A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 1294 Are You Sure You Don't Want It?

The clouds roiled in the skies above the island.

A grandmaster hovered in the heavens.

Winds howled around her as the sword in her hand hummed with power.

Within the storm, the grandmaster stood and beneath her robes, hid her slender form that shook violently as she heaved heavily.

Ye Fan's earlier disruption and theft had not caused her this much distress.

She could not have foreseen that the scoundrel who had sneaked up on her and attacked her had been him.

She had not expected their union, after their hasty parting, would be under such circumstances.

How could anyone understand the emotional turmoil that she was experiencing right now?

Waves of fear, shock and even joy flooded her while greater waves of fury and hate threatened to overwhelm her.

"Thatjerk! He brings nothing buttrouble!"

The young woman bristled with anger and annoyance. She was ready to dice him up into tiny bits.

Despite her murderous thoughts, Yu Yun appeared to change her mind at the last moment before her attack landed on Ye Fan.

With a thought, the course of the attack shifted minutely and the attack glanced past Ye Fan like a forceful gust of wind.

Ye Fan had steeled himself for his enemy's attack and was stunned when it missed him.

"How could it miss? It seems that the heavens are on my side!" Ye Fan was elated. He truly thought that he had been blessed by the gods and thus had escaped unscathed. Without saying a word, he continued his attempt to escape.

His elation did not last long.

A loud, clear sound rang out.

A slap from the cloaked figure on his cheek sent Ye Fan flying into the distance.

He had not expected to be hit by a slap to the face after missing an attack from his enemy's sword.

This wasn't a bad thing though.

Even though the slap had sounded rather loud, it had not hurt that much. Besides the red mark on his face, Ye Fan did not suffer any injury.

He got to his feet immediately and plastered a sheepish smile on his face.

"Esteemed senior, I'm terribly sorry for what I did earlier, but honestly, we bear no strong grudge against each other. This ice spirit fruit really means a lot to me. I really need it. Please allow me to have it. I promise to make it up to you in the future," said Ye Fan with the utmost respect as he tried his best not to anger the person before him.

Ye Fan had no intention of handing the ice spirit fruit over to the cloaked figure even though the latter had caught up with him.

He would rather thrash it out with the latter.

He wouldn't be Ye Fan if he were so easily cowed by a stronger opponent.

"You could've just taken the fruit. Why did you ambush me? Were you planning to kill me?" The furious voice of a young woman emerged from beneath the dark veil.

Her fingers curled into fists.

The thought of what had happened earlier sent her trembling with rage.

She had been minding her own business and training in silence. It had been infuriating that someone had interrupted her training and stolen her treasure, but what had made that worse had been the ambush that had injured her seriously.

If it hadn't been Ye Fan but someone else who had committed the crime, she would have ripped the person apart.

Even though she had managed to recognize the young man for whom he was, she had still given him a tight slap for what he had done to her.

That was the only way to appease her fury.

He had gone too far, after all.

What a shameless scoundrel!

This was no better than the time he stole her clothes when she had been in the middle of training.

"Well..."

Ye Fan appeared slightly abashed when confronted by his victim and her interrogation.

He scratched his head, then smiled sheepishly.

"Senior, it was an act of self-preservation. I was forced to attack you. You are way more powerful than me. You would have caught up with me and killed me if I'd simply stolen the fruit and run. To ensure that I could get away, I had no choice but to injure you and boost my chances of success. I swear that I did it only to save myself. I had no intention of killing you. If I wanted you dead, I would have struck you on you head and not in the chest."

"Silence!" It was then that the cloaked young woman realized that Ye Fan had laid his hands on her chest. She was mortified.

His explanation did placate her slightly though.

The scoundrel did have a heart.

If she had found out that he had genuinely tried to kill her, she wouldn't let him off that easily.

"Seems like we can't avoid a fight, after all. Well, I guess the gods will decide whether I live or die today. Esteemed senior, please make your move."

Ye Fan could sense from the cloaked figure's furious tone that he wasn't going to walk away from this without a fight.

He had no other choice but to battle.

The look in his eyes grew cold.

Endless power gathered in his body and coursed through his veins.

He was as tense as a bowstring that had been drawn to the fullest, ready to release an arrow and fire a lethal shot any moment.

Ye Fan got ready for a fight to the death. But to his surprise, the young woman before him turned away and waved her hand casually. "Take the ice spirit fruit and get out of my sight before I change my mind. I'm going to pretend that I never caught up with you."

Despite the fury simmering inside her, she had decided to let Ye Fan leave with the treasure.

What had she done in this life to warrant such bad karma? Knowing this shameless scoundrel was the most unfortunate thing that had happened to her.

The young woman had her back towards Ye Fan. She appeared extremely agitated.

Her tone betrayed hints of exasperation and anger, emotions which her usual calm and distant self rarely displayed.

"Wait, what?" Ye Fan froze. For a moment or so, he wondered if he had misheard her. "Are you sure you really don't want this ice spirit fruit?"

The young woman before him must be crazy.

This was a millenary ice spirit fruit, a treasure so rare that one had to thank the gods if he were to come across one.

A single millenary ice spirit fruit could cause a commotion across the entire martial arts circle and start a war amongst countless supreme grandmasters.

Yet, this young woman was letting him have it even though she could clearly take him in a fight.

Something wasn't right here. Something clearly wasn't right here.

"Is this a trap?" asked Ye Fan uncertainly after a moment of hesitation. He had a feeling that the young woman was trying to trick him.

"Get out of here before I kill you!" the young woman shot back as she stomped her foot. She was going to go crazy.

She had kindly decided to let him go. She couldn't believe how this ingrate was doubting her good intentions.

What a scoundrel! Did he truly believe that everyone was as shameless as he was?

With a flip of her sleeve, the young woman sent the winds lashing and dirt and leaves flying into the air. A gust of wind rushed across the heavens.

Ye Fan stared in both shock and suspicion at the cloaked figure before him.

Her thick robes fluttered wildly in the wind and failed to hide her lovely curves.

The veil obscuring her face couldn't hide her beauty.

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