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Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 341

“…What the f*ck?”

“…Huh?”

Both Sharon and Lilian were dumbfounded as they watched Gerald leave with the two boxes.

The boxes which contained the two jade bracelets that had almost scared Sharon to death earlier.

The moment her issue had been resolved, Sharon felt that she could finally breathe again.

However, she now felt as if someone had just kicked her in the head. Her mind went blank.

Gerald was the one who had bought the two jade bracelets?

Lilian and Hayward’s eyes were open wide in shock.

This was especially the case for Lilian. She was so shocked that she didn’t hold on to one of the jade pieces firmly enough and accidentally dropped it onto the ground where it shattered.

“Wait! Gerald! You… You were the one who bought the two jade bracelets?” asked Lilian in surprise.

Gerald simply ignored her and continued to walk away with the jade bracelets in hand.

He was beyond angry this time. There was no need to bother explaining anything to them.

“Humph! He could just be buying them with someone else’s money! Forget about him! Sharon, Lilian, why don’t we head to a restaurant and enjoy a nice meal together instead?”

Hayward didn’t want to get outdone.

D*mn it! It felt as if Gerald had just sent an abrupt slap to his face!

The only reason he was willing to spend that much money today was because he wanted to win Sharon over.

No matter how he tried to dice it, deep inside he knew that Gerald had clearly outdone him this time.

“What the hell is even going on here…? Was he really the one who bought the jade bracelets? Where did he get all that money from?” they questioned aloud as they left the jewelry shop.

Both Sharon and Lilian felt very uncomfortable.

They were both afraid that it was indeed the truth.

If Gerald was now somehow richer than they were, that would be even scarier than the events that had taken place in the shop earlier.

Out of the blue, Lilian suddenly came up with an idea.

“Why don’t we invite Gerald to have a meal with us? After eating, we could ask him more about it. After all, you guys saw him buying the cell phones last time. He must really be rich! We must ask him about it to get to the bottom of this!”

“While I do think that that’s a good idea, I’m not sure if he’ll be willing to even sit with us after the way I treated him earlier,” said Sharon a little worriedly.

“Relax, just leave it to me. What do you think, Hayward? Should we investigate and get to the bottom of this together?” asked Lilian.

Hayward had an extremely displeased expression on his face up till the point Lilian had asked him for his opinion.

“Hmm? Ah yes, sure! It’s just a regular meal anyway! Go ahead and call him!”

Hayward was having mixed feelings about the entire situation but he had to admit, even he was curious about what on earth was going on.

In the past, Murphy was Hayward’s strongest competitor.

While Sharon had indeed mentioned that she had nearly fallen in love with Gerald during her high school days, he hadn’t regarded Gerald as a competitor at all.

Now, however, he was struck by a realization that this seeming poor boy was actually the biggest threat!

The way Sharon and Lilian were talking about him now was proof of that.

Once the girls were done discussing the matter, Lilian made a phone call to Gerald.

On the other end of the line, Gerald was walking with the bracelets in hand when his phone began to vibrate. He checked to see who was calling and saw that it was Lilian.

She had received Gerald’s contact number when they had met in town for dinner last time.

“Ah! Hello Gerald! Where are you now? I’ll be frank, I’m feeling a little embarrassed about everything I had said to you earlier. Now that I’m calm, I realize that I shouldn’t have treated you that way.”

“I’m sorry as well! I was overly impulsive earlier!” shouted Sharon hurriedly into the phone.

“Essentially, both of us regret treating you the way that we had. We want to invite you over to have a meal with us right now so that we can formally apologize to you. Maybe even reminisce a little!” Lilian continued.

A wry smile was on Gerald’s face as he heard all this. If he hadn’t walked out of the shop with the two jade bracelets in hand, they would never even have thought about apologizing in the first place, let alone decide to reminisce about their past.

To put simply, it was all about the money again.

If you had money, people would want to befriend you.

