The Secretly Rich Man

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.

are you doing

when he heard his name and the familiar voice, he

was none other than Naomi’s cousin, Xyleena. He really hadn’t expected Murphy to be

that Xyleena didn’t have

the picture, there would be no outsiders in this dispute at all. On one side was his high school classmates while on the other was Naomi’s relatives and

but laugh wryly at the ridiculousness of the

just having

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 that I took such good care

be honest, ever since Xyleena and Naomi had invited Gerald and the others to a meal back then,

their power to Naomi’s classmates. She still couldn’t understand what went wrong that day. All Naomi’s female classmates did was whisper among themselves and she had no idea what they

the end, they barely even looked at her classmates at

entire meal was

course, she blamed the entire thing on Gerald for not being appreciative

both of them would actually meet like this

also there while I was beaten up!” said

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

of

depressed. What terrible

could he even say at

arriving at the police station, the police officers began taking their statements. Since surveillance cameras were present, Hayward couldn’t

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

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

have solid evidence too! That Murphy… And his

was silent but she was clearly

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them could tell that Xyleena was not the kind of woman that they

face had already been pale for some time now. He was pacing

other hand, Sharon was

powerful in Mayberry City. She was also very

that Murphy was

it, Sharon began feeling slightly regretful. Had she been too

Murphy’s future achievements somehow surpassed

off. Murphy, on the

about it, the more

Ahh! Why!

fallen for

already moved on from him for a very long time. She

second and third

very entangled in the mess

talking about it already. I’ve already told my dad about the situation. He’ll definitely come up with a suitable solution to

a criminal record no matter what!” said Gerald who had been quiet for

really like to say inauspicious things! People acquainted with you must be really

Let him say whatever he wants. After all, only Hayward and I participated in the fight! I think Gerald’s just making fun of us at this point!” said

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

connections too. After all, he couldn’t just rely on the Mayberry Commercial Group when his son had gotten

Mayberry Commercial Group now would simply be giving

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

was unscathed while Murphy was badly hurt. After all, no matter who started

to do if I have one? My whole life will be ruined!” said Hayward, his voice terrified. The realization

Officer, you can look at the surveillance camera 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 me!” begged

sitting opposite her, “We were friends before this, right Murphy? Have you

you’re also part of the reason why Sharon cheated on me! No matter what the case is,

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

off. Do you think you’re the only one who knows

his teeth as he began contacting people from

doing the same, though she

explained everything that had happened to her. Noami had even told Xyleena about the white-haired youth along with his men that had

the young man who had saved you last time? Could you contact him on my behalf? Our brother has been beaten up. Hadn’t he told you that you could contact him if you ran into any trouble in the future?

together? I remember you saying that I could contact you if I ran into any trouble? Well… Right, yes that’s right…

had begun showing

Sharon could only stare

it! Both Hayward and Murphy

and struggle at the bottom. However, his sister seemed to have very strong connections all over the place. She even had a team of

flabbergasted and if there was one thing she had come to learn from all of this, it was that life really

to not look down on young or poor people ever

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calls, they

later would be the deciding factor of whether today’s events were

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

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

put it simply, an onslaught of complicated emotions were

could be heard from behind the interrogation room

fact, and they all seemed to be moving rather

Is Chairman Lloyd here?” asked Hayward

never physically attend to deal with

an opening door

of middle-aged policemen entered the room immediately

two police officers immediately

was also following behind them,

Lloyd!” greeted Hayward’s father excitedly

Naomi as well! The person who was beaten up was none other than Miss Naomi’s younger brother!” said Xyleena

** were called here

were added into

a short series of explanations, both parties

Chairman Lloyd and what younger brother are you even talking about. Officer Wiles, have you sufficiently interrogated them

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

deciding whether this matter should be settled privately or publicly. They’ll just go through normal procedures, administrative detention and

that moment, confusion swept through

mean by that? Aren’t you here to help?” asked Xyleena. She

was actually going to get her younger brother locked

going on

wasn’t, who else

Mr.

