Chapter 2 Ten Million Dollars

"All right. Since you're the richest man in the world, why don't you transfer a hundred thousand dollars to me right now?"

Garry felt helpless upon hearing what his father said.

His father was almost forty years ago, and yet he was so childish and like bragging.

Garry's father remained silent for a while.

Garry knew that his father was poor and unable to give him a hundred thousand dollars.

Just as Garry was about to change the topic and smooth things over, his father sighed.

"Garry, it's all my fault. You have lived a poor life for eighteen years, and now you don't dare to ask for money. This is a bad habit and you need to unlearn it. A hundred thousand dollars is nothing to us. I'll transfer ten million to you as a small birthday gift."

After saying that, Garry's father hung up the phone.

Garry shook his head and smiled bitterly. "I can't believe it! Dad is becoming better and better at bragging. He sounded like a hundred thousand dollars is a small amount."

At this moment, his phone buzzed and he got a notification from the bank.

His eyes widened in disbelief as he looked at the message on his phone screen displaying the notification that a hundred thousand dollars had been transferred to his bank account.

"No way! This must be some scam!" Garry took a deep breath, his heart beating wildly in his chest.

"Wait! Maybe this is real!"

Thinking of this, Garry became excited and immediately found an ATM.

He inserted his bank card and input the PIN. The balance of his bank account appeared on the screen.

"A-a hundred thousand dollars! This is real!"

Garry was so nervous that his lips trembled. His hands and legs were shaking uncontrollably.

He was frightened; he had never seen such a large amount of money since he was a child.

"Oh no! Did Dad steal the money from somewhere? This is a large sum of money! Will he stay in jail for the rest of his life?"

Garry found a quiet corner where no one else was around before calling his father.

As soon as the call connected, he cried with red eyes, "Dad, where did you get the money? Did you break the law?"

His father laughed at the other hand of the line. "Ha-ha! Your reaction is the same as mine when I first found out our family was rich. Garry, trust me. Our family is indeed rich!"

Then, his father filled him in on a lot of information about their family businesses, but Garry could barely absorb any of it.

While listening to his father, Garry's mind was a mess.

"The Smith family has been around for hundreds of years. Its businesses encompass many fields, such as communications and information technology, engineering, materials, services, energy, mining, and chemical products. It has more than 100 operating companies and offices under its banner, and its industries have expanded to all continents and countries in the world.

There is a rule in our family that children must live a poor life before eighteen years old, so I didn't tell you the truth.

I will go to Lingate to meet you soon. Right now, I have to go to the Middle East to talk about an investment worth tens of billions of dollars. Got to go!"

After his father hung up the phone, Garry stared at the phone in his hand in a daze.

A long time had passed, and he finally came back to his senses.

"Fuck! My father is the richest man in the world! I won't need to eat cheap food every day. I will eat bread with lobsters! Wait! Why am I still thinking of eating bread?"

After a while, Garry finally cooled down. Larson's hateful face appeared in his mind.

"Larson Foster! How will you react when you know I am rich now?"

Garry charged inside the dorm building like he was on a mission.

However, Larson hadn't come back yet.

Another roommate, Clayton Stanley, waved at him when he saw Garry. "Have you heard of that?"

"What?" Garry was confused.

"I have some good news for you! Larson's family called him just now. It looks like his family has gone bankrupt and that they owe the bank a lot of money. He originally came from money and now he's just some poor guy."

"Larson's family is now bankrupt?" Garry asked in disbelief.

"Yup, that's right." It looked like Clayton was taking a lot of pleasure in Larson's unfortunate circumstances. "Let's see if he's still so arrogant in the future."

After sharing this bit of gossip, Clayton no longer wanted to have anything to do with Garry, the famous poor guy from their class, so he left the dorm room after reminding Garry that they had classes this afternoon.

Garry stood there, flabbergasted. Today was such a good day that good news came one after another.

His phone chimed with an incoming call right then.

He took it out of his pocket and saw on the screen that it was an unknown number.

Garry answered it suspiciously and he could hear a strange but kind voice coming from the other end of the line.

"Mr. Smith, I just want to introduce myself. I'm Allard Hewitt, the new butler to the Smith family."

"Allard Hewitt?" Garry remembered his father saying something about Allard contacting him soon.

"Yes, sir. Are you happy with the gift?"

"What gift?" After a while, it finally all clicked in Garry's mind. "Were you the one who made Larson's family go bankrupt?"

"Yes. It was my doing," Allard said in a calm voice. "Since Larson dared to go up against you, I made his father go bankrupt as revenge."

Garry was shocked to the core. He had no clue that his family was so awesomely powerful.

Allard was so efficient!

This was the first time that Garry realized just how powerful his family was.