Her father''s eyes were bloodshot. He had been crying earlier, consumed by grief. "Nothing''s wrong," he said in a low voice. "I just feel like a failure as a father. I told you to study hard, you wouldn''t listen. I told you to learn how to manage the business, you wouldn''t listen. You think your life is all about hanging out with your little friends. Well, I''m letting you have it."


    "Joanna''s so great, right? You''ll have a wonderful life with her, much better than you ever had with your mother and me."


    After he finished, he turned to the housekeeper behind him. "Come in and help her pack. I want her out of here in ten minutes. And she''s never toe back."


    Yeri was stunned. Her perfect world was copsing. "Dad, if you''re going to kick me out, you have to at least give me a reason! You''re throwing me out over a video? Have you ever even treated me like your daughter? I was telling the truth! What did I say that was wrong? Was it so wrong to stand up for my friend?"


    "Right. It was absolutely right. After all, she''s your friend. Why would your parents be more important? Because of what you did, multiple business partners have already terminated their contracts with me. Thepany went bankrupt in two hours. All because I raised such a terrible daughter."


    "ndering someone just to stick up for your friend. Yes, you were absolutely right to do that."


    "I was at the banquetst night, too. Mrs. Wilson was confronting the other woman. What business was it of yours to get involved?"


    "Go find your friends. Go live your morous life with them."


    Her father started crying as he spoke. He had worked for twenty years to build hispany to what it was.


    And his daughter had destroyed it all with a single post.


    Yeri was speechless. She had just been so happy about getting her father an investment, and now, her family was ruined.


    She shook her head in anguish. "Impossible. Dad, ourpany is a solid mid-sized business. We''ve been growing steadily for years. How could it go bankrupt so quickly?"


    Yeri couldn''t ept it. How could someone bankrupt theirpany in just two hours?


    Her father looked defeated, as if he had aged a decade in an instant. think it''s absurd too. The work of my entire life, wiped out in two hours. Sebastian and the Spencer family were involved."


    He looked at Yeri. "Are you satisfied with this oue?"


    Yeri felt her world spin. Seeing the tears on her father''s face, she began to tremble, unsure of what to do.


    Just then, her mother rushed in and pped her hard across the face.


    "Ah!" The sting of the p brought Yeri back to her senses. She stared at her tear- streaked mother in disbelief. "Mom, you hit me. You''ve never hit me before."


    Yeri''s mother was a beautiful woman who had aged gracefully. She had a slender, delicate frame that now seemed on the verge of copsing from anger.


    She let out a tearful, bitterugh. "Yeri, is Joanna really that good to you? So good that you''d help her at the cost of our family''s ruin? After all these years, where did your father and go wrong that you would nder Natalie for someone else?"


    "Joanna is the illegitimate daughter of her father and his mistress. Natalie was abandoned by her own father. Joanna was desperate for someone to vouch for her and clear her name, and she used you as


    She did it


    Dawn. Are you brainless? Sh


    to save herself and ruin Natalie."


    "How could you be so thoughtless? Now thepany is bankrupt, and we have to


    mortgage this house to pay off our debts."