A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 1228 Personally Apologize

"One is an ant, while the other is a dragon. Which one do you think the country would choose?" Lu Tian-He's faint laughter continued to ring in Wu Yang's ears. Sometimes, reality was cruel like this.

It wasn't always a matter of who was right and who was wrong, but which option was more beneficial.

Wu Yang was merely a military camp commander who was old fashioned, stubborn, and nearing retirement.

Ye Fan, on the other hand, was at the prime of his youth and was a pillar of the nation. He was able to lord it over a province of the country and he had a lot more potential to offer in the future.

Anybody in such a situation would definitely choose to defend Ye Fan and sacrifice Wu Yang without any hesitation.

Besides, the mess in Jiangbei didn't start with Ye Fan either. All of this started because of Wu Yang.

If Wu Yang hadn't chosen to believe those liars and allowed his subordinates to abuse the Green Dragons and force them out along with Ye Fan, none of this would have happened.

Ye Fan might have been a little extreme in attacking the three chief military instructors so savagely and allowing the Green Dragon Force to annihilate the other four special troops. But was this really Ye Fan's fault?

The other party were the ones who provoked Ye Fan first. They were the ones who said they were going destroy the Green Dragon Force and kill Ye Fan.

One could say that Ye Fan and his team were just defending themselves.

Han Ping and the rest deserved getting thrashed, and they were killed because they weren't as powerful as their attackers.

And now, Wu Yang had even hoped to use the power of the country to kill off Ye Fan.

Even an idiot would be able to see which of the two men was more important to the nation.

Why would the country stand up for Wu Yang and end up offending a powerful martial artist who was formidable enough to become a pillar of the nation?

On the contrary, the country would stop looking into Ye Fan's wrongdoings and even deal with Wu Yang in order to ingratiate themselves to Ye Fan. Nobody said this explicitly, but after Wu Yang heard the contents of this documents and what Lu Tian-He said, he understood what just happened. He had already been abandoned by the country.

But he simply couldn't understand why Ye Fan could gain such recognition from the country.

"But why?! Why is this happening? No matter how formidable that Ye Fan is, he's nothing but a youngster! I'm a commander of a military camp and I can't even compare to a youngster?!" shouted Wu Yang miserably as he shook his head profusely with bloodshot eyes.

He simply couldn't accept this conclusion.

He found it even harder to accept that his lifetime of contribution to the nation was nothing compared to this young man.

"Just because he's got brute strength? Just because he knows a few martial arts moves?! I don't accept this! I refuse to!" shouted Wu Yang as he slowly descended into madness.

The man who was reading the document earlier looked up at Wu Yang and said in a deep voice, "Wu Yang, it seems like you still have no idea what sort of person you offended before doing such a thing. Never mind the fact that you were the commander of this camp - even if you added up the might and value of the 300,000 soldiers here, you would still not be Mr Chu's equal."

"As long as Mr Chu is around, China will be safe for the next 100 years! But you are merely a blind old dog who can't even discern talent from liars. How could you even compare yourself to Mr Chu?" The man's words were icy and his frosty voice sounded furious.

The man then turned to the others who came with him and gave a low shout, "Men, take him away! Tie him up, send him to Yunzhou and make him kowtow before Mr Chu to apologize!"

All the other men immediately came forward to capture Wu Yang.

All the soldiers in the camp broke out in cold sweat and shivered.

None of them expected their commander to go from being the man leading a few hundred thousand soldiers to a man who was undergoing investigation and condemned forever.

Wu Yang knew this time that he had really been defeated. He had lost.

Life wasn't always smooth sailing after all. Not everybody could remain successful

forever.

Wu Yang had thought about the possibility of him being removed from office a long time ago.

But he never thought that this would actually happen because of a young man.

"Ye Fan, you've won! You've won..." howled Wu Yang as he looked into the sky and his tears streamed down his face.

Wu Yang didn't have any of the authoritativeness he used to have. He just looked like an old man reminiscing about his halcyon days.

The investigation team handcuffed Wu Yang and pushed him into the car headed for Yunzhou.

"Instructor Lu...oh wait, I should call you Commander Lu now. I will leave the Jiangdong military camp in your good hands. But before leaving, I would like to just leave both of you with a reminder. I wonder if you've ever thought about why the two of you were specially picked to become the commanders of Jiangdong's military camp?"

"Oh? Is there something more to this?" Lu Tian-He and Fang Shao-Hong were puzzled by these words.

The man nodded. "Of course. The higher-ups parachuted both of you here because the two of you are on better terms with Mr Chu in private. If you two take care of this camp, it will help to improve relations between this camp and Mr Chu. You know that because of Wu Yang and all those other people, Mr Chu has completely fallen out with this camp, and they're pretty much enemies now. This is not a good sign, so we hope that this situation will change under your leadership."

"Remember, Mr Chu is someone very important to China. As long as Mr Chu doesn't do anything that goes over the line, do not provoke him. Otherwise, let Wu Yang's predicament be an example to you!" said the man in a low and solemn voice as he instructed Lu Tian-He and Fang Shao-Rong carefully.

The two men paled slightly at these words.

Even though the two of them knew a bit about Ye Fan, they didn't expect the top brass to place this much importance on Ye Fan.

They had actually made them the commanders of the Jiangdong military camp just to remain on friendly terms with Ye Fan. "My goodness. Yu-Yan's cousin is really remarkable!"

Lu Tian-He's shook his head and laughed bitterly as he watched the car with Wu Yang in it drive away towards Yunzhou.

He thought that he had already placed Ye Fan at a sufficiently high position in his heart, but it seemed like he had underestimated this young man after all.

"Exactly. He could become the leader of Jiangdong at such a young age. When I first saw him, I knew that this man was definitely an ambitious one. I thought that his status as the King of Jiangdong would be greatest source of power he could fall back on. But it looks like there are other secrets that this young man is hiding," murmured Fang Shao-Hong as he looked at the car as well. There were many conflicted emotions reflected in his eyes.

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