As Madame Geneviève lay dying in the ICU, Julian slapped an intellectual property waiver on the table. He had deliberately signed a delayed payment memo to freeze the life-saving medical funds, forcing Elena to surrender her family’s century-old brand to his mistress, Chloe. To immediately release the funds, Elena quietly signed her name, handing over the golden scissors symbolizing her heritage. However, trapped by a commercial injunction Julian filed to delay her, she reached the ward only to find an empty bed. Her beloved mentor had died of organ failure an hour earlier. A nurse handed Elena her mentor's old leather suitcase. Hidden inside its compartment was the original, legally binding patent registration for the core shaping technique, leaving Elena to decide if she would disappear in silence or utterly destroy the man she once loved.