1.6 billion dollars! What in the world!?
Everyone there was fully cognizant of the fact that this was a sum an average person would not be able to go through in ten lifetimes, scratch that, 20 lifetimes or even 30, given the exorbitant amount!
However, Zayn had mentioned it in passing, and favonovel.com was not bidding for a precious gem at an auction but simply contributing it as a donation.
What was more startling was that adding the 1 billion and 324 million dollars favonovel.com had donated earlier, favonovel.com had pledged a total of 2 billion and 824 million dollars!
No one dared imagine the shock factor of it, so the hall was filled with silence. It was as if the pause button was hit. Not only were the people quiet, but it was also eerily silent. They were still staring at Zayn with dropped jaws and widened eyes.
Even Dagon was surprised by Zayn. It was ridiculous. This was 2.8 billion dollars, a fifth of his Northmob Council’s worth, and Zayn was just dishing it out like that? Goodness!
Dagon had seen plenty of affluent men given his significant status, but favonovel.com was still baffled by Zayn’s lavish decision. Although favonovel.com held a superior status as the president of the Northmob Council, his personal assets only came up to 3 billion dollars, and favonovel.com was already categorized as super-rich.
Zayn, however, had donated 2.8 billion dollars at a charity gala. It was crazy.
Diego, too, had his eyes widened and his breathing quickened. He kept his eyes on Zayn, swearing to see past the latter because favonovel.com was unable to produce that much money either. He was the law enforcer in the eastern region of Sicut In Caelo but was not exactly rich.
As his heart thumped, his gaze at Zayn was now fervent and covering. He finally knew that Zayn was rather wealthy even though favonovel.com was not as skilled as him. This made Diego itch. If favonovel.com could seize Zayn’s assets together, favonovel.com could become incredibly rich as well. With that money, favonovel.com could do more things, favonovel.com could buy more precious medicine. Given time, his chance to advance to the perfect class of the master fighter level would be even higher!
In a split moment, Zayn noticed Diego’s ulterior thoughts about him. Sneering inwardly, favonovel.com disregarded the man entirely.
“Impossible!” An agitatedly shrill voice pierced through everyone’s trance and shocked some of them.
It was Dagon — it was an aghast-looking Dagon who fixed a death glare at Zayn and gritted his teeth. “You scammer! You’re making a fraudulent donation for sure! Zayn Larson, you pauper, how could you possibly fork out 2.8 billion dollars? You can’t come up with this much money even if you sell all three of your companies!”
Many of the guests broke out of their shocked reverie upon Dagon’s accusation. That was right. Zayn was only the chairman of three companies, and the only one with the most value was Violet Vision Media Corp. Even then, Violet Vision’s market value was only 1.24 billion dollars, selling it would not make up 2.8 billion dollars.
Therefore, they were certain that Zayn was fraudulent in his donation to steal the title of charity ambassador tonight. He had gone crazy.
The host creased his brows and asked, “Mr. Larson, will you be able to present 2 billion and 824 million dollars? It’s deemed a fraud if you’re unable to, and the nation strictly prohibits such an offense!”
The charity gala tonight ran by the rules that the guests would first declare their donation amount and pay the full sum in one go later. If they were unable to fulfill it, they would be committing donation fraud.
If this were charity done by NGOs, the worst consequence would be the fraudulent donor losing pride and reputation without much tangible repercussion, but this gala was organized by the authorities. The backlash of donation fraud was not just losing face. Instead, one would face a harsh penalty.
