Becoming the Richest Man Alive

“This old man is quite forward-thinking,” he mumbled to himself as he shoved food into his mouth.

It wasn’t his place to say anything at that moment. Although it was a little awkward, it wasn’t a big deal for someone as shameless as him.

“I’m sorry that you have to see this. My children are all good-for-nothings. I’ll show you my collection once we’re done eating and we’ll talk about the Dragon and Tiger Gang too.”

“Alright. It must be my lucky day today for I’m able to see your collection,” Casper replied with a nod.

Tony’s children left after the meal and as the servants came to collect the dirty dishes, he sighed. “Do you think I was wrong to form a temporary alliance with other families in exchange for my sons’ happiness? It used to be such a normal thing in the past but it seems like it’s an absurd thing to do now.”

“I think it’s fine. Your daughters-in-law are quite beautiful too,” Casper said as he scratched his head.

The older man’s expression was odd and he didn’t know what to say. I asked about my family’s problem but you’re telling me that my daughters-in-law are beautiful?

“Let’s just go take a look at my collection.” He began to lead the way to the second floor.

As they went up the stairs, Tony pointed at the paintings hung on the wall and said, “Our family had collected countless antiques in the many years we have been developing and growing. Out of the many foreign antiques we have, these paintings are the only ones my son had bought in an auction. He told me that the works of the top foreign masters are as valuable as our country’s national treasures. So I told him, ‘Why are you stating the obvious? Which country wouldn’t have their own national treasures when history existed? These are the essence of a country’s culture.’“

Casper stared at one of the paintings for a moment. He realized that it was authentic and it would cost at least ten million.

profits are too high and you have to have a great understanding for the industry to be able to do well. An ordinary antique

the richest in Horington, valued at about three billion. However, these statistical data were estimated based on the market value of listed companies on

wouldn’t be seen as a competition if it wasn’t listed. But there was an exception for one of the industries, which was the antique industry under the Lanes. They may only have two listed auction houses, and it may seem like their properties were only worth two hundred million, but the worth of the antique properties that they owned were not calculated. If they had actually done that, the Lingham family

course, due to the particularity of this line of business, the Lanes’ economic impact was far inferior to that of

As the corporation that had contributed to most of Horington’s GDP, they indeed had the right to be the richest

the Lanes were more powerful when it

the antique forgery the other day, he told

worrying about it afterward, so he gave her a call. Yet, she replied calmly, “You haven’t been long in Horington but you should know that those working underground

enrage even those in the finance industry. A painting or a porcelain vase could be sold for a price up to billions and an ordinary

auction, “The Great View,” happen on TV. One of the paintings was done

are priceless!” before turning to leave. Upon hearing that, the former turned and

hired me? Your family may have a lot of money but I’m not interested in that. He promised to give

succeeded, then?”

lips for a moment before answering, “Antiques can be forged because time has washed their essence away. But these top modern artworks are too difficult to forge. I might be able to do

high expectations of himself. When he said that he couldn’t forge something, he meant that the artwork he made wouldn’t be able to fool everyone, though it was very easy to fool the experts. As long as the actual professionals didn’t see it, no one would be caught. However, he

stop thinking about all the irrelevant thoughts. He followed Tony and arrived at a safe room on the second floor. There were two guards with cold

is a part of our family’s collection. Even though there isn’t much in there, it’s still

fingerprint and irises scanned, the

when they planned to do this originally. However, after losing one of the antiques in here, I felt the

and porcelain locked in glass cabinets. There were also some antiques with lower value piled up in a corner as there wasn’t space for them anymore. Casper took a quick glance and