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Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 771

“Third young lady, you really aren’t allowed to enter! The order had specifically been issued by the old master!” said a bodyguard, desperately trying to prevent a girl—who looked to be around twenty—from entering.

“Well that’s just great then! Are you telling me that there’s now a place within the Fenderson mansion where I, Quincy Fenderson, can’t enter? Both my elder sister and second sister already dislike me. Are you saying that grandpa doesn’t like me either now? The more you prevent me from entering, the more I want to enter and have a look for myself! Now get out of the way!” shouted Quincy as she pushed the bodyguard aside and rushed inside.

The inside of the room looked extremely luxurious, and antique furniture—seemingly in the style of 1960’s European aristocrats—was placed in every corner. Apart from her grandfather’s room, this was the only other room that was this luxurious in the entire mansion.

Whenever she had nothing better to do, Quincy would often come to this room to have a look around. Like most of the other Fendersons, Quincy had often dreamed of moving into this particular room.

After all, she heard that this room was where her aunt used to stay in.

Since Quincy had already been feeling quite lonely within the family, her bad mood was immediately triggered once she found out that someone else was now living there.

She wanted to see for herself who had gotten access to living in the room, yet her permission to enter had been denied. All that led to the current scene.

Seeing her burst in without warning, both Queta and Xenia looked rather alarmed. Xenia hadn’t anticipated for someone to barge in on them like that.

“You… Who are you? You look quite familiar…” said Quincy, feeling slightly startled herself when she saw Queta.

“My… My name is Queta Smith!”

“Queta? I’ve never seen you before among the other Fendersons, have I?” asked Quincy as she scanned the girl from head to toe.

Finally recovering from her shock, Xenia then asked, “You’re the third young lady, correct? The old master was the one who had ordered Miss Queta to stay here for the moment to rest and recuperate from her injuries…”

“Humph! I’m well aware of that! Though I’m not sure why he wanted you to stay in this particular room, I’m sure he has his reasons. Regardless, I’ll need you to leave for a moment. I’d like to tell Miss Queta something in private!” ordered Quincy.

Hearing that, Xenia then looked at Queta. In return, Queta simply nodded slightly, prompting Xenia to leave the room.

Once Xenia was outside, Quicy immediately closed the door behind her.

She then turned to look at Queta again before happily saying, “I need your help with something. Could you lend this room to me for a night? You can stay in my room in the meantime! How about it? Deal?”

The reason she wanted to sleep in this room was obvious.

However, Queta was caught completely off guard by the question. She didn’t even know how to reply. In all honesty, she was simply looking forward to Gerald coming over to rescue both her and Xenia so that she could finally be reunited with her family.

Since she really didn’t have the time or energy to waste on the people here alongside any of their matters, she simply remained silent.

“…What’s that silence supposed to mean? Can’t we even switch rooms for a night?” asked Quincy again, her hands now on her waist.

Before she could ask a third time, the bodyguard from earlier suddenly entered the room before saying in a cold voice, “Third young lady, Lord Fenderson would like to have a word with you.”

“You!” replied Quincy as she turned to look at the bodyguard angrily.

Moments later, Quincy stood before the bodyguard and slapped him hard across the face!

“How dare you rat me out! Just you wait and see how I’m going to deal with you!” said Quincy as she glared at Queta one final time before hastily leaving, enraged.

“What’s wrong with you this time, Quincy?” asked both Jasmine and Mindy who happened to cross paths with her.

Quincy, however, simply ignored them, huffing as she walked past them.

Once Jasmine realized that Quincy had come from the direction where her aunt’s room was, Jasmine headed over to the bodyguard from earlier and casually asked, “Is there someone in aunt’s room?”

“Indeed there is, eldest young lady!”

“Who is it?”

“I apologize, but lord Fenderson has forbidden me from telling anyone about the matter. I hope that you won’t ask me any more questions about the person staying inside!” replied the bodyguard.

Taking in a deep breath, Jasmine then frowned as she peeked at the room where her aunt used to stay in.

She had noticed that her grandfather had been trying to hide something from her in the past few days. What more, her investigation efforts on her aunt had only reached its halfway point when her grandfather ordered her to cease investigating.

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Even from when she was still a child, Jasmine had always hated having superficial knowledge, regardless of the topic.

Because of that, she had initially planned to enter her aunt’s room to try looking for new leads together with Mindy. Her bumping into Quincy there was no mere coincidence.

