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.”

and then they went into the room to delve

room, Sophie spread open the ledgers, which seemed to begin from when the four families first

bookkeeping. It

“You understand it?”

it in a long time. Need to familiarize myself again.”

the ledgers. Colby watched her intently and said, “I didn’t realize my

forget what I studied? I’m a finance major. How

said this, but in her heart, she

diligently learned everything related to finance. She had encountered many

frown deepening. “Something’s off about

“What’s wrong?”

amounts are strange.”

“How so?”

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

The annual revenue was one hundred thousand dollars, and expenditures were two

revenue of two hundred thousand

the Aldridge family ledger and said, “Here, the total annual revenue is 1.2

the money spent went to the

and Colby looked at each othof

each family doubling their losses, ultimately funneling

other words, the first year’s

is false, then we only need to note the total annual revenue in the Aldridge family’s ledger

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million dollars was equivalent