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Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 331

With Liara now being held captive, Gerald began driving to Wayfair Mountain Entertainment.

Upon arriving at the villa, Gerald called out to the bodyguards who had opened the gates for the limousine to enter. They were told to bring Liara to a vacant room and keep a constant eye on her.

“Wow, little driver! I didn’t expect you to have so much power over the guards here! They’re listening to all your commands!” said Dorothy as she laughed.

“Mr. Crawford, you’re here!”

Zack and Michael saw Gerald entering the building and they hurried over to greet him. They greeted Mr. Kendall respectfully as well.

While Zack and Michael usually appeared assertive in Mayberry City, in front of Jessica and Mr. Kendall, they instead gave the impression of just being regular minions.

However, that wasn’t what caught the four new people’s attention. Mr. Kendall, Drake, Tyson, and Dorothy were all stunned when they heard how the two addressed Gerald.

“Mr. Crawford?”

“You’re Mr. Crawford?” Mr. Kendall asked, shocked.

“That would be me, yes. I had wanted to introduce myself earlier but the situation hadn’t allowed for it,” replied Gerald, a bitter smile on his face.

Mr. Kendall coughed. The revelation was both surprising to him as well as shameful.

After all, they had earlier been discussing all manner of rumors about him for quite a while when he was, quite literally, sitting right next to them in the limousine.

To think that this casually dressed and introverted person was actually Mr. Crawford. It seemed that what the eldest young lady had told him was really true.

“…I see. So… You’re Mr. Crawford?” said Dorothy. Though she had initially been comfortable talking to Gerald due to how honest a person the driver seemed, she couldn’t help but feel shocked at the revelation.

Gerald simply nodded slowly, a wry smile on his face.

Gerald hadn’t expected any less a reaction. What’s done was done and the four were led to a dinner banquet which had been arranged by Michael. The five then slowly got to know one another better as they ate and drank.

“Mr. Crawford, the eldest young lady and the master have sent us here to pass on an important announcement. I believe that the matter has been brought up several times between you and the eldest young lady,” explained Mr. Kendall respectfully.

“While the eldest young lady completed her assessment six years ago, yours is to officially begin now. The family has decided to auction off Mayberry Commercial Street which had initially belonged to both you and the eldest young lady. Once the auction is complete, you will be given an exclusive asset. With said asset, you will need to create a completely new group to run in Mayberry City. You’ll have to control and develop it on your own as well!”

This was nothing new to Gerald. On the contrary, Jessica had previously told Gerald about this many, many times.

Because of that, he had prepared himself for the assessment for quite a long time now.

His previous discussion to set up two projects under his name, them being Exceptional Live and Yorknorth Mountain, had already been approved.

However, he had not anticipated that his family would auction off Mayberry Commercial Street.

“While I understand that the goal is to develop something on my own, Mayberry Commercial Street is already very profitable. Is there really a need to auction it off?” asked Gerald as he smiled bitterly.

Gerald had experienced many things there and it bore some sentimental value to him now.

“Well, the profit gained was simply used to assess both you and the eldest young lady. The family could never allow such a small group to survive forever. However, Mr. Crawford, if you really like the place, you can buy it again in the future for your own entertainment and leisure!” Mr. Kendall couldn’t really grasp the meaning behind Gerald’s question.

However, Gerald still found his answer from Mr. Kendall’s statement. While it was true that Mayberry Commercial Street was impressive, compared to the other industries owned by the Crawford family worldwide, the street was nothing special.

There was nothing he could do but allow his family to auction it off.

Besides, he was also not short of money anymore. Owning Mayberry Commercial Street would only be for bragging rights now and he didn’t want any part of that!

“Speaking of which, Mr. Crawford, a portion of the Crawford family’s defense force in Mayberry City will also be under you in the future. Drake and Tyson themselves will be working as your personal bodyguards,” said Mr. Kendall.

After saying that, he looked toward Zack.

Zack immediately caught on to what Mr. Kendall was hinting at, and carefully retrieved a small machine with a red button on it. He handed it gently to Gerald.

Gerald was no stranger to the contraption.

Back when Nigel was very close to killing him, Zack had pressed the button to summon forty to fifty helicopters to save him.

“This device functions as a communication tool for Military Emergencies. It now belongs to you!”

The next step was for them to sign some transfer documents and to be done with all the formalities. By the time everything was completed, it was already almost eight o’clock at night.

To tell the truth, it was only today that Gerald realized just how much influence and reach his family had over Mayberry City.

It was surprising, to say the least.

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Not only did the so-called Military Emergency Base host a section for its armed forces, but it also boasted one of the most efficient medical teams as well as intelligence gathering departments.

It was just like how it was in action movies.

Gerald had personally never been in contact with any of those departments before.

Being granted access to the Military Emergency Base meant that he would be in charge of all of this in the future. It only further affirmed Gerald that he was going to be the future leader.

