Ch. 826..830: The Secretly Rich Man Chapter 826-830

Chapter 826

Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 826 “Aren’t you really good at talking? Why don’t you show me how capable you are then? If you can’t even contribute to the family, then both you and your mother will only be able to get a small share of the family fortune!”

Rose’s mouth was destructive, just like a cannon.

Her fourth and fifth brother’s families used to have a pretty close relationship with Yulia back then.

Yulia’s relationship with Rose, on the other hand, had always been strained.

Back when Rose was working for the company, Yulia discovered that she had been misappropriating the company’s funds.

This led to Yulia personally reporting her findings of Rose to Lady Yaleman, who then proceeded to slap the culprit right in front of everybody during one of their family meetings.

Rose and Yulia had been at odds with one another since that very day.

She hated Yulia and she eventually began to hate her fourth and fifth brother’s families too.

Yuma and Rose were the ones who were in control of most of the company’s resources at the moment.

She was equivalent to the vice-chairman of the company, so she naturally had the right to speak up.

It was also precisely because of this that Bea and her family could not refute her words at all.

“Okay, that’s enough. Everyone, it’s time to stop saying anything unnecessary. Mom already emphasized earlier that family unity is the most important thing!” Yuma said.

“Elder brother is right. Gerald, you don’t need to stand there anymore. Come, sit down and eat with us!” urged the fourth uncle.

“What? Why are you asking him to sit down with us? What rights do you have?”

Several aunts responded unhappily.

It was at this moment that Gerald realized that if he continued staying around here, he’d only further exacerbate his fourth uncle’s already deteriorating relationship with the rest of the family.

He smiled bitterly, “No need, fourth uncle. I think that it’s better for me to leave first! Enjoy your meal!”

After he was done speaking, Gerald patted Bea’s shoulder lightly, a gesture for her to not bother with him anymore before he left the house.

“Hmph! This is my final ultimatum. He is not related to the Yaleman family in any way. If I find out that any of you are still keeping in touch with him, I will sack you from the company immediately!”

Rose warned the juniors of the family.

She was trying to convey the message to Bea specifically.

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Gerald really did not expect that the grievances between the Crawford family and the Yaleman family would turn out to be so serious.

However, Gerald had no fear as all he wanted to do was to help ease the relationship between his grandmother and mother.

Gerald believed that as long as he willed it to be, things would not be too big of a problem.

What he was afraid of, was that an outcome directly the opposite of what he intended, would arise. In other words, he feared that he would be forced to have a final showdown with these folks.

So, everything would depend on his grandmother’s birthday banquet tomorrow.

Realizing this fact, Gerald called up Philip immediately.

He asked Philip to prepare some gifts for him.

It was already noon.

When Bea came home, she had a very sullen expression on her face. She had obviously been given an earful from Rose.

Gerald did not know how much Bea had suffered because of him. Although Catherine remained silent, she was already looking at Gerald with a cold and unkind expression.

“Bea, come. I will buy you some clothes!”

Gerald looked over at Bea.

Bea was a good girl but she had not been living well for the past two years because of being on the receiving end of Rose’s constant bullying.

Therefore, compared to the rest of her cousins, the clothes that Bea wore were much more tattered and had much less “bling” to them.

Aside from the car, Gerald had not done anything else to show his gratitude to the girl yet.

“Ahhh? There is no need for that, Gerald!” Bea hastily rejected his offer.

“Let’s go. You can keep me company while I shop anyway!”

With that, Bea hopped into her brand-new BMW 7 Series and headed straight for the shopping district where they sold fancy branded clothing.

Beep! Beep!

Bea locked the car door.

“Giya, why the long face! Hey, hey, looks like they’ve just dropped a whole new line of clothes. C’mon, let’s enjoy shopping together, haha!”

Two girls stepped out of the car.

They were none other than Marilyn and Giya, who was forced to tag along with her…

 

Chapter 827

Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 827 Marilyn led Giya up to the third floor.

“The clothes on the third floor are all very expensive. Are you sure you want to shop here?”

Giya asked with a half-hearted smile.

