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Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 781

Gerald himself was wondering the same thing. It looked as though some sort of conflict was going on. Everything seemed to be going fine before this. How did things end up this way?

As Gerald stared at the scene in bewilderment, he could see a middle-aged woman kneeling within the crowd.

The members of the families affiliated with the Fendersons seemed to be filled with rage and even Lord Fenderson himself had an ugly expression on his face.

“It’s her! It’s that sinner’s maid from back then! Hurry up and tell us where Xara is now! If you speak the truth, we’ll consider sparing you!”

“Remember! The Crawfords and the Fendersons only got into a huge fight back then because of her! We, the affiliated families, were the ones who had suffered the most losses because of that battle! How pitiful my son was for having to grow up in such turmoil because of her! Lord Fenderson, if you’re hiding Xara anywhere, we demand that you hand her over to us!”

“That’s right! Hand her over so that you can give an account to our families!”

Many of the affiliated family members were now gathered around Lord Fenderson, demanding for Xara.

Noah himself was sneering at the side.

The conflict had started when Bryson reprimanded Noah in public for inviting the Longs without asking for his permission first. In retaliation, Noah then revealed the fact that the Fendersons had already located Xara’s old personal maid.

He was done having to play nice with Bryson.

Noah’s actions had stemmed from the fact that he had regarded himself as the head of several big families for years by now. One could even say he was almost as influential as the Fendersons.

Aside from that, Bryson had also placed him in an awkward situation when Noah went looking for him to ask for some assets while also discussing his son’s marriage with Jasmine.

His grievances that he had piled-up up till this point were by no means a small amount.

Since he couldn’t achieve his goal peacefully, he was going to use the event to his advantage and go all out today.

He was glad that he had previously sent several of his men over to monitor every move the Fendersons made. In addition to having quite a number of informers from within the family, he was able to gain information about everything they did.

It was why he managed to find out about the existence of Xara’s maid being there in the first place.

Noah even had a trump card in hand, and he had personally given it to Bryson a few days prior. Now that all the pieces were in place, he would simply allow the internal conflicts to erupt in all its splendor!

Bryson himself could only glare in rage at the crowd before him.

This conflict was nothing new to him. After all, they had secretly been fighting for many years by now.

While the Fenderson family was still colossal in size, it was now akin to a high-rise building that had lost its main supporting pillar. Though the outside looked majestic, its insides were already crumbling in a state of jeopardy.

It wasn’t as though Bryson hadn’t taken precautions against Noel and Yael either.

However, he had simply assumed that he would still be able to control both the father and son, even in his old age.

To think that both of them would make a move on him during his birthday banquet!

The accumulated grievances between both parties had already made things very stressful for him. Yet here Noah and Yoel were, deliberately trying to heighten the conflicts between them!

It was just like last time… Had he not wanted to calm and appease the affiliated families back then, he would never have been willing to sever his relationship with his very own daughter!

“It’s my grandfather’s eightieth birthday today! Are all of you here to celebrate it or did you come here just to criticize and question him?” said Jasmine rather coldly.

“Jasmine, while we’re naturally happy that it’s Lord Fenderson’s birthday today, our families have already lost too many of our relatives back then. It’s been more than twenty years since Lord Fenderson told us that he would compensate for our losses and also provide a reasonable explanation to all our families. Yet even after all this time, he won’t even let us catch a glimpse of Xara! The woman who was the cause of all that chaos back then!”

“The only ‘compensations’ we received were a few trivial assets and properties. What about the reasonable explanation we were promised? And to think after we’ve waited patiently all this time, Lord Fenderson was actually housing the maid who once used for Xara! If Mr. Schuyler hadn’t brought the matter to light, we would’ve never found out about this!”

“Our families have already been affiliated with the Fendersons for generations! How could Lord Fenderson do this to us? How can you even expect us to be appeased now?” said a middle-aged man indignantly.

“That’s right! Rather than continue debating the matter, I say we should just capture her maid and torture her till she tells us where Xara is!”

“Men! Drag her out immediately!”

