The Secretly Rich Man

Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 671

This was what Maia said as soon as she saw that Gerald had also entered the high-end entertainment center.

Gerald himself had simply been walking around, minding his own business before turning to look at Maia after hearing her shout. Contrary to Maia, he was as calm as a cucumber.

Maia however, wasn’t having any of this. To her, Gerald could only possibly have entered due to him following them closely while Jamier was showing the staff his VIP card earlier. The staff must have allowed him in then, thinking that he was part of their group!

Seeing Gerald in such a place simply made Maia feel uncomfortable.

“Hey, Gerald! Why are you here as well? Who even allowed you in here?” said Maia rather angrily.

Hearing Maia’s interrogative question, Gerald felt stunned.

‘Who allowed me in? I can come and leave as I please since the staff have been notified that I came together with Barry.’

‘I naturally have free access to this place!’

In all honesty, Gerald was only passing through the entertainment center because he needed to. After all, it was the only way for him to get to the small manors at the peak of the mountain—above the entertainment center—where both Barry and Queta were still waiting.

“D*mn it, have you no shame at all? Don’t you know that unless you’re following a tour, you need a VIP card to enter this place? Not just anybody can enter as they want!” added Maia, her voice clearly filled with contempt.

“I am aware of that!” replied Gerald with a nod.

“F*cking hell! Since you already know about that, how could you just follow us in here after Jamier showed his VIP card? You can’t just sneak into this place with us!” replied Maia.

While she hadn’t really hated Gerald in the past, Maia still utterly looked down on him. After today’s events, however, she was starting to hate him slightly.

‘Jamier didn’t even invite you! Only Warren, Vincy, Lennard, and I were supposed to come here to enjoy ourselves!’

‘How dare you even consider sneaking in with us? What’ll Jamier think about this?’

‘After all, he knows that Vincy, Lennard, and I are your high school classmates! How utterly embarrassing!’

‘If you had snuck into someplace else with us without Jamier being present, I wouldn’t have cared this much! Hell, I’d probably have approved of it as long as you were willing to expand your horizons!’

‘But this is different. What’ll Jamier think about Vincy and I now?’

All these thoughts made Maia even more embarrassed than before.

“I didn’t even sneak into this place!” replied Gerald helplessly.

He knew how much Maia had looked down upon him in the past. To think that it could actually get even worse!

However, he wasn’t lying either. He really hadn’t snuck in.

“How could you even say that at this point…? If you didn’t sneak in, do you have a VIP card?!” said Maia furiously.

“Well… No,” replied Gerald. After all, he didn’t really need one to enter.

“Then why are you still lying? You snuck into this place yet you still don’t want to admit it! I’m honestly speechless right now!” shouted Maia, so angry that she was even stomping her foot now.

If it wasn’t because of how aware she was of her status as a police officer, she would’ve already kicked Gerald at least twice by now!

What more, several other respectable-looking people—who were also walking around in the entertainment center at the time—seemed to be finding the scene rather hilarious.

Realizing this made Maia and the others feel deeply embarrassed.

Trying to deescalate the situation, Vincy then said, “It’s fine, Maia. Don’t talk to Gerald that way… Remember, we still used to be classmates! Also, Jamier? I hope you don’t think too much about it. Gerald must have just entered with us to have some fun!”

“I don’t really mind!” replied Jamier as he shook his head while laughing slightly bitterly.

“Humph! You’re lucky Jamier’s so generous! Otherwise, we would’ve kicked you out of here immediately! God, I feel so annoyed seeing him like this!” growled Maia as she stomped her foot a few more times before finally turning around to walk away.

Vincy could only look at Gerald rather pitifully.

After all, all of what Maia had said to him was equally unpleasant and hurtful.

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“I’m sure you know how straightforward a person Maia is, Gerald… After all, she’s been like that even from when she was still our captain! It’s just the way she is, so please don’t take what she said to heart!” consoled Vincy.

