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Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 531

“Gerald?”

XellaJaquin and Waylon Letts were both startled.

The entire marketing department was confused.

“Alright, I’m coming!”

Gerald shouted back.

“Gerald, you…you…you are Mr. Crawford?” Xella stuttered. She was clearly in shock.

Though Cindy’s mom joked around once, saying how Gerald could actually be Mr. Crawford from Mayberry the last time they had dinner at their place.

Xella was just flabbergasted back then when she heard of the joke.

But when she gave it a second thought, she was quite close to Gerald, so how could he be the super-rich Mr. Crawford?

But then, just a moment ago, when Mr. Lyle had called out his name, Xella’s mind completely went blank.

Gosh, could Gerald be Mr. Crawford?!

Gerald turned to Xella and nodded, “Yep!”

He then left as the crowd stared at him in astonishment.

Waylon, initially brought in by Xella to visit her father, was dumbfounded as he fumbled around for a chair to sit.

“F*ck! Gerald is a rich heir, and he’s our CEO! No wonder he had so many tickets! Just like what I told you, Gerald had a sophisticated identity, but… oh my god, never would I have thought that he’s our chairman!”

The moment Gerald had left, the entire marketing department went crazy!

“Luckily, we didn’t offend the chairman!” Some girls were both relieved and scared.

In short, the entire atmosphere was just in a frenzy.

Everyone was way too overwhelmed and shocked.

Regarding Stuart’s matter, the problem was handled with ease.

At that moment, they did not only confess what they had done but also exposed several other department managers who were previously not mentioned.

Most of the culprits were residents from Serene County, Mayberry.

The outcome was simple. They were all handed over to the police.

When they were being arrested, Ava threw Gerald a pitiful gaze, pleading for his help, but he turned a blind eye.

He had already given her a chance before.

Since she played the emotion card to deceive him, Gerald was not going to fall for it again!

Eventually, the matter had come to an end.

“Mr. Crawford, your birthday is in four days; any plans? Your dad gave me a call and told me it’s your first birthday since the end of your poverty-stricken life, so let’s celebrate and have a good time, shall we!” Mr. Lyle smiled excitedly.

“What else is there to plan? I’d usually celebrate my birthday with Mr. and Mrs. Winters, and this year is no exception. I’ll still go back to my hometown, but this time around, all of you are free to tag along! With more than twenty people, it’s going to be a blast, hehe!”

Gerald returned a bright smile.

Other than Xeno, who had been a good friend to Gerald since he was a kid, Gerald did not have many close friends.

After all, if you had no money or influence, who would want to play with a poor loser like you?

Hence why Gerald did not invite that many to his birthday party.

Those that he planned on inviting were Zack Lyle and Michael Zeke, probably Aiden Baker, Elena Larson, Xeno Lane, and Sienna.

He mingled well and had fun with those people, so he figured their company would be alright.

Gerald was not willing to make it too public.

After that, Gerald packed up his things as he prepared to go to town.

Michael, on the other hand, looked pale.

Zack had already noticed it, so he asked, “Michael, is there something you haven’t told Gerald?”

Michael scratched his head, anxiously, “I kinda told everyone that Mr. Crawford’s birthday is in four days. But he said to keep it low-key?”

“What?! You leaked that information out?” Zack froze, stunned.

At five in the afternoon, Gerald took a cab and headed back to town.

Gerald could now head back freely without causing any trouble. It was not a problem for the fleet to send him off.

However, the fact that he was Mr. Crawford was still unclear to Mr. Winters and his family.

If he returned like this, it would be too much extravagance, and Gerald did not like this feeling.

The next thing on the list for Gerald was to come clean with Mr. Winters and his family regarding the hospital bill settlement and his identity. After all, there was nothing for him to hide from the old couple.

While on his way back to his hometown, Gerald felt it was better to keep a low profile.

Seeing the roads being paved along the road, Gerald knew that his town would soon undergo some significant development.

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“Young man, is your house in this town?”

The driver was a middle-aged man. He asked warmly and flashed a smile.

Gerald nodded.

“Well, congrats, kiddo, your town is about to undergo quite a significant development, and no piece of land here will be left unattended! Not only will they provide housing fees, but also demolition fees and many job opportunities too! You look like a college student, so when you’re back home, you should make good use of this opportunity!”

