Ch. 541..545: The Secretly Rich Man Chapter 541-545

Chapter 541

Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 541 “My elder brother is Yale Lockwood, and he studied at First Middle School before. What’s wrong? Are you afraid? Hah. If you are, hurry up and get lost from my sight. Or you’re all dead meat when he has returned!”

Franklin stretched his neck and replied, his voice booming with dominance.

“Well, go f*ck yourself!”

Gerald’s eyes became bloodshot. He then raised his leg and threw a powerful kick right at Franklin’s stomach. He immediately fell to the floor at the blow, wailing in pain.

Although Gerald might seem frail on the outside, he was actually quite strong. Back then, he used to be quite a good fighter when he fought the others with Xeno.

Xeno got into more fights than him. Gerald only fought once for Xeno’s sake.

Basically, both his arms and legs were really quite strong.

When he heard that Franklin’s brother was Yale, he became instantly infuriated.

Besides, Gerald was not afraid of anything now.

He then picked up a tool, stormed over toward the other two, and smashed them with it.

The three others were extremely skinny, and it was inevitable that they would have been beaten into a pulp by Gerald.

Xabrina was stunned when the scene unfolded before her eyes.

At that spur of the moment, witnessing how masculine and heroic Gerald was, she found him to be rather charming.

“Gerald, help me give them a good beating!” Xabrina shouted.

On the other hand, when Lily saw them getting into a fight, she took her chance, grabbed a vase beside her, and threw it at Xabrina.

Both girls started getting into a fight too.

Gerald totally transformed into someone violent and fierce.

His eyes turned bloodshot.

Who was Yale?

He was as good as a demon in Gerald’s heart. Because of him, Gerald was unable to get rid of self- reproach feeling after all those years.

That was true. Yale was the culprit who got a gang of people to block off Gerald by surrounding him before beating him up into a pulp back in middle school. Yale went to such drastic measures all for a girl he liked.

He acted recklessly just because his family was wealthy and influential. Besides, his family had a lot of subordinates too.

It was after school when they bashed Gerald up. But luckily, that afternoon, Xeno came to his rescue as the both of them took on a dozen men.

That group of men was holding stools during the entire fight. They cornered Gerald and started beating him up, and Xeno appeared at that very instance with a knife in his hand.

Gerald would not be filled with so much hatred if that incident ended there and then.

Not long after, Xeno’s family was destroyed by Yale’s father and his subordinates. Xeno’s father was a truck driver, but he acted rashly during that incident when his family was being trashed. Yale’s men broke his legs, and just like that, as the breadwinner of the family, his life was completely ruined.

After the dust had settled, Xeno went to a vocational school. Despite being in a different school, Yale and his subordinates still found a way to drag Xeno out regularly to wallop him.

Fortunately, Xeno knew a friend from a society he treated as his brother, and he learnt how to repair cars through him. It was how Xeno got past his days and that was how things turned out in the end.

This unfortunate event on Xeno’s family was also one reason why Gerald became extremely wrathful.

‘Hah, so this guy even claims that he’s going to call up Yale to come and beat us up. Well bring it on, I want to meet this motherf*cker too!’

Gerald growled below his breath as an unfamiliar sense of fury boiled within him. He did not bother about anything else anymore.

“Oh! My leg!” Suddenly, Xabrina screamed in pain.

It turned out that she had accidentally kicked the damaged vase, which fell on the floor, and her calf was cut.

The entire ruckus had become quite a huge mess, and the manager of Domino’s had immediately reported the incident to the police.

Upon realizing that, Lily did not dare to do anything anymore.

She quickly dragged Franklin, who was still clutching his stomach in pain, and dashed out of the restaurant in a blink of an eye.

On the other hand, Xabrina’s classmates, who were there previously, had long disappeared, clearing themselves out of trouble.

“Gerald, come and give me a hand. Bring me to the hospital to bandage my wound. If there’s a scar, it’ll be over for me!” Xabrina winced but could only ask for help from Gerald.

After all, she still had lingering thoughts that Gerald might have fought on her behalf just now.

‘You’re indeed such a handful!’ Gerald cursed, leaving the thought to himself.

