The Baddest Villainess Is Back - Chapter 134
Roxelyn quickly scanned the numerous investment proposals on the table.
These were not businesses she remembered from the future.
This meant they most likely failed miserably before she even knew about them. Zerti clicked his tongue at the ongoing arguments.
Despite the gloomy aura emanating from him, the money-obsessed relatives didnât back down.
âWell, with Grandfather absent, the eldest in a conflict zone, and the second-born troublemaker uninterested in thisâŚâ
It was clear they found Zerti, who had only recently become an adult, the easiest target.
âFather is twenty-four? Or twenty-five now?â
Roxelyn snatched the document from her fatherâs hand, folded it into a neat paper airplane, and sent it flying.
âHah! Do you even know what that was, young lady?â
âWellâŚâ
Roxelyn propped her chin on her hand and smiled sweetly.
âTwash?â
Her innocent yet oddly dry gaze swept over the people surrounding the conference table.
âRoxelynâŚ!â
Roxelyn glanced at Zerti Belion and nodded.
âYes.â
âI told you to stay quiet.â
âHaa. Theyâwe just twying to get you to stamp those papers while Gwandfathewâs away to fill theiw own pockets, and youâwe mad at me because of them. Thatâs upsetting.â
Zerti looked down at his daughter, who had become quite eloquent, and sighed deeply.
âHey! This isnât a place for a child whoâs still wet behind the ears to interfere!â
Roxelyn glanced at the man sitting next to her and squinted.
âIs being old something to bwag about?â
Roxelyn snorted with a smug expression and grabbed the family seal.
With her left hand, she sifted through the pile of investment requests and selected one, stamping it forcefully.
Zerti was horrified.
âRoxelyn!â
âLess go with this one.â
Thud!
She stamped another one.
“…What on earth have you been doing since earlier? Look at your flushed face. Running around like this is making your fever rise again. I…”
“Heweâs another one.”
“I told you that coming outside is a nuisance…”
Thud, thud-!
“And this one too.”
Roxelyn selectively picked out the profitable businesses from the documents and handed them one by one to Zerti.
“Why are you doing this? If youâre upset, just say so. How much more do you need to make your father suffer…?”
“I’m not upset.”
Roxelyn shrugged, looking at him as if he were saying something ridiculous.
âFathew, itâs good to have high self-esteem. Othuhwise, you end up living with delusions of pewsecution.â
The summary was that he was the one suffering from delusions of persecution. Zerti was left speechless.
“…”
“Anyway, you wewe just going to pick one at wandom, so why not go with this?”
Zerti looked at the businesses Roxelyn had chosen.
None of them were familiar to him. But then again, he couldnât recognize the businesses brought by the others either.
“Ha, what kind of business is this! A business should be…”
“Alright, let’s go with this one.”
Seeing Roxelynâs flushed cheeks, Zerti Belion gathered the documents the child had given him and handed them to the butler standing nearby.
“Proceed with these, Dean.”
“Yes, understood, Young Lord.”
The butler accepted the documents without a word, glancing at Roxelyn.
Dean was well aware of the rumors about the âclairvoyant young ladyâ subtly spreading within the dukeâs mansion.
He also knew that the Young Duke was planning to pick something appropriate and leave it to the Duke to handle.
In fact, everything Roxelyn had casually mentioned turned out to be true.
The foreign merchant who had visited the mansion and sold exotic items to the servants and the dukeâs household was a complete fraud.
All the jewels and whatnot were fakes.
If Dean hadnât overheard Roxelynâs warning by chance, the aftermath would have been troublesome.
He personally intervened and caught the peddler, managing to recover all the losses before the money could be squandered in gambling dens.
After that, an unprecedented hailstorm hit the empire, just as Roxelyn had predicted.
When Dean heard her assert that the Duke wouldnât be able to attend the regular family meeting on time, he was doubtful.
But the Duke, who never missed a meeting, indeed couldnât make it. Whether it was because of the flooded valley or not, it was true that heavy rain was falling in the area the Duke was supposed to travel through.
Given these events, Dean trusted that Roxelyn had her reasons this time as well.