it's like what happened with masks and toilet paper, people bought a shit ton of them to resell them at a higher price for more profit
I get that part but I still don't understand what Aria is doing with that and all about aristocratic shit and the crown prince. I'll have to reread the chapter again
understandable, i think the novel puts it way better than the webtoon does, i can try summarizing it tho im pretty bad but basically, the prince is holding out luxury goods from being imported in the country (mainly sugar) because it would affect the aristocrat society's businesses and households. and because aria knew that the prince would do this based on her old memory, she took advantage of it and bought all the sugar before it was held up on the border. now she controls the flow of sugar in the country and she inflated the original price of it like 30-40 times higher than what it used to be.
The fact that I'm an econ student and knows absolutely nothing about what's going on in this shows how much of a failure I am
Then again it's probably bcs I read this at like 3 in the morning