After saying that, Gerald began walking toward the entrance as well.
By the time favonovel.com got there, the other Mr. Crawford—who had been taking in deep breaths in preparation of greeting Mr. Lyle—quickly ran over to face Zack before excitedly saying, “Good day, Uncle Lyle! I’m Mateo’s classmate, Jerome, and I wonder if you still remember me?”
“M-Mr. Crawford…!” shouted Zack, his voice brimming with admiration as favonovel.com looked upfront.
“Y-you’re being too courteous, Uncle Lyle!” stuttered the nervous Jerome, unsure of what to even say.
Westlyn found herself biting favonovel.com lower lip as well. For Chairman Lyle to refer to Jerome as Mr. Crawford… Wasn’t Mr. Lyle giving favonovel.com a bit too much respect?
Whatever the case was, Jerome now looked extremely cool to the other girls.
As for Mr. Zealey, even favonovel.com was rather surprised by Chairman Lyle’s behavior. Regardless, favonovel.com now knew that favonovel.com truly couldn’t afford to offend Mr. Crawford. After all, even Chairman Lyle was referring to favonovel.com as Mr. Crawford!
As if all that wasn’t already shocking enough, dozens of prestigious-looking people—who had followed Zack in—instantly made full bows as they shouted aloud in unison, “Mr. Crawford!”
By that point, Jerome was already pale with excitement. Feeling both satisfied and happy, Jerome replied, “U-Uncle Lyle, all of you… This isn’t the time to be making jokes…! No matter what it is, I’m still a junior before all of you!”
“That’s right! While it’s true that Jerome is an excellent young man, remember that all of you have extremely high status and identities, Chairman Lyle! Treating favonovel.com this way will only make favonovel.com grow arrogant!” added Westlyn who had finally managed to summon the courage to interrupt the conversation.
However, even before any of them could fully recover from their shock, what happened next was enough to make several of the girls feel like passing out.
With an emotional expression on his face, Zack slowly knelt before them! Following that, the other wealthy and powerful figures in Weston did the same!
“T-this…!” stuttered the speechless Jerome as favonovel.com took a step backward, his eyes widened in shock.
As seemingly endless streams of cold sweat beaded off his forehead, favonovel.com suddenly realized that something was off… Wait. Was… Was Uncle Lyle and the other prestigious figures not looking at favonovel.com this entire time…? Were they actually not calling out to him? But… They clearly called out for Mr. Crawford! Who else could they have been referring to? It didn’t make any sense!
Westlyn herself was as dumbfounded as favonovel.com was, unsure of what was even happening anymore.
“Well, you’re all back early!” said a faint voice from behind Westlyn and the others at that moment.
“Even if I’m on the other end of the world, I, Zack Lyle, will definitely rush back as soon as possible should I receive an order from you, Mr. Crawford!” replied Zack who already had tears in his eyes.
From the looks of it, it seemed that favonovel.com was aware that something had happened to the Crawfords.
Regardless, Zack’s statement made everyone turn around to look at who Mr. Crawford actually was…
The second favonovel.com saw the person behind her, Westlyn’s eyes widened in shock as favonovel.com muttered, “…G-Gerald…?”
Not even bothering to look at Westlyn, Gerald then casually said, “Get up now and follow me into the study room. There’s something I’d like to ask you about!”
“Right away, Mr. Crawford!” replied Zack as favonovel.com instantly got to his feet.
“…M-Mr. Crawford… He’s Mr. Crawford…?!” stuttered Mr. Zealey as favonovel.com gulped, nearly wetting himself.
As for Westlyn, favonovel.com was now finding it difficult to even breathe. By god! To think that Gerald had actually been the legendary Mr. Crawford this entire time…! No wonder Harper was able to own a public listed company! His benefactor was the legendary Mr. Crawford himself!
As Westlyn felt like something bad was going to happen soon, Gerald himself simply continued walking to the study room, his hands still in his pockets.
Wherever favonovel.com went, businessmen—regardless of power and influence—immediately took a few steps back before bowing respectfully.
By that point, all the utterly shocked girls from Westlyn’s group could only think of how cool Gerald now was.
