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Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 611

While that was happening…

“Mr. Long, I apologize but I’ve failed!”

“What? How did you manage to fail, Scorpion? Can’t you take down a mere person like Gerald?” said Yunus through the phone, dumbfounded. He was in the washroom when he received the call from Scorpion.

“I apologize, but an expert helped him escape! If I hadn’t retracted my arm in time it would’ve been broken by now!” replied Scorpion as he held the phone with his good hand. He was making the call from inside a car.

Scorpion’s arm—which had been placed on a flat surface—was now pulsing, his tendons all protruding and red. It almost seemed like fresh worms had covered his entire arm. At the moment, he couldn’t even move it.

His forehead was covered with cold sweat and he felt rather weak.

“Dmn it all! That bstard’s really f*cking lucky! But either way, we already have a good start! Once the headline goes public tomorrow, he’ll definitely become extremely infamous! The Owens won’t let him off easily and my family will just help them then! It’s only a matter of them before we ruin him completely! Also, go get some rest for now, Scorpion!” said Yunus before hanging up the call.

As soon as the call ended, Yunus saw that Melissa was calling him now.

“Hey Yunus? Wasn’t there too much of a commotion today? You just told me to trick him and get him into the room right? I distinctly remember that you said that my cousin wouldn’t suffer any losses in this. Why did you end up doing that?” asked Melissa rather anxiously.

“What losses? Rosalie didn’t go through any of that. She wasn’t even humiliated! The most important thing is that we got the results we wanted. Isn’t that what matters the most?” replied Yunus in a persuasive tone.

“Humph! How could you say she wasn’t humiliated under those circumstances? She was half naked in the end! Don’t forget she’s an Owens! We need to settle this affair quickly or it’s going to be difficult to explain all this to our families!” said Melissa before sighing.

“I really regret helping you now… You have no idea how much trouble I’ve gone through. I’ve been accompanying and entertaining Gerald since last night you know! I was so afraid that he would refuse to attend my gathering. If he really did end up doing that, I would’ve had to think of another way to get him to go there!”

“Also I hope that you realize that I’ve officially offended a rich heir in Mayberry because of you. He and his sister’s wealth isn’t too far off from what the Longs have! I missed a great opportunity to befriend a rich youth because of you!”

Yunus then burst into laughter before saying, “What exactly are you regretting about? You have the Longs of Yanken backing you up now! It’s like you’ve just gained the most powerful and influential people on your side! Regardless of where you are in Weston, everywhere there is under the influence of my family! I hope you realize that Gerald only has influence here in Mayberry! Alright, since you helped me get Giya this time, I promise to grant you a wish too!” replied Yunus as he smiled bitterly in resignation.

Only after saying that was he able to slowly coax and pacify Melissa.

Meanwhile, Gerald had just returned to his hotel. However, there was a distinct difference now. The entire hotel had been enclosed.

Zack, Michael, and the Drake & Tyson duo were already waiting for him inside.

They had received some news regarding the incident today, which led them to pay most of their attention on it.

Initially, they had thought that the Longs would be hesitant and not daring enough to actually make a move on Gerald. It turned out, however, that everyone’s judgment had clearly been wrong.

“We’ve caught the news director, Mr. Crawford! The f*cker was already arranging for the news headline for tomorrow at home!” said both Drake and Tyson as they rushed into the private room.

“Bring him in!” said Gerald in a cold voice as he sat down on the boss’s chair.

He couldn’t help it. Since Yunus had spent so much effort to frame him, he needed to tackle the news issue first. Yunus’s slander on Gerald could not be exposed under any circumstances.

“What are you all doing? Unhand me!” shouted a middle-aged man who was soon dragged into the room by a few bodyguards.

The man in question was the news director who had been bribed by Yunus. He went by the name of Leach.

“Nice to meet you Mr. Leach. I’m sure you already know why I brought you here today. Where are the things that your subordinates captured today?” asked Gerald.

“I have no clue what you’re hinting at, Mr. Crawford. Also if I may, you’d better reconsider what you’re doing right now! It’s only fair, right, and proper for my subordinates to take photographs! I’ll never hand over any photographs they take regardless of what you do to me!”

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Mr. Leach’s tone was icy as he said that.

“Fair, right, and proper you say? As if! From what we’ve found, your subordinates had been lying in wait in their cars for at least two hours before the event even took place! Are you saying that they were able to foresee tonight’s incident that early on?”

“While the surveillance system in the hotel was conveniently out of order today, they’re still working just fine in other places! Let’s just cut to the chase, Mr. Leach. I’m sure you know a lot more about today’s incident than me, am I right?” interrogated Gerald.

This was the first time Gerald had ever been framed.

His sister had previously told him that doing business would be both a test, and a chance for him to gain experience. Gerald hadn’t felt the weight of her words before this, but he realized just how true her statement was now.

