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00:00For two years, I played the quiet, understanding girlfriend.
00:07Then Nico gave my first-class seat to another woman
00:10and told me to take the rear cabin like an adult.
00:15What he didn't know?
00:19I wasn't some disposable girlfriend trying to enter their world.
00:24I was born above it.
00:27One phone call later, my Mafia Don father froze every car, jet, and account tied to Nico's family.
00:33Now the same men who laughed while I walked to row 24 are bowing their heads when I enter the
00:37room.
00:37And Nico?
00:38He still doesn't understand why everyone suddenly looks terrified of me.
00:50By the time I reached first class, Lila Rossi had already made herself at home in my seat.
00:57This trip was supposed to be the two-year anniversary celebration for me and Nico.
01:01I had spent two solid months putting it together.
01:04But here was this woman, sprawled out in my seat, wrapped in my cashmere blanket,
01:09sipping my chain, and wearing the pale gold gown I had designed myself and never even gotten to put on.
01:15When she saw me walked in, she flashed that signature innocent smile of hers.
01:19Oh, Rory, you finally made it.
01:22Nico said you're always the reasonable one.
01:25I'm sure you won't mind this tiny little change, right?
01:30Tiny little change?
01:31For this trip, I had handpicked the menu, chosen the wine, and even prepared a tea that Nico only pretended
01:37to like.
01:38And now another woman was lounging there like she owned the place, soaking up every bit of effort I had
01:44put in.
01:46Rory, we're in public. Don't make this into a whole thing.
01:50Lila was up all night working for the company.
01:52She needs to stretch out and rest.
01:55This seat works perfectly for her.
01:59So you just went ahead and handed my seat to her on your own?
02:03I actually told Nico I'd just go sit in the back, but he absolutely wouldn't hear of it.
02:08He said, row 24, an economy, is basically made for someone like you.
02:13Since you've always been so good at roughing it.
02:16It's one seat. The flight is four hours.
02:18Go sit in the back and stop acting like I sold you into slavery.
02:22Nico, you handed my dignity over to another woman with your own two hands.
02:25And now you want me to say thank you for it?
02:30You think acting all pure and above the drama makes you special?
02:33Please.
02:34At an event like this, Rory, being obedient doesn't make you noble.
02:39It just makes you useful.
02:42Disposable.
02:43Watching the two of them play off each other like that,
02:45every humiliation I had swallowed over the past two years for the sake of love died right there on the
02:48spot.
02:49Fine. Enjoy the seat.
02:50Nico thought he had won.
02:51That disgusting smirk of total control spread across his face.
02:54I laughed under my breath, turned around, and walked toward economy.
02:58Halfway down the aisle, my phone went off with a sharp buzz in my pocket.
03:01It was my father.
03:02The man I hadn't spoken to in three years.
03:05Which brain-dead idiot thought it was acceptable to put my daughter,
03:08the pride of the Voss family, in the back of a commercial flight?
03:14Row 24, an economy.
03:16Directly across from the lavatory.
03:18The air carried a distinctly sour recycled smell.
03:21And the first message my two-year boyfriend sent me after stealing my seat.
03:24Lila's business report.
03:26The kind with holes you could drive a truck through.
03:28Lila has a senior leadership review in Zurich tomorrow.
03:31She's exhausted and doesn't have the bandwidth to fix it herself.
03:33Clean this whole report up before we land.
03:35Scrambled data.
03:36Missing sources.
03:37If this thing got submitted, the executives would tear Lila apart in front of the whole room.
03:43Nico, this is not my job.
03:45Why on earth would I do this for her?
03:47He called immediately.
03:48His voice was pure impatience.
03:50Rory!
03:51This is tied to the overseas project we've been building for two years.
03:54Lila's the face of the boardroom.
03:55What's the big deal about helping her out?
03:57Oh, and when you write it, match the tone.
03:59Make it sound smart, but not too smart.
