After returning to the dormitory, Alice and the other girls still felt very unpleasant and surprised.
If Gerald was really poor and
if he had won hundreds of thousands of dollars from the lottery, they would not
feel so uncomfortable.
However, he was actually able
to buy such an expensive limited edition luxury bag and he could even afford to
treat them to a meal at the
most expensive spot in the manor.
Moreover, when it came to the
oil painting, Gerald could actually persuade Zack to let the matter go just
like
that.
How was that possible?
“Alice, what do you think of
the incident today?”
Alice was sitting on her bed as
she listened to Jacelyn, who was removing her makeup at this time.
After that, she frowned before
she said, “I don’t know. Perhaps we’re overthinking this. Didn’t Hayley already
call Harper to ask and confirm
the situation with him? After all, the only reason why Zack is treating Gerald
so well is because Gerald saved
his daughter’s life!”
“I guess Zack is just trying to
come up with a reason just so Gerald wouldn’t feel too embarrassed about the
oil painting. After all, Gerald
saved his daughter’s life and that must’ve been a big deal to him.”
Alice felt much better as she
thought about this reason.
“Well, I guess that makes
sense. I actually thought Gerald was a rich man now! That really scared me to
death!”
Jacelyn said as she let out a
long sigh.
“What? You aren’t calling him
Brother Gerald anymore?”
The other girls started
laughing among themselves.
“Who’s addressing him in that
endearing manner? If he could actually ask Mr. Lyle to give me a good position
in
any
of his businesses in the future, I’ll definitely refer to him that way! At
least I wouldn’t have any
worries in life at all.”
“Gerald is really lucky. I
guess Mr. Lyle would regard the incident today as though he had already repaid
Gerald for everything that he
had done for his family.”
The girls continued gossiping
among themselves.
Alice felt very relieved when
she heard what they said. After all, the more Gerald had to suffer, the more
relaxed she felt.
It was a strange feeling.
Meanwhile, Gerald did not think
too much about this matter at all.
After returning to the
dormitory, Gerald and his roommates fell asleep very quickly as they were
exhausted
after playing and spending the
whole day outside.
The next day, it was time for
them to go to class.
At this time, Gerald saw Harper
and the other boys writing their names on their checks.
When Gerald read the messages
in his group chat, he realized that it was time for them to pay their tuition
fees.
“Gerald,
are you going to wait for the subsidy that you’ll be receiving in two weeks’
time before you pay your
tuition fees, or do you have
any other way to pay it off?”
In fact, Harper wanted to ask
Gerald if Mr. Lyle had given him some money to pay his tuition fees.
However, when he thought about
the oil painting last night, Harper did not bother to ask that question
anymore.
He was afraid that Gerald would
be a pauper again today.
Gerald smiled before he said,
“It’s okay. I still have some money left in my bank account and it should be
enough to cover my tuition
fees. By the way, I’ll go to the classroom a little later because I’ll have to
withdraw some cash from the
bank!”
Harper could tell that Gerald
was not lying. Gerald might actually have some money left to pay for his
tuition
fees. With this, Harper felt
much more relieved.
At this time, Gerald arrived at
the bank in front of the university campus.
“I’d like to withdraw one
thousand five hundred dollars!” Gerald replied as he passed his bank card to
the
banker.
The banker inside was a little
taken aback.
After
checking Gerald’s bank card, she looked at Gerald before looking at the bank
card in her hand.
After that, she finally asked
Gerald in surprise, “What happened to your bank card? Why did you make so many
changes to your bank account?”
There were changes to his bank
account?
Gerald was also startled at
this time.
In fact, the female banker felt
that Gerald was just an ordinary student with no money at all because of the
way he was dressed.
Therefore, she spoke to him in
a rather impolite and impatient manner.
However, only some of the top
customers in the bank could make such changes to their bank account.
At this time, she quickly
explained, “Yes, there has been a major change in your bank account. The
minimum
withdrawal amount for your bank
account is now thirty thousand dollars! You cannot withdraw just one thousand
five hundred dollars.”
The female banker looked Gerald
up and down.
No matter how much she looked
at him, this student did not look like he was a wealthy person.
Who made the changes to his
bank account?
Gerald
knew who had made that change to his bank account.
He knew it right away.
Who else could it be, apart
from his sister Jessica?
He really could not understand
his sister at all. He was not the type to spend so much money but now, his
sister was setting a minimum
limit for the amount of cash that he had to withdraw from the bank! She wanted
him
to live like a
second-generation rich kid!
At this time, he took out his
cell phone to make a phone call.
The person that he was calling
answered the phone right away.
“Sister, were you the one who
made the adjustments to my bank account?”
“Yes, I was the one who
adjusted and set the minimum withdrawal limit. I know how you’ve been living
and I want
you to live like a
second-generation rich kid now instead of acting and living as though you are
still a
pauper! I want you to slowly
adapt to your new status so you can get a foothold in our family in future!”
Gerald was dumbstruck.
“By the way, I would have
called you even if you did not call me today. Changing the minimum withdrawal
limit
for your bank account is not
the only thing I did. Do you remember the Universal Global Supreme Shopper’s
Card
that
I gave to you?”
“There is about one and a half
million dollars left in the card. I’ve set the expiry date for the money for
the
end of the month. If you don’t
spend the money in the card by the end of the month, then the money in the card
will just go to waste!”
“What?”
Gerald’s eyes widened in shock.
Too ruthless!
This was too cruel.
She was forcing him to live
like a second-generation rich kid.
“You’d better get used to your
new status and life as soon as possible. Otherwise, your parents and I will
have
to worry about how we can
finally get you out of the shadow of poverty every day…”
After that, Jessica hung up the
phone immediately.
“What’s wrong with you? Are you
withdrawing the money or not? Can you stop delaying and wasting our time?”
Unknowingly, there was already
a queue behind Gerald and there were about five or six students waiting behind
him because they wanted to
withdraw money too.
The
person who just spoke was a boy who was well-dressed and he had his arms around
a beautiful girl as he
glared at Gerald with contempt.
Today was the day of their
tuition fee payment.
Therefore, it was not
surprising that many students were here at the bank to withdraw money to pay
for their
tuition fees.
When the boy saw how Gerald was
dressed and when he saw him talking on the phone for so long, he assumed that
Gerald had no money left in his
bank account and that was why he had no choice but to call home to ask for
money.
“Oh, so did you manage to get
your family to put together some money for you? Do you know that all of us are
already late for class because
of you?”
At this time, the girl in the
boy’s arm spoke as she glared at Gerald.
“Alright then, I will withdraw
the minimum amount.”
When Gerald
saw the long queue behind him, he quickly spoke to the female banker.