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The Secretly Rich Man Chapter 126-130

The Secretly Rich Man Ch. 126-130

[Chapter 126]

Helen started probing about her daughter’s boyfriend’s identity but Mila refused to reveal anything.

She simply told them to be patient and cooperate.

Gavin and Helen couldn’t understand what she was thinking either.

“Mom, look, Mila’s here!”

At that very moment, Mila gingerly took Gerald by her side as they breezed through the crowd of people.

They would’ve reached much earlier if it weren’t for Gerald who needed to use the bathroom.

“Wow, our niece, Mila is really getting so much prettier!”

“Look! Is the person holding Mila’s hand her boyfriend?”

“Who’s this guy? Whose son is he? Why haven’t I heard of him before?”

“Anyway, that guy is really blessed!”

A group of relatives and friends pointed at him.

“It’s him!”

When Helen saw Gerald, her eyes widened in disbelief.

No wonder her daughter kept refusing to reveal who her boyfriend was. It turned out to be none other than this intolerable young man!

That’s right. If Mila had told her about this, it would be impossible for her to allow the both of them to be together.

“Hmm? Who is he?”

The old lady asked at this time.

Helen didn’t dare answer her question. What would the old lady do if she found out that her granddaughter was together with someone like him?

“Grandma, allow me to introduce him to you. This is my boyfriend, Gerald!”

Mila completely ignored Helen’s glaring look of disapproval as she introduced Gerald to her grandmother.

“Oh? Mila, you have a boyfriend too?”

The old lady was suddenly overjoyed.

This was her most loved and favored granddaughter. She knew her granddaughter very well and she knew that the boyfriend of her choice would definitely be extraordinary.

“Gerald, do say hello to my grandma.”

Mila said gently as she held onto Gerald’s hand affectionately.

Was this the first time for Gerald to attend such a large gathering?

Gerald couldn’t help but feel a little awkward as he knew this was all just an act.

His mind wandered, as Gavin, Helen, Kyle and Irene were all staring at him in an extremely hostile manner.

He was about to speak up when he Mila dove right in.

“Wait!”

Just then, an icy voice pierced right in.

Obviously, it was Irene.

The last time Mila was with Gerald, Irene and Kenneth were slapped right in the faces in front of Sean.

She was directly humiliated in front of Mila.

The amount of hatred and resentment pent up caused Irene to suffer from insomnia throughout this entire period.

She had been very curious ever since and wondered who Gerald was.

After digging through a background check from their university, she found out that Gerald was nothing but a mere rich second generation son who had hit jackpot.

He was probably nothing more than a pathetic pauper who had no money or power before that!

Plus, he had been dumped by his own girlfriend before.

He then met Mila when they were learning how to drive. But Irene felt that there was simply no reason Mila would fall for someone like him.

Why would Sean even be acquainted?

Hah. Hilarious. It wasn’t that hard to guess the reason though.

After winning the lottery, Gerald had been splurging everywhere. He even purchased a bag worth fifty five thousand dollars and spent a tonne at various restaurants on Mayberry Commercial Street.

Perhaps, Sean ran into Gerald then and thought Gerald as someone really awesome.

In fact, Sean wasn’t the first to have ever encountered such a situation which made other find Gerald so admirable.

As Irene found Mila’s courage to bring Gerald here amusing, she questioned with cold expression:

“Mila, Gerald, since you’re here today, aren’t you going to give grandma a gift?”

“Of course I’m giving grandma a gift.”

Mila retorted icily.

“Your gift is yours personally to give. The question was for Gerald. Since he is your boyfriend and since you said that Gerald’s a rich second generation, then wouldn’t he be more well-off compared to Kenneth then? If so, all of us are really curious to know what sort of gift Gerald has installed for grandma.”

“That’s right. Since it is their first time meeting, he should bring a gift with him.”

“Who is he? It seems as though his family is quite capable?”

Relatives and friends suddenly gathered around in curiosity.

They were dying to find out what was the gift the boyfriend of her grandmother’s favourite granddaughter had brought…

[Chapter 127]

”I didn’t bring a gift.”

