Born Into Villain's Family: I Have a 200\% Rebate System-Chapter 528: End Of Maya

The music grew louder, the celebration carried on, and the night passed in warmth and joy.

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But the next day, Maya began her revenge.

She secretly released a series of malicious videos and fabricated articles targeting the Waters family.

Jules was portrayed as a drug addict.

Lucas was accused of running a scam company.

Adam was labeled a corrupt CEO.

Mary was described as a seemingly humble librarian who secretly harmed young people.

Theodore was painted as a playboy hiding behind an actor’s image.

Adriana was accused of plagiarism and stealing designs.

Olivia was mocked as someone maintaining a perfect façade while her family was supposedly bankrupt.

And Aurora, she was accused of forging a genius persona by skipping exams and entering university through illegal connections.

The rumors spread rapidly, each lie crafted carefully to sound believable.

Since few people knew much about the Waters family, outsiders quickly assumed they were just another family pretending to be wealthy.

Search traffic surged. Comments multiplied. Speculation exploded.

Yet, within fifteen minutes of the posts going live, everything vanished.

Every article. Every video. Every trace.

It was as if the content had never existed at all.

Netizens were stunned. Maya was even more so.

She had spent nearly a hundred thousand dollars producing the fake evidence and arranging a week-long promotional push. It should have dominated the internet.

Instead, it disappeared into thin air.

"What... happened?" she whispered, staring at her screen in disbelief.

Before she could recover, new notifications began flooding in.

But these were not about the Waters family.

They were about her.

How she had scammed Nick and Jerry and had taken away their shares by deceit.

One by one, everything she had done was exposed online.

Maya’s eyes widened in horror as cold dread crept up her spine.

Her hands trembled violently as she grabbed her phone and called her assistant.

"What is going on?" she demanded. "Why did you not inform me earlier? Why is everyone pointing fingers at me now?"

On the other end, her assistant was already overwhelmed, trying to calm multiple brand partners who were demanding to cut ties immediately.

"It will be resolved soon," the assistant pleaded anxiously. "Please give me some time..."

Maya did not listen.

Rage drowned out every word.

The moment the assistant arrived in person, Maya slapped her hard across the face without hesitation.

The sharp sound echoed through the room, leaving behind a heavy silence filled with panic, anger, and the unmistakable sense that everything was spiraling out of control.

The assistant stood frozen for a long moment, her cheek still stinging from the blow. The room was filled only with Maya’s uneven breathing.

Slowly, the assistant looked up.

Without a word, she threw the phone onto the table.

Then, before Maya could react, she slapped her.

The sound rang louder than Maya’s own slap had moments ago. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

Maya staggered back, stunned, her mind blank for a split second. Then hysteria surged through her like fire.

"What did you just do?" she shrieked, her voice cracking. She raised her hand again, aiming to strike back.

But this time, the assistant stepped aside swiftly, dodging with ease.

"I am done," the assistant said coldly, looking at Maya with open disgust.

"I will not work for you anymore. I was paid to do my job, not to endure abuse. I never imagined you would become worse and worse."

With that, she picked up her bag and walked out without looking back.

Maya’s face twisted with rage. She turned toward Sophia, who was standing nearby, trying desperately to maintain her composure.

"That woman just left like that!" Maya snapped.

"Shouldn’t you stop her? Find a way to make her return! If you cannot even handle this, what is the use of you being a lawyer?"

Sophia adjusted her glasses slowly, her expression unusually stern.

"Before thinking about making her return, you should understand something. You already breached your contract the moment you hit her. You physically harmed an employee. That constitutes assault. She has every legal right to leave immediately, especially if she feels threatened."

Maya fell silent, her anger colliding with the weight of those words.

Then she scoffed, glaring at Sophia. "So I wasted my money hiring you."

Sophia said nothing.

"What are you staring at?" Maya snapped again. "Go fix this. Use your legal tricks. Get those posts back online."

Just then, Maya refreshed her screen.

Her breath caught.

