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”I didn’t bring a gift.”Gerald could not help but offer a regretful smile.He originally wanted to prepare a gift for her grandmother but Mila stopped him. She felt that the both of them could just give her grandmother one gift and naturally she would look for the gift herself.Hence the reason Gerald turned up empty handed today.He simply came to attend the birthday banquet to make Mila’s grandmother happy. Who would have known that Irene would deliberately bring this up to make things difficult for him?“What? He did not bring a gift? I thought that Mila’s boyfriend would be bringing something valuable along with him too!”“Isn’t Mila’s boyfriend also a rich second generation? Logically speaking, he should also be well-versed with basic etiquette and manners. This is the first time that he’s meeting her grandmother, but he did not bring anything with him at all?”“He definitely falls short compared with Irene’s boyfriend, Kenneth!”Hush whispers and mumbling echoed amongst
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Gossip is a fearful thing.And suddenly, it was as though there were countless strange voices in Gerald’s ears.Everyone was staring at Gerald in a completely different light. “Okay! So this young kid is lying to our Mila?”Rita had an atrocious temper. She immediately stood up before raising her voice to Gerald coldly.The old lady’s face also turned unmistakably sour at that point.Irene glanced at Kenneth before giving off a sardonic smile. She was immensely satisfied being able to release all of her hatred and resentment!Rita turned to Mila and asked: “Mila, didn’t you say that Gerald just bought a BMW 7 Series? I already sensed that something wasn’t right earlier. Gerald could’ve just driven here but he did not do so. Let me ask you, have you ever seen his BMW for yourself?”Mila was speechless because she did not know what to say.“BMW 7 Series? Rita, we have a total of three BMW branches in the whole of Mayberry City. It has been a while that we have not been sellin
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As everyone started chattering away, one after the other, Rita suddenly received a phone call. Her face lightened with joy as she squealed, “What, sister? You have already arrived at the airport? Didn’t you say that you will not be able to make it back for grandma’s birthday? Ahh? Okay! Okay! Okay! I will come and pick you right now!”Hanging up right away, Rita said, “Grandma, my sister will be arriving in a bit. She came back all the way from M country and she is already waiting at the airport now!”“Oh that child, Cara...alright. I knew that she would definitely be back…” The old lady smiled as she immediately said: “Then Mason…Mason you can go and pick Cara up! You may go alone. I want Queenie to stay and accompany me.”“Okay, grandma!”Mason smiled as he waved, clutching the BMW sports car key in his hand before quickly excusing himself.Mila’s face was clouded with disappointment.Cara was Rita’s sister.Ever since childhood, Mila had always had the best relationship wit
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When Gerald walked over, the entire Smith family was already gathered here.Concurrently, Mason was explaining the situation:“Dad, I really didn’t mean it. This is all this security guard’s fault! I was relying on his directions and he kept telling me to reverse. That’s when I crashed into the car!”“This car is the most expensive car produced by Lamborghini. It will cost at least a hundred to a hundred and twenty thousand dollars to fix the damages caused by this accident. Plus, the car’s front lamps are already broken!”Some of the relatives who recognized this car could not help but exclaim out loud.“Whoever is driving this car is definitely not just anybody. We can definitely afford to pay that price to fix the damages. But we might also be offending a very powerful figure. On top of that, this looks like it’s a new car that someone just bought!”“Just think about it. In Mayberry City, which son of which wealthy and influential family would be able to drive this kind of spo
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After saying that, Gerald walked up to the car to take a look.He would be lying if he said that he wasn’t distressed at the sight of his broken car at all.Moreover, what could he possibly do now? What has happened, has happened. Plus it was Mila’s grandmother’s birthday banquet today.If he demanded them to pay for the damages incurred, what would it make Mila look like?Besides that, it was also have been too embarrassing. Out of no choice, he was left to bottle his bitter sufferings in silence.And with that, Gerald could only ask them to carry on whatever they were doing. He could perhaps later on drive his car to the 4S shop to fix the damages.“Who do you think you are? Do you think that everything will be okay just because you say that it’s okay?”“Those who don’t know any better would actually think that you are actually Mr. Crawford from Mayberry Commercial Street. Let’s only talk about all these when you finally reach that point in life!”“Exactly! If we leave righ
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Two million six hundred thousand dollars!What kind of status was this?Impossible!Irene rushed over to the car before she unceremoniously flipped out the car driving permit.“Snap!”Upon looking at the permit, Irene froze as she dropped the car driving permit to the ground.She was dumbfounded.“If you don’t want to look at it, just don’t look at it. Why do you have to throw it on the ground?”Gerald could not help but smiled wryly.“Some people do not have any knowledge or experience. Likewise, her father and mother too. They do not have any knowledge or experience in this at all. Gerald, why don’t you tell auntie how you met our Mila?”Helen quickly ran over to pick up the car driving permit before glancing at it. She then grabbed Gerald’s wrist the next immediately second..She started acting very cordially as though she was holding her own son’s hand.“Oh, auntie. We met when we were learning how to drive!”Gerald replied.“Hahaha. I knew all along that our Mila has
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Gerald felt his heart skip a beat when he heard the cry for help.He hastily rushed over. The moat was pretty desolate as there were no parks or anything else nearby.The woman was crying and she was drenched from head to toe.When she saw Gerald, she almost collapsed to her knees. “Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! Please help save my daughter!”The woman was beautiful and appeared to be wearing a lot of fine jewelry. It seemed as though she was quite a figure.She hurriedly pointed at the river and Gerald could see a young girl flailing about in the water.Her daughter had obviously tripped into the water. The woman tried to rescue her daughter but she could only plead desperately for help as she didn’t know how to swim.Gerald watched in horror as the young girl’s body slowly stopped moving and started sinking.He knew that it would be way too late if he did not act upon it now.Without thinking twice, he dove into the river at an accelerated speed.Gerald’s family used to live in a
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Gerald looked around everywhere but he could not find her at all. Plus, his phone had died again.In just about an hour of searching, he was now drenched in sweat.Mila came out with him. Could something have happened to her? Gerald had already ruled out all of the possibilities and had already been waiting around the area for such a long time.But he still couldn’t see Mila anywhere at all.The more he thought about it, the more Gerald started to break out in cold sweat.Gerald decided to return to the car shop to see if he could get his cell phone to turn on.After fiddling with it for a while, he finally managed to turn on his cell phone.As expected, Mila did indeed make many phone calls and sent many text messages to him.However, his cell phone had been turned off at that time.Gerald hurriedly returned her call but he realized that Mila’s cell phone was already turned off.What was happening?Gerald couldn’t remain his composure any longer.He tried calling Mila’s ho