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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.

felt that the common trait among most girls was the fact that they would apply their makeup during the day and

Hillary. While I may look fine on the surface, I’m still filled with regrets deep down in my heart. It’s hard not to feel remorse since 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

stopped removing her makeup. Her head lay on the makeup table as she scribbled on her hand using her eyebrow

rich. How do I even explain this… Well, for starters, it all began when he started doing a little better. By no means was he someone wealthy yet during that period of time. However, he certainly

he was standing in front of the corridor door with a bouquet of flowers in hand on that day. My roommates and I were just 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 be together with him.

to start a proper relationship… I was really furious that time you know? I even thought about killing him for playing

makeup, choosing instead to pat Alice gently on the

him. We simply can’t help it, especially if the

Why would he need to do that? Was it because I looked down on him before? Was it because I refused to go out with someone like him? Let me ask you something, Hillary. Which girl on the planet wouldn’t want her partner to have at least some money? And I’m not saying that the partner needs to be wealthy either. I’m saying he just needs to have enough money to provide her with food and basic comfort. After all,

him at the start. He truly looked extremely

After all, he seems to be very devoted to that Mila Smith girl! You really missed out on this opportunity to get into the Crawford family, and

and try my best… If I don’t try at all, then there really will be zero chance of it happening… Ah… The more

coincidence, I feel like drinking too! Let’s use this as our opportunity to celebrate our early departure from our d*mned youth! Could you bring

in agreement before heading out of the room. He didn’t even dare to

the beginning, Gerald had found Alice’s story to be quite interesting,

more he realized that she was talking about him. Hearing things from her point of view, Gerald couldn’t help but feel slightly

back then. It was, in a way, his fault for causing Alice to misunderstand

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

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a girl with such a massive ego as Alice, that had undoubtedly been

ignore the fact that he was

out to get the two bottles of red wine

started downing the wine, Hillary

them or something. Fortunately, Alice had other things on her mind so her eyes never

the time he was done packing everything for them, both bottles

tipsy at this point, she still insisted on having more wine. Gerald had no

leave, however,

much, far too quickly. Hillary herself had already retired for the night by the end of the second bottle,

to drink!” said Alice between

Gerald simply couldn’t bear seeing Alice in such a state. As he walked over to her, he assured himself that he was only lending her a helping hand

happy life

Gerald then said, “Alright, that’s enough drinking for tonight… There’s still work to be done tomorrow,

he was about to blanket her when Alice suddenly grabbed onto

Alice, her eyes hazy and filled with tears

you’ve got the wrong person!” replied Gerald as he immediately tried

willing to see me again…! I have so many things to tell you… Don’t leave yet! Please, listen to

didn’t even know if she was simply speaking nonsense

starting a new relationship just

casual kind of girl you see me as… You know, I’ve kept myself a virgin just so that both of

help but feel slightly

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next morning when

wine the night before, her heart

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

“Hillary! Hillary!”

Hillary rather groggily,

were drinking last night, right? Look! Why am I in my pajamas now? Were you the one who slipped them

did help you change, then they’d have to remove all your previous clothes first,

now. Are you absolutely sure that you

her brows in response. None of

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!

was relieved to find that she didn’t feel anything weird with

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

Gerald, Drake, and Tyson were all ready

finish

taking her own clothes off

to even do, Gerald eventually settled on tipping a hotel attendant three thousand dollars

as they continued waiting there. He needed to focus on

while later, a special looking car arrived and everyone there was

the Fenderson family didn’t want anyone to know where the

wealthy and powerful figures had already arrived in their luxury

that we talked about earlier, father!” said Yael as he looked at Noah. Both of them were

great if the Fendersons agreed to it, though if they refuse, they can’t really blame the Schuyler family for being

to drive into the mansion. Upon entering, the first thing Noah did was meet up with the Fenderson family’s

meet me, Noah?” said Bryson as he looked at him. They were now in the old

relationship, even from their childhood days. I do wonder if Yael could end up becoming the son-in-law of the Fenderson family! Now that would definitely be a blessing to the

the longest time, the same couldn’t be said for the haughty and arrogant

over the years, which members of that family actually appreciated what

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ask the Fendersons about things regarding his son’s

today, Noah took the initiative to finally ask about it, just to see how the old master

Bryson frowned. With a wry smile on his face, he then said, “Are

boils down to what Jasmine has to say about the matter. After all, marriage is the personal affair of

had just been indirectly denied. After all, Bryson’s

you suggest it, Jasmine will have no other choice but to obey! After all, to children, our commands are as good

the case at all!” replied Bryson

moment, the study room door creaked open

of guests and the schedule of events for today. Do have

responsibility of the day was to be in charge of

my table. I

you came at the right time! Lord Fenderson and I were just talking about you!” said Noah

were talking about me, Uncle Schuyler? What a great honor!” replied

anymore, Jasmine, and it’s about time you thought about your future and marriage! Since both you and Yael have known each other since childhood, both of you will definitely be

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

giving him any face at

simply laughed as he said, “Calm yourself, Noah. Since we’re already talking about this, I’ll just make things clear now. Even if Jasmine and Yael do end up in a relationship, they will never get married in the end. After all, Jasmine’s already been destined to be

both

do you mean by that, Lord

looking at her grandfather in surprise as Noah asked that

story. Before that, I’m sure that both of you know about the bad blood between our family and the

on his

with each other even from the previous generation. While we were 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 peace continued, we formed an alliance. However, there was

it a contractual marriage?” asked

grandson were born on the same day, month, and even year! Because of that, both of us came up with the idea of a marriage contract and I agreed to let you get

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. It was around then when the matter regarding your aunt happened… After that,

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sent anyone over to formally end the contract. As

understand what

However, since both families are still disputing against each other, then the marriage contract should, by right, be automatically

true that both Dylan and Daryl had a huge conflict back then, I don’t think his son would actually have the courage or audacity to privately

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

presumptuous by the

and began massaging his shoulders before saying, “Still, regardless of how much Noah enjoys scheming, he’s no match against you, grandpa! To think that you

I didn’t deceive him, Jasmine… You truly are

“…H-huh?!”

momentarily stunned speechless because

that be possible, grandpa? You can’t be serious,

something as absurd as this

course I’m being

was aunt and Peter’s—the second master of the Crawford family—relationship opposed and criticized

to steal something from us, and not just anything. He was sent to steal our most treasured family heirloom! If he had succeeded, the Fenderson family would have already fallen apart

exactly is that item?” asked Jasmine

it once you’re at the

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

sure… I feel

young master of the Crawford family, even

sure that the young master of the Crawford family was raised in poverty. That allowed the young master 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

“Mr. Crawford?”

over to investigate the matter, Dylan always responds immediately!

had come to learn about many things from this conversation

her yet, however, was the fact that she was

simply

all, she hated the Crawfords. Each

reason why

this now. It was

happened to

twenty years! The Crawford family’s matters are equally as complicated as

that, the grandfather and his granddaughter continued talking for quite a bit in his study

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blink of an eye, many people had already gathered at the

brothers were in charge of greeting and entertaining

guests who immediately

were nothing compared to Noah. Seeing that, the second son of the