The Secretly Rich Man

Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 181

Zack, Howard, and his son went up the platform together.

They stood in the same row subconsciously.

To everyone’s surprise, they gave Gerald a 90-degree bow.

“Nice to meet you, Mr. Crawford. Congratulations on purchasing the Mountain Top Villa successfully.”

They said in unison, just like they had discussed it, and reached an agreement beforehand.

A loud bang was heard.

As soon as they said that, it appeared like a great blow was thrown into the crowd, and they were shocked immensely.

“Mr. Crawford! So it turns out that he’s Mr. Crawford!”

“Oh my God! Is he the Mr. Crawford from Mayberry? Is he the absolute national millionaire, Mr. Crawford?”

They gaped in surprise and excitement.

“What? Mr. Crawford? So Gerald is that Mr. Crawford!”

Rita staggered and retreated weakly.

During their family reunion before, somebody made a guess that Gerald was the absolute national millionaire, Mr. Crawford.

However, Rita had denied it there and then.

It was because Gerald did not seem like it at all.

But the scene before her soon shocked her deeply, so much so that she was about to faint.

‘Mr. Crawford! Gerald is that Mr. Crawford!’

No wonder one hundred million dollars meant nothing to him.

He did not even seem surprised when he touched the luxurious car which cost around two thousand dollars.

It was because he was a prestigious and wealthy young youth—Mr. Crawford.

He was the heir of the most wealthy and influential family.

Rita’s facial expression became complicated. She was filled with deep regret.

At the same time, Wyatt’s facial expression worsened. He was regretful too.

A while back, Mr. Crawford wanted to shake hands with him. He even smiled at him.

That was such a good chance for him to get close to the wealthy people and gain some benefits from it.

But what did he do? He did not even glance at Mr. Crawford.

Besides, what else did he say? He even condemned Mr. Crawford, claiming that he was a mere nobody.

He even started to give him a hard lesson, but Mr. Crawford only smiled without saying anything.

At the same time, Dawn, Nyla, Samuel, and Melanie gaped in shock.

In short, they were filled with deep regret.

Gerald stood on the platform. He looked at them who appeared quite shocked before him. He did the same thing, he smiled casually.

He did not have to be infuriated by them.

It was better that way. It was so much better than beating them up vigorously.

Gerald looked at Rita beside him. “Rita, I’ve purchased the villa now. Shouldn’t you give me the key and then bring me there to take a look at the Mountain Top Villa?”

“I… Yes, Mr. Crawford!”

Rita said that with much difficulty.

She did not even know how she should address Gerald.

She then turned around and brought them along. Soon, they reached the foot of the mountain where Mountain Top Villa was.

“Rita, we would like to go too. Could you please plead with Mr. Crawford and ask him to bring us along?”

Two beautiful women—Dawn and Nyla rushed toward them now.

When they reached Rita, they purposely spoke louder, just to let Gerald hear them and realize that they indeed regretted what they had done.

They did not even care about the deep humiliation which engulfed them when they did so. They couldn’t care less about it.

The most important thing was they needed to please Mr. Crawford so that he would forgive them. They believed that they would be able to gain something from there. Even though Mr. Crawford might not admire them, they would be able to stay by his side and be his servants given how beautiful they were.

“I… I can’t do that!” Rita was still in shock. How could she help to plead with him?

“Mr. Crawford, could you please let us go up there and take a look? We were wrong just now. We’re deeply sorry! May we know how we can seek your forgiveness?”

Both Dawn and Nyla became teary.

In fact, Gerald felt that he was slightly sorry toward them when he saw them like that.

They changed their attitude too drastically in so short a time.

Gerald directly retorted given what they said just now. “Fine, if you want me to forgive you, act like a dog and bark in front of me!”

He said those words in anger, asking them to get lost immediately.

A few barks were heard.

Unexpectedly, they started barking like a dog in front of everybody.

At the same time, they twisted around and said, “Mr. Crawford, do I look like a dog now? What kind of female little puppy do you want to see? Why don’t you ask me to act for you?”