“Yeah, that would be nice!”

As they chatted along the way, they eventually arrived at Gerald’s hometown.

It was a town, but Gerald’s home was in a small village in the middle of the city—a town village.

There were many families in the village that run mills. They ran businesses like milling flour and such.

Back then, the best part about the village was the fantastic fragrance of freshly milled flour in the air.

But this trip back to his village, it was apparent that the fragrance of milled flour which Gerald missed was significantly lesser now.

“Woohoo, the college student is back!”

“Why didn’t you bring your girlfriend back?”

“Gerald, have you found a job? I’m sure such a bright college student like you can find a good job, right?”

As soon as he entered the village, the villagers flocked around him and started questioning.

“Not yet!”

Gerald smiled.

“Hmph, then you went to college for nothing? It’s no different than the others who dropped out of school early to work!” A woman taunted with disdain.

The village folks’ words were dreadful and judgemental, but Gerald did not bother much.

Instead, he turned away from their remarks and finally reached the door of his home.

When he took out his keys to unlock the door, he realized that the door lock was changed some time ago, and he could not open it.

“What’s the matter?”

Gerald wondered for a moment.

“Oh, Gerald, you’re back!” A woman came out of the house next to Mr. Winters’s. She was Mr. Winters’s second daughter-in-law, Sandrilla Sutton.

She approached Gerald while munching on some peanuts.

“Sandrilla, how come the house locks were changed?”

Gerald asked as he smiled wryly.

He had met Sandrilla before back when they were at the hospital.

She was very greedy for money and would take advantage of every situation, and she did not like losses.

“Oh, I changed it; what’s wrong?”

“Then what about the keys to my house?” Gerald asked.

“Huh, what do you mean by your house? Gerald, do you even know who this house belongs to now? I know why you’re back. You heard that the house was about to be demolished, and you wanted to come back to get your fair share of the money. Let me tell you this once, don’t even think about it! This is my house and written black and white on the estate license!”

Sandrilla’s tone changed.

Gerald immediately understood what she meant.

Mr. Winters had two houses when Gerald’s parents moved here. One was for their own family, and the other one was this.

His parents paid for the house.

To be frank, there was no such thing as a real estate license in the countryside twenty years ago.

They only signed a simple contract, and it was the same contract that his dad had signed with Mr. Winters while they were drinking.

That was a long time ago, and Gerald had no idea where his father had kept the contract.

During that time, they would not even have thought that Mr. Winters’ family would forcefully evict them to get the house back.

And it was because of this matter.

Sandrilla, too, heard about the demolition project and tried to get her hands on the house. She could make tens of thousands of dollars from it.

“Gerald, you’re back! Don’t listen to her nonsense; this house belongs to your family, and no one can take it away from you!”

Suddenly, Mr. Winters came out and exclaimed firmly.

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“What do you mean by that, old man? What do you mean it’s theirs? I’m warning you, I’ve consulted with a lawyer, and if we bring this to court, the contract you signed will not be counted! The real estate certificate is ours anyway!” Sandrilla said frantically.

‘Seems like they’ve been quarreling about the matter for quite some time now.’

Gerald thought to himself.

Earlier, when he called Mr. Winters, he sensed that Mr. Winters was in a bad mood.

It turned out that they had been quarreling.

Even if the housing estate belonged to the Crawfords, why would Gerald even fight with them for it?

“Besides, didn’t Gerald win the lottery? Why would he still care about this house anyway! And I don’t know where I lost the house key for the lock!” Sandrilla continued, fuming.

“Hmph!” Mr. Winters grunted as he picked up a large rock from the ground.

“Excuse me, what do you think you’re doing?” Sandrilla asked as she stepped back in anxiousness.

Mr. Winters then stormed towards the door and smashed the lock with the rock.

He then whipped out a new lock from his pocket.

“Gerald, with this lock, the three of them wouldn’t dare to take turns to change the lock to your house. Enough with this mess. Let’s go inside and clean-up later. Come over to my house for dinner; your aunt is cooking up a feast for you.” Mr. Winters said.

