A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 352 Back to Women's Country

"It's fake, it's definitely fake! I'm not silly, so I won't say a genuine piece is a fake one, don't you think so?" Shen Meng continued to smile placatingly.

The man in front of him was someone that even his Chairman buttered up to. Shen Jiu-Yi had even given him a Tang Bohu painting worth tens of millions, so what was this vase here?

So Shen Meng didn't dare to make Ye Fan really compensate him and just arbitrarily asked for $200 just for show. He would take it as doing Mr Chu a favor.

Ye Fan nodded and patted Shen Meng on the shoulder a few times. "Good, Mr Shen knows what to do."

"Ha, haha, haha..." Shen Meng laughed a little timidly. He was a little taken aback by Ye Fan's praise for him.

"Alright now, don't get all complacent now. I'm so glad this vase is fake, otherwise we'd really go bankrupt this time. We'd better go home now." This whole thing turned out to be a false alarm, but Qiu Mu- Cheng's face was still rather pale and her heart hadn't calmed back down yet.

She decided not to come to such high end shops in the future if she could.

This incident made Qiu Mu-Cheng feel the obvious difference between herself and high society.

$1 million in compensation was probably nothing much to those millionaires, but it was enough to bankrupt her.

This was probably the difference in the two circles as described by her BFF.

She was so glad this vase turned out to be a fake. Otherwise, Qiu Mu-Cheng really didn't know how she was going to pay for it.

"Let's shop around a bit more. It's so difficult for you to take time out and today you've actually come out to walk around with me, so we should stay out for a bit longer. This shop is so huge, let's go over there to have a look."

Ye Fan was in no hurry to go back. He pulled Qiu Mu-Cheng along to start looking at the other side of the shop. This time, Shen Meng accompanied them himself and was their personal sales assistant. Shen Meng's friendliness towards them helped to dissipate the fear in Qiu Mu-Cheng's heart. After some time, she felt at ease and started to walk around the shop happily.

Women's Country was certainly a land for all women, and everything they sold proved to be a fatal attraction for women like Qiu Mu-Cheng. Even though they were way too expensive for Qiu Mu-Cheng to even dream of buying, she was quite happy to be able to just touch and look at them.

But before long, Qiu Mu-Ying and Chu Wen-Fei were back in front of Women's Country.

There was a beautiful lady standing in between them this time.

This lady was in a long black dress and a gentle perm. She was a middle aged lady, but she still looked elegant and poised. Her fair face carried a dignified aura, and this wasn't an aura that could be cultivated in just a couple of years. This was an aura that could only come from the daughter of a wealthy and classy family.

Indeed, this woman was Chu Wen-Fei's mother, Zhang Li.

Zhang Li had come here for a while now. After having dinner with Chu Wen-Fei and Qiu Mu-Ying, she agreed to go shopping since Qiu Mu-Ying suggested it.

But after seeing Qiu Mu-Ying, Zhang Li didn't seem excited at all. She wasn't happy, but she wasn't really unhappy either.

In short, Qiu Mu-Ying just seemed very ordinary to her and wasn't anything special.

This Qiu Mu-Ying might be considered a rather talented person, but Zhang Li still felt that Qiu Mu-Ying was not worthy of her son.

But since she was the woman that her son liked, Zhang Li had decided that if her son really wanted to spend the rest of his life with her, she wasn't going to object anymore.

Zhang Li was a very sensible woman. She knew that even though their opinion as parents was important when it came to marriage, the most important part was what her children had decided on. Besides, so far, while Zhang Li didn't fancy Qiu Mu-Ying much, she didn't dislike here either.

For the sake of her son's future happiness, she was willing to let him be.

"Mum, was dinner alright with you? I heard from Wen-Fei that you love to eat food from the northeast region, so I found this restaurant online and it's the most authentic one we have in Yunzhou. So...I'm not sure if you liked it?" asked Qiu Mu-Ying cautiously in a quiet voice. She didn't dare to speak too loudly and looked like she was gentle and virtuous. She was on tenterhooks the whole way as she continued to shower Zhang Li with concern, afraid that she might have done something wrong to offend her mother-in-law.

But Zhang Li continued to ignore Qiu Mu-Ying's show of concern. She didn't respond at all and continued to walk quietly along the street as her high heels kept tapping on the pavement.

Qiu Mu-Ying's heart started the grow cold, and the warm smile on her face started to fade like the tide as she dejectedly hung her head.

"Mum, don't be like this. Yingying was just trying to be a filial daughter-in-law, so even if you weren't happy about it, you shouldn't just ignore her either." Chu Wen-Fei felt that his mother had gone too far. Wasn't she making things difficult for Qiu Mu-Ying?

Even if she really didn't like this daughter-in-law, she should consider her son's feeling and shouldn't embarrass Qiu Mu-Ying so badly.

"Wen-Fei, I'm not feeling well, so I won't shop with Mum anymore and I'll go back first," said Qiu Mu-Ying with her head bowed. She was feeling rather depressed and resembled an eggplant battered in the snow as she turned to leave.

She was already prepared to give up. She had tried so hard tonight but she couldn't make Chu Wen-Fei's mother happy at all. Since that was the case, why bother sticking around? "Yingying, don't be like this..."

But just when Chu Wen-Fei was put in a difficult position, Zhang Li suddenly broke her silence and said, "Don't go. Come with me to buy a necklace, and you can take it as a present for my in-laws." When Zhang Li said this, Qiu Mu-Ying's disappointment vanished and she looked up with a start. There was a look of joy in her previously darkened eyes.

"Mum, are you serious? You've accepted me? You're willing to let me be the daughter-in-law to the Chu family? Mum,

I'm so happy! You're really so kind to me!"

Qiu Mu-Ying was too excited and couldn't help but hug Chu Wen-Fei.

"Wen-Fei, did you hear that? Our mother has accepted me and she's going to buy something for my mother!" said Qiu Mu-Ying excitedly to Chu Wen-Fei.

Zhang Li didn't spell it out, but the meaning of her words was clear.

She had called Qiu Mu-Ying's parents her in-laws, and even wanted to buy something for Qiu Mu-Ying's mother. That meant that she had accepted Qiu Mu-Ying as her daughter-in-law.

Zhang Li looked at how excited and happy her son and Qiu Mu-Ying were and she shook her head as she smiled helplessly.

It seemed like her son really liked this Qiu Mu-Ying very much.

"Alright now, why are you two hugging in each other like that in public? Behave yourselves! You can go home and hug each other later, let's go to Women's Country to buy your mother a necklace first." One word from Zhang Li was enough to stop the two of them from cheering.

Qiu Mu-Ying's face was all red as she quickly let go of Chu Wen-Fei and followed Zhang Li into the store.