Dredge Vivaldi's Money

Instantly, all the waiters who were moving around serving food and lifting dirty plates stopped their work. Fear of becoming the target of Vivaldi's tantrum.

"How many days have Arabella been here, you've gone too far like that. You don't know etiquette at all, do you? It just makes me disappointed!" Vivaldi snorted. The man's attention turned to Rose who was silent, "Rose, I told you right? Educate your children, if all of you don't want me to expel you without a penny," Vivaldi scolded in a sharp tone.

"Yes, My Lord. I'm sorry. All of my children will be taking ethics class once again to discipline their behavior," Rose replied slowly.

"Huh," Vivaldi sighed, "How many times do you want to take ethics class, it's useless. The proof is, that three times your lowly children have repeated ethics class, right? And the result? no etiquette or demeanor reflects the slightest nobility."

Yes, it was a fact that almost all of the capital's nobles knew. It's like an open secret, a matter that is secretly talked about because it's embarrassing, but it's still spread all over the place. The three daughters of Rose had already repeated the ethics class three times, and they still couldn't apply it at all in their daily lives. Let alone being polite to other people, just a way of standing, greeting, or just eating, they are zero. In vain Vivaldi pays dearly for the ethics teacher who is a madam of the other Marquess family.

Vivaldi massaged his head which suddenly hurt seeing the behavior of his daughter of Rose. They don't even have half of Arabella's specialty. Now, Vivaldi believes that only Arabella he can make his proud daughter.

"How unlucky I am. I have no sons to carry on the family title, and instead have three daughters from useless lowly women," Vivaldi muttered. But everyone could hear his words.

"Arabella, please don't disappoint me, okay? Right now, you're the only daughter I can be proud of. You're the only one, and you will always be. I don't want to have hope in those three useless children," Vivaldi sneered as he glanced at the Rose daughters.

Orchidia was secretly enjoying this. As she had expected, Arabella would throw a stone to bring down one of Rose's children. Well, her daughter is great, right?

"Father, calm down. Can we now go to Father's working room? I have something to say," said Arabella.

Vivaldi nodded, "Come on, Arabella and Orchidia. We're going to my room," said Vivaldi as he stood up and stepped out of the dining room where he was draining his emotions.

'Useless children. I should have just thrown them away from the start. I don't know why Rose gave birth to three daughters who didn't have the slightest advantage. Not pretty, not smart, not ethical, absolutely nothing to look at. Their job is only to spend money and be spoiled. Though I was a little hopeful with Riana at first, she seems to be nothing too. Her intelligence at that time blinded me. But after Arabella came, Riana's intelligence seemed to be nothing. The tip of the fingernail didn't even reach," Vivaldi thought.

*****

In Vivaldi's study, which should belong to Mrs. Arabella.

"What's the matter, Arabella? What do you want to say?" asked Vivaldi.

Arabella smirked, and Orchidia got ready. They will execute the plan.

This is the time for Arabella to start dredging Vivaldi's treasure slowly, it should have belonged to Arabella's mother but instead, Vivaldi wasted it for the bitches he slept with. Everyone, the treasures that Vivaldi took out of his greed for Arabella to reclaim.

"Look, Father... I feel bad for the Grand Duke who paid for all my shopping. So I decided to give him a very luxurious gift, here it is," Arabella took out a Brooch containing her homemade sword, "Mother helped me to buy it through an auction underground which was secretly held this afternoon, I think this gift is very appropriate to be given to the Grand Duke on behalf of Father, right? Grand Duke Malven will appreciate you if you know that you spent a lot of money on this," said Arabella.

She intended to tell Vivaldi that this Brooch was bought from an auction held this afternoon by Count Brown's family—the Orchidia family. Arabella also asked Orchidia for help in auctioning a brooch which is said to be very luxurious but cannot be displayed in front of the auctioneers, many people are curious and try to bid, some even up to tens of millions of gold. But in the end, Edmund—Orchidia's older brother who was the successor to Count Brown's family offered the Brooch a high price, and everyone gave up. More or less, Arabella had them make a fictitious purchase, auctioned off a non-existent Brooch for a high price and was bought by the organizer as well. So, there was nothing to lose, and the rumors about the brooch being auctioned off for a very high price spread even more. All this Arabella did siphon Vivaldi's money, assisted by the Orchidia family.

No one knew that the buyer was Edmund, and Edmund was also only pretending to bid because the auction belonged to his family.

"Oh, the auction that was held this afternoon? I heard there is indeed a brooch that is very expensive and has a mysterious shape. If I'm not mistaken, it was bought by a mysterious buyer for 1000 Gold," Vivaldi muttered. Then his eyes widened, staring at the Brooch that Arabella showed.

*1000 Gold: 10.000 USD.

"Do-don't tell me, the brooch you're referring to will be a gift to that Grand Duke for 1000 Gold?" asked Vivaldi in a surprised tone.

Arabella smiled then nodded, "You can imagine how happy the Grand Duke would be to know that Father gave him a 1000 Gold brooch as a gift? And, good rumors about you will surely spread quickly, right?"

"My shopping that Grand Duke Malven paid for is over 1000 Gold, Father. But if we repay him more than that, then the Grand Duke will think that we're a very self-aware family, right?" added Arabella.

Vivaldi looked thoughtful, his eyes glanced at Orchidia who was accompanying Arabella, "So, Orchidia helped you buy this?" Vivaldi asks one more time.

"That's right, Father. If you don't want to spend money to reimburse this brooch, that's fine. Mother said, it doesn't matter if Father's 1000 Gold is replaced with a good name for giving gifts to the Grand Duke," replied Arabella.