All the clothes in this shop were branded, but the clothes on the third floor were considered the crème de la crème of branded items.

This also happened to be the place where many young girls loved to shop around.

Even if they could not afford to buy it, they would at least have to be familiar with the items up on sale, just for the sake of keeping up with the crowd.

“We can just shop around on the third floor first. If there is something that really suits me, then I will buy it no matter what the price is!”

Marilyn replied with a beaming smile.

After that, both of them started working their way through the third floor.

At one point, they walked into a very popular branded boutique.

“Wow! Giya, look! Look how pretty this dress is! I’m gonna try it on! Hehehe!”

Marilyn had taken a liking to a long one-piece dress.

She took the dress with her to the fitting room hastily.

Giya’s attention was on a men’s clothing store next door.

The design of the clothes were all very cool and tasteful.

She was suddenly reminded of Gerald’s dressing style, which would always be very plain and casual.

So, she thought of choosing some nice clothes for Gerald, something that would make the rest of the girls squeal.

While Marilyn was busy trying on her dress, Giya went out to take a look at the men’s clothes on sale.

Upon putting on the dress, Marilyn hopped out giddily from the fitting room and struck multiple poses in front of the mirror. It was simply too beautiful, she thought to herself.

“Miss, this suits you real nice. You should buy it. This is the latest design of the year and it just hit the racks the day before yesterday. We have a new product promotion going on right now in fact!”

The salesgirl said as she approached Marilyn.

“Hehehe. Okay then. I have already seen this dress on the official website a long time ago. By the way, isn’t there a purple color option for this dress? Can I try that on as well? I really like the purple design!”

“Sorry, baby girl. Someone else is trying on that purple design dress now. It is already sold out and that is our last piece!”

“Ahhh?” Marilyn gasped.

Considering how pretty this girl is, if she were to put on that purple dress, the number of heads turning would exceed two hundred percent!

Suddenly, the door of the other fitting room popped open, and out walked a girl with said purple dress in her hand. She walked straight towards the designated customer waiting area.

When Marilyn saw that it was the dress that she was looking for, she hurriedly followed after that girl.

“That dress suits you very well! Let’s buy it!”

There was a boy sitting in there, waiting for her.

“No, how could I? It’s too…too expensive. Why would I need to wear something so expensive? Just take a look at the price! This dress costs more than thirteen thousand dollars! We should just go somewhere else to buy something else instead!” The girl replied.

The boy with a wry smile shook his head.

“Gerald? So, it’s you?”

Suddenly, a voice sounded in Gerald’s ear.

Gerald lifted his head and took a look. He did not know when Marilyn had appeared behind Bea.

Her sudden appearance surprised Gerald.

“Hahaha! What a coincidence! I happen to be very interested in this purple dress so you should hand it over since you can’t afford it anyway! Salesgirl, I am not going to try it on. Wrap it up for me, will you? They cannot afford to buy it anyway!”

Marilyn was relieved when she saw that her counterpart was just Gerald.

Despite how Gerald shocked everyone yesterday, Marilyn merely thought of it as him trying to show off by acting pretentious. She thought that it was just him trying to save himself some face. Maybe even

the outfit he wore yesterday was just a rental piece.

Anyway, no matter what it was, Marilyn refused to believe that Gerald could afford to pay for this dress.

“Okay, no problem!”

When the salesgirl looked at both of them, she felt the same way as well. Marilyn was dressed head-to- toe in branded apparel after all.

Bea on the other hand wore clothes that were from mediocre brands.

As for the boy, to be frank, she didn’t even know what sort of clothes he was wearing.

On a subconscious level, she had already concluded that Marilyn would be the one that could afford the dress.

“Hold on. Who said that we cannot afford to buy it?” Gerald replied with a sneer.

“You?” Marilyn replied contemptuously.

After that, she flipped over the price tag of the dress and it was that moment that her jaw almost hit the ground.

“Fuck! It actually costs $ 13,999.00?”

Marilyn was shocked.

It was far more expensive than she had anticipated.

Chapter 828

Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 828 She only had about seven to nine thousand dollars with her.

“What’s the matter? Is $13,999 too expensive for you?”

