The barrage said, I am the final villain in the game

Chapter 239 You Are My Hope

Corinna returned home with an indescribable mood.

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

"Those merchants who went bankrupt were the ones who delivered gold coins to the Karan family."

What does this represent?
You must know that these "black households" are not from the same group of businessmen, but these businessmen belong to the same line.

Also, in Corinna's investigation, she already knew that these businessmen were not big businessmen, and their influence and property were very limited. Could it be that someone wanted to disgust Karan as the reason for their bankruptcy?

--how is this possible!

Recalling 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 so stupid? It's because everyone wants to take advantage of me."

"Hey! Corinna, where have you been?"

The rough voice interrupted Corinna's thinking. She looked up at her brother who was waving at her, and silently threw her doubts into the trash can.

"Korinna, Corinna, let me tell you." Hester didn't notice the abnormality of his sister, but said excitedly, "Father is in a good mood today, he didn't scold me, and asked me to cheer up, you say, Did father take the wrong medicine today?"

Corinna's forehead twitched unconsciously: "Even if it's a father, he wouldn't scold people for no reason."

"No." Hurst said, "Didn't my father ask me to do some work a few days ago? It’s just that you just let me remember it next time, it’s weird.”

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Corinna looked at her silly brother, who was silent for a while.

His father gave him a task, but he didn't do anything in the end. Not only was he not scolded, but he was also forgiven.

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

Corinna remembered that although her brother had been incompetent since she was a child, and had been scolded a lot, but when he really needed something, no one had ever refused his request.

And myself, even the pocket money, has to be picked and searched.

Smiling silently in her heart, Corinna asked aloud.

"Where is father?"

Hester had no doubts about him: "In the study, eh, you're not going to report me, are you? Corinna, my good sister, I was just now"

"I'm not that boring."

Interrupting Hester's words expressionlessly, Corinna walked straight towards the study, leaving Hester scratching his head inexplicably.

"I always feel that Corinna doesn't seem cute recently."

When he reached the study room, he knocked lightly on the door three times, then took a step back and waited for three seconds.

When the third second arrived, a "please come in" came from the door.

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

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

"Oh, not bad." The man nodded perfunctorily, not even bothering to be curious about the specifics of the matter.

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

The hands pinching the hem of the clothes were slightly tightened, and Corinna tried to maintain a smile on her face: "During the conversation with His Highness, I told her that something happened to Blazer's house, and she wanted to know what was going on. You may not know that the little princess has a very close relationship with the young master of the Blazer family, they were at the same table when they were in the academy, and they used to be teammates."

"Unfortunately, although Your Highness asked me, I can't give her an answer, because I don't know about it at all, so I want to ask you, and I will reply to Your Highness later."

"I see." After quietly listening to his daughter's narration, the man nodded and shook his head again, "Actually, I don't know much about this matter. From what I understand, it seems that Mr. [Earl of Blood] went to I went somewhere to do something, but there was no reply, and after that, some people said that he was missing."

"Missing. How?!"

"When I heard about it, I was also very surprised. Although I didn't like that person, his personal strength is unquestionable. It is indeed a bit strange that such a gentleman disappeared without a sound."

After the man finished speaking, he looked at Corinna, hesitated for a moment, and added: "The following should not be mentioned to you, but since His Highness wants to know, there is no harm in telling you."

"The first source of news about Earl Blazer's disappearance is the palace."

"The palace?!"

When hearing this word, Corinna's instinctive reaction was that the royal family shot and blew themselves up.

Kill Earl Blazer himself, or hide his tracks, and then spread the news.

But why is this?

The Blazer family has a very special status in Catalina. The closest and only faction they are attached to is the king's line. Logically speaking, it is impossible for the royal family to do anything to people who are only loyal to themselves?

Or, are there other possibilities?

"Don't think about it, I didn't even think about it." The man interrupted Corinna's thinking loudly, as if a little impatient, "Is there anything else? If you don't have one, you can go out."

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Corinna gritted her teeth while cooking, 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, Corinna."

Corinna turned her head, but only heard a sentence that almost caused her heart and lungs to stop.

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

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This time, Corinna couldn't even force a smile.

She left the study perfunctorily, but didn't go straight away. She just leaned against the wall and looked up at the ceiling, not knowing what she was thinking.

After a long time, she smiled extremely self-deprecating.

"You have lied to me so much, in the end, I have to pin my hopes on you."

"It's ridiculous."

The next day, Corinna brought some paper materials to the agreed coffee shop.

"jingle--"

Following the crisp sound of wind chimes, she saw Lynn who was already waiting on the deck at a glance.

"Good morning, miss."

Lynn greeted him habitually with a smile, but unexpectedly, Corinna also smiled back at him.

"Good morning, sir."

Corinna took the seat opposite Lynn, her voice was soft, and her demeanor returned to the previous gentleness.

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

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

"Well, I'm a little surprised." Lynn chuckled lightly, "I thought your first words to me after learning about my family's situation might be something like 'Compare who has more time left' .”

"I'm really sorry for disappointing your hopes." Corinna stabbed lightly, and then said softly, "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, our purpose is the same. I am your choice, and you are also my possibility."

"Tsk." Lynn said with emotion, "If those things hadn't happened before, I think, maybe I might really like what you said just now."

When hearing the word "like", Corinna's mind quietly appeared some throbbing pictures of herself being passionate, and her face suddenly turned cold.

"If you regard me as a partner, please show a corresponding attitude, and if you think that I am just your molesting object, then as you said yourself, let's compare who will die first."

