“Hey, watch it. You looked like a hunter waiting for herbivores to get trapped.”
Zoe’s words were half right and half wrong.
I thought about tying Zoe next to me for a while, but I gave up. She wasn’t a herbivore but a carnivore.
Zoe as a cute rabbit or deer with big eyes? It didn’t go well with her.
“Okay, let’s wrap this up.”
I clapped my hands as I joked over what Zoe said. She stood up and listened, focused.
“People who left their deposits at Phoenix Bank started withdrawing all of their money at once, right?”
“Of course. My guild offers an interest rate thrice as big. Diana, I wanted to ask you now. Are you really going to give them an interest rate thrice as big as Pheonix Bank”
“I promised them that, didn’t I?”
Zoe looked at me with a distrustful look.
I found the depositors to shake the Pheonix Bank up.
And I sent Zoe’s subordinates to meet them and recommend them to change their Bank in return for three-times higher interest.
It was not exactly a bank but a treasury guild. I built one because it was easier to establish a treasury guild than a bank.
People wouldn’t believe what Zoe’s subordinates said. Therefore, I paid interest to some people in advance. Among those who received interest, the words about how it was an excellent place to invest and a reliable place spread.
Then people came on their own and began to entrust their money to the guild.
‘It could be considered as fraud.’
However, it was okay since I didn’t intend to cheat them; I would pay all their deposit interest as promised.
“Where are you going to get all that money?”
“Auntie, you still don’t know? I have a lot of money. I’m not saying that I have three times the amount of the principal; all I need is just three times the amount of the interest.”
Was there anything bigger than an elephant’s booger? Zoe’s opened her mouth wide in shock.
To be honest, I couldn’t cover all of the interest with my own money alone, so I decided to use the money my mother left for me.
“Are you sure you’re 13? I won’t do business with you. You’re too aggressive.”
“That’s not true. You have to run a business with someone like me. Someone who won’t get hurt even if they fail.”
When I raised my chin, Zoe laughed. I gave her some time to feel proud of me.
“Tell what your plan is.”
She dragged a chair and sat in front of me.
“If the deposits are withdrawn at once, Phoenix Bank will collapse. But there’s no way Julia would leave this matter alone. Especially because it’s related to Phoenix Bank.”
I think it’s related. The reaction she showed when she brought up Phoenix Bank was evidence.