After Divorce I Married a Tycoon-Chapter 123: What Is Your Heart Made Of?

"Me?" Claire Mercer found the question absolutely hilarious.

"Scarlett Jewel, you give me way too much credit."

"If I had that kind of power, would I have let you people scheme against me time and time again?"

Scarlett Jewel refused to believe that Claire Mercer had nothing to do with it.

"The Mercer Family fell, Mr. Bower was arrested, and now even Chester Lawton and his company are in trouble."

"Everyone connected to you has run into trouble, one after another."

"The ones who went bankrupt, went bankrupt. The ones who got arrested, got arrested..."

"Claire Mercer, don’t you think this is all just a little too convenient?"

"Convenient?" Claire Mercer sneered. "You know what this is called?"

"It’s called ’you reap what you sow’."

"Why didn’t the police arrest anyone else? Why did they have to arrest them?"

"Why are other people’s companies doing just fine, while theirs went bankrupt?"

"Isn’t this all just karmic retribution for the evil they’ve done?"

"If they had just followed the rules and obeyed the law, would they have been arrested?"

"And now you’re actually saying I’m the one behind all this..."

"Scarlett Jewel, don’t you think you sound ridiculous?"

"Besides, do you really think I have the power and resources to take down three companies?"

To her, it was a completely absurd fantasy.

She could barely scrape together a few bucks and had no connections to speak of.

Let alone taking down three companies in such a short time and getting their leaders thrown in jail.

Even taking down a single company was an impossible task for her, given her current abilities.

But Scarlett Jewel retorted, "Why not? Isn’t the Rowan Family your backer?"

The Rowan Family?

Claire Mercer laughed. "You think the Rowan Family would have the time to bother with my affairs?"

"Besides, if the Rowan Family really had my back, would your parents have treated me like that time and time again?"

"Not only trying to force me to marry that Mr. Bower, but also setting a trap to scheme against me after I got married."

"Since they dared to plot against me repeatedly, it’s obvious they knew the Rowan Family wouldn’t get involved in my business."

"It’s something even your parents knew. Are you saying you didn’t?"

Scarlett Jewel was convinced that Claire Mercer had gone to the Rowan Family for help all along.

So, she refused to listen to her explanation.

"Claire Mercer, you don’t have to make so many excuses."

"I can’t think of anyone besides the Rowan Family who could make three companies go bankrupt one after another in such a short time."

"Do you hate them that much? Enough to destroy the Mercer Group and even saddle them with a debt of over a hundred million."

The Mercer Family had completely collapsed and gone bankrupt, and the Mercer father and son were saddled with a hundred-million-dollar external debt.

If her wedding date with Gavin Sinclair wasn’t approaching, Scarlett Jewel really would have wanted to just pack up and leave.

Now, she could no longer be the pampered daughter of a wealthy family.

On top of that, with the hundred-million-dollar debt, the Mercer Family was demanding she help them figure out a way to pay it back.

’A hundred million... Is that supposed to be a small sum?’

’They just open their mouths and tell me to help repay the money, saying I’m a daughter of the Mercer Family and can’t just watch them suffer...’

When Scarlett Jewel got the news, she was so angry she nearly fainted.

’I can’t believe some people can be so stupid.’

’To actually take out a private loan of a hundred million to buy a mountain.’

’And then drag me into figuring out a solution.’

’Where am I supposed to find a solution?’

’They just want me to ask Gavin Sinclair for help.’

’After all, a hundred million is nothing to the Sinclair Family.’

’But what’s Gavin Sinclair’s attitude toward me now?’

’I know better than anyone.’

’The Sinclair Family only agreed to let me marry in for the sake of the child.’ 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

’I haven’t even officially married into the Sinclair Family yet, haven’t even secured my footing...’

’How do they have the nerve to ask me to help figure out how to pay the debt?’

’I really want to tell the truth and completely cut ties with the Mercer Family.’

