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Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 1161

Even though he hadn’t even begun thinking about what the dark light—that had escaped from the black coffin—was, Gerald truly didn’t dare to dwell any longer on any of all this, at least not for the moment.

The stress of all this just felt like a ticking time bomb weighing on his mind.

“…Speaking of which, where’s Chester?” asked Gerald, suddenly remembering about him.

“Ah. Well, the young lord had been comatose for quite a long time as well, but he regained his consciousness about half a month ago. However, he suffered quite a lot of physical injuries, especially his legs. Even till today, he still hasn’t been able to get out of bed,” replied one of the bodyguards.

“I see. It’s good enough for me that he survived!”

While the way Gerald and Chester had gotten acquainted was nothing short of dramatic, Gerald remembered how Chester had risked his life to protect him back when he was close to passing out. Due to his heroic actions, Gerald had felt extremely touched.

“…Also, aside from our signals, were any of you able to detect Miss Gunter’s…?” asked Gerald.

“About that… We searched for her for seven whole days and nights, but we weren’t successful in locating her at all, Mr. Crawford!” replied the same bodyguard from before.

Upon hearing that, Gerald was immediately filled with self-reproach.

Before descending into the ocean, Gerald had made up his mind that he would protect her since he had brought her beneath the waves with him. In the end, however, he had nearly failed to protect himself!

Due to that, he had burdened Yume. He didn’t even know if she was currently still alive or not. If only she hadn’t gone down there with him, she could have remained safe…

The thought of that made Gerald clench his fists tightly.

While he had initially thought that he could just do as he pleased with his current capabilities, in the end, it was all just a hopeless endeavor… He had just been lying to himself this entire time.

To think that a few small Dead Annies was all it took to render him incapable of fighting… If he hadn’t arranged for support above sea back then, Gerald knew that there was a high possibility that he would’ve already died in the depths of the ocean by now.

Even so, the most pitiful person throughout this entire event had to be Yume…

‘I’m so sorry…!’ Gerald thought to himself, his expression pale.

When Jasmine saw that expression on his face, her initial joy—of him finally waking up—instantly disappeared. In its place, an immense sense of loss began filling her heart.

‘…Why does she get to be blessed with having Gerald worry about her…? Haha! I’m pretty sure that Gerald wouldn’t be this sad if I were in her shoes…’

As Jasmine thought about that, Gerald himself was already scanning through the eternal coffin again.

No matter how much he looked at it, however, the coffin didn’t seem to be fake.

‘…Then… perhaps I really did save the woman in white…? The problems just keep adding to the pile… Regardless, it seems that grandpa knew about the origins of the Dead Annie flowers… Once I meet up with him, I’m sure I’ll be able to understand more about its mysteries…’

‘Speaking of grandpa, since a month and a half has already passed, he and the other legends should have long started their journey to the pledge of the holy water… I wonder how they’re all doing…’

‘Regardless, while I had initially promised to meet up with grandpa and the others once I located the woman in white’s corpse, I don’t even know where her body has gone now…’

His train of thought was cut short when miserable screams of bodyguards could suddenly be heard outside the manor!

Seconds later, the sound of a door being smashed open could be heard!

“What on earth are you doing? Anyone without an invitation is prohibited from entering this place!” shouted Gerald as he ran out to have a look at what all the commotion was about.

Upon arriving at the scene, Gerald saw a few of his bodyguards confronting a young woman who looked to be around twenty. The woman herself looked extremely cold and unapproachable.

Gerald also saw over ten seriously injured bodyguards—who were all clutching onto their chests—lying on the floor.

Before he could register anything else, several of the remaining guards began rushing toward her while shouting, “You’re courting death!”

Lifting her arm and waving her hand slightly, the bodyguards quickly found themselves flying backward as though they were all just broken kites!

As Gerald watched his men topple all over the place, he felt his eyelids twitch rapidly as he shouted, “Step down, men!”

After getting his subordinates to stop attacking, Gerald turned to get a better look at the woman.

While the purple and black eyeshadow as well as her relatively dark lipstick made the woman look extremely charming, that wasn’t what was on Gerald’s mind at the moment.

After all, he now knew who the woman was. She was none other than Linus’s kind-hearted niece, Queena!

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He remembered how she had helped him enter the Yonwick family’s manor in the previous month after he had been denied access into the manor by one of the Yonwick’s apprentices.

At the time, Gerald had thought that she was extremely sweet and warm-hearted. After all, from what Gerald had personally experienced, nice women like her were far and few between in today’s world.

While that had been his initial impression of her, the current Queena’s temperament was vastly different from the one he had met back then.

