Clayton felt his whole body shaking when Jeremiah gave him a deadly stare. He hurriedly said, "Dad, I just feel that... When it comes to this... There is nothing that would be even more important as compared to our safety and lives...”
As he spoke, Clayton continued selling his idea to Jeremiah as he said, "Besides, the Wade family has more than one trillion dollars’ worth of assets, right? Even if we were to take out half of our family's assets, we would be able to continue living a lifetime of luxury and extravagance with the other half of the assets that we have left. After all, things such as money are not something that we can take away with us when we die. It is meaningless even if we want to keep so much..." 2
"Furthermore, the Wade family might still be able to make a comeback and rise up again in the future in m y hands, or even in Felix's hands. When the time comes, we will be able to earn back everything that we have lost today!"
Jeremiah stared at him and asked coldly, "Make a comeback and rise up again? Based on your ability or simply depending on the both of you?" 2
Clayton felt extremely awkward as he said, "Yes... I am not really that capable. Even if we were to take a step back, so what if we cannot make a comeback? Even if
we continue living off the money that we already have, we would have more than enough money to last us for several lifetimes!"
Clayton then spoke up in an even more vigorous and energetic manner, and he was even gesturing as he persuaded, "If you are worried that your children and grandchildren will fail to live up to your expectations and end up being a disappointment in the future, we can also use half of our remaining assets to set up a closed family trust!"
"We would be able to receive at least ten to twenty billion dollars a year from a trust fund with a revenue of several hundreds of billions of dollars. As long as you stipulate that your children and grandchildren would only be able to take out the net profit from the trust fund without touching the principal, our future children and grandchildren will already be able to live wealthy, prosperous, and extravagant lives even if we cannot make the Wade family rise again!"
"This way, we will be able to ensure that the Wade family's lineage will live on, and we will never have to worry about the future generations of the Wade family going bankrupt..."
"Isn't it pretty good if you look at it this way?
Everyone, don’t you agree with me?" 2
Everyone else nodded except for Charlie and Helena.
For this group of people, no one wanted to take the slightest risk with their own safety and lives.
The most important thing for them was to stay alive. 2
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