“Alright then!”

Gerald took the lock and forced a smile. Turns out, the second sister-in-law was not the first person to lock his house door. The first and third sister-in-law were also involved.

Gerald looked at how grim and hopeless the circumstances were and could only force a grin.

Sandrilla’s face turned scarlet. She cried as she ran back home to make a phone call.

tidied up his house, he headed to Mr.

by a few shiny, brand new cars parked in front of Mr. Winters’s house. The best looking one

were all

all the brothers, from the oldest to the third, were all

held many big feasts and occasions as such, but this year,

house, he

That was our house, and by what authority should we

to demolish several houses, and to reimburse them for the demolition, each household will be receiving tens of thousands of dollars. They’re starting to repair the roads, and since our house is by the mountainside, they might even turn this place into a tourist attraction, or even a movie base! After this, our

tourism sector in her town. After her house was demolished, she was able to afford two houses!”

besides, he won hundreds of thousands

brother banged his fists

find someone to get

what makes you think that only you can do that? It’s not like I’ve got no

back the house, wouldn’t that mean the house

entire family started falling into

Gerald could not stand by the sidelines and eavesdrop any

fighting! If you want this house

It doesn’t matter who you want

the other hand, was fed up

said it himself, you don’t have

chimed

Queenie, Francis, and

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threw death stares at

unintentionally embarrassed them previously

of his mouth

enough. It has been a while since Gerald

dining table

brother’s persistence, only then did the family get seated at

expression on their father’s face, he was afraid that he would fall sick once again from the

for the time being, no one touched

you found a job already?” The third

seems like he hasn’t found any job yet, though. It’s difficult to look for a job these days, and if it wasn’t for our third bro pulling some strings, even Francis wouldn’t have found a job. But look at him now, he works in an office for an insurance company, isn’t that great?” The third sister-in-law

job is quite laborious, it holds the infinite potential for future developments! Francis is still young for his age; being able to live so comfortably is not a good

job,” Gerald said, cutting the

can’t afford to not get a job! Are you planning to get by your days with just your lottery money and do nothing? You’ll starve to death sooner

Gerald to find a good job, but hey, our company is short of a toilet cleaner. I remembered last time Aunt Lacy, who cleaned the hallways, said their cleaning company was short of cleaners, so she told us to

her voice was

persuade Aunt

won’t be a problem!” Francis chuckled as

a while back, Francis and Queenie were still on

tens of thousands of dollars, their pride was hurt. But now, after entering the working world, their knowledge had widened. To

continued to take turns to throw

head as

“My birthday is in another three or four days. I’ve invited my friends to come over,

okay… Well, Gerald, it’s not like we like to ridicule you or anything; you may have some money, but why even bother

comes; we’ll go if

we’re all kind of busy at the moment; we don’t have

will be a major event happening in just a few days. It’s said that all the leaders from the province

was busy with

intentions immediately. None of

you can come over. Just

stopped talking at

with you, and I’ll even prepare a big

them have a taste of your cooking Mrs. Winters! I’ll

then continued briefing

over,

was ready to go to bed. Suddenly, Mr. Winters

something important that I

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is

Gerald’s sleeve

today, I told you about it, but I figured it’s better to tell you in person. It’s

ahead

to town some time ago, I just happened to run into him, and we chatted for a bit, you know, to catch up. He told me that

and now her family seems anxious to find her a boyfriend. Her family is well-off and rich, so there aren’t any particular criteria needed. I just thought of introducing her to you, as the

about arranging a date between the two of you for

had in mind. Seeing that Gerald had difficulty looking for jobs, Mr. Winters

did all these for Gerald, and his intentions were pure

was just like the last time

previous dates that were matchmade to him did not go well at

that, but thank you for your kind consideration! Now, if you’ll

think you should meet up with her! It doesn’t matter if it will work out, at least get to know her!” Mr. Winters

identical to the last

tell Mr. Winters that he was actually well-off,

could neither accept nor reject that offer, and neither

fine, I’ll meet up with her

give her a call

Winters eagerly grabbed his phone to make the call. He then returned minutes later in

call tomorrow. Wherever you guys are going to meet, that’s up to you. Try to sweet-talk her, okay? Her name is Michelle Waxham,

give her

Mr. Winters, Gerald went

a bit before he decided to make the

who are you looking

voice was heard

It was Mr.

to call someone this way. He tried to act a little cheerful and generous, but he

politely. She then waited for Gerald to continue

busy?” Gerald

worries,

the First, middle school or Second middle school?” Gerald tried

attended Second middle

attended the First! So, are you free tomorrow? There’s a new Domino’s that just opened

else to talk about anymore, so he

“Sure!”

you get

“Mmhmm, you too!”

