You Fired The Real Queen

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Story Summary

Elena is the true founder and chief R&D director of Los Angeles's luxury beauty empire. For ten years, she endured and yielded, using twelve exclusive plant-based formulas to push her husband Julian onto the CEO throne. Yet the vain and incompetent Julian not only had an affair with brand PR director Chloe, but also publicly humiliated Elena at the National Distributor Summit—unilaterally stripping her of equity and dismissing her, attempting to claim her life's work as his own. Facing betrayal, the supremely rational Elena does not hysterically lash out. Instead, she launches a dimensional strike. She reveals her trump card: the FDA filings and raw material extraction rights for all core formulas have always been legally locked under her late grandmother's independent trust. She indefinitely freezes the commercial licensing of the formulas, instantly severing the empire's lifeline. The Los Angeles workshop, stripped of its core technology, grinds to a halt—and immediately faces $420 million in breach-of-contract claims from major North American department stores, plunging into bankruptcy liquidation. Desperate, Julian attempts to divide "marital assets" through divorce—only to discover in despair that the formulas are not subject to asset division at all. The sinister, arrogant Chloe, to protect herself and swindle a ten-million-dollar technology balance payment, bribes a New Jersey OEM factory to produce "dupe" products using toxic industrial chemical powder and ships them to distributors. To force Elena into submission, they even spread black PR articles across the internet, falsely claiming Elena is mentally unstable and has poisoned the formulas.