They stuck out their tongues at Gerald.

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“D*mn it!”

Gerald felt like he was about to have a headache.

Those two women were indeed the most shameless women Gerald had ever met in his whole lifetime, even more so than Xavia.

He asked them to bark like a dog, and they did so without any hesitation.

Actually, both Dawn and Nyla had risked everything they had. They would certainly cling onto Mr. Crawford vigorously no matter what he asked them to do.

It was indeed such an effective tactic.

Gerald was speechless now. He waved his hand. “Just come along if you want!”

“Mr. Crawford!”

At that moment, Wyatt shouted. He raised both of his hands and bent his body slightly. He then squeezed out of the crowd and ran toward Gerald.

“Mr. Crawford. I didn’t know who you are just now. I was wrong. Please forgive my bad manners. I’m Wyatt Light. We were introduced to each other just now.”

Wyatt held both of his hands in midair, wanting to have a closer contact with him, shaking his hands.

Mr. Crawford was indeed not someone who Wyatt could afford to offend. He would definitely be able to ruin Wyatt any minute.

“But I don’t know you!”

Gerald said softly, then he put his hands in his pockets.

“This… Mr. Crawford… My daughter and I offended you just now. Please forgive us. We’re deeply sorry.”

Wyatt appeared quite upset. He waved his hand immediately, and Melanie stepped forward pitifully.

‘It turns out that this pathetic man is Mr. Crawford. It’s so unexpected!”

“Mr. Crawford, I was wrong just now.”

“Oh? Don’t you have mysophobia? I sat behind you just now. You were so anxious that you changed your seat. Now, it seems like you don’t have that now. Why are you standing so close to me? Aren’t you scared?”

Mr. Crawford smiled, and that was all he did at the moment.

“I…”

Melanie blushed deeply. ‘Am I not attractive enough for him?’

Gerald smiled bitterly and shook his head. He did not bother about them anymore. He then turned around and went up the mountain with Zack and the others.

That was the first time Gerald condemned the others. In fact, he was quite infuriated just now. After venting his anger out like that, he felt much better.

Besides, his extremely pompous and arrogant second cousin——Rita followed closely behind him, holding the key in her hand. It made Gerald feel that it was indeed wonderful being a rich person.

In fact, Rita was in a dilemma too. It was because she started to hold different feelings and emotions toward Gerald at that moment.

She felt that Gerald appeared quite handsome, outrageously so.

Rita was humiliated deeply, but she knew that it was a good thing. It was because it seemed like there was a new chance for her after all, being married into a rich family.

From what she could see, Gerald did not appear to hate her.

Besides, she would now be the butler for the Mountain Top Villa from now on. She would surely have much contact with Gerald.

‘Sister, does it mean that I’ll do something bad to you?’

That afternoon was indeed quite interesting.

Gerald strolled around the villa for around one to two hours. He then brought them and went down the mountain at around four o’clock in the afternoon.

When he reached the foot of the mountain, there were a few messages in his class group chat all of a sudden.

It was the class representative, Cassandra who posted a few photos and words in the group.

“Please help to share it on your social media!”

“Help our classmate. Her younger sister is seriously ill, and she isn’t able to earn money too. Please donate some money and help them to resolve this issue. Your kindness is greatly appreciated!”

At first glance, one realized that Cassandra was the one who was in charge of the shooting of the photographs and the writing of the content.

It was Layla Hack.

Cassandra asked her to hold up a sign with the words “Please help me!” scrawled on it and stood on the platform in the class. She seemed to be asking for everybody’s help.

At that moment, Layla seemed extremely paled, and she closed her eyes tightly. She was grasping the sign tightly in her hands. Clearly, her fingernails were stabbed deeply into the paper sign.

“Friends, this is the photograph and details I designed for Layla for the fundraising campaign. Is there anything you think that I should improve on? If no, I’ll report it to the department. If you think that there’s not a problem with it, please reply with the number ‘one’ here.”

Both Blondie and Felicity wrote their reply. “1!”

