The Secretly Rich Man

Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 171

Gerald was truly shocked when Sara splashed the entire glass of red wine directly on Gerald.

Insane! This woman was absolutely insane!

“Sara, what is wrong with you?”

Felicity asked nervously because she did not know that Sara was seriously jealous because of her.

“I am fine, Felicity. I really feel very unwell today. So, I will go back first!”

Sara did not even want her cell phone anymore and simply left the room after grabbing her bag.

She also could not understand what was wrong with herself?

Brother Ordinary Man was indeed very powerful but he did not even know about her existence anyway. So, why was she so jealous because of Brother Ordinary Man?

Everyone did not know this.

They did not know how uncomfortable Sara felt when everyone was talking about how Ordinary Man had a crush on Felicity.

Women were born to be extremely jealous creatures.

This was even more apparent when a beautiful woman was facing another beautiful woman.

Therefore, even though she was angry, she could not get angry at Felicity. That was the reason why she chose to vent her anger and frustrations on this pathetic jerk, Gerald instead.

Anyway, she had never respected or looked up to Gerald before. Therefore, she simply ignored Gerald and left.

“Hmph! Gerald, this is all your fault! You must have made Sara angry and that is why she is leaving earlier! I really regret it. Why did I allow you to come along with us today?”

Felicity said as she glared coldly at Gerald.

Gerald did not have time to be bothered about Felicity. He wanted to take revenge against Sara.

Therefore, he also followed suit and walked out of the room directly.

Oh! She was thinking of leaving after she poured red wine all over his face and scolded himself like this?

Gerald was no longer the same Gerald that he was before.

She really wanted to give Sara a slap across her face.

However, after running out of the room to chase after her, Sara’s figure was nowhere to be seen at all. This made Gerald feel very angry and furious.

At this time, Gerald suddenly received a text message on his cell phone.

At first glance, it was a text message sent by his classmate, Layla.

It seemed as though Layla seemed a little unwell today. So, that was the reason why she did not come to attend Felicity’s celebration banquet today.

Gerald’s eyelids started twitching when he saw the content of the message.

“Gerald, can you tell me why people often suffer and feel a lot of pain? I will only drag my family down with me. I cannot do anything to help my family at all. I have worked hard and struggled my whole entire life but I cannot be compared to others at all. I am completely useless. My father cannot even lift his head high and my family cannot even afford to buy my sister any new clothes. Now that my sister is ill, as her elder sister, I am so powerless and helpless and I can only watch her suffer because we cannot afford to send her to the hospital. My family has already spent all their money to pay for my education but I can’t even do anything for them in return!”

“Gerald, why don’t you tell me how I can set myself free from all this pain and sufferings?”

Layla sent a very long text message to him.

Gerald suddenly understood that something had happened to Layla’s family. She could not do anything to help her family and she is blaming herself for it. Gerald could hear that something was not right, based on Layla’s last sentence.

This made Gerald panic a little.

Layla was a member of the poverty group. She usually did not speak much but Gerald had been observing her in secret. Although she was very inferior on the surface, she had a very competitive heart and spirit.

She wanted to be better than everyone else.

Moreover, he could see that she had greater pursuits and she really wanted to live a carefree life.

She had even stronger ambitions compared to him.

However, the reality was often very cruel. The more a person hoped for something, the more it would happen to go in the opposite direction.

Therefore, this depressing problem in Layla’s heart had already existed for more than just a day or two. Now that her sister had fallen ill, her family must not have any money and she did not have any money too.

Therefore, this must have seriously hurt her self-esteem.

Gerald understood this feeling very well.

He was worried that she would do something stupid. Therefore, Gerald hurriedly said:

“Layla, where are you? Are you in the dormitory?”

“Yes, I am here!”

Layla responded very quickly. There were very few people that she could chat with in class. Gerald was the one that she could talk to the most.

Since Gerald did not know where the live broadcast anchor Sara had gone, Gerald knew that he would definitely face the ridicule of Felicity and the others if he went back now.

However, Gerald did not want to expose his own identity.

