A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 1023 A Strange Night

All they lacked now was Old Madam Chu's prescription.

Ye Fan returned to the old Chu family home two days later. Besides practicing Dragon God Body with Yu Yun, he had another reason for returning to the place. He wanted to ask Old Madam Chu about her progress with the prescription.

"Hm? No one seems to be around..." Slight confusion arose inside Ye Fan after he yelled repeatedly for someone and received no reply.

Were they out?

As suspicion and doubt gradually unfurled inside Ye Fan, he heard a series of hacking coughs erupting from a distant corner of the house.

"That sounds like Yu Yun." Ye Fan stared in the direction where the coughs had come. Thick billows of smoke were coming out from the kitchen.

"What has that young lady gotten herself into?" Ye Fan's face darkened instantly. He covered his nose and mouth and charged into kitchen, only to have Yu Yun rush headfirst into his arms as she dashed out of the kitchen.

"What the hell were you up to inside? Why is there so much smoke?"

Any ordinary man would have been visibly affected if he had a beautiful woman fall into his arms.

But Ye Fan wasn't. He shoved Yu Yun aside instantly and yelled at her instead.

This wasn't the first time they had had bodily contact. They had to keep their backs against the other when they practiced Dragon God Body.

Ye Fan had grown used to the touch of Yu Yun's skin.

At present, he was more concerned about the smoke billowing from the kitchen.

"Granny's not around. I thought I could cook something for her. I can't seem to get a fire started though. All I get is smoke." Yu Yun seemed to realize that she had made a mess of things. She sounded a lot more subdued than her usual self.

Ashes had blackened her fair cheeks.

She looked ridiculous.

Ye Fan couldn't help himself and burst out laughing.

"Why are you laughing? This isn't the time forthat. Hurry up and take a look inside. Granny's going to yell at me if she sees the mess in the kitchen." Ye Fan's brazen laughter at her misfortune had Yu Yun fuming.

Yu Yun's anxious urging left Ye Fan with no choice but to charge into the smoky kitchen. It didn't take him long to fix her problem.

The thick smoke that had been billowing out from underneath the stove had vanished. In its place was a fire.

"How did you get the fire going? I couldn't get one started no matter what I tried," asked Yu Yun with a mix of surprise and confusion as she stared at Ye Fan with a face stained with ash and dust.

Ye Fan smirked. "Starting a fire is a difficult and precise art. You're not smart enough.

Don't bother trying."

"What did you just say?" Yu Yun flushed with anger.

The scoundrel had just called her an idiot again.

He had called her an idiot when she had first begun learning swordplay and he had just done it again.

She was a well-respected figure with great influence. No one had spoken to her in such a disrespectful manner before.

Yet here was Ye Fan, mocking her and embarrassing her repeatedly, as if she had no dignity or pride to uphold.

Yu Yun wished so badly to cut him down with her sword.

But they had spent sufficient time together for Ye Fan to know that Yu Yun would never do that. Her raising her sword angrily at him was simply for show. She was just trying to preserve a veneer of her pride. She wouldn't hurt him.

"I think you should get your face cleaned before you try to hack me to pieces. Your face is the color of burnt charcoal. You can help serve the dishes once you're done cleaning yourself," said Ye Fan with a warm smile.

Yu Yun yelled angrily at him. "You asshole, why didn't you tell me sooner?"

She charged out of the kitchen in a fit of anger and embarrassment.

Ye Fan laughed and shook his head as he watched Yu Yun make a frantic escape. She seemed so silly and endearing.

But he knew that Yu Yun wasn't going to remain this way for long.

He could sense very clearly that Yu Yun's power had been increasing rapidly during the course of their training.

She was different. The Yin Dragon Body inside her gave her healing abilities that far surpassed Ye Fan's.

Her injuries would recover a lot sooner than Ye Fan's too.

The moment when Yu Yun resumed her full strength would be the moment when her former cold and formidable self reappeared. Ye Fan did not doubt that at all.

She would become a fearsome creature who inspired awe and terror.

She would no longer be the silly and endearing young woman she was now.

As Ye Fan sighed exasperatedly about what was to come, Yu Yun had changed into a fresh set of clothes and appeared before him again.

He had whipped up a few dishes by then and told Yu Yun to serve the dishes.

"I tried them. They might not be as salty as you prefer your food to be. You can add a little salt to the dishes if you want. It's in the medicinal cabinet by the door. Look for the white bottle in the drawer on the left. Remember, it's the white bottle, not the red one. Don't get them mixed up. Not the red one, remember!" Ye Fan said repeatedly.

They had used up the salt that had been kept in the kitchen. But there was more in the medicinal cabinet. That was why Ye Fan had told Yu Yun to look for more salt there.

The cabinet was filled to the brim. Many of the items inside were medicines and potions that the old lady had brewed.

She kept everything well organized and even went to the extent of using differently colored bottles for different types of medicines and potions.

It was almost impossible to mistake one thing for something else.

"Alright! I heard you just fine the first time!" yelled Yu Yun angrily.

It was just salt. Ye Fan didn't have to keep reminding her what it looked like.

She wasn't a complete idiot.

"That asshole. He thinks I can't do anything right," muttered Yu Yun angrily to herself.

She placed the dishes on the table and couldn't resist the temptation to try a few bites.

The food was delicious, but it did lack some flavor.

Yu Yun went into search for some salt.

"The cabinet next to the door...the drawer on the left...a bottle that's white...or red? Red or white? Which one is it?"

She had been busy fuming at Ye Fan and had forgotten the color of the bottle that she was meant to get.

She knew how to solve her problem though.

She simply needed to have a little taste.

Yu Yun reached out for the bottle that was nearer her and snapped the lid open. Then, she poured its contents onto her palm and licked it. "Salty. This must be the one."

Yu Yun was certain that she was right. She sprinkled the crystalline grains onto the dishes and mixed them with the food.

It didn't take long before Ye Fan was done cooking the rice.

Everything was ready, but Old Madam Chu was nowhere to be found.

Yu Yun couldn't wait any longer but Ye Fan insisted on waiting for the old lady's return.

After a few minutes, they spotted Old Madam Chu with a basket of herbs on her back. She seemed to have rushed home in a hurry.

"You're back, Fan. Go ahead and eat without me. I just got an idea for the prescription and I need to work on it now," said the old lady before she rushed off into her room to start work on her prescription. "Alright." Ye Fan nodded. He was about to start eating when he realized that Yu Yun was already gobbling everything up hungrily.

"Hey, have a heart and leave me something to eat too, won't you? You're eating all the meat!" Ye Fan's face darkened instantly. He picked up his chopsticks hurriedly and began fighting Yu Yun for the rest of the food.

He wasn't sure why everything seemed to taste so much better tonight.

"Have my culinary skills improved?" Ye Fan wondered secretly.

After the meal, Ye Fan was suddenly struck by how warm the weather was. He took a shower and changed into a fresh set of clothes. Then, he headed to Yu Yun's room like he usually did to continue their Dragon God Body training.

"This is strange. The weather's awfully warm today. Yu Yun, could you open the windows?"

Ye Fan had taken his shirt off. Beads of sweat rolled down the sides of his forehead as he sat bare-chested and blindfolded on the bed.

Yu Yun had not climbed onto the bed. She had just removed her dress.