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Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 1231

Soon after, the very next day came.

Despite facing a financial crisis, Noelle’s family still placed great importance in the preparation process for Noelle’s twentieth birthday. After all, Noelle being able to celebrate her birthday happily was the most important thing to her family.

It explained how what was initially a tiny birthday banquet ended up becoming more of a large family gathering instead.

The venue of the celebration itself was a large private room—that could accommodate up to thirty people—in Longthorne International Hotel that Noelle’s parents had booked for the day.

Among the thirty people invited to the banquet were Noelle’s family members, her classmates, her cousins, and several other relatives including her eldest, and third uncle. They were adamant on making this birthday banquet as festive as possible in order to rid their family of their bad luck.

“Sister-in-law and Second brother! Both of you are truly blessed to have such a beautiful daughter as Noelle! She has such a good temperament too! I’m sure the two of you will definitely be able to continue living and enjoying a good life together with Noelle in the future!” said Noelle’s third aunt with a smile as she looked at Noelle’s parents.

“Enjoy life? What even is there to enjoy? You should be well aware of how messy our family’s current financial state is, Third! We even have to begin thinking about how we’re going to survive the second half of our lives!” replied Zavien as he shook his head bitterly.

Hearing that, Noelle’s eldest and third uncle could only sigh.

“…Still, there’s no need to get too anxious… Quite honestly, our business isn’t doing as terribly as we had initially imagined. As long as we can get someone to invest a sum of money into our business, we’ll surely be able to get through this crisis! You know, I heard that Preston, the Wake family’s young master, has actively been pursuing after Noelle recently. Do any of you know anything about the Wake family’s strength or background?”

The moment Noelle’s third aunt changed the topic, everyone’s attention immediately fell on Noelle.

In truth, Noelle’s eldest and third uncle were people who only did things that benefitted themselves. With that in mind, why were they even bothering to bring their entire families along just to attend the birthday banquet of a young girl like Noelle?

Putting it bluntly, it was because they were well aware of the benefits that Noelle could potentially bring to their family.

Even Zavien and Gracie had heard about Preston’s pursuits of Noelle, so Noelle’s third aunt’s statement wasn’t wrong at all.

From what they knew, the Wake family was extremely formidable. Not only did they own a public listed company of their own, but their family also had the background of the Mayberry Commercial Group! With that in mind, anyone who met or encountered the Wakes would surely give them face.

Regardless, if Noelle truly ended up getting together with Preston—and Preston was willing to have a word with his father about their current situation on their behalf—then the Shadwells would definitely be able to turn things around and resolve their current crisis.

With that said, it was no wonder why Noelle’s aunts and uncles had taken their time to come over today just to celebrate her birthday.

“…Speaking of Preston, I heard that Noelle invited him over to the birthday banquet, right?” added her third aunt with a smile.

Gracie simply laughed subtly before saying, “To think that you’re even more well-informed than I am, sister! How did you even find out that she invited him over?”

Smiling awkwardly, Third aunt simply replied, “I… Just so happened to hear about it!”

“I see! For those who didn’t know any better, I’m sure they’d have assumed that you’ve been paying close attention to Preston. Sadly, though Faye is quite excellent, she hasn’t quite had the luck of bumping into someone like Preston at all. I guess she still needs to work harder to gain the attention and favor of someone like him, aren’t I right, Faye?” said Gracie as she looked at her third aunt’s daughter who was the same age as Noelle.

Gracie couldn’t help but feel slightly jealous since Third aunt was able to know quite a bit about Preston after just hearing his name a few times. It simultaneously also worried her that Noelle’s third aunt could be planning to introduce her own daughter, Faye, to Preston. Was she trying to snatch Gracie’s potential son-in-law from her? If that was the case, Gracie’s only comment was ‘dream on!’

After thinking about it a little while more, Gracie continued by saying, “Speaking of which, sister, you may not have heard about this, but Preston gave Noelle an extremely touching confession before the unfortunate incident took place yesterday! He even knelt before her, you know? I heard that many people were watching the entire thing as well! It’s just such a pity that Noelle, being the stubborn girl she is, simply refused to become his girlfriend!”

“…Is that so? My, how amazing Noelle is!” replied Third aunt as she blushed in embarrassment while praising Noelle in a slightly bitter tone.

