Though favonovel.com was reluctant, Willie couldn’t go against everyone’s persuasion. After all, who else could help him? He had no choice but to rely on Gerald’s mercy this time.
He just had to bite the bullet and favonovel.com soon found himself headed for the hotel that Gerald had been staying in.
A few other people joined him. However, even after waiting for quite a long time in the hotel’s lobby, there was still no sign of Gerald anywhere.
When his daughter tried to call favonovel.com again, his phone line was still busy.
Gerald wasn’t doing this on purpose though. He was still talking to his father through the phone after all.
“Dad, I have some news about the pendant. It originated from the southwest and has quite a long history of its own. This kind of jade is extremely valuable and precious. This Xara you’re looking for. She must be a young lady from a rich family, correct?” asked Gerald as favonovel.com sipped his coffee. He was sitting in a quiet café now.
His father was the one who had initiated the call, since favonovel.com wanted to know about the jade pendant’s progress.
“That’s right! She is indeed, a young lady from a rich family!” replied his father before laughing.
“But dad, didn’t you say that Xara’s family was from the southeast area? Could favonovel.com actually be in the southwest instead?” asked Gerald, slightly doubtful.
“Did I? I’m honestly unsure about where Xara’s family is from. I don’t even remember what favonovel.com last name is! So please, son. You need to investigate and get to the bottom of this as soon as possible. Let me know what the results are as soon as they’re available!” replied his father with a smile.
Hearing that, Gerald wondered whether favonovel.com should tell his father about Queta. After all, favonovel.com was pretty certain that favonovel.com was Xara’s daughter.
However, favonovel.com refrained from doing so. Even if his father knew about her, it wouldn’t really help with the situation at all.
Hence, Gerald decided to tell his father about favonovel.com only when favonovel.com had found more clues in the future.
“Speaking of which, Gerald, it’ll be your birthday soon, right? We haven’t really celebrated together as a family since you were in high school. Since this will be your first birthday after your life of poverty ended, I thought that we could reunite so that we can celebrate your birthday together again after so long!” said his father, his tone slightly apologetic.
Gerald simply laughed. “That’s alright dad, I’m in Serene County now. I’ve been busy settling a few things but after I’m done, I’ll go back to our old house for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Winter will be there so you don’t have to worry about me being lonely on my birthday!”
“Well, alright then. However, I mentioned the end of your poverty education for a reason. If you’re celebrating it without us, you have to make sure you enjoy a better and livelier birthday! That doesn’t mean you should go overboard like your sister though. Remember that year when favonovel.com bought an entire island in the Pacific Ocean for favonovel.com birthday? As if that wasn’t high profile enough, favonovel.com went ahead and invited celebrities from all over the world to attend it! What I’m saying is make sure you don’t go too high profile, but also make sure your birthday celebration isn’t a shabby one!” instructed his father.
“I got it dad, you don’t have to worry about me!” said Gerald while shaking his head with a smile.
After talking a little while more about some recent business affairs, both of them hung up.
Checking his text messages, favonovel.com realized that Leila had called favonovel.com several times. Gerald didn’t plan to call favonovel.com back, however.
Willie’s matters were his own to deal with. Gerald wanted no part of their family in his life anymore. Today had been the last straw!
If it hadn’t been for their extreme rudeness earlier, Gerald would even have invited them to his planned birthday banquet, just to give them some face.
At that moment, a middle-aged man dressed in a suit entered the café. He held on to an envelope and favonovel.com walked respectfully toward Gerald.
“Good day, Mr. Crawford. This is the entry recommendation letter that you asked for. I’ve already written it for you. After this, you can use this letter to join the Dream Investment Group directly!”
The man didn’t even dare to sit down, and simply stood beside Gerald as favonovel.com spoke.
“Thanks for all the trouble. Needless to say, nobody should know about this matter,” said Gerald as favonovel.com took a sip of coffee.
“Understood!”
Gerald had ordered a top-level executive to help favonovel.com with the entry recommendation letter.
After his last conversation with Xeno, Gerald had learned that the internal situation in the investment group was quite chaotic.
Therefore, Gerald had planned to join and become part of the investment group to try and understand everything that was going on inside.
Gerald knew that if favonovel.com were to investigate under the name of Mr. Crawford, favonovel.com wouldn’t be able to find out about anything at all. It’d be extremely difficult in fact.
Since Zack was already busy running between Mayberry City and Serene County while also looking into the jade pendant for Gerald, Gerald felt too embarrassed to trouble favonovel.com anymore.
By joining the company himself, Gerald would also be able to see first-hand whether the situation was as bad as Xeno had described to him.