04:02If it's too polished, the executives will get suspicious.
04:05Get it done.
04:06If you can't handle something this simple, don't be surprised when I bring Lila into the inner circle and leave
04:10you outside where you belong.
04:11Two years.
04:12I had rewritten more slide courts than I could count for him.
04:15I had stayed up cleaning up his messes more times than I could remember.
04:18And what I got in return was being dropped to the bottom while being handed a brush to paint someone
04:22else's crown.
04:23Fine, Nico.
04:24I'll do it.
04:25I opened my laptop.
04:27No crying.
04:27No yelling.
04:28I spent two hours restructuring the data.
04:30But next to every fatal error on every single page, I stamped Lila's initials in the most eye-searing shade
04:36of red I could find.
04:37L.R.
04:38It read like a death certificate.
04:39Pre-filed at the morgue.
04:40The moment I shut the laptop, a man in a black suit appeared silently beside my seat.
04:44No sound.
04:44No warning.
04:45Damien, my father's personal envoy.
04:47Miss, the Don received your location.
04:50Tell my father I'm not ready to reveal who I am.
04:53Not yet.
04:53Damien bent slightly at the waist, his voice low and precise.
04:56The Don's exact words.
04:57Since someone out there was foolish enough to disrespect you, the man called Nico has 39 minutes of safety left.
05:05Three hours later, the plane touched down at Geneva Airport.
05:09The whole trip to Europe was for one reason.
05:11The DeLuca family's exclusive overseas partner's dinner.
05:14About as inner circle as it gets.
05:16The moment we cleared arrivals, Nico wasted no time putting Lila on display for everyone to see.
05:22She walked out front, in the gown I had made with my own hands.
05:25And Nico trailed behind her like a personal bellhop, hauling her luggage.
05:31As for me, I followed behind them carrying a heavy tote bag completely invisible.
05:34Treated like an afterthought nobody had bothered to introduce, the DeLuca family's motorcade was lined up outside in a long,
05:39gleaming row.
05:40Everyone crowded around Lila with warm greetings and pleasantries.
05:43Not a single person thought to acknowledge me, the actual girlfriend.
05:46Lila turned around and gave me that smile of hers.
05:49Warm on the surface, rotten underneath.
05:51Rory, aren't you exhausted carrying all that?
05:54I actually offered to help.
05:55But Nico said no.
05:56He said my skin is too delicate.
05:58You know how you are.
05:59Tough as nails.
06:00The executives nearby let out quiet chuckles.
06:03Nico stood right there and let it happen.
06:05The contempt in his eyes making my stomach turn.
06:07Outside the estate, three matte black Maybachs sat idling.
06:11Nico guided Lila into the first one.
06:12But when I reached for the door of the next car, the driver slammed it shut before my hand even
06:16touched the handle.
06:17Nico rolled out the window of the first car and looked down at me.
06:19The cars behind mine are for the support staff and housekeeping crew.
06:22Ride with the logistics team.
06:24The hotel isn't far.
06:25Stop wasting everyone's time.
06:27At the hotel, the humiliation got less subtle.
06:30Lila and Nico were handed a presidential suite.
06:32The front desk attendant didn't even look up when she slid a keycard across the counter to me.
06:37A room on the basement service floor.
06:39Rory is pretty low maintainant.
06:41Nothing too basic would bother her.
06:42I took the dirty little keycard and gave him the most relaxed smile I had managed in two years.
06:47You're right.
06:49Cheap is exactly what some people deserve.
06:51The moment I finished speaking, the revolving glass doors burst open.
06:54A Rolls Royce phantom was waiting outside.
06:56The arrogant European bodyguards in the lobby all stood up straight in an instant.
07:00Tomas, my father's chief butler, stepped out and walked straight to me.
07:03Then, in front of everyone, he lowered his head for the first time in 20 years.
07:06Miss Rory, Don Marcus sent me to take you home.
07:10The family knows everything you've been through.
