Revenge is Best Served… After Reborn

Chapter 507

Sophie had never noticed the thin piece of metal wire hidden within the necklace around Colby’s neck.

Colby inserted the wire into the lock core with a couple of simple twists, the padlock was picked open.

Standing by, Sophie opened her mouth in surprise and asked, “You can pick locks?”

“A bit.”

“Then why didn’t you just open the front door lock last time?”

“That lock was sophisticated, I couldn’t pick it. Besides, you had things you wanted to find out.”

Saying so, Colby opened the box, which contained several old journals that looked like they were from the early 20th century: The blue covers had yellowed with age, and the handwriting was clear and elegant, indicating the work of a skilled calligrapher.

Is this the Russell family’s ledger?”

Sophie glanced at a few others and said, “Here’s the Aldridge family’s, the Costello family’s, and the Tredgold family’s”

After a moment. Sophie added, “Could these be the ledgers from back then?”

“It seems the head of the Russell family was in charge of all four families‘ ledgers.”

“But… what use were these ledgers at that time?” Sophie was puzzled. While ledgers were important, it didn’t seem necessary to preserve them so carefully.

These books are old. We need to handle them with care. Let’s take them back and have a look”

“Okay.”

the ledgers back into the box, and then they went into the room to delve into the ledgers.

seemed to begin from

It

“You understand it?”

a long time. Need to familiarize

ledgers. Colby watched her intently and said, “I didn’t realize my wife was so talented.

you forget what I studied? I’m a finance major. How could I manage a company if I couldn’t

said this, but in her heart, she

finance. She had encountered

scrutinized the ledgers, her frown deepening. “Something’s off about these

“What’s wrong?”

amounts are

“How so?”

section mentions the Costello familys import business had an annual revenue of three hundred thousand dollars but expenditures of six hundred thousand dollars. Where did the extra three

was cosmetics, and it’s even stranger. The annual revenue was one hundred thousand dollars, and expenditures were two

of two hundred thousand dollars and expenditures of four hundred

ledger and said, “Here, the total annual revenue is

the money spent went

Colby looked at each othof in silence.

with each family doubling their losses, ultimately funneling

the first year’s accounts were fabricated.

total annual revenue in the Aldridge

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was equivalent to more than 1.2