Gerald could not help but offer a regretful smile.

He originally wanted to prepare a gift for her grandmother but Mila stopped him. She felt that the both of them could just give her grandmother one gift and naturally she would look for the gift herself.

Hence the reason Gerald turned up empty handed today.

He simply came to attend the birthday banquet to make Mila’s grandmother happy. Who would have known that Irene would deliberately bring this up to make things difficult for him?

“What? He did not bring a gift? I thought that Mila’s boyfriend would be bringing something valuable along with him too!”

“Isn’t Mila’s boyfriend also a rich second generation? Logically speaking, he should also be well-versed with basic etiquette and manners. This is the first time that he’s meeting her grandmother, but he did not bring anything with him at all?”

“He definitely falls short compared with Irene’s boyfriend, Kenneth!”

Hush whispers and mumbling echoed amongst the relatives and friends.

Despite the soft chatter, their conversations were still quite clearly heard amongst everyone present.

Upon observing the situation, the old lady failed to keep a straight face.

She was not the kind of person who enjoyed receiving gifts but as an elderly person, image and reputation were the most important things.

She then dropped her sense of affection towards Gerald as she had been to Kenneth.

She simply replied that it was alright and asked Gerald to take a seat at the side.

After that, she asked faintly, “Gerald, I heard that your family’s business is doing pretty well. What kind of business does your family do?”

“Oh, we dabble in almost everything!”

Gerald replied lightly.

Although Gerald was simply telling the truth, it felt like his reply was being a little disrespectful through the lens of Mila’s grandmother and others present.

Dabble in everything?

What kind of industry was that?

How could he answer a question so carelessly and casually?

Mila quickly laughed it off as she said, “Grandma, it’s his first time coming here. If you keep firing him with so many questions, I’m afraid that you’ll end up scaring him away!”

“Okay, okay. I’ll leave him alone.”

The old lady replied as she then immediately changed the topic.

After all, the old lady adored Mila the most.

“Wait what? Is he scared because grandma is asking him too many questions or is he actually just afraid to tell the truth? Sister, why don’t you tell us what kind of family business Gerald’s family is doing? I think you should know it better than anyone else anyway!”

Irene suddenly threw a strange question.

She could no longer take it as she felt her grandmother always sided whatever Mila said or did and thought it would always be right.

Her grandmother was always spoiling Mila.

The rest of them were all her grandchildren too but she would always throw a fit at them even for the smallest mistake.

Although it wasn’t in Irene’s plan to have a row with Mila, she simply could not tolerate it anymore!

She wanted to see how stuck-up Mila could still be today!

Surely enough, this question caught the old lady’s attention immediately.

She then suddenly recalled her daughter-in-law, Helen’s demeanor earlier towards Mila.

The old lady frowned as she asked, “Mila, are you hiding something from grandma? What business does Gerald’s family do?”

Mila’s face tightened immediately.

At the same time, she turned around to look at Kyle.

If Irene knew of anything, then it must have something to do with her brother, Kyle.

As she had expected, Kyle did not even dare to meet his sister’s gaze.

“No grandma, I am not…”, Mila replied nervously.

“Hahaha. Are you too embarrassed to tell the truth? Alright then, I will explain everything on your behalf then! Grandma, do you know what kind of person Gerald is?”

“He used to be a well-known pauper from Mayberry University who earns his living by running errands for others. Of course, Gerald indeed got some money later on after he won the lottery. Guess what happened after that? Gerald…”

Mila didn’t know where Irene got all these information.

It seemed as though she was rather well-versed as she told his story and had personally witnessed everything with her own eyes as she revealed all of his humiliating past that had happened to Gerald before.

This included how he squandered his money after winning the lottery.

She revealed everything, in public.

“What? And Mila found this kind of person to become her boyfriend?”

“She even said that he is a rich second generation? I think that this kid is deliberately deceiving Mila by lying and making up his own identity!”

“Well, people who have already been poor for a long time are always like this. They will not even remember their own last names as soon as they get their hands on some money! He simply won some money from the lottery. Does he need to go that far?”

[Chapter 128]

Gossip is a fearful thing.

