A Warm Marriage After Rebirth

Chapter 108: Chapter 108: Reaping What You Sow

The nation’s largest jade counterfeiting scandal had erupted, with Aethelgard as its epicenter. All jewelry stores selling jade accessories were inspected one by one by the relevant authorities. The results were shocking. To everyone’s surprise, many well-known jewelry stores were not spared. The better-off ones had only a few fakes in their shops; the worse-off ones had stores where more than half the inventory was counterfeit!

These findings stunned the public. Massive crowds of consumers gathered in front of major jewelry stores, demanding compensation! For a time, the jade market descended into chaos. A large number of jewelers went bankrupt one after another, and the stock market began to fluctuate wildly. This was the opportunity Seraphina Sterling had been waiting for!

She had been up almost all night, making final preparations. The stock market was in for a massive upheaval tomorrow!

「The next morning.」

Zoe Jennings woke up early. For a high school senior, every second counted, so the Jennings Family’s breakfast was served exceptionally early.

When Zoe Jennings saw that Seraphina Sterling had no intention of leaving after breakfast, she couldn’t help but ask quizzically, ”Aren’t you going to school? You’ll be late if you don’t leave now. Even if you’re a top student, you should still follow the school’s rules, shouldn’t you? Otherwise, you’re just someone with good grades and bad character! Destined to be a blight on society!”

In response to Zoe Jennings’s provocation, Seraphina Sterling just gave her a cool glance. ”If *you* don’t leave now, you’ll definitely be late!” With that, Seraphina went straight back to her room.

’Today was destined to be a fierce battle!’

Zoe Jennings watched her calm and unruffled demeanor, a ball of frustration knotting in her chest with no way to vent it. It was the feeling of treating someone as your greatest rival, only for them to not even acknowledge your existence!

”Zoe, Seraphina already requested a day off. You don’t have to wait for her,” Kimberly Jennings explained as she cleared the table.

’Aunt Kimberly really spoils Seraphina. The final exams are almost here, and she’s still letting her stay home like this! Even though her grades are good right now, if she keeps being so lazy, someone else will snatch the top spot in the grade sooner or later!’

Zoe Jennings shot a resentful glare at Seraphina Sterling’s door before leaving!

Meanwhile, Seraphina Sterling was sitting in front of her computer, her eyes glued to the stock market trends. Just as she had predicted, the moment the market opened, all stocks in the jewelry industry plummeted, causing shareholders to sell off in a panic. Seraphina watched the prices intently, frantically buying at their lowest point. With minimal capital, she swept the stock market at rock-bottom prices!

The essence of business is to buy low and sell high. She wasn’t worried at all that the shares in her hands would turn into junk stocks. If her memory served her right, these few stocks would appreciate in value before long—and they would do so rapidly!

The enterprise Justin Hale had spent sixty million to acquire had now turned to garbage. And she would use that same sixty million to multiply her investment tenfold within six months!

At that very moment, Justin Hale could only watch as the business he had gone to such great lengths to obtain turned to trash. This was the most severe and largest loss he had ever suffered since he started in business!

Suddenly, her warm, gentle smile flashed through his mind, along with her warning from before: ”Mr. Hale, you were the one who insisted on buying this. I hope you don’t regret it later!” He never thought she would turn out to be the biggest beneficiary of this whole series of events! She had acquired Philip Hale’s antique shop without spending a dime, while he had become the one with the greatest losses—sixty million, gone down the drain just like that! He suddenly had a feeling, as if she had planned all of this from the very beginning!

Justin Hale immediately dialed a number. ”I want you to find out right now who the current owner of Philip Hale’s old store, Prosperity Peak Antiques, is.”

’If this was all a setup, if someone has been secretly pulling the strings behind this recent series of events... then this is all too terrifying!’

Less than two minutes later, his phone rang again. ”Mr. Hale, it’s a man named Joel Xavier. He also bought the antique shop just recently!”

’Looks like I was just being paranoid. It must all be a coincidence. Seraphina Sterling has no business acumen, so it’s normal for her to sell off the assets she has. Besides, entering the jade and jewelry industry was my own decision. A little girl like her couldn’t possibly orchestrate such a massive jade counterfeiting scandal. The fact that she managed to avoid the risk... can only be attributed to good luck!’

Seraphina Sterling, far away in Tollan Town, had no idea how close she had come to being targeted by Justin Hale. The matter she was facing now was even more troublesome.