Corina returned home with an indescribable feeling.

On the way back, Lynn's last words kept echoing in her mind.

"The merchants who went bankrupt were the ones who carried the gold coins to the Kalans."

What does this mean?

You must know that these "black households" are not from the same group of businessmen, but these businessmen belong to the same lineage.

Also, in Corina's investigation, she already knew that these merchants were not big businessmen, and their influence and wealth were very limited, so the reason for their bankruptcy was that someone wanted to disgust Kalan?

- How could it be!

Thinking back to Lynn's last meaningful gaze, Corinna realized that if it wasn't Lynn she saw today, then it was probably Miss Irene!

"Am I really that stupid? Everybody wants to pinch me.......

"Huh! Corina, where have you been?"

A rough voice interrupted Corina's thoughts, and she looked up at her brother who was waving to her, silently throwing her doubts into the trash.

"Corinna, Kolina, I'll tell you." Hearst didn't notice his sister's abnormality, and only said excitedly, "Father is in a good mood today, he didn't scold me, and asked me to cheer, you say, did Father take the wrong medicine today."

The corners of Corinna's forehead twitched unconsciously: "Even if it's a father, he won't curse for no reason, right.......?"

"No." Hirst said, "Didn't my father ask me to do something a few days ago, I forgot about it while I was playing, I didn't go, and today when my father asked me, I remembered it, and he just said let me remember it next time, weird.......

「........」

Corina looked at her silly brother and was silent for a long time.

His father gave him the task, but he did nothing, not only was he not scolded, but he was also tolerated.

There may be reasons why my father may be in a really good mood today, but more importantly, it is the reason why Hearst is a boy and one of the future heirs of Christine.

Corina remembered that although her brother had never been successful and had been scolded a lot since he was a child, no one had ever refused his request when he needed something.

And himself, even his pocket money, has to pick and search for it.

Smiling silently in her heart, Corina asked out loud.

"Where's my father?"

Hearst didn't doubt him: "In the study, eh, you're not going to report me, are you?" Corina, my good sister, I was just ........."

"I'm not that bored."

Interrupting Hearst's words with a blank expression, Corina walked straight in the direction of the study, leaving Hirst scratching her head inexplicably.

"I always feel that Corinna doesn't seem to be cute lately........

........

When I got to the study, I knocked lightly on the door three times, then took a step back and waited for three seconds.

At the beginning of the third second, a "please come in" came from inside the door.

"Corina?" The middle-aged man in the room seemed to be puzzled by the visitor, "What are you doing here?"

Corina ignored the coldness in her father's words, and only bowed respectfully, and said softly, "Father, I went out with His Highness again today."

"Oh, that's good." The man nodded very perfunctorily, not even bothering to be curious about the specifics of the matter.

"So you came to me, what's the matter?"

The hand holding the hem of her dress tightened slightly, and Corinna tried her best to maintain a smile on her face: "During the conversation with His Highness, I said that something had happened in the Blazer family, and she wanted to know what was going on

What's going on....... You may not know that the little princess has a close relationship with the young master of the Blazer family, they were at the same table when they were in the academy, and they were teammates in the past."

"But unfortunately, despite Her Highness's request for me, I can't give her an answer, because I don't know anything about it, so I want to come and ask you and reply to Your Highness later."

"I see." After listening quietly to his daughter's account, the man nodded and shook his head again, "Actually, I don't know much about this matter. It seems to me that the Mr. [Count of Blood] had gone somewhere and was going to do something, but there was no reply, and then someone said he was missing."

"Missing....... How come?!"

"When I heard about it at the time, I was also surprised, although I didn't like that person, his personal strength was beyond doubt, and it was indeed a bit strange that such a gentleman had disappeared without a trace."

After the man said this, he looked at Corina, hesitated for a moment, and added, "The following should not have been talked to you, but since His Highness wants to know, it doesn't hurt to tell you."

"The first source of news of the disappearance of the Count of Blazer is the royal palace."

"The Palace?!"

When she heard this word, Corina instinctively reacted, thinking that it was the royal family who had made a knife to blow herself up.

