POVI caught the threat in Lily's eyes, laid bare without any attempt to disguise it, and it hit me as almost laughable.This was the woman I put on a pedestal for three years. And yet, for her rotten excuse of an uncle, she had the nerve to say something like this to me.Those rose-tinted glasses through which I used to see her shattered in an instant, and I realized she was nothing special after all."So what?" I glanced at the engagement token she had snatched away. "As you wished, our engagement has been called off."With that, I instructed my butler, Harold Olson, to see her out.Lily was trembling with rage."Jerry, just you wait!"Perhaps because she had been humiliated under my roof, a twisted heap of scrap metal appeared right outside my front door the very next morning.When I noticed my car keys were missing from the entryway hook, I knew right away that the scrap metal heap was my limited-edition supercar.Cecil must have taken it for a joyride without per

Jerry's POVLily blanched at my words. A beat later, she burst out into raucous laughter. Contempt flickered in her eyes, the sneer on her lips a silent mockery of how clueless she thought I was."You? Do you honestly believe that a single word from you can make my entire family pay the price? Everything I've worked for all these years was to get out from under your thumb. Did you really think I wouldn't have a contingency plan for something like this?"Suddenly, her phone rang, its chime as relentless and urgent as a death knell. Only then did she seem to realize something, and the mockery on her face crumbled away inch by inch. Even the smugness in her eyes vanished without a trace.The way she looked at me now was filled with terror and panic, as if she had finally grasped what was happening.But instead of giving her a chance to speak, I let out a cold laugh and said, "What's the matter? Panicking already? I actually preferred that arrogant, blissfully ignorant look you had ju

Third-Person POV"You're right, Cecil. What can Jerry actually do to us? All of this is just empty threats. Given our family's vast and established empire, I really don't think he can touch us."Since he had the gall to treat us like this, then I certainly don't mind going down fighting and taking him out with me. He wants to go to war? He can bring it on!"At that thought, Lily's gaze hardened.What Lily never could have imagined, however, was that bankrupting Compton Group was merely the appetizer Jerry had prepared.The very next morning, Compton Group was once again trending in the news.The company was raided by the authorities due to involvement in illegal activities dating back years, and a considerable amount of illicit goods was even found on the premises.Now, with irrefutable evidence, Lily's family had truly plunged into an abyss of utter ruin. Because the sums involved were massive and the negative impact severe, the fallout rippled instantly through other industrie

Jerry's POVLily's expression froze. She stood rooted to the spot, her eyes filled with intense disbelief."But I truly know I was wrong. Did all those years together mean nothing to you?"I waved my hand dismissively and said impatiently, "Oh, so now the years we spent together matter to you? Why didn't you think of them when you were cheating on me? And now you turn around and point fingers at me?"Besides, you've never shown any real remorse from the beginning. Even right now, you don't actually think you did anything wrong. Rather, you've just realized your family is about to lose everything because of your reckless, despicable behavior!"With that, I paid her no further attention. I glanced at my watch and then summoned security to escort Lily out.As I watched her struggle and thrash while being dragged away, all I felt was bitter irony.Everyone knew how well I used to treat her. Had she even so much as condemned Cecil's actions a little, I would have settled the matter f