And suddenly, it was as though there were countless strange voices in Gerald’s ears.

Everyone was staring at Gerald in a completely different light.

“Okay! So this young kid is lying to our Mila?”

Rita had an atrocious temper. She immediately stood up before raising her voice to Gerald coldly.

The old lady’s face also turned unmistakably sour at that point.

Irene glanced at Kenneth before giving off a sardonic smile.

She was immensely satisfied being able to release all of her hatred and resentment!

Rita turned to Mila and asked: “Mila, didn’t you say that Gerald just bought a BMW 7 Series? I already sensed that something wasn’t right earlier. Gerald could’ve just driven here but he did not do so. Let me ask you, have you ever seen his BMW for yourself?”

Mila was speechless because she did not know what to say.

“BMW 7 Series? Rita, we have a total of three BMW branches in the whole of Mayberry City. It has been a while that we have not been selling any of this model at all. I would have definitely known it if we sold any of it!”

“Hang on, wait a minute! I remember now! I remember who he is now!”

Mason’s girlfriend, Queenie, pointed at Gerald as she exclaimed.

Ever since Gerald was present, Queenie had already been eyeing on Gerald the entire time.

She felt that he was very familiar and had a feeling that she had seen this person before.

But Queenie could not remember where exactly she saw him.

The moment Rita mentioned the BMW 7 Series…

Queenie suddenly remembered.

How could she forget? She saw him in the BMW shop!

“Queenie, do you know him?”

Mason quietly asked.

In all honesty, it was very humiliating for family members to face their relatives and friends as Mila’s boyfriend was someone of that sort.

Because of that, Mason was also unable to contain his pained expression upon seeing Gerald.

After all, he had always been secretly fighting with his second uncle’s family.

He really wanted to express his rage there and then, and he wanted Queenie to expose everything that she knew.

“Yes, of course I remember him! Mason, do you remember what I told you a few days ago? Some time ago, a very strange young man came to our BMW shop to look for a car. As soon as he came into the shop, he asked for the most expensive car that we had in the shop. I recommended the most

expensive cars in our shop to him but he actually said that he could not buy those cars because they were all too cheap! After that, he left our shop with a pained expression on his face!”

“Of course, I remember! Why? You’re saying Gerald’s that weirdo?”

Mason was really taken aback.

Queenie nodded her head. “Yes, it is him! I remember that he was dressed very shabbily at that time. I couldn’t recognise him at all because of how he is dressed today!”

The atmosphere immediately hyped up as everyone stared at Gerald.

“Oh god, what kind of boyfriend did Mila find?”

“He seems a little deranged!”

Mila anxiously replied, “Stop the nonsense! Gerald would never do things like that!”

She felt like collapsing at the ongoing ruckus. What was happening?

She thought that things were going to be pretty easy. She simply wanted Gerald to pretend to be her boyfriend, to make her grandmother happy.

Secondly, she wanted to prove it to Irene.

After all, Gerald had already thrown them off yesterday!

Never would’ve Mila thought that her cousin sister would actually be so ruthless. She would never have expected her to investigate and look into Gerald’s background like this!

Moreover, what are the odds that Mason’s new girlfriend would have actually bumped into Gerald before.

To make matters worse, she even put him down and made him seem like a fool.

You could say that everything was totally backfiring and going in the opposite direction than what Mila expected.

“Gerald would never do things like that? Mila, do you really think that your sister-in-law would lie to you? If you don’t believe me, you can just ask your boyfriend, Gerald, whether everything I said is true. You can ask him if all that happened at the BMW shop that day.”

Queenie replied.

Gerald had been quietly listening in on the conversation from the side. At that instance, a sudden recollection of Queenie hit him.

Besides, regardless of whatever it was, it was simply a one-sided encounter with Queenie that day. She was wearing a black uniform. She was constantly speaking to other customers and did not take him seriously when she was introducing some cars to him. They basically did not have much interaction at all.

Gerald also recalled that Queenie had reprimanded and cursed at him when he walked out of the shop that day.

He didn’t care that much about it at that time.

But was Gerald going to refute her words? How was he going to? After all, what she claimed was nothing but the truth.