However, if you were penniless, just remembering your name would be giving face to you!

Gerald knew that well. As long as he had money, both he and Sharon could even pick up from where they left off and pretend as if the three-year gap had never happened.

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“Haha! It’s fine, forget about it. It wasn’t a big deal!”

Gerald did not want to go.

“No, no Gerald, I insist! You don’t look down on us, do you? You would never look down on your own high school classmates, right? Or do you secretly look down on us because you were admitted to Mayberry University while we only took the normal entrance exams for normal universities and colleges? I see how it is now!” said Liana shamelessly.

“You know I don’t mean that! Fine, let’s have a meal together!” Gerald said before sighing. How could anyone be this shameless?

Gerald was at a loss for words.

However, since it was only a meal, he was willing to just eat together and be done with it. After all, he had nothing to lose. Besides, it was an opportune time for him to prevent them from having anything more to say about him in the future.

He would just join them for their meal and see what they had to say then!

Gerald nodded to himself before turning around again.

They didn’t eat in any of the stores in Mayberry Commercial Street. Instead, they went to an ordinary restaurant right next to that street.

Sharon had ordered a lot of delicious dishes for Gerald.

“So tell us, Gerald, how did you become so rich?”

The topic was finally brought up by Lilian. Sharon listened in closely as well. It was the highlight of their concerns.

“Rich? When did I ever become rich? I’m penniless!”

Gerald held back his laughter as he enjoyed the expressions on their faces. They were both hilarious and ridiculous at the same time. He was no longer angry. Rather, he was feeling playful at the moment, so he simply replied in a plain and casual manner.

He then took some roasted pork knuckles and rice before savoring them.

“Pft! You’re really mischievous aren’t you, Gerald? You’re getting quite good at acting I see!” said Lilian as she laughed.

She had studied art before this and that included a bit of theatre. She was less rigid than the other two for sure.

As she spoke, she also slightly pinched Gerald’s thigh.

“I… I really don’t have any money!” said Gerald again.

“Hmm… If you don’t have any money, how did you manage to fish out seven to nine thousand dollars just to buy cell phones? What more, how could you have bought the two jade bracelets today without having any money? The dragon jade bracelet alone cost around thirty-two thousand dollars! You’re not deceiving anyone, Gerald.”

Gerald groaned slightly as Lilian continued questioning him.

Sharon simply continued to stare at Gerald, her eyes wide open.

“Ah, those? That money doesn’t belong to me! I’m just running some errands for some people! I’m going to be sending the bracelets over to the buyer immediately after this!”

Gerald really didn’t want to tell them the truth.

By deceiving them, the best outcome he could foresee was that they would just continue treating each other as strangers in the future.

“Ahh… I see. So the money really wasn’t yours?”

Lilian and Sharon exchanged glances. They both felt as though a huge weight had been lifted off their shoulders.

“Say, Sharon, could you pass the pork trotters over to me? I can’t reach it from here!” said Gerald to see their reaction.

“D*mn it! Why are you still eating pork trotters now? Are you some pig? You’ve already eaten so much! Just look at how unpromising you already look!” said Sharon coldly as she glared at Gerald.

D*mn it… I really thought you were rich for a second there… That was the only reason why you were invited in the first place… I guess in the end you were just being an errand boy for someone else!

While those were the thoughts in Sharon’s head, Lilian had begun inching slowly away from Gerald.

Once she was sitting quite far away, she said coldly, “Oh, Gerald Crawford. I used to think that though you were poor, you would at least be useful in the future since you’re good at studying anyway. However, now that I look at you, I feel that you’re only going to become more useless in the future!”

Apparently he was going to be called by his full name now.

“Didn’t you guys say that we should support each other and provide helping hands since we’re all in Mayberry City anyway? Since you guys are obviously doing better than me, could you lend me a helping hand as well? After all, we’ve been classmates for three years in high school!” asked Gerald.

