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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.

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

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

on the makeup table as she scribbled

got 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 wasn’t that poor anymore and I was aware of it

after class at that moment and you couldn’t imagine

relationship…

her makeup,

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

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

down on him at the start. He

to that Mila Smith girl! You really

want to work hard and try my best… If I don’t try at all, then there really will be zero chance of it happening… Ah… The more I talk about it the more

d*mned youth! Could you bring us a few bottles of red wine, brother? Thank you!” said Hillary as she

nodded in agreement before heading out of the room. He didn’t

quite interesting,

realized that she was talking about him. Hearing

clarified the situation to her back then. It was, in a way, his fault for causing Alice to

a result, she had been deeply hurt once he told her the truth only after both of them had become

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a massive ego as Alice, that had undoubtedly been a huge blow

couldn’t ignore the fact that he was truly the one at

his head, he then headed out to get the two bottles of red wine they

surprise, once both of them got their drinks and started downing the wine, Hillary told Gerald to help them

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

he was done packing everything for them,

tipsy at this point, she still insisted on having more wine.

was finally prepared to leave, however, Alice started retching before flopping to

much, far too quickly. Hillary herself had already retired for the night by the end of the second bottle, and was now lying on

want to drink!” said Alice

a state. As he walked over to her, he assured himself that he was only

would’ve been living a happy

her in his arms, Gerald then said, “Alright, that’s enough drinking for tonight… There’s still work to

bed, he was about to blanket her when Alice

eyes hazy

Gerald as he immediately

again…! I have so many things to tell you… Don’t leave yet! Please, listen to me!” added Alice, her grip surprisingly

she was simply speaking nonsense at this

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 finally be able to let go… But no matter what I do, all I ever think about is still you!

a virgin just so that both of us could still have a chance one

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

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was early the next morning when Alice finally

the night

up. Before she could do so, however, she immediately sensed that something was wrong.

“Hillary! Hillary!”

wrong, Alice…?” replied Hillary rather groggily, awoken

other set of clothes when we were drinking last night, right? Look! Why am I in my pajamas now? Were you the one who slipped

did help you change, then they’d have to remove

that you didn’t change into your pajamas on your

simply knitted her brows in response. None of this made any sense at

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

she was still feeling shocked, after carefully inspecting herself, Alice was relieved to

of questions were still bombarding her mind as she got out of bed to start packing.

all ready to head to the event,

Alice could even finish speaking, she had vomited not only on herself,

make matters worse, she began taking

settled on tipping a hotel attendant three

continued waiting there. He

car arrived and everyone there was blindfolded. Everyone who entered had to switch their cell phones off as

anyone to know where

powerful figures had already arrived in their luxury cars at the Fenderson Family

up the matter that we talked about earlier, father!” said Yael as he looked at Noah.

agreed to it, though if they

to drive into the mansion. Upon entering, the first thing

he looked at him. They were now in the old master’s study room where Bryson had been sitting in before Noah

much, Lord Fenderson. I just wanted to talk to you about the matter regarding Yael and Jasmine. I’m sure you’re well aware that both of them have had a good 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

the longest time, the same couldn’t be said for the haughty and arrogant Jasmine. She seemed to have no interest in his

great deal for the Fendersons over the years, which members of

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to ask the Fendersons about things regarding his

Noah took the initiative to finally ask about it, just to

smile on his face, he then said, “Are you proposing a marriage

all, marriage is the personal affair of young people! You should allow the younger generation to deal with this matter on their

made Noah slightly upset, as he knew that his proposal had just been indirectly

naturally our children’s matchmakers. Lord Fenderson, I truly believe 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

not the case at all!” replied

the study room door creaked

events for today. Do have a look

main responsibility of the day was

just leave it on my table. I can rest assured with you in

Jasmine, you came at the right time! Lord Fenderson and I were just

a great honor!” replied Jasmine, a cold smile on

young 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 the perfect couple!” said

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

at

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

both Jasmine and Noah

mean by that, Lord

at her grandfather in surprise as Noah asked

of you know about

his face, Noah then frowned

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

a

indeed. By coincidence, both you and Daryl’s 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

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

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fact, even though Dylan had been extremely hostile toward the Fendersons, he hasn’t sent anyone over to formally end the contract.

understand what I

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

son would actually have the courage or audacity to privately amend

that I never 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

and more presumptuous by the day!”

saying, “Still, regardless of how much Noah enjoys scheming, he’s no match against you, grandpa! To think that you could come up with something so incredible in such a short amount of time just to

gently patted the back of Jasmine’s hand before saying, “But I didn’t deceive him, Jasmine… You truly are

“…H-huh?!”

stunned speechless because of

possible, grandpa? You can’t

could never have imagined that something as absurd as this would actually happen

I’m being

why was aunt and Peter’s—the second master of the Crawford family—relationship opposed and criticized so much back then?” asked Jasmine rather

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 had succeeded, the Fenderson family would have already fallen apart right there and then! Dylan had lied to us, and I didn’t want to lose both my daughter and the rest

is that item?” asked

you’re at the stage

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

for sure… I feel helpless about

young master of the Crawford family,

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

“Mr. Crawford?”

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

to learn about many things from

yet, however, was the fact that she was contractually bound to have a

simply too

Crawfords.

the reason why her

all this now. It was almost as though the heavens were playing

What happened to

seen him in a good twenty years! The Crawford family’s matters are equally as complicated as what the Fendersons have to deal with!” explained

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

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of an eye, many people had already

two Fenderson brothers were in charge of

said most of the guests who immediately went over

to Noah. Seeing that, the second son of the Fenderson family could only wave his hand