As everyone was watching him, Gerald slowly nodded and replied, “Everything she said is true. Indeed. It was indeed tormentous because I could not choose or buy any of those expensive cars at the BMW shop that day. It is simply because the cars there are really too cheap!”

Gerald quipped.

[Chapter 129]

As everyone started chattering away, one after the other, Rita suddenly received a phone call.

Her face lightened with joy as she squealed, “What, sister? You have already arrived at the airport? Didn’t you say that you will not be able to make it back for grandma’s birthday? Ahh? Okay! Okay! Okay! I will come and pick you right now!”

Hanging up right away, Rita said, “Grandma, my sister will be arriving in a bit. She came back all the way from M country and she is already waiting at the airport now!”

“Oh that child, Cara…alright. I knew that she would definitely be back…” The old lady smiled as she immediately said: “Then Mason…Mason you can go and pick Cara up! You may go alone. I want Queenie to stay and accompany me.”

“Okay, grandma!”

Mason smiled as he waved, clutching the BMW sports car key in his hand before quickly excusing himself.

Mila’s face was clouded with disappointment.

Cara was Rita’s sister.

Ever since childhood, Mila had always had the best relationship with these two sisters.

Her grandmother knew it too.

It only made sense that her grandmother would have told her to pick Cara up too, however she clearly told Mason to go alone.

This reflected how unhappy her grandmother was with her.

After Mason’s departure.

Everyone’s topic of conversation and focus fell on Gerald again.

Yes. No one would have thought that Gerald would be such a jerk.

Since he was also making an appearance as Mila’s boyfriend, the focus of this topic was obviously of high importance.

Gerald remained silent as he continued listening to the accusations.

He was of course enraged to hear all the slander and ridicule of others.

But he also knew he needed to take care of Mila’s reputation.

The best he could do was to only endure it.

At the same time.

Queenie’s cell phone suddenly rang.

“Mason is calling me! Maybe he wants me to accompany him, grandma!”

Queenie smiled before answering the call.

Her face immediately ashened.

“Grandma, something bad has happened! Mason crashed into another car!”

“What?”

“When he was reversing his car out from the parking lot, he accidentally crashed into another car!”

“Ahh! I was wondering if something major happened. Is Mason’s car okay?” the old lady hurriedly asked.

“It is not a big deal. If there is no major damage to Mason’s car, then you can ask him to go and pick his cousin sister up first. I’ll take care of the rest of the matter for him.”

Kyle replied and smiled.

How difficult was it to deal with just a rear end collision?

“Mason, you can leave first. Kyle said that he will help you to deal with this matter! What? Okay, okay!”

Upon hanging up, Queenie looked at Mason’s father worriedly and said, “Mason said that he is too afraid to leave the car. He is also asking you to go over there and take a look, uncle. It seems as though Mason is in big trouble!”

“Huh? What’s going on?”

Everyone whispered amongst themselves.

All of them headed out to the parking lot in curiosity.

The old lady also went along.

Mason was usually a very calm and composed person. He would not be acting this way if it was any ordinary matter.

“Gerald, let’s head out and take a look too.”

Mila suddenly said.

Gerald nodded with a smile.

[Chapter 130]

When Gerald walked over, the entire Smith family was already gathered here.

Concurrently, Mason was explaining the situation:

“Dad, I really didn’t mean it. This is all this security guard’s fault! I was relying on his directions and he kept telling me to reverse. That’s when I crashed into the car!”

“This car is the most expensive car produced by Lamborghini. It will cost at least a hundred to a hundred and twenty thousand dollars to fix the damages caused by this accident. Plus, the car’s front lamps are already broken!”

Some of the relatives who recognized this car could not help but exclaim out loud.

“Whoever is driving this car is definitely not just anybody. We can definitely afford to pay that price to fix the damages. But we might also be offending a very powerful figure. On top of that, this looks like it’s a new car that someone just bought!”

“Just think about it. In Mayberry City, which son of which wealthy and influential family would be able to drive this kind of sports car that is worth approximately one million five hundred to three hundred million dollars?”

Everyone continued discussing this matter amongst themselves.