Although he did not have a very close relationship with Layla, both of them had worked together for the past three years because they were all members of the poverty group. Therefore, Gerald could not bear to see Layla continue suffering like this.

He did not return to the room and he called for a cab before he headed directly to the girls’ dormitory and registered his name with the aunty downstairs.

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He arrived at Layla’s dormitory door.

“Gerald?”

Layla, who had cried until her eyes were red and swollen, opened the door. She was obviously very surprised when she saw Gerald.

“Layla, are you okay? I came to see you!”

Gerald quickly replied.

“I am fine. I do not want to trouble you. Anyway, I feel that my existence in this world is superfluous and I will only drag many people down with me if I continue living in this world!”

Layla sat on the edge of her bed as she covered her eyes and started crying again.

“What nonsense are you talking about, Layla? In fact, I used to be just like you. Ever since I was young, my father told me that my family was very poor and we owed people a lot of money. My sister did not even finish high school and she went out to work at a young age because of me. My sister was actually very smart and she did very well in her studies but she gave up on her high school exams because of me!”

Gerald wanted to persuade Layla. Perhaps it was because both of them were very poor, Gerald could not help but think of his past self.

It proved to be very effective. Layla stopped crying as she looked at Gerald.

Gerald continued speaking:

“Do you know how much psychological pressure I was facing at that time? Do you know how much responsibility I was carrying on my shoulders at that time because my family had placed all of their hopes on me? That was the reason why I tried hard to study desperately. I desperately wanted to stand out so that I would not be looked down on.”

“But what could I do? I was still being bullied and insulted often. I feel inferior when I compare myself to others. Because of my own inferiority, I did not even dare to speak to girls when I saw them because I was afraid that they would look down on me!”

“In fact, they really looked down on me and they would often talk and gossip about me. However, I would often tell myself that I have to continue living a good life because all of these humiliations would pass eventually. Moreover, I also begin to understand one truth!”

Gerald was filled with emotions as he spoke.

Layla hurriedly asked, “What is that truth?”

“A person should think and do things according to the stage that they are at. This is the only way not to be in too much pain and suffering. You are still studying and gaining more knowledge at this time, but you are constantly thinking about how you are going to earn money and make more money. Is that realistic?”

“Yes, I really want to make a lot of money but I cannot do it. However, it is only natural for you to say all this now. After all, you won the lottery and you have better luck compared to everyone else!”

Layla replied depressingly.

“I am indeed luckier than others. However, you have to believe that something like that will happen to you one day too! In short, all things will pass sooner or later. You do not have to feel so stressed and depressed all the time because of this. Instead, what you should be thinking of now is a solution to this matter!”

Gerald advised.

Layla lowered her head before she said, “Okay, okay. I understand now. Thank you, Gerald. Let me think about it!”

Gerald had never persuaded anyone before this, nor did he know how to persuade anyone at all.

However, since he knew about Layla’s problem now, and since she was actually a pretty good classmate, he definitely had to help her since he encountered this incident himself.

Knock! Knock! Knock!

At this time, there was a loud slamming noise outside the dormitory door.

It felt as though someone was going to break down the door from the outside.

After that, Layla walked over and opened the door immediately.

At this time, a chubby middle-aged woman rushed into the room. She had a very broad face and her eyebrows were tattooed and it looked as though she had two caterpillars crawling on her face.

“I was wondering why you didn’t open the door! You little btch! It is simply because you have a man in your room! Your dad was even saying that you were studying hard at school! Pfft! You little btch!”

“Mom! Don’t say that! Gerald is my classmate and he came here to see me!”

Layla cried out.

“Don’t call me mom! I am not your mother! You! What are you looking at? Are you trying to force yourself on my daughter? Do you believe that I will call the police now?”

The middle-aged woman took out her cell phone immediately.

Layla started panicking and she immediately said, “Gerald, you should leave first. Thank you for everything today!”

“Okay!”

Gerald really wanted to scold this crazy woman but he knew that he should not say anything because no matter what it was, she was still Layla’s mother.

“How can a mother be acting like this?”

Gerald simply muttered a sentence before he left.

