While she was renovating her new house. His self-confidence rose to the level of sleepiness. He blamed her for being too pessimistic and cautious, choosing to wait and see when it was time to try, and being conservative when it was time to be aggressive. Under his influence, by that time, even she had become accustomed to their new wealth. She began to spend money lavishly and uncontrollably, which she would have thought she shouldn't before, but Paul kept telling her to enjoy the pleasure without worrying. She bought two precious postmodern paintings at Sotheby's in New York and a pink Aston Martin global limited edition sports car from the dealership, an act that even she couldn't believe she could have when she brought them home.

She never imagined that she would one day have a luxury similar to this. Paul congratulated her on making a good decision. He was in high spirits and having fun, and he wanted her to share in the fun of his new wealth.

But after that, Caroline told herself that she couldn't be extravagant, that she couldn't forget her ordinary origins. Unlike herself, her husband Paul's family is from Southern California. Their family's life was more extravagant than that of her parents'. His father was a businessman, his mother had always been a housewife, and she worked as a model car when she was young. They own a luxury house and are members of several upscale clubs. Caroline's mother-in-law made an impressed impression on her first visit, even though she found them a bit superficial and materialistic. His mother wore a pink fur coat on a warm winter night, a staggering price worth half her mother's salary, and reminded her of the fact that her mother had never wanted one of these, even in the freezing winters of the Midwest.

Showing off his wealth was much more important to Paul than she was, and even more so when he became rich overnight. It is as if standing on the top of the world, looking down on the beings of the world, however, the heavens will make them die, they will make them mad, and there is nothing more lamentable than a man who has been carried away by victory and forgotten the risks, and the seeds of future misfortune seem to have been planted at that time.

Her only regret was that her parents would not live to see this day. How important it must be to them, and how much I hope they can see the happiness of their daughter. But on the other hand, she was relieved. Because my parents have passed away, I can't see their current bad situation.

They died in a car accident on a cold night nine years ago. But there was always a voice in her heart that told her how shocked her parents would be to see Paul's extravagance, and how nervous she was even after she bought the two paintings and the luxury car.

At least they're an investment, collectible paintings and limited-edition sports cars always have to add value, or so she hopes. And she really likes it. But Paul bought a lot of things for the sake of space, such as just to get a few more seats, he sold the private jet that had only been used for more than a year and replaced it with a more atmospheric-looking one. When Caroline reminded him, he kept telling her that he could afford it.

This upswing continued for almost three years, and Paul continued to invest in other risk areas. A large number of shares in high-risk high-tech companies were also bought. He believed in his instincts and believed that the market would continue to be booming, sometimes to the point of losing his mind.

His friends and colleagues in the online world called him a "crazy cowboy." I also joked with him about it. Caroline often felt guilty that she hadn't supported him a little more.

He lacked self-confidence as a child, and his father used to criticize him for being too thin-skinned, and suddenly he became so confident that she thought he was dancing on the edge of a cliff but was not afraid at all. But love for him overcame all worries, and in the end all she did was cheer him on from the standpoint of a bystander. She certainly had nothing to complain about. In three years, their net worth had nearly tripled, and he was worth $500 million. It's unimaginable.

She and Paul are always happy together, even when they run out of money. He was a good-natured man. He loves his wife and daughter deeply, and he really likes children. When his daughter was seven years old, she performed the ballet dance for the first time on stage, and he was in tears as he watched. He was an amazing husband and father. His ability to roll limited assets into huge industries has won children the opportunity to live lives that many of his peers can't imagine.

In order for his daughter to go to school in Europe, he talked about going to Paris for a year in the future. Think of a place to visit the Louvre Museum and the Champs-Élysées. Caroline felt that it was a great temptation. So, when he bought the house in Place de la Concorde for $20 million, she didn't even complain. The price is the highest in the region in recent years. But it's great.

They went to live for a month during the school holidays. The daughter didn't object at all, and neither did she. They love to visit Paris. They spent the rest of the summer on a yacht to the south of France. I also invited some friends from Silicon Valley to go along. Paul was already a legend by then, and there were others who made about the same amount of money as him. But just like the Las Vegas table, someone took the money and disappeared. Others put their money back on the table and gambled, and Paul happened to be the latter.

He didn't know how to take it when he saw it, so he continued to make deals and make large investments. She couldn't figure out what he was doing. She is responsible for managing the household and taking care of the children, and she hardly worries about it anymore. She didn't know if being rich was what it was like. It took her three years to really believe it, to feel that his success was not a dream, and it seemed to have finally become true.

Happiness came and went quickly, and after three years of his career, the bubble finally burst. There was a scandal in one of his companies, one in which he was a partner who was not involved in the operation but invested a huge amount of money. In fact, no one knows from official sources whether or how much he invested, but he lost more than $100 million. Amazingly, this had little effect on his fortune at the time. Caroline saw some news of the company's collapse in the newspapers, remembered hearing about it, and asked about it. He told her not to worry. In his mind, $100 million was nothing to them. He's on his way to a billion dollars.

He didn't explain it to her. But he was borrowing a large sum of money against the rising stocks, and when the stock market plummeted, he didn't even have time to sell them to pay off the debt. He tried to borrow money to run assets in order to buy more assets in an attempt to turn back the defeat.