A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 422 The Li Family's Dinner Party

Didn't Ye Fan's so-called father also return many years later to look for him saying that he wanted to make it up to him?

Ye Fan and Li Xiao-Hong had similar life experiences, but they made different choices.

Li Xiao-Hong chose to forgive her father while Ye Fan went on a path of no return!

"Don't you hate him?" asked Ye Fan suddenly after a long silence.

Li Xiao-Hong hesitated momentarily. Then she suddenly shook her head and smiled as she said gently, "I used to hate him, but now I stopped feeling anything. After all, everyone has the right to choose how they want to live. Moreover, my father gave my mother all his assets in the countryside when he divorced her. Although it isn't much, I can tell my parents had feelings for each other. Perhaps there was a reason why he divorced my mother back then, and maybe he had no choice," said Li Xiao-Hong calmly. She was a kind girl and always assumed the best of others.

After her father left for a few years, he suddenly sent someone to deliver the divorce papers to her mother. Then he disappeared completely.

Li Xiao-Hong felt her father was somewhat heartless back then, but her opinion changed with age and experience.

She knew that many things couldn't be helped in the world.

Also, many things didn't look as simple as they did on the surface.

Hence Li Xiao-Hong gradually became jaded about her father.

Li Xiao-Hong's mother agreed when her father asked her to further her studies and take a doctorate in Yanjing, so she was going to Yanjing to find her father like her mother wished.

"Congratulations then, Xiao-Hong. If we were in a novel, you are definitely the female lead. Maybe after you get to Yanjing, you'll get to inherit his billions and reach the pinnacle of your life. Then you'll become so successful that you'll be too good for me," teased Ye Fan humorously.

But no one detected the inexplicable emotion running through Ye Fan's eyes.

Was there any special reason for Ye Fan's father to treat him that way back then?

Ye Fan knew nothing about it!

Jianghai wasn't too far from Yanjing, so all it took was a one to two hour flight before they arrived.

After Ye Fan arrived in Yanjing, he wanted to bid Li Xiao-Hong farewell, but she unexpectedly invited him over to her home for dinner.

"My father owns a hotel, so you can stay at his hotel after that. Mr Chu, don't reject me. It's just a meal and won't take up too much of your time," said Li Xiao-Hong with anticipation.

Since Li Xiao-Hong was so kind to offer, Ye

Fan didn't turn her down and agreed to go back with her.

Then Li Xiao-Hong's father, Li Lu-Bin, called to say that he was stuck in traffic and was probably only arriving in 30 minutes and told her to wait at the airport.

So Ye Fan took the opportunity to buy a couple of things from nearby.

After all, it was Ye Fan's first time visiting, so he couldn't go empty-handed.

"Wow! I didn't expect to find such a treasure," said Ye Fan when a rusty copper tripod in an antique shop caught his attention.

Ye Fan appeared before Li Xiao-Hong a few minutes later with a bag of gifts.

"Xiao-Hong, I was late because of the traffic," said Li Xiao-Hong's father, who happened to arrive at the same time.

He was a middle-aged man dressed in a suit with an affectionate smile on his face. The moment he saw Li Xiao-Hong, he was so delighted that he gave her a big hug. "Xiao-Hong, get into the car. Auntie Li-Ping has prepared a huge spread of food to welcome you," said Li Lu-Bin as he smiled and hurried Li Xiao-Hong to get into the car. "Dad, this is Mr Chu. He was a big help to me in the past, so I want to invite him over to eat too. Is that okay?" asked Li Xiao-Hong as she introduced Ye Fan to her father. "What? Mr Chu?" asked Li Lu-Bin. Only then did he notice the simply dressed skinny youth who seemed utterly unremarkable and didn't look like anyone important at all. Then why did his daughter call him 'Mr Chu'?

People who were greeted as mister were usually highly respected.

Most people weren't good enough to be greeted in this manner.

"He is probably a low profile son of a rich man."

But at the same time, Li Lu-Bin reckoned his daughter was probably dating Mr Chu.

After all, why would she bring him home on their first trip to Yanjing if they weren't particularly close?

"If Xiao-Hong could marry into a rich and powerful family, then it would be her good fortune," thought Li Lu-Bin inwardly before he happily agreed. Then he invited Ye Fan to their home as he kept thanking him. Li Lu-Bin's home was a standalone bungalow in the Yanjing suburbs.

Although it was a little out of the way, it was very enviable to own a standalone bungalow in Yanjing, where every inch of land was extremely expensive.

Li Xiao-Hong's father was probably rather powerful in Yanjing.

"Mr Chu, don't be shy. Just treat my place like yours and have your fill. There's no need to constrain yourself," said Li Lu-Bin as he laughed at the dining table.

Li Lu-Bin was very delighted that he finally reunited with his daughter after so many years, so he had several glasses of wine, and his face was slightly red.

Li Lu-Bin's wife and daughter, Sun Li-Ping and Li Yuan, were sitting beside him.

After divorcing Li Xiao-Hong's mother, Li Lu-Bin married Sun Li-Ping. And Li Yuan was the daughter he had with Sun Li-Ping.

Sun Li-Ping and Li Yuan clearly found Li Xiao-Hong unwelcome. Li Yuan even put on a stiff face the entire time.

After all, Li Xiao-Hong was an outsider to Li Yuan and Sun Li-Ping.

"Yuanyuan, why didn't you greet Xiao-Hong as your older sister when she arrived?

Don't you have any manners?" said Li Lu-Bin as he scolded Li Yuan a little.

Li Yuan sneered, "I'm my mother's only daughter. I don't have any older sisters." "You..." said Li Lu-Bin as his face turned green. Just as he was about to throw his temper, Li Xiao-Hong stopped him. "Dad, it's okay. Yuanyuan and I are about the same age, so there's no need for her to call me big sister," said Li Xiao-Hong as she smiled calmly.

"Humph, you hypocrite," said Li Yuan before continuing to eat without speaking further.

Sun Li-Ping wasn't as willful as Li Yuan, so she showed Li Xiao-Hong some basic courtesy. After casually asking after Li Xiao-Hong, she looked at Ye Fan intriguingly.

Li Xiao-Hong brought a man with her to Yanjing on her first trip here.

In Sun Li-Ping's view, they were probably closely related.

It was highly possible that they were lovers.

Sun Li-Ping was extremely curious about this man who might marry Li Xiao-Hong. She wanted to find out what kind of man the daughter of a farmer would find for herself. Was Ye Fan so powerful that Li Xiao-Hong could completely turn her life around?

Sun Li-Ping looked at Ye Fan curiously as she smiled and asked, "Mr Chu, I heard that you are a big shot from Jiangdong.

Since you can command so much respect at such a young age, you must come from a formidable family, right?"