He really could not help but wonder if Layla’s mother was really her biological mother since she was scolding Layla and calling her a little b*tch as soon as she saw her.

After encountering and getting scolded by crazy women, one after the other today, Gerald was in a bad mood.

He wanted to go and take a walk in the park to relax a little.

At this time, his cell phone suddenly rang. It was a phone call from his sister, Jessica.

Gerald answered the phone immediately and he was about to ask his sister about Mayberry Commercial Street.

Unexpectedly, his sister’s nervous voice sounded over the other end of the line as soon as the call was connected:

“Brother! Something bad has happened. Your sister has gotten into big trouble!”

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”Ah? Sister, what big trouble could you possibly get in?”

Gerald felt very nervous.

He had a very close and deep relationship with his sister. Gerald was not lying to Layla when he mentioned that his sister did not take the high school examination in order to support his own education.

Both the siblings were very poor at that time.

Therefore, his sister dropped out of his high school examination directly.

There were also countless unforgettable things that his sister had done for him.

“Don’t mention it, brother. You should already know some of the strict and perverted rules that our family has! One of these rules is that no matter how much money you spend, you have to keep a record of it!”

“Even if you spend a small amount such as a few millions of dollars, all of it has to be reflected in the family’s records. You should not hide anything from the family at all! This is also the same for you! All of your spending on your bank card now are all recorded in our family’s records!”

“Oh, oh, yes. I know this!”

This was a rule of the Crawford family. You could spend as much money as you had and you could use the family’s money at will as you pleased. However, you would not be allowed to hide the money from the person who is at the helm of your family. That would be their father.

They were also not allowed to hide any money under any other names.

“Sister, do you have any unrecorded money?”

Gerald asked.

“Yes! D*mn it! I just found out about it today! When I had just gotten out of my poverty, I used the fifteen million dollars that mom gave to me for various consumption. One day, I drank a little too much and I wanted to eat something from a franchise so I asked my assistant to buy one for me!”

“D*mn it! Do you know what the idiot did? He bought this franchise over for nine million dollars! That franchise was not popular at that time but after so many years, that shop suddenly became very popular and it has already made a profit of more than three hundred million dollars now! I did not pay any attention to this matter at all because who would have expected that fool to buy the franchise over directly?”

“Then, I thought of spending the three hundred million dollars in secret! However, after spending only half of it, dad suddenly became aware of the situation! He was wondering why there seemed to be no movement in the family’s money even though I have already bought so many things! I am really scared! I broke the family’s rule so I will have to live a life of poverty for one month! Our dad is very old-fashioned and he really abides by the rules. It would be useless even if mom tries to intercede on my behalf!”

“I was wondering what the big deal was. Don’t you just have to live in poverty for one month? It will pass by very soon!”

Gerald could not help but wiped the cold sweat off his forehead. His sister really loved to make a fuss.

“No! Brother, I cannot even stand living in poverty for one day, let alone one whole month! I don’t care! No matter what it is, you have to help your sister!”

His sister was about to cry over the phone.

“Okay. Okay. How am I supposed to help you?”

“Well, you can help me to spend the remaining one hundred and fifty million dollars for me within the next seven days! Don’t leave even a single cent behind! Dad cannot supervise you in detail since you are not living with the family now!”

“Huff!”

spurted out some

fifty million dollars

sister had formerly invested in the Mayberry Commercial Street under his own name.

was really not short of money

some

spend one hundred and fifty million

were to invest the money but wouldn’t it be a waste for him to spend the money for fun? After all, he was not like his sister who seemed to have a feud with money and spent several hundreds of millions in consumption every

anyway. Can’t you spend that amount of money? How about this, brother? Why don’t you buy a transportation tool then? I will recommend a German

Gerald: “…”

have to live in poverty for a month! In short, you have to use up all of that money for me in seven days! I will get

Jessica hurriedly

a month. It would be better than forcing him to spend one hundred and fifty million dollars just like that. It was really difficult for

not help but pull his

would be able to spend the money really fast if he bought an airplane. However, he did not

was still spending as though one dollar was worth

Dang!