It was already late when he was thinking about this, and Gerald himself was ready to retire for the night.

Before that, however, he suddenly remembered that he still had some unfinished business!

Gerald sneered as he walked toward the room.

“Oh, behave yourself won’t you? Otherwise, I may really end up killing you! Did you really just try to bite me? Are you some kind of dog?”

Even from quite a distance away, Gerald could already hear his bodyguard cursing from behind the door.

“Release me you b*stard! If you don’t, I’ll personally make sure Mr. Rye hacks you to death when he arrives!” growled Liara.

“Oh no… Mr. Rye… I’m terrified… Hahaha! Lady, look around you. I’ll drop you a hint, you may as well just await your death since you dared to offend Mr. Crawford of Mayberry City!”

“What? Mr. Crawford? Since when have I ever offended Mr. Crawford?” asked Liara in genuine surprise.

“Still trying to feign ignorance? Mr. Crawford’s the man who brought you here today!”

“…Wait, he’s that Mr. Crawford?”

At that moment, Gerald entered the room.

“Mr. Crawford!” shouted the two bodyguards inside respectfully before leaving the room under his command.

“You… What are you planning to do with me?” asked Liara. The terror had finally sunk in.

She finally realized how he could’ve gotten so many people to rush over back when they were at Surati.

This man was actually Mr. Crawford in the flesh!

“You’re already a captive in this room. What do you think I’m going to do?” replied Gerald as he smiled.

“But… Mr. Crawford, I’m Mr. Rye’s woman!” whimpered Liara. Her arms were still tied and her head was lowered.

Understanding the power difference between them made her feel scared and embarrassed at the same time.

The bodyguards were right. Mr. Rye was nothing compared to Mr. Crawford.

She, for one, would never be able to reach the top by becoming Mr. Rye’s woman.

Perhaps it would be better if she became Mr. Crawford’s woman instead.

Though both of them definitely still bore grudges against each other, she believed that Mr. Crawford would eventually fall for her beauty.

“I don’t really care whose woman you are. I won’t personally be touching you either way. However, since you’re already here anyway, then this makes it the perfect opportunity for me to settle this score with you. You don’t really have a way to pay me back, so you can just settle this score with your body!”

“What… What do you mean by that?”

As soon as her question ended, Gerald turned around and slowly began walking toward the door while making a phone call. “Hey, get me a random homeless person off the street…”

“Wait, what are you planning? Get back here! Wait!”

A terrified Liara continued yelling at him as he left the room.

The intention of his phone call was obvious.

Of course Gerald wouldn’t touch a woman like her.

Outside the room, Gerald began strolling down the hallways, enjoying the peace of the moonlit night.

It was a little under half an hour later when Zack gave Gerald a call.

“Heh, Mr. Crawford, that girl was so terrified that she revealed everything she knew about the Rye Group. I honestly wasn’t expecting her to know that many of their secrets. She’s also agreed to help us get what we want!” said Zack, a grin on his face.

“Your idea was truly brilliant Mr. Lyle. If you hadn’t suggested it, I would have just ordered some guards to beat her up,” replied Gerald as he smiled awkwardly.

Zack had naturally given Gerald some advice about the matter.

“Don’t worry Mr. Crawford. The Rye Group offended you because they don’t know their own place. Give me one day and night. You’ll definitely hear satisfactory results from me!”

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Gerald really couldn’t be bothered about Zack’s methods of dealing with the matter.

He rested early that night.

Though it was raining heavily when he awoke, Gerald rushed to school anyway. After all, his homework review was important as well.

As per usual, his driver dropped him off at the school gates and Gerald walked into the school with an umbrella in hand.

All of a sudden, Gerald heard a loud scream.

When he turned to look at the source of the sound, he saw a girl in a white dress who seemed to have sprained her ankle. She held an umbrella in one hand while her other held onto her ankle. Gerald deduced that she must have sprained her ankle while she was opening her umbrella.

Since she could hardly walk properly at that moment, it seemed that the sprain was a severe one.

Gerald found himself walking toward her under his umbrella. “Are you alright?”

“It hurts!” cried the girl as she raised her head to look at him. Her eyes were all teary.

Gerald was slightly taken aback when he saw her face. “It’s you?”

The girl showed obvious surprise on her face as well.

This wasn’t just any random person. She was the good-natured girl who had previously sat next to Gerald when he was studying in the library a while back.

The memory of the event embarrassed Gerald.

Not only did he have a nosebleed back then, but he had also sneezed. What an embarrassing thing to remember!

It was unexpected, to say the least, for him to encounter her today while returning to school this early in the morning!

“Yes, it’s been a while… I had initially planned to call a cab to go out and get some materials. Thinking back, perhaps I was walking a bit too hastily!” said the girl as her cheeks flushed slightly red. It was an obvious sign that she remembered what had previously happened in the library.

