This is pretty strange. In the previous life, the butler only betrayed her after her family was doomed already. The men were dead and her mother was bedridden. Granted that we don’t know to what extent he acted behind the scenes to ruin them, but it would seem he was well-behaved while the family was still in good standing.

But here, the family is at the peak of their power. Everyone is healthy, and she herself is a celebrity bringing in a ton of cash from her businesses. Why would the butler think he could betray them and get away with it?

It seemed that originally all the butler did was “not continue to work for a broke employer”, which might suck for them, but their employees have bills to pay too. Him stealing money for his “severance” was wrong, but still not quite so bad as long as that was indeed money he was owed. But now in order to punish him, he became some kind or self-obssessed idiot. And what was the rest of her family doing, that they didn’t catch the guy earlier? They can’t tell that someone in such an important position has no integrity? Did this guy really go from “just doing his job” to “betrayal for personal gain” without doing smaller crimes in the middle?