The Secretly Rich Man

Chapter 1161

Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 1161 Even though he hadn’t even begun thinking about what the dark light—that had escaped from the blackcoffin—was, Gerald truly didn’t dare to dwell any longer on any of all this, at least not for the moment.

The stress of all this just felt like a ticking time bomb weighing on his mind.

“…Speaking of which, where’s Chester?” asked Gerald, suddenly remembering about him.

“Ah. Well, the young lord had been comatose for quite a long time as well, but he regained hisconsciousness about half a month ago. However, he suffered quite a lot of physical injuries, especiallyhis legs. Even till today, he still hasn’t been able to get out of bed,” replied one of the bodyguards.

“I see. It’s good enough for me that he survived!”

While the way Gerald and Chester had gotten acquainted was nothing short of dramatic, Geraldremembered how Chester had risked his life to protect him back when he was close to passing out.Due to his heroic actions, Gerald had felt extremely touched.

“…Also, aside from our signals, were any of you able to detect Miss Gunter’s…?” asked Gerald.

“About that… We searched for her for seven whole days and nights, but we weren’t successful inlocating her at all, Mr. Crawford!” replied the same bodyguard from before.

Upon hearing that, Gerald was immediately filled with self-reproach.

Before descending into the ocean, Gerald had made up his mind that he would protect her since hehad brought her beneath the waves with him. In the end, however, he had nearly failed to protecthimself!

Due to that, he had burdened Yume. He didn’t even know if she was currently still alive or not. If onlyshe hadn’t gone down there with him, she could have remained safe…

The thought of that made Gerald clench his fists tightly.

While he had initially thought that he could just do as he pleased with his current capabilities, in theend, it was all just a hopeless endeavor… He had just been lying to himself this entire time.

To think that a few small Dead Annies was all it took to render him incapable of fighting… If he hadn’tarranged for support above sea back then, Gerald knew that there was a high possibility that hewould’ve already died in the depths of the ocean by now.

Even so, the most pitiful person throughout this entire event had to be Yume…

‘I’m so sorry…!’ Gerald thought to himself, his expression pale.

When Jasmine saw that expression on his face, her initial joy—of him finally waking up—instantlydisappeared. In its place, an immense sense of loss began filling her heart.

‘…Why does she get to be blessed with having Gerald worry about her…? Haha! I’m pretty sure thatGerald wouldn’t be this sad if I were in her shoes…’

As Jasmine thought about that, Gerald himself was already scanning through the eternal coffin again.

No matter how much he looked at it, however, the coffin didn’t seem to be fake.

‘…Then… perhaps I really did save the woman in white…? The problems just keep adding to the pile…Regardless, it seems that grandpa knew about the origins of the Dead Annie flowers… Once I meet upwith him, I’m sure I’ll be able to understand more about its mysteries…’

‘Speaking of grandpa, since a month and a half has already passed, he and the other legends shouldhave long started their journey to the pledge of the holy water… I wonder how they’re all doing…’

‘Regardless, while I had initially promised to meet up with grandpa and the others once I located thewoman in white’s corpse, I don’t even know where her body has gone now…’

His train of thought was cut short when miserable screams of bodyguards could suddenly be heardoutside the manor!

Seconds later, the sound of a door being smashed open could be heard!

“What on earth are you doing? Anyone without an invitation is prohibited from entering this place!”shouted Gerald as he ran out to have a look at what all the commotion was about.

Upon arriving at the scene, Gerald saw a few of his bodyguards confronting a young woman wholooked to be around twenty. The woman herself looked extremely cold and unapproachable.

Gerald also saw over ten seriously injured bodyguards—who were all clutching onto their chests—lyingon the floor.

Before he could register anything else, several of the remaining guards began rushing toward her whileshouting, “You’re courting death!”

Lifting her arm and waving her hand slightly, the bodyguards quickly found themselves flying backwardas though they were all just broken kites!

As Gerald watched his men topple all over the place, he felt his eyelids twitch rapidly as he shouted,“Step down, men!”

After getting his subordinates to stop attacking, Gerald turned to get a better look at the woman.

While the purple and black eyeshadow as well as her relatively dark lipstick made the woman lookextremely charming, that wasn’t what was on Gerald’s mind at the moment.novelbin

After all, he now knew who the woman was. She was none other than Linus’s kind-hearted niece,Queena!