“Well, alright!” replied Gerald, peeking at Maia once before nodding at Vincy.

Since Vincy had been the only one treating him well, he chose to follow her advice.

Besides, if he really wanted to embarrass Maia, he could do so any time he pleased. However, he felt that that would be slightly childish of him, so he simply refrained from doing so.

Gerald wouldn’t usually have disputes with girls like her anyway.

“I hope you mean what you say… Speaking of which, if you’re not too busy, let’s hang out for a short while and catch up with each other! After graduating from high school, I asked about you and found out that you had been accepted into Mayberry University! I told you that you’d be able to do it back then!” said Vincy.

Back in high school, though she never actually said it, Vincy admired Gerald quite a bit. After all, Gerald was always studying and as a result, his results were top notch. What more, she also knew that he was the kind of person who would always persevere to the very end, regardless of the task at hand.

Once, the two of them—who were competing together as a small team—ended up becoming champion in one of the many competitions they participated in. Back then, Vincy had been extremely excited since she got to hold Gerald’s hand while receiving the award.

After all, she quite frankly had slight feelings for Gerald back then.

She honestly wanted to see Gerald finally get his moment and rise above everyone else.

However, that moment simply never came. As a result, her feelings for him were also short-lived.

In the end, Gerald was simply too poor. Although she continued treating Gerald well, she no longer tried to gain his affection.

It wasn’t as though she looked down on him or anything. She simply still retained a rather immature mindset. Putting it frankly, she wanted a more heroic person to be her life partner.

Gerald however, was rather unwilling to join her, simply because he didn’t want to deal with Maia any more than he needed to.

While he honestly wanted to refuse Vincy’s suggestion right there and then, Vincy seemed to have wanted to have a nice long chat with him from the very moment they had met again the day before.

He couldn’t really deny that he wanted to chat with Vincy as well. After all, it had been so long since they last met.

Thinking about this made it much harder for Gerald to decline her invitation.

Since the results of the jade pendant wouldn’t be out till a bit longer, Gerald eventually nodded slightly in response, not wanting to disappoint Vincy.

“Vincy! You-!”

At that moment, Maia and the others were sitting beside a hot spring while taking photographs.

Seeing that Vincy had brought Gerald along, Maia was stunned speechless. She found it weird that Vincy would even want someone like Gerald around.

“Well, since he’s already here anyway, let’s just have a chat together! This is as good a chance as any to catch up with each other!” replied Vincy immediately.

Hearing that, Maia fumed slightly before turning to look the other side.

Jamier himself wasn’t going to argue with Gerald. Instead, he turned to look at both Warren and Maia before saying, “What do you think? Isn’t the scenery here fantastic?”

“It’s definitely something!” replied Maia.

“Thanks for today, Jamier. You know, next time when you come over to Mayberry, I’ll get my dad to use his connections to allow us to enter Wayfair Mountain Entertainment to have some fun! Just the few of us together!” said Warren.

“Are you talking about the one in Mayberry? That’s the most luxurious place there! Take my word that you’ll definitely be satisfied if you go there, Jamier. Honestly, even as a person from Mayberry, I’ve never actually set foot into Wayfair Mountain Entertainment. However, I’ve heard lots about it! It’s not easy to enter if you’re just some random nobody!” added Maia as she let out a heavy sigh.

The way he worded it earlier, Warren’s father clearly had some kinds of connections. After hearing what Maia said, Warren simply patted his own chest twice before saying, “Not to worry, you’ll definitely be coming along as well when we eventually go there to have some fun! It’ll be just the five of us! You, me, Jamier, Vincy, and Lennard!”

It was obvious why he had deliberately mentioned those five names.

“Oh? Well now I definitely have to see Wayfair Mountain Entertainment for myself then!”

“Of course you do! Also, anyone who wishes to enter that place needs an admission ticket. You can’t just sneak in all willy-nilly!”