Despite his reluctance, he helped Xabrina up and gently took her to the clinic just beside to get her wound bandaged.

Luckily, her wound was not too serious, and it was just a minor cut.

Xabrina was propped up against the hospital bed. She leaned backward as she smiled and looked at Gerald curiously.

She suddenly let out a soft chuckle.

“What are you laughing at?” Gerald asked frowning.

Chapter 542

Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 542 “I really got a wrong impression of you today. I looked into you before coming here today. You seemed to be always bullied back when you were in middle school. Besides, when I first met you, I felt as though you were the type of person who was honest but just ignorant and gullible. Did you know that?

“But it never occurred to me, the extent of your strength when you get triggered. The three of them didn’t even have the chance to counterattack. You don’t even know how fierce you were just now. You were so manly!”

Xabrina used her leg to nudge Gerald gingerly.

It was true. Xabrina indeed saw Gerald in a different light now. She even felt slightly touched too.

Generally, girls liked masculine men, especially those who exuded that to protect their girls.

Gerald indeed had just that vibe.

“Nah, you don’t know anything. I’m not usually like this.” Gerald said, shaking his head.

“I know that. I can see that too!”

Xabrina pursed her lips slightly.

“That’s enough. If you’re okay, you can go home on your own. I still need to return to that place.”

Gerald turned around and was about to leave.

“Why are you going back there?” Xabrina immediately questioned.

“I ruined too much furniture there. It’s only the right that I should compensate for that!” Gerald replied.

“Hey, wait a moment, Gerald. I still have something I want to say.”

“Is there anything else?”

“I just wanted to say that you’re quite a good person, Gerald.” Xabrina tone was low and serious for once.

Gerald chuckled at the remark.

He bitterly laughed it off and quickly left.

‘When I first met him, I didn’t feel such a thing. But now, why do I feel like he’s quite a catch?’

Xabrina muttered to herself as she observed his strong, well-developed back.

But as soon as she thought about how Gerald fought the others for her sake just now, she smiled sweetly again.

It was almost noon when Xabrina reached home. Luckily, her parents were not at home. Only her sister was there.

“What took you so long? I called you, but your phone was switched off. Didn’t you tell me that you would resolve it in twenty minutes?”

Michelle asked impatiently.

Suddenly, Michelle realized that her sister was limping and her calf was bandaged. She immediately gaped, stunned.

“Sister, what happened to you?! Did you get into a fight with someone?”

“Yes, sister. I fought with Lily. She brought the others to get back at me!” Xabrina whimpered.

Michelle spat and rolled her eyes in disbelief.

“That b*tch! What she has to be so smug about? How about that extremely poor loser? Have you met him?”

Michelle’s thoughts immediately went back to Gerald.

“Sister, why address him that way? You haven’t even gotten to meet him in person yet. Why do you talk about him in such a mean way?” Xabrina felt quite uneasy listening to her sister ridicule such harsh words.

She felt quite upset if anyone, even including her sister, condemned him since she discovered how nice Gerald was.

“D*mn! What’s wrong with you? Have you met him? What does he look like? Is he handsome? Is he vulgar? Don’t tell me that he’s ugly.” Michelle quizzed.

“I don’t know. I’m tired, and I want to go and rest in my bedroom now. Besides, I’m no longer helping you with this issue in the future.”

Xabrina was feeling down and limped away to her bedroom quietly.

‘What’s wrong with her, man?’

Seeing her sister’s attitude, Michelle felt confused.

On the other hand, Gerald had returned to Domino’s to settle the mess.

At that moment, he received a call from Mr. Winters, asking him about the blind date.

Gerald claimed that he would tell him all about it when he returned home. After sorting things out at the restaurant, he immediately headed back to Mr. Winter’s place.

But when he reached the porch, he saw Queenie standing by the door. It seemed as though she was waiting for someone.

The moment she saw Gerald, she quickly walked toward him.

“Oh my god! I’ve been waiting for you for sooo long!! And you’re finally back now. Come here. I need to tell you something…”

Chapter 543

Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 543 “What’s wrong?” Gerald asked her, taken aback.

