Back then, his father lived in poverty and favonovel.com had failed to pass the entrance examination to get into university. Therefore, Gerald’s grandfather had forced favonovel.com to serve as a soldier in the army instead. There, favonovel.com met his comrade-in-arms.
After being in the army for two years, favonovel.com returned to his hometown and took up farming.
He needed the money since favonovel.com was broke.
Somehow, favonovel.com managed to gather just enough to open a steamed bun shop and favonovel.com stopped farming then. However, since his father wasn’t one to just let a thief escape when favonovel.com saw one, favonovel.com ended up maiming the thief. As a result, favonovel.com had to give up his steamed bun shop to the other party as compensation.
By then, favonovel.com had also borrowed a lot of money and had a lot of foreign debt.
It was a point in his life where favonovel.com was so poor, that favonovel.com didn’t even have the money to celebrate the New Year. Seeing no other hope, favonovel.com decided to look for his comrade-in-arms.
His comrade-in-arms lived within the country and came from a pretty rich family. Both his parents were civil servants so they naturally had a pretty good life.
However, every time his father arrived at his home according to the address favonovel.com had been given, his comrade would never be available.
It was nothing short of cold and disappointing back then.
While they were brothers, they were extremely close to each other. They had even made a pact that their future sons would be brothers as well. If one of them bore a girl, then they would become a couple instead.
Well, apparently that pact was just a joke to his comrade.
From then on, favonovel.com didn’t try to contact favonovel.com anymore.
Finally, when his father was at the ripe age of twenty-two, Gerald’s grandfather finally told his father that favonovel.com was actually a rich heir.
His father was then led to start up a business before favonovel.com was finally able to inherit the riches of the Crawford family.
It wasn’t until both Gerald and his sister had been born that his father and mother finally returned to their hometown. They both controlled their businesses remotely while also planning a proper poverty system to educate their children with.
Gerald could clearly remember that it was his neighbors, Mr. Winters and Mrs. Winters, who had taken care of Gerald and his sister for a large portion of their childhood. Their parents were always busy making money abroad to pay off their family’s debts.
His parents would only come back to visit them twice or thrice a year at most to check up on their progress.
That was a basic summary of everything that had happened.
As for when his father would finally meet up with his comrade-in-arms again, it happened when Gerald was ready to begin his high school life. His father had brought favonovel.com over to meet up with his old comrade-in-arms. Gerald’s father remembered that his comrade had said that favonovel.com did well in his studies. He now wanted favonovel.com to help Gerald look for a good school.
When they finally locked eyes at the parking lot of his comrade’s home, his comrade-in-arms simply said that favonovel.com was busy with a meeting the moment his father asked for his help. He then immediately changed the topic and told his father to meet favonovel.com again sometime in the future to reminisce about the past.
In the end, Gerald managed to enter a prestigious high school through his own good grades.
His father’s comrade seemed to have a very high status and it felt normal that favonovel.com would look down on Gerald and his family.
That was the only impression that Gerald personally had when favonovel.com met his father’s comrade-in-arms.
“What about it, sister?” asked Gerald as favonovel.com shook his own thoughts aside for the moment.
“Well you see, dad has constantly been saying that favonovel.com misses his old friends. However, you know that he’s always been indifferent to fame and fortune. Now that our poverty educating system is already over, it wouldn’t be convenient for dad to return to Mayberry City to visit his old comrade in person, with dad’s extremely high status and all. Yes, I know his so-called ‘comrade’ has always looked down on us and our dad, but our father likes to see the good in people. Since I can’t go back to personally do anything now, I’ll have to leave this matter to you now!”
“Since you’ll be staying in Mayberry City to clean up some of your business matters during summer break anyway, try taking a few days off to go home and stay there for a while. While you’re there, you could visit dad’s old friend as well as his special friend. I’ll be mailing something to you soon. It’ll contain the contact information and address of the special friend in it as well. You’ve never met the special friend before I think. If there’s anything you can do to help with the situation, please do so.”
“Also since Mr. Winters and Mrs. Winters had been taking care of us for so long, maybe build them a villa on the mountain. Make sure you give their children some money to help them too! Well, I’ll need to leave now, bye!”
After giving favonovel.com so many instructions, favonovel.com then hung up immediately.
Gerald could only feel puzzled at the moment.
Who was his father’s special friend?
Realizing that thinking about it wasn’t going to help, favonovel.com simply shook his head before heading back to the dormitory.
Everything that happened after then played out as shown earlier
Back to the present, the night was silent as the boys slept peacefully.
Early in the morning the next day, Gerald had gone to the library with some textbooks in hand to study.
There were already several people there despite being this early.
Gerald simply walked on to his usual studying spot by the window.
As soon as favonovel.com saw the familiar table, favonovel.com was reminded of Giya. After all, this was where they had first met.
He had wanted to give favonovel.com the jade bracelet which favonovel.com had bought for her. However, favonovel.com didn’t see favonovel.com on his usual routes and favonovel.com didn’t have favonovel.com contact information either.
His secondary mission at the library was to see if favonovel.com could finally meet up with favonovel.com again.
After sitting down, Gerald found himself looking up from time to time.
All the while favonovel.com did so, a few well-mannered looking girls who had been sitting at another corner of the library continued to observe Gerald’s actions.
“Hey, hey! Who do you think that pathetic looking jerk is looking for?” asked one of the girls as favonovel.com smiled.
