Chapter 49 · How About Becoming the Bank President’s Mistress?

Aeplin prepared a gramophone as a birthday gift for the Empress.

It was powered by electricity, unlike ordinary acoustic machines, so the sound quality was better than before.

When the lid of the walnut case stained in deep oak was opened, a state-of-the-art electric speaker was hidden inside.

As the needle was placed on the disc, a warm current of sound spread thinly through the air, and Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” flowed out softly.

“Madam, it is so amazing. There is hardly any noise, and the music does not cut out.”

“Her Majesty the Empress especially loves music, so she will like it.”

“It would be stranger if she did not like it.”

Laurel had fallen more deeply in love with the gramophone’s charm than the Empress herself.

In truth, Aeplin had only spoken; Lucent, like a genie of the lamp, had brought the gramophone before her.

Since it had…