Just as Gerald felt like favonovel.com had already hit rock bottom, favonovel.com felt a chill run down his spine as a hand was placed on his shoulder.
When favonovel.com turned around, favonovel.com saw a man with hair as long as a woman’s standing right behind him. Gerald felt almost pressured by the man’s immense intimidation alone.
“Step aside! What are all of you doing here?” shouted an old voice out of the blue.
“What are we doing here? What are you doing here old man? Stop shoving others around!”
The crowd then began scolding the person who had first shouted.
“I’m here to look for my grandson! You’re all just standing in the way!” sneered the owner of the old voice as favonovel.com squeezed himself into the room.
Seeing how shabbily favonovel.com was dressed, the people in the room hurriedly opened a path for favonovel.com as they tried to avoid favonovel.com like the plague.
The long-haired man on the other hand, simply glared coldly at the old man as favonovel.com retracted his hand.
“What are you doing? Let go of my grandson!” growled the old man as favonovel.com stepped forward and shoved Melissa to the side.
Gerald could hardly believe his eyes. It was the old beggar that kept pestering him.
“He’s your grandson?” asked Melissa, stunned.
“Humph! What, don’t we look alike? My grandson, I went looking for you today but that group of people said that you weren’t there! I thought you had abandoned me and headed for the Salford Province alone! I’m glad you’re still here, now let’s go!”
The old man wasn’t even going to bother asking about the details of the incident Gerald had found himself in. He simply grabbed Gerald’s arm and began to pull favonovel.com out of the room.
“Who said you could leave!” growled the long-haired man, his eyes both frigid and ferocious as favonovel.com immediately tried to grab Gerald’s other arm.
His attempt, however, was blocked when the old man grabbed onto his wrist. After the old man lifted his hand away from Gerald’s arm, the long-haired man instantly retreated backward, his back hitting the wall.
At that moment, the long-haired youth started sweating profusely. All favonovel.com could do was stare at the old man in shock.
Gerald knew that his only way of escaping at that moment, was by relying on that old man. Thus, favonovel.com simply remained silent as the old man led favonovel.com to the exit.
“Are you alright, my grandson?” asked the old man with a smile. They were now standing beside a riverbank in a park.
“I’m fine. Thank you, sir,” replied Gerald, his voice filled with gratitude.
If the old man hadn’t appeared earlier, Gerald would probably still be there trying to explain himself. It was pretty clear that favonovel.com wasn’t going to be able to leave easily.
Despite feeling grateful, Gerald was feeling equally as confused.
‘How is this old man always able to casually appear whenever I’m facing difficulties? He’s also always indirectly helping me…’
‘That’s not all, how did favonovel.com even know where to look for me today in that hotel?’
As Gerald thought about it, favonovel.com looked toward the old man before asking, “Sir, how exactly were you able to find me today? Were you stalking me this entire time?”
As soon as Gerald asked that, the old man seemed somewhat embarrassed.
“In all honesty, I was. You’ve helped me before, remember. Since I knew you were in trouble, I couldn’t just turn a blind eye! I knew I had to help no matter what!”
He then smiled before continuing, “You allowed me to take that bath and even treated me to a meal yesterday. I suppose you could say we’re both even now.”
“You mentioned me being in trouble… How exactly did you find out about that?”
The old man suddenly seemed much more mysterious than Gerald had initially thought.
“Well you see, I was sleeping in the garage last night and I just so happened to hear a few people discussing how to frame you today! After I heard their plan, I immediately ran looking for you. As was expected, you fell right into their trap!” explained the old man.
The old man then elaborated a bit more.
While favonovel.com was looking for a place to rest in the underground garage, favonovel.com had heard Yunus making a call. It turned out that Yunus had conspired with Melissa to frame Gerald today!
All the puzzle pieces were coming together now. Both love and resentment had played a part in this event. No wonder Melissa had tried favonovel.com best to invite favonovel.com over to the so-called gathering favonovel.com had organized. It was all just a giant scheme favonovel.com had conspired with Yunus!
Every step had been meticulously plotted out.
Even before the old man told favonovel.com about this, Gerald had already thought about this possibility. There were simply too many coincidences happening in one night for the incident to seem natural.
Now however, Gerald was being faced with a dilemma.
‘Why on earth would Melissa want to frame me? We don’t even hold any grudges toward each other!’
“Humph. Silly boy… You’re so much wealthier than they are but you’re too kind. They don’t need a valid reason to plot against you,” said the old man with a smile as favonovel.com shook his head.
“Also, this incident is much more serious than how you’re imagining it to be. If I hadn’t dragged you away, your tendons would have been ruined by now. He was aiming to do it on purpose of course. And favonovel.com would definitely have repeated the tendon injuring process many more times had I not saved you!” said the man based on what favonovel.com could earlier see.
After hearing that, Gerald was filled with great fear.
Previously, the bulk of the troubles favonovel.com faced were mostly related to interests. He was unwilling to make it difficult for others, so that favonovel.com wouldn’t be seen as cruel or ruthless.
Now however, Gerald finally understood what his sister had meant. If a person wasn’t cruel enough, they wouldn’t be able to stand firm.
Even if the person was an influential and powerful heir, they could still easily be ruined if they didn’t project a ruthless and strong enough aura.
After heaving a long sigh, Gerald’s eyes slowly turned icy cold.