At that moment, a waiter opened the door of the private room while saying, “Mr. Wake! Please, come in!”

Following that, a handsome young man wearing a white suit and a necktie walked into the room with a bouquet of flowers in hand.

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“Hello, Uncle Shadwell and Aunt Wauter!” greeted the charming boy as he quickly headed over to them. Of course, the handsome young man in question was none other than Preston.

Preston had been extremely excited from the moment he received Noelle’s invitation to her birthday banquet.

Due to that, he had made sure to pay extra attention to how he dressed today so that he could give off the aura of a young master from a rich family.

It seemed that his efforts paid off since soon enough, the Shadwell family began praising him endlessly. Because of that, Preston couldn’t help but feel a little smug and arrogant.

Shortly after, they invited him to sit at the main table.

However, it was at that moment when Gracie suddenly realized that her daughter wasn’t even around.

Momentarily pausing her chat with Preston before turning to look at Noelle’s roommates, Gracie then asked, “Speaking of which, where did Noelle and Yulisa go? I haven’t seen both of them in a while!”

“From what we heard, both of them went downstairs to receive someone!” replied one of her roommates as the rest of them continued sipping on their juice.

“They what? Isn’t Preston already here? Who else are they planning to receive? Say Preston, did you run into Noelle on your way up here?” asked Gracie, feelingly slightly puzzled.

After all, Preston was undoubtedly the protagonist today.

“Unfortunately, I haven’t. Since this hotel belongs to one of my uncles, I’ve always used the special VIP passage whenever I move around here. If I had known that she would be waiting for me downstairs, then I’d definitely have used the regular entrance!” replied Preston, hints of excitement and joy on his face.

To be completely honest, Preston had already heard about the Shadwell family’s financial crisis from his father. With that in mind, it wasn’t hard for him to imagine that the Shadewells were only treating him this well because of said issue. After all, they were probably well aware that the Wake family had the support of the Mayberry Commercial Group.

In relation to that, the status of companies such as his family’s—that were under the Mayberry Commercial Group—within Mayberry City didn’t even need to be elaborated on.

Regardless, Preston knew that it was only a matter of time now before Noelle agreed to be his girlfriend. Hell, there was even a possibility that she would accept his confession today!

“Oh? So you came up here using a special VIP passage! That’s probably the reason why Noelle hasn’t come up again yet! Hold on, I’ll call her right this instant!” said Gracie with a smile.

“Oh, there’s no need to call her, Aunt Wauter! I feel pretty bad for having Noelle wait down there for so long so I’ll just go downstairs to look for her then bring her back up!” replied Preston as he shook his head with a smile on his face.

Though Preston had to kneel before Noelle yesterday just to ask her out, now that he had found out about the predicament the Shadwells were in, Preston was feeling pretty confident about himself. With that, he then began walking downstairs without the slightest hesitation.

“Wait for me, Preston! I’m coming along!” shouted Gracie as she immediately followed after him.

Gracie felt like she still wasn’t as close to Preston as she would like to be. After all, she was already treating him as though he was already her son-in-law.

Upon seeing Gracie and Preston leave, Yulisa’s roommates then said, “Let’s go look for Yulisa and Noelle as well!”

As the small group of people began descending the building, two girls could be seen waiting rather anxiously by the street right outside the hotel.

“Can’t we just stop waiting for him, Noelle? He must’ve been scared off the moment he read from your message that Longthorne International Hotel was the venue! I truly believe that from the venue of choice alone, he must’ve finally realized how large the difference between both of you were. From the looks of it, he’s probably never attended an event at such a grand place as Longthorne International Hotel! With that in mind, there’s a high possibility that he may be too pressured to even dare to show up here!” complained Yulisa, her arms crossed.

While Yulisa had a pretty good impression of Gerald in the beginning, after everything that had happened, her impression of him had severely dropped.

Quite frankly, if he hadn’t rescued them the day before, Yulisa wouldn’t ever have looked up to him again!

Then again, could she really be blamed for being realistic? After all, this was Gerald’s own fault for not being outstanding enough. Humph!

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“I refuse! After all, he’s already said that he would come today! As for all that you’ve said, I’ve already taken all that into consideration the night before! That’s the reason why I arranged to meet up with him at the entrance of the hotel!” said Noelle.