Gerald asked Marilyn while chuckling to himself.

After all, Marilyn was the one who poked his head and mocked him yesterday.

Gerald felt the urge to settle his grudge with her today.

So, Gerald responded jokingly.

“Hey, watch it. How can I possibly not be able to afford this dress?”

Marilyn thought how outrageous it would be for a pauper like Gerald to be actually looking down on her.

“Alright then, we’ll buy another dress! So, please pack this dress up for us!” Gerald replied with a mischievous smile.

The salesgirl was surprised and delighted at the same time when she heard this.

“You must be bragging! It would already be great if you could afford even one of these pieces here! Hmph! If he is going to buy two pieces, I’ll buy three! In any case, I’ll buy a piece more than him!”

Marilyn was hellbent on winning the little competition with Gerald.

“Mom, come here and take a look!”

Five other customers filed into the boutique.

It was five women.

Two of them were young and three of them were middle-aged.

Based on how they dressed, it was quite clear that they could afford the clothing on sale here. Of course, the salesgirl dropped what she was doing here and went over to serve them.

“Madam Gosling, Miss Yaleman, you’ve come! Welcome! Welcome! There are many new designs in our shop now. I can help you to pick out a few of our new items!”

“No need for that. We’ll take a look around by ourselves!”

Madam Gosling replied immediately.

All of a sudden, her daughter started tugging on her clothes.

“Mom, all of you, look! Isn’t that, that person?!”

The girl pointed in Gerald and Bea’s direction.

“Hmm? It’s Gerald! Bea is actually here with him too? Hahaha!”

Madam Gosling snickered.

That’s right. Madam Gosling was none other than Gerald’s first aunt, Rose.

The other two middle-aged women were none other than Gerald’s second and third aunt.

As for the two younger girls, they were both Gerald’s cousins.

The boutique they were in offered the most expensive merchandise throughout the entire shopping center. Naturally, the patrons of the shop were all powerful and reputable.

Rose felt embarrassed to see that both Gerald and Bea were shopping for clothes here.

“Gerald, stop playing around with me! If you cannot afford it, you should just admit defeat! There’s no shame in that, right?”

Fumes started appearing from Marilyn’s ears.

This was in response to Gerald saying that he’d buy Bea ten pieces of clothing.

Even the salesgirl felt like reprimanding Gerald for fooling around and wasting her time.

“Miss, have you just started working here? Why would you even waste your time with such a customer?”

A voice that was filled with insult and ridicule suddenly sounded at this time.

Gerald and Bea turned their heads around to take a look.

It was none other than Rose and the others.

“Hmph! I doubt that they’d even be able to buy a sleeve here! I really have to talk to your manager and ask him not to allow such dubious and shady people into the establishment. This lowers the standard of your boutique, don’t you think?!”

Rose said unceremoniously whilst looking at Gerald and Bea.

“Aunt, why are you saying things like that?” Bea asked angrily.

“Why am I saying things like this? You still dare to question me? Bea, let me ask you something. How much do you earn in a single month? How dare you shop at such a shop? Even if you have the money, you should use that money to serve your father well instead. You hate doing that, don’t you? Have you forgotten what I said at the luncheon today?” Rose replied in an insulting manner.

“That’s right, Bea. We understand what it means to be a girl, but you can’t just forget what sort of situation your family is in right now. To think that you even dare to try out the clothes here! What are you going to do if you damage their clothes!? Will you even be able to pay for these items!?”

“That’s right! That’s right!”

Their cousins chimed in as well.

Bea burst into tears as soon as she heard their words.

The salesgirl glared at Gerald and Bea contemptuously and said, “Hmph! You’re just pretending to be rich, aren’t you? See? I got scolded by a customer because of you two!”

“So are the both of you going to buy the clothes or not? If the answer is no, please leave the shop. The rest of the customers would like to try these clothes on!”

The tone of the salesgirl was neither polite nor courteous when speaking to Gerald and Bea.

Bea was about to hand the clothes over while sobbing.

“I already told you that I am going to buy ten pieces of clothing. Are you deaf?”

