It was nine o’clock at night at the male dormitory building in the
university campus. “Gerald, please go down to dormitory 101 on the first floor
and bring my laptop up
for me!”
A guy with blonde hair from the
dormitory next door opened Gerald’s dormitory room
door directly before he dropped
one dollar on the floor, then turned around and
walked away.
“By the way, please get me a
bottle of mineral water from the supermarket downstairs
too!”
The blond-haired student turned
around before he dropped another three dollars on the
floor—two dollars for the
bottled mineral water and another dollar for running the
errand for him.
“Hey, Blondie! Why are the
people in your dormitory always asking Gerald to run
errands for you? Why are you
guys being such bullies?”
The
people in Gerald’s dormitory asked in a cold manner because they could no
longer
stand it.
“Hahaha! Gerald lives in your
dormitory and you don’t understand him yet? If you give
him a dollar, he’d even eat
shit if you asked him to!” Blondie replied sarcastically.
Then, he laughed before he left
the dormitory.
Gerald’s face flushed red with
embarrassment as he turned a deaf ear to what the guy
with blond hair said. After
that, he bent down to pick up the few dollars on the
ground before he thought to
himself, ‘This way, I’ll make two dollars and that’s
enough for me to buy three
steamed buns and a bag of pickles! I won’t have to go
hungry anymore.’
“Gerald…don’t go! If you don’t
have enough money, we’ll lend you some and you won’t
even need to pay us back!”
The head of the dormitory could
not stop himself from sympathizing with Gerald.
Gerald shook his head before he
smiled and said, “Thanks, but it’s okay…”
After speaking, Gerald turned
around to walk out of the dormitory. At this time, all
the
boys looked at Gerald’s back as they shook their heads in pity.
In fact, Gerald did not want to
run errands for others and he wanted to enjoy his
university life too.
It would be great if he could
just continue studying in university without having to
worry about anything.
However, he was really very
poor!
Although the other boys in his
dormitory treated him very well, he did not want them
to pity him. Otherwise, Gerald
was afraid that they would eventually get sick of him.
Apart from his dormitory
roommates, Gerald had no other friends in university.
“Gerald, I heard Blondie saying
that you were heading downstairs, right?”
At this time, a very
well-dressed boy exited from the dormitory next door.
His name was Danny Xanders and
he was the head of Blondie’s dormitory. He was every
female students’ idol because
he wasn’t only rich but he was also very handsome.
However, he had always looked
down on Gerald because he felt that Gerald was an
embarrassment.
Gerald could not understand why
Danny would talk to him.
Gerald
simply nodded and said, “Yes, I’m heading downstairs.”
Danny smiled before he passed
Gerald a box full of items.
“One of my friends will be
waiting at the east grove today. Please pass him this box.
Here’s ten dollars for you.”
Danny was a playboy and
everyone knew about how he’d often ask different girls to
meet up with him at the grove.
Danny also had many friends who
would do the same thing.
However, Gerald did not think
too much about it as he was already used to running
errands for others.
He simply took the box and the
ten dollars before he walked downstairs. As soon as he
turned around, he seemed to
hear Danny’s faint laughter in the background…
Gerald went downstairs to pick
up the laptop and buy the bottle of mineral water
before he decided to drop the
box of items off for Danny.
The small grove outside the
university was a very famous place for couples to have
their secret rendezvous at
night.
After that, Gerald arrived at
the place that Danny had mentioned to him.
He
could immediately see a man and a woman sitting in the woods, talking and
laughing
together.
However, Gerald was shocked
when he saw the man and woman’s faces under the
moonlight.
He was stunned.
It was Xavia!
Gerald’s eyes reddened
immediately and the items he was holding fell to the ground.
Xavia was Gerald’s
ex-girlfriend and it had only been three days since they had both
broken up. Of course, it was
Xavia who wanted to end the relationship.
When they were breaking up,
Xavia had told him she wanted some time alone to herself.
However, it had only been three
days and she was already spending time with another
man at the grove!
Both of them also noticed
Gerald’s presence immediately and the expression on their
faces changed abruptly.
“Gerald…why
are you here? You, you…don’t get me wrong. I’m here with Yuri because…”
Xavia started to panic
immediately, feeling very embarrassed at this time. She
quickly lowered her head, not
knowing how to face Gerald.
The boy named Yuri Lowell, who
was a second-generation rich kid, glanced at the box
of items that Gerald dropped to
the ground before he laughed out loud.
“Damn it! Danny really knows
how to make a fool out of people. I asked him to send me
this box of items and I really
didn’t expect him to send you here to run his errands
instead. This is exciting. This
is really too exciting!”
Gerald knew that Yuri, who was
a second-generation rich kid, was Danny’s close
friend. His family owned
several restaurants and he usually drove a BMW 3 series car
to school.
Gerald could only clench his
fists tightly together after listening to Yuri’s words.
It turned out that Danny had
intentionally done this.
Moreover, Gerald believed that
Danny actually played a role in his break up with
Xavia. Otherwise, why would
Xavia be with Yuri just a few days after their break up?
“Xavia,
I know that you dislike me but you don’t have to get together with this kind
of person after our break up.
Do you know how many girlfriends he has changed before
this?” Gerald yelled out loud.
He loved this girl very much.
He really loved her.
