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The Secretly Rich Man Chapter 186-190

The Secretly Rich Man Ch. 186-190

[Chapter 186]

“Why are you in such a rush? I haven’t even finished filling in the form yet. I’ll answer it when I’m done!”

There were a lot of people who would call him up. Normally, Gerald would answer the call right away.

But he did not want to do so, seeing how anxious Jacob became.

By the way, Gerald had eaten twice with Mr. Raine before. They knew about each other well.

They did not have to be so civil toward each other.

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

The call went dead.

Nobody answered the call for a long time, so it was hung up directly.

Jacob sneered. “Gerald, you’re indeed a dumb person! You deserve it for being…”

The phone rang again.

“Come! Faster pick up the phone!”

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

He then helped Gerald to answer the phone and put it near his ear.

However, Gerald did not even stretch his hand out to take the phone from Jacob. He sat there just like that. On the other hand, Jacob leaned toward Gerald and held the phone in his hand, holding it near Gerald’s ear. That scene appeared rather hilarious.

But Jacob could not care less about other stuff for the sake of his future.

He did not care what business Mr. Raine had on his mind, calling Gerald up. He decided to greet Mr. Raine at the end of the call.

“Mr. Raine, hello!”

Gerald smiled slightly.

“Gerald, I called you just now. Why didn’t you pick it up? Are you busy?”

Bernard smiled and said.

Bernard had met Gerald a few times, and he had quite a good impression of Gerald.

The moment Gerald heard about the project of doing charity by establishing Scothow Elementary School, he promised to take the whole project over without any hesitation. He even provided the funds immediately.

Besides, a rich youth like him was such a friendly and humble person. Bernard soon got quite close to him.

“Hmm, I was busy filling in the drop out application from just now. The department director has prohibited me from studying here from now on! By the way, Mr. Raine, what’s the matter?”

Gerald smiled. He thought that it was a call from Zack, but he never thought that it was Mr. Raine after all.

“You…”

Jacob wanted so badly to cover Gerald’s mouth.

From the way Gerald addressed Mr. Raine, Jacob started to feel quite nervous.

‘Oh my God! They have quite a close relationship.”

Hearing what Gerald said, Jacob became much nervous.

“It’s like this. Our project regarding the Scowthow Elementary School has been delayed before because of insufficient funding. Now it’s almost fully built. We’ll be able to use it after two more months. I called you up just to see if you’re free tomorrow. Please come over because we’ll have a small function here!”

“Fine, no problem!” Gerald nodded.

“No, it seems that something is wrong. Gerald, what did you say just now? A drop out application form?”

Only now did Bernard recover his senses and realize what Gerald had said just a while ago.

“Hmm? That’s right! My department director expelled me from college. I’m now filling in the form before him.”

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

But now he wondered if he could ask Mr. Raine to say something in his favor.

“Gerald, give him the phone!”

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

“Sure!”

Jacob soon straightened his body up and smoothed his collar slightly. “Mr. Raine, hello. You… Yes! It’s nothing but an absolute misunderstanding! Sure! What? Is he that Mr. Crawford? Oh my God! Of course! I’ll definitely keep it a secret! Sure! No problem! Don’t worry about it!”

Jacob swallowed slightly.

What Bernard said at last shocked Jacob tremendously.

Certainly, everyone knew or had heard about Mr. Crawford of Mayberry.

Besides, Gerald was that Mr. Crawford.

“Are you done?” Gerald smiled and said.

“Mr. Crawford… Yes!”

Jacob’s facial expression became so interesting all of a sudden. He was filled with contempt at first. Now, he was trying his best to fawn on Gerald.

“Oh, then I’ll continue with signing my name here. I’ve done filling in the form now, except signing my name.”

Gerald took up the pen again.

“No!”

Jacob shouted loudly. He then grabbed Gerald’s hand tightly.

[Chapter 187]

“Mr. Crawford, it’s a misunderstanding! It’s nothing but a misunderstanding!”

Jacob was deeply anxious.

“What is the misunderstanding? I couldn’t even survive now in Mayberry. Faster let me leave college!”

Gerald wanted to sign the form.

“Mr. Crawford, I was wrong. I was indeed wrong. Actually, I could just give you a light punishment for it. But I listened to the others and wanted to expel you from the college.”