“Oh my god! As if we could help you! What can you even do? You shouldn’t talk about our high school days anymore. I haven’t even spoken to you for so long! Why don’t just keep chatting with Sharon? Weren’t you two almost a couple back then? Sharon definitely still likes you!”

Lilian said this deliberately for Hayward to hear.

Sharon caught on to what she was trying to do immediately. “What do you mean by that Lilian? How could I ever like Gerald! I’ve never liked him!”

As Sharon ended her sentence, she slammed her chopsticks on the table angrily.

The two then started to argue.

Hayward could only try to persuade them to stop fighting each other.

Ah, to be as rich and handsome as he was, was a sin.

Gerald paid no attention to them and simply continued eating while also enjoying the lively atmosphere.

All of a sudden, the door was pushed open rather loudly.

Several police officers suddenly walked in.

“Is that them?” asked a policeman coldly as he pointed toward Gerald and the others.

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At that moment, several police officers walked into the room along with the one who had initially pointed at them.

“That’s them!”

An angry voice came from someone who had white gauze wrapped all-around their head. As he walked closer, the group could finally make out who the person—who was pointing at Hayward—was.

‘His name was Murphy right?’ Gerald thought to himself.

The situation was quite clear. After Hayward had attacked Murphy, Murphy must have called the police after getting his injuries treated. It seemed that the police had managed to track them here through the help of the surveillance cameras on Mayberry Commercial Street.

If that wasn’t enough, Hayward had also booked a table at a restaurant near Mayberry Commercial Street under his name.

“Alright then, we’ll be needing all of you to come with us!” a single police officer said coldly.

Both Hayward and Sharon began panicking.

Even though Hayward was feeling rather superior a few seconds ago, his actions had come back to bite him. After all, he had crashed a vase over Murphy’s head earlier.

Though he was clearly anxious, his next response was to brazenly say, “Sure, let’s go! I’ll be released after two hours anyway!”

“Oh, two hours you say! After you’ve dared to hit my brother? I’d like to see you try!” said a cold and arrogant voice.

A woman soon began walking forward. She stood next to Murphy.

“Sister! That’s the kid who attacked me!” said Murphy as he pointed toward Hayward.

“Don’t worry, I’ve already explained the matter to the inspector! He’ll definitely be upholding justice on your behalf!” replied the woman.

Being able to utter that sentence alone proved that Murphy’s family had sufficient connections to turn the situation from a simple into a rather difficult one.

Hayward began feeling even more nervous now.

Sharon had also not expected Murphy to have such a powerful sister.

As the woman shifted her cold glare from Hayward to look at the others who sat at the same table, she couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow in astonishment.

What are you doing

when he heard his name and the familiar voice, he looked

than Naomi’s cousin, Xyleena. He really hadn’t expected Murphy

well that Xyleena

in this dispute at all.

but laugh wryly at the ridiculousness of

me, we’re just

So you’re actually enjoying a meal with the people who beat my brother up? And of course a pathetic jerk like you is involved in the matter as well! To think

others to a meal back then, she had already been extremely dissatisfied with him for running off

couldn’t understand what went wrong that day. All

even looked at her classmates at

short, the entire meal

for not being appreciative of

unexpected that both of them would actually meet like

That person was also there while I was beaten up!”

wish to add anything you can say it back at the police station!

police then brought all of

felt depressed. What

even say at

the police officers began taking their statements. Since surveillance cameras were present, Hayward

the four people were placed in a small room while they awaited their

as well? I’ve just been offered a job as a teacher and I haven’t even started my first day at

We actually hurt someone this time and they have solid evidence too! That Murphy… And his sister! She’s

but she was clearly nervous as

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them could tell that Xyleena was not the kind

Hayward’s face had already been pale for some time now. He was pacing back and forth

hand, Sharon was feeling a

Murphy’s sister was very powerful in Mayberry City.

that Murphy was also someone

it, Sharon began feeling slightly

Murphy’s future

only knew how to show off. Murphy, on the

she thought about it, the more conflicted

Ahh! Why!

ever fallen for three people

was Gerald but she had already moved on from him for a very

third

was feeling very entangled in the mess she had

come up with a suitable solution

definitely be a criminal record no matter what!” said Gerald

People acquainted with you must be really unlucky!”

