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

which seemed to begin from when the four families first formed an

It looks quite

“You understand it?”

haven’t looked at it in a long time. Need to familiarize

realize my wife was so talented.

forget what I studied? I’m a finance major. How could I manage a company if

this, but in her heart,

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, she wouldn’t

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

“What’s wrong?”

amounts are strange.”

“How so?”

thousand dollars but expenditures of six hundred

revenue was one hundred thousand dollars,

annual revenue of two hundred thousand dollars and expenditures of four

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

the money spent went to the Aldridge

Colby looked at

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

the first year’s accounts were fabricated.

annual revenue in the

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equivalent to more than