“……”

It was indeed that woman!

How could she crush one’s dignity like that?

Gerald did not know when Layla had returned to the college. He was also unaware when the fundraising campaign started.

But Gerald knew instantly that it was Cassandra’s idea, using such a tactic for fundraising and publicity purposes.

It was because Gerald was forced to do exactly the same thing by Cassandra before. She claimed that it was a way to show their compassion and improve the class’s honor and reputation.

“D*mn it!”

Gerald knew exactly how Layla felt at that moment since he experienced it before.

He could not even bear that kind of humiliation. How about Layla who had much more self-esteem than he?

“Yoel, get a car. I need to return to college this instant!”

Gerald said immediately.

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Soon, Gerald reached the college.

He went straight to his own department classroom.

When he reached the west entrance, he saw that it was crowded.

There were a lot of students from different departments, and they almost blocked the road.

Gerald saw Harper and the others who stood in the crowd. So he squeezed his way into the crowd.

Then only he saw what was happening.

A girl was standing at the west entrance, holding up a sign pitifully.

She lowered her head greatly.

But Gerald recognized her at first sight. It was none other than Layla.

Beside her, there were Cassandra, Victor, and the president of the student union—Whitney.

At that moment, Layla acted like a background image, giving the others the chance to snap their photographs with her.

“Gerald, here you are. It’s so frustrating!”

Harper patted Gerald’s shoulders slightly.

He then said angrily, “Layla is indeed in some crisis now. But the class representative is over the line. It’s fine if they want to hold a fundraising campaign. But why do they have to force Layla to hold up a sign like this and stand here in front of everybody?”

Benjamin said, “If they don’t create such a commotion, how would our department gain our popularity? Just take a look at it now. The class representatives, Victor and Whitney, have worked busily for the entire afternoon for Layla’s fundraising event. They then asked Layla to stand there like that just so they could show off about it.”

“Besides, this event has attracted the attention of the college. They claim that they have to put significance on it, and they must help that particular student to resolve her crisis!”

Actually, there were quite a lot of students who knew the inside story of that event. They were quite angry about it.

The others who knew not what happened would have another kind of mindset. “Just look at her! How pitiful she is! Her family has run out of money. So she’s more than willing to stand in front of everybody, trying her best to raise funds for her younger sister so that her illness could be cured.”

“She’s so pitiful!”

So a lot of them were willing to donate some money for her.

But for those who knew the inside story were perfectly aware of the fact that it was all planned and arranged by Cassandra. Something happened in the morning. Layla returned to the college and asked for help from Cassandra.

In the end, Cassandra thought of such a plan for her. If Layla refused to do so, she would not help her with that other request.

“Mr. Zach, here you are!”

Cassandra shook hands with a middle-aged baldheaded director. After that, that middle-aged director took out his donation—two hundred dollars and put it into the donation box.

“Mr. Zach, let’s take a group photo!”

“Sure!”

the shutters

took a

Tyler! Max! Here you

that moment, Victor’s friends came too. He greeted them smugly. Those friends came from another department, and they were friends in the

“Yes!”

donated a few hundred

that, they snapped some group photos

that the entire donation process had almost the

could it be called a donation? It’s just some kind of show,

so angry that his face turned

now appeared hopeless and desperate. At the

was the first one who knew that something was wrong with Layla’s family. She trusted him and told him about

advised her and gave her

the next few days, he did not manage to help her to resolve

was why she was put in

he could not help but think about himself. It was

Layla might even lose the

Victor away, who was still taking a group photo. He

“Gerald, you-!”

she had cried multiple times

to be the background for them. If they do want to help you sincerely, they would never do such a thing to you. I’ll

Gerald said angrily.