then turned to look around the

me,” said

much earlier on while he was still in the police

had explained the entire

clean since there really wasn’t anything shady going on and he

in person. Gerald had initially just expected

in this case so you

thanks for all your

he simply walked out

was clear as day

of people there had come for

clear enough, the men with strong auras completely ignored everyone else in the police station as they turned to leave together

“F*ck!”

red with a cocktail of embarrassment, shock, and

for Sharon

them were left

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

‘Who exactly is Gerald?’

were simultaneously thinking about this at

that had been lifted off their chests seemed

to get such a mental slap to her face like

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to grow a little nervous. All three of the

were terrified to even think about the possibility of

station’s front door, he was surprised to see that Wesley—from the

into

were just a witness so why were you still being held

had continued to insist that he was an accomplice in the matter. “Don’t even

details so

my mind that I’m still unsure whether I should be sharing with you,” said Wesley with a smile as he

a good impression

wanted to further develop and

forward slightly to show

time ago, our business management team received a task indicator to strengthen our urban and rural economic construction. Of course, the business management bureau’s cooperation is necessary for us to achieve this. Therefore, I’ve planned to set up some pilot projects in other countries, cities,

into some other big groups instead. Everything had been agreed on. Alas, who could have anticipated the Rye Group suddenly collapsing like that just

cry. After all, he was the one who had ordered the Rye Group to be

seem that destroying the group had brought trouble to several other people

the information and transportation location there and from what I found, it’s actually pretty good. If you would be willing to invest in the development of the enterprises there, it would only take a few years to improve the economy of the Serene Country. Naturally, we’ll also be providing all the resources as

Gerald to invest

how efficient Wesley was, Gerald had

would be completing his examination in seven more days. After he was done, Gerald would have more free time in the coming months to devote himself to the development of

about investing in his own hometown before. He had already been planning

original investment plan, Gerald saw no reason to refuse his

asking for wasn’t too much for

Gerald agreed to

safe spot to

were busy studying at the

he felt his cell phone vibrate in his

it wouldn’t be convenient for him to talk to her in the dormitory, Gerald

his calculations, his sister should be arriving today. Gerald had been meaning

left, five people who were originally ‘studying’ in the dormitory put down their

even moved

guess is correct, then Gerald really is Mr. Crawford! We’ll be able to have

the first time the roommates, including Gerald himself, had stolen

zero guilt in what they were currently

curious and keen

the others made a right guess!” said Harper as he smiled while scratching the back of his

would be happy for Gerald if the rumor turned out to

moment, Harper suddenly received a video call

name, he

Harper, is Gerald back

he’s in the bathroom now. He’s brought back two boxes of really

I want to see

Hayley’s roommate who had butted in. In the background, Alice could also be seen

these people wouldn’t be able to

day could feel like an entire year when a person was feeling

apologize to

Mila wasn’t here, was there a chance that she could get back

to not

The question was seriously

Open it up to

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a beautiful jade

equally shocked when they saw what lay

that came with the parcel made them even

had cost more than forty

we want

on the other side

before showing it to them through his

boxes didn’t look

one thing. Gerald was rich! That was an undeniable

moment, the boy standing by the door started whispering hurriedly, “Gerald’s

as the other boys

dormitory, he saw that all his classmates were standing. They all

smiled and asked, “What? Do you see money

the truth. Are you really rich

money in the

hide the truth from us! Brothers!

and the rest of the boys then lifted him up together before pinning his arms and legs on a

took his pants off before spanking and tickling

I surrender! I’m rich

the cat was out of the bag and

all his recent odd behaviors had caught Harper and Benjamin’s

right to be doubtful. After all, how could such a miserably poor student suddenly become so

because he was afraid that the brotherly affection he had

on the fact that he was indeed Mr.

already speculated that there was

what they did, Gerald refused to reveal who he really was and wouldn’t admit anything else, including how he got

nothing that Harper and

fool around for a while, they were all genuinely

he had already made up his mind a long time ago that he would definitely

things calmed down a little, the boys playfully blackmailed Gerald while they discussed among themselves how they were going to spend the next few days at school together. Everyone in the dormitory had helped Gerald before in the past. Therefore, he found no issue in treating them