Queenie said, “Are you free tomorrow?”

“Why? I may have to go and buy some ingredients tomorrow.”

The day after tomorrow was his birthday. Mrs. Winters was going to cook a meal, so he could not afford to let her go out there by herself and use her own money to buy the ingredients. He wanted to make sure that he bought the ingredients himself.

Queenie sneered.

“You’ve been eating what my grandpa and grandma have been eating for these past few days. Why the sudden need to go and buy the ingredients? By the way, your birthday is the day after tomorrow, isn’t it? So anyways, buying ingredients shouldn’t be that much of a hassle. Now, I have something good awaiting you. Just put all other things aside.”

“Wow, you’ve actually got something good in store for me?” Gerald chuckled bitterly and sarcastically.

Although he grew up with Queenie, she had always been unfriendly toward Gerald since they were kids, even until now as grown-ups. Her siblings always bullied him.

Gerald greatly resented them when he was young. But as years passed, he just took it with a pinch of salt and would only be slightly angry if Queeny condemned him.

Usually, he would not bear grudges against her. It was all for the sake of Mr. and Mrs. Winters.

Queenie smirked.

“What do you mean by that? You don’t even know how nice I’m to you. We’re going to the hot springs in Fuenti tomorrow to enjoy ourselves. We want to bring you along. We haven’t even gotten a chance to bring you out for any fun ever since you got back. Now Fuenti has been developed for tourism. That place is rather nice now!”

“Wow, you’re actually being so nice and taking me out to have fun?” Gerald raised his eyebrows.

Fuenti was the town where Bianca was at. That quaint little town was beside mountains and rivers.

Those were some of the reasons for the development.

Gerald wanted to go there too to just take some time to have fun.

But he was rather puzzled as he was being invited by Queenie all of a sudden.

“Nonsense! So are you coming or what? I’ll even treat you to a meal.”

Queenie hugged her shoulders and exclaimed smugly.

Gerald shook his head. “Forget it. Thank you! I’m not going!”

“Huh? What?” It did not occur to Queenie that Gerald would reject her.

‘Shouldn’t he feel scared but honored, given his personality?’ She wondered, her brows crunched up in displeasure.

“Queenie, is Gerald here? Eh? Why are you guys standing outside when you’re home? Hurry up! Lunch is ready. Come in and have lunch now. We can talk about the progress of that incident too.”

At that same time, Mr. Winters had walked out of the house and beckoned for both Gerald and Queeny to enter.

But Queenie looked cold, and she did not budge.

“What’s wrong, Queenie? Who offended you again, since you’re such an arrogant and young woman?” Mr. Winters smiled bitterly.

She sneered. “Who else could it be? It’s Gerald!”

“Nonsense! Why would Gerald offend you?”

“But it’s true! I tried to be nice to him; I invited him to have some fun in Fuentin. But looks like he’s unwilling to accept my kind offer. He said that he wouldn’t go!”

Queenie replied.

“Gerald, if that’s true, why not just go and have some fun with Queenie. She may just want to have a good time with you. The scenery at the hot springs is rather nice. If you’re not occupied or busy, just go.”

Mr. Winters did not think that there was anything wrong with that. He felt that his granddaughter had finally come to her senses.

Seeing how Gerald and Queenie were getting along with each other well, Mr. Winters was undoubtedly more than happy.

“Ahh… fine. I’ll go tomorrow then.”

Hearing how Mr. Winters had put it, Gerald did not say anything more and simply agreed.

“Hmph!”

Queeny rolled her eyes at Gerald before entering the house.

He might not be able to go and get the ingredients the next day since he was to go out with Queenie, so Gerald went to the local supermarket that afternoon itself to buy them instead.

The next day.

It was early in the morning, and Queenie took Gerald along to their said destination.

She drove a Passat, and it was his father’s car.

She then took Gerald along and started their journey toward Fuentin.

Gerald definitely did not want to take the seat beside the driver.

He felt that it was rather stuffy in the car.

 

Chapter 544

Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 544 Hence, he rolled down the window since he wanted to get some fresh air.