people in this world. If someone is in great trouble, the others would surely

a thing? You manipulated this incident and made yourselves look quite good about it. You really

you

Gerald. ‘When did he

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of what you are talking about right now? I must warn you now. Get lost this instant. Otherwise, you’ll be

dignity and fame so

she heard

even more

about yourself just because you won

Victor grabbed Gerald’s hair and dragged him along. He then

He came from a rich family. When was he being

was not as strong as

quite painful,

I’m begging you. Don’t beat him up! I don’t want this donation anymore. Just don’t beat him

toward Victor and grabbed him since that incident happened

lost! Two pathetic poor people! How dare

Victor shouted loudly.

wanted to throw himself

loud bang

blurred and blocked by something black. A red thing materialized

took up a brick from beside

used quite a great

The brick was broken.

loud cry

held his head, fell on the ground, and

“He beat him up!”

others were in deep

Whitney and Cassandra were scared

and savage Gerald

gosh! That poor man beat

doesn’t want to live anymore. Didn’t he know what kind of an influential

He won’t be able to stay

could he stay still? Even if the college expels him, how could

were just some kinds of people in this world where one could not afford to offend or annoy. Otherwise, their whole lives would be

“Victor, are you alright?”

How bold he is to beat you up! He’s such a bstard! Go and call your

We cannot let this b*stard get away with

you’ve lost so much

supported him and helped him up. They appeared to be filled with

they stared at

and rich. But Gerald was nobody but a poor pitiful person. He would certainly be punished for beating

it! I definitely will not let him get away with it! Just send me to the hospital first. I’ll call my

suffer from a concussion. At that moment, he was sent to the hospital by an ambulance with the others’ help after he

“Gerald, just you wait!”

But what about Gerald?

sneered. ‘Wait? I

had always wanted to beat Victor

the past, Gerald was ordered by Victor to go and do some work for the student union. When he was slow with his work, Victor would kick him several times. He even beat Gerald

in the lecture hall at first, he was almost beaten up by Victor for dirtying Mila’s shoes. But

those things,

heard Victor condemning them as two pathetic poor people just now. Soon, he was filled with immense anger. ‘Victor, you busied yourself for Layla just now! But now you condemned her like that!

He managed to vent his anger out on Victor. He felt quite good

how you continue to stay here, studying for the course! Whitney, come along with me. We’re going to meet the department director. Before Victor’s father comes, we need to

“Fine, Cassandra!”

speechless. She then looked at

seemed to have an underlying

for

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did not bother about their

took out his phone and sent Zack a message, telling him what

he dragged Layla back

Gerald was now

were indeed

international

local in Mayberry, so he

and the others still stayed with

hiding in the classroom? The department director wants

the classroom where Gerald was. She then crossed her arms in front of

pack up his things. If not, he has to do it himself

just because of the sake that Gerald had bought branded clothes

So Whitney reminded him.

Then, she left directly.

then followed behind Whitney and reached the door of the department director’s

and a few women who were close to Victor were

do such a thing! Go into the office now! The

Cassandra smiled coldly.

light as being expelled from the college. Let me

other women

He opened the door and entered

Reeds was

called

middle-aged

he was drinking tea and

he put the teacup down harshly

manners. Besides, you’re

Jacob scolded him sternly.

Reeds, he started

Gerald said calmly.

who started it. The fact is you beat Victor up. You’re wrong for doing such a thing! Let me tell you, you’ve created such trouble this time

at

what Jacob said just now in his

that it would be as serious as that until he was

Jacob had made up his

because Victor came from a wealthy family, and Gerald

all Victor needed to do was just to apologize to him and

if it was the other way around, he would then be

could not help

was forced into such a state, he had no choice but to

put his phone on the table, took the pen, and got ready to fill in the form, including the reason to leave the

Jacob smiled disdainfully.

