After listening to Terence's explanation, she carefully patted her chest and put her heart at ease. Compared to someone like him, she looked like an unfortunate and innocent child. How on earth could she have known that they were capable of burning through several billion dollars without so much as batting an eyelid?
So, it was perfectly understandable for her to react in the way that she did.
All of a sudden, she came to a realization of just how wealthy and over-the-top the AJ Group really was.
"Terence, I don't mean to offend you, but how much property does your family own at the moment?"
Carla wanted to know, again, out of curiosity, as she broke into a smile and her eyes glistened.
However, much to her surprise, after he stopped for a while to think about it, he finally opened his mouth and said, "I don't have any idea. But if you're really interested to find out, I can go ahead and ask the accountant."
"Ah? You don't even have the slightest clue as to how much money you have?"
Carla couldn't believe her ears. 'How could someone be so oblivious to how much money he had?
Am I too poor to comprehend these kind of wealthy people? Is his pocket so deep that its depth is something I could never hope to imagine?' she thought to herself.
"The AJ Group receives around a hundred billion dollars' worth of revenue from the real estate industry each year. As for the other main industries, those generate somewhere around two hundred billion dollars revenue in total. And all of those are just the branches under the AJ Group. I established my own startup company when I was seventeen years old. The company's goal was to research and develop something that I was interested in at the time. Probably about five or six years ago, the company's net profit was a bit over one hundred million dollars. And..."
"All right, all right. That's enough. I get it now. I don't want to hear it anymore!"
Carla blurted out, covering Terence's mouth to shut him up. Since she had had the experience of sitting on the senior management board of a company in the past, she knew full well that if the real estate industry could have over one hundred billion dollars in revenue every year, then its net profit would, at the very least, be around twenty billion per year. If she were to consider all of his other industries together, the total amount would most likely be beyond her comprehension!
And that was only taking into account the annual profit. Since the AJ Group had been around for such a long time, it made perfect sense that he honestly had no idea how much money he had!
"You're the one who asked me about it!" Pulling her hands away from his mouth, Terence asked her with an arrogant grin on his face, "If you're interested to find out more, I'll have the accountant give you the exact number. Since you are my wife, it's only right that you should know how much money I have."
Deeply annoyed, Carla furiously glared at him for flashing his wealth straight up to her face. In a scornful manner, she retorted, "My god, this is so unfair! I worked my ass off in the company day in and day out only to make tens of thousands of dollars per year. After spending all of my money on living expenses, I would hardly have a single penny left inside my pocket. And now you're telling me that you don't even know how much money you have?"
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