Now knowing that someone had moved into that room, her curiosity was piqued. Who could have been entitled enough to be permitted to stay there?

“Why don’t we sneak in and have a look inside the room, Jasmine?” suggested Mindy, now getting increasingly curious as well.

“Don’t be rash. For now, we should leave first. It’s grandpa’s birthday banquet soon and I don’t want to anger him at a time like this!” replied Jasmine as she started walking away. Though she said that, she was honestly even more curious than Mindy was.

Around two days later…

“Did you get all the materials I told you to? Please double check again later. We can’t afford to have any of the materials absent since we’ll be using them to decorate and set up the venue later tonight. If the event tomorrow is delayed because of us, we’ll have to pay dearly!” said a lady in her thirties to a rather young man.

“Will do, Miss Little!” replied the young man immediately.

“Speaking of which, the group of chefs from Northbay will be cooking supper later. It’s really hard serving that group of celebrities. They’re still playing cards to pass the time even at this hour! Deliver supper to them one by one later!”

“Not an issue!”

The young man in question, was none other than Gerald.

Aunt Fenderson really lived up to her old title. She truly had connections everywhere,

It was around two days ago when he, Drake, Tyson, and a few others got into this team with barely any trouble.

As per usual in the annual Fenderson birthday banquet, the Fendersons would invite famous local chefs as well as female celebrities from all over the country to partake in the banquet. Naturally, there also needed to be a courtesy team.

Being such a rich family, the event allowed the Fendersons to display their nearly unparalleled wealth and splendor. The immense number of people in Gerald’s team alone was another way of showing that.

It wasn’t long before Miss Little was informed that supper was done. In turn, Gerald was ordered to serve the meals to a group of celebrities.

There were eight female celebrities within the group who sat separately on two tables as they played cards. Gerald had seen many of them on television before.

“Supper is served!” announced Gerald.

“Well, hello there pretty boy! Come over here and let me touch you!”

“Hahaha! You must be too overjoyed to think straight after winning that much! Try not to scare the young man away!” joked another celebrity.

“Now why would that ever happen? It’s not like I’m going to take advantage of him or anything! Hahaha!”

When it came to playing cards, those who were winning would naturally feel happier whereas those on the losing end would of course, tend to be more impatient and frustrated.

Ignoring their harassment, Gerald simply served supper to one of the singers there. However, it was evident that she wasn’t really paying attention to him since she ended up accidentally pushing her own supper to the floor. As a result, a small portion of the greasy food splattered on her calf!

“What the- How the hell do you even do your job?!” yelled the singer as she glared at Gerald.

Hearing that, Gerald tried really hard to hold himself back from slapping her. It was a reasonable reaction given how terrible the singer’s behavior was.

Still, he refrained from doing so. After all, this was all part of a bigger plan.

Gerald could only hold on to his anger in silence as he served the remaining supper before heading to the next room.

“Alright, just put it over there for us! Thank you!” said one of the two young girls in the room.

Both of them—who looked to be around the same age as Gerald—were courtesy staff for the group of celebrities in another room and they seemed to be busy trying to remove their makeup.

While Gerald was being told to leave their supper there, he ended up staring at one of the girls for quite some time before finally realizing who she was.

‘D*mn it! What are the odds of meeting you here?’ Gerald thought to himself, surprised.

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The person in question was Alice!

He hadn’t met her in such a long time.

After all that had happened, Gerald had heard that Alice had gone to Northbay. Since she was from the Department of Broadcasting and Hosting, it was only natural for her to get her internship there.

However, he truly hadn’t expected to bump into her here!

“Speaking of which, could you clean up the things on the floor while you’re at it? Thank you!” said the other girl without even bothering to turn back to look at him.

“Will do!”

Xara had made all the arrangements yet for some reason, both Drake and Tyson were left idle whereas Gerald was designated the role of a handyman who had to do all sorts of odd chores! Was it simply his fate to run errands?

Regardless, it didn’t really matter too much to Gerald since he was already used to it.