Hayward and I participated in the fight! I think Gerald’s just making fun of us at this point!” said Sharon as she

arrived shortly after. Both parties were then taken to the interrogation room to meet with one

the Mayberry Commercial Group when his son had gotten into a

simply be giving others a reason to look down on

depend on his personal relationships and connections. Due to the absence of help from the Mayberry Commercial Group, both

After all, no matter who started the fight first, the

silent! You have a solution in mind, don’t you? I don’t want to have a criminal record! What am I going to do if I have one? My whole life will be ruined!” said Hayward, his voice terrified. The realization had finally caught

recordings! I was simply tagging along! I didn’t do anything at all! I’m a teacher please don’t place a criminal record on

who was sitting opposite her, “We were friends before this, right Murphy? Have you already forgotten our time

also part of the reason why Sharon cheated on me! No matter what the case is, my sister’s definitely getting to the bottom of the matter for me today!”

Xyleena. “Miss Xyleena, I am aware that you have a very broad network of connections. However, you shouldn’t push people into a dead-end either. I know people from the Mayberry Commercial Group. Do you really

Do you think you’re the only

as he began contacting people

though she also contacted Naomi

her. Noami had even told Xyleena about the white-haired youth along with

Do you still have the contact number of the young man who had saved you last time? Could you contact him on my behalf? Our brother has been beaten up.

time when we were having a meal together? I remember you saying that I could contact you if I

begun

and Sharon could only stare

Both Hayward and Murphy had

young man who could only work hard and struggle at the bottom. However, his sister seemed to have very strong

flabbergasted and if there was one thing she had come to learn from all of

not look down on young or

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had made their calls,

the time, even the police couldn’t really predict how the situation would end. The results later would be

out on top?” muttered Sharon silently to herself, her heart filled with doubt

was rooting for Hayward to be the victor, and the next, she was hoping that Murphy—who had still been sneakily looking at her with infatuated eyes—would be the one

onslaught of complicated emotions were

Sharon continued to wonder, footsteps could be heard from behind the interrogation

in fact, and they all seemed to be

Is Chairman Lloyd here?” asked

it. Chairman Lloyd and the others would never physically attend

creak of an opening door

policemen entered the

two police officers

was also following behind them, an almost pressuring aura

who had called Chairman Lloyd!” greeted Hayward’s father excitedly the moment he

who was beaten

** and **

when the white-haired youth and Maybach were added into the equation. However, she now knew that her

a short series of explanations, both parties expressing their positions

younger brother are you even talking about. Officer Wiles, have you sufficiently interrogated them on what truly

started the whole thing by hitting Sharon at Trinity Jewelers. What followed was that Sharon then called Hayward to beat

no point deciding whether this matter should be settled privately or publicly. They’ll just go through normal procedures, administrative detention and also punishment! All the troublemakers are

that moment, confusion swept

mean by that? Aren’t you here to help?”

think that her persistence was actually going to get her younger brother

was going on

wasn’t, who else could have gotten ** and ** to come

are Mr. Gerald Crawford,

to look around the room till their

would be me,” said Gerald as he

Harrison much earlier on while he was still in the

explained the

was clean since there really wasn’t anything shady going on and he hadn’t actually done anything

** and ** in person. Gerald had initially just expected Mr. Harrison to speak to the police officers on

an eyewitness in this case so you don’t need to stay here any longer. You may

for all

he simply walked out of the police station, leaving

clear as day

group of people there

it wasn’t clear enough, the men with strong auras completely ignored everyone

“F*ck!”