The internet had exploded again, but this time, it was filled with revelations about her.

Reports detailed how she had fabricated evidence.

Old incidents resurfaced, including rumors of an accident followed by plastic surgery, faking an accident just on a whim, and attempts to frame her own younger sister.

Every secret she had buried was now laid bare for the public to dissect.

Netizens quickly pieced everything together.

Comments shifted.

Sympathy flooded toward Jules.

Condemnation poured down on Maya.

Police hotlines, previously silent, began receiving complaint after complaint until the authorities could no longer ignore the situation.

"They are... filing cases?" Maya whispered, panic creeping in.

Sophia massaged her forehead, exhaustion and dread mixing together. "I cannot stay here anymore," she said quietly.

Maya looked at her in disbelief.

"You are leaving now? At a time like this? You are supposed to act like a perfect lawyer and stand by me! Stay, and I will pay you double... triple!"

Sophia did not even respond.

’She is going to prison,’ Sophia thought grimly. ’And if I stay any longer, I might follow.’

Before Maya could argue again, a firm knock echoed through the room.

The door opened.

Police officers stepped inside.

Both Maya and Sophia turned pale.

Maya’s legs nearly gave way as fear rushed through her. ’It is over,’ she thought. ’I am really going to be arrested.’

Sophia forced a polite smile as one officer approached her. "There must be some misunderstanding," she began. "I am only an employee..."

Cold metal snapped around her wrists.

"You are under arrest," the officer said flatly. "For assisting in illegal activities and manipulating legal processes."

Sophia froze.

She had spent years building her reputation as a top lawyer, admired and feared in equal measure. Yet now she stood in handcuffs, branded a criminal.

’From a respected lawyer to this,’ she thought bitterly. ’What a fall.’

Regret flooded her.

’If I had another chance... I would never have left Emily’s side.’

Ever since she had distanced herself from Aurora, misfortune had followed one after another. Only now did she fully understand it.

Elsewhere, Aurora watched the news of both Maya and Sophia’s arrest.

She finally sat down, letting out a long breath.

The enemies targeting her family, and even Emily, had all been dealt with.

For the first time in a long while, she felt at peace.

Meanwhile, life had taken a completely different turn for Theodore.

Recently, he had been overwhelmed with invitations to various reality shows.

His schedule had become so packed that he barely had time to rest, let alone admire himself in the mirror like he used to.

"Do I really have this much charm?" he muttered one evening, staring at his reflection under the harsh dressing-room lights.

"If so, why was I not discovered earlier?"

Then he sighed.

At that time, his younger sister had still needed protection, and his priorities had been elsewhere.

"If circumstances were different," he murmured, half joking, "maybe I would have debuted as a child star."

Like every day, he finished filming and headed toward his car.

But as he stepped outside, something felt off.

The parking area smelled faintly of hot asphalt and engine oil, and the air was strangely still. He noticed his car was not where it should have been.

A memory flashed in his mind, an online post he had once read about obsessive fans deliberately moving celebrities’ cars so they would be forced to interact with them.

Theodore’s expression darkened slightly.

Looking around at the unusually empty space, he exhaled slowly.

’I might have just run into one of those... extreme fans.’

At another time, Theodore would have found the situation amusing.

In fact, he had once joked with friends about how entertaining it would be if someone went to such ridiculous lengths just to meet him.

But now that it might actually be happening, the humor had completely vanished.

A faint unease crawled up his spine.

’This is not funny anymore,’ he thought, glancing around cautiously.

Instead of lingering in the open, he quickly slipped away and entered a nearby café.

The rich aroma of roasted coffee beans and freshly baked bread wrapped around him like a shield, calming his nerves slightly.

He chose a corner seat where he could observe the street through the glass without being easily noticed.

Just as he sat down, a calm voice spoke beside him.

"Is this seat taken?"

Theodore nearly jumped. For a split second, he felt as though his soul had tried to escape his body. ’Did one of those fans actually find me?’ he panicked.

He looked up...

And froze.