07:12And now they're ready to make them pay.
07:16That bow from old Omas dropped the entire luxury lobby into total silence.
07:20Nico stared at the multi-million dollar car and the head butler standing before me with his head lowered.
07:24The arrogance drained from his face and what replaced it was something almost comically confused.
07:28What exactly is going on here?
07:31Where did you rent these people from?
07:34Nico, he is in a league you will never reach in your lifetime.
07:43Please.
07:45You rented a luxury car and hired some actors to make yourself look important?
07:50Rory, the lengths you'll go to just to get Nico's attention are honestly embarrassing.
07:55Tomas turned and looked at her.
07:56One cold, measured glance.
07:58It was enough to strangle the laugh right out of Lila's throat.
08:01She couldn't stop trembling.
08:02That evening.
08:03The DeLuca family's international business dinner.
08:06I sat in the very last seat at the very last table in my plain work clothes.
08:11And then Lila walked onto the stage on Nico's arm and my focus locked onto her instantly.
08:20Around her neck was a black rose necklace, my mother's only keepsake.
08:24The one Nico had told me he was taking to the jeweler to be repaired.
08:29The one I had told him my mother was wearing when she touched it for the last time before she
08:33died.
08:34Nico.
08:36Who gave you permission to touch my mother's things?
08:40I walked to the stage, stepping over broken glass without slowing down.
08:43Lila instinctively covered her neck with her hand and performed a look of a startled swan.
08:47Rory, you're being so petty.
08:49Nico said it was just sitting in a box collecting dust anyway.
08:52Only something as beautiful as my gown could actually do it justice.
08:56Stop making a scene, Rory.
08:58It is a beat up old necklace.
09:01We are at an important event tonight.
09:03You're throwing a fit over something that belonged to a dead woman.
09:10Do you have any idea how that looks?
09:13Watch your attitude.
09:14If the deal falls through because of this, I will make sure you disappear from New York completely.
09:23Disappear?
09:24I pulled out a matte black encrypted phone I had never used before and made a call.
09:27Dad, they put mom's necklace around a dog's neck.
09:30From the other end of the line came the sharp splitting sound of a crystal wine glass being crushed barehanded.
09:35After he crushed that glass, the phone went completely silent.
09:39That silence was the last warning sign before Don Marcus' boss decided someone needed to be destroyed.
09:44His voice came through the receiver like cold air off a Siberian glacier.
09:51Is the necklace still on that woman?
09:54Yes.
09:56Good.
09:57Then let all of Europe watch exactly how she loses everything because of it.
10:07In the same instant, every one of the hundreds of influential European financiers in that banquet hall quietly set down
10:13their glasses.
10:14The bank president hosting the event, the one who had never once gave Nico the time of day, had gone
10:19completely white.
10:20His legs were shaking.
10:22My father's voice on the other end was absolute zero.
10:27Rory, do you want them reduced to nothing in five minutes?
10:31Or do you want them to walk out of here on their own two feet, fly back to New York,
10:37thinking they've won the world, and then watch every single door slam shut in their faces one by one?
10:45Two years of humiliation ran through my mind.
10:49Letting them collapse here, in front of everyone, felt too quick.
10:53Too clean.
10:54Their vanity deserved better punishment than that.
10:57Dad, I want them to climb all the way to the top.
11:01Let them fly home tomorrow feeling like they conquered everything.
11:04And then, right at the peak of it, right when they're most proud of themselves, I want their entire world
11:10torn down from the top.
11:13Now that is the Vosblood talking.
11:18I don't know who you people are, but DeLuca's position on Wall Street is not something you can threaten with
11:26a phone call!
11:27I repeated his words to my father.
11:30My father's response was ice cold.
11:33DeLuca, after tomorrow, that name will only appear in the footnotes of a bankruptcy filing.
11:40While my father had been eating breakfast, he had completed the full acquisition of the largest transatlantic passenger airline route
11:48between Europe and the United States.