’But I can’t.’

’If I do, the Sinclair Family will just kick me, a liar, to the curb.’

Scarlett Jewel hadn’t had a single good night’s sleep in days.

She was pestered endlessly by the Mercer Family every day.

And to maintain her image, not only could she not get angry, she had to pretend to be gentle and considerate while comforting them.

She was about to go insane.

These past few days, she had also been wondering why the Mercer Family, as well as Mr. Bower and Mr. Lawton, had all run into trouble one after another.

After thinking it over and over, she felt that only Claire Mercer would target these people.

"Claire Mercer, I have to ask you, what is your heart made of?"

"I never thought the person they raised from childhood would turn out to be a venomous snake that bites back."

"Mom and Dad raised you, after all. How can a person be so heartless and ungrateful?"

"After you hooked up with the Rowan Family, you couldn’t wait to wipe them out completely."

"I wiped them out completely?" Claire Mercer laughed in anger.

"Scarlett Jewel, are you nuts?"

"Instead of looking for the cause with them, you come looking for someone who lives in a rental."

"I’ll say it again: I have never gone to the Rowan Family. Stop trying to pin everything on me."

"Also, you were involved in that scheme last time when the Mercer Family teamed up with Chester Lawton to set me up, weren’t you?"

"You used my desperation to sign the ’Adoption Dissolution Agreement’ to set a trap for me."

"Judith Caldwell is an airhead; she’d never come up with an idea like that."

"Julian Mercer and Oscar Mercer have brains, but it’s clear they don’t use them."

"Only you... Scarlett Jewel. Only you could have thought of this plan."

"I haven’t even come to settle the score with you yet, and you have the nerve to come question me?"

At the mention of scheming against her with Mr. Lawton, a flicker of something passed through Scarlett Jewel’s eyes.

But it was fleeting, difficult to catch.

Of course, she wasn’t going to admit that tricking her into going to the Mercer Family home by using the dissolution agreement was her idea.

"What do you mean, teaming up with Chester Lawton to scheme against you? I have no idea what you’re talking about."

"Playing dumb with me?" Claire Mercer’s gaze turned cold. "Scarlett Jewel, I’m warning you. Don’t let me get any dirt on you."

"I’m the one with nothing to lose right now."

"You’re about to marry into the Sinclair Family and leap up the social ladder, so you’d better not mess with me."

"Otherwise, just how long you’ll get to be the Sinclair family’s Mrs. Sterling—and whether you’ll manage to keep that position—is anyone’s guess."

With that, Claire Mercer didn’t spare her another glance and turned to leave.

On the way back, she couldn’t stop thinking about what Scarlett Jewel had said.

’She seems convinced that the Rowan Family is behind the Mercer Family’s bankruptcy, as well as what happened to Mr. Bower and Chester Lawton—that they’re getting revenge on my behalf.’

’But the Rowan Family shouldn’t know about my situation, right?’

’Besides, even if they did know, they wouldn’t go this far for me, would they?’

’My relationship and connection with the Rowan Family isn’t that deep yet.’

’The Mercer Family is completely bankrupt, Mr. Bower was arrested, and Mr. Lawton—the man who tried to assault me—was also arrested...’

’These are all people who have hurt me.’

’Now, not only are they bankrupt, but some are saddled with hundred-million-dollar debts, and others have been locked up...’

’Never mind that the Mercer Family is now in ruins.’

’For guys like Mr. Bower and Chester Lawton to have built their companies up that big...’

’...it would have been absolutely impossible without some connections in high places.’

’Since they had those connections, ordinary incidents probably wouldn’t have had much of an impact on them.’

’And it’s even more unlikely they would have gone bankrupt and gotten into trouble so quickly.’

’If someone wasn’t intentionally targeting and suppressing them, Mr. Bower and Chester Lawton shouldn’t have ended up in their current predicament.’

’Could it be... that the Rowan Family really is helping me from behind the scenes?’