“With this heavy rain, it would be best if you postponed that plan for now. I’ll help you get to the infirmary,” replied Gerald.

He hadn’t forgotten the fact that she had handed him a tissue during his embarrassing plight back then.

Even though they were still pretty much strangers at this point, he still felt obligated to help her.

After all, the girl was someone good-natured and was beautiful to boot.

If he were to ignore and just leave her there, his guilt would surely come back to bite later.

Though she hesitated at first, she eventually nodded. The pain was too overbearing for her.

Even with Gerald’s help, she still found difficulty walking.

In the end, Gerald resorted to carrying her on his back. Fortunately, the girl had sensed that Gerald bore no ill intentions, even from when they had first encountered in the library. Therefore, she didn’t try to resist at all and simply allowed Gerald to carry her.

She held on to her umbrella as they walked toward the infirmary.

Gerald couldn’t help but blush slightly as his nose caught the scent of her body.

However, he already had Mila so why on earth was he still overthinking the situation?

Gerald shook his head slightly to clear his mind before starting to walk faster.

Beep, beep!

A Mercedes Benz G500 honked as it passed by Gerald and the girl.

“Hey there beauty! It’s raining heavily so why don’t you get in my car? I’ll drop you off wherever you’re headed to!”

well-dressed teen who

stop in his tracks when

that all beautiful girls loved

hardly even looked

she pinched Gerald’s shoulder lightly. “Don’t just stop here! I’m dying

“Oh! Right!”

It seemed that this girl was

she’d be here I would have come

against the steering wheel as he watched Gerald slowly walk away with the beauty still clinging

far away. Once they arrived, a

taken care of by the doctor,

your name? Mine is Giya,” shouted the girl toward

“Mine’s Gerald!”

saved me from a world of pain. I don’t know how I would have managed to return with that sprained ankle! Also, I noticed that you’re holding on

matter of fact, I am,” replied Gerald as

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you alright? How

that moment, the infirmary’s door was pushed open. Four

them bore beauty comparable to car showgirls

to

message earlier, telling them that she was going to the

my ankle but I was lucky to bump into Gerald! He carried me all the way here on his back!” explained Giya with a smile as

hero saved our beauty? Hahaha! Then we’ll really have to thank

chatting among themselves before turning

in their eyes that they felt a slight disappointment after looking at

be

he did look like a decent person with a nice, chiseled

honest and silly person

him personally so they didn’t want

handsome! So you’re the one who

I saved her, I was simply

had increased the

like

anyone any favors. What do you say, handsome? How would you like Giya to repay the

continued to

how about this, why don’t we ask Giya

girls giggled at this

is rather extreme, why not just ask Giya

is

continued to

need

to be so bold and direct when all of them looked

He felt extremely embarrassed.

why’s that? Do you think Giya’s not pretty or worthy enough for you? Is

not what

did you mean hmm? Why don’t

her roommates continued to tease Gerald, Giya watched silently from her sickbed. This wasn’t out of the ordinary for her roommates. They weren’t exactly known to allow boys to play around with

looked at Gerald, she could see that he was already blushing severely after being

already! Tammy,

“Alright!”

She then turned to look at Gerald again before smiling.

Me?” Gerald was surprised at

wouldn’t ask you to do it without a reward. After peeling it, I’ll allow you to kiss me anywhere you want! How’s that

such a bold

his mind, Jacelyn was definitely a rookie compared to these

ten sentences the girls said,

bold and straightforward when they

for a little longer, Gerald could

been peeled, they told him to

drench the bracelet

really didn’t want

once he completed this

held onto the bracelet which Giya had just removed from her wrist, Gerald felt himself being pulled backward. A strong hand had pushed him away from Giya so suddenly, that he lost his grip on the bracelet and it shattered the moment it hit

I heard that you got injured!

came from the boy who

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fine,” replied

dressed presentably in a

a slightly cold impression toward him,

looked at the floor to see what had caused the shattering sound earlier and found that it

so careless? Is it because you’re unhappy that Yacob’s here

caught Yacob’s

of infatuation, Giya

him having a very good family background, she still didn’t have any feelings for him. She knew what she liked, and she didn’t like

feelings for Gerald just because he saved her

this and they were simply just playing around

was indeed, Yacob who had yanked Gerald away earlier which caused him

just a bracelet. I’ll just buy another

of Gerald now even though he was the one who had

the bracelet’s broken! Both of you will have to pay for it!” said

had to speak a bit more respectfully

his help. How could he possibly even afford to pay

looked at Gerald,

if there’s nothing else, I’ll be taking my

teased as long as he stayed here. What more, Yacob

really want to hold it against

their respect, all he needed to do was to drive his own car and park

fun to bully because they all thought he

today, and he really didn’t want

already been thinking about it. Since it was also partly his fault,

to stay but she also knew that he

would just have to wait

headed straight

an

was then when Zack gave Gerald

Rye Group will cease to exist in Mayberry City!” said Zack, a smile on his

could count on

easy, really. All that was needed was

families had minded their own businesses. In order to make money peacefully, there was mutual comity between