With her beauty and how meticulous she was with details, it was hard not to call Noelle a goddess.

Just as Yulisa had said, Noelle had taken into consideration that Gerald had probably never stepped foot into a five-star hotel like this before. With that in mind, she had a feeling that he would definitely be feeling slightly timid and pressured. Due to that, Noel had told him to meet up with her at the hotel’s entrance so that they could enter together!

However, though they had agreed to meet up at nine that morning, it was nearing nine forty now yet Gerald still couldn’t be seen anywhere! In fact, he hadn’t even read any of Noelle’s messages on WhatsApp!

Due to all that, Noel truly couldn’t help but wonder whether Gerald really wasn’t coming.

She also remembered him mentioning that he was going to prepare a special gift for a friend of his. Who was that friend? Could it be a girl who was close to him? Could Gerald already like someone else other than her?

If Gerald had just been some ordinary guy, she wouldn’t have been bothered about that fact at all. However, Gerald was no ordinary person.

He had several positive points, for one, his greatest being how strong and skillful he was. He was also currently a hero in the minds of several people. In other words, he was an outstanding person.

It was because of this that Noelle couldn’t help but feel a little entangled whenever she thought about whether Gerald truly liked her or not.

This wasn’t anything out of the ordinary for girls to think about, especially beautiful ones. It was simply something that happened and was completely understandable.

At that moment, Preston, Gracie, and Yulisa’s roommates arrived at the hotel’s entrance.

“Noelle! There you are! I’m terribly sorry for having you wait for such a long time! I entered through the special VIP passage earlier!”

Earlier when he was seconds away from arriving at the hotel’s entrance, Preston had already seen how anxiously Noelle was looking at both sides of a street. Recalling how she had rejected him yesterday and comparing it to how she was today, Preston immediately felt a great sense of satisfaction.

Following that, Gracie then smiled before saying, “Did you know that Preston’s brought along a birthday gift for you, Noelle? Also, while I was just planning to call you up through the phone earlier, Preston kept insisting that he go downstairs to personally look for you!

“Oh. Thanks, Preston! Regardless, you and mom can go back upstairs now,” replied Noelle as she smiled briefly at Preston.

Upon hearing that, Preston’s face immediately went pale! Even Gracie was slightly taken aback. Something wasn’t quite right with her daughter…

Had she not been waiting for Preston this entire time?

As Preston himself began thinking the same thing Gracie was, Gracie asked in a rather impatient tone, “…Noelle? Who exactly are you waiting for?”

“I’m just waiting for my friend… I wonder why he’s not here yet!” replied Noelle without considering her words too much.

“A… friend? …Noelle, is it a he or a she…?” asked Gracie again.

Instead of replying, however, Noelle simply walked further out toward the roadside to see why Gerald still hadn’t arrived.

Seeing that, Gracie then turned to look at Yulisa before asking, “Yulisa, who exactly are both of you waiting for?”

With that, Yulisa then began telling everything to her, starting from when she had asked Gerald for his help to take some pictures for them.

After hearing about all that had happened, Gracie finally understood that the person her daughter was waiting for was just some poor person!

Preston—who had been listening to Yurisa as she explained—found himself taking in a deep breath, his sheer jealousy evident on his face.

Noticing the change of expression on his face, Gracie instantly began gritting her teeth as well. And here she was thinking that her daughter knew better! Shouldn’t she be well aware that Preston was way more important than Gerald in terms of solving their family’s current dilemma?

Fuming in anger, Gracie then instantly walked over to Noelle, reprimanding her viciously.

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Moving back to Gerald, after receiving Noelle’s invitation last night, he had attached great importance to the event. Due to that, he had been well-prepared to head to the banquet from very early in the morning.

