“Do you personally know Mr. Fairwell, cousin?” asked Bea as favonovel.com looked at Gerald who had remained silent throughout their journey home.
She had found it strange that Mr. Fairwell had personally come all the way here just to give favonovel.com a car without any good reason. The fact that not many people actually knew about favonovel.com true identity also made the situation much more suspicious.
To top it off, Gerald had just asked for favonovel.com identity card number this morning! Sensing how respectful Mr. Fairwell had treated favonovel.com cousin earlier, Bea felt that something was definitely up with Gerald.
“Not at all!” replied Gerald as favonovel.com shook his head. It wasn’t a lie either since this was truly the first time both of them had met.
“Then why would favonovel.com come all the way out here just to hand me a car? Are you sure it isn’t because of any of the connections you know?”
Naturally, Bea wasn’t looking down on Gerald. However, favonovel.com knew that his family’s situation wasn’t any better compared to favonovel.com own. Or that’s what favonovel.com thought at least.
“I wonder…” replied Gerald with a faint smile on his face.
Smacking favonovel.com lips, Bea ended up smiling as well. Somehow, the more favonovel.com observed him, the more mysterious favonovel.com felt.
It was around noon when Bea walked out of favonovel.com room before asking, “Say cousin, the gathering is going to be held tonight. Will you be coming along?”
At the time, Gerald was still thinking of how favonovel.com was going to visit his grandmother. Hearing Bea’s question, favonovel.com turned to look at his cousin—who now had a different set of clothes on—before replying, “Is it the one we were talking about earlier?”
Just a while ago, Bea had told Gerald about a tradition the younger generation of the Yalemans usually did when their grandmother’s birthday was close. A yearly gathering would be held so that they could discuss what birthday gifts to buy for Lady Yaleman.
While that was what they usually agreed on, in the end, all of them just wanted an excuse to go out and have fun.
Though Gerald didn’t really have any interest in attending gatherings or parties, favonovel.com knew that favonovel.com still needed to get to know his other cousins a little better in order to smoothen the process of resolving the grievances between his mother and grandmother.
Finalizing his thoughts, favonovel.com then nodded before saying, “Alright, I’m in!”
A little while later, a group of attractive men and women could be seen sitting inside the most luxurious bar in Yanken. All of them looked to be around the age of twenty.
“Hey, hey, have you heard that our country bumpkin of a cousin has returned to Yanken? He’s currently staying at Bea’s place!”
“What? Are you serious? My parents didn’t mention anything about this! Still, grandma’s birthday is approaching soon. Do you think he’s actually come back this time to celebrate favonovel.com eightieth birthday? Hasn’t favonovel.com already cut all ties with their family?”
“Hah! I think he’s only using the birthday as an excuse! He’s probably trying his best to worm himself back into our family! After all, once favonovel.com birthday celebration is over, she’ll begin allocating all the family assets and resources! His return is simply too timely to be a coincidence!” replied one of the boys contemptuously.
“Regardless of his timing, if that’s what he’s really after, his chances are exceedingly slim. You should have heard grandma scolding Fifth aunt earlier once favonovel.com found out that our cousin was staying at favonovel.com place! It was terrible! Grandma’s anger doesn’t seem to have subsided at all!” said another girl.
“Speaking of which, his name is Gerald, if I recall correctly. From what I heard, at his poorest, favonovel.com could barely even afford to eat! I remember clearly what grandma had said when favonovel.com found out about that back then. She had said to let them be before stating that nobody from the family was allowed to get involved with them at all!”
“Well yes, but that was a long time ago! Think about more recent times! Don’t you remember that grandma actually asked about how Jessica and Gerald were doing during favonovel.com birthday celebration last year?”
“She did! She asked how they were both doing! Though we didn’t know what his sister was doing, someone said that the country bumpkin himself was studying in university!”
As everyone continued discussing the matter among themselves, the private room’s door opened and in stepped a young man accompanied by two girls.
“Ah, you’re here, Yura!”