If the chancellor knew that he wanted to expel that Mr. Crawford of Mayberry from the college, he would certainly be ruined.

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

“Fine. Then what to do next regarding this incident? Cassandra asked a student to do such a thing in public. It certainly hurt that student’s self-esteem greatly!”

Gerald did not even know when he started to have some slight changes.

When he was dealing with things now, he was not the shy and cowardly man he was before.

Now, he would say what he wanted to say directly.

“Don’t worry, Mr. Crawford. I’ll deal with it justly.”

“Besides, donate seventy thousand dollars to Layla under the name of ‘Ordinary Man’. I’ll give you the money later. Thank you!”

“You’re being too courteous!”

Jacob smiled happily.

Gerald then nodded slightly.

He then got up and left.

Outside of the office.

Somebody sighed. “Gerald will certainly be expelled from school. He’s been having a pathetic life here for three years since. Now, he’s unable to graduate too.”

Cassandra crossed her arms in front of her in resignation and smiled bitterly.

“It’s good that he’s been expelled. It would be much better if he couldn’t leave Mayberry intact. How bold of him to beat Victor up!”

They were still angry at Gerald.

At that moment, the door was opened.

All of them wanted to rush toward Gerald and sneered at him vigorously again, including Cassandra.

“Gerald, please be careful. There’s a small staircase here after the refurbishment.”

That scene before them shocked them greatly. They widened their eyes.

They soon saw Jacob helping Gerald down the staircase, supporting him gently.

That staircase was just one or two centimeters high. It was not even a staircase. Why did Jacob appear like he was afraid that it might hurt Gerald?

‘Oh, God! What is happening?’

Cassandra gaped.

“Mr. Reeds, Gerald, he…”

“What about him? I know what happened now. I’ve been meaning to ask you, Cassandra. If Gerald didn’t tell me about it, I wouldn’t even know that you asked a female student to stand in public, holding up a sign. You even took group photographs there, didn’t you?”

“Ah? I clearly told you about it just now…”

“I don’t know about it. By the way, the thing you did was outrageous, humiliating a student like that. At first, our department wanted to award you since you’re the best teacher. But let’s forget about it now!”

“What? Mr. Reeds, I’ve worked so hard for that award for these past three years, earning all the honors for the department.”

Cassandra was completely stunned. “It’s still a problem we need to discuss with the college whether we want to keep you as a teacher here with us given the kind of teacher you are. How dare you talk about that award still?” Jacob sneered.

After that, he turned and looked at Whitney who appeared shocked as well.

“About you, you’ve been the president of the student union for three years now, but you didn’t manage to do anything. If anything bad happened, you would always look for help from the department. What

else could you do other than this? Just retain the post as the president of the student union first. If there’s a better candidate, we’ll ask you to resign!”

“Ah?”

“What’s wrong?”

Jacob shouted at Whitney before he returned to his office with his hands behind his back.

Whitney thought, ‘D*mn it! I didn’t even say a single word!

‘Why?!’

‘Why is that so?’

As Whitney and Cassandra were thinking about that, they turned to look at Gerald coldly.

Gerald only smiled bitterly. Then, he turned and left. Soon, he would hear some news regarding Victor.

They always condemned him and looked down on him. Now it was time for him to take his revenge on them.

Gerald returned to the classroom, and he realized that Harper and the others had left.

He also returned to his dorm and lied down in bed. He told Harper and the others that it was fine now. He looked at the time and realized that it was six o’clock in the evening. He decided to play with his phone for a while before he turned in.

[Chapter 188]

At that moment, Cassandra sent a message to his other social media account.

“I’m outraged! Ordinary Man! I want to go and kill myself! What should I do?”

Cassandra said so.

Actually, Gerald became angry when he saw Cassandra’s name.

“If you don’t want to live on, just go and die! What more can you do?”

Gerald made a swift reply.

“Oh! You’re so annoying! I just want to tell you some of the things which upset me.”

Gerald was tongue-tied.

He did use quite a vicious tone.

But how could Cassandra use such a sweet tone on him, behaving like a spoilt child.

Gerald did not know how to reply to his message.

“Humph! I always care about you, but you never care about me. I’m so sad!