As she said that, Maia rolled her eyes slightly at Gerald’s direction.

It was clear as day that she was mocking him.

‘What else can I say to that? Little do they know that I used to be the owner of that place!’

“…Hmm? Look over there, doesn’t that girl look familiar…? Oh god. Vincy, hurry! Look there!” said Maia out of the blue as she started pointing excitedly at a girl standing next to the hot spring.

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“Isn’t she the famous celebrity, YunaYames? D*mn! To think that we’d actually bump into her here!” exclaimed Maia, clearly surprised.

“While I was aware that this scenic spot was occasionally visited by some celebrities who wanted to have some fun after attending functions in County Salford, never would I have imagined seeing such high profile artists like Yuna here!” said Vincy, equally as surprised.

Her surprise was warranted. After all, she had studied and even established her own business in County Salford. There was little about the place that she didn’t already know.

A burst of laughter soon followed.

“If I remember correctly, you’ve never really been the type to idolize celebrities, right Maia? The only exception to that rule was Yuna! You admired her so much during high school that you even pasted posters of Yuna by your bedside!”

Hearing that, Maia nodded in agreement before saying, “That’s right! I like her because of her self-discipline! I’ve seen all of her work and I even discipline myself according to how she does it!”

“Well, then what are you waiting for? Look, several people are already approaching her to get her signature! Let’s hurry over there and get one for ourselves…”

“Yeah, let’s go get her autograph together!” said Vincy. Judging from her tone alone, it was evident that Vincy really liked Yuna as well.

Jamier, Lennard, and Warren themselves weren’t going to object to Vincy’s proposal any time soon. After all, Yuna was akin to a goddess in the public’s eyes.

While lots of girls liked her, even more men saw her as the love of their dreams.

Gerald himself was a fan of Yuna’s.

After all, the celebrity was very beautiful and had an extremely charming disposition. However, the thing that attracted her fans most, was how down to earth and friendly she was.

If he remembered correctly, Yuna worked under one of Gerald’s sister’s film and television companies in Yanken.

“Come along now, Gerald! Let’s go snap some photographs together with her! It’s not every day we get to do this!” called out Vincy.

Gerald simply nodded silently, a smile on his face.

He was well aware that if he really wanted to have a photograph with Yuna, he simply needed to call her over. There wasn’t really a need for Gerald to rush over to get such a chance.

Vincy herself immediately started jogging over to Yuna after calling out to Gerald.

now or never for Gerald to

he turned around, he saw a few extremely well-dressed

all equally beautiful, they didn’t seem to be celebrities themselves. From what Gerald could assume, they were simply a few

wanted to take photographs with Yuna froze in place once they noticed the girls. Some of them were even close

of their beauty. Instead, it was because Gerald had nearly mistaken the leader of the group—or at least

resembled Queta, Gerald would’ve given

at her. In response, give him a look of disgust before leaving with her

of them look so alike!’ Gerald

he managed to catch sight of the group of girls before they left, Gerald was astonished once again when he saw what sort of

the mountain, a large group of Rolls-Royce Phantom Extended cars had been prepared for

rich! I’ve earned a hefty amount today! Wouldn’t it be great if more ladies such as themselves came here in future!”

side, Gerald saw that the voice had come from a plump, middle-aged man who was also looking at

the man had earned at least a few thousand dollars from

young lady comes from?”

from head to toe before saying, “Ahem! How am I supposed to know? I just know that their leader is rich

said that, the plump man

was obvious what he was

three hundred dollars out from his pocket before handing it to the man while saying,

if you’re talking about the richest young lady in the group, she’s come here twice before. Despite being a pro at being slick in County Salford, I’m saddened to say that even I don’t know which family she’s from. All I know is that she’s filthy

soon as his sentence ended, the man then

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‘…F*ck.’

