A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 372 Stolen?

"What will it be, Qiu Mu-Cheng? Are you going to admit it on your own, or shall I invite Grandpa on stage to contest your lies?"

In the hall, Qiu Mu-Ying smiled coldly as she looked at Qiu Mu-Cheng's pale face.

Qiu Mu-Ying ridiculed Qiu Mu-Cheng heedlessly as though she was her defeated opponent, and Qiu Mu-Ying was a victorious general.

She seemed afraid that Qiu Mu-Cheng wouldn't admit to her lies, so Qiu Mu-Ying brought Old Master Qiu into the matter.

Qiu Mu-Ying was certain Qiu Mu-Cheng couldn't deny it now that things had escalated to this level.

Qiu Mu-Cheng didn't say a word and only raised her head to look at the stage below.

Her eyes scoured the hall until they landed somewhere in the crowd.

Old Master Qiu and Qiu Guang were seated there.

Old Master Qiu sensed Qiu Mu-Cheng looking at him and sneered coldly, "You are a disgrace! How can I, Qiu Zheng-Lun, have a granddaughter like you? You are nothing but an utter shame to the Qiu family!" Old Master Qiu was furious that he didn't even want to look at Qiu Mu-Cheng, so he turned his head around.

Qiu Guang glanced at Qiu Mu-Cheng as he scolded her angrily, "You stupid thing! How could you do something as shameless as this? Just you wait, your reputation will get ruined!"

Although Qiu Guang's voice wasn't loud, the hall was so quiet that his words sounded exceptionally jarring.

Qiu Mu-Cheng's pretty little face instantly turned ghastly pale.

"Qiu Mu-Cheng, are you going to keep denying? Do you think you can go on pretending now that things have reached this stage? Do you really want me to invite Grandpa on stage to contest your lies publicly?" said Qiu Mu-Ying aggressively without showing Qiu Mu-Cheng any mercy.

Very quickly, the hall fell silent as everyone waited for Qiu Mu-Cheng's answer.

"Mu-Cheng, don't do it," said Su Qian as she shook her head and told Qiu Mu-Cheng not to admit it.

After all, the moment Qiu Mu-Cheng was exposed, her reputation in the Yunzhou business circles would get completely destroyed.

Her reputation would get ruined!

Zhang Zheng-Fu also persuaded Qiu Mu-Cheng not to confess.

But even though Qiu Mu-Ying came down aggressively on her, and Su Qian and Zhang Zheng-Fu persuaded her not to confess, Qiu Mu-Cheng ended up smiling.

It was both a sorrowful and bitter smile.

"Qiu Mu-Ying, congratulations, you've won," said Qiu Mu-Cheng as she smiled sadly. Then she turned and bowed deeply to everyone in the hall as she said apologetically, "I'm very sorry, everyone. She is right. Mufan Real Estate is a small company with only a handful of employees and doesn't have branch offices across the nation. We are only a new local startup. We lied to you."

What?

"It's true!"

"Heavens!"

"So they are an unknown company!"

"To think that I treated her as my model and Yunzhou's goddess. After all that, she is merely a vain liar?"

"She looks pretty on the outside, but is a despicable animal inside!"

"It's a waste of her good looks. How could her heart be so vile?"

"And she's married to a useless husband too?"

"How dare a woman who is married to a mere country bumpkin swindle us?"

"Who gave her the gall?"

After listening to Qiu Mu-Cheng's admission, the crowd naturally exploded.

Everyone felt furious in their hearts about being deceived.

No one expected that the stunning female CEO they viewed as their goddess was a vain liar and the wife of a useless man!

Qiu Mu-Cheng's brilliant image instantly collapsed.

Everyone was outraged by Qiu Mu-Cheng and took it out on her verbally by saying nasty things about her.

Su Qian and Zhang Zheng-Fu were instantly terrified when they realized things had gotten out of hand. They pulled Qiu Mu-Cheng off the stage quickly.

They were worried that some of the people might take extreme actions in the heat of the moment.

But Qiu Mu-Cheng didn't listen to Su Qian and continued standing there.

Even if many of them insulted her and scolded her, she still wanted to say, "I'm very sorry about lying to everyone. But there is something I must tell you. My husband, Ye Fan, comes from a low background and it's also true that he's a live-in husband. But he isn't the useless man that Qiu Mu-Ying claims he is. In my heart, he is an upright man, so I won't allow any of you to insult him!"

Although Qiu Mu-Cheng's face turned pale after everyone tongue-lashed her, she was determined, and an inexplicable light shone from her eyes when she said this. Her voice was resonant and forceful.

But Qiu Mu-Cheng's image had collapsed, so everyone viewed her as a hypocritical liar and didn't care about what she had to say.

Very quickly, she was drowned in overwhelming reproach.

"How can a country bumpkin who is a useless live-in husband be an upright man?"

"Just bloody get lost!"

"Don't insult us men!"

"How could any real man agree to be a live-in husband?"

"It's just nonsense!"

"You are a useless man's wife! How dare you invite us to your opening ceremony?"

"Are you worthy?"

In a matter of moments, she suffered everyone's condemnation.

Amid these cries of outrage, everyone hurled their invitation cards back at Qiu Mu-Cheng.

'Get lost!"

"How can scum like you have the right to associate with us?"

"What on earth are the security guards doing?"

"How could they let random people into the event?"

"How could the CEO of an unknown company have the right to attend the Entrepreneurs' Dinner?"

"Why don't you just get lost?"

Countless people scolded them angrily. In the end, they even demanded Qiu Mu-Cheng and the others to leave right away.

"How dare you? Mayor Han invited us here, so how can you chase us away? Moreover, the Expo doesn't belong to you. Do you have any right to force us to leave? We have invitation cards here!" retorted Su Qian as she put on a tough look even though she was terrified after suffering everyone's tirade.

This commotion already attracted the organizer's attention.

Very quickly, Mr Xu, who was in charge of maintaining order at the Expo, came over and said coldly to Su Qian and the others, "I'm in charge of security, and we suspect your invitation is a fake. Please hand over your invitation card so we can verify whether it is real!"

Su Qian and Zhang Zheng-Fu became even angrier when they heard Mr Xu. Zhang Zheng-Fu retorted, "Why were we singled out? There are so many people at the dinner, why aren't you checking anyone else's invites?"

"Let me say this again, please cooperate with the investigation! Or else don't blame me for being rude," said Mr Xu as he lost his patience and gave Su Qian and the others a final ultimatum. Zhang Zheng-Fu had no choice but to take out his invitation.

"Fine, do you want to investigate?

Investigate all you want! Mayor Han invited us, so there's no way this invite is a fake," said Su Qian coldly.

Zhang Zheng-Fu looked confident too.

The manager, Mr Xu, ignored them and handed the invitation to his employee behind him.

"How is it? Is the invitation legit?" asked Mr Xu coldly.

"Mr Xu, it's genuine."

Zhang Zheng-Fu smiled when he heard this and said, "What now, you snob? Aren't you going to apologize to us? Even though we were wrong to lie, you can't chase us away because we have an invitation." But the employee added, "But Mr Xu, according to our information, they aren't the recipients of this invite. So I have reason to suspect that it was stolen by them."

What?

Stolen?!

Mr Xu and even Su Qian were shocked. Su Qian's eyes instantly opened wide as she turned to look at Zhang Zheng-Fu.

It was as though she was asking what the hell was going on?!