“But I still want to tell you about it. You know what, Ordinary Man. I could only pour out my feelings and speak freely with you.

“Something happened today. Do you know about the fundraising campaign for my department? Just because of one pathetic poor b*stard from my class, the campaign was ruined. Layla now has no money to pay for her younger sister’s medical fee. What’s more important is that I was robbed of the chance to gain the award of the best teacher just because of him!”

“I’ve donated money for Layla. I donated seventy thousand dollars to her! And regarding that teacher award, it serves you right!”

Gerald scolded her directly, disregarding her feelings.

“How annoying! Why did I feel that you like to tease me? Humph!

“Oh gosh!”

Gerald became utterly speechless now.

He wondered if others felt quite happy even though they were scolded by him just because he had become rich now.

It might be so.

At that time, Felicity sent a message to Gerald too. “Are you there? Ordinary Man?”

Gerald had had enough of those women.

“Get lost! I’m unavailable!” Gerald scolded.

“Oh! Ordinary Man has turned quite wild now. You’ve scolded me!”

Gerald was again tongue-tied.

It seemed to be true indeed. After he became rich, the others felt quite happy with it even though he scolded them.

Then he ignored their messages directly.

Gerald logged into his own main account and chatted a short while with Mila.

Then, he turned in.

The next morning, Gerald woke up early in the morning because of the function which Mr. Raine mentioned to him before. It was because no one would notice it if he woke up early and went to get his car.

After all, he needed to stay low-key.

Gerald reached the park.

“Humph! Isn’t that the poor man? Don’t you know how frustrating it was yesterday? He was not even expelled!”

“That’s true! He beat Victor up, and he could still stay alive up until now. It’s such a miracle!”

“Something’s wrong. Look at him! It’s only six o’clock in the morning. Where is he going early in the morning? Does he want to run away?”

“Yes! He clearly wants to run away! Sisters, that b*stard beat our Victor up. We must not allow him to get away with it! Go and stop him!”

The minute Gerald entered the park, he soon found himself face-to-face with four women.

They were none other than the four women who condemned him viciously for Victor the previous day.

It seemed like they came to the park for a morning run.

Unfortunately, they bumped into Gerald.

“Humph! B*stard! Where do you plan to run away to?”

The woman who seemed to be their leader said coldly.

Gerald took out his Lamborghini car key, looked up, and signaled to the Lamborghini car behind them.

“I’m not running anywhere. I just want to drive my car around!”

Gerald said coldly.

After that, he pressed his car key.

A chirping sound was heard.

The lights of the car flashed and the door opened automatically…

[Chapter 189]

The door of the car was opened.

The four women were stunned.

‘What?

‘Does this luxurious car belong to Gerald?

‘Isn’t he a poor man from our department? How could he afford to drive such a beautiful and luxurious car?’

They turned to look at Gerald, and their facial expressions changed drastically.

That car alone was much more expensive than Victor’s Audi car. They sneered. ‘So what about Victor? It’s so much better than Victor’s!

‘How cool this Lamborghini car is!’

The leader from among the girls became pale. She then rushed toward Gerald and said nervously, “Gerald, is this car really yours? Is this yours?”

“If not, is it yours?”

Gerald seemed to be used to that kind of woman and their tones. He soon said coldly.

“Ah! This car is so cool! Is it around one to two million dollars?”

That woman soon got near the car. She completely lost herself by then. ‘Look at this luxurious car! If I’m able to even sit in this car for even once, I’ll be so happy that I might die!’

The other three women rushed toward the car too. They looked at Gerald in admiration.

“Around a million and eight hundred thousand dollars!”

Gerald started the engine of the car, and a charming growling sound was heard.

“Wow! It’s so cool! Gerald, where are you going? Can you let us have a ride too?”

The woman smiled seductively and asked Gerald.

“Get lost!” Gerald scolded them coldly.

In fact, they were quite beautiful. But it was a totally different thing. They condemned Gerald for Victor’s sake just now, but now they wanted him to give them a ride. A good thing like that would never happen.

After that, he drove the car and left directly.

“Gerald! You…”

They were being ignored by Gerald. They became so angry that they stamped their feet.

Unexpectedly, Gerald was an extremely wealthy person.