As soon as those words were said, a few bodyguards working for the affiliated families rushed forward and grabbed Xenia by her arms.

“Presumptuous! All of you! I’m well aware that all of you are just pretending to look for her! Your main goal has always been to get your hands on the assets she owned back then!” said Jasmine, her tone frigid.

Hearing that, several of the more capable individuals within the crowd went silent.

“You can’t just put it that way, Jasmine. However, since you’ve already said it, it wouldn’t be right if the Schuylers didn’t use this chance to set a proper example! That’s right! While we had been delegated a small portion of the assets Xara owned in the beginning, the consequences that we had to pay for clearly outweighs what we should have received! It’s only right for us to demand for an equal distribution of assets!” replied Noah.

What he said wasn’t wrong either, since Xara and the eldest master of the Fenderson family were the ones who had held and controlled most of the assets and properties belonging to their family back then.

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It was obvious that Xara clearly had more power compared to Jasmine’s father back then.

Even if Xara’s assets were to be equally distributed among the affiliated families now, it wouldn’t be as simple as the families being able to gain equal footing with the Fendersons anymore.

This was probably what Noah and Yael had intended for to happen this entire time.

“You can all continue to dream on…” replied Jasmine angrily.

“Step aside for the moment, Jasmine. You don’t need to get involved in this!” said Bryson, a gloomy expression on his face.

Not daring to go against her grandfather’s words, she immediately stood aside.

Bryson then personally began negotiating with Noah.

While this was happening, Mindy suddenly began shouting, “Jasmine! Over here!”

Frowning, Jasmine then walked over to Mindy before realizing who else was with her. To her surprise, Gerald was present!

“Why are you here?”

“Let’s not bother about him for the moment. More importantly, what on earth is going on here? Are the affiliate families trying to rebel against us?” asked Mindy as she hurriedly held on to Jasmine’s hand.

Jasmine simply nodded before saying, “Grandpa’s already told me to keep an eye on the Schuyler family once the birthday banquet is over. After all, the Schuylers have been conspiring against us for many years now…”

After pausing for a moment to look at Gerald, she then continued, “They’re getting bolder by the year… To think that he would actually cause a scene during grandpa’s birthday banquet! No wonder he dared to make demands when he came looking for grandpa this morning!”

“Huh? What kind of demands? Oh wait, it must’ve been a proposal for you and Yael to get married, right?” asked Mindy.

In response, Jasmine gave a simple nod.

“Pfft! Is he really aspiring for something that he’s clearly not even worthy of? Grandpa must’ve immediately rejected his proposal, right? How did grandpa turn him down anyway for him to get so much courage? He seems really desperate!”

“I… Well… He accepted the rejection once he found out that I was bound to a marriage contract which had been made from when I was still a child!” replied Jasmine in a soft voice as her face began blushing slightly.

“…Huh? What? With whom? Why haven’t I heard of this before?”

“Just! Forget it for now! I don’t want to talk about this anymore!” replied Jasmine as she shook her head.

To take her mind off things, she focused on the scene unfolding between Noah and her grandfather.

“I’ll be honest with you, Lord Fenderson. I’ve already been very lenient and merciful toward you. As long as you’re willing to give us the compensation we rightfully deserve, we’ll definitely continue following the Fendersons with all our hearts in future. After all, it isn’t really necessary for me to expose everything here, am I not right?” said Noah as he sneered.

Bryson immediately knit his brows tightly together when he heard that.

Bryson finally understood why Noah had a sudden change in character back when Noah had told him that he had managed to locate Xara’s daughter. To think that Bryson had initially thought that Noah had finally turned over a new leaf!

It was all just part of his grand scheme!

Bryson was now in this mess because he had fallen for Bryson’s trickery. He had been careless due to his love for his daughter.

However, at the end of the day, the older a person was, the wiser he tended to be. Bryson had no doubt taken extra precautionary and security measures in case he ever had to deal with such a situation.

“Hahaha! I have no idea what you’re hinting at, Noah! While it is true that I’ve found Xenia, I only brought her back to interrogate her about Xara’s whereabouts. Sadly, Xenia doesn’t know anything at all! I simply took her in since I couldn’t bear the thought of leaving her to wander outside alone. Now that I’ve made myself clear, what else do you wish to talk about?” replied Bryson calmly.

