Son-in-law From Rags to Riches

Chapter 5 Online Money Transaction 

Joshua went to the gate of the community, stopped a taxi, and went straight to Maple Properties. 

Tomorrow, he would officially be the CEO of Maple Properties. He planned to come in advance today to familiarize himself. 

Joshua turned on his phone and sent Alfred a line message, saying that he was on his way to Maple Properties. 

Alfred replied that he would arrange for someone to pick Joshua up. 

Meanwhile, Joshua received a notification from Line. It was from a group chat formed by his high school classmates. 

It was sent by Quinn Lowell, the monitor back in high school. 

“Everyone, heads-up! i’d like to invite everyone to a gathering tonight. The dinner will be at Golden Gate Hotel. My treat. Tell me now if you can show up tonight! Our class teacher, Mr. Ruskin, will also be there!” 

A bunch of people replied, 

“Golden Gate Hotel is the best hotel in New York. A meal there costs a lot!” 

“Quinn, you’re so badass! I’ll be there!” 

“Count me in!” 

Quinn looked at the messages and couldn’t help but feel smug. He took a photo of his office and sent it to the group. 

He then texted, “Well, I’m usually busy with work. It’s so boring staying in the office every day. I want to spend more time with everyone to relax. I miss you guys!” 

It was obvious that he was putting on airs, but some people still replied and buttered 

him up. 

“What a lavish desk! I’m envious!” 

“I heard that Quinn works as a personnel manager in a big company with an annual salary of around 80 thousand dollars!” 

Their teacher, Frank Ruskin, also joined the conversation. He said, “Ouinn is young and capable Everyone, you should learn from him!” 

Quinn pretended to be modest. “Thank you, Mr. Ruskin! In the future, everyone, if you have any difficulties, come to me. As classmates, we should help each other!” 

People continued to flatter Quinn up. 

Suddenly, someone in the group asked, “Why has Joshua kept silent? Isn’t he in the 

group?” 

“Joshua? The pauper who couldn’t afford the tuition fees? He used to eat rotten apples thrown by others when he was at school!” 

“He ate rotten apples back then, and after he graduated, he became someone’s live-in son-in-law who has lived off others!” 

“He is just a cheap pushover!” 

“A few days ago, I heard that he borrowed money everywhere and said that his sister had a car accident and was hospitalized. Everyone, be on your guard. Don’t be fooled!” 

“Even if I have money, I won’t lend him any!” 

Joshua saw their text messages. 

But Joshua did not care. 

After all, he did not have much interaction with them back in school. 

So, why should he care about their comments? 

Not many in the group knew he was in the group anyway. 

He might as well withdraw from a crappy group like this. 

our class was ruined because of him, the loser! I felt so ashamed! Back then, he stole other people’s money and did a bunch of despicable things!

Joshua frowned. 

they wanted about him, but not

Quinn and Joshua had

they were

family background, his classmates looked down on

his desk mate, Leah Reed, was close to him.

many boys in school had feelings for her. Quinn was one of

rejected all of them and hinted at Joshua

the same for her as well, but because he was too poor, he thought that she was out of his league, and he had to bury his feelings.

Joshua as his love

class, Quinn saw that there was no one in the class, so he stole money from Leah’s

that her money was lost and

to

was seen as a thief!

matter caused an uproar.

his

gradually grew apart from Joshua because of

a bad student with improper behavior, so they targeted him and picked on him. They kicked him out of the classroom,

from their dorms, and Joshua was the first to be suspected.

forced to apologize in front of

students! 

utterly

that he was there to study.

all the grievances and unfairness,

their fingers

Joshua recalled the past, those things that happened were still vivid in his mind.

since you provoke me actively, don’t

knew that one of the functions the group chat had was to transfer money to others online. Therefore, he transferred 3 thousand dollars in total to the group, and among the sixty people in the group, the first twenty people who clicked the link

would automatically send a line of words, “Quinn

“OK” and transferred

in the group saw the link, and they clicked on it

is a

a dumbass!”

a dumbass!”

words flooded

also one

a dumbass!”

got a

saw the words. His eyes immediately widened. Quinn realized that someone

message his phone sent automatically and mentioned Joshua

the money were stunned

were 3 thousand dollars in total, and twenty of them shared

luckiest one among them got more than

received the least amount of

receiving money felt good, Quinn was the class monitor after all. The others didn’t dare to offend him, so, they withdrew the text messages

was someone who didn’t react so quickly. Therefore, there were still around eight lines of “Quinn is a dumbass!” on

everyone could tell that someone was

one knew who

And the words this time

immediately flooded people’s

“I’m Quinn’s father!” 

“I’m Quinn’s father!” 

“I’m Quinn’s father!” 

and continued to mention Joshua, “Who the fuck are you? You are risking

the words

big shot in the group

were just onlookers, and no one would

teacher, Frank, became a

words continued to flood everyone’s screen.