A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 1414 Chu Zheng-Liang's Fear

"Silence! Do you truly think it is your place to speak such words?" thundered the chief elder.

Chu Qi-Tian fell silent instantly.

But the chief elder did not pursue the matter.

Chu Qi-Tian was the Young Master of the Chu family, after all, and the only son of the head of the Chu family. His was a position of high regard and privilege.

Despite his position as the chief elder of Chu Sect, he should not put the young man in too difficult a spot.

Having voiced his displeasure, the chief elder left.

"Since Old Madam Chu left, the Chu family's been getting worse with each new head. The previous head of the family clan, Chu Zheng-Hong, was an irresponsible young man who spent all his time with women and even messed around with a woman from the countryside. But he turned a new leaf and became the head of the family. He did a good job for many years and for some time, I thought he was going to be a good leader for the Chu family."

"But a leopard never changes his spots. I heard that he deployed vast resources of Chu Sect and made a charge into Japan for some woman. How ridiculous! Chu Zheng-Liang's become the new head of the Chu family and he appears to know the rules. However, he hasn't done anything great to prove himself."

"The Chu family used to be the most powerful of the three families in Chu Sect. They were spectacular. Numerous martial arts prodigies were born from the Chu family. The former great patriarch, Chu Yuan, had been a well-known figure throughout the martial arts circle. Chu Zheng-Hong might have been unruly and displayed improper conduct, but he's also earned himself the name of Demon King Chu. Look at the Chu family now. You can't call them anything else but mediocre. Their glory didn't manage to last."

Perhaps he was nostalgic for the past, because the chief elder began talking about the Chu family on the way back.

The recent upheaval in the Chu family had created quite a commotion.

The Chu family was an important part of Chu Sect, after all. Any changes in the Chu family would mean changes in Chu Sect too.

For example, Chu Zheng-Hong had been one of the deputy sect leaders of Chu Sect. His position had since been replaced by Chu Zheng-Liang.

However, they didn't really know the details of the upheaval that had occurred in the Chu family.

No one would air their family clan's dirty laundry in the open.

The chief elder had to piece together whatever he had heard from others. It was natural that he hadn't gotten the full picture.

With Tang Yun's orders, the incident with

Ye Fan finally came to a rest.

Chu Sect did not hold another funeral. Instead, they buried the elders who had died by Ye Fan's hand that very night.

After being reprimanded by the chief elder, Chu Qi-Tian returned to the Chu family dejectedly.

"What happened? Why do you look so down? Did you get reprimanded by your master again?"

Chu Qi-Tian approached his father so that he could report to him what had happened at Chu Sect today.

As the deputy sect leader of Chu Sect, Chu Qi-Tian's father, Chu Zheng-Liang, was one of the five most powerful men in Chu Sect.

He was too important a man to attend the funeral of a few mere elders. That had been why he had sent his son, Chu Qi-Tian, to attend the event in his stead.

He was currently in his study dealing with matters of the family clan.

He frowned when he saw Chu Qi-Tian.

Chu Qi-Tian shook his head. "It's not my master. It's the chief elder."

"Did that old man yell at you?" Chu Zheng-Liang's frown deepened.

Even though the chief elder was a well-respected figure in Chu Sect, that didn't mean that he could disrespect the Chu family.

Chu Qi-Tian did not attempt to hide anything as he told his father exactly why the chief elder had reprimanded him.

The crease on Chu Zheng-Liang's brow smoothened. He turned away and continued working.

"Well, you deserved that. Tang Yun isn't simply your master, she's also the sect leader of Chu Sect and the leader of the three families in the sect. I wouldn't have dared to speak those words. How dare you disrespect her in that fashion. You're lucky that the chief elder let you off with a scolding. I would have given you two tight slaps," Chu Zheng-Liang said sternly.

Chu Qi-Tian looked away. "I know what I did was wrong, father. But I couldn't help myself. I was upset. I told you about the woman who stormed Chu Sect and who could rival the sect leader, didn't I? Do you know why she stormed Chu Sect?"

"Why?" Chu Zheng-Liang seemed intrigued.

Chu Sect was a huge place.

Even though the Chu family clan's manor was located on the same mountain, it was still a significant distance from the main halls of Chu Sect's headquarters.

As a result, Chu Zheng-Liang might have heard about the commotion that had happened at the headquarters, but he had not known the details because he hadn't been there.

"It's for Chu Tian-Fan! She came because of Chu-Tian Fan. My master killed Chu Tian-Fan, so she came to avenge him."

What?

"She came for him?"

Chu Zheng-Liang seemed shocked. Tension stiffened his features as alarm rippled across the veneer of calm he had on his face.

"Well, who would have thought that a child who had been abandoned by the Chu family would have someone so powerful as his ally? We've all underestimated him."

No matter how powerful Ye Fan had been, this pair of father and son had been convinced that the young man had been fighting a one-man war, without any allies.

That had been why they had merely been startled when they had realized that Chu Tian-Fan had become a supreme grandmaster. His newfound status might be a threat to Chu Qi-Tian's position as the heir to the Chu family, but it hadn't posed so great a threat that they had been genuinely fearful or worried.

After all, they had the backing of the Chu family as well as its vast resources and army of martial artists at their beck and call.

Alone, Ye Fan was hardly a threat when pitted against the monstrous behemoth that was the Chu family.

With the appearance of that powerful young woman though, things had changed. Chu Zheng-Liang couldn't help but be taken aback.

Her appearance meant the possibility that Ye Fan might have other equally powerful and terrifying allies on his side.

That meant that Ye Fan would become a threat not only to his own son's inheritance of the family clan but to the Chu clan itself!

"Fortunately, the sect leader Tang Yun killed him. It doesn't matter what kind of connections he's managed to build himself while he was alive. He's dead now. None of that matters anymore. We don't have to be afraid of anything," said Chu Zheng-Liang.

In the past, Chu Zheng-Liang was just like his son and hadn't treated Ye Fan as a genuine threat.

Then, he had a personal encounter with Ye Fan out in the Japanese seas. That had been when he had become wary of the danger that his nephew could pose to him.

Now, it seemed that Ye Fan had allies who were Tang Yun's match all along.

Chu Zheng-Liang couldn't bear to think about how great a risk Ye Fan might become if he hadn't died.