Dark Lord Seduction System: Taming Wives, Daughters, Aunts, and CEOs novel Chapter 276

Chapter 276: Liberation Holdings: The Birth of an Empire

The penthouse’s smart TV bled LIBERATION HOLDINGS LLC across the wall like a curse whispered in gold leaf. Three words that either meant revolution or delusion—a teenage fantasy forged in Delaware paperwork and ARIA’s digital alchemy.

"What the fuck is Liberation Holdings?" Madison shot up from the sofa, her abandoned champagne flute trembling on the table. She leaned into the screen’s glow, tracing the tentacled org chart with painted nails.

Charlotte unfolded herself from the couch like a coiled viper, exhaustion evaporating into razor-sharp focus. "You incorporated a company?" The question wasn’t surprise. It was accusation.

"While we were handling this whole chaos." I claimed my seat at the table, chopsticks hovering over Soo-Jin’s cooling kimchi. The air reeked of vinegar and ambition. "ARIA filed in Delaware three hours ago. Expedited processing, naturally."

"Naturally." Charlotte’s dryness could’ve sandpapered marble. "And what exactly does this holding company do?" Her knuckles whitened on the sake glass.

I speared a piece of kimchi. "Everything. Nothing. Whatever we need it to." I gestured at the screen with my chopsticks. "Picture it: a legal black box. It can buy anything. Stocks. Real estate. Entire companies. Patents. Art.

"Yachts owned by shell corps in Panama. It can hide assets in 47-layered shells so deep the IRS drowns before finding the bottom. It can sue someone into oblivion, then vanish. Or merge with a shell corp to absorb liability before a lawsuit hits. It’s a weapon, Charlotte. A corporate ghost that bleeds money when needed."

Charlotte’s eyes didn’t leave the screen, dissecting the org chart like a battlefield schematic. "This... is actually brilliant."

She breathed out, a flicker of raw admiration cutting through her anger. "A holding company is a shield and a sword. It owns the assets, so main company stays clean. It can acquire competitors without triggering antitrust red flags until it’s too late. It can license your IP to itself, siphon profits offshore, then reinvest them anonymously. You’re right. It is a blank check. For power. For destruction. For anything."

"Master is being modest," ARIA interjected, her voice cool as liquid nitrogen. "Liberation Holdings is structured for unlimited scope: investment, acquisition, litigation, intellectual property warfare, even hostile takeovers cloaked as friendly mergers. I will operate it. Officially," her tone turned sly, "I don’t exist."

"How can an AI run a company?" Amanda’s voice was a lost whisper, swallowed by the room’s sudden gravity.

"Same way I trade millions. Shell corps," ARIA replied simply. "Automated signatures. Digital executives with falsified backgrounds. Human lawyers who think they work for a recluse in Singapore. Seventeen identities already active. Plausible deniability baked into the code."

Madison snapped her fingers. "Like my family! They hold oil fields under Shell Corp A, shipping under Shell Corp B, the cash under Shell Corp C. If Corp A sinks? Ship B keeps sailing. Cash C stays hidden. Tax havens. Liability shields. It’s how real wealth protects itself."

"But your daddy holds those keys, Madison," I cut in, turning on her. "Liberation Holdings’s keys are ours. ARIA’s. What do you own that isn’t signed away by your trust fund?" She flinched. Silence answered. Heiress, not architect.

"This is what ARIA can do," I continued, pulling up ARIA’s specs.

The TV bled new text:

SHADOW CEO ADVANTAGES:

Contract Analysis: 0.003s/doc 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

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