“Is that so? Hahaha! I really admire you, Lord Fenderson! However, that doesn’t explain the beautiful girl in the car who was trying to leave the villa this morning! It was such a coincidence too that my subordinates had managed to catch a glimpse of her, subsequently preventing her from leaving! Mr. Lambert and Mr. Wellington, do you wish to know how beautiful that girl truly is? Why, she’s so beautiful that she looks exactly like Xara! If you don’t believe me, I can order my subordinates to bring her over right now!” said Noah as he laughed.

“…You… you took Queta away?” asked Bryson, finally losing his cool as his body began trembling uncontrollably.

“So her name is Queta! She refused to say a word to me when I asked her for it! Regardless, everyone else will now have their chance to question her! Being her in, men!” yelled Noah.

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Upon hearing Noah’s command, a few men stepped forward, dragging a girl along.

Her head was lowered and her mouth was shut tight. However, her appearance alone was enough to shock everyone present.

“She… She looks exactly like her!”

“That’s right! I almost thought that she was a much younger version of Xara!”

“We’ve all been deceived! Lord Fenderson must have already known about Xara’s whereabouts a long time ago! Yet he left all us affiliated families in the dark on purpose!”

While the audience began discussing aloud, Queta herself bore an extremely ugly expression on her face. After all, she had been physically hurt and her body was currently feeling very weak.

“It… It really is my aunt’s daughter! So it turns out that grandpa’s already found aunt’s daughter!” said Jasmine.

“Queta!” shouted Bryson, a stern expression on his face.

He had initially arranged for someone to secretly send Queta away that morning. Little did he know that there would be a snitch working for the Schuyler family! The current scene was a result of that.

“So, lord Fenderson. We now have all the necessary witnesses and evidence! What else do you have to say for yourself? We demand that Xara be handed over to us as soon as possible!”

All the guests were now gathering around Bryson, glaring at him angrily.

Bryson was at a complete loss of words, a tense expression on his face.

While he truly wanted to save Queta, after facing all the provocations from the Schuyler family, he had no real choice but to give an explanation to all the other affiliated families

As he was wondering how to deal with the dilemma, a voice suddenly called out from behind everyone.

“Hey now, why are all of you bothering the Fendersons? I’m here, you know!”

Turning around to see who had shouted, everyone saw a woman walking toward them from the outside.

“…Huh? Who on earth is that? How did she even get in?”

“Oh god, just look at her face! How absolutely ugly!”

“I can’t continue looking at her anymore… I can already feel goosebumps on my skin!”

As the commotion grew louder and louder, Xavia finally lay eyes on the woman in question.

Her eyes had earlier been fixed on Queta. After all, the girl looked extremely familiar to her. Xavia simply couldn’t put her finger on where she had met her before.

help but purse her lips in disgust when she saw

himself was trembling uncontrollably at this point. He knew who this person was just by listening to her

really her? His

you, Xara?” asked Bryson, his hands

Second and Third stared at Xara in surprise. However, they quickly shook off their shock for the moment as they hurried over to support

back!” said Xara as

and Third simultaneously as they exchanged looks

Noah and the

so many years had passed! To think that the once extremely gorgeous and beautiful Xara who had earned the admiration of so many back then

we bumped into her on the street, we wouldn’t have

everyone continued to comment on the situation, Xenia ran

to save Queta! Aunt Xenia, I’ve caused you so much harm and grief for so many years

hearing all that,

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this! Was she truly the mother she had been looking for

cocktail of complicated emotions was now brewing in Queta’s heart. She didn’t even know whether she should refer to

wonder we couldn’t find any clues about my

that happened back then, Xara? After all, we’ve been searching for you for a good twenty years