“Consider this to be a little vacation from all your troubles and frustrations, Alice. After all, you’ve finally managed to leave Mayberry, the place where you had experienced so many upsetting memories, and started anew in Northbay! Still, who could’ve ever expected for something like that to happen? Everything should’ve honestly belonged to you! If things had simply gone that way, then we would’ve been able to enjoy the benefits as well!” said the other girl as she continued removing their makeup.

the fact that they would apply their makeup during the day and remove

at the very beginning, I had a pretty good impression of him. Not only did he treat others well, he also looked pretty decent, to say the least. However, he was really too poor! I’m not too sure when it was or even why, but eventually, I just started

on the

better. By no means was he someone wealthy yet during that period of time. However, he certainly wasn’t that poor anymore and I was aware of it since he didn’t have to starve like he used to. It was around then when I slowly began trying to

returning after class at that moment and you couldn’t imagine how moved I was back then! It was the reason why I had agreed to

can’t help but wonder why it’s so difficult for me to start a proper relationship… I was really furious that time

removing her makeup, choosing instead to

always destined to be deceived by guys like him. We simply can’t help it, especially if the ones we fall for are as wealthy as him! Though I guess he simply did that to

some money? And I’m not saying that the partner needs to be

despising and looking down on him at the start. He truly looked extremely

with him is simply too slim. After all, he seems to be very devoted to that Mila Smith girl! You really missed out on this

there really will be zero chance of it happening… Ah… The more I

from our d*mned youth!

agreement before heading out of the room.

to be quite interesting,

was talking about him. Hearing things

of this now because he hadn’t immediately clarified the situation to her back then. It was, in a way, his fault for

a result, she had been deeply hurt once he told her the truth only

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such a massive ego as Alice,

he was truly the one

headed out to get the two bottles

them got their drinks and started downing the wine,

he personally worked for them or something. Fortunately, Alice had other things on her mind so her

done packing everything for them, both bottles of red wine

insisted on having more wine. Gerald had no choice

leave, however, Alice started retching before

obviously drunk far too much, far too quickly. Hillary herself had already retired for the night

I still want to drink!” said Alice

he really wanted to just leave already, Gerald simply couldn’t bear seeing Alice in such a state. As he walked over to her,

Alice would’ve been living a happy life now if it wasn’t for

her in his arms, Gerald then said, “Alright, that’s enough drinking

her bed, he was about to

really you…?” asked Alice, her eyes hazy and filled with tears as she

person!” replied Gerald as he immediately tried

to tell you… Don’t leave yet! Please, listen to me!” added Alice,

was simply speaking nonsense

impossible for both of us to ever get together again… Trust me that I’ve tried everything I could think of to forget about you… I’ve even tried starting a new relationship just to

really not the casual kind of girl you see me as… You know, I’ve kept myself a virgin just so that both of us could still have a chance one day! Just… Please… Please give me another chance, Gerald!”

why she remained a virgin, Gerald couldn’t help but feel slightly moved by her conviction. However, he remained adamant that he didn’t

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morning when Alice finally woke

red wine the

deep breath as she attempted to sit up. Before she could do so, however, she immediately sensed that something was wrong. Pulling her blanket

“Hillary! Hillary!”

wrong, Alice…?” replied Hillary rather groggily,

was wearing my other set of clothes when we were drinking last night, right? Look! Why am I in

was out cold after drinking so much last night… Are you still half-awake…? Who else could’ve slipped you into your pajam- …Hold on, if someone else really did help you change, then they’d have to remove all your previous clothes first, right?” said Hillary, now starting to feel nervous as she hurriedly told Alice to check if she felt if anything was weird or wrong with

carefully now. Are you absolutely sure that you didn’t

response. None of this made any sense

remember… Though I did have a weird dream last night… In it, Gerald was the one who had carried me over to bed and tucked me in… I can’t remember anything else! Ahh! I’m feeling so anxious now! How could something like this have

inspecting herself, Alice was relieved to find that she didn’t feel

as she got out of bed to start packing. Regardless of what happened, rushing to the

were all ready to head to the event,

still remembered the events of last night clearly. Before Alice could even finish speaking, she had vomited not only on herself, but

worse, she began taking her own clothes

a hotel attendant three thousand dollars to help Alice

thoughts off as they continued waiting

everyone there was blindfolded.