speechless after

the middle-aged man was lying. The man definitely knew more about

she

to run after the plump man to further enquire him about it, a sudden uproar could be

Mr. Linton is here! Step

around to see a few bodyguards clearing the crowd who were still trying to take photographs together with Yuna. It wasn’t long before a rich heir entered the spotlight next, walking toward Yuna with

arrived, they immediately

with Yuna—was just about to snap a picture with her when a

think you’re doing?”

wants to discuss something with Yuna! Now scram!” retorted the bodyguard

out Jamier who had been standing aside together with the main crowd, his face

gotten to know Maia for a short time, he knew very well that Maia was a person with a short fuse. To avoid her from doing anything stupid, he immediately rushed over to drag her to the

asked Maia, her

He’s the young master of one of the most powerful families in County Salford! There seems to be

had to say. So it would seem that this Yoav person

a man—who seemed to be Yuna’s agent—as he

a while, Yoav’s company had invited Yuna to be a spokesperson for them

was currently the spokesperson of his rival company, it would seem that Yoav had grown

complications didn’t end there,

to County Salford this time around, her path had been blocked by multiple cars. Essentially, Yoav’s men were

was adamant with her

eventually led to the events

influential as Jamier had described. After all, even though a large group of people was currently observing the situation, none of them had even dared

said it once, and I’ll say it again! I won’t do

Don’t blame me

saying that, a few of the

own bodyguards stepped forward to protect her. It didn’t take long for conflict to break out, resulting in the bodyguards

a few of the girls started screaming in fear, Maia simply

Yoav reaching out to grab Yuna’s hair. Seeing that, Maia immediately made a dash for it, hurriedly pulling Yuna

planned on tugging on Yuna’s hair to maintain his

had assumed that he only needed one hand

clear mistake, since he wasn’t

head began bleeding the moment his forehead

all of his guards simultaneously, all of

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blinded by rage. To assert his dominance, he had slid a hand into his pocket, just to prove to Yuna that he could teach her a lesson without even needing to

unscathed, it was him at that

were all paralyzed in fear when they saw this, and even Yuna’s

herself had

become. And they were at County Salford too! It was definitely hard

one who had beaten Mr. Linton up!” shouted a bodyguard

beat him up!” replied Maia, her voice quivering

to dissuade the situation from getting any worse. It was clear, however, that Yoav’s bodyguards all had their eyes set on her

finally arrived after hearing complaints about the conflict. Their first action was naturally to break the

a few of the area’s medical staff were also dispatched to treat and bandage Yoav’s

scenic spot’s managers had stepped forward to deal

remained in that area. Gerald and the five others, however, naturally had

us to send you to this area’s private ward to continue bandaging your wounds,” said one of

people here aren’t allowed to leave!” growled Yoav in a wrathful voice as he held on to his lightly bandaged head before being transported away

beat him up! Why

an overbearing person that

was about to turn around to leave,

wait here for a little while longer. Please understand that if you simply leave like this, we won’t be able to give a proper explanation to the Lintons. For now, just remain

beat him up. She had simply pulled me to the side,” explained Yuna as she looked at Maia before nodding slightly, gratitude briefly reflected in

prevent more fights from happening, we’ll first have to see

true that the event had taken place in the scenic spot, even the manager wasn’t capable of dealing with

out in

correctly, Yoav has never suffered any losses before, not even when he

that Maia was the one who caused it, since I’m together with Maia now, I’ll certainly be targeted

There was no way they would ever be able to recover if Yoav actually took offense to Jamier. Fearing the

Vincy, she had never found herself facing such a predicament. She was now so frightened that without any warning, she burst into

After all, she was a girl who had just graduated and started doing her own business. She had never gotten in touch with big shots such as

was terrified to the point of almost crying. Holding back his

all, you really didn’t do anything! I’ll help you take the blame!”