But much to his surprise, the window was rolled up again the moment he rolled it down.

He then turned to look at it and realized that it was Queenie who rolled the window up.

‘Dmn! That btch!’

Gerald cursed under his breath. He tried to only roll down the window slightly, but Queenie immediately rolled it up again.

“What are you doing?”

Gerald asked exasperatedly, feeling frustrated.

“Huh! I’m about to ask you that. I’ve already rolled down the car windows in front. Why did you have to open all of them? What if there’s dust coming into the car? Have you ever even sat in a car before?”

Queenie scoffed back, her tone full of contempt.

Right at that moment, her phone rang.

“Okay fine, Yolanda. I’ll go and pick you up right away. Just wait for me. Yes. Didn’t I tell you about it last night? I’ve got someone with me. Later, we’ll let him help us carry our bags when we climb up the mountain later. You can just focus your entire attention on trying to gain Jarvis’s affection. You totally forget about your friends when it comes to somebody you like!

“Sure! We’ll meet each other later. My boyfriend? He has his car. He’s driving his car and going there now. Don’t worry, we’ll certainly help the two of you get together, okay? See you later! Love you!” Queeny then hung up.

Gerald finally understood what was up with Queenie.

“You said that you wanted to bring me out for some fun. And by that, you’re making me carry bags for you? D*mn you, Queenie!”

Gerald yelled in anger.

“Hey, hey, chill man. Why are you so angry? So what if you carry our bags for us? It’s not a big deal. Besides, I’m going to buy you meals today. What are you afraid of? My best friend is trying to do her best to impress her crush today. You better behave yourself. We’re not the important ones today. Both my best friend and Jarvis.”

Queenie warned.

If it was not for the fact that he had already gotten into the car, and Mr. Winters was the one who saw them off, Gerald really wanted just to get off there and then.

But since he had given his promise, it would not look good if he did not uphold his promise.

So he remained silent.

Queenie peeked at Gerald from the rearview mirror and smiled smugly to herself.

She then said, “Gerald, you seem to be angry. Back then you wouldn’t get angry no matter how many things I’ve asked you to carry for me. I know why you feel angry and anxious now. Since primary school, I’ve told you that it’s impossible between the two of us. You’d better not be thinking about that!”

During primary school, both Francis and Queenie went to school in their hometown.

They only went to the county during middle school.

They were quite young at that moment. As such, Gerald too went to school with Xeno and Queenie.

Queenie was a beauty back then, and all the boys idolized her. Whenever they placed ‘house,’ all of them competed with each other just to be Queenie’s husband.

For that matter, Xeno had always fought with Gerald because of Queenie.

But all of those things happened when they were very young. They were just immature kids who didn’t know anything at all.

It was evident that Queenie still thought that Gerald had always been in love with her.

She assumed he was feeling quite upset, given that she claimed that she had found herself a boyfriend now.

She thought that she understood Gerald’s temperament, given what a loser he was.

But much to her surprise, Gerald had turned away, looking out of the window. He did not even bother talking to her anymore.

Queenie soon went to pick up her best friend—Yolanda.

Yolanda was quite pretty herself too.

He seemed to have met her before when they were in primary school.

It did not occur to him that she would become so beautiful after not meeting her for such a long time.

She was tall and slim, and she had a good body figure.

The minute she got into the car, she glanced at Gerald. She found him to be really familiar looking.

But instead, she did not greet him and just handed her bag to Gerald.

“Hey you, I’ve got sunscreen, my makeup, and some other things in there. I need them all the time. Please carry the bag for me properly later when we’re having fun!”

“Alright!” Gerald nodded impatiently.

He listened quietly as Queenie and Yolanda chatted chirpily with each other throughout the ride.

They discussed in excitement about how Yolanda was trying to gain Jarvis’s affections.

Soon, they reached the entrance of the hot springs.

There were already two handsome guys waiting for them there.

“Queenie, Yolanda, over here!”

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Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 545 Two men greeted them.

Both Queenie and Yolanda then led Gerald there, who was carrying a large and small bag.

“Why did you arrive so late? Oh, hey, you indeed found someone. That’s good. It seems like we can enjoy ourselves fully today. Bro, thank you for your help.”

