A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 558 Completely Defeated

Liu Bin was filled with deep regret.

But it was already too late.

Hongqi Group decided to give him up for the greater good, so they had chosen to sacrifice Liu Bin in order to gain Ye Fan's forgiveness.

Liu Bin had spent an entire lifetime of efforts and scheming to get to where he was today.

But now, after making one slip up, he had lost everything.

Liu Bin was filled with indignation.

If he had a feud with Ye Fan, then that was fine by him.

Dying at the hands of his own enemy was nothing to be angry about.

But he didn't have any feud with Ye Fan in the first place.

Liu Bin had never even spoken a single word to Ye Fan before.

But the Qiu family had poisoned his mind and their stupidity had made him offend a big shot like Ye Fan.

And so the great regret in his heart had finally turned into intense hatred towards the Qiu family.

Qiu Mu-Qi's face was all red and his veins were bulging as breathing became difficult for him.

Just when Qiu Mu-Qi was about to faint from lack of oxygen, Xiao En got someone to pull Liu Bin off him. "Send him away." Xiao En waved his hand and that was as good as sentencing Liu Bin to death.

"Qiu Mu-Qi, you little bastard! Your entire family are bastards for getting me into this mess! You deserve to die! That Qiu Mu-Ying too! All of you deserve to die! I have turned out like this all thanks to you! Even if I become a ghost, I'm going to haunt all of you! Once I get out of jail, I'm going to destroy the Qiu family and pound you to dust!!" Liu Bin continued shrieking angrily with bloodshot eyes as he was dragged out.

Phew...

Qiu Mu-Qi collapsed onto the floor. His face was still red and there was a bruise on his neck.

He was still recovering from the fright he got just now and was taking in deep breaths of air.

All that happened earlier had really terrified Qiu Mu-Qi to the point where he felt as though his soul was going to leave him.

Until now, Qiu Mu-Qi still couldn't understand what just happened.

First, Wang Sheng-Tian punched and kicked him, then now Liu Bin hated him to the core. If nobody pulled Liu Bin off him just now, Liu Bin would have seriously strangled him to death.

Just last night, Qiu Mu-Qi was still drinking and chatting happily with the two of them.

But just one day later, everything had changed.

Wang Sheng-Tian had withdrawn from Yunzhou with his entire company in a hurry, while Liu Bin had been stripped of his duties and thrown into jail.

He thought that Mufan Real Estate was going to be the one who would surrender to him today, but in the end, Qiu Mu-Qi realized that he had lost everything.

"Young Master Qiu, what say you? Shuntian Group has left Jiangdong and Liu Bin has been thrown into jail. Do you still have anymore trump cards left? If you do, then please go ahead and show your cards. Mu-Cheng and I will be sitting here waiting for you, and we'll catch whatever you throw our way," came Ye Fan's faint laughter.

That laughter was bright and patronizing. It carried disdain and contempt, as well as the authority that a winner had.

"You mean...it's you?! Were you the one behind all of this?!" shouted Qiu Mu-Qi hysterically as he looked up to stare at Ye Fan with bloodshot eyes.

Qiu Mu-Qi seemed to have finally realized something. He wasn't stupid - since his two pillars of support had gone down one after another, this was no coincidence. Someone was behind this and making it happen.

After he thought about how the man from Hongqi Group was so respectful to Ye Fan, Qiu Mu-Qi instantly suspected Ye Fan.

"No. No, it can't be you. Nobody knows you better than the Qiu family. You're just a country bumpkin of lowly birth with no background and no family to back you. Eventually you married into the Qiu family and became a cowardly live-in son-in-law. You've always taken whatever abuse came your way and everyone looks down on you. How could a useless thing like you possibly force Shuntian Group to leave this city and cause the downfall of Liu Bin?" Qiu Mu-Qi's veins bulged as he shook his head profusely. He found it hard to believe that Ye Fan could be the one behind this.

But there was nothing shocking about that, since that was what they knew of Ye Fan.

Ye Fan had married into the Qiu family for the past three years and everybody in the Qiu family knew what sort of background he had.

It was as if a friend you knew everything about suddenly told you that he was from one of the wealthiest families in the world and had power over the whole world. Would you believe him?

You wouldn't.

And that's because you know him too well and there was no reason why he would suddenly be such an incredible person.

And that was also why Qiu Mu-Cheng still didn't think that Ye Fan was some big shot even though Ye Fan had done so many shocking things.

After all, which big shot would be willing to marry into his wife's family?

Besides, every big shot had something that was better than others.

Either they had a powerful family to back them, or they possessed outstanding business acumen, or they were high ranking in the government or the military. But Ye Fan had none of these things.

As such, nobody around Ye Fan would imagine how powerful Ye Fan really was.

That was the problem with having a fixed mindset.

The more one knew a person, the firmer one's impression of that person would be.

It wasn't that easy to undo the prejudice that the Qiu family had towards Ye Fan for the past three years.

In his anger, Qiu Mu-Qi turned to Qiu Mu-Cheng instead.

"Qiu Mu-Cheng, tell me, what on earth did you do? What did you rely on to force Shuntian Group away and how did you topple Liu Bin?"

If Ye Fan wasn't the one behind this, then it had to be Qiu Mu-Cheng.

But Qiu Mu-Qi didn't know that Qiu Mu-Cheng was as bewildered as he was.

Qiu Mu-Cheng didn't know anything about this.

So Qiu Mu-Qi didn't get any answers out of her either.

He eventually left Mufan Real Estate.

When he came at noontime, he was still throwing his weight about.

But when he left, he was as dejected and broken as a dog whose owners had died.

Ye Fan didn't make things difficult for him and let him walk away.

"Mr Ye, this man tried to scheme against Miss Qiu and harm Mufan Real Estate, but you're just going to let him go like that?" asked Xiao En in a low voice.

Ye Fan laughed coldly. "The Qius are just a third tier family. Without anyone to rely on, Qiu Mu-Qi won't be able to create any trouble."

"Besides, for someone like Qiu Mu-Qi, it's a greater punishment to let him go back and watch how Qiushui Logistics falls apart in his own hands."

Ye Fan shook his head and laughed as he watched the dejected Qiu Mu-Qi leave. He picked up his cup of tea and knocked it back in one gulp.

Shortly after Qiu Mu-Qi left, Hongqi Group announced that they were going to stop all projects with the Qiu family.

Qiushui Logistics had been on the wane over the past few years.

If Qiu Mu-Cheng hadn't clinched the deal with Hongqi Group back then, Qiushui Logistics would have been beyond saving and would have gone bankrupt a long time ago.

In other words, Qiushui Logistics was barely surviving purely because of their business deal with Hongqi Group. Then after Qiu Mu-Qi returned, they managed to regain some of their former glory from their connection to Shuntian Group.

But now, Shuntian Group had moved out and Hongqi Group had withdrawn all their investment as well as terminated all their contracts with Qiushui Logistics.

This was as good as putting a knife to the Qiu family's throat.

And this very nearly ended Qiushui Logistics' life!