Xavia felt very anxious and
annoyed when she heard Gerald’s words. “Gerald, who do
you think you are? Who gave you
the right to teach me how I should be acting and what
I should be doing? I’ve already
broken up with you and I can choose to be with
whoever I want to be with!”
“Also…” Xavia was furious at
this time. After that, she stared at Gerald before she
said, “Did you come here to
disgust me on purpose? Get lost!”
Slap!
After she was done speaking,
Xavia stepped forward and gave Gerald a tight slap
across his face.
Yuri laughed even more heartily
at this time. “Hahaha. Xavia, why are you chasing him
away? You should just let him
stay and watch us!”
Xavia blushed immediately.
“Yuri, I’ve already lost all interest after seeing this
guy
over here! Maybe next time…”
After that, Xavia broke free
from Yuri’s grasp.
Gerald did not know how he
walked away from the grove and his mind was completely
blank at that moment.
Everything came down to money.
Gerald was in this state because he had no money!
“Hahaha…”
After returning to his
dormitory, Gerald was greeted by the laughter of his
classmates in the corridor.
Danny was holding his belly as
he laughed out loud.
He had obviously told all of
their classmates about this matter.
“Hahaha. Gerald, what did you
see when you were delivering the items earlier?”
Blondie asked him with a smile
on his face.
“Damn it! Xavia really has the
most perfect figure,” Danny said as he grinned.
Gerald clenched his fists
tightly together and his eyes were flushed red at this
time. He really wanted to kill
Danny! He wanted to perish together with Danny.
“Why? Why are you doing this to
me?” Gerald hissed angrily.
Danny laughed before he
replied, “Hey, look here. I’m not scared of you at all.”
“Among
all the poor people in our class, you’re the one I look down on the most!
Xavia is such a beautiful woman
and it’s such a waste for her to be in a relationship
with someone like you! It’d be
better for my brother to enjoy and play around with
her for a few days at least…”
“By the way, Gerald, did you
know that Yuri managed to pick Xavia up after texting
her for less than half an hour
while you had to chase after her for more than a year
before she finally agreed to be
your girlfriend?”
Everyone was laughing at this
time and no one cared about Gerald’s dignity at all.
“I did it for you!”
Gerald rushed towards Danny immediately.
As a result, he ended up
getting beaten up by Danny’s buddies instead.
In the end, Gerald’s roommates
came to his rescue and they brought him back to their
own dormitory.
Gerald covered his face with
his quilt as he continued sobbing as he laid in bed.
‘Why? Why must they bully me
and trample on my dignity? Why?’
‘Do
I not have any feelings just because I’m poor? Am I not a person in their
eyes?’
Gerald continued struggling
internally and he could not stop the tears from flowing
down his cheeks. He could not
forget the scene that he had just witnessed tonight.
He did not know how long he
huddled up under the covers, crying before he finally
fell asleep.
Perhaps it was because it was
such a dark and silent night, Gerald slept very
peacefully that night.
When he woke up the next
morning, there was no one in the dormitory. Gerald knew that
the head of the dormitory must
not have wanted to wake him up as he probably felt it
would be better for Gerald to
stay in the dormitory instead of going to the classroom
after the previous night’s
events!
When Gerald picked up his cell
phone, he discovered that he had received many text
messages and missed calls.
To Gerald’s surprise, they were
all foreign numbers.
Gerald
also received a text message stating that someone had transferred money into
his bank account!
“[Daxtonville Bank] Nineteen
years. The balance of your account ending in 107 is USD
1,500,000.00.”
Gerald was stunned when he
looked at the series of numbers.
One million five hundred
thousand dollars?
Who would transfer one and a
half million dollars to him?
Gerald hurriedly called the
bank to confirm the transfer and he was even more
confused after receiving confirmation
from the bank.
At this time, his cell phone
started ringing again. It was another phone call from an
international phone number and
Gerald answered the call immediately.
“Gerald, have you received the
money that I transferred to you? I’m your elder
sister!” A familiar voice
sounded over the other end of the line.
“Sister! What the hell is going
on? Aren’t you and our parents working hard to make
money abroad? Where did you get
so much money?”
Gerald was completely in shock.
“Erm,
our father was intending to hide the truth from you for another two years but I
can’t bring myself to do so
because I know you’re constantly getting bullied in
school. Therefore, I planned to
tell you the news in advance. Our family is actually
really wealthy. The Crawford
family has a huge business industry throughout the
world. Do you know that eighty
percent of the gold mines, minerals, and petroleum in
Africa actually belongs to our
family?”
“This is not inclusive of all
the other industries in Daxtonville and abroad.”
What!
Gerald gulped immediately. If
this one and a half million wasn’t already in his
hands, he wouldn’t have
believed this at all.
He really thought that his
sister was merely making fun of him!
“I know you find it really hard
to believe me, Gerald, but you have to learn to
accept the truth slowly. In the
beginning, I was also raised in a poor environment
but after some time, I’ve gradually
gotten familiar with living the lifestyle of a
wealthy person. By the way,
I’ve sent something over to you by courier and it should
arrive by this morning. You no
longer have to worry about money in the future.”
“I
don’t know how much anything costs in Daxtonville nowadays but you shouldn’t
worry, just use the one and a
half million dollars for the time being. I’ll call you
again next month!”
After hanging up the phone,
Gerald was still in disbelief.
He had always lived as a poor
person throughout his entire life.
But…
He was
actually a second-generation rich kid?