A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 1009 Ready to See You

Every word Ye Fan uttered stabbed Ye Yu-Yan in the heart like a sword.

Ye Yu-Yan's face turned ghastly pale in shock as she looked at Ye Fan and attempted to explain, "Fan, my father and the others did all those things in a moment of folly. When I go back, I will persuade them to apologize. Can you..."

"Don't bother." Before Ye Yu-Yan finished her sentence, Ye Fan interrupted her, "It's hard to mend broken glass. Since it has come to this, there's no point in trying to salvage the relationship. Just let it go. Even if you try to save it, things will never go back to normal."

"But Fan..." Ye Yu-Yan wanted to keep trying, but Ye Fan had already turned around.

"Enough. If this was all you wanted to say to me, then you can leave. I am here on business, so I don't want to waste my time on unimportant things." Ye Fan spoke in a calm and deep voice, but it sounded like he was pushing Ye Yu-Yan far away from him.

Ye Yu-Yan didn't know where it came from, but she had the urge to cry.

She felt as though her heart was split open, and a sour tasting fluid was flowing from it.

Her cousin ended up refusing to forgive her.

Just like Ye Fan said, she should let it go.

Sometimes, once the opportunity was missed, it was too late to salvage the situation.

The same was true about their relationship as cousins.

If she had regarded Ye Fan with the slightest respect when they were children and didn't act so loftily, treated him with contempt, or outcast him, he might behave differently towards her now.

Ye Fan wouldn't have ended up so cold and devoid of any warmth that should have existed between cousins. They were like complete strangers now.

She genuinely regretted her actions.

"Mr Chu, the commander will see you now. This way, please."

A deep voice came from outside.

Lu Tian-He and Fang Shao-Hong beamed as they invited Ye Fan to meet the commander.

"Okay."

Ye Fan nodded and walked out with them.

Only Ye Yu-Yan remained in the room as she stood solitarily.

Despite her perfect figure and good looks, no one was around to admire it.

Just then, Fang Shao-Hong recalled something and went back.

The moment he came back to the hotel, he spotted the gorgeously dressed Ye Yu-Yan.

"Yu-Yan, why are you here? Oh, you must be here to congratulate your cousin. He is definitely getting appointed. I can't promise he will be lieutenant general, but he can at least become a major general. A 20 year old major general! My my! He is going to be the youngest major general in the history of China. In the future, your cousin will have a bright future. He might even end up becoming commander of the armed forces."

"You should be proud to have a cousin like him. You will have a meteoric rise in the army with a cousin like that around! HAHA!" Fang Shao-Hong laughed and told Ye Yu-Yan about the good news. After he was done telling her, Fang Shao-Hong went after Ye Fan and the others.

Ye Yu-Yan felt even more dejected.

Ye Yu-Yan finally realized what she had passed up back in the day.

Ye Yu-Yan was overwhelmed by regret and sadness. She watched them leave from behind with eyes red from sorrow.

"Mr Chu, don't be nervous. I think the commander merely asked to see you for formalities sake. He might have planned a dinner to welcome you," Lu Tian-He chatted with Ye Fan on their way. Ye Fan nodded. "Is it the same commander as the one I saw in Yeyang?"

Ye Fan recalled how Lu Tian-He and the others had reached out to him on the first day of the Lunar New Year and asked him to be the General military instructor.

At that time, he recalled seeing an army commander as well.

"Are you talking about Commander Rong An?"

"Commander Rong is the leader of Yanjing troops. The one we are meeting now is Jiangdong's army commander, Wu Yang. He is in charge of the special troops," explained Fang Shao-Hong. The martial arts special forces were a joint effort between Jiangdong and Yanjing, so the Jiangdong army was involved.

Moreover, training was to be conducted in Jiangdong's military base, so the person with the final say about the training instructor was in fact the Jiangdong commander, Wu Yang.

Lu Tian-He and the others were mainly in charge of making the recommendation.

Ye Fan and the others arrived at the military command center as they chatted.

However, the guard at the door stopped them.

"General Lu, one moment, please. The commander is in a meeting, and no one is to enter."

What on earth?

"What do you mean?"

"He's in a meeting?"

"Wasn't he free just a moment ago?" "Did something serious happen?" Lu Tian-He and Fang Shao-Hong were both stunned and clearly didn't realize they came at such a bad time.

But orders were orders.

Since Wu Yang forbade entry, Lu Tian-He and the others could only wait outside.

"Mr Chu, please bear with us. This is what the army is like. Meetings often suddenly take place. Sometimes in the dead of the night when we are asleep, we might suddenly get woken up. After all, military situations change rapidly, and the wellbeing of the nation is at stake. If your superior has given the order, even if you are making out with your wife, you have to get up and report to your post! We have to follow military orders without fail." Fang Shao-Hong and Lu Tian-He laughed as they explained things to Ye Fan.

Ye Fan nodded and replied calmly in all honesty, "I understand. It is a soldier's job to obey their superiors' orders. This is why I wasn't interested in joining the army."

He was accustomed to freedom and didn't like to be confined or get ordered around.

Hence, Ye Fan innately opposed the idea of a military career.

This time, if Old Madam Chu hadn't persuaded him, even if they agreed to his requests, he probably wouldn't have come.

The three of them ended up waiting for two hours.

During this time, they could faintly hear laughter coming from inside the room.

By now, the sun was already high in the sky.

Lu Tian-He checked the time and saw that it was already 1 PM.

"What is going on? Aren't they done yet? Why is this meeting taking so long? Also, are they actually having a meeting? Why do I keep hearing the sound of laughter?"

Lu Tian-He was losing patience.

After all, they had a guest with them.

It was Ye Fan's first time on the base, but he had been made to wait for so long. Even if it was an emergency meeting, it didn't look good.

Lu Tian-He kept asking the guard outside the door, but he didn't know what was going on either.

"What would a guard know? Tian-He, you two can wait here while I go in to take a look."

Fang Shao-Hong was feeling impatient as well, so he pushed the guard aside and barged right into the room.