After the discussion concluded, the four formally moved on to the main topic—dividing the money.
This might seem a bit cliché, but in fact, coming into unexpected wealth truly ranks among the top three happiest things for humans. Of course, it's more commonly referred to as a 'pleasant surprise', and it doesn't shift with people's status and wealth—at most, it just weakens. Even when someone is as rich as a nation, encountering such a circumstance still often sparks a brief flash of delight, thinking that today's luck isn't too bad.
Although this sort of 'not bad' is but an ambiguous, purely psychological concept, just as acquiring a windfall cannot truly increase their wealth in a substantial sense. It's questionable whether the other party even regards it as 'wealth', but people can't help thinking this way.
Just like rational thinking often takes a back seat to emotional reasoning.