Instead of the gentleness he had remembered her by, she was now displaying extreme arrogance and viciousness.

What more, while Gerald was sure that she was just an ordinary woman before this, he could now sense immense inner strength emanating from her. It was so overbearing that even Gerald had to admit that he was probably weaker than her at that moment. It was truly bewildering, to say the least.

“…What are you doing, Queena?” asked Gerald rather hesitantly.

“Why, I came over to see you, of course!” replied the woman as she placed both her arms behind her back while looking at Gerald rather fiendishly as though she was staring at someone whom she hadn’t met for a long time.

“While I appreciate your kind gesture of visiting, don’t you think you went a little overboard by hurting my men, Queena?” said Gerald as he turned to glance at the wailing bodyguards who were still lying on the floor.

“It’s their fault for stopping me from entering! Quite honestly, if it wasn’t for the fact that I was worried that you’d get angry, I would’ve just chopped their heads off by now! I refrained from doing so just for you, you know? I hope that gives you a clear image of how important you are to me!” replied the woman as she began seductively walking toward Gerald.

No human would ever treat another’s life as a trivial thing, especially not Queena, the person who would probably be sad for quite some time after a kitten or puppy died.

“…You… You aren’t Queena, are you? Who are you?! Queena isn’t like this at all!” declared Gerald in a frigid tone.

“You’re always like this, aren’t you…? No matter what I do, you’ll still end up having doubts about me… While it’s true that I cheat a lot, I’d never ever cheat you! Despite that, you still keep doubting everything I do!” said Queena in return as her eyes suddenly turned vicious.

“I’ve no idea what you’re talking about, but I know for a fact that you aren’t Queena!”

“Is it really that important whether I truly am Queena or not? After all, the most important thing is that we’ll still end up being together in the future! Nobody’s going to be able to snatch you away from me!” replied Queena as she smiled smugly.

Now directly in front of Gerald, Queena stared intently at his face. However, the moment she raised a hand to caress his cheek, Gerald quickly took a step backward, leaving her hand hanging in mid-air.

Looking at Gerald with a smile, she then said, “Fine, fine, I won’t tease you anymore… See, I came here today to give you some time to prepare yourself. Since tomorrow’s a good day, I’ve decided that we’re getting married then!”

“…What? Marriage?” replied Gerald, stunned.

“…I already have a fiancée so it’s impossible that I’d marry you! Also, I’m a good three to four years older than you!” added Gerald.

After undergoing such a huge change, Gerald knew that Queena wasn’t the same person she used to be. While he was sure about that, he wasn’t willing to argue with her just yet. After all, he was still unable to get an accurate reading of how strong she truly was. Due to that, he would only have a row with her as a last resort.

“I don’t care about that! We’re getting married tomorrow and that’s final! I wish to announce our love and marriage to everyone on the planet!”

Following that, Queena turned around and headed to the door leading outside. However, the moment she got there, Jasmine suddenly stepped forward while exclaiming, “Hold it! Who do you even think you are? Gerald already has someone he loves! You can’t just order him to get married to you out of the blue!”

Upon hearing that, Queena stopped walking forward. Tilting her head slightly to look at Jasmine, she then growled in a spine-tingling voice, “While I already hate any women that get too close to him, I hate women like you more! Women who dare to disobey my wishes!”

The moment her sentence ended, she stretched open her fingers before taking in a small breath. Through that action alone, Jasmine felt her entire body being pulled toward her!

“Jasmine!” shouted Gerald as he immediately stretched his own hand out to hold onto her.

However, before he was even able to touch Jasmine’s arm, Gerald suddenly felt a strong inner force against him! He found himself retreating a few steps due to the impact alone.

Looking at his hurting hand, Gerald saw that her attack had caused his thenar webspace to be completely torn off! His green veins were also extremely visible now, pulsating as his arms and palms began bleeding.

Jasmine herself was now being strangled by Queena…

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‘S-she’s so strong…!’ Gerald thought to himself.

He only needed to experience her inner force once to know that her current force was already immensely different compared to the other forces he had previously come into contact with.

If he had to make a comparison between his force and hers, it was like comparing dirty water in a stagnant pool to pure and distilled water. With a difference that large, there was absolutely no doubt who held more power here.

Gerald watched as Jasmine’s face flushed as Queena slowly intensified the grip of her force.

Jasmine was going to die any second now if Queena truly wanted to end her!

“Stop!” shouted Gerald as he quickly began running toward her again.

“Worry not, I won’t kill her like this… After all, I can see that you care for her a lot! Anyway, I’ll be taking her with me until I get your answer!” replied Queena as she gently touched Jasmine’s body…

The moment she did so, Jasmine instantly blacked out! As Queena exited the manor, both Gerald and Bryson ran after her.

