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Chapter 695 - 695 14 Selling Expectations_3

695: Chapter 14, Selling Expectations_3 695: Chapter 14, Selling Expectations_3 If the price of magical beasts surge, everyone will make a killing.

But if the prices plummet, they could still get a refund and re-purchase.

Most nobles who haven’t experienced the play of capital don’t know how much they lose in just one round of buying and selling.

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In the marital chamber, Hudson found it rather amusing to see Melissa constantly tinkering with the abacus.

Ever since he had shown her the abacus in the Mountain Domain, it had become Melissa’s new toy.

At that moment, she was busily clattering the beads, checking the dowry on the account books, as well as the various gifts received at the wedding banquet.

As the lady of the house, these were necessary tasks.

Especially the gifts’ list, as every item recorded were to be reciprocated in the future.

“That’s enough, you’ve cross-checked these numbers four times already!”

This enthusiastic persuasion, however, was met with an eyeroll.

Although she had dealt with accounts at home before, Melissa was merely touching upon, she never had a chance to take charge herself.

Now as the lady of the mansion, she was at the peak of her enthusiasm and did not want to make any mistakes that would lead to embarrassment because of her negligence.

“I’m busy, let your lover accompany you!”

While verbally refusing, she allowed Hudson’s hands to roam freely up and down her body.

“Are you just jealous!”

Hudson said laughingly.

The anticipated Asura Field did not occur.

Maybe because she had seen a lot, Melissa was even more open-minded about the issue of keeping a lover than Hudson.

Of course, this also had something to do with stamina.

Faced with Hudson, who was full of vigor, the female mage was genuinely overwhelmed.

Once, when she couldn’t take it anymore, she called a maid to join in, but the maid was not Hudson’s type and was decisively rejected by him.

The harmonious life after marriage quickly warmed up the relationship between the two.

The more generous Melissa was on this matter, the more ashamed Hudson felt.

Fortunately, he was thick-skinned enough to never obsess about this issue.

“Who has time to be jealous of you, I’m busy!

If you mess up here and offend someone, it’s all on you.”

From the coquettish tone, it’s easy to tell that Melissa wasn’t really angry, on the contrary, it seemed more like she was encouraging Hudson to continue.

“Fine, I’ll take full responsibility!

Come on, let me see the accounts the lady herself has done.”

Although he claimed to look at the accounts, Hudson only glanced at the total, then laughed: “Didn’t expect the lady to be a little rich woman, your father-in-law was really generous this time!”

The dowry was indeed outrageously lavish, far beyond the normal level.

Compared to normal marriages, this dowry’s gold coins and goods actually weren’t many, more were shares in business entities.

The reason was very straight-forward, the Hollis family was not wealthy at the moment.

Due to the strategic shift to the north, they had to expend a significant amount of wealth.

After relocating their base, they would inevitably find it challenging to maintain all their business entities.

Selling everything off would create resentment.

Under such circumstances, assigning parts of the business shares under the name of dowry and leveraging Hudson’s reputation to deter potential threats was the best choice.

“Hudson, aren’t you even a bit mad?”

Melissa asked tentatively.

Even after getting married and leaving her family, she was still taking care of her family’s business, which went against mainstream values.

Unfortunately, Melissa had no choice.

Her clan had nurtured her for so many years, she had an obligation to repay them.

If she hadn’t brought these entities over as part of her dowry, tying them to the Koslow clan name to deter other nobles would come at a larger price in the future.

“Why would I be upset, isn’t the Hollis family giving you dividends each year according to the shares you own?”

Hudson asked with a grin.

His logic was very simple, if he is sharing the good fortune then it’s akin to paying protection money, therefore he should lend them his power.

If they were just using him without giving him any benefits, they should reconsider how the two families related.

Nobles, after all, are very pragmatic.

“Of course, they will divide it, otherwise if I didn’t bring anything and word got out, how would our families save face?”

Perhaps seeing that Hudson truly wasn’t angry, Melissa was also rid of her hesitation.

“There you go.

According to these documents, the dividends receivable every year would be tens of thousands of gold coins at a minimum, why would I complain!

However, you should’ve informed me about these things beforehand!

You just decided on your own, and that’s punishable!”

Hudson pinched Melissa’s face jokingly.