Gerald spoke up as he glared coldly at the snobbish salesgirl…

Chapter 829

Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 829 The salesgirl was taken aback by Gerald’s tone.

Even Rose and the others were surprised by his sudden change in attitude.

His voice was by no means deafening, but the hostile expression Gerald wore made everyone shudder in fear.

“Hmph! You’re still adamant about buying ten of ‘em huh? The cheapest of these clothes cost at least six grand! It’ll cost you tens of thousands of dollars judging by the number you specified. Are you serious about your purchase?”

Rose and the others despised the feeling of being intimidated by Gerald.

Was he really planning to buy ten of these dresses?

Hahaha!

They started sneering as they ridiculed him.

Bea also tugged on Gerald’s arm as she said, “Forget it. Eldest aunt is right. We will never be able to afford the clothes here. I think it’s best if we leave now!”

“It’s okay. I’ve already said that I’ll buy you these clothes! Look, the ones you tried on just now looked A-okay, so why not? Miss, if you will, please help me check how much they cost. I’ll be paying with my card by the way!”

Gerald whipped out his debit card.

The salesgirl nodded repeatedly upon seeing how serious he was about the purchase.

“Hold on. I was not talking to you. I am talking to you, miss. Please help me to pack these clothes up!”

Gerald said as he pointed at another salesgirl who stood at the side throughout their entire exchange.

“Okay, sir!”

The salesgirl started packing up the clothes as ordered. There were ten pieces of clothing in total.

The total price was $120,000.00.

“Hahaha! This fool. $120,000.00. Isn’t he walking into his own tomb?”

“That’s right. Even if he wants to show off, this is not the way to do it. $120,000.00 just to buy some clothes? This is going to be an amazing show!”

Marilyn was overjoyed when she saw the total bill.

Gerald’s cousins started whispering among themselves.

“Hmph! I want to see how Gerald is going to get out of this mess!”

Rose exchanged glances with one another and they sneered at Gerald with their arms crossed over their chests.

The salesgirl quickly brought out the POS machine.

Gerald typed in the password as if he had done this countless times before.

As Gerald was about to key in the last final digit of his password, the salesgirl suddenly exclaimed.

“Wait! Hold on, sir! I made a mistake!”

The salesgirl was overly nervous. After all, with a sale of $120,000.00, she would be able to gain a commission of at least five to six thousand dollars. How could she not be nervous?

She got such a great deal without saying a single word nor moving a single muscle after all!

Her anxiety and excitement were further fuelled by all the attention she got from her colleague as well as the customers.

As a result, she accidentally keyed in an extra zero on the POS machine.

However, before she could stop him, Gerald had already keyed in his password on the POS machine. It was too late, as she could see on the display that the machine was already transferring the transaction data….

“Sir, I am so sorry but I accidentally keyed in the total amount as $1,200,000.00 instead of $120,000.00. I am really sorry!”

The salesgirl apologized profusely while bowing at Gerald.

“It’s okay. You don’t need to apologize. Even if you keyed in one less zero, he’d never be able to cough up that amount!”

Third aunt said.

Beep!

The POS machine’s beep was loud and clear.

It stated that the transaction was successful.

It then proceeded to churn out the receipt with no hiccups whatsoever!

“What?!”

Rose, Gerald’s cousins, and Marilyn were all shocked.

The transaction was actually successful?

Gerald’s debit card? He actually…he actually has $1200,000.00 in his bank card?

F*ck! Am I dreaming?

Marilyn’s mouth was wide open out of disbelief.

Astonished, Rose stared at one another with the same look of disbelief. The expression on their mugs could never get any uglier than this.

Gerald, the boy born as a pauper has a million bucks in his bank account!?

The salesgirl was even more frightened when she saw the look on their faces. With trembling hands, she said, “Sorry, sir. I will refund the rest of the money to you immediately! I am really, really sorry!”

“Forget it. You don’t need to refund the money to me. Don’t you guys have a membership scheme? I’ll just sign up for a membership card for my sister, and you just need to transfer the balance into that card.”

Gerald tucked his card back into his wallet with a wry smile on his face.