Lynn was slightly taken aback, she didn't expect Corinna to have such a big reaction to this "joke".

He bowed his head slightly and said apologetically, "I apologize for my words, Miss."

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

"Well, let me see"

Lynn flipped through the few pages and fell into deep thought.

As Corinna herself said, there are indeed only two assets recorded on these papers, and none of them are useless.

One is a small department store on Mingzhou Street, and the profit barely breaks even, but the figure is not big; the other is a jewelry store, and the business is very poor.

"It's miserable." Corinna looked sideways at Lynn with her head propped up, and sighed, "I was born like me, but my assets are only so small. Is it not an exaggeration to say that I am a poor ghost?"

"Then you're raising the poor man's pass line too high." Lynn put down the paper and smiled, "These assets provide you with pocket money. In fact, most of the large consumption is funded by the family. "

"If there is, it is indeed. Unfortunately, I have never asked for it, and I dare not ask for it."

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Corinna looked at Lynn's silent appearance, and had a vague guess in her heart: "Looking at you, it seems that you are not satisfied with what I have? They can't play a part in your plan that you don't tell me. role? or"

"No, no, no." Lynn smiled and said, "It's useful, very useful. Besides, as long as you want to hear about my plan, I'm naturally willing to tell you about it."

"Then, tell me."

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Lynn organized his language a little bit, and said: "My preliminary plan is to start with your jewelry store, let it generate high profits, and show your parents real gold coins, so that you into their sight?"

"High profits?!" Corinna looked surprised.

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

Except for some special gemstones that can be used as magic props, most jewelry are just decorations.

And the cost of these decorations is only labor and polishing, the two are not worth mentioning compared to the selling price on the container.

But why is Corinna's jewelry store doing poorly?
The answer lies on Silver Avenue.

Silver Avenue is the most famous commercial street in Catalina, and even in the entire Rhineland Kingdom. Its reputation is enough for it to label the goods flowing out of it.

For example, gemstones of the same quality mined in the same place were processed by the same person and sent to the same city of Catalina. The only difference is that some of these gemstones entered the jewelry store on Silver Avenue , some into the ordinary jewelry stores in Catalena.

The price difference between the two is at least [-] times, but what about the sales volume?

Or the one on Silver Avenue.

As a luxury decoration, those who buy it pay attention to a brand name and a name, especially in this royal capital where there are countless wealthy families.

How could jewelry from an ordinary source cause others to take a second look?

How can others buy it when they look down on it?

Corinna is also an aristocrat, and one of the main buyers of luxury goods. Ask yourself, she will not buy gems from ordinary shops anyway, even if the quality is the same-quality is never the focus of luxury goods.

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

Therefore, although Corinna doesn't understand business, from a consumer's point of view, Lynn's ideas are somewhat outrageous.

Lin En didn't directly deny Corinna's question, but simply smiled.

"Indeed, with the presence of Silver Avenue, it is difficult for jewelry stores in other places to do business well--luxury goods themselves are the product of various expensive labels superimposed on each other. Without such a label as Silver Avenue, the competitiveness is indeed will be greatly reduced.”

"However, although we can't move the store to Silver Avenue to label it, we can add some new labels to it."

"E.g."

Lin En told Corinna about his next arrangement in detail, and the more Corinna heard it, the more frightened she became.

After listening to it, she looked at Lynn with the eyes of a monster: "I know you are good at telling stories, but the reason why stories are stories is because reality does not allow it to become reality."

"What you said, in my opinion, is almost the same as a fantasy novel."

"That's wrong." Lynn squinted and smiled. "Reality is always outrageous than fiction. Fiction without logic will be used as toilet paper to wipe your ass."

Corinna chuckled and shook her head: "Are you so sure that they will go crazy for this?"

"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 guy, but it's easy to sell a girl with knotted hair, and it's the same with gems, which you who've seen too many curiosities don't give a damn about, but there's always someone who doesn't Far-sighted eyes, but the desire to reach out and touch the clouds."

"Our target is them."

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Corinna tried to imagine the picture Lynn was drawing, but forgive her for only half of it.

Imagination needs experience as a basis for casting, and she has not seen what Lynn describes, so it is difficult to fully outline it.

Sighing slightly, she said, "Okay, let's just trust you."

Lin En smiled and said: "If the word "temporary" is removed, I should be very happy."

"Oh." Corinna glanced at him, "Before that, you should think about how to get that person to act according to your arrangement. Let me tell you first, I can't pull her into such a way to use her." in a relationship of interest."

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

"alright."

Corinna stood up, ready to prepare according to Lynn's arrangement.

"Goodbye, Miss." Lynn waved goodbye.

Corinna was about to wave her hand when she suddenly turned her head: "How much time do you have?"

Lin En realized what she was referring to, pondered for a while, and said, "Before the first budding bird appears, I should be able to sit here relatively safely."

"So how much time is left?"

"I'm not sure." Lynn said frankly, "It may be a month, it may be a week, or it may even be today."

"My speculation about my father's disappearance has always been that someone is behind the scenes. If he wants to kill them all, it may really be today."

"." Corinna was silent for a while, and finally pulled a rare smile, "It's rare, you also have something that you can't calculate."

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

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

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Corinna glanced at Lynn one last time, waved her hand, and turned to leave.

"I'm leaving, besides, you are my 'hope', don't die so soon."

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Lynn looked at the girl's back gradually going away, and gently stroked her chin.

"It's so easy to pin your hopes on a certain person. Should I say that the Christines are really not good at doing business?"

(End of this chapter)