attempt to go against the Crawford family,

Crawford, I’ve checked and found out that we’ll need to use one of your identity cards for some of the master’s other industries in Mayberry City. Are you currently busy? If you aren’t, there are some documents that need to be

need for

to a jewelry shop in Mayberry Commercial Street to get a jade bracelet similar to Giya’s previous one. Just to make sure that she was

now, the rain

done signing the

I’d like to buy a jade

he finally

very expensive, are you sure you want this?” asked the salesgirl, a professional smile on

smiled, an expression of contempt on her face was still

young man before her wasn’t

buy jewelry. What more, he had chosen to buy a jade

he pulling her

professionalism, she just kept her

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it before

excellent hetian jade bracelet costs seven thousand and five hundred dollars… Perhaps you would like to

on her face was beginning to fade at that

already, why are you asking so

packed the jade bracelet up before swiping it on the payment machine. However, the transaction

that the minimum amount for each of his bank transactions had to

Jewelers become such a low-class shop? Can any random person just waltz in now? What’ll become of our noble customer experience

Gerald’s payment failure. The couple consisted of a woman

humans were like this, weren’t they? Trampling all over others was their only way of showing how rich and powerful

apologetically at the

one when she looked

Trinity Jewelers was a very well-known

past, it was not uncommon for pretentious people to enter the shop just to take pictures of themselves holding jewelry

getting far too common,

Gerald was no different from

going to buy it, then please leave. Can’t you see that other customers are waiting to buy something?” the salesgirl said with a tiny

not buying it? It’s just far too

trying to

and sneered

a son, I would just break

this one! Wrap it

the couple’s comments and simply pointed at another jade bracelet in the middle of

famous jade bracelet made by the top master himself. The market price for this bracelet is thirty-two thousand dollars. Are you sure you

was cold and her voice was close to a sneer at

I’m buying both!” replied

thousand dollars! This silly boy really thinks he can afford that! Hah!” said the man as

did so, the salesgirl proceeded to swipe

Her plan was to embarrass

himself,” said the woman coldly as

when the couple and the salesgirl’s

his password, the payment machine displayed that

“…What?”

them were

long after, their faces began burning with embarrassment.

bracelets for me, and make sure there’s not a single wrinkle on the bag or I’m coming for your

said the salesgirl as

end up like this. Being polite to others would

for the moment, sir!” said the salesgirl as

to himself

wanted to buy would be given to Giya as compensation, while

seemed like a good plan to

chance, Sharon! I really love

love me, do you? Then come in here and buy me a piece

If you manage to buy me a single piece of jewelry

that moment, a young man

was making such a commotion. The people he

that Sharon and her

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remained in the VIP waiting area as he watched the two continue to bicker,

to hear, Gerald was able to piece the

up with Murphy without giving him a proper explanation. Her only excuse was that

with him. F*ck. She had said

be thinking about her

he turned his

been convinced with her excuse from the very beginning. He later found out that Sharon was getting very close

told him

of that, Murphy now had conflicted

love with her. On

now.

eventually led to the current scene

of jewelry from Trinity Jewelers. She said that she would return to his side as long as he could

was going to be a difficult task

cheapest piece of jewelery there would have a price tag of up to four thousand and five hundred

the jewelry here is much too expensive. Could we please go to another shop instead? As long as it doesn’t exceed

a determined voice and expression on his face as

want me to be your girlfriend when all you can afford is one thousand and five hundred dollars? Are you daft, Murphy? This cell phone alone that Hayward bought for me costs at least a thousand dollars!” replied

with

all crystal clear now. You like Hayward just because he has more money. Even if I did manage to buy you a piece of jewelry in this shop, you’d still refuse to go out

love Hayward. You’ve never been able to make me feel the way he has. From that alone, I believe that it really is impossible for us to be together anymore. So why

and I’ve been willing to do anything for you. But now you’re

trampled on enough. His eyes were bloodshot and he was done

sound of a slap

him was a tight slap to

absolute f*cking

be heard. But this time, it wasn’t Sharon who did the

back in rage. Sharon now lay on the ground, stunned by the force of

this point, several pedestrians had already gathered around

end myself along with you! I… I’ll beat you to death this instant! Return all the money that I’ve spent on

seemed to have gone

the matter. He had once been

then, and Gerald knew that Sharon definitely

Gerald had thought that they would only end up quarreling for a while. This had become way too physical for him

now, his guilt would definitely come back to bite him later. Plus, there was a time when he had strong feelings for her in

their breakup was also indirectly