Despite hearing Gerald’s words, Mr. Leach refused to talk and simply averted his gaze.

To him, regardless of how powerful Gerald was, it was only a matter of fame. Sure, Gerald and his sister were famous, but the Longs from Yanken were different. They were an entire family.

Mr. Leach would much rather offend Mr. Crawford alone rather than Mr. Long and the rest of his family.

“Since you’re remaining quiet, I’m certain now that you’ve been trying to deliberately ruin me. It seems like I don’t need to play the nice guy anymore!” said Gerald.

“Humph. I know what you’re trying to do. I anticipated that something like this would happen so I’ve already informed my subordinates to expose the entire incident if I don’t return in an hour. While they’re at it, they’ll make a police report as well!” replied Mr. Leach.

“Oh, is that so? Mr. Leach you’re overthinking it. I only called you over to ask you a few questions. I’ve no intention of doing anything to you. You may leave now…” said Gerald with a faint smile.

After he said that, Mr. Leach was allowed to leave. Confused, he slowly got up to head for the exit but then he saw Gerald taking his phone out.

Gerald then began playing a video on his phone.

“Daddy! H-help! Save me!” screamed a girl’s voice in fear through Gerald’s phone.

When Mr. Leach heard her voice, he immediately rushed back in before anxiously saying, “What are you doing? Is that my daughter’s voice?”

“Humph! You don’t have to worry about her. Your daughter’s now in your village hometown. You know, our company’s film and television department have gone there to shoot a video about safety education. It was only natural for us to invite your daughter for the shooting since she’s so beautiful! Her role is of a young girl who’s been kidnapped and if her father isn’t able to meet a compromise with the kidnappers, she’ll be killed!” said Zack with a smile before taking the phone from Gerald’s hand and showing it to Mr. Leach.

When he watched the video, he found that what Zack had said was indeed true.

Mr. Leach gulped slightly at that moment. Their implicit message to him was clear as day.

Mr. Long had indeed arranged for the entire incident to happen, just to slander Mr. Crawford. Mr. Leach knew full well that he was the one who was wrong here.

Even if someone wanted to take revenge on Mr. Leach, he knew he couldn’t say anything.

However, his daughter was safe now and she was even having fun with Mr. Crawford’s staff. Mr. Crawford had given him a great deal of respect and he couldn’t just keep his act up.

“…Mr. Crawford, when they claimed that you r*ped that girl at first, I certainly didn’t believe that. I felt like there was some kind of misunderstanding, and I now know that it’s a terribly, terribly huge misunderstanding!” said Mr. Leach, his face pale.

“You’re not the one at fault here, Mr. Leach. Also, we aren’t scummy enough to freely blackmail others like Yunus. Tell us how we should resolve this. Understand that if you do deliberately try to ruin me, I’ll definitely not be willing and happy about it!” said Gerald.

“Alright, I’ll tell all of you the truth now. Yunus told us to modify the photographs in order to slander you. His goal is to get the Owens to become your enemies! I, for one, believe that you would never do such a dirty and wicked thing, Mr. Crawford!” explained Mr. Leach, his entire body covered in cold sweat.

Now that Mr. Leach had told them the truth, Gerald looked toward Zack and nodded slightly. Zack then showed Mr. Leach another video.

As he watched the video, his eyes widened in disbelief. Mr. Leach was soon so angry that his entire face turned pale.

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“Are those… Mr. Long’s subordinates?”

The video displayed a house in the village, and in it, five men in black suits were simultaneously being tied and beaten up. All their faces were swollen by the time Gerald’s subordinates stopped and began standing guard over the captives.

There was no doubt about it. Those tied up men could only be Mr. Long’s subordinates.

“Mr. Leach, Yunus is an extremely wicked man. Since he was afraid that you’d go back on your words, he ordered for some of his subordinates to capture your daughter this afternoon! You’re lucky that our men got there first!” replied Zack with a smile.

After hearing his explanation, Mr. Leach was now able to piece together the entire incident.

“That Yunus! How wicked that man is! I was almost fooled by him! Mr. Crawford, I’ve severely wronged you this time!” said Mr. Leach as he apologetically bowed repeatedly in front of Gerald.

His apology was sincere. After all, it was Gerald’s indirect involvement that saved his daughter. Mr. Leach knew now that Yunus was the kind of person who would use all kinds of underhanded schemes and means just to achieve his goals.

If Yunus had actually been able to capture his daughter, bad things would definitely have happened to her if Mr. Leach had chosen to go against him.

Thinking about it alone made Mr. Leach shiver with both regret and fear. Simultaneously, he was also feeling guilty and thankful toward Mr. Crawford.

After a while, he lowered his voice before saying, “…Mr. Crawford, I have a recording here with me that I’m certain you’ll be extremely interested in!”

