NOVPUBChapter 880: Chapter 585: The Trillion Family Chapter 880 -585: The Trillion Family Edward Gaoxiu was Hua Country鈥檚 top magnate, owning sixteen top luxury brands including Herm脙篓s and Chanel, as well as thirty-two first-line brands.
Throughout the entire Hua Country, Edward enjoyed extremely high fame and was even once dubbed the Godfather of Luxury Goods.
Now seventy-six years old, Edward had entered into his twilight years.
The trials and tribulations of his youth had prematurely expended his life.
At this point, Edward鈥檚 hair had turned gray, his face was lined with wrinkles, and he was also afflicted by several terminal illnesses that could not be cured.
If it hadn鈥檛 been for his private doctor and a strong medical team, Edward would have run out of life and passed away five years ago.
The only reason he could live to this day was because he spared no expense to enjoy the world鈥檚 best medical equipment and the top experts鈥 personal services.
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Of course, as the Godfather of Luxury Goods, Edward also possessed incredibly substantial assets.
Last year鈥檚 release of the Forbes rich list didn鈥檛 include Edward, not because he lacked the qualifications, but purely because of his physical condition; he didn鈥檛 want to hassle with worldly matters.
Therefore, over the years, Edward had taken the initiative to greet the publishers of the Forbes list, asking them not to publish any news about him.
In fact, luxury goods are definitely one of the most profitable industries in the world, and top luxury goods like Chanel and Herm脙篓s are things women across the world dream of.
Just in the top brands alone, Edward owned as many as sixteen, which demonstrates just how astonishing his wealth was.
Even to this day, Edward himself didn鈥檛 know how much money he actually had, but he remembered that the latest financial statement from two years ago showed his assets had reached 170 trillion.
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If Edward had been willing to join the Forbes list, there was no doubt that he would have been the undisputed richest person in the world, with a fortune several times greater than that of the current richest person published by Forbes.
As for wealth, Edward had truly reached the point of ennui.
Looking over the entire world, as the Godfather of Luxury Goods, Edward had reached the very pinnacle of the pyramid.
There were few people in the world who could stand above him; all together perhaps only three, to be exact.
Without exception, these individuals were the heads of families that had been passed down for hundreds of years, all nearly at the end of their lives.
At their level, they had basically seen through everything.
The money, fame, and status that tempt ordinary people held no allure for them.
Looking at the world, there were few things that could attract Edward.
It couldn鈥檛 be said that there were none, but truly few, and longevity was definitely one of them.
On the magical land of Hua Country, an organization called the Longevity Club had just been established, and Edward had already taken notice.
Initially, he only paid a bit of attention to it, without taking it seriously.
Edward had thought it was just some second-generation鈥檚 fleeting idea, a flash in the pan.
However, when the club invited over a hundred world-class top scientists, Edward took a special interest.
They invested hundreds of billions in the club, an audacity that even Edward himself couldn鈥檛 help feeling moved by.
In his mind, the kind of people who could casually wield hundreds of billions in assets were only those like him, those old folks whose wealth exceeded 100 trillion.
Aside from them, no one else could bear such expenses.
A year after Edward kept his attention on the club, the first Longevity Pill was released and achieved excellent results.
This time, Edward could no longer resist the temptation.
It was the first time he had left Hua Country since he had fallen seriously ill five years ago, and it was also his fifth visit to the magical land of Hua Country.
He had thought that with his power and influence, obtaining the first Longevity Pill would be certain, but upon entering the Longevity Club, he learned that he wasn鈥檛 the only one who had come; even the old man from the Ross family, who was above him, was there.
Moreover, to get the Longevity Pill, one had to complete tasks first.
Seeing Rothschild himself earnestly undertaking the tasks, Edward, with a hint of interest in his eyes, also focused on the tasks before him.
There were a total of one hundred and ten top billionaires who had come to the Longevity Club, but there were only thirty Longevity Pills to be distributed, meaning that only a very small portion of them would get one, while the majority would leave empty-handed.
Edward had ample confidence in his power and influence.
As the world鈥檚 fourth person to possess 100 trillion in assets, Edward鈥檚 reach extended globally.
With top luxury brands like Herm脙篓s and Chanel establishing boutiques in every major city of the world, the number of his employees even exceeded half a million.
As long as Edward wished to do something, there truly was nothing in this world that could hinder him.
His gaze swept over the various task columns, and Edward realized that the highest S-level task seemed to be specially prepared for the Ross family.
In the whole world, the only person who could make Edward step aside was this old man Ross, and even though Edward was also very interested in that S-level task, he could only regretfully let it go.
He quickly turned his attention to two C-level tasks, the highest ones besides the S-level task.
They involved assisting the establishment of the Longevity Club鈥檚 branches number two and four in the cities of the United States and Britain, respectively.