Kill Count Blazer yourself, or hide his tracks, and then spread the word.

But why is that?

The Blazer family has a very special position in Catalena, and the closest and only faction attached to it is the king's line, so it stands to reason that it is impossible for the royal family to do anything to people who are only loyal to them, right?

Or is there something else possible?

"Don't think about it, I haven't figured it out." The man interrupted Corina's thoughts, as if she was getting impatient, "Is there anything else? If you don't, you can get out."

「.......」

Corina took a bite to cook and didn't ask any more questions.

But just as she was about to leave the study, the man suddenly stopped her again.

"Wait a minute, Corina."

Corina turned around, only to hear a word that nearly stopped her lungs.

"What do you think, son of the Earl of Strand?"

「.......」

At this moment, Corina couldn't even squeeze out a reluctant smile.

She left the study perfunctorily, but did not go far, only leaned against the wall, looked up at the ceiling, not knowing what she was thinking.

After a long time, she pulled out a very self-deprecating laugh.

"You've lied to me so much, and in the end, I still have to put my hope in you."

"It's ridiculous."

........

The next day, Corina arrives at the café with some paper materials.

"Jingle bell—"

Stepping on the crisp wind chimes, she saw Lynn who had been waiting in the booth for a long time.

"Good morning, miss."

Lynn greeted him with a habitual smile, and to her surprise, Corina smiled at him as well.

"Good morning, sir."

Corina sat across from Lynn, her voice soft, and her temperament returned to her previous gentleness.

It was at this moment that she noticed Lynn's eyes.

"What's wrong, why are you looking at me like that?"

"Hmm...... It's a little bit of a surprise." Lynn chuckled, "I thought your first remark to me after learning about my family was probably something like "compare who has the rest of their time."

"I'm sorry to let your hopes go down." Corina stabbed lightly, and then whispered, "Since I have decided to cooperate with you and be tied to the same boat, I will naturally choose to go all out."

"As you said yourself, we have the same purpose. I am your choice, and you are my possibility."

"Tsk."

Lynn sighed, "If it hadn't happened before, I think maybe I might have liked what you just said."

When she heard the word "like", Corinna's mind quietly appeared with some of her own amorous seasonal animations, and her face suddenly turned cold.

"If you think of me as a partner, please show the corresponding attitude, and if you think that I am just your molest, then as you said, let's die first."

Lynn was slightly stunned, she didn't expect Corinna to react so much to this "joke".

He bowed his head slightly, apologetically, "I apologize to you for my words, miss."

"It's rare." Corina pursed her lips and pushed the information over, "Yesterday you asked me what assets I have, and they are all here."

"Well, I'll take a look........

Lynn flipped through the few pages twice, lost in thought.

The assets recorded on these pieces of paper, as Corina herself said, are indeed only two, and they are of little use.

One is a haberdashery supermarket located on Ming Sun Street, with profits barely breaking even, but the numbers are not large; The rest is a jewelry store, and business is poor.

"It's miserable." Corina propped her head and looked at Lynn obliquely, and sighed, "Born like me, I only have such assets, it's not an exaggeration to say that I am a poor ghost, right?"

"Then you're going to pull the poor ghost's passing grade too high." Lynn put down the paper and said with a smile, "These assets provide you with just pocket money, in fact, most of the large expenses are still funded by the family."

"If there is, it is, but unfortunately, I haven't asked for it, and I don't dare to ask for it."

「........」

Corina looked at Lynn's silent appearance, and there was a vague guess in her heart: "Look at you, it seems that you are very dissatisfied with what I have? They can't play a role in your plan you won't tell me? Or ........"

"No, no, no." Lynn smiled and said, "Useful, useful........ In addition, I am naturally willing to talk to you about my plans as long as you want to hear them."

"Well, let's talk about it."

「.........」

Lynn organized her language a little and said, "My initial plan is to start with this jewelry store of yours, make it generate high profits, and show your parents the real gold coins, so that you can get into their sight?"

"High ....... Profits?!" Corina looked surprised.

In fact, the profits of jewelry stores have always been high.

Except for some special gems that can be used as magic items, most of the jewelry is just decorations.