Gerald’s phone rang

ID showed that it was

from the minister of the Ministry

a few times because

get to answer the phone. He

attracted

Raine? Why do you have his phone

acquainted with Mr. Raine. But he remembered Mr. Raine’s

Raine call Gerald up? Why

you still in a

stood up directly and asked Gerald to answer

not neglect

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a rush? I haven’t even finished filling in

of people who would call him up. Normally, Gerald would answer the call right

did not want to do

Mr. Raine before. They knew about each

not have to be so civil toward each

you still filling in the form? Go and pick it up! Why is Mr. Raine calling you up? Faster

The call went dead.

for a long time, so it was hung up

you’re indeed a dumb

The phone rang again.

pick

time around, Jacob quickly snatched the pen in Gerald’s hand away

to answer the phone and

the phone from Jacob. He sat there just like that. On the other hand, Jacob leaned toward Gerald and held the phone in his hand,

care less about other stuff for

had on his mind, calling Gerald up. He decided to greet Mr. Raine at the end of

“Mr. Raine, hello!”

Gerald smiled slightly.

just now. Why didn’t you pick it up? Are

Bernard smiled and said.

met Gerald a few times, and he

establishing Scothow Elementary School, he promised to take the whole

him was such a friendly and humble person. Bernard

I was busy filling in the drop out application from just now. The department director has prohibited me from studying here from now on! By the way,

thought that it was a call from Zack, but he never thought

“You…”

so badly

Gerald addressed Mr. Raine, Jacob started to feel quite

have

said, Jacob

able to use it after two more months. I called you up just to see if you’re free tomorrow. Please come over because we’ll have a small

problem!” Gerald

did you say just

and realize what Gerald had said just

That’s right! My department director expelled me from college. I’m now filling in the form

Gerald planned to fill in the form and tackled Victor after that. Only then he would go and meet Jacob again to see if he could take some senses into him. He just wanted

he could ask Mr. Raine

give him

and nodded. “Here you are! He wants to talk

“Sure!”

hello. You… Yes! It’s nothing but an absolute misunderstanding! Sure! What?

Jacob swallowed slightly.

Bernard said at last

had heard

was

you done?” Gerald smiled and

“Mr. Crawford… Yes!”

with contempt at first. Now, he

name here. I’ve

took up the pen

“No!”

He then grabbed Gerald’s hand

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it’s a misunderstanding! It’s nothing but

Jacob was deeply anxious.

I couldn’t even survive now in Mayberry. Faster

wanted to sign the

light punishment for it. But

that Mr. Crawford of Mayberry from

if the chancellor knew nothing about that, he would certainly be ruined and punished severely given that he wanted to expel

a student to

did not even know when he started to

with things now, he was not

he would say what

Crawford. I’ll deal with it

Layla under the name of ‘Ordinary Man’. I’ll give you

“You’re being too courteous!”

Jacob smiled happily.

Gerald then nodded slightly.

got up and

Outside of the office.

He’s been having a

in front of

It would be much better if he couldn’t leave Mayberry intact. How bold of him to beat Victor

were still

that moment, the

to rush toward Gerald and sneered

careful. There’s a small

them shocked them greatly. They

helping Gerald down the staircase,

was just one or two centimeters high. It was not even a staircase. Why did Jacob appear like he

God! What is

Cassandra gaped.

“Mr. Reeds, Gerald, he…”

I’ve been meaning to ask you, Cassandra. If Gerald didn’t tell me about it, I wouldn’t even know that you asked a female student to stand in public, holding up

I clearly told you about it

By the way, the thing you did was outrageous, humiliating a student like that. At first, our department

Mr. Reeds, I’ve worked so hard for that award for these past three years, earning all the

Cassandra was completely stunned.

want to keep you as a teacher here with us given the kind of teacher you are. How dare you talk

at Whitney who appeared shocked as

manage to do anything. If anything bad happened, you would always look for help from the department. What

“Ah?”

“What’s wrong?”

shouted at Whitney before he returned to his office with his

didn’t even

‘Why?!’

‘Why is that so?’

Whitney and Cassandra were thinking about that, they turned

smiled bitterly. Then, he turned and left. Soon, he

condemned him and looked down on him. Now it was

classroom, and he realized that Harper

lied down in bed. He told Harper and the others that it was fine now. He looked at the time and realized that it was six o’clock in the evening. He decided to play with his

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that moment, Cassandra sent a message to

Man! I want to go and kill myself! What should I