turn red with a cocktail

went for Sharon

them were

relationships. From their attitude toward him earlier, it was obvious that his connections were much better than

‘Who exactly is Gerald?’

were simultaneously thinking about this at

chests seemed to have appeared

such a mental slap

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to grow a little nervous. All three of the women were feeling the

were terrified to even think about the possibility of Gerald actually being a

was surprised to see that Wesley—from the Bureau of Commerce—was already waiting for him in

into

“Mr. Crawford, you were just a witness so why were you still being held on

that he was an accomplice in the matter. “Don’t even mention it, she just has a

details so

whether I should be sharing with you,” said Wesley with a smile as he continued to drive Gerald back to

good impression of

was a real leader who really wanted to further develop and help the

leaned forward slightly to

a task indicator to strengthen our urban and rural economic construction. Of course, the business management

I’ve already troubled you a lot, Mr. Crawford. Hence I decided to put some investment sources into some other big groups instead. Everything had been agreed on. Alas, who could have anticipated the Rye Group suddenly collapsing like that just a few days ago! Their collapse triggered a chain reaction, and many other related companies were affected because of that event. After all, all our

or cry. After all, he was

had brought trouble to several

hometown is a township in the Serene Country below Mayberry City. I’ve looked into the information and transportation location there and from what I found, it’s actually pretty good. If you

Gerald to invest

Wesley was, Gerald had no

examination in seven more days. After he was done, Gerald would have more free time in the coming months

had previously thought about investing in his own hometown before. He had already

that he had indirectly destroyed Wesley’s original investment plan, Gerald saw no reason to refuse his

sum Wesley was asking

agreed to his

his dormitory, Gerald found a safe spot to place the jade bracelets that he had

were busy studying at

phone vibrate in his pocket. It

him to talk to her

to his calculations, his sister should be arriving today. Gerald

originally ‘studying’ in the dormitory put

even moved to keep watch at the

looking things again! If Hayley and Alice’s guess is correct, then Gerald really is Mr. Crawford! We’ll be able to have a

roommates, including Gerald himself, had stolen food from one another or

zero guilt in what they were

more, they were now very curious and keen to uncover Gerald’s

Hayley and the others made a right guess!” said Harper

really would be happy for Gerald if the rumor turned out to be

suddenly received a video call

the caller’s contact name, he saw

Harper, is Gerald back

back not too long ago but he’s in the bathroom now. He’s brought back two boxes of really expensive

I want to

the background, Alice could also

clear that until they could uncover Gerald’s true identity, these people wouldn’t be able to sleep well.

was feeling desperate, and Alice had been feeling tormented

she apologize to

a chance that she could

what if Gerald turned out to not be Mr. Crawford

it! The question was seriously driving her

Benjamin! Open it up to see

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such a beautiful jade

shocked when they saw what

that came with the parcel made them

bracelets had cost more

want

on the

out before showing it to them through his phone’s camera. Gerald’s other roommates continued looking at

boxes didn’t look

one thing. Gerald was rich! That

standing by the door started whispering hurriedly, “Gerald’s back! Put it away

other boys

opened the door to enter the dormitory, he saw that all his classmates were standing. They all looked flustered as

simply smiled and asked, “What? Do you see money on

please tell us the truth. Are you really

had any money in

He’s still trying to hide the truth from

him up

took his pants off

surrender! I’m rich now! Stop

the cat was out of the bag and there was no point trying to hide it any

appear that all his recent odd behaviors

right to be doubtful. After all, how could such a miserably poor student suddenly become so rich? What more, he wasn’t just rich.

was because he was afraid

remained silent on the fact that

that, his roommates had already speculated that there was a high

really was and wouldn’t

was nothing that Harper and the other boys

fool around for a while, they were all genuinely

up his mind a long time ago that he would definitely be

were going to spend the next few days at school together. Everyone in

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