Upon exiting, however, the two men immediately saw several of the Yonwick family’s cars and bodyguards waiting outside. As the unconscious girl was brought into one of the cars, Queena herself stood before another car’s door before tilting her head to look at Gerald.

“You know, no matter where you go, you won’t be able to escape! I’m not letting you slip away from me again!” said Queena before closing the car’s door behind her and ordering her men to drive.

worried as

Bryson shouted, Gerald began coughing

“Mr. Crawford!”

“Senior!”

a state, Joshua and the others

was now conscious, he was still only at around seventy percent of his usual strength at the moment due to the damage he sustained from the

into contact with her force while trying to save Jasmine earlier, there

he simply couldn’t hold

his peak form, it was still going to

think you can take her on unless master is here…!”

replied Gerald as

strong despite

that strong… In fact, I know for certain that that isn’t Queena! Regardless, I do have a pretty good hunch

do you have in mind?” asked both Joshua and Bryson in

he only turned to face the manor, looking in the direction where the eternal coffin had

doesn’t matter. Whatever the case is, since all this is happening because of me, I won’t allow anyone other than me to get hurt! Worry not, I’ll surely bring

a little while later when the team of cars stopped before the Yonwick family manor. Turning to look at the back seat,

to be angry was certainly astonishing for the driver and

was wrong then since she had constantly kept herself locked in her room from

to order—in a

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that. However, due to how commanding her tone was, everyone couldn’t help

stepped out of

manor itself, a minor familial commotion seemed to be

currently standing together, Freya herself was currently walking to

initially planned to rush to the airport to pick a friend up. However, she

Freya cursed in her

her third uncle’s daughter, which meant that she didn’t have a high status! To think that she would actually be daring enough to take the team of cars out, even

continued being outraged, she finally saw Queena slowly making her

family, she’s slowly getting more and more

said nothing, Queena’s parents quickly ran over to the angered girl before saying,

discipline her. Regardless, I’m still going to personally teach her a lesson!”

as soon as she stood

all within the manor,

only served to amplify Freya’s

“Hey, Queena! Didn’t you see us standing here? Aren’t you going to greet us at all? Regardless, why the hell did you use all

bodyguards were currently dragging in, her voice slowly trailed off in shock. She wasn’t

the others saw her, everyone

whose

just to send her away back then… To think that she had actually been recaptured by one of his family members! Wasn’t this going to cause their family to truly

Miss Fenderson back here again?!” shouted Freya in

Yonwicks, staring specifically at Freya. The moment she felt Queena’s cold gaze on her, Freya instantly began trembling. Both frightened and shocked, Freya felt as though she had just been

while, Queena then sneered, “From now on, everything in this family is at my disposal, and that includes

simply waved her hand slightly and Freya

sneer alone already sounding so oppressive, none of the Yonwicks dared to go against her decision, not even Linus! In a way, it almost

now lying on the ground—was now too terrified to even crawl back up. Gulping in fear, she then watched as Queena continued

and the moment she was released, Jasmine glared at her before saying, “…I’ve met Queena before… She’s kind and gentle! After

kill you at all?” replied Queena as she looked at the girl

it’s for Gerald, the person I love most! If you’re planning on using me to threaten Gerald to marry such a vicious woman as you are, you’d best give up the

twitched. It was evident that what Jasmine had just

you insist on loving him? Even to the point of sacrificing yourself! You’d abandon everything for him without the slightest hesitation! Why is that?” asked Queena, jealousy

could tell, her words

him! With my strong feelings for Gerald, I’m able to do anything for him without ever having to be at a loss of what to do!” replied

abandon everything for him! After all, even I wasn’t able to do that… And because of that, I’ve suffered terribly for my entire life!” shouted Queena as she clenched her fists so tightly that her sharp fingernails dug deep into

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I’ll have you know that fame and wealth are only able to give people the illusion of happiness… No matter how much of them you gain, you won’t ever truly be happy without knowing what love is! After all, with an empty heart, you won’t be

crucial thing now. The important thing was that

to have been deeply hurt by

Jasmine in amazement after hearing all that. While Queena had initially planned to kill Jasmine after inflicting immense fear into the girl—to the

indifferent toward all her threats. It simply made

Regardless, you’ve touched me deeply… Alright, hear me out. I’ll now tell you a story, and after listening to it, I need you to identify which of

reply, and only stared at the sitting

then

a pair of sisters, twin sisters, to be exact… Both of them were like two peas in a pod, and the older sister was named Chloe while the younger one went by Indigo. The sisters had always had a very good relationship, even from their childhood days. They always enjoyed things together, but also made sure to endure all their misfortunes side