The cost of these decorations is only labor and polishing, which is not worth mentioning compared to the price it puts on the container.

But why is Corina's jewelry store doing so badly?

A: On the Silver Avenue.

The Silver Avenue is the most well-known shopping street in Catalena and in the entire kingdom of Laiyin, and its reputation is enough to give it a label for the goods that flow from its interior.

For example, chestnuts are mined in the same place and the same quality of gems are processed by the same person and sent to the same city of Catalina, the only difference is that some of the gems go to the jewelry stores located on the Silver Avenue, and some go to the ordinary jewelry stores of Catalina.

The price of the two is at least a double difference, and what about the sales volume?

Or the Silver Avenue one.

As a luxury ornament, the person who buys it pays attention to a card and a name, especially in this royal capital of countless rich and noble families.

How can ordinary jewelry provoke others to look at it twice?

If others look down on it, how can they buy it?

Corina is also an aristocrat, one of the main people who buy luxury goods, and they ask themselves that she will not come to buy ordinary gems in ordinary stores anyway, even if the quality is the same - luxury goods are never quality

。

And if the sales can't go up, how can it generate high profits?

So, although Corina doesn't understand business, from a consumer perspective, Lynn's idea is somewhat outrageous.

For Corina's questioning, Lynn did not directly deny it, but simply smiled.

"It's true that with Silver Avenue, it is difficult for jewelry stores in other places to do well - luxury itself is something that is superimposed on various expensive labels, and without such a label, the competitiveness will indeed be greatly reduced."

"But we can't move the store to Silver Avenue and label it, but we can add some new labels to it."

"e.g. ......."

Lynn told Corina in detail about her next arrangement, and the more she listened, the more frightened she became.

When she finished, she looked at Lynn like a monster, "I know you're good at telling stories, but stories are stories because reality doesn't allow them to be true."

"What you're talking about, in my opinion, is not much different from magic."

"That's wrong." Lynn squinted and smiled, "Reality is always more outrageous and illogical, but it will be used as toilet paper to wipe your butt."

Corina smiled and shook her head, "Are you so sure they can go crazy about it?"

"Of course!" Lynn said softly, "If you want to sell well, you need to target a specific group of people."

"It's hard to sell a comb to a bald man, but it's easy to sell it to some girl with knotted hair, and the same goes for gemstones, which those of you who have seen too many curiosities disdain, but there are always people who don't have that far to look at, but who want to reach out and touch the clouds."

"Our target is them."

「........」

Corina tried to imagine what Lynn painted, but forgive her for being only halfway there.

Imagination needs experience as a basis for casting, and she hadn't seen what Lynn depicted, so it was difficult to sketch it out thoroughly.

Sighing slightly, she said, "Okay, I'll trust you."

Lynn smiled and groaned, "If I had removed the word "awe", I would have been very happy."

"Huh." Corina glanced at him, "Until then, you better think about how to get that person to act according to your arrangement, I can say first, I can't pull her into such a relationship that uses her to gain advantage."

"Don't worry, I have my own way."

"Okay."

Corina stood up, ready to do what Lynn had arranged.

"Goodbye, Miss." Lynn waved goodbye.

Corina was about to wave her hand, but suddenly turned back, "How much time do you have left?"

Lynn realized what she was referring to, pondered for a moment, and said, "I should be able to sit here relatively peacefully until the first bird appears."

"So how much time is left?"

"I'm not sure." Lynn said calmly, "It could be a month, it could be a week, it could even be today."

"I've always thought that someone was behind my father's disappearance, and if he wanted to kill him all, it might be today."

"........" Corina was silent for a long time, and finally pulled a rare smile, "It's rare, you also have things that can't be calculated."

"Tsk, are you so happy to see me unlucky?"

"Of course, isn't there a saying that happiness is always based on the pain of others."

「.........」

Corina gave Lynn one last glance, waved her hand, and turned to leave.

"I'm gone, besides, you're my "hope", don't die so soon."

「........」

Lynn watched the girl's back fade away, rubbing her chin slightly.

"It's so easy

Hope is pinned on a certain person, should it be said....... Aren't Christines really bad at business?"