11:50Their return flight authorization had been cut off entirely.
11:53I looked up at Nico and Lila, still smiling, still believing they had already won.
11:58They had absolutely no idea that what they thought was a triumphant gateway home was actually a one-way first
12:04-class ticket straight into the ground.
12:07Geneva International Airport.
12:08Afternoon lights wandered through the windows of the VIP departure lounge.
12:11Nico and Lila had their confident smiles back, fully reinstalled.
12:13Last night's dinner had wrapped up without a hitch, and Lila had her arm looped through Nico's.
12:17Like the whole of European high society had just been a stepping stone placed there specifically for them.
12:20Nico looked me up and down.
12:22You sorted out your own ticket back to New York, right?
12:24There is no first-class left on today's direct flight.
12:27You're looking at a 20-hour layover in Coach.
12:30Have fun with that.
12:31Honestly, Coach with layovers isn't that bad.
12:33Good for building character.
12:35It suits you, Rory.
12:36You've always had that sort of, I don't know, budget traveler energy.
12:39Maybe so.
12:39I hope you two have a smooth flight home.
12:45I'm sorry, sir.
12:46Ma'am, you've both been denied boarding for this flight.
12:49Three hours ago, this aircraft was chartered in full by the Voss Group and reclassified as a private flight.
12:53Both of your tickets have been voided and flagged as non-transferable.
12:56Full refunds are being processed as we speak.
12:59Rory!
12:59You did this!
13:00I know you did this!
13:02Me.
13:03Come on.
13:04I'm just a girl who was about to go find her seat in a 20-hour layover.
13:07Remember?
13:07The budget traveler one?
13:10Miss, your private aircraft is ready for departure.
13:14The Don's instructions are that this flight is entirely at your disposal.
13:17Nico turned back slowly and stared at the plane that had been powered up for one single passenger.
13:21The first crack in his world opened up right then, and it was not going to close.
13:26What?
13:26No.
13:27No way, this can't be real.
13:28Rory?
13:29A private jet?
13:31You're lying!
13:33Nico completely lost it.
13:36He grabbed Leela's arm and tried to force his way into the private VIP corridor.
13:41Damien stopped him with one hand and sent him stumbling back three steps.
13:45Sir, this is a Voss family private aircraft.
13:48One more step forward will be treated as a security threat.
13:52Are you out of your minds?
13:53She is my girlfriend!
13:54Nico screamed across the corridor at me.
13:57Correction, ex-girlfriend.
14:00That one sentence, said out loud in front of everyone, shredded whatever was left of
14:05Nico's dignity in one clean motion.
14:09Panic too.
14:10Lila.
14:11And her voice shifted into that particular helpless ranger she used when she needed someone
14:14to feel guilty.
14:16Rory, why are you being so cruel?
14:18You chartered the plane.
14:20What does it cost you to let us come along?
14:23Do you have any idea what it'll mean if we miss tomorrow's board meeting?
14:28That's on you!
14:31Funny, I seem to remember someone saying just 30 minutes ago that a layover in Coach was
14:36a wonderful, authentic travel experience.
14:39Apparently, that only applies when it's my problem.
14:44Nico took a slow breath and deliberately softened his voice.
14:49He switched on the version of himself he used when he wanted to sound generous.
14:54Baby, relax.
14:55You've made your point, okay?
14:58You've had your moment.
15:00Let us on the plane, and I'll forget the whole thing with Lila from last night.
15:05We go home, everything goes back to normal.
15:08Nico, this is your real tragedy.
15:10Even now, you genuinely believe the world rotates around your ego.
15:16Nico's jaw tightened until his teeth ground together.
15:18If we're not at the financial review tomorrow, President Lennard will have us both removed
15:22from management.
15:23You understand that?!
15:27Then I hope you can find good seats on the train.
15:30I turned around and walked up the stairs, the black carpet running the full length of
15:33the boarding ramp beneath my feet.