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them then hung

a slight pang of guilt. He

that this was not for real. They were just going to meet each other for a while, and that was not a

other hand,

hung up the phone and began removing her

was eavesdropping on their conversation while lying on

other tomorrow. By the way,

First Middle School before. Hmm… but why do I feel that his name is so

quite

laughed, “Geez, how much dumber can you get? Sister, he’s one year younger than you, and he studied in First Middle School. You can simply just get somebody to inquire about

inquire about it then!” Michelle jumped up and immediately started

few female juniors to inquire

moment she was done, her face

grandpa introduce such a person to me?”

“Eh? Sister, what’s wrong?”

in First Middle School. His family is so poor, so much so that his parents and elder sister are out there doing manual labor. Besides, when he was studying in

Michelle cried out.

You’ve promised him.

sister replied, feeling equally

as such. Oh my goodness! If my classmates or best

said in a

just a girl, she would certainly care about

town,

don’t want to think about it anymore! I need to go and tell mother all about

and lost, Michelle called

then told her mother

was being put in a

that won’t do. Dating him is as good as telling the rest that my daughter couldn’t find herself a boyfriend and just picked some random guy. How could this be?! No way! It’s better to reject him

mom, you do know how grandpa’s temper is. He likes to keep his reputation. If he’s being humiliated in front of his friends, he might not be able to eat or sleep well. Then

Xabrina asked worriedly.

how about this. Elle, just go

Her mother suggested.

I’ll bump into my classmates!” Michelle

never occurred to Michelle previously. But

if my friends or classmates

do now, though? It seems

go then. She’s

Xabrina, just go there on behalf of your sister. After all,

the university term reopens and I become

“No problem!”

as they

She then thought to

a pretty girl? I’ll humiliate him to the core tomorrow. Otherwise, I’m not ever

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The next day arrived.

blind date, which was arranged by Mr.

know what to expect of the outcome, he still took the effort to do

But something happened unexpectedly.

There were chicken wings and French fries on her table. At that moment, she was swinging her fair legs, and it seemed like

‘Could it be her?’

Gerald thought to himself.

girl then put down her fries. She was

at that moment, Gerald received a text message too. It was

“Are you here yet?”

thought to himself: ‘As expected, it

first impressions, she was quite

slid into the

That girl

Gerald

a

of your mind?” The girl stared at Gerald, her eyes

not Michelle? But didn’t you send a text message to me just

message to my boyfriend. Do you understand?” The girl replied in

I’m so sorry. I made a

stood up

I would have

call Michelle, suddenly someone tapped

and was stunned to see another

large eyes and looked right into

you here to meet someone?” The girl

I am. And

“Xabrina!”

“Eh?”

elder sister—Michelle!” Xabrina quickly

“Did you mistake someone else as me just now?” Xabrina asked him

that was the

she was just in time to witness

It was too awkward.

stood aside and watched from afar. She did not go over

concluded to herself that Gerald was indeed

needed only less than five minutes to send him away

sat across from

glances at Xabrina to know that she was probably an empty flower pot—pretty on the outside, but nothing

other hand, Xabrina locked her

thoughts as

to be honest. If only his family background

unfortunately, he’s so poor. How would my sister ever fall in love

if it weren’t for grandpa forcing my sister to get married so soon, certainly my

many bees trying to gain my sister’s attention, just that she doesn’t

that you don’t have any salary. Besides, I heard that you’d bought a house in Serene County. But I’ve been transferred to work in Mayberry,

Xabrina asked him.

would be better to get straight to

talking about

You own a house in

Xabrina asked curiously.

too sure about the details. Besides,

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her intention of the meet up wasn’t

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