They felt as if they had suffered a great loss. They had offended a truly wealthy man just because of a stupid Victor. It was just not worth it.

How about Gerald?

After he scolded them, he drove his car directly to the outer area of the conference hall.

Although it was still quite early, Bernard and the other leaders were there now.

There were two parts in the function. The first entailed a meeting on the establishment of the school which would be held an hour later. Gerald needed to attend the meeting with a few other leaders in an isolated meeting room.

Gerald funded the establishment of Scothow Elementary School, and he had helped to establish around twenty to thirty such schools. The schools were built specially for the children of the workers who worked outstation, providing an educational platform for them.

It was quite a big contribution.

Certainly, he was rather highly valued and esteemed.

The second part of the function entailed a meeting with the teaching faculty and staff in the main conference hall.

Only two months were left before they started recruiting the students. They needed to arrange for the selection of the teaching staff in advance and provide training for them.

Gerald had to join the first part of the function and was forced to listen to Bernard talking ceaselessly about various things for around two hours.

However, Gerald did not plan to join the second part of the function, holding a meeting with the teaching faculty and staff.

It was because he did not have to raise any opinion there.

Besides, he felt pressurized, being with a bunch of teachers. Their academic levels were certainly not on par with each other. They were quite knowledgeable and it would pressurize Gerald.

Since he was free, he decided to take a look at one of the schools near the venue of the function.

After all, it could be considered a particularly meaningful thing which he had done.

Gerald did not drive his car. He walked to the school instead.

Since that school was almost completely built when they resumed the project, it had now come to the furnishing stage after only two months. The entire school was now planted with trees and plants.

Undeniably, the surrounding of the school was quite good given the large funding he provided.

He snapped two photographs of the school, planning to send and share them with his sister later.

“Stop! Don’t you know that you’re prohibited to snap photographs in school? Didn’t you see the warning on the sign?”

At that moment, he heard a cold and stern female voice.

Gerald was frightened.

He turned around and saw the sign. It claimed that snapping photographs were prohibited there.

“I’m sorry. I didn’t notice that. I’ll delete it right away!”

Although he helped fund the establishment of that school, Gerald did not find anything special in what he had done.

So he complied and deleted the photographs.

“Eh? Are you… Gerald?” Surprisingly, he found himself being recognized by that woman. He turned around and saw a woman in a black uniform. Did she know him?

“Lilian, do you know him?”

There are two other women and a man beside Lilian. They now asked Lilian curiously.

[Chapter 190] “I know him! He’s my classmate from high school. What’s wrong, Gerald? We haven’t seen each other for around three years now. Have you forgotten about me?”

Lilian said in surprise. But other than surprise, she seemed to be filled with a kind of sarcasm at that moment, mocking Gerald.

It was the kind of feeling one had when she finally realized that the person whom she thought had long disappeared appeared in front of her again. After so many years, the b*stard whom she thought had long been dead appeared out of nowhere. She was filled with that kind of surprise.

In fact, looking at Lilian like that, Gerald was stunned too. He was tongue-tied…

Certainly, he knew who Lilian was. They were in the same class since sophomore year. When they were about to go into different courses in junior high, they were put in the same class again.

At that moment, Lilian seemed to be the art committee member. She was good at singing and dancing.

However, there was nothing special in their relationship back then.

A girl like Lilian would certainly like those boys whose families were rich and were esteemed in high school. Gerald did not have those qualities.

Further, their school was located in town, and Lilian was a resident there. So her taste and family background did not allow her to befriend a person like Gerald.

For three years in high school, the things they said to each other were less than what they said to each other when they met each coincidentally there at the school just now.

So they certainly did not keep in touch with each other after they graduated from high school.

Although Gerald noticed Lilian’s disdainful gaze just now, he still cherished things of old.

“Yes, we haven’t met each other for three years now. I almost couldn’t recognize you. You’re so much prettier now!”

Gerald smiled slightly.

“Hey! It’s indeed been a long time. Even you can learn how to praise others. But why did I feel quite awkward about it, listening to your praises?” Lilian crossed her arms around her chest and smiled coldly.

“Lilian, let’s introduce him to us since he’s your old classmate…”

That woman noticed that Gerald appeared pleasing to the eye, so she smiled and said directly.