By his estimations back then, he should’ve arrived—in his car—before eight thirty even came.

driving a luxury or sports car, however,

realized that he didn’t need to use money or any interest to build their relationship up. The only thing he needed to do was

to drive a luxury car, just to show

the

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care about money, Noelle still exhibited hints

be sincere anymore. Should that happen, even if he were to successfully obtain invigorating blood from her, it would be completely useless to him.

show her his financial resources. Due to that, the car Gerald was driving today was only an ordinary one that

he truly hadn’t anticipated for there to be a traffic jam this

suddenly hit the brakes! Seeing that, Gerald instantly stopped

sound of something crashing soon followed from behind him as Gerald’s

whoever it was behind him, they had accidentally stepped on

to see a rather pretty yet coquettish girl who was wearing a hat and driving a Porsche

out of her car, her handbag in hand, before walking to Gerald and yelling,

car, auntie!” retorted Gerald, truly at a

heard him referring to her as ‘auntie’, the woman instantly recoiled in shock. A second later, her entire body began shuddering as her expression

compare it to mine! I’m warning you now, you’d better be smart and

that, Gerald could only shake his head with

of the people trapped there began rolling down

cared about her face, Gerald could tell that she wasn’t going to let him

going to pay a single cent to her, resulting in her calling her husband

before her husband drove over in a big Hummer. The second he arrived, he immediately dashed across the

them wearing gold chains around their necks. Upon getting close enough to Gerald, they instantly slid their hands

the blue and caused me to bump into him!” explained

I am?” asked the middle-aged leader of the group in a frigid tone. In his left

shaking his head as he took his cell phone out to check

f*cker!” shouted the guards as soon as

forward, the middle-aged man shouted in rage, “How dare you! You truly are done for today, young man! I’ll make sure you won’t even be able to stand up

do the deed?” asked Gerald as he casually

course!” roared the middle-aged man

hearing that, Gerald simply laughed out loud before shaking

the middle-aged man felt his anger peak. The same went for his men as

you, you mother*cker!” roared all of his men as they tossed

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men immediately surrounded Gerald, ready to assault him, Gerald could tell that this wasn’t their first rodeo doing

that she could give him two

to his stomach, sending the hundred and twenty kilogram man flying a good twenty meters

by the turn of events. After all, everyone had simply assumed that Gerald was just a poor young man. Nobody could’ve anticipated him to

a muscle anymore, and for good reason too. They could all see that the injured man had now curled into a ball from the pain, and even his mouth was foaming! To think that Gerald had almost killed their ally with a single kick! Only an

From the moment the car accident had happened, quite a bit of time had passed. Adding that to the terrible traffic jam before this, it was

this entire time, and from what Aiden

couldn’t help but imagine Mila waiting for him back

he didn’t show up in time and he wasn’t even able to see her before

day before would’ve been for naught! The thought of that alone made Gerald feel extremely nervous. He truly couldn’t afford to delay this

who was still paralyzed in fear, Gerald then fished his cell

to where I am, immediately! I need to attend a birthday banquet ASAP and I don’t have a proper mode

up his phone. He definitely wasn’t going anywhere in his car with such a

be able to reach the hotel relatively quickly. Even so, there was the obvious risk of him exposing his true identity. However, running over there would simply take too long. There truly was no other

helicopter?” muttered several of the pedestrians who had overheard Gerald’s conversation earlier. Though it sounded extremely absurd, many of them didn’t dare to laugh after seeing how strong Gerald was.

ask someone to pick him up in

simple-minded after spending all his time only

middle-aged man finally returned to his senses again. His opponent was just some kid! Why was he even this frightened

was still staring at his phone, the middle-aged took advantage of the situation by getting his remaining men to

small but very sharp knife!

attack on Gerald, the enraged middle-aged man was just about to order them to attack when suddenly,

a helicopter, and upon realizing

of the pedestrians as they looked up at

of the stuck car drivers instantly got off their vehicles to have a

huge falcon hovering in the sky—was now slowly descending, almost as though it was preparing to land. Due to how close it

those on the helicopter pinpointed where Gerald

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landed on

and woman were both dumbfounded. This was because there were a few big characters printed on the

actually a member of Mayberry Commercial Group, and it seemed as though his status was not

This

middle-aged man instantly broke out in cold

from the helicopter as

behalf. Also, I want you to look into the background of these few thugs beside me before punishing them accordingly!” Gerald

Mr. Crawford!” The

Gerald was about to leave, he saw one of the thugs holding a knife, and he was just about to stab the knife directly into Gerald’s waist. Gerald glanced at the man who was already frozen in place as he broke out in cold sweat because

smile appeared on his face

Gerald gave him a slap across his

you are carrying such a small knife. Who are you trying

speechless yet

Gerald then got into the cockpit before flying the helicopter away. The passersby were all wailing and trembling in shock. This scene was simply

the helicopter along, and he naturally did not encounter any

downstairs in a conspicuous manner. Instead, he simply parked directly on the top

trotted all the way

realized that Noelle was still waiting for him at the

did you come out from inside the hotel?!” Noelle could not help

the back door!” Gerald

coming in and out of the entrance of the hotel, Gerald would naturally feel embarrassed too. Perhaps that was the reason why he had chosen to come in through

“He is the one?”