twenties and

a big shot, Maia had still stepped in to prevent Yuna from getting hurt. How could Yuna simply bear to see her and her

natural for her

Yuna knew that Maia had done nothing wrong, her calm exterior was contrasted by the slowly growing fear in her mind at that moment. She too was honestly slightly afraid as she continued pondering how to deal with

company before detailing everything that had

I see!

talking for a while, Yuna’s

Yuna?” asked Maia in a slightly

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then immediately

they’re still thinking of ways to resolve the issue. They’ve even contacted Mr. Zatyr. However, since Yoav sustained actual injuries this time, my company’s quite worried that even Mr. Zatyr won’t be able to handle the situation all that well. What more, I’m just a simple celebrity, so he definitely won’t have a fall out

Barry could’ve easily tackled the issue! Everything was so complicated now because of

to trouble the Crawfords either since that was pretty much equivalent to them resigning their jobs right there

such a major

should we do?” asked Vincy, still in

to help with the situation. Who should I ask for help

her after hearing her

the moment, I have a single person in mind. As long as we’re able to get him to help us, we should probably be fine in the

on… Who is

recall correctly, back when he organized a grand party which you attended, didn’t he say that

rich person from Surgis City?

others had heard about Yoel before. While they were surprised as they looked at each other, they were simultaneously overjoyed. If Mr. Holden really did lend them a hand in this, the entire situation

I

Yuna, nodding slightly as she began dialing Yoel’s

Yoel picked

surprised that he had picked her call up so quickly, she wasted no time detailing the

later, Yuna ended the call with a

now. Mr. Holden told me that he’ll use his connections to help us

for Maia since her main reason for

issues would arise to hinder her mission

Mr. Holden’s next call, Maia and the others stood around Yuna who was describing the

was their first time talking so much with a celebrity whom they all idolized, it was natural for all of

other hand, was feeling

the others a hand if they were really at a dead end. After all, Yuna was technically his

just stood there

was willing to help them, Gerald

it wasn’t long after Yuna’s call ended

I need your help with

reading his message, Gerald couldn’t help but smile bitterly. He could very well guess what that something was. However, he pretended

was expected, Yoel wanted Gerald to contact Zack so that Zack could, in turn, use

didn’t usually prefer asking his

asking for Zack’s aid on numerous occasions, even Yoel became embarrassed to seek him

was why Yoel was now asking Gerald for help

replied Gerald, his smile

entire incident to Zack and Zack started

anxious that she was almost about to send a

send button, all of them

Linton just notified us that the entire issue has been resolved! He’ll forget about what happened today, so

then. Thank you, manager,” replied Yuna before heaving a

others on the other hand, simply looked at each other

impressive Mr. Holden

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dealing with the situation, Yuna!

to at least treat you and your friends to a proper meal for helping me out, it pains me to say that I have to rush back to the company immediately first. How about this? Here’s my number. If you run into any trouble in future, don’t hesitate to

grateful to Maia for stepping in

she also knew that Maia was a sincere fan of hers, it

contact information with

of you Maia! To think that you’d actually manage to get into Yuna’s good books!”

for now! It’ll be embarrassing if we accidentally bump into those

show it, she was beyond

it was true that none of the others were in the mood to enjoy themselves anymore,

leaving, however, Maia turned to

I’ll be staying here!” said Gerald, thinking

average academic results! Even then, you at least still had that! Now however, I truly have a reason

to Gerald! Everyone was scared

but how come he was able to act so quickly when he first followed us in earlier? Ignoring that, maybe the rest of you didn’t realize it, but I saw Gerald sneakily moving to the side earlier. That son of a gun was definitely trying to sneak away if things didn’t go smoothly! I saw it with my very own eyes, you know? Don’t you simply find that frustrating?” growled

the truth. What she had assumed to be him trying to sneak away, was simply him moving to the

However, Gerald simply remained silent. He didn’t need

Maia. Don’t waste your energy trying to talk to him,” said Jamier at that

In no time at all, Gerald was