“What?”
All of his classmates were
startled.
Danny, who was taunting Gerald
and standing at the front of the classroom, had an incredulous expression on
his
face at this time.
Why was Gerald so rich?
Cassandra also gasped in
shocked and she felt a little out of breath at this time.
Even Xavia was shocked at this
time.
This
money…there was at least thirty thousand dollars there!
“Gerald, where did you get so
much money?” Cassandra could not help but ask at this time.
“Yes, Gerald. I think there
should be at least twenty or thirty thousand dollars there, right?”
The female students could not
help asking.
“Well, yes, it is thirty
thousand dollars. As for where it came from, it is because…I won the lottery!”
Gerald replied immediately.
He could not tell anyone that
this was simply because his sister had set the limit for his bank account to a
minimum of thirty thousand
dollars per transaction because everyone would treat him as a fool…
Gerald did not like to show off
his wealth unless he had no choice to do so, like he did today.
“You won the lottery?”
Gerald’s words caused quite a
huge commotion among all his classmates.
Danny and Blondie looked like
fools as they stood at the front of the classroom at this time.
They were initially planning to
taunt and humiliate Gerald in front of their classmates but who would have
expected Gerald to actually
throw thirty thousand dollars in front of them just so they could count it?
Both
of them felt very embarrassed.
They could only stand awkwardly
in front of the classroom as it would be even more embarrassing for them to
retreat now.
At this time, Xavia asked with
a nervous expression on her face, “Gerald, how much did you win from the
lottery?”
She was breathing very fast at
this time.
She was afraid that Gerald
would have won millions of dollars in the lottery. If that really happened, she
would really want to jump off
the building!
No! Absolutely not!
How could someone who was just
dumped by her have such good luck?
No way!
Gerald smiled indifferently
before he said, “Not much. Not that much!”
“How much is not much? Thirty
thousand dollars?”
Cassandra asked as she looked
at Gerald with a strange expression on her face.
“More than that…” Gerald simply
replied.
What did that even mean?
All
of Gerald’s classmates felt very anxious at this time because they wanted to
know how much money Gerald had
won. This was because all of
them, including Cassandra, had always despised and looked down on Gerald. To
them,
Gerald had always been a pauper
who deserved to be mocked and ridiculed.
However, now that he had won
the lottery, his classmates’ self-esteem started to fall!
They were all envious and
jealous of him!
“It should be easy for you to
count one thousand five hundred dollars, right?”
Gerald said as he glanced
coldly at Danny who was dumbfounded at this time.
He took out one thousand five
hundred dollars from the pile of cash before he threw it in front of Cassandra.
After that, he turned around
and faced his classmates as he said, “Which one of you would be willing to lend
me
your backpack today?”
Since he had already revealed
his riches, Gerald no longer felt the need to act as pitiful and useless as he
did before. He wanted to be a
little more like Danny and Yuri, who could use money to their own advantage,
and
get people to work and butter
up to him.
Therefore, Gerald decided to
borrow a backpack to place his money in instead!
“Gerald, you can use my
backpack!”
“Gerald,
why don’t you take my backpack instead? I don’t really need it today.”
“Gerald, Gerald…”
At this time, all of his
classmates quickly called him by name because they wanted to offer Gerald their
backpacks.
In the end, Gerald simply
borrowed one of his classmate’s backpack.
After that, he placed the
remaining twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars into the backpack.
“Why are you sucking up to him?
He only has thirty thousand dollars anyway! Moreover, he even has to pay by
cash! He’s nothing but a
nouveau riche.”
Danny and Blondie said in a
vicious manner.
Xavia looked at Gerald with an
extremely uncomfortable look on her face. She wanted to talk to Gerald but she
felt very embarrassed.
She did not know what to do.
If she had broken up with
Gerald just a few days later, she knew that he would have spent the thirty thousand
dollars on her without any
hesitation at all!
“Gerald, you’re so lucky.
Moreover, it seems as though you’re really popular among your classmates! All
of them
are
offering to lend you their backpacks! Since you’re already rich now, don’t you
think you should treat your
classmates to a meal?”
At this time, Cassandra, who
was standing at the front of the classroom, suddenly spoke in a bitter manner.
“Yes! Gerald, you have thirty
thousand dollars in cash! You should treat all of us to a nice dinner!”