I’ll say it loud and clear now. The assets and properties I’ve been holding on to will never go to you or any of the other affiliated families! And since you’ve been trying so hard to find

so enraged that he looked like he was

after pursuing her for so long and setting everything up to be in his favor, her sudden reappearance after twenty years had completely ruined all of his plans! Things would’ve gone perfectly if only she

able to get their hands on any of the assets. What even was the point of him doing

time when he had planned to put her under house arrest once he found her! However, he simply couldn’t locate

time bomb. To think that the bomb would

the others were at a complete loss of what

you’ve done, you can dream on! Men! Take her away with us, right this instant!” yelled one of the many heads

stop them, a butler with a very anxious expression on his face came running toward him. In between pants, the butler then said, “L-Lord

it?” said Bryson as he looked at

whom Bryson had invited should have

of the families under him were. As far as he knew, none of them could afford to give him such an invaluable gift, or at least that was

had reason to be curious since his butler wouldn’t have been this

the butler then said, “The person in question said that he was

The Crawfords from Northbay

much that his walking cane soon fell to the

present was equally as

the Crawfords from Northbay well. After all, not only were the Crawfords living there

they were a terrifying

of the grievances between

walked over to

been the ones who had caused her parents’ death. Was she finally going

sure that he had definitely tried to stir trouble at the wrong time. Now

of them only said it for the sake of it. Who among them would actually have the audacity or even courage to go up against

relatives and family members back then, Noah and the other affiliate heads would never

dumbfounded as he continued watching the scene unfold

his family was

his subordinates about the location of the Fenderson family’s mansion, he hadn’t really expected for any

them, who could it

Gerald’s curiosity continued to grow, the butler then said, “Indeed! The person in question is the young master of

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young

glances with each

known that the Crawford family

made it near impossible for anyone to get any information about him! Not even the Fendersons know much about him, even after investigating

master has already returned to his family! Why, he’s even come all the way here just to look for the Fendersons! How powerful and impressive! It wouldn’t be farfetched to

continued discussing among themselves, Jasmine herself was

was announced, none of the affiliate families dared to continue causing a scene,

of Northbay’s Mr. Crawford like?” asked Xavia, sounding rather

family and after seeing Lord Fenderson’s terrified face after being notified of Mr. Crawford’s arrival, she was

mention of the name,

strong as the Fendersons! We minor affiliate families could never even dream to compare to them!” replied Yael, a fearful

powerful family even exist

wealthy and influential family, and she had already gained a lot of knowledge and seen much of the world by now, hearing

Crawfords for many years now. However, they simply had no way of defeating the Crawfords at all! That’s the reason why the Fendersons have been living in secrecy! They’ve been trying to remain hidden from the Crawford family’s eyes so that they could eventually

family till this very day. Now that the Crawfords are at the Fenderson’s doorstep, it’s natural for Lord Fenderson to be terrified!” said Yael before taking

the Crawford family even own?” asked Xavia, now even

heard rumors that the Crawford

widened so much that her eyes looked like

wealth and resources? What kind of concept even was

of person was Mr. Crawford from Northbay even going

saying,

powerful are we talking about here?”

haven’t you seen how pale the powerful figures here have gone upon hearing about Mr. Crawford’s arrival? I heard that he owns half of the world’s wealth and resources! What an incredible

handsome guys. What more, being able

with excitement, Alice herself immediately covered her mouth, feeling

You said the young master’s name was

was now feeling an overwhelming discomfort in her heart. After

financial resources and capabilities as well. Not only that, his

from Northbay… Could it really

breathing grow heavier by

said was true, then Alice honestly just wanted to die on the spot, right there and then! After all, since she was the one who had rejected him, if Gerald had

was she going to just accept that if Gerald truly

chaotic atmosphere from before to immediately fall silent. Everyone was now waiting anxiously, their eyes peeled on

too long after, about a hundred men dressed in black began approaching the entrance in a neat and orderly

person leading the group seemed to be an old man who looked

man who looked to be around the age of twenty-two. His eyes were rather

“Is that Mr. Crawford?”

