What did it mean to have a hundred million?
That was probably a very relative concept. Different identities and circumstances would lead to different feelings about it.
For social development, a government agency might need more than a hundred million in funding for a single large-scale project.
For a company, as long as it had even a little scale, its assets could exceed a hundred million. For top-tier corporations spanning multiple fields, a single transaction, investment, or loss on their financial statements could amount to a hundred million.
To wealthy people and entrepreneurs, a hundred million was only a small part of their net worth. To public figures such as celebrities, it was money they could earn in a few years.
Seen that way, a hundred million did not actually seem like much money.
But,
below that "very impressive" level, for an utterly ordinary person, a hundred million was an astronomical figure.
Someone earning ten thousand a month would need more than eight hundred years of saving without eating or drinking to accumulate that much, not to mention that many people earned less than ten thousand a month.
For the overwhelming majority of people in the world, a hundred million was money they could never earn in a lifetime, nor ever spend completely.
It represented financial freedom, freedom from worries about food and clothing, and that wonderful, enviable word people often imagined.
Billionaire.
That was why Fang Ran had been so stunned when he saw the text notification on his phone saying that a hundred million had arrived.
Well, second only to learning that he had to spend all hundred million of it today.
After finishing lunch with the true owner of Fies Erde, he had been handed such a demand.
He had less than half a day to spend