Obviously, It’s My Child - Chapter 83

Chapter 83

Translator: Effe

Editor: Yonnee

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“There’s a ballerino named Stefan, right? Count Pfaffenheim’s lover.”

“O-Oh.”

The editor-in-chief let out a startled sound when a name came out unexpectedly. Stefan was the principal dancer who was recently recruited to the opera house. He was being widely talked about not only for his skills, but even for the scandals involving him, so as the editor-in-chief of the Levi Times, there was no way he wouldn’t know.

“The maid that Stefan brought in himself has a very similar face.”

“Enough to hear ghosts?”

“Everyone is being hush-hush about it, but the old people who have been working at the opera house for twenty years.”

Bang. The editor-in-chief knocked on the desk.

It was quite an interesting story. The scoop about the unknown should be something like this.

“Isn’t it the job of a newspaper reporter to dig up the truth? Dig it up. I will support you.”

“Yes.”

“If it proves true, Countess Schneider can’t possibly just sit still. You know what to do, yes?”

“Of course. Have I only done this only once or twice before?”

The reporter answered clearly.

There was pride in the Levi Times. They didn’t publish rumors haphazardly. They make sure to fact check extensively, and they never use the information they manage to dig up for the sake of extorting money or blackmailing. The focus was solely on increasing their paper’s sales.

Their opponent right now was a noble. If they wanted to be treated as noble because they were born a noble, shouldn’t they prove their nobility to some extent? If they’re not that noble, they should entertain the citizens at least.

They shouldn’t act like blue roses when they’re giving off a rotten smell.

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“That’s wonderful.”

Klausener’s financial manager, Wilhelm Meyer, was the one who brought the Levi Times’s recent publication where the advertisement appeared. He praised it.

Claire looked at the paper and briefly said, ‘Ah!’. They have finally moved on to the next step.

“Mister Meyer, you seem to have been worried.”

“In general, isn’t an advertisment’s effect generally short-lived? I thought that no matter how much we publicized the wedding of you two as a hot topic, we could not expect that demand would continue.”

He knew the Weaving Guild pretty well. So when he was told by his new mistress that she was going into the diamond business, he did not object.

However, it is true that he had doubts about whether she could overcome the absolute law of supply and demand.

Diamonds were different from textiles. Demand for textiles has been created because of the drop in price, but for jewelry, if the price drops in that way, they would instead suffer a loss.

It was fatal if luxury goods were to have an image of low price.

Textiles were consumables, so they were constantly being used and discarded, and patterned textiles at the Weaving Guild have secured demand as they descend from luxury items to daily necessities.

But jewels couldn’t be used like that. Even if they were used for industrial purposes, the limitations were clear.

However, the moment he saw the sentence ‘Diamonds are forever’ at the end of the advertising article, his whole body trembled. Wilhelm could understand exactly how Roger Carson must have felt five years ago.

“I didn’t know that you would put an image on the mineral itself.”

“Because building an image of the guild or a brand doesn’t last long. Even if it is made properly, there will be people who will return with backlash. Even if it’s maintained for a long time, it will eventually end because of people.”

In contrast, the image attached to minerals was cultural. In that sense, once it’s settled down, it really will last forever.

This was a proven catchphrase. By combining purity of the colorless transparency and eternity with hardness, it would become a symbol of eternal love.

‘I became De Beers.’

Claire laughed secretly.

Actually, what she did was comparatively easier. Here, there was no need to create romantic origins, frantically beat publicity, and psychologically manipulate consumers like De Beers did.

In this era when romance started to intervene in marriage, at this moment, there was a Ducal couple(to-be) that’s inadvertently filming the romance of the century.

Diamonds would be the eternal wedding gift.

“I am curious about the next step.”

“Now other newspapers will take this sentence and use it as a headline and reproduce the article. After the wedding, you will need a model to carry on this image.”

Claire said.

“Models for diamonds too.”

“Yes. I will also speak to the mining agent.”

Wilhelm nodded.

Klausener’s mine was only a mine, not a jeweler, but thanks to Louisa’s long-term interference, the household had more than a business partner’s relationship with them.

It was no exaggeration to say that it was the only worthwhile thing Louisa had ever done for House Klausener. Even that would have been meaningless if Claire hadn’t started the diamond business.

Wilhelm could not restrain himself and gently pressed down his lips that were about to curve upwards into the sky.

He really liked this new mistress. The Elder Madam’s spending and discarding of diamond yields had always been a nuisance since he became Klausener’s bookkeeper, but Claire simply swept them away like dust.

“And there is something I want to ask for your consent while you’re here.”

“Whatever it is, you don’t have to ask for my consent.”

“Because it’s not something that I’m specifically talking about as the head of the household’s proxy. I’m thinking of increasing the size of the wedding.”

“That too, you can do as you wish.”

“It’s going to cost money.”

“His Grace is not the kind of person who puts limits on the budget spent for the household’s internal affairs.”

Wilhelm said this calmly, as if he had never been displeased at Erich’s policy. Still, Claire handed out the budget report, so he accepted them for now.

“Erich hasn’t been around since the engagement party, and since Marquis Belf and the Elder Madam went down to the estate, I think there’s some talk about the wedding.”

“Yes.”

It was because of the diamond that she planned an engagement party that she didn’t actually have to do and set a long schedule until the wedding. It took time to produce the gifts, and time to use the gift for promotional purposes.

It turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Even if something had happened at the engagement party, there was no need to delay the schedule any further.

‘I don’t know if that can be called a blessing in disguise.’

Claire bit her lower lip.

“I am going to have a very grand wedding so that no one can ever say anything bad about it. We don’t necessarily need to limit the invites to relatives only. I will allow everyone to watch it. I am negotiating for the use of the grand cathedral.”

Wilhelm looked slightly surprised.

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