Xavia stared at the money scattered all over the ground.
She was very confused.
She would never have dreamt
that Gerald’s garbage bag actually contained a pile of money!
“What? This money…”
Xavia did not know what to
think. “Gerald, where did you get this money?”
Gerald ignored Xavia.
Instead, he squatted down
before he picked up the one hundred thousand dollars from the ground.
“Why do you care? Didn’t you
say that I’m not worthy of someone like you because I’m just a poor man?”
After that, Gerald turned
around to leave.
Xavia was getting impatient at
this time.
If
Gerald was really poor and if he had really bought the bag with that one-time
shopper’s card, Xavia would not feel that it was a pity for them to break up.
She would never regret her
actions!
However, now Gerald actually
had one hundred thousand dollars in cash…
“Gerald, stop! You’d better
explain this matter to me. Otherwise, I’ll scream!” Xavia yelled as she jumped
anxiously.
She had to figure out the
truth.
She didn’t know why she was
especially afraid that Gerald had really become a rich man overnight.
Scream?
Hahaha.
Gerald smiled bitterly before
he said, “Xavia, you can just do whatever you want to.”
“Ahh! Help! Help me! Someone is
trying to rape me!” Xavia screamed as loud as she could.
Even though it was already late
at night, there were still many campus couples who were out together.
As soon as they heard Xavia
screaming, they looked towards the lake immediately.
“Damn it!”
Gerald would never have
imagined that Xavia would actually scream for help and say that he was trying
to rape her!
“Xavia,
what are you trying to do? Okay, you win and I lose.” Gerald hurried back to
Xavia before urging her to shut up.
“Gerald, I just want you to
tell me why you have one hundred thousand dollars in cash! Tell me the truth
now!” Xavia said as she frowned.
Gerald had already lost all
hope in this woman.
He didn’t want to have anything
else to do with her.
Therefore, he decided to
continue with his lie just so she would give up on him completely.
“Oh, I have to return this one
hundred thousand dollars to someone. Didn’t I tell you about the young girl
that I saved a few days ago? Besides giving me the shopper’s card, they also
decided to give me a ten thousand dollar cash reward. However, they gave me too
much and they gave me one hundred thousand dollars instead. That is the reason
why I am going to return the ninety thousand dollars to them!” Gerald said in a
sincere manner.
Xavia finally understood the
whole situation.
First of all, she knew that
Gerald was not a good liar.
Secondly, if Gerald really did
become rich overnight, why would he still be dressed so casually?
He did not look like a rich man
at all.
After listening to Gerald’s
explanation, everything finally fell into place.
Everything finally seemed very
logical now.
“I understand now. In other
words, aside from the ten thousand dollars in cash, you have nothing left!”
Xavia
took a deep breath and she felt as though she could finally let go of Gerald
with no regrets at all.
“If you’re satisfied, I’d like
to leave now.”
After that, Gerald walked away
with the one hundred thousand dollars in hand.
“A poor man will always be a
poor man! It’d be better for me to go back to my Yuri!”
Xavia also left in a hurry
after staring at Gerald’s back contemptuously.
Gerald couldn’t help but feel
very distressed after depositing his money into the ATM machine.
Xavia had changed completely
and he could not recognize her at all.
Xavia, Xavia.
If she could just forget about
that Hermes bag and if she really did not care whether he had any money, he
wouldn’t have minded getting back together with her.
After all, Gerald did not only
have ten thousand dollars. He had countless ten thousand dollars belonging to
him!
Ahh!
Gerald sighed as he started
walking back to his dormitory.
At this time, his cell phone
suddenly rang.
It was a phone call from Naomi.
“Gerald, do you want to have
some cake? If you’d like to, drop by the girls’ dormitory! I’ll bring you
some!”
Naomi
had always been very concerned and thoughtful towards Gerald.
In fact, both of them got along
very well and Naomi had always felt very happy and relaxed whenever she was
with Gerald.
She could also have sincere
conversations with Gerald.
Unlike all the other boys,
Gerald did not have any bad intentions and he was really her friend because he
wanted to be her friend. He was not thinking of getting into bed with her at
all!
Hmm!
“Cake? It’s okay, I don’t feel
like eating anymore…”
Gerald laughed. He really
cherished his friendship with his only female friend, Naomi.
“Okay then. Gerald, no matter
what happened tonight, just remember that you’ll always be my good friend! I
really like the bag that you bought me!”
The both of them continued
talking for a short while before Naomi finally hung up the phone.