Hearing that, Gerald and Zack looked at each other silently for a moment. Gerald then nodded his head and Mr. Leach slid out a recording.

It seemed that Gerald no longer needed to worry about the news issue anymore. Mr. Leach himself seemed to know what he needed to do to handle the rest of the mess.

All that was left to do, was for Gerald to properly deal with Yunus.

At that moment, Gerald’s phone suddenly started ringing. To his surprise, it was a call from Tammy. As he thought about it, he realized that he hadn’t met her in a while, even though she was Giya’s best friend.

He guessed that she must be calling because of what had happened today between him and Giya. Giya had definitely misunderstood the situation.

As soon as he picked the phone up, he could immediately hear Tammy’s dissatisfied voice saying, “What is the meaning of this, Gerald?”

“What did you do to Giya? She’s been crying endlessly from the moment she got home just now! Today was supposed to be an extremely joyous day for her since she got first place for this semester! She had even been entitled the most outstanding student of recommendation to be admitted to the university! We had initially planned to host a celebratory party for her! How did things end up like this?”

“There’s been some misunderstandings and I wasn’t able to explain anything to her in time!” replied Gerald.

At first, Gerald cared quite a bit about how Giya viewed him since she was, after all, his friend.

Even before Tammy called, he had already thought about giving her a well-deserved explanation. With the current turn of events, it wouldn’t be too difficult for him to do so anymore.

unable to simply shake off the fact that Giya had been sharing a meal with his enemy. The more

as his friend, but she

me to explain?’ Gerald

asked her but she was unwilling to tell me anything. You’re being vague as well, so if it really is just some misunderstanding, just come over quickly and explain the whole

the one causing Giya to have such excruciating pain was still Gerald. As Giya’s best friend, Tammy just couldn’t bear to see her suffering

why she snuck out to give Gerald a call in the

refuse to go,” said

to get further entangled within this mess. I’ve already stood

of this issue, mostly because

you’re not coming? Look, I know you have Mila, but please! Even if you don’t want to continue being her friend, you need to explain the situation to her properly! After all, all of this started because of misunderstandings, no? She had fallen in love with you back then because you randomly gave her that jade bracelet! I know now that you’re Mr. Crawford and that you’re amazing and all, but don’t you think it’s a bit imprudent for you to just play with a girl’s heart like that?” replied Tammy, her voice

didn’t play with anyone’s heart!”

make Gerald reconsider. It was true that

he had done at

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Gerald sighed to himself.

explain it to her… I’ll reveal to her what kind

head over now!”

Gerald didn’t go alone. The Drake

the front gates, the duo

the two of you, today’s still the day you received the title of most outstanding student of

one day Gerald will come to realize just

when

forget about it. I don’t want to talk about it anymore. Whenever I think of him now, I

men in general. After all, she had earlier seen with her very own eyes that no

the scene for herself, she wouldn’t ever have believed that Gerald had done such a thing.

that you should be happy today! I’ve even prepared a

as everyone became curious as to what the surprise Tammy had prepared was, the doorbell

is here! Coming!” said Tammy

she shouldn’t show any further negative emotions, Giya broke into a

she saw Gerald standing at the door, her smile gradually

the person who starts it must end it! I called him over so that you two can talk it out! You can settle any unhappy misunderstandings with each other now!”

did you come?” asked Giya. Her usually charming face was now as cold

came to explain about what happened today. It’s all just

you don’t have to explain anything. If there isn’t anything else, Mr. Crawford, then please leave. Seeing such

before saying, “Look, I just

It’s not a big deal whether you explain it to me or not anyway. Also, it’s already night time. It’s improper of you to be here since there are only girls here. I also don’t

hearing that, it was

that I think about it, it is rather ridiculous. It was unnecessary for me to come here to try to explain myself

him as Yunus now instead of Mr. Long. I guess she’s finally found her

well! I won’t bother you anymore!” said Gerald with

shouted Giya as

I want to

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was the jade bracelet that

nice memento to keep with me since we would never be

“Fine by me!”

You stick with your Mila and I’ll stick with Yunus. We’ll have no reason to see or even talk to

“Will do!”

much else to say. After taking the bracelet, he simply greeted Tammy and the other girls with a silent nod before immediately leaving

easily, Giya? What exactly happened between you two?” asked Tammy, her confusion apparent in her

over for all of you to see. Wait here while I go get it!” said Giya as she wiped her tears

hard Giya was forcing herself to smile, her friends just couldn’t bring themselves to eat, drink,

but could you please refrain from torturing yourself? We all know that you don’t like Yunus. You clearly like Gerald so why are you lying to yourself like this?” said

I finally understand now. I’ve never really liked Gerald the way a woman likes a man. Now that I think about it, all those feelings I had for him were probably just out of pity and compassion! I never loved him in the

