After Being Humiliated, I Awaken An Infinite Spending System

7

"Oh my god, he got kicked out of the diner last night, and now he's getting banned from the plaza! Who the hell is this new Chairman Caleb? He is completely obliterating the Vance family's reputation!"

"The girl looks like a total gold-digger. Look at her crying and losing her shoe!"

The whispers, laughter, and mockery hit Chloe like a wave of physical bricks. 

She covered her face with her hands, sobbing uncontrollably as her high heel snapped, causing her to stumble awkwardly over the polished floor.

Julian was violently resisting, kicking and screaming the entire way down the grand escalator. "Caleb! I will kill you! I swear to God, I will buy this entire city block and crush you into dust! Let me go!"

The guards ignored his empty threats completely. They dragged them down through the main lobby and violently threw them out of the massive glass revolving doors.

Julian and Chloe hit the hard concrete of the public plaza outside, tumbling into the dirt in front of hundreds of onlookers and passing drivers. 

Their expensive luxury shopping bags were tossed directly onto the pavement right next to them.

Inside the master monitoring room on the top floor of Central Luxury Plaza, Caleb sat comfortably in a large leather chair, quietly sipping a glass of iced water. 

He watched the real-time security footage on a massive wall of monitors, observing Julian screaming at the sky like a madman while Chloe wept bitterly in the dirt.

The blue holographic screen hovered before his eyes, glowing with a sweet, dangerous light.

[PING!]

[Quota Progress: $80,000,000 out of $100,000,000 spent.]

[Spite Points Accumulated: +250,000!]

Caleb stood up slowly, adjusting the cuffs of his flawless new suit. 

He looked at the remaining twenty million dollars sitting in his account, his eyes gleaming with dark, dangerous anticipation.

"Midnight is approaching fast," Caleb whispered to the empty room, a cold smile forming on his lips. "Time to go to the Mingle Club and spend the rest."

Outside the grand entrance of Central Luxury Plaza was freezing, but the blistering stares of the gathering crowd burned hotter than fire.

Julian sprawled awkwardly on the pavement, his pristine Italian suit stained with grey city dust. Right next to him, Chloe let out a sharp cry as she tried to stand, only for her broken high heel to give out completely, sending her tumbling back into the dirt.

"Get away from us! Don't look at me!" Chloe shrieked, frantically trying to pull her torn dress over her knees.

But nobody was listening to her pleas.

Directly in front of the entrance, a glamorous outdoor pop-up event was being hosted by the city’s top fashion influencers and elite socialites. 

Dozens of high-end cameras, ring lights and smartphones were already pointed directly at the revolving glass doors.

"Oh my god, guys! Are you seeing this?!" a viral fashion streamer with five million active followers, gasped directly into her professional streaming rig. "We are live at the Central Luxury Plaza, and Julian Vance—the heir of the Vance Group—just got physically thrown out of the building like a sack of garbage!"

The smartphone in her hand flashed with a blinding speed as her live chat exploded with tens of thousands of comments per second.

"No way! Is that really Young Master Vance?"

"Look at his face! He's covered in dirt!"

"Who threw him out?! I thought the Vance family owned half of this district!"

"The girl next to him is Chloe, right? Wow, talk about a major fall from grace!"

Julian snapped. The utter humiliation of being broadcasted live to millions of people online shattered the last remaining pieces of his sanity. 

He scrambled to his feet, his hair messy and his eyes bloodshot with pure rage.

"Turn those cameras off!" Julian roared, lunging toward her camera crew. "Do you know who I am?! I will buy your entire media network and destroy your lives by tonight! Delete the footage!"

"Step back, sir," a stone-faced security guard from the plaza warned, stepping between Julian and the influencers, his hand resting firmly on his taser. "You are currently trespassing on Chairman Caleb's private property. Move along before we arrest you."

Hearing that name again made Chloe choke on her own breath. 

She looked up at the giant digital billboards towering over the plaza, where Caleb’s flawless, dominant image still looked down on them like an untouchable king.

"Caleb... how did this happen?" Chloe whispered, tears of pure regret and terror streaming down her ruined makeup. "He was just a factory worker yesterday. He was supposed to be nothing without me..."

Within less than three minutes, the raw, unedited footage of the eviction hit the front pages of every financial and social media platform in the country. 

The internet went into an absolute frenzy. 

Coming right on the remembrance of the "Mad Billionaire" livestream from the night before, the public quickly realized that the mysterious internet tycoon and the new plaza owner were the exact same person.

The headlines were brutal:

THE MAD BILLIONAIRE BUYS CENTRAL LUXURY PLAZA, BANS VANCE HEIR FOR LIFE!

Inside the master monitoring suite, Caleb watched the chaos unfold. The blue holographic screen in front of him began to glitch violently under the sheer weight of the incoming data.

[PING!]

[Target Julian is experiencing extreme, fatal levels of rage and humiliation!]

[Target Chloe is experiencing severe emotional collapse and deep financial regret!]

[Public shock threshold has broken the global index!]

[Calculating Spite Points... +100,000... +300,000... +700,000... +1,200,000!]

The mechanical voice in Caleb’s mind resonated with a strange, heavy vibration.

[Host has triggered a massive corporate scandal, severely damaging an established elite family. High-Tier Achievement Unlocked.]

[Dispensing Devastating Reward: God-Level Martial Arts (Beginner Stage)]

[Boom]

A sudden, invisible shockwave exploded inside Caleb’s mind. It wasn't a painful jolt like before, but a deep, ancient flood of pure instinct.

Instantly, his muscle memory shifted. 

Millions of structural combat techniques, lethal pressure-point strikes, flawless defensive stances and mastery over energy wired themselves directly into his nervous system. 

Caleb downshifted his breathing, his stance naturally adapting to that of a seasoned, ultimate predator.

He didn't just have a peak human body anymore. Now, he possessed the combat capability to dismantle an entire army with his bare hands.

Caleb clenched his fist, feeling the terrifying, silent power coiled tightly inside his knuckles and looked back at the monitors.

Outside on the pavement, Julian's phone began to vibrate violently in his pocket. He snatched it out, his hands shaking so hard he almost dropped it.