A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 1399 Qiu Mu-Cheng's Painful Decision

It didn't take long for the Green Dragons to be soundly defeated by the martial artists from the Lv family.

Several blasts later, all five of them had flown out like a kite with a broken string.

They crashed heavily to the ground and kept throwing up blood.

"Haha! Qiu Mu-Cheng, how about now? Who's won now? And how's the loser now?" laughed Lv Hua merrily even though he was hurting from his earlier injuries.

The pride he had before this battle started returned to him.

"I admit that I'm not as powerful as Ye Fan, so I couldn't defeat him while he was still alive. But how could it be that the Young Master and future heir to the Lv clan would be unable to defeat him now that he's dead? I'm alive, while he's dead!" sneered Lv Hua. His words revealed the jealousy and hatred he felt towards Ye Fan.

He simply couldn't stand Ye Fan.

It wasn't only because Ye Fan had humiliated him in South America. It was more because of the standing and power that Ye Fan commanded.

What right did a lowly born man from the countryside have to enjoy such power and influence?

What right did a young hooligan have to become a supreme grandmaster and become part of War God Castle?

And what right did an ordinary looking young fellow have to marry such a beautiful and intelligent wife?

Lv Hua couldn't accept it at all. He refused to.

Ye Fan was more poorly educated, had a lowly background, and lost to him in terms of looks and charm.

But why did he have everything that Lv Hua could only dream of?

"Ye Fan, just you wait. One day, I will have all the power, strength and women that you had, and I will have even more than you did! Getting your woman and your assets is only the beginning!" Lv Hua smiled mirthlessly as his fists were clenched tightly.

It was as if a fire was burning deep within his eyes.

"Men! Bring that woman back to my room so that I can have my way with her," said Lv Hua with the wave of his hand. His explicit words made Qiu Mu-Cheng pale in horror.

"Lv Hua, you're an animal! How dare you!" Li Er had more insults he wanted to hurl at Lv Hua, but someone else kicked him aside before he could say anymore.

"Where did this old geezer come from? Get lost or die!" spat one of the fighters from the Lv family before making a grab for Qiu Mu-Cheng.

"Miss Qiu, run! RUN!" shouted Li Er despite having fallen onto the ground in pain.

"Miss Qiu, run for it! Hurry!" Ye Yu-Yan and her team mates were sprawled on the ground, but they too, shouted at Qiu Mu-Cheng and told her to run, even though their lips were trembling and they were still reeling from their injuries.

But Qiu Mu-Cheng didn't seem to have heard any of their shouting. She didn't move at all.

She just stood there with despair in her eyes.

Tears seemed to gleam in her pretty eyes.

Was this her fate?

Did the heavens want her dead? Was Mufan Group, the company that she and Ye Fan set up, destined to be destroyed after all?

Qiu Mu-Cheng looked up at the sky and her tears rolled down her cheeks uncontrollably.

Even when faced with a crisis, Qiu Mu-Cheng did not run frantically, neither did she scream and cry in terror.

Just like that young man, she continued to stand quietly in the face of great danger.

She was like a tree that was rooted in the ground for eternity.

Her hair flew gently in the wind.

Her beautiful silhouette was the most beautiful scenery under these blue skies.

Anyone who saw this scene would have been blown away by this breathtaking sight.

But nobody could see the despair and defeat in Qiu Mu-Cheng's eyes.

"Wait, is Miss Qiu thinking of..." Li Er seemed to notice that there was something strange about Qiu Mu-Cheng's behavior. His heart suddenly shuddered and his face paled.

He was right. Qiu Mu-Cheng had already decided on her fate from the moment the Green Dragons were defeated.

She decided that she would not run, and she would not kneel and beg for mercy either.

She was Ye Fan's wife, the queen of Jiangdong, the lover of a pillar of the nation.

She was determined not to embarrass her beloved husband.

Even if Ye Fan had really perished, she was still going to uphold the prestige and honor that a pillar of the nation ought to have!

She suddenly pulled out a knife that she had been hiding on herself all along. Everyone watched in horror as a determination that followed a painful decision filled her heart, and she raised the knife to stab it into her own heart.

When he was alive, he was known as a great man. In his death, he would still be remembered as a hero!

That was what Qiu Mu-Cheng hoped for Ye Fan as his wife. She was not going to let herself become a taint on Ye Fan's glorious legacy.

She would rather kill herself than to let her body be sullied by another man.

"Miss Qiu, don't do it!" shouted Li Er loudly.

"Miss Qiu! NOO!!" The members of the Green Dragon Force burst into tears.

"What the hell?!! Stop her! Don't let her die!" Lv Hua got a terrible shock and hurriedly ordered his men to stop Qiu Mu-Cheng from doing this to herself. But they were all too far away.

If Qiu Mu-Cheng was determined to die, there was no way they could stop her from this distance.

It was evening time and the fiery red sun was dipping into the horizon. Its remaining rays fell upon her and cast a shadow filled with sorrow.

Just before she was to meet her end, many things ran through Qiu Mu-Cheng's mind.

She remembered the pathetic wedding she

had when Ye Fan married into the Qiu family, she remembered the humiliation that Ye Fan had suffered under her family, she remembered that invincible silhouette she saw at the foot of Mount Tai, she remembered how Ye Fan rose to receive respect and bows from the rich and powerful of Jiangdong at the Feast of the Sea and Sky.

She had been disappointed before, she had basked in glory before. She had cried before, but she had also laughed before.

She had seen the darkest moments of the night, but she had also enjoyed the brightest sunshine at the peak of the mountain. She had weathered many storms and hardships with that man.

Even though she was only 23 this year, she had seen much suffering and enjoyed much glory at the same time.

She was content with that.

Even if she had to die today, she wasn't going to complain.

But she had one regret.

She regretted being unable to fulfil her duty as Ye Fan's wife, and had not given him the warmth and gentleness of a wife even after being married to him for so long.

She had also failed to give him any children.

"Farewell, Ye Fan. I won't be able to continue down this road of life with you anymore. But I really want to see you again, and I really want to tell you in person that I really, really love you..." The setting sun cast a sad shadow on the mountain.

Qiu Mu-Cheng's tears glistened tragically as she stood beneath the clouds.

Her mesmerizing face was as beautiful as a painting.

But this same beautiful woman was about to take her own life even as everyone else could only watch on in horror.

"NO!"

"STOP!!"

"MISS QIU!!"

The Green Dragons were still shouting at her to stop. Their desperate cries resounded loudly in the air.

Li Er started crying when he saw this scene as well.

If Qiu Mu-Cheng died like that, he really didn't know how he could possibly face Ye Fan again.

How was he going to explain things to Mr Chu?

Even dying a thousand times wouldn't exonerate him!

"Miss Qiu, please, don't kill yourself! If you die, then my entire family is going to die too..." Li Er was already drowning in a

puddle of his own tears.