A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 358 Beg Your Cousin

At this point, this incident was considered pretty much concluded.

Qiu Mu-Ying and Chu Wen-Fei were detained inside the shop and Shen Meng called the cops so that they could handle this matter.

Qiu Mu-Cheng didn't really want to watch anymore, so she looked at Ye Fan and said, "Ye Fan, let's go home?"

"Ok," Ye Fan nodded.

Ye Fan and Qiu Mu-Cheng then turned to leave.

When Shen Meng spotted them leaving, he quickly ran up to them and apologized, "I'm really sorry that something like this had to happen on your first visit here. You had to witness something so embarrassing and it's badly affected your shopping experience. As the shopkeeper here, I'm really very sorry about it."

"The next time you come, I promise that I won't let something like this happen in the store again."

Just when Ye Fan and his wife were about to leave the store, Shen Meng actually ran forward to see them out. The way he was so friendly and polite to them was completely different from how he had fiercely berated Qiu Mu-Ying and Chu Wen-Fei earlier.

If Qiu Mu-Ying and Chu Wen-Fei saw this and still couldn't catch on, then those eyes of their must be useless.

"Yingying, no wonder this Mr Shen got Qiu Mu-Cheng to only pay $200. So they know each other. Qiu Mu-Cheng is your cousin, so quickly go and beg her to put in a good word for us. Otherwise we're really going to jail at this rate," said Chu Wen-Fei hurriedly to Qiu Mu-Ying.

Qiu Mu-Ying instantly froze and clearly couldn't bring herself to do such a thing.

After all, she and Qiu Mu-Cheng got along like water and fire. Even back when Wang Liang offended Shen Fei back on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival Night Auction and begged Qiu Mu-Ying to plead with Ye Fan for mercy, she couldn't bring herself to do that.

So now Qiu Mu-Ying wasn't willing to humble herself to plead with Qiu Mu-Cheng.

"Come on! Is your pride more important or money? This is $7 million we're talking about! If you plead with her, he might write off that $7 million altogether!" said Chu Wen-Fei anxiously.

After hesitating for some time, Qiu Mu-Ying finally nodded.

Her husband was right. Pride wasn't as important as money.

So after she made this decision, she ran over and pulled Qiu Mu-Cheng back as she said in a pleading voice, "Mu-Cheng, since you are friends with Mr Shen, then won't you help your little sister and your brother-in-law since we're all relatives?"

"Sis, please? Please put in a good word for us? We really didn't mean it. I really thought those vases were fakes. Couldn't you help us to plead with Mr Shen so that we just have to pay a few hundred?" Qiu Mu-Ying was now addressing Qiu Mu-Cheng as her sister and sounded like she was very close to Qiu Mu-Cheng.

Her tone of voice didn't have any of the arrogance or bossiness she displayed earlier, and sounded exceptionally humble and polite.

Anyone who didn't know them would have thought these sisters were very close.

But Qiu Mu-Cheng wasn't taken in by Qiu Mu-Ying's nice words. She pushed Qiu Mu-Ying's hand aside and turned to leave as if she didn't hear anything.

"Sis, you can't be so cruel to me. I'm your younger cousin and we're like sisters! Our fathers are brothers, and we share the same grandfather! The same blood flows in us both! Have you forgotten how we used to share a bed when we were children? Or how we used to go to school and go home after school together? Are you really going to be so cruel and leave me in the lurch like that? Are you really not going to care about your cousin anymore?" asked Qiu Mu-Ying with bloodshot eyes. Her voice was filled with such emotion and laden with such touching words that anyone else listening might have started crying. Qiu Mu-Cheng stopped walking and listened quietly to Qiu Mu-Ying's emotional speech without turning around.

Ye Fan suddenly noticed that Qiu Mu-Cheng's body was actually trembling.

"Mu-Cheng, are you alright?" asked Ye Fan worriedly.

He thought that Qiu Mu-Cheng was crying.

But actually she was laughing.

Her laughter was filled with sarcasm and self-deprecation.

"Yingying, so now you suddenly acknowledge that I'm your older cousin? Now you realize our fathers are brothers and that we have the same grandfather?" "Then tell me. When I offended Shen Fei and when was forced by you and the rest of the Qius to kneel, did you remember I was your cousin? When you took over my position and my projects and backstabbed me in front of Grandpa, did you remember I was your cousin? Then when the Qius chased me out of the family and stole my husband's imperial jade, did you treat me as your cousin?"

"Now that you've gotten into trouble, you start begging me and trying to pretend that we're close. Yingying, don't you think you're such a joke? Don't you feel that everything you've done is really despicable?" Qiu Mu-Cheng ranted on and on with anger in her voice.

Her tone was icy and her eyes were emotionless.

She rattled off a whole string of questions, each sentence firmer than the last, and each word more aggressive than the last. Her voice was like the sound of gold clattering loudly on the floor, echoing through the whole shop.

Qiu Mu-Cheng wasn't stupid, and she wasn't an unconditionally nice person with no principles.

If the Qius hurt her once, she could let it go. If they hurt her twice, she would grit her teeth and hold it in.

But they had insulted her, hurt her and harmed her time and again. So no matter how kindhearted Qiu Mu-Cheng was, her heart hurt and her heart felt the pain, and there were many holes in her heart already. And so Qiu Mu-Cheng had already straightened out her thoughts.

All these relatives and cousins were all nonsense.

There were times where her supposed blood relatives were even worse than a stranger on the streets.

Now she only had one principle when it came to dealing with others.

If they respected her, she would respect them three times as much!

But if they offended her, she was going to pay them back tenfold!

Qiu Mu-Cheng's cold and angry words continued to ring in Qiu Mu-Ying's ears.

She couldn't come up with an answer to any of Qiu Mu-Cheng's questions.

She was ashamed and her face was all red. She felt like digging a hole for herself now.

She didn't dream of begging Qiu Mu-Cheng to help her anymore. She didn't even dare to look up at Qiu Mu-Cheng now.

"Yingying, I'm going to warn you one last time. You'd better learn to be kind to others and keep yourself in check." Qiu Mu-Cheng said before turning to leave.

Her high heels clicked against the floor and the crisp sound of the heels echoed through the shopfront.

By the time everyone looked up, that beautiful silhouette had already left.

All they saw was a gorgeous back view.

Qiu Mu-Cheng didn't help with the mess Qiu Mu-Ying created and walked off without turning back.

After leaving Women's Country, Qiu Mu-Cheng was still clearly angry. Her chest was heaving and she was unable to calm herself down.

"Alright now, Mu-Cheng. Why get angry over these people you don't care about? You'd only tire yourself out. Mufan Real Estate's opening ceremony is happening in three days' time, and everyone will be counting on you to take charge," said Ye Fan with a faint smile. He was always so calm.

He was like the still waters of a lake, as if nothing in the world could possibly agitate him inside at all.

"I'm not angry, I'm just really upset. I never thought that the younger cousin I grew up with would turn out like this. I really can't believe it. Is she still that little Mu-Ying that went with me to school and home again

every day when we were children?"