A man walked over and held Queenie’s waist. He looked at Gerald, smiled, and thanked him.

Another man then took out a pack of Marlboro’s and attempted to offer a stick to Gerald.

“Jarvis, are you seriously giving him a cigarette? He’s not a smoker. Besides, even if he is, it’s not like he can afford such a good one!” Queenie scoffed.

“His name is Gerald, and he’s the guy I’ve told you about. He’s going to help us to carry our bags today. We’ll only need to buy him a meal this afternoon.”

Queenie then held the man’s hand and said, “Gerald, this person who just offered you a cigarette is called Jarvis Fish. His parents are working in Water Utilities in the county. This is my boyfriend—Hugo Wayman. His family owns factories.”

As Queenie introduced Hugo to Gerald, she carefully observed Gerald’s facial expression and reaction.

She was eager to see what kind of response he would have given that she had found herself such a capable boyfriend.

But much to her dismay, Gerald just nodded nonchalantly, unfazed.

Both Hugo and Jarvis were only pretending to be nice to Gerald. In actual fact, they were quite arrogant men who loved extravagance.

How could one tell?

It was because they just handed Gerald a backpack before they went to buy drinks.

In the end, they only bought four bottles of drinks. They did not bother about Gerald.

But after thinking about it, Gerald decided just to let it go. He would just treat it like he was there having fun by himself. He would act as if they did not exist.

Besides, Queenie was there. What more could he do?

“Eh? Hugo, why are there so many people here in the hot springs? There are lanterns and lights everywhere. What are they going to do?”

Queenie asked curiously.

“I was discussing this with Jarvis just now. There are a lot of people here today. The staff looks really busy too. From the way things look, it seems like they will hold a big event, probably at the Hot Spring Hotel. I asked the security guard about it just now. I heard that the hotel has been reserved by a few influential bosses from Mayberry, and they’re going to have a huge, important function here tomorrow! A lot of big shots will be there! Why? Didn’t you hear about it since Touin is so close to Fuentin?”

Hugo said.

“No, we didn’t hear about it. Hmm, but let’s not be bothered. Come! Let’s go and have fun now!”

“Yes, sounds good! Let’s go!”

They then went ahead to buy the tickets.

The price of the tickets in a village town as such was not that expensive. It was only around seven dollars per ticket.

When they reached the ticketing booth, they saw a few people arguing there.

It seemed as though they were quarreling with the ticket seller.

“Why aren’t you selling the tickets today? The five of us purposely came all the way here today! Why can’t you sell us the tickets?”

A girl who seemed to be the leader of the gang asked coldly.

There were three women and two men in that group.

“Yeah! You’ve only posted the news on your official website now. But we’ve already come all the way here!”

“I’m so sorry. We also received a last-minute notice just fifteen minutes ago. Our tourism spot won’t be opened to any tourists. It’s because we need to decorate the venues for many important functions.”

The staff explained the situation patiently.

“But how about the tourists who entered the place just now? I didn’t see you asking them to leave. I don’t care. It was just fifteen minutes ago. You have to let us in!”

“We’re truly sorry…”

That fueled their impatience and anger.

“Dmn! The tourism spot just got closed! Fck! If I knew earlier, I would’ve bought the tickets with Jarvis just now!”

“Then, Hugo, what should we do now?”

Queenie asked in disappointment.

“How about this? Let me call my dad and ask him to use his connections and give it a try!”

Hugo then whipped out his phone.

Jarvis also said, “I’ll call up my dad too. He knows the vice manager here!”

“Alright. Jarvis, I believe in you!”

The guys proceeded to make the phone calls.

Queenie then took some tissue paper and helped to dab away the sweat on Hugo’s forehead.

“Hey you, come here, give me my bag!”

Seeing Queenie, Yolanda quickly rushed Gerald over to get her bag.

“D*mn! Hurry up! How could you be so slow?”

Gerald then put the big bag down and started looking for her small bag.

Yolanda immediately scolded him.

“Hurry up and give it to me! You’re so slow!”

“Found it!”