Blackstone Code-Chapter 273:

Mr. Waldric earnestly explained to Severella the deeper meanings behind Lynch's answer. At first, Severella just found it somewhat interesting; she even believed that her confusion mainly stemmed from the constraints of time, and that if she was given a little more time, she would surely be able to figure it out on her own.

But as Mr. Waldric's explanation delved into increasingly complex matters, involving geopolitics and international affairs, Severella finally realized just how terrifying Lynch's answer truly was.

Mr. Waldric's goal wasn't to have his daughter fall in love with someone like Lynch. He simply didn't want Severella to develop a curiosity about him. Without curiosity, there would be no need for further interaction. As long as they didn't continue seeing each other, they wouldn't become lovers.

"Lynch is a very special young man. He's outstanding, but his excellence is different from our conventional understanding of excellence.

"It's like how we sometimes praise a powerful opponent, giving them a few compliments, but no matter how much praise they receive from us, they're still the enemy. Do you understand what I mean?"

Waldric looked directly into the girl's eyes. She bit her lip, nodded, and said, "I think I understand..."

Mr. Waldric smiled as he gently patted her soft hair. "Lynch is great, but he's not right for you. If it's not him falling in love with you, but you falling for him, it's destined to end in tragedy."

With that, he withdrew his hand. "Alright, go rest. It's getting late."

After watching his daughter say goodbye and leave, Mrs. Waldric finally approached. She grabbed Mr. Waldric's hand, her expression complicated. "Isn't this too cruel?"

"I'm only doing what's best for her."

It's a clichéd phrase, but no less true for it.

Meanwhile, after the celebration, Lynch didn't leave immediately. He stayed in Bupayne for four days before returning to Sabin City.

During those four days, he met many people, attended three informal parties, five salons, and had a lot of conversations.

His radical remarks at the President's celebration had already started to spread. Some of the more extreme radicals had begun reaching out to him, talking about doing something astonishing in the soon-to-be-opened international arena.

From the moment he started interacting with these radicals, Lynch felt their underlying insecurity. It was precisely this insecurity that drove them to urgently seek validation in the international community. This included the Federation Army and Navy.

Even the military lacked confidence. Perhaps they weren't even sure themselves if they could bear the heavy responsibility of deciding the nation's fate through military power, or whether they could truly lead the Federation to greater heights.

This deep-rooted insecurity, the desire to prove themselves to both domestic and international audiences, was what made these people radical.

In any case, Lynch spent most of his time mingling with these individuals. He had already gained a bit of a reputation among the radicals, and many knew of this young man in his early twenties, who went around advocating theories of plundering powerful nations.

After returning to Sabin City from Bupayne, two matters immediately came to his attention.

The first was that Adlai was willing to meet him. Given the impression Lynch had left on the President, and the fact that he had made connections with several bigwigs in Bupayne, Adlai felt there were some things that could be discussed, without the need for intermediaries.

This is the benefit of reputation. If Lynch needed to find intermediaries to arrange a meeting with Adlai, people's opinion of Adlai would sour. Even the Governor's image would suffer—after all, if he hired a fool, he must be a fool as well.

If Lynch didn't need an intermediary to meet the President, but required one for a governor's aide, was that aide somehow more important than the President?

The second matter was that Vera had taken some time off. She was in the middle of divorcing Gap. The division of assets would take some time, and there were other responsibilities to sort out, which needed legal validation.

Divorcing Gap was a good way to avoid being implicated, and it was actually Gap who suggested it. While in custody, he requested to see Vera and then made this proposal.

If they divorced and their assets and responsibilities were fully separated, any punishments Gap might face would no longer affect Vera or their children. This was crucial.

In this society, the most important things are money and power. They had no power. If they also lost their money, Vera and her children would have a difficult time ahead.

Even though the love between Vera and Gap had long faded, when Gap made this request, Vera still felt a bit soft-hearted.

She had been dealing with the divorce these past few days. As she had to manage the division of assets and debts herself, Vera didn't have time to work for Lynch temporarily.

Beside that, there was another piece of news that Lynch found quite interesting.

Mr. Hart, who had purchased the club land from him, had already started his first round of promotions. He came up with a very enticing scheme: a rental buyback option.

If Lynch hadn't seen something similar in another world, he might have been intrigued by the concept, but his experience allowed him to immediately see that Hart seemed to be planning to make a quick profit and disappear.

Hart's external promotions were grandiose, offering apartments of 60 square meters at a price of around 50,000 bucks. This price was already well above the market rate for that area, especially since these were apartments meant for the poor. The price was clearly unreasonable, far too high.

But he had come up with an interesting gimmick—the rental buyback. Investors didn't need to worry about finding tenants. From the day the building was completed, Hart's company would start paying rent to the investors.

In his project plan, Hart cited data provided by the Sabin City government. The government would provide around 75 bucks per month for housing subsidies for low-income citizens renting such government-registered apartments.

Together with the tenants' own payments, each apartment could generate between 95 to 125 bucks in rent per month. Using an average value, each apartment could yield around 110 bucks per month in rent.

That's 1,210 bucks a year, and over ten years, about 12,100 bucks. Adding a 5% annual increase, the total rental income for the apartment over ten years would be around 17,800 bucks.

Now, for just 50,000 bucks, one could buy this apartment, and Hart would immediately refund the rent for the next ten years while the investor still retained full ownership of the apartment.

The math was simple: spending 50,000 bucks to buy a 60-square-meter apartment was not worth it, since such an apartment was only worth about 30,000 bucks.

However, if one could recover almost 20,000 bucks immediately and retain full ownership, investors started to show interest.

Hart then revealed his second trump card: after six years, the investor could sell the apartment back to him at the original price—50,000 bucks. If the investor didn't want to sell, they could keep it.

In short, the project was a sure bet. Once invested, there was no way to lose.

The logic was simple: buy a 30,000-buck apartment, and six years later, sell it back to Hart for 50,000 bucks. That's a profit of 20,000 bucks, or about 3,000 bucks per year, which was a tempting proposition for many families, as it was equivalent to one person's annual salary.

Of course, some people wondered how Hart would make money from this, or if he was taking a loss. But Hart used financial terms that the general public couldn't understand to explain that he would not only avoid losing money but also make a profit.

He explained that a sufficient cash flow would allow him to earn returns, and property prices were bound to rise in the future. He confidently claimed that in six years, the apartments would sell for at least 70,000 to 80,000 bucks. By that time, even if he bought them back at 50,000, he wouldn't lose out.

As property values continued to rise, his earnings would only increase, and his community services company would also earn management fees, which would be a sizable income as well.

Additionally, Hart was "foolish" yet "honest" enough to explain the actual mechanics of the project: he was using the investors' money to make money.

From the profits, he would take the lion's share, while the investors would get a small portion.

This kind of honesty surprisingly caught the attention of many people, and quite a few were lining up to purchase a couple of apartments from him.

No one could predict the future direction of the Federation. Even though the new President's promises sounded great, people still found it hard to make decisions. At this time, investing in a guaranteed profit scheme to preserve wealth resonated with the middle class's financial planning mindset.

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A large number of middle-class families invested their rapidly depreciating savings into this project. Some bought one or two apartments, while others bought over a dozen. Some even sold their homes and took out loans to invest in Hart's project.

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