A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 482 Encountering an Old Friend

The green waters of Yanqi Lake extended into the distance.

The calm lake appeared like a large sapphire mirrored surface as the clear skies reflected on it.

Mountain ridges overlapped in the distance, and the Great Wall was faintly visible amid the majestic mountains.

The place bustled with sightseers. There were couples holding hands, groups of friends, and families on vacation and having fun.

Yanqi Lake was an unparalleled tourist attraction in the busy city.

"I didn't expect such an unsurpassable sight in the Yanjing suburbs."

Ye Fan was strolling leisurely with Xu Lei on the little cobblestone path at the lakeside. He found the sight of the lake with a mountain in its backdrop refreshing.

"Fan, it already early winter. If you came during some other season, it would be far more beautiful. In the spring and summer, the place is filled with luxuriant greenery, and in the fall, it's covered with red leaves. The Great Wall will be faintly visible in the mountains behind with the great lake rippling in the foreground while it gets filled with boats. It's too bad we won't get to see any of those magnificent sights now," said Xu Lei sadly to Ye Fan as she walked next to him.

Yanqi Lake lacked vitality in comparison to all other three seasons now that it was already early winter.

Also, the lakeside was sealed off due to the fighting match, so all water activities were suspended.

A large cruise ship sat at the center of the enormous lake like a monolith.

All other speedboats and small boats were docked by the lakeside and banned from entering it.

Ye Fan stroked Xu Lei's head indulgently when he saw the slight disappointment on her face and said, 'Tm sure there's plenty of time for us to come again in the future.

If you want to see it in all its splendor in autumn, I will bring you here again next fall."

"Really?" said Xu Lei excitedly the moment she heard Ye Fan's words.

She seemed as gleeful as a child who had just stolen some candy.

The elegant Goddess of Jiangdong probably only showed this adorable side of herself to Ye Fan.

"Of course, I'm serious. If you don't believe me, why don't we pinky swear on it?"

Tourists passing by looked at Ye Fan and Xu Li with envy as they chatted happily.

They were particularly jealous when they saw Ye Fan.

After all, Ye Fan didn't seem like a wealthy man from the looks of his dressing. He was only a little more handsome than the average man.

How could a man as ordinary as him win the favor of such an extraordinary beauty?

The men around them were all jealous.

They felt as though it was a pure waste for a stunner like Xu Lei to date a man like this.

"Hey, Wenwen. Doesn't that woman over there look like Lei?"

A woman with light makeup on her face looked to watch Ye Fan quizzically not far from them.

"Where? Hanhan, your eyes must be playing tricks on you. Isn't that a man dressed in roadside goods and clearly a nobody? How that woman next to him be Xu Lei?" asked a woman dressed in a red dress after she looked in the same direction and shook her head in disdain.

"Hanhan, who's Xu Lei?" asked a middle-aged man quizzically as the women spoke.

"Xu Lei is our classmate. She was the belle of the finance faculty back in the day. A bunch of boys in the faculty with nothing better to do came up with the beauty competition, and Xu Lei won an overwhelming number of votes. I recall Wenwen came in second," said Meng Han as she smiled.

The girl dressed in red seemed to resent discussing the subject, so she sneered unhappily right away, "Humph, I didn't know how to dress up back then. If we compete again, I'm sure I won't lose to her." No woman would admit when their beauty couldn't compare to someone else's, and that included Guo Ya-Wen.

In reality, Guo Ya-Wen was deeply traumatized by that beauty competition.

She used to be so confident that she was the prettiest girl in the finance faculty.

But reality slapped Guo Ya-Wen tightly on the face, and Xu Lei stole all the spotlight by becoming the finance faculty's belle.

It was undoubtedly impossible for Guo Ya-

Wen not to be jealous.

"Exactly, your classmates must have been blind back then. My wife is a natural beauty. How could she have come in a mere second?" said the middle-aged man, Lei Dong-Bao, proudly. He reached his hand out to hug Guo Ya-Wen by her slender waist. Lei Dong-Bao appeared so proud that it seemed as though it was the proudest thing he had ever done to marry such a lovely wife.

Meng Han immediately bitterly smiled the moment she saw how clingy the couple was.

"Can you be more thoughtful about singletons like me when you display affection publicly?" asked Meng Han as she smiled. Then she veered her head away from the clingy couple and looked ahead again. "Wenwen, look again. She really resembles Xu Lei."

"That's impossible. Xu Lei is probably too busy making a living. How could she have the time to come here?" said Guo Ya-Wen in disbelief.

But Meng Han ignored Guo Ya-Wen's words and walked over and shouted, "Xu Lei?"

"What?" said Xu Lei in surprise when she heard someone calling her while walking with Ye Fan. Then she looked back and asked, "Meng Han?" "Haha, it really is you, Lei! I just knew it was you, but Wenwen wouldn't believe me. Wenwen, get over here. I told you it was Lei."

Meng Han was clearly immensely excited to see an old classmate. Then she quickly shouted to Lei Dong-Bao and Guo Ya-Wen for them to come over. Guo Ya-Wen frowned immediately with subtlety as she said, "I can't believe we bumped into her."

"Wenwen, let's go over. I want to see what the woman who stole my wife's limelight looks like," said Lei Dong-Bao as he walked over with Guo Ya-Wen. Xu Lei was dressed in a slim-fit long dress with a bright yellow jacket and skin-toned leggings today.

Her three-leaf clover earrings dangled in the wind. Although Xu Lei dressed in a particularly simple style, it accentuated her elegance even more.

Xu Lei was a ravishing beauty and the center of attention everywhere she went.

The moment Lei Dong-Bao caught sight of Xu Lei, he was awestruck.

He didn't think that his wife's classmate would be such a stunning beauty.

"She certainly lives up to being the faculty belle who outshone my wife. She is such a rare beauty," said Lei Dong-Bao as he secretly sighed in his heart.

Guo Ya-Wen walked over with a smile on her face. Then she said warmly, "Lei, I didn't think we would bump into each other here. Don't you work in that third rate city, Yunzhou? How could you have found the time to come to Yanjing before the holiday started for the new year?"

Xu Lei gave up a recommendation for Yanjing University to search for Ye Fan back in the day and attended Jiangdong University instead.

Xu Lei kept a low profile in her student days, so she neither bothered to wear branded goods nor told outsiders about her family background.

So in Guo Ya-Wen and Meng Han's impressions, Xu Lei was a kid from a bourgeois family. Xu Lei went to work in a third-rate city like Yunzhou after graduation, and they didn't stay in contact.

Instead, Guo Ya-Wen and Meng Han left Jiangdong after graduation and headed to major cities to carve their careers. Hence they were unaware that she belonged to the Xu family, was the founder of Hongqi group, and had become the Goddess of Yunzhou!