15:36Nico was still screaming behind me like a man who had lost his mind.
15:40But that voice no longer had the power to make me turn around for even a second.
15:45The cabin door closed with a slow, mechanical hum.
15:49My phone lit up.
15:51A message from my father.
15:53When you land in New York tomorrow, I'll take you to get back what's yours.
15:57They thought they could mess with my daughter.
15:59They're about to learn.
16:03On the 10-hour flight back to New York, I stretched out in the full flatbed suite and slept better
16:10than I had in years.
16:17Meanwhile, Nico and Layla were crammed into a grimy train station somewhere, eating instant
16:23new deedles next to their luggage.
16:28The so-called DeLucre Core Project, the big overseas deal Nico had been so proud of, was
16:33never something he had won through talent or effort.
16:41My father had dangled it in front of him deliberately, as a test.
16:47A controlled leak.
16:49Nico didn't even make it past the first line in the sand.
16:55The next morning, 10 o'clock, New York headquarters, main boardroom.
17:01I walked in wearing a sharp-lined black Gevanshee suit and took my seat without hurrying.
17:08Ten minutes later, the boardroom doors flew open.
17:11Nico and Layla barreled in without having had the chance to go home first.
17:18President Lenard sat at the head of the table, looking like a man deciding whether to start
17:24shouting or start firing.
17:28The core board meeting started four hours ago.
17:36Director DeLuca, do you now consider this company your personal property?
17:43Sir, the flight was cancelled.
17:46It was completely out of our control.
17:51Right.
17:52I heard you spent the night on a packed train.
17:58Sounds like a valuable lesson, Director DeLuca.
18:02Care to share?
18:04Regarding the flagship aviation finance project under the Fengrei Group portfolio, valued at over
18:10$10 billion.
18:11We are changing project leadership effective immediately.
18:15Rory will take over as full project lead, reporting directly to me and to the Fengrei board.
18:23Nico, you're being moved to a supporting role.
18:32That is completely unfair, sir!
18:36Rory has only ever been a regular member of the team, who only sorts out other people's presentation documents.
18:45She does not have the matching ability to take charge of such an important project!
19:00Miss Russell, instead of worrying about whether she belongs here, maybe you should worry about the report you owe us.
19:08The CFO put you in charge of it himself.
19:11Don't tell me you left your numbers on the train.
19:20The report, Miss Rossi.
19:26Sir, I do have a draft.
19:29It's just...
19:31The train was a mess, and I didn't get to finish the last section on the financial restructuring.
19:37Sir, Lila was awake the entire night on that train, working on this without a single hour of sleep.
19:43We cannot penalize a dedicated employee for a situation caused by an airline's operational failure.
19:50I'd love to step aside.
19:51The draft from Miss Lila, up all night on the train, Rossi, has been sitting in my shared cloud folder
19:58the whole time.
19:59What appeared on screen was not a polished, cleaned-up deliverable.
20:02It was the original document, covered in my edits from the flight.
20:06Every critical error, surrounded by blood-red annotation.
20:09With a timestamp attached.
20:10Data fabricated.
20:12Nearly every single page had one.
20:15Miss Rossi, this is the document you intended to submit under your name to the Feng Rui Group's core briefing?
20:22You plan to hand us fabricated figures and let this entire company get blacklisted across the industry by tomorrow morning?
20:30Niko, you're the one who said Rory was part of the team!
20:35You're the one who said she deserved to clean up after me!
20:39This is your fault, too!
20:41That finished off whatever was left of Niko's carefully maintained image.
20:44His panic flipped instantly into something wild and backed into a corner.
20:47You know what, Rory? Fine! You wanna play it this way?
20:49I will post every single piece of dirt I have on you to the company intranet today!
20:53If I'm going down, I'm taking you with me.
20:55He showed me a smile that had gone crooked.
20:57Welcome back to Zoo.
20:57But when I might stay in front of me Hey!
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