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message from his bank, indicating that the money had

sister was really

going

Ugh!

the money, then his family would definitely find out about

million dollars! How many items would he have

This was really stressful!

no intention of taking a stroll anymore. Therefore, he decided to return to his dormitory to lie

Gerald had not thought of a good

three days, three things worth mentioning

from school because her mother

help Layla. However, Layla’s cell phone was not connected and he could not contact

to ask her about the situation in the past two days so that he could give her a sum of

She participated in some activities organized by the same city live broadcast platform and she even became the ambassador for the front cover of the

to upgrade the same city live broadcast platform to become a software for all the netizens across the country. He also planned to invest an additional thirty million

was his first investment in the industry and Gerald really wanted to build it up and

Gerald was eating breakfast alone in

the people next to him, chattering

that the Mountain Top Villa is going on sale today? The original price of the villa was one hundred million dollars but the price of the villa has already

of the exhibition but who would buy a house that is worth one

dollars. I saw some of the pictures that were exposed on the internet. D*mn it. The villa is simply too gorgeous! If you live in the villa, you will feel like you are living in a heavenly

is because the price of the tickets just to participate in the exhibition already costs tens of thousands of dollars. Moreover, they

That is too

were eating at the

Gerald suddenly remembered that he had already made a promise to go and play with Yoel at the exhibition

At this time.

phone suddenly

a phone call from

I am coming to pick you up now so that we can go and participate in the exhibition

as

up. I know the address for the Mountain Top Villa. I will go there on my own. You can

the VIP passage, then let it be the

at it. If it is really good, then I am planning to buy a villa at the Mountain Top Villa.

ended the phone call with Yoel

still encouraging

would not be good to keep him

After that, he

was no movement in the cafeteria at all and everyone was staring at him in

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as Gerald stood up, he realized that many people in the cafeteria were

and women who were all discussing and talking about the Mountain

earlier and he

have amazed and

“Pfft!”

as he burst

so ridiculous. He wants to go and take a look

of getting employed is

even stated that he was going to be a VIP guest. Hahaha. Let’s

“Dumbass…”

Everyone started laughing.

started to ridicule Gerald without giving him any

before he shook his head with a wry smile on his face. After all, he had no way

school gate, Gerald called for a cab before he came to the foot of the Mountain Top Villa, where the

The entrance.

was surrounded by luxury

very powerful and important

passages leading inside as he stood

was the VIP passage and the

the ordinary customers

Didn’t he say that he would be waiting for me in front of the entrance of

could not see Yoel

entrance

thought to himself for a while before he raised his foot to walk into

“Gerald?”

this moment, a surprised female voice

female dressed in a black uniform. She

not help but

“Cousin Rita?”

Rita? She was the one who was trying to make

could remember that Rita had a very complicated expression on

he

in the end was still inconclusive. Both of them had only met up occasionally

not expect to see Rita here again, only a

was also a badge in front of Rita’s chest: Design

it! Rita designed the Mountain Top

and also very cold and arrogant. However, he really did not

How old was she?

only twenty-five years

is the day

“I am here to…”

participate in the exhibition! You can just have a look at it. I can honestly tell you that you will never be able to afford this villa! I know that you won tens of millions of dollars in the lottery and you bought a luxury sports car for yourself. However, you should not even be thinking about buying this villa. I don’t know how much money you have left but if

frame and spoke coldly before Gerald could even finish

had been really shocked when she saw the luxury sports car that was worth three million dollars last

had always wondered whether Gerald could

Gerald was only a pathetic person who

that she felt so sorry and apologetic that day, just because of

that she thought about it, she felt that she had been really ridiculous. That day, she even thought about competing with her cousin sister to

Vomit! Vomit! Vomit!

