The words fell silent.
The corridor was dead silent.
The ten billion US dollars brought a huge shock to everyone, even Amanda and Heidi were briefly stunned. Naturally, they had more wealth; the shop on Second Street alone had a three-year rent amounting to nine hundred million euros.
But this was also part of the wealth of the Meredith family.
Old-money European aristocrats, former sovereigns, present-day royal nobility—the accumulation of their wealth was the result of historical sediment.
It wasn't a matter of looking down on Easterners...
As the investigative team said, such a large cash flow was extraordinarily abnormal, along with the embezzled hundred million US dollars, completely baffling.