I can be together with Mr. Long and the Long’s daughter-in-law! Humph! To be frank, aren’t you

others could only look at each other helplessly. Nobody knew what to say so

Giya had finally ended. He couldn’t really put a name to the emotion he

sorrow. To put simply, the feelings he felt

back to the hotel with the Drake & Tyson Duo, Gerald received a call from Zack

forceful than others—to find that person,

skilled climber. It would also be natural to assume that he was very cunning as

getting instant results—since they had already received the needed clarification from Mr. Leach earlier that Gerald was indeed being slandered—the person who had leaped out the window still needed to

blaming himself, Gerald simply advised

peaceful for Gerald and he headed to bed

things were happening amidst

sat beside a river, he slyly said, “I’ve done what you

place to hide in. Worry not, the pay isn’t going

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hope that you’re aware that because of you, I ended up not only offending Mr. Crawford, but also the Owens family. You know,

this godforsaken place, the better. It isn’t a stretch to say that the Owens family will eventually find out who really laid their hands on Miss Rosalie. Should that happen, chaos will surely ensue. After all, the Longs and

threatening me?” replied Yunus as he

both Rosalie and Gerald back in the hotel. It was part of his plan to gather capable allies in order to finally bring Gerald down. After all, the Owens and

he have saved the damsel in distress, but he would also have helped the Long family

take revenge after Jessica drove them out of Mayberry City’s commercial

happened, it would pave the way for Yunus to inherit a greater

of the grudge between

had, after all, been part of Mayberry City in the past, and the connections and relations

enough to get it! Just so you know, Gerald’s sister isn’t back yet. What do you think is going to happen to me when she returns and finds out that I had colluded with you to frame her brother? Have you forgotten what

now. Make sure you keep your mouth zipped tight and leave as soon as you receive the money!” replied Yunus

shared his location with Yunus. It didn’t take long for two Maybach cars

an old man followed by a few bodyguards

all of them stood in front of Harry, he began chuckling before saying, “Now this is how it should be! Setting up others to take the blame is my forte. All of you have certainly made the right choice in hiring me! I assure you that they won’t be able to obtain a single strand of evidence at all!

started counting, a

the Owens are involved in this matter, my young master is slightly worried

are sealed!” replied Harry as

man looked at his subordinates. Among

all of them immediately pounced on Harry,

seriously trying to silence me for good? Dmn

will ensure that the Owens and the Longs will work together just fine. We’ll finally be able to take down the Crawford family! Also, while we’re at it, you should never have threatened Mr. Long in the

sentence ended, Scorpion—whose hands

“F-f*ck all of you!”

With his neck now momentarily freed from Scorpion’s grasps,

be this careless?! That person can’t be trusted at all! If we don’t

remained in the water for a long

coast was clear, he started cursing

bstard he is! To think I nearly died because of him today! Fine then! Since I can’t make money off of you, then there’s no need for any further hesitation! You dare lay your hands on me? I’ll

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Giya’s friends were still with her in the

were drinking and singing together, seemingly having a lot of fun. In truth, they were all trying very hard to cheer Giya up so that she could forget all of her sadness

and the

Tammy, I need to use the bathroom… Will you accompany

“Sure thing!”

them then headed to the bathroom

too long after, a scream

immediately rushed toward the source of the scream. However, once they got to the

with us! Where are you

time had passed, they concluded

were so anxious that they were already on the verge of bursting

should we

we do?

in what seemed to be an abandoned house in the

were about to enter the bathroom. The last thing they could recall before passing

us go! Who are you?!” yelled

you, Giya’s well connected with several rich and influential people! If

place! I’ll cut straight to the chase, Miss Giya. I need you to force that b*stardYunus to fork out the money he owes me! As soon as I get my money, I’ll leave immediately without even touching a single strand of hair on your head, Miss

in question was

all, he was the kind of person who lived for money, and he would do anything to get his hands on more. Even now, he

why he had yet to reveal the truth about the set up for both

from that, Harry was also aware that if word got out about his involvement in the case, he would simultaneously be offending the Crawfords, the Longs, and the Owens. He would definitely

based on his emotions, which led him to eventually come up

me any amount of money in exchange for his beautiful fiancée’s safety!” said Harry

There’s another equally rich and influential heir who’s close to Giya! And his name is Mr. Gerald Crawford

Gerald?!” replied Harry, a stunned

it wasn’t because of Gerald, he wouldn’t have been reduced to his current state where he had to constantly hide in the

was well aware that the Crawford family should not be underestimated under

told you, I have nothing more to do with that person anymore! We are no longer connected in any way!

doubt that! Even if you’re no longer friends, I

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confident with

I want to see that

done talking yet? If you aren’t aware, you’re being held

so frightened that she immediately

bridge of his nose, Harry then took

just want my god d*mn money!” grumbled Harry as

in an affectionate and doting tone as soon as he