Upon hearing this, Gerald started feeling anxious.

Damn it. His car was parked at this position. Could it be that Mason had crashed into his Reventon?

As he squeezed through and made his way through the crowd, Gerald choked.

It was really his own car.

The body of the car was fine, but there were some scratches on the car after the hit. However the worst damage was that the right front headlight was already broken!

A right front headlight isn’t very expensive, but neither is it very cheap either. Since there were also scratches on the car body, it would probably cost him about two hundred and sixty thousand dollars to fix the damages.

But as someone had mentioned, this was his new car.

The old lady grew anxious: “Mason, you were too careless. The security guard is obviously a stutterer. Can’t you tell? This is bad. This time round, not only are we paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for damages, but we will also be offending a very powerful figure!”

“Mason, grandma, I think that we might have really gotten into big trouble this time! We cannot afford to offend the owner of this car at all!”

Queenie grabbed Mason’s hand as he pulled him aside.

She saw how crucial it was beyond this matter.

“Queenie, why do you say that? Do you know who owns this car?” the old lady hurriedly questioned.

“Yes!” Queenie replied as she nodded frantically. “I just sent a photo of this car to the employees of our company, because some of our employees used to work for Lamborghini. He replied in the group chat, saying that this car was sold a few days ago at a transaction price of two million six hundred thousand dollars. It was bought by a young man. He said that the manager of the shop was following behind him, and he was very polite and respectful towards the young man on that day when he was buying the car!”

“Not only that, do you know who the manager of the Lamborghini shop in Mayberry City is? It is Wilson Quare!”

Queenie carefully explained.

“Is it really Mr. Wilson? Was he really very respectful towards this car buyer?”

“The reason why Mr. Wilson is so powerful in Mayberry City is entirely because of his contacts! He has very powerful connections here!”

With that being said, the old lady grew even more anxious.

“Then we should get out of here soon. Otherwise, we will be in trouble when the young man arrives!” the old lady panically cried.

She might be naïve, but she clearly knew what the consequences of offending a big and powerful family was. Even the slightest issue would affect everything else!

“Grandma, we absolutely cannot leave right now! There are surveillance cameras everywhere now!”

Irene and Rita started persuading her.

To be honest, Irene’s eyes had not left the Lambo for even a second. She was fantasizing about how she would look if she were to be sitting in this luxurious car.

It would simply be perfect if her boyfriend, Kenneth could own this car!

But, that would be impossible.

As for Rita, she was even worse. She was actually thinking of waiting for the owner of the car to arrive.

If he could own a luxury car worth about three million dollars, then this person was undoubtedly a very rich and wealthy person.

Does this mean that she was one step closer to her own dreams and expectations?

It would be great progress even if she managed to grab a short encounter with that young man!

“Oh! We should get someone to go and pick Cara up first! Irene and Rita are right. We should not leave. It would be okay if we do not leave but if we leave now, then we will really be in big trouble!”

The old lady’s tone was dead serious. She felt like she was becoming a dotard.

“Grandma, I would love to go and pick her up now, but I do not dare to leave just yet,” Mason replied, swallowing his own saliva.

“It’s okay. You can go and pick her up first. Grandma, all of you can go in and enjoy your birthday banquet first. Since this car is already hit, just let it be then. It’s okay!”

Suddenly, a voice broke out behind everyone.

It was Gerald.

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The Secretly Rich Man, Gerald Crawford: I am a second-generation rich
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Status: Completed Type: Released: 2023 Native Language: English
The Secretly Rich Man is a Chinese drama urban novel series, The main character is named Gerald Crawford. Gerald Crawford's parents and older sister let him work outside as a child, and he has always supported himself by his own hands, including running errands and delivering people. It wasn't until his 19th birthday that his sister transferred a large amount of money to his bank card, and now he realizes he is actually a kid in the Superman Family. I was lived in poor life till yesterday, but i got a message from my family. That day, my parents and sister who were all working abroad suddenly told me that I was a second-generation rich with trillions of dollars in wealth!Gerald Crawford: I am a second-generation rich? The Secretly Rich Man

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