Chapter 264 - 20: Entrepreneurship is Difficult (3)
Humans might celebrate the New Year, but the Blood Clan absolutely would not.
With lives that went on for far too long, the New Year was as mundane to them as the first day of any other month.
Would you celebrate the first of every month? Obviously not, unless it happened to be payday.
In truth, for the Blood Clan, they had no holidays—or perhaps every day was a holiday. This race, steeped in extreme aristocratic indulgence, was perpetually seeking new forms of entertainment, changing up the ways they indulged, and competing with one another. Time was utterly trivial to them—except when it came to calculating interest.
Oh, right, so it makes sense that Jones cared a bit about time, given that he was currently having interest calculated against him.
"Lord Jones," Dora asked softly, "don’t you think we should repay the bank loan first? After all, bank loans accrue interest, while the one from Young Master Adelle doesn’t."
"Since I’ve already committed to paying a year’s worth of interest, why would I pay it back early?" Jones responded blankly as he stared at Dora.
Is Jones calculating? Perhaps. But if you were forced into his situation, you’d be just as calculating.
With only 35,000 gold coins left in his hands, and ongoing expenses from the castle looming at any moment, bankruptcy was always just one misstep away. Under such circumstances, every penny’s coming and going was something Jones scrutinized meticulously. Unless it was a matter of life and death, no one—absolutely no one—was getting a single coin out of him. Not even the bank.
And that wasn’t all; he even wanted to borrow more from the bank, though he couldn’t quite set aside his pride to do so.