Chapter 3470: Troubles Unique to the Top Rich

That night on Baima Island, all the staff stayed up all night.

They set up a huge welcome banner and a wall of flowers at the dock where they landed on the island. The red carpet was also taken out and thoroughly cleaned, waiting to be laid out from the dock to the hotel lobby early tomorrow morning.

After enjoying a SPA massage with his wife under the sea, Bernard Elno complained to his wife as they came up in the elevator: "Why did the American singer choose to come to the Maldives at this time? I'm afraid the whole island will be filled with shouting and screaming. It's so annoying."

The wife said casually: "What's the trouble? We open the door to do business. As long as the guests can pay, we will treat them well."

Bernard Elno complained: "I don't want the luxurious resort I carefully built to become a noisy star-chasing scene like a vegetable market. It's a pity that this woman is too influential. We can't refuse her from coming to the island. We have to put on a welcoming posture. It's really annoying."

The wife shrugged and said, "I told you a long time ago that if you plan to come here on vacation by yourself, it's best to ask the hotel to cancel all reservations so that our family can enjoy this island alone. It's not only quiet, but also safe. But you didn't listen."

Bernard Erno curled his lips and said, "You make it sound simple. Do you know how much we have to pay if they cancel the hotel stay because of us? We have to compensate them 3 to 5 times the order amount, and even their air tickets and mental damages. If we encounter a guest who likes to sue at every turn, there will be more trouble in the future."

The wife held her shoulders and grumbled in dissatisfaction: "You are already so rich, can't you have a little more vision? Even if we compensate these customers as much as you said, how much money can we lose? A few million or at most tens of millions of dollars. Our family has assets of hundreds of billions of dollars, and the annual profit is also tens of billions of dollars. The returns from various investments are too numerous to count. What does this little money mean to us?"

Bernard Elno waved his hand and said, "You don't understand. Money is something that can be seen but not spent. The Chinese have a saying that goes, 'Save as much as you can.' We should try to avoid unnecessary waste. How do you know if there will be any big expenses in the future?"

In fact, Bernard Elno never told his wife that he spent 108 billion US dollars to buy a pill from China.

At the auction of the rejuvenation pill, as An Chongqiu was expelled and Fei Jianzhong's son usurped power and lost the ability to pay, he was lucky enough to buy a rejuvenation pill for 720 million US dollars.

At that time, the entire group and his own personal liquidity was only more than 800 billion US dollars.

What he didn't expect was that he had already allocated more than 3 million US dollars worth of goods, but the owner of the rejuvenation pill did not let him go and asked him to allocate another 50% of the goods. Most of the 360 billion allocated goods were paid in installments.

In order to buy a rejuvenation pill, Bernard Elno's assets have shrunk significantly, and his personal and group cash flow has become very tight. There are still many installments that need to be repaid with the group's subsequent profits. At this time, let alone tens of millions of dollars in income, he is unwilling to let go even if it is 10 US dollars.

In addition, there is another very important reason. He hopes to save more money over the years, so that when the effect of the rejuvenation pill is about to wear off, he can quickly buy the second one.

This means that he would have to save at least one or two hundred billion US dollars in the next ten years or so in order to have a chance to live another 20 years.

But he didn't dare tell his wife about these things, because theoretically the income of the company group is the common property of the couple. He used the money to pray for immortality without caring about his wife's life or death. Once his wife knew about it, she would definitely make a fuss to the death.

To this end, he even asked the group's finance department to falsify revenue and profit data in order to paralyze his wife and keep her in the dark.

Moreover, he had never told his wife about his cancer. With his wealth, he was wary of everyone around him. He was very worried that his wife would find out that he had cancer and would not live long, so he immediately began to make preparations for taking over his inheritance and business control.

Although it is a normal process between husband and wife for one party to encounter problems and the other party to make preparations, Bernard Erno is well versed in human nature. He knows that once his wife thinks that she will not live long and starts to prepare for her own death, her feelings for him will become weaker and weaker.

If I died as she expected and without disrupting her plans, perhaps we could have maintained a normal relationship as husband and wife before I died. But once I lived beyond her expectations and her long-awaited preparations became nothing more than alternative plans, I didn't know whether she would blame me or not.

What people fear most is a change in their mentality.

The same thing, before your mindset changes, may be pain and torture, but after your mindset changes, it may be expectation and longing.

In order to prevent this from happening, he never told his wife a word about cancer and the rejuvenation pill, which was a change from hell to heaven.

This is also a worry unique to the top wealthy people.

The wife was still complaining at this time: "Bernard, do you know why you have become more and more stingy in recent times? To be honest, you and I are so old, why should we care about these material things like money? Even if nothing unexpected happens, our lives will only last a dozen or twenty years at most. The most important thing is to make yourself happy in the rest of your life!"

Bernard Elno muttered to himself: "For you, you only have ten or twenty years to live at most, but for me, as long as I have enough money and the auction of rejuvenation pills continues, I may live another forty years!"

However, he naturally did not dare to say these words, so he smiled and comforted her: "This island is so big, our family only needs two houses, there is no need to clear the entire island, sometimes we also need to get a taste of the world, and it just so happens that Tawanna Sweet is coming, and the island will definitely be very lively at that time. It's a good thing to think about it this way. If we get in touch with more young people, our mentality can also become younger."

His wife looked at him in surprise and said, "You change your expression so quickly. Just now you were complaining about Tawanna Sweet's coming. Why do you think it's a good thing now?"

Bernard Elno smiled awkwardly and said, "Ah, there are always two sides to a thing. Looking at the problem from that side may be a bit bad, but looking at the problem from this side will make it clear."

As he said that, he deliberately changed the subject and said, "By the way, honey, since Tawana is an international superstar and is also very popular among the guests of White Horse Island, why don't we hold a party tomorrow and invite Tawana and guests from all over the island to participate. Let's have some fun together and feel the feeling of being young. What do you think?"

The wife shook her head helplessly and smiled: "I was the one who advised you, how come you are the one who advised me? But since you want to have some fun, I have no objection."

Bernard Elno quickly struck while the iron was hot: "It's settled then. After Tawanna arrives on the island tomorrow, I'll talk to her about this. As long as she agrees, we'll have a party tonight!"