A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 744 A Chat At Dongchang Lake

"Mr Chu, I...I...I..." said Wei Wu-Jie as he and his brother knelt before Ye Fan.

Wei Wu-Jie had turned pale in shock and hung his head, and apologized nonstop.

He was so overwhelmed with fear that he kept stammering and sounded like a chicken clucking nonstop.

Ye Fan looked at them. Then he shook his head and smiled as he said, "No, don't. I'm not Mr Chu."

"No no no! You ARE Mr Chu."

"No, I'm not," continued Ye Fan as he shook his head.

"Mr Chu, please, don't be like this..."

Ye Fan's teasing put Wei Wu-Jie on the brink of tears. He was utterly terror-struck from hearing Ye Fan's words.

Wei Wu-Jie was terrified Ye Fan might slaughter him, so he had no choice but to turn to Chen Nan and begged, "Miss Chen, you are Mr Chu's woman, so can you please help me beg for leniency? I didn't mean to offend him. I thought he..."

Regret brimmed from Wei Wu-Jie's heart as he begged nonstop.

Chen Nan smiled and consoled him, "Mr Wei, get up. Don't be afraid. Fan didn't take it to heart at all. Would you still be able to stand here unscathed if he was angry with you?"

Her words slowly echoed through the restaurant.

Chen Nan had known Ye Fan for a long time, so she knew him best.

Ye Fan was always magnanimous.

And he didn't care about minor infractions like this.

Moreover, Wei Wu-Jie meant well and wanted to protect Mr Chu's reputation.

But he ended up committing such a huge mistake and causing such a joke.

However, Ye Fan didn't intend on letting of Wei Wu-Jie so easily.

Ye Fan walked over and hung his head to look at Wei Wu-Jie. Then he said calmly, "Since Nannan spoke up for you, I won't put you in a spot. But you have to act on your promise." "What...what promise?" asked Wei Wu-Jie at a loss. He didn't know what Ye Fan was referring to.

Ye Fan laughed gently and clarified, "It must be too much for a busy man like Mr Wei to remember it. But I keenly remember someone saying that if I weren't Mr Chu, he would call me 'Grandpa'." Ye Fan said slowly in a calm tone, but it made Wei Wu-Jie feel like he was going for war and treading on thin ice as intense fear kept surging through him.

"I......." stuttered Wei Wu-Jie, who clearly remembered those words.

He merely randomly blurted it out, but he didn't expect Ye Fan to take it seriously.

How could Wei Wu-Jie bring himself to call Ye Fan 'Grandpa' in front of so many people?

Just as Wei Wu-Jie went into a loss about what to do, Ye Fan shook his head and laughed. Then he turned to leave without waiting for Wei Wu-Jie's reply.

"Mr Chu, please wait," said someone from behind as Ye Fan left.

A middle-aged man took three steps forward and chased after Ye Fan.

"You are?" asked Ye Fan. Since he didn't know the man, he instantly frowned.

"Mr Chu, I'm Lin Ping-Zhi, Deputy Mayor of Jingzhou. I've heard so much about you. I'm honored to see you! But I didn't expect the man who has been making waves recently to be such a dashing young man. I'm so surprised by how young you are. The most outstanding people come from the youth," said Lin Ping-Zhi as he sighed from being so impressed by Ye Fan. Then he reached his hand out to shake Ye Fan's.

Ye Fan smiled politely.

It was in Ye Fan's habit to repay others if they treated him with respect or make them pay back for malice.

But if someone was stupid enough to offend Ye Fan, he wouldn't bother being polite.

Regardless of their status.

"Since Mr Chu rarely comes to Jingzhou, I wonder if you are free tonight, so I can have the honor of getting acquainted with you? How about dinner at my place tonight? I hope you can come," said Lin Ping-Zh humbly in a gentlemanly manner.

Ye Fan turned him down and said he was busy.

Then Ye Fan and the others left 99 Steamboat Restaurant.

Only Lin Ping-Zhi and the others stayed in the restaurant to wrap up.

I didn't expect him to turn down Mayor Lin's offer. He's so ungrateful! It's his honor that Mayor Lin personally invited him for dinner. Countless people are dying for the opportunity, but he rejected it. Does he really think he's the King of Jiangdong? Who the hell does he think he is?" said a man angrily from beside Lin Ping-Zhi after Ye Fan left.

He felt that Ye Fan was unappreciative and didn't know his place.

But Lin Ping-Zhi shook his head and scolded him, "Zhou, don't be rude!"

"Mayor Lin, Mr Chu is just a young punk. What's there to be afraid of?" said his assistant again indignantly.

"A young punk?" said Lin Ping-Zhi with a stern face. "Do you really think a young punk is able to make all the influential families like the Leis in Jingzhou and the Chens in Jianghai revere him as their leader? You can't judge a book by its cover. Mr Chu definitely isn't as simple as he looks."

Lin Ping-Zhi gazed in the direction Ye Fan left and said these words calmly.

But in his heart, he was even more intrigued by Mr Chu and wanted to get acquainted with him more.

After leaving the steamboat restaurant, Ye Fan and the others weren't in a hurry to head back to Yeyang.

Instead, they went to Dongchang Lake and took a leisurely walk.

Dongchang Lake was a renowned scenic area in Jingzhou.

Ye Fan held Lu Wen-Jing's hand and walked while Chen Nan chatted with Ye Fan.

Ye Yu-Yan followed quietly behind Ye Fan solitarily like an outsider.

A few times, Ye Yu-Yan mustered her courage to speak up but ended up swallowing her words before they came out of her mouth.

She followed behind them in silence as she watched Chen Nan and Ye Fan banter.

Ye Yu-Yan finally realized why Ye Fan didn't bat an eye at her after she took all the effort to dress up.

Then again, he was in the company of a woman as gorgeous as Chen Nan. How could Ye Yu-Yan compare in the looks department?

Ye Yu-Yan instantly felt defeated thinking about it.

She could sense the remnants of her pride quickly disappear.

Perhaps in Ye Fan's eyes, Yu-Yan had always been useless.

To think she had the cheek to despise Ye Fan and think he was not fit to be her cousin.

It seemed she had been a self-righteous clown all along.

"You didn't ask me out just to eat, right?

Just get to your point," asked Ye Fan. He seemed to finally notice Ye Yu-Yan's strange behavior after giving her the cold shoulder for a long time.

Ye Yu-Yan hesitated for a moment before she stated her business.

"Hmm? You want me to join the army?" asked Ye Fan. He instantly frowned after he heard Ye Yu-Yan's request.