Chapter 830

Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 830 If Rose was simply taunting him and ridiculing him alone just now, he would not have said anything at all. Gerald was still the same old tolerant Gerald.

However, he could not allow her to insult Bea like this.

The kindness his fifth uncle had shown his own mother back then was not something that could be made up for with cold hard cash.

What Gerald wanted was justice for Bea.

To his surprise, in the process of doing so, $1,200,000.00 had been swiped directly from his bank card.

But it did not really matter to him. After all, $1,200,000.00 or $120,000.00 made no difference to Gerald now. Aside from a difference in the number of digits, nothing about that sum was significant enough to frustrate him.

“But cousin, this…this is too expensive! Hurry up and get a refund!”

Bea said as she jumped around anxiously.

“What? Why would you ask him to do that? If he wants to insert that amount into a membership card for you, you should just let him do it! Hahaha! This fool! Putting so much money into a stupid card. I wanna see what he’ll do with the balance!”

As stunned and as surprised as Rose was, she still wanted to lash out against Gerald.

This was because if Gerald were to put all of that money into the membership card, then he’d never be able to do anything else aside from buying clothes.

That’s what you get from tooting your own horn!

However, she was still very irritated and frustrated. That, and surprise. When did Gerald become so rich?

She suddenly lost her mood to continue shopping.

The same went for Marilyn. She had to debate with herself over and over again in her mind before buying a single dress that cost $12,000.00 only for Gerald whom she had always looked down on, to put $1,200.000.00 into a membership card without a hint of hesitation!!

Marilyn went out of the shop with a dejected expression.

At the same moment, Giya walked out from the shop next door.

When she saw Marilyn’s gloomy appearance, she couldn’t help but smile and ask, “Hey, what’s wrong with our little Marilyn? Has your mood turned sour from all the shopping?”

Marilyn took a deep breath before she said, “Giya, do you believe in fate?”

“Ahhh? What kind of fate are you talking about?”

“Where a very poor person strikes gold overnight, and he becomes exceptionally rich!” Marilyn replied anxiously.

“What exactly happened?”

“I…I just ran into Gerald!”

“You saw Gerald?”

Giya suddenly felt very nervous.

“Yes! Gerald! Giya, you might not know this but Gerald…he seems a little different compared to how he was before. Back then, he used to be the poorest student in our class. Back then, he was everybody’s punching bag. I used to bully him too but do you know how wealthy he is right now? Did you know about this? He’s no longer the pauper that he was when he was still in high school!”

Giya looked around and checked out her surroundings but saw no signs of Gerald.

So, she subconsciously nodded as she replied, “The amount of money that Gerald has is not something that you can even comprehend!”

“Ahhh? Giya, what did you say?”

Marilyn did not hear Giya’s words clearly.

“Ahhh? I…I did not say anything!”

Giya came to her senses and she hurriedly denied what she had accidentally blurted out.

“Don’t think too much about it. You should just treat Gerald better from now onwards then. After all, the both of you used to be classmates!” Giya advised.

“Yeah, I guess so! I think I caught a glimpse of another side of Gerald just now, y’know, when he was swiping his card down the machine. He looked so cool and manly! Looks like I’ll have to change my attitude for the better from now on!”

When Giya saw the smile on Marilyn’s face, she could not help but feel a little uncomfortable…

“I am so angry! I am so, so angry!”

Rose slammed her hands on the steering wheel angrily on the way back home.

“Why did that woman’s son suddenly become so rich? Where did he get his million dollars from? Did he win the lottery?”

Rose kept on muttering the same thing on their entire journey home.

Just like most people, Rose also did not want her own opponent to become stronger and better than herself.

“That’s right! A million dollars ain’t small change, even to us! Sister-in-law, did you see how Gerald didn’t even blink or hesitate at all when he swiped his card?” Second aunt also said.

“You know, we thought that Gerald was simply renting his clothes to look extravagant and that he was just acting pretentious just to show off when we first met him. But it looks like everything that happened at the bar last night might actually be real!”

Gerald’s younger cousin spoke up.

“What do you mean by that? What happened at the bar last night?”