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that must

new group of people continued walking forward till they

that you, Fynn?” asked Bryson as

met! I trust you’ve been well since then!” replied Fynn with a slight

all those years… Gone just like that! To think that the young boy who used to always stick around Daryl is now an old man… If it wasn’t because of your unchanging, sharp as ever eyes, I wouldn’t have been able to recognize you at all! It really has been too long!” said Bryson, his tone tinged

other to be brothers. The old man that now stood before him went by

“A long time indeed…”

While at their roots, grievances still existed between the Crawfords and the Fendersons, regardless of whether they were

for the ‘Mr. Crawford’ standing beside Fynn, he looked rather carefree as he scanned through the area. However, his demeanor changed the moment his gaze fell upon somebody standing

“…Huh? It’s you?”

the one who

woman who had spoken in unison with ‘Mr. Crawford’ was none

clearly surprised to see Xavia there, Xavia was even more astonished. After all, she had met and

eyes was Gerald’s godbrother, Yoel! The son of the richest man in

wasn’t Gerald, Xavia

you given the title

Crawford, she had been wondering

wasn’t, or at least

that, Yoel then replied, “Now who said that I was Mr. Crawford? I’m just here to join in

not Mr. Crawford…

by the turn of

me explain. There are two reasons why we’re here today. Our first is to represent Mr. Crawford and the Crawford family to present your birthday gift to you. After all, after all these years, even our family has regretted some of the things that have happened

the Crawford family is around, I believe that nobody will even dare to cause any trouble for

heard that, they felt themselves gulping before

all, the madam is the sister-in-law of the Crawford family’s head. Miss Queta herself is a member of the Crawford family. I believe

that. So

here,

thinking and considering the overall situation, in the end, he didn’t even know what to say. After all, the

the Fendersons themselves were holding on to a trump card which was very important to Dylan. It was because of that, that Bryson believed that Dylan

would be for both parties

is!” replied

par with the Crawfords, Fynn. While you said that the young master of the Crawford family wanted to wish me a happy birthday and celebrate my eightieth birthday together, it seems that he isn’t present. While he did send someone here in his stead, I don’t think that it justifies me

Fenderson family mansion a day in advance to make all

Mr. Crawford’s already arrived?” replied

already here?

Everyone was equally astonished.

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himself began scanning through

to what Mr. Zartyr had said,

then, everyone was exchanging

here! Why wasn’t I aware of any

wanted to see Mr. Crawford for herself. After all, he was the reason why she and Jasmine couldn’t even leave

were still holding on to Gerald were looking around excitedly. While they were quite sure that actually being able to get acquainted with someone with such a high status

that would

wry smile on his face. Since things had turned out this way, it was impossible for him to continue maintaining

initial plan, Gerald had simply told Barry to create

his father had found out about the mission. As a result, his father had sent some of the people from the Crawford family from Northbay over. To be honest, Gerald himself didn’t really fully comprehend

was indeed a good move for his family to send some men over. Since things had already

are you doing,

female celebrities seemed

calling for Mr. Crawford. Why are you

who didn’t know any better, they must be thinking that he’s the actual Mr. Crawford!” mocked the celebrities as they laughed among

who turned to look at him was startled by his

Alice who had been standing quietly

her to recognize him, and she was now breathing heavily. To think that Gerald

the person who had carried her to her bed and helped her change

him last night. All sorts of emotions were swirling in Alice’s heart at that moment. Was he really the one responsible for putting her in bed last night? To think that she had rejected such a person

staring at Gerald wide-eyed and

in this event, just

Xavia was the person who was most afraid of seeing him here. After all, based on what Fynn had earlier said, did that mean

Long family would definitely be unable to

Gerald’s sudden spike

her grandfather. She was so surprised by the sudden revelation that her entire face was now a

Mr. Crawford she was supposed

the descendants of the Crawford family.

smile as he looked at the young master while

Dylan’s personal driver, he had also been the one in charge of Gerald’s poverty education and

he knew Gerald’s attitude and behavior well. Gerald was both a steady and mature young man who was also rather introverted, just like the

“Mr. Crawford!”

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from the people standing

before saying, “I really hadn’t expected you to come here,

situation. Since he was afraid that you wouldn’t be able to handle the matter alone, he sent me here to help you!”