At this time, many of her
friends were waiting in her dormitory.
“Naomi, why are you so nice
towards someone like him?”
“Alice, I know that you look
down on Gerald, but you have to believe me! He isn’t the kind of person you
think he is! He’s a very genuine and nice person if you’d just try to get to
know him better.”
Alice was also at Naomi’s room
at this time.
In fact, the person who felt
most distressed tonight was Alice.
She
was planning to meet a nice guy that she could consider dating tonight but the
first person she had encountered was Gerald. After that, she ended up having
good feelings for Nigel, who lost everything overnight.
Alice felt really upset when
she thought about how embarrassing it was when they were waiting outside
Wayfair Mountain Entertainment but they could not get in.
It was such an unpleasant
experience!
Alice felt that her bad luck had
begun as soon as she met Gerald!
That was also the reason why
she hated and despised Gerald.
“I can’t believe that he even
gave you a fake Hermes bag! I wouldn’t have found that Gerald so disgusting if
not for this bag!”
Alice felt very annoyed when she
saw Naomi treating the bag that Gerald had given her like some sort of
treasure.
She grabbed the bag from Naomi
before throwing it into the trash can.
Naomi quickly walked over to
the trash can to pick it up.
“Happy birthday, Naomi!”
Before she could do so, some of
her good friends from the dormitory next door came over to her room with a big
cake with them.
“Ah!! You girls are here!”
Naomi hurried over to the door
to greet her friends.
After that, Felicity and Xavia
walked into Naomi’s room.
Even
though Naomi did not talk to Xavia much anymore because of Gerald, she still
greeted her with a smile on her face.
“Wow! Naomi, you must have
received a lot of fantastic gifts! How could you actually throw such a
beautiful bag into the trash can? Oh my god. It’s even a Hermes bag!” Felicity
said jokingly when she saw the Hermes bag in the trash can.
Felicity Nelson was definitely
a goddess because she was so beautiful. Both Felicity and Alice could be
considered the two most beautiful girls in the entire dormitory.
When Alice looked at Felicity,
who was equally as beautiful and elegant as herself, Alice could not help but
feel a little competitive.
“Hmm! So, what if it’s Hermes?
It is just a fake Hermes bag bought by a very poor man!” Alice said as she
frowned.
At this time, Xavia was
standing next to Felicity and the expression on her face changed as soon as she
saw the Hermes bag that they were talking about.
She naturally recognized that
this was the Hermes bag that Gerald had bought for fifty-five thousand dollars
that morning!
She felt very uncomfortable
after seeing the bag.
“A fake?”
Felicity picked the bag up from
the trash can before she looked at it carefully.
After a short while, Felicity’s
eyes widened in surprise as she kept turning the bag around in her hand.
“This…I don’t think that this
is a fake Hermes. I think that this is a genuine product!”
“Genuine?”
The group of girls in the dormitory were all surprised. “How could that be
possible? Gerald is so poor. How could he possibly afford to buy Naomi a
genuine Hermes bag?”
“This bag is a limited edition
collector’s item and it is selling for more than fifty thousand dollars!” Alice
said contemptuously.
Alice did not know why she
could feel her heart beating frantically when Felicity said that the Hermes bag
was actually a genuine product!
“No, I’m certain that this is a
genuine product. I’ve touched the genuine Hermes bag in their boutique store
and it feels exactly the same. It’s completely impossible for a fake Hermes bag
to have the same texture as the original. I have the phone number of the
manager working at the Hermes boutique store directly opposite our university
and I can call her to ask if someone has purchased this collector’s item from
their boutique store. We’ll know the truth then!”
Felicity held the Hermes bag in
her hand as if it was a very precious item.
Her remark made all the girls
gasp immediately.
At this time, Felicity took out
her cell phone as she prepared to call the manager of the Hermes boutique
store.
“You don’t need to make the
call…” At this time, Xavia suddenly spoke up. In fact, if Felicity wasn’t about
to make the phone call, she wouldn’t want to tell the truth because Gerald had
actually bought this expensive bag worth fifty-five thousand dollars for
someone else.
However, since Felicity was
going to make the phone call, she decided that she might as well tell them the
truth directly.
“This Hermes bag is indeed a
genuine product. When Gerald bought the bag this morning, Yuri and I…we were
also at the Hermes boutique store. He paid fifty-five thousand dollars for that
bag!”
“What?”
Bam!
Everyone in
the dormitory froze in place.