I’ll Be the Heroine’s Competent Divorce Partner - Chapter 77

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Chapter 77

However, since I also didn’t want to protect Marisa and Catherine.

I decided to make good use of this secret.

For instance…….

‘Keep today’s meeting with me a secret.’

I looked down at Hayden with a cold gaze.

‘Be careful not to let Mother and House Scofield find out about this matter.’

‘Ah, understood.’

Hayden quickly nodded his head.

From his perspective, this was only natural.

If Marisa noticed this incident, she would first try to silence Hayden.

I asked again in a cold voice.

‘You have ledgers, don’t you?’

Hayden’s eyes widened slightly for a moment.

‘L-ledgers?’

‘Why are you pretending not to know? I’m talking about the secret ledgers you made without Mother knowing.’

‘Th-that’s…….’

Hit right on target, Hayden could only move his lips without being able to refute my words.

Why is he so surprised?

The psychology of villains is obvious.

Those two aren’t bound together as a tight-knit community of fate, so they must have prepared escape routes for themselves.

I smiled sweetly and drove the point home.

‘Bring that to me.’

‘……Yes.’

‘Also, if Mother gives you any new orders, you must report all of them to me.’

‘Understood.’

After finishing all the silencing and evidence collection.

‘Oh right, that’s it. I’d like you to draft a new investment proposal.’

‘An investment proposal, what kind……?’

‘I want to invest in a dress shop. Come up with a suitable reason for it.’

The investment target was naturally Bella’s Dress Shop.

Hayden nodded after hearing my order.

‘Bella’s Dress Shop, I’ve heard of it too. Since it’s currently riding high on the success of chemise dresses, investment shouldn’t be difficult. However…….’

‘However?’

Hayden, who had been glancing at me cautiously, continued carefully.

‘Rather than investing without any reason, it would be better to proceed by having the Duke’s House make some small commission. To avoid suspicion as well.’

‘Hmm, a commission.’

After thinking for a moment, I nodded.

‘Yes, I’ll contact you about that later.’

‘Then I’ll keep that in mind.’

With that, my conversation with Hayden came to an end.

While I was still annoyed that Marisa had embezzled my birth mother’s inheritance.

Still, this wasn’t a bad result.

‘Now, what I need to do from here is…….’

I took out letter paper from my desk drawer.

The destination of this letter was precisely.

‘Elton 12-7, To Samuel.’

The Crown Prince’s annex on Elton Street.

It was a place where letters could reach the Crown Prince directly.

That’s right.

It was time to make contact with the Crown Prince.

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“I’m sorry for asking to meet so urgently. However, there’s something I absolutely must tell you.”

As soon as I met the Crown Prince, I immediately bowed my head.

“Not at all. I gave you that contact information so you could reach out comfortably.”

The Crown Prince shook his head with a smile and added jokingly.

“I was curious when you might contact me, and finally we meet face to face like this.”

“…….”

Doesn’t that sound like he was waiting for my contact?

Or not? Am I being too self-conscious?

To me, who couldn’t hide my puzzled expression, the Crown Prince once again smiled brightly.

“I mean I’m glad to see you.”

I was instantly speechless.

Hey, making people’s hearts flutter so carelessly is cheating!

I had already read the original work and knew well that this man was the Male Protagonist who would eventually end up with Isabel.

Yet my heart was still racing…….

‘Male Protagonists really…… have incredible destructive power.’

Every time our eyes met, I felt like I understood why the Ladies always had dazed expressions.

Just then, the Crown Prince looked at me with a puzzled face.

“So what brings you here today?”

“Ah.”

Snapping back to my senses, I quickly composed my expression.

Get it together, Elodie.

My business was too urgent to be standing here spacing out.

“I want to report my mother and House Scofield.”

The smile instantly vanished from the Crown Prince’s face.

Sharp violet eyes stared directly at me.

“Report them for what?”

“Could you check these ledgers first?”

I placed the document bag I had brought onto the table.

Thud.

The contents were so heavy that the bag made a solid sound as it hit the surface.

“What I want to report is the illegal collusion between my mother… that is, the Duchess of Laventess, and House Scofield.”

Having begun like that, I opened the bag.

The first thing that came into my hands was a thick ledger bound in leather.

“Please check this ledger for the details of funds flowing from Laventess to Scofield.”

After placing the ledger on the table, I pulled out another file from the bag.

These were the materials I had commissioned from Count Disraeli.

“Please check this file for House Scofield’s income and expenditure records. Up to this point, these are unprocessed, original documents.”

The Crown Prince gazed at the materials I had laid out with a coldly sunken expression.

I placed the final file on top of the neatly stacked ledgers and documents.

“Also, this document cross-references the ledgers and files together. I made it so you can grasp the flow of funds at a glance.”

“How very thorough of you.”

“Not at all. Oh, I’ve also attached copies of the investment plans separately. They should serve as evidence of how the funds were embezzled.”

At that moment.

The Crown Prince, who had been quietly observing the evidence, suddenly asked me a question.

“There’s something I’d like to ask, Princess.”

“Please ask freely.”

“First, I understand the Princess’s intention in reporting this to me. If the suspicions you’ve presented are true, then House Scofield has evaded taxes by underreporting their increased assets.”

The Crown Prince methodically went through my report with a calm voice.

“Furthermore, since they obtained illegal profits from the Laventess Ducal House without properly reporting to the tax office, it means they also omitted transfer taxes on assets. However.”

However.

Having drawn that line, the Crown Prince immediately asked me.

“The primary victim in this suspicion is the Laventess Ducal House. So it would be more certain to raise the suspicion directly with the Duke as head of the family, and file a petition with the tax office through the Duke.”

“Yes, that’s correct.”

I nodded calmly.

“Also, if all these suspicions are true, Laventess could later file related lawsuits against Scofield. They would naturally win. That’s why I simply cannot understand.”

Violet eyes stared directly at me.

“With such substantial evidence, why didn’t you report directly to Duke Laventess?”

However, the answer to this question was already decided.

I answered calmly.

“For my own safety.”

“…The Princess’s safety?”

The Crown Prince looked momentarily taken aback.

“By now, Your Highness must already be inferring this. I am…”

Even after beginning like that, I hesitated for just a moment.

Borrowing capital from the Crown Prince without the Duke’s House knowing.

The secretly opened Bella Dress Shop.

…And even the antipathy I held toward the Laventess Ducal House, or more precisely, toward the patriarchal David.

Being perceptive as befits the male protagonist, he must have sufficiently guessed my true intentions just from the actions I’d shown so far.

That I dream of independence from Laventess in the future.

Still.

‘…Can I completely trust His Highness the Crown Prince?’

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