A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 1040 The Long-Awaited Meeting with Ye Fan

Han could sense the emotions hidden beneath Ye Fan's words.

"Young Master, there has been a misunderstanding. Our Master truly cares for you. You have no idea what he did when he found out what had happened to you..."

"Stop right there. I told you. I'm not interested in what you have to say about him." Ye Fan interrupted Han abruptly.

Ye Fan didn't want to know at all. He didn't care.

He didn't have the time or energy.

They had cut all ties the moment that Ye Fan and his mother had been expelled from the Chu family.

Perhaps Han had been right. His father had had his reasons.

Perhaps he still cared for Ye Fan and his mother.

So what?

Ye Fan couldn't imagine anything so important that one would choose that above his own wife and son.

"Did anything happen at Dragon God Hall in the past month?" Ye Fan's attention quickly turned to other matters.

"No," Han reported dutifully. "I told the martial artists in Dragon God Hall to hide themselves after you were declared dead. They didn't attract the attention of the Chu family. You should take a look at what's going on in Jiangdong though, Young Master. Chu Zheng-Liang seemed to have sent someone to interfere with matters in Jiangdong. I'm worried that they might do something to your friends."

"He wouldn't dare." A frosty look settled on Ye Fan's face when he heard what Han had just said.

The temperature in the room plummeted suddenly. It seemed as if winter had arrived.

A murderous aura filled the room and its source was Ye Fan.

The miles that separated them didn't prevent Han from sensing the fury in Ye Fan's words.

Everyone had people dear to them whom they would fight fiercely to protect.

Qiu Mu-Cheng and Ye Xi-Mei were those people for Ye Fan. Harming them meant incurring his wrath.

"Young Master, please don't get upset. It's all guesswork. I don't know for sure at all. What they want is you. I don't think they'll go after Miss Qiu and the others," said Han hastily as he tried to prevent Ye Fan from worrying too much about the situation in Jiangdong.

"I would hope so. If I find out that they tried to touch Mu-Cheng, I'm going to make sure that they die a horrible death."

Ye Fan's voice was cold and hard like a glacier. There was no hint of emotion in his voice, only an endless freezing cold and the promise of pain and violence.

His threatening words sent fear coursing through Han's blood.

He couldn't imagine the intensity of the rage that his Young Master must be feeling for him to speak such words.

"If there's nothing else, I'll end the call now. As for Operation Sparks, you are to stand by and wait for my further instructions," said Ye Fan before ending the call. He called Qiu Mu-Cheng next.

Despite repeated calls, he couldn't get through. Her phone was turned off.

"What's going on? Why would Mu-Cheng turn her phone off? Has something happened?" Ye Fan frowned. Unease churned inside him. "I have to go back and take a look."

Worried about what was going on, Ye Fan decided right there and then that he would leave the military camp and return to Yunzhou.

He left the room and walked into Li Zi-Yang. The latter had two chubby young men following him.

The two young men froze when they saw Ye Fan.

"You're...you're...are you Mr Chu?"

Jin Bao and Yin Bao stared unblinkingly at the man before them. It was as if they were staring at a ghost.

The news of Ye Fan's death had spread like wildfire across Jiangdong.

Jin Bao and Yin Bao had believed the news and had thought that Ye Fan had died.

They did not expect to find the man who everyone had thought dead standing in front of them.

Ye Fan looked at them.

"Are you Jin Bao and Yin Bao? Li Er's men?" asked Ye Fan quietly.

He remembered these young punks vaguely, so it didn't take him long to recognize them.

Any doubts that Jin Bao and Yin Bao had vanished without a trace when they heard what Ye Fan had said.

With a loud thud, they fell to their knees, wrapped their arms around Ye Fan's legs and burst out into tears.

"Mr Chu! It's really you! You're not dead. That's wonderful! Master Er and the both of us thought you were dead. You have no idea how messed up Jiangdong has become in your absence!"

Caught between laughing and weeping with joy, the two brothers babbled without stopping, their voices shaking and brimming with emotion as they rambled.

"Come on, get a hold of yourselves. People seeing you are going to think that you've just reunited with your long-lost father. Get up right now. You're dirtying Instructor Chu's clothes." Li Zi-Yang felt embarrassed.

Why had his father taken in these useless creatures?

It took a long while before Jin Bao and Yin Bao finally calmed down.

"Come on, tell me why you're here," asked Ye Fan after he had led them into his room and had them sit down. He had a few questions of his own for them as well.

"Mr Chu, Master Er sent us."

Like Lei San, Li Er had made plans for his son. He had sent Jin Bao and Yin Bao to deliver a letter to Li Zi-Yang. In the letter, he had told his son not to return to Yunzhou in the short term.

In addition, he had gotten the brothers to hand Li Zi-Yang a huge bunch of keys. There were more than a hundred of those keys.

If anything were to happen to the Li family in Jiangdong, Li Zi-Yang was to take these keys and head for the south.

Li Er had bought a few hundred houses in the south.

If Li Zi-Yang found the military unbearable, he could always head to the south and making a living by renting out those properties.

He wouldn't have to do anything else. Rental alone would earn him tens of millions of dollars every year.

Li Zi-Yang's face had paled when he had received his father's message.

It had sounded like a man's last words.

A worried Li Zi-Yang had questioned Jin Bao what had happened.

He had been undergoing intensive training during this period and had been oblivious to what had been going on outside the military camp.

The answers that he had gotten had shocked him.

Everyone outside the military thought that Ye Fan was dead.

Li Zi-Yang had told the brothers that Mr Chu wasn't dead and that he was alive and well in the military camp. Then, he had brought them to see Ye Fan. Having explained the reason for their being here, Jin Bao and Yin Bao told Ye Fan the recent spate of events that had taken place in Jiangdong.

"Mr Chu, Lu Ming-Feng and Xur Shao-Hua think they can do whatever they want because they come from powerful families. They've been pushing everyone around. A few days ago, they destroyed Mufan Group, the company that you've worked so hard to build. They acquired all the businesses under Mufan Group's name. They're going to host a Feast of the Sea and Sky at the Haiyuan Restaurant tomorrow. It seems like they're planning on taking over as the leader of Jiangdong. Master Er and the others wanted to fight back and protect Mufan Group but they were outnumbered. There was nothing they could do."