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like

just want to take a

words and he really did not want to get into any entanglement with Rita. Therefore, he simply replied to her like

and assets compared to you! What about you? You are just being idle and wasting your fortune away. You

as proud as

are driving a three million dollars Lamborghini. After finding out some information, Rita could only think that Gerald must really be stupid or have

other feelings or emotions for

Gerald unceremoniously as soon as

to take revenge for

bought a Lamborghini after winning the

I am afraid that he must not have been to this kind of big event and seen so many people before, right? Alas, we cannot blame him. This kind of country bumpkin who has already been poor for a long time has very little knowledge but suddenly came into so much money.

already be too late at that time. Sigh. Instead of thinking of ways to improve himself, he is actually spending tens of thousands of dollars just to buy a ticket

one man standing

beautiful and they were really on par with Rita. Besides, the man was also very handsome

the same age and they looked

contemptuous towards Gerald, they also started habitually

made Rita feel

dollars to buy a ticket again? Where is Mila? Does she

Rita asked coldly.

it. We even had dinner together last night. However, it is not convenient for her to come today! As for the admission

Mila in the past two days, and he really wanted Mila to come and have some fun with him. However, she could not come with him because

you really make me feel

Rita really wanted to

pathetic Gerald was, he was still Mila’s boyfriend. She would

At this time, she saw that Gerald

could

I can give you one. You can go to the exhibition hall

at Gerald impatiently. As the design director, she naturally had

Nyla, and Samuel, I will be responsible for giving an introduction of the Mountain Top Villa when we enter later. So, please take him along with you! He does not know anything at all!” Rita

to meet with a few of my friends from the business community later. If I bring him with me…well, okay then. I will just ask him to look for a place

he was in a very

happen, he would have bought

of thousands of dollars for an admission ticket was just a trivial matter to him. However, why would he bother to spend

was really degrading for him to bring a lowly person like

still agreed to

us along with you too? Can you

very beautiful women. Both of them were willingly staying by Samuel’s side as they took

Okay! Let’s bring him in with us first.

everyone prepared to

did not expect that there would be so much trouble when

asked him to enter with Dawn and the others, Gerald felt that it would not be good for

the admission ticket before he walked towards the

Are you insane? Come

VIP entrance, she could not

is the VIP entrance, which is specially prepared for the richest men from all the various cities in the Sunnydale Province. Are

was also very anxious and

guys are not going through

as he shook his head

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anymore. Hurry up and follow Samuel, Dawn, and the others into the exhibition hall. Seriously! I really do now know how my sister

Rita replied coldly.

to continue talking about this matter

Gerald was also very embarrassed at this time. Therefore, he had no choice but to ignore Yoel

the ordinary passage have very different

from the VIP passage were all seated at the front row of the

those who entered from the ordinary passage like Gerald could only be seated at the back of the

How

Light, you are here too? We are good! We are all good! My father is

he met with quite a few of his

Samuel, are these two beauties with you?

my classmates. I do not have a girlfriend

as he

waving his hand to greet some other people

feeling a little proud because he knew so many people as

read your

said something very dignified as she

tell you that marriage is the most important

hands

chain supply of kitchen and bathroom equipment. He should not be

said! By the way, didn’t

also in her third year of university but she is still so reckless. She really makes me very worried. I really want to find

replied as

say hello to your handsome brother, Samuel, and his two beautiful

Brother Samuel! Hello, two

them with a

was wearing a very expensive set

saw that Gerald did not

frowned but she

not notice him.

reacted

bring him in so that he could take a look around and

could not help but

This was so embarrassing!

he have to bring this kind of person

for Gerald, he was

his hand, Gerald thought that he wanted to greet him and shake his hand. Therefore, Gerald thought that it would be rude of him not to return

at him before he

would he

Light today! Come and sit next to

hand to pull Samuel’s arm as he

He ignored Gerald completely.

in the

obviously lost her interest in Gerald and she simply sat on the

is? Why would he possibly shake hands with someone with no name or status like you? Do you really think that you are

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Dawn was speechless.

no temperament or class will never be able to have any temperament or class. No matter how rich they are, they will never have any class at all! Just look at

was completely speechless

have any self-knowledge, then

them were thinking this

was feeling a tightness in his chest now. It felt

decided to sit down first. They could just say whatever

Gerald sat down.

was seated

Melanie turned around. When she saw that Gerald was sitting behind her,

stood up before she walked toward Samuel and

do you want to change seats? Isn’t it good