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 box, and then they went into the

to begin

double–entry bookkeeping. It looks quite

“You understand it?”

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

said, “I didn’t realize my

I studied? I’m a finance major. How could I

said this, but in her heart, she was grateful to

past life, she liked James, and to help him, she diligently learned everything related to finance. She had encountered many things and leamed quickly. If not for her knowledge from her pastlife,

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

“What’s wrong?”

amounts

“How so?”

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

Russell family’s main business was cosmetics, and it’s even stranger. The annual revenue was one hundred thousand

two hundred thousand dollars and expenditures of

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

spent went to

at each othof in silence.

ledgers only covered the first year, with each family doubling their losses, ultimately funneling the

words, the first year’s accounts were

we only need to note the total annual revenue in the Aldridge family’s ledger to know they fabricated an extra 1.2 million dollars that

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equivalent to more than 1.2 billion