was the person in question extremely diligent and considered to be a young genius, he was also

somewhat similar to the love that Jasmine had earlier described, though both of them

genius himself had first fallen for Chloe, the elder twin. While for a time, the three of them were able to enjoy beautiful sunsets and sunrises together, hand in

only did she want to have him all for herself, but she also had a gut feeling that her younger

ever since they were young. While the younger sister was known to be witty, obedient,

that the young genius had fallen for her, she began taking it more personally. Knowing how much more exceptional her younger sister was compared to her, she was well aware that others would find it much easier to

from Indigo. Eventually, she even began targeting

Chloe’s behavior. To Chloe’s dismay,

wanting to be outdone, Chloe decided to build up her own aura, one that would overtake

up becoming. Eventually, she became completely blinded by fame and wealth, losing herself as well as her initial

stepped over the line. Because of her actions, everyone ended up standing against her and this included her younger sister who ended up breaking relations with her. However, the most devastating blow came from the young genius who had

everything at that moment, Chloe became enveloped

grew further and further apart from Chloe. This was because throughout the past few years, he had endured a number of misfortunes together with

upon finding out about that, Chloe began deliberately starting fights with Indigo. Due to how much they fought, their resentment eventually got to a

one day, Chloe

and wealth to save him back

life, immediately rushing over to the young genius’s side when he was

moment when Chloe

had still been thinking about herself while Indigo had rushed to save the person she loved… She… She just couldn’t admit that she was weaker

Queena’s eyes had

that Queena was truly concerned about that

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asked Gerald in

she had lost everything and completely changed after being betrayed by her friends and family,

won’t stop until I get my hands on him, and I will get what I want!” declared Queena as she

What does all this have to do with Gerald…?” asked Jasmine

you a summarized version of this story. After all, I’m well aware that you’re a smart girl! I’m not

around you…? Were you like this with

However, I’m going to win this time… And I’m winning everything!” replied Queena

expression formed on her face, one of the maids suddenly

“What is it?”

Master Gerald wishes to

saying, “…Please bring Miss Fenderson to the room downstairs… She’s not allowed to

the room

she saw Linus and the others in the room. Gerald himself was seated on one of the

the other Yonwicks to leave the room, Gerald watched as all of them left before standing up and saying, “While I’m not quite sure what is going on between the two of us, I assure you, Miss Queena, that none of

had been quite happy just seconds ago, her expression bittered as she instantly said in a spine-tingling cold voice, “…So…

Gerald as Queena immediately shot a frigid glare at

However, I do know that while I may look exactly like him, I’m not the person you think I am, which is why I’ll never fall for the woman in white! There’s only one person I truly love, and with that in mind, I hope you come to realize that there’s no room for you to negotiate!” added Gerald as he looked straight into

being someone that looked similar to the woman in white, yet wasn’t really her. The doppelganger was the one in charge of heartlessly killing

him that night was this woman. With her standing before him right now, all his theories simply

clearly angered by

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said is true! I’m truly not the person you’ve been

any doubts about what was going on. The person he had saved was definitely not the woman in white. As for the

not to mention where Zeus’s whereabouts

getting married tomorrow! Do you already have your answer?” asked Queena

the first place… With that in mind, how could we get married?” replied Gerald with

is no room for further discussion between us? Is

at him as she added, “I see. So that’s how it’s going to be. I get where you’re coming from, but just because you don’t love me today, that doesn’t mean you won’t end up

and forehead in quick succession. A split second later, Gerald felt his entire body stiffen. He

elegance of a queen—Gerald asked, “What did you do to

that, you’re just a regular human being now. Tell you what, I’ll give you a bit more time to think about it. If you truly wish to recover your strength in order

in a deep breath, she then gave Gerald an emotionless stare before shouting, “Now head back and sleep

she turned

other Yonwicks had been standing outside, listening intently to

found out about Gerald’s existence. For a

from their family when an even bigger threat showed up. To think that that person

aware that the current Queena was no longer the same good girl that they once

been pulling his leg. True to her word, he instantly found that he could no longer access his strength anymore. As a result, he was well aware that he wouldn’t be able to withstand any attacks anymore, at least for the time being. The worst

a way to take her

leave, Freya noticed that Queena still hadn’t

just a weak person, Freya rushed toward him with glistening eyes as she yelled, “You heartless

all this to get on Queena’s good side. However, before

around and saw that it was

have little right to do so! Now leave!” shouted

said, “One day, you’ll understand that I’m only doing all this for you… I hope that you won’t disappoint me because I’ll destroy anything that I can’t get… Nobody should