"A woman needs to find a man to rely on, otherwise your possessions will be coveted by others."
Saying this, she leaned towards Carl.
"A reliance?"
Dana narrowed her eyes, "But according to the ledger, the profit-sharing indicates that both of you seemed more like business partners, even..."
"You had a bigger share!"
"What use is so much money to me, a woman?" Lady Annie shook her head, "My share was supposedly higher, but in the end, wasn't it all spent by him? I'm not very clear on how it was spent. Such things are troublesome."
"Is that so?" Dana shook her head, "Madam, your father was a wealthy merchant, and your husband an aristocrat with numerous properties."
"After their deaths, all the money went to you..."
"Looking back now, it seems a bit unreasonable, doesn't it?"
Lady Annie's mother was just a prostitute, and the mother and daughter were not well-regarded at home. The wealthy merchant had sons and daughters, yet why was it Lady Annie who ended up with the estate?
