A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 1238 Put on Airs

Ye Fan continued to shake his head as he took a sip of the tea that had been specially provided on board. He smiled and replied, "What powerful family? I'm an ordinary person, and my mother is from a farming family. I grew up in the village and stumbled on martial arts by chance. I've attained my achievements today because I was just lucky."

Ye Fan didn't hide any of this and just told them about his background. There was no need to hide anyway. None of this was embarrassing.

Ye Fan had never thought that his background was anything to be ashamed of or something that should not be talked about.

Since they wanted to know, Ye Fan just told them the truth.

"A farmer's kid?" Lv Hua frowned.

"You're from the village?" Lu Yan-Xi was also surprised. "Ye Fan, are you joking with us? If you don't have any connections or background, why would War God Castle get us to bring you along and broaden your horizons?" Lu Yan-Xi was a little doubtful of his words.

Ye Fan shrugged and replied, "Why should I joke with you? I suppose I've been asked to join this mission because of the power that I possess. You'd need me in order to get the spirit energy fruit. You'd also need me to protect all of you and come back safely. Otherwise, the three of you will probably perish." Ye Fan spoke calmly, but the arrogance in his tone was especially apparent.

Lv Hua couldn't believe what he was hearing. "You?! The power you possess? And you even claim to be able to protect us? You're just a young punk! Even if you started learning martial arts in your mother's womb, how powerful could you possibly be? You're so young, but you're really boastful! Good god! Why did War God Castle let you join the team?!"

Lv Hua rolled his eyes at Ye Fan and ignored him after that. He turned and walked away to sit in front instead.

After finding out that Ye Fan had no background and was just a country bumpkin, Lv Hua wasn't interested in him anymore.

He had been so nice and friendly earlier only because he was afraid that Ye Fan had a powerful and influential backer.

But quite apparently, they were very mistaken.

This fellow was of such a lowly birth, but he was such a narcissistic idiot.

Lu Yan-Xi also looked unhappily at Ye Fan. The arrogant words that Ye Fan said earlier had repulsed her.

If someone like Kong Ming had said those things, Lv Hua and Lu Yan-Xi wouldn't have found it inappropriate. But since these were declared by a young brat like Ye Fan, they weren't going to accept it. "Once we reach South America, you'd better keep away this arrogant personality of yours. If you end up offending someone out there, don't blame us if we just leave you in the lurch!" warned Lu Yan-Xi very sternly before turning to sit with Lv Hua as well.

Kong Ming didn't say anything. He just shook his head disappointedly, then went back to sleeping.

All of them now left Ye Fan all by himself and completely ignored him, even though they were chatting so happily with him just moments ago.

Ye Fan just laughed bitterly.

It didn't matter whether it was the mundane world or the martial arts world. Both sides couldn't get rid of their instinct to gravitate only towards those who were rich and powerful.

Ye Fan didn't bother saying anymore either.

Since nobody wanted to talk to him, Ye Fan wasn't going to talk to them either.

"Good heavens, so much for thinking that Ye Fan might be a descendant of the God of War. He actually turned out to be a countryside louse!

"He can't be that bad. He's of rather lowly birth, but I think he should still be pretty skilled, otherwise those chief military instructors wouldn't have lost to him." Lu Yan-Xi didn't have a good impression of Ye Fan, but she still remembered what her father told her before she left the house.

"Are you talking about people like Han Ping and Zhu Rong? Those people merely have a good reputation for fighting, but none of them can truly fight. Look at Han Ping -he's the nephew of Han Xian-Ren, the grandmaster at fifth place on the grandmaster ranking. But even if Han Ping has some martial arts gifting, there's no way Han Xian-Ren would want to teach a slightly distant relative everything he's learnt. These people are like rag dolls and I can defeat them easily too. Being able to defeat them doesn't mean anything."

"Besides, your father only said that these people were defeated by Ye Fan, but he didn't say what methods this punk used to gain victory. What if he actually used some underhanded methods or made a sneak attack? In any case, he's just a youngster in his early twenties, so I'm sure he's not capable of much. War God Castle has made a mistake in letting him go with us to South America!" said Lv Hua in a fairly loud voice and didn't seem afraid that Ye Fan might hear him.

Lu Yan-Xi nodded in agreement. "It is indeed rather inappropriate to allow a youngster to join the team. But since things have already come to this, there's nothing we can do. Forget it, let's not talk about these things. Lv Hua, why don't you have some fruit? My mum packed them for me."

Lu Yan-Xi fished out a box of fruits from her bag and passed it to Lv Hua.

"Elder Kong, have some too." Lu Yan-Xi passed some to Kong Ming as well.

But Lu Yan-Xi automatically left Ye Fan out.

"Oh it's delicious! You're so lucky to have a mum who dotes on you. Unfortunately mine passed away at a young age...'

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On one side, Lv Hua and the rest were chatting away happily, while Ye Fan sat by himself on the other side. He quietly looked out of the window while drinking tea and didn't look like he cared about getting close to the rest of his companions on the flight.

"This punk is pretty prideful huh," snorted Lv Hua with the shake of his head when he saw the way Ye Fan was behaving.

Lv Hua picked up the teapot to refill his cup when he realized that it didn't have any more water.

"I'll refill the pot." Lu Yan-Xi got up and was about to head for the pantry to refill the pot when Lv Hua stopped her.

"Yan-Xi, just sit here. Leave such errands to that punk, otherwise he'd really be completely useless on this trip."

Lv Hua snorted, then turned to look at Ye Fan. "Punk, come over here and refill our teapot," Lv Hua called out, but nobody responded to him.

"Hey! I'm talking to you! Didn't you hear me? Hurry up and get us more hot water!"

Lv Hua was getting rather displeased, but Ye Fan remained in his seat like he hadn't heard anything and completely ignored Lv Hua.

"Bloody hell! You're just a countryside louse and you dare to put on airs here? Are you tired of living?!"

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