Gracie saw Gerald, she had a sullen expression on her face. She was not done

or not, that was secondary. What was the big deal anyway? At most, she could wait until she

kind of affection. What did she mean by inviting him here

It turned out that the person

had also invited this kid. In any case, Preston instantly

he thought about how Noelle had been looking

all, Preston himself was so rich and outstanding, but Noelle did not seem to care about that

now that you are here! It is almost ten o’clock now! We should hurry up and

in?! You are asking him to come in too?! Noelle, are you really using your brain?”

Preston by doing this?! What if Preston became very angry because of this incident and decided to leave Noelle? In that case, the Shadwell family

Noelle had already

hurriedly chased after

was left behind with a look

have been chasing and pursuing her for over half a year now, and she has never given

felt a sense of humiliation sweeping

out his cell phone to make a phone

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not be an exaggeration to describe that all of her menopausal symptoms for the next

relationship with this young man. As a person who had already

to develop any further, it would certainly be very troublesome

Gracie could not just let this pass without coming up with a solution. She could not simply continue watching as her daughter took one step after the other into an abyss, right?! Therefore, Gracie was in a foul mood, and

wagyu steak

the dishes

the main dish, which was the highlight

today, into

also followed the

middle-aged man. In order to show his respect for Preston, he had decided to come here personally to serve the meal and explain

actually giving

felt that she really had a lot of

the wagyu steak at the Longthorne International Hotel was very famous, but Gerald had never tried it because

do you know anything about

about to taste the dish, the manager exchanged glances with Preston before he suddenly interrupted Gerald

I don’t really know much about it!” Gerald replied as

the countryside, right? Is this your first time coming to the Longthorne International Hotel?”

a few of the girls, could not help but put their chopsticks down at this time. It was obvious that the manager

this is my first time here, did I do anything wrong?” Gerald could also sense the hint of sarcasm in his words, and he instantly raised his head to look at

not seen much of the world, to eat this wagyu steak! Men, come and take this dish away from him!” The manager said lightly, with his hands behind

the rights to

look of anger and resentment flashed through Noelle’s face at this time. This manager did not only look down on people, but he had no respect for others

she possibly know that this was all

the young master of the Wake family,

this place.

Preston. Also, he would be able to build

smiled coldly as he stared at the scene before

“Wait a minute!”

put down his

at the manager, who had a smug look on his face, as he sneered and said, “You are opening an establishment to run a business, so you cannot go overboard. This is the foundation of the business industry. It is your duty to treat each and every customer equally and with respect. This is also the virtue and duty of every businessman. So, Mr.

is definitely worthy enough to eat the food in our hotel. You are the only person who is not worthy at all! In truth, the only reason why I did not kick you out of this place is simply because I am giving Mr. Wake and Miss Noelle face! You are actually trying to talk back and educate me here?! You should

everything that he wanted to with those few words, and this was exactly what Preston

me? How are you ever going

guards? Drive this person, who does not know his own place, out of our hotel now! I also want you guys to put a sign in front of the hotel stating that this kind of worthless trash is not allowed to step into our hotel in the

after that, about four to five security guards rushed into the private room,

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that

some leeway, but it seems as though

at all!” Gerald said coldly as he smiled at

attack him!” Noelle was a little frightened at this

the manager to deliberately humiliate and make things difficult for Gerald. If Gerald were to beat the manager up, Preston would certainly have a

at the very beginning, he was still

must really be tired of living!

looked at Gracie and the others as he said, “Ms. Shadwell and Mrs. Shadwell, I know that I am being rude and disrespectful. However, I

act according to your own discretion. As for some irrelevant people, we do not want to be bothered with them either!”

already taken out his cell phone and sent a

around as they prepared to take