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Chloe is the sole heir to the Sterling Group. To keep outsiders from saying her husband Liam "climbed up by his wife," she hid her identity and married into the Wright family as an ordinary girl. At the Wright Group's anniversary gala, her mother-in-law Eleanor publicly blocks and humiliates her, colludes with Mia to frame Chloe for stealing a necklace, has security search her bag, slaps her twice, and punishes the pregnant Chloe by forcing her to carry heavy loads until she collapses. At the critical moment, Ellis, Sterling's chief assistant, storms into the banquet hall with a ten-billion-dollar contract and publicly addresses Chloe as "Madam," stunning the entire room. Ellis announces the contract's withdrawal and leaves; Eleanor, humiliated and enraged, takes it out on Chloe. Liam races home to find his wife has already been taken away under Sterling security escort. Chloe wakes in a private hospital and learns her father knows everything. She decides to stop enduring, and orders Ellis to prepare another ten billion — "This time, it's not a gift. It's a debt collection." After her identity is exposed, Chloe takes office as CEO of the Sterling Group, deploys the hundred billion to short the Kensington family (Mia's birth family), freezes Eleanor's personal accounts, acquires 51% of the Wright Group and takes a seat on its board, and at a charity gala publicly plays surveillance footage exposing the full truth of Eleanor's poisoning and Mia's hired assassins. Eleanor and Mia, after a failed dark-web assassination plot, are arrested. In court they point fingers at each other, and in the end Eleanor receives a twenty-year sentence while Mia gets eight years. Liam protects his wife throughout, blocking Eleanor's attack in court with his bare hands. Chloe and Liam join forces to rebuild the Wright Group, and their daughter is born safely. A family undercurrent spanning twenty years — the "Eclipse Pact" and the mysterious code name "Night Shadow N" — drags out the feud between the Sterling and Vanderbilt families. Chloe ultimately uncovers the truth behind her mother's death, reclaims the Vanderbilt ancestral manor, and settles a three-generation-old debt.
