Revenge is best served cold

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."

back into the box, and then they went

the living room, Sophie spread open the ledgers, which seemed to

is double-entry bookkeeping.

"You understand it?"

of, just haven't looked at it in a long time. Need to

said, "I didn't realize my wife was so talented. You even understand this

you forget what I studied? I'm a finance major. How could I manage

in her heart, she was grateful

encountered many things and learned quickly. If not for her knowledge from her past life, she wouldn't understand these ledgers

her frown deepening.

"What's wrong?"

recorded amounts

"How so?"

three hundred thousand dollars but expenditures of six

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

an annual revenue of two hundred thousand dollars

"Here, the total annual revenue is 1.2 million dollars, but

the money spent went to

Colby looked at each

the first year, with each family doubling their losses, ultimately

words, the first year's accounts

ledgers is false, then we only need to note the total annual revenue in the Aldridge family's ledger to know they

was equivalent to more than 1.2 billion