A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 650 An Unparalleled Banquet

Inside Haiyuan Restaurant

Before the banquet commenced, Li Er was giving his son serious instructions inside the room.

"Don't worry, Dad, I'll definitely be the first to offer a toast!" said Li Zi-Yang confidently as he patted his chest and looked determined.

"Ao-Ting, you can't lose out. When Mr Chu comes up, you must make sure you give Mr Chu a toast before Zi-Yang does and express the Lei family's loyalty!" said Lei San to Lei Ao-Ting while Li Er was instructing his own son.

Li Er's eyes widened angrily as he cursed Lei San for trying to steal the limelight on his territory.

He wanted Lei Ao-Ting to cut in front of his son?

Lei San was clearly trying to pick a fight with him.

In his anger, Li Er snapped, "Lei San, what do you mean by that? We've got to respect a certain order when it comes to this. We agreed that my son would lead the way, so don't get Ao-Ting to mess it up. Everyone should line up and go up to Mr Chu one by one."

"Oh please, Li Er, who agreed with you on this?" Lei San didn't bother being polite and waved his arms about. "Who goes first is very important, so I can give in to you on any other matters except this one. We'll just see who is more capable!"

"You!" Li Er was livid.

Li Zi-Yang consoled his father, "Dad, don't worry, being the first in line is the glory that belongs to me, so I won't let anyone else snatch it away."

Lei Ao-Ting wasn't going to give way either, so he quickly promised his father, "Dad, don't worry, I won't let you down!"

While Li Er and Lei San were still arguing over this matter, some of the other families were also instructing their children to go up and give a toast to Mr

Chu.

"Yue'er, Xue'er, the two of you are the most outstanding of your generation in the Xia family. Remember to do well when you give Mr Chu a toast. Whether we get the support of Mr Chu or not depends on today. Also, I heard that Mr Chu is someone of your generation, so perhaps after today's banquet, one of you might rise to become a phoenix," said Old Master Xia as he looked at his two favorite granddaughters.

The old man didn't say it out explicitly, but what he was hinting at was very obvious.

Someone joked from the side, "Mr Xia, you're setting up a honeypot trap? If my two nieces can catch the attention of Mr Chu and become a phoenix in the future, don't forget your uncles, alright? HAHA!" The whole room was filled with laughter.

These rich and powerful men who were usually the ones in the highest position were now thinking of all means and ways to gain Mr Chu's favor and help to pave the way for their descendants' future. Li Er was so insistent that Li Zi-Yang got the first toast because he also wanted to recommend his son to Ye Fan.

After all, if the Li family wanted to continue prospering, Li Er had to groom his son.

But while everyone was laughing merrily, Chen Ao remained calm and didn't seem interested in being the first in line to toast Mr Chu.

"Mr Chen, aren't you going to ask your daughter to give it a shot?" Wang Jie-Xi from Haozhou started to add fuel to the fire, as if this wasn't big enough of a mess yet.

Mr Chu was now the leader of Jiangdong.

The ones next in line were Li Er, Chen Ao and Lei San.

If they could become first in line to toast Mr Chu, then they would be both expressing their loyalty to Mr Chu as well as showing the rest of the world how close they were to Mr Chu.

But Chen Ao just waved his hands about nonchalantly. "My daughter doesn't need to fight with them. Mr Li and Mr Lei can go ahead," said Chen Ao with a faint smile.

Other people had no idea, but Chen Ao knew that his daughter had come to Yunzhou earlier on and had spent the last few days with Mr Chu.

Chen Nan was also going to come for the banquet with Mr Chu, so it wasn't difficult for anyone to see how close they were and he didn't need to rely on these small tricks to draw close to Mr Chu.

"Alright now, it's about time. Mr Chen, Mr Lei, let's go and prepare to welcome Mr Chu up on stage." Li Er finally got up and said this to the crowd around him. They all headed out of the room and back into the main hall.

"They're here, they're here! Mu-Cheng, look! All the big shots are here! That's our Li Er, then that's Lei San from Jingzhou. Oh my! Even Chen Ao from Jianghai is here! That's definitely befitting of my idol, Mr Chu! Nobody else has the same power as my idol! He just needs to wave an arm and all the rich and powerful of Jiangdong will come forward to pay their respects!"

Su Qian excitedly grabbed Qiu Mu-Cheng's arm and rambled on and on as everyone else in the main hall also started getting excited upon seeing all the big shots enter the hall.

Qiu Mu-Cheng looked up as well.

Even Su Qian's grandmother got excited.

"Are we finally going to see Mr Chu?"

Everyone suddenly started feeling nervous.

Su Qian was especially nervous because after she saw Mr Chu's back view once at Mount Tai, she never saw this legendary man again.

Now that her idol was going to appear in front of her, it was hard for Su Qian to remain calm.

"Zhong-Xian, the Fan family is quite powerful in Yunzhou too, right? Have you seen Mr Chu before? Is he super handsome? How old is he?" Su Qian asked Fan Zhong-Xian excitedly.

Fan Zhong-Xian shook his head. "Mr Chu is like a god that's way above all of us. Not even my father has the chance to see him, much less myself. But don't worry, we'll all get to see him soon. My guess is that he's probably around 40 or 50. All those super successful businessmen are around that age. Mu-Cheng, what do you think?" asked Fan Zhong-Xian with a smile.

All the big shots had taken their seats.

Li Er came up as the host and started speaking on stage, "Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for making the journey all the way to Yunzhou to attend the Feast of the Sea and Sky. Our days have gone by smoothly and we are now looking towards a new year ahead."

"So on the first day of the new year, Mr Chu has invited all the rich and powerful to gather here today. Today's banquet will be an unparalleled banquet! It will be one that will go down in Jiangdong's history!" "And now, let us put our hands together to warmly welcome and respectfully greet Mr Chu!"

Li Er's reverent voice echoed through the hall.

Everyone immediately turned to look as they waited with bated breath and nervously looked forward to Mr Chu's appearing.

Su Qian's heart was about to leap out of her mouth.

"Who is it? Which one is him?"

One second, two seconds...

Ten seconds later, nobody in the huge hall responded.

Only a skinny figure in a corner quietly stood up.