“What the hell! Fiona, could you please stop fawning on every man you met all the time? Do you know what kind of a person Gerald was during my high school?”

‘Oh my god!’ Lilian was tongue-tied.

Her best friend always acted like that. She was obsessed with finding herself a boyfriend every time she met a slightly handsome man.

But she thought that Fiona really needed to keep her eyes open.

Lilian could not help but admit that Gerald was indeed quite handsome, but he was just a…

“What’s wrong?”

“Gerald was an infamous poor person back in high school. Do you know what he usually ate during lunch hour at that time? He ate only plain bread with a few pickled vegetables. Besides, his uniform was so shabby that the pants around his knees were all torn. He even put patches on them. But he did not even want to buy a new uniform!”

“What? How is it possible that there’s such a poor person?”

The beautiful woman——Fiona stuck out her tongue, claiming that she was indeed frightened and shocked.

“I don’t believe you! Lilian, are you exaggerating the facts?”

That man smiled bitterly. “If I was as poor as that, I think it’s better if I kill myself!”

“What? Was I exaggerating the facts? Gerald, tell them whether what I said is true.”

Lilian became anxious.

She just wanted to prove to the others that she was right. Regarding how he condemned Gerald and upset him, Lilian did not even think about it. For her, Gerald was just a gossip topic.

Gerald sneered. “Yes, it’s true!”

Gerald smiled faintly, realizing that Lilian’s temper and characteristics had not changed at all.

Although she annoyed him, he did not appear angry at all.

After all, what Lilian said just now was true. He did not care even if they looked down on him given that it was meaningless if he exposed his real identity and showed off his wealth before them.

“By the way, Lilian, why did you come to this school? From what I see, are you the teacher here? Did you find your job so soon?”

Gerald asked her. When he left the conference hall, he found that all of the teachers there were in that uniform.

“Yes, we completed our internship fast. Besides, I have a teacher qualification certificate. Certainly, I get it all done and settled. From now on, I’ll be leading a life here in this big city——Mayberry. How about you? I heard that you’re studying at Mayberry University. Have you found a job yet?”

After all, Lilian was quite mature now after all those years. Although she looked down on Gerald, she still inquired after him politely.

“Me? Not yet. I’m still wondering what I should do from now on!”

Lilian smiled.

“To be frank, Gerald, I thought that you’ll be much improved after you went to college. Surprisingly… If you couldn’t do it, just return to your hometown. See if you could find a job in the town. If not, you could always return to your village and buy some land. You can start with farming or something else. That’s how university students nowadays start their business!”

Lilian crossed her arms around her chest. Right from the start, she felt that Gerald was a good-for- nothing. After having a casual conversation with him, her opinion of him worsened.

He was about to go for an internship, but he still did not know what kind of thing he wanted to do in the future.

Looking at how Lilian advised him, he only smiled bitterly and nodded repeatedly.

Beside them, that man nodded too. He then said, “What you said is right. It’s difficult for university students to find a job nowadays. Some small companies do not have a promising future. The large companies want only the talented ones. Just look at Mayberry university, only the most exceptional ones will be able to find good jobs. How about the others? They either rely on some connections or their families in order to have a promising future.”

Another girl beside them added, “That’s true. The people who suffer the most are the ones like Gerald. He doesn’t even have the capabilities and eloquence. Besides, he’s quite poor both economically and in the cultural aspect too.”

They were immersed in a heated discussion, and Gerald stood there having nothing to do.

At last, Gerald managed to say something after they were done. “Are the four of you the newly recruited teachers here? It’s not bad indeed. The salary given is quite good too since the investor has provided a huge amount of funds. The living arrangement which they prepared is quite good too!”

Gerald just wanted to chat with her as an old school mate.

“What the hell? Gerald, don’t pretend that you know a lot here. You said those things just because you want to show off in front of us. I’m well aware of that. What do you have to be so smug about? I know about your situation clearly. Do you want me to spill everything?”

Lilian said rather helplessly.

Gerald only touched his nose slightly and smiled bitterly.

“By the way, let me tell you something since we bumped into each other here today…”

At that moment, Lilian looked up, as if she had thought about something.

 

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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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