Fenderson family didn’t want anyone

all this was happening, many wealthy and powerful figures had already arrived

that we talked about earlier, father!” said Yael as he looked

agreed to it, though if they refuse, they can’t really blame the

driver was ordered to drive into the mansion. Upon entering, the first thing Noah did was meet up with the Fenderson

in the old master’s study room where Bryson had been sitting in

had a good relationship, even from their childhood days. I do wonder if Yael could end up becoming the son-in-law of the

be said for the haughty and arrogant Jasmine. She seemed to have no interest in his

Fendersons over the years, which members of that family actually appreciated what he had done

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or courage to ask the Fendersons about things regarding his son’s marriage.

initiative to finally ask about it, just to

his face, he then said, “Are you proposing

marriage is the personal affair of young people! You should allow the

this made Noah slightly upset, as he knew that his proposal had just been indirectly denied. After all, Bryson’s

that as long as you suggest it, Jasmine will have no other choice but to obey! After all, to children, our commands are as good as the law. Unless you feel that Yael isn’t worthy enough to be together with Jasmine…? Do you fear that he’ll end up embarrassing the Fenderson family?” asked Noah, adamant on pressing

That’s not the case at all!”

that moment, the study room door creaked open and

and the schedule of events for today. Do have

main responsibility of the day was to be

on my table. I can

Fenderson and I were just talking about you!” said Noah

You were talking about me, Uncle Schuyler? What a great honor!” replied Jasmine, a cold smile on

and it’s about time you thought about your future and marriage! Since both you and Yael have known each other since childhood, both

In the meantime, your son should look for someone else!” replied Jasmine

at all, Noah’s

up in a relationship, they

moment they heard Bryson’s words, both Jasmine and

you mean by that, Lord

grandfather

I’m sure that both of you know about the bad blood between our family and the Crawfords, right?” asked

a cold expression on his face,

constantly fighting in secret back then, there was also a period of peace between the families. At the time, Daryl Crawford was the head of the Crawford family. His son, Dylan, is the current Crawford family head. When we were much younger, Daryl and I were both close friends, up to the point where I could even call him my brother. Once both of us inherited the positions of family heads, we were able to momentarily end the dispute between the Crawfords and the Fendersons! To ensure that the

be… Was it a contractual marriage?”

of that,

with his son. Because of that, he decided to let go of the matter, forgetting everything else. Once that happened, he no longer spoke about anything regarding the Crawfords. Dylan himself was an extremely arrogant and domineering person. He preferred relying on his own efforts and abilities over forming alliances. His goal was to get the Fenderson family to surrender to the Crawfords! That was the reason why the disputes between the two families began again.

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hostile toward the Fendersons, he hasn’t sent anyone over to formally end the contract. As long as the marriage contract isn’t called off, then it’s rules still apply till the day the Crawford family chooses to acknowledge it!” explained

what I mean now,

had such a history… However, since both families are still disputing against each other, then the marriage contract should, by right, be automatically called off, should it not, Lord Fenderson?” replied

conflict back then, I don’t think his son would actually have the courage or audacity to privately amend or go against the rules set by his

brought the matter up. However, do remember that we’ve been at war with the Crawfords for all these years. We’ll never stop holding our grudges against the Crawford family, especially after that incident involving Xara that brought such colossal losses to our families!” said Noah before finally leaving the

more presumptuous by the

saying, “Still, regardless of how much Noah enjoys scheming, he’s no match against you, grandpa!

hand before saying, “But I didn’t deceive him, Jasmine… You truly are betrothed to the young

“…H-huh?!”

momentarily stunned

possible, grandpa? You can’t be

have imagined that something as

course I’m being

don’t quite understand… Since such a marriage contract existed, why was aunt and Peter’s—the second

when you reached the age of one. At the time, Dylan had sent Peter over to the Fenderson family to steal something from us, and not just anything. He was sent to steal our most treasured family heirloom! If he

item?”

yet. You’ll find out about it once you’re at the stage where your aunt

marriage contract truly still be counted now, grandpa?” asked Jasmine again.

can’t say for sure… I

any news about the young master of the

to blend in rather well among other ordinary men. While Dylan’s also been actively trying to hide his whereabouts and identity, I’ve managed to uncover a few clues over my many years investigating. My guess

“Mr. Crawford?”

I try sending someone over to investigate the matter, Dylan always responds immediately! Because of his constant interfering, I haven’t been able to look into the

learn about many things from this conversation

the fact that she was contractually

simply

she hated the Crawfords. Each and every one of

the reason why her

about all this now. It was almost

happened to

twenty years! The Crawford family’s matters are equally as complicated as what the Fendersons have to

that, the grandfather and his granddaughter continued talking for quite

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of an eye, many people had already gathered at the

two Fenderson brothers were in charge of

most of the guests who immediately went over to greet Noah as soon

to the guests, the two Fenderson brothers were nothing compared to Noah. Seeing that, the second son of the Fenderson family could only wave his hand in