A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 986 Medicinal Herb Bath

A faint beam of light shone into the darkness.

Ye Fan regained consciousness after he had slept for a long time.

He slowly opened his eyes. The sunlight shone into the room through the window blinds and cast a rainbow of colors onto the floor.

"Where am I..."

Ye Fan was experiencing a moment of memory lapse.

His listless eyes looked at his surroundings.

The room was very simply furnished, yet one could tell they had been through some history.

There was a vintage-looking table and chairs in front of him, while a few portraits of China's forefathers hung on the wall.

A radio that was playing hits from the 90s was placed on a table by the side.

Ye Fan remembered standing in front of that radio and listening to a female singer with a very sweet voice. She sang a very popular song called "Returning Home".

There was a grandfather clock that hung on the wall above the radio.

The ticking sound from the clock's pendulum was once part of Ye Fan's childhood.

Ye Fan was astounded at the familiar yet foreign place he was in.

For a moment, it felt like he had gone back to his past.

It was in this small house that an elderly lady in her 70s stayed by his side and took care of him throughout his childhood.

Years had since passed and Ye Fan, now an adult and married, was sitting in this same room. When his gaze fell on the furnishings, it felt like he was looking back in time at himself when he was only a young child, going about doing various things in the same room.

It brought back beautiful memories of his growing up years when he was so carefree.

Nothing had changed here.

Everything was still the same.

When Ye Fan looked at the vintage radio, grandfather clock and everything else in this room that was so familiar to him, he became overwhelmed and choked with emotions.

"Cry if you feel like it, silly boy. Your great grandmother's place will always be your safe harbor," a kindly voice sounded suddenly in his ears.

Ye Fan looked up as an unassuming old lady walked through the door.

The moment he saw her, all the emotions that Ye Fan had been suppressing broke loose.

He rushed into her arms just like when he was a young child.

Ye Fan could not speak as he bawled his eyes out in the arms of his great grandmother.

Chen Ao and the rest would have been shocked by this scene if they were here.

Who would have thought that a man who once commanded all of Jiangdong and topped the list of the powerful in Japan would one day be crying like a baby in the arms of an old lady?

But if one thought about it carefully, there was nothing really surprising about Ye Fan's actions.

After all, Ye Fan was only a youth who had just turned 20 not long ago. Others at his age would probably still be a student in school.

No matter how strong a youth in his early 20s appeared to be, he would still be considered a child in the eyes of his elders.

Besides, humans were bound to have vulnerabilities. This was regardless of one's age or strength.

Sometimes, in the dark of the night and under the influence of alcohol, even a man in his 40s would be wailing out loud on a friend's shoulder.

Life could be difficult.

No matter how strong and independent a person was, there would be times when things became too much to bear and would cause emotional breakdowns.

It has happened to Qiu Mu-Cheng in the past and now, the same happened to Ye Fan.

It was far more heart-rending when an adult went through an emotional breakdown.

This was what Old Madam Chu experienced as she heard the heartbreaking cries from the youth in her arms.

She could guess what Ye Fan went through even without him saying anything.

This silly boy must have had suffered a lot all these years. Otherwise, her Fan would not have fallen apart like this.

Ye Fan finally stopped crying after he let all his pent-up emotions out.

Ye Fan had suffered too much all these years.

He had suffered humiliation as he grew up among the members of the clan. His clan threw him out of the Chu family together with his mother subsequently.

Ye Fan had thought that his nightmare was over once he had left the Chu family.

But he was wrong. A worse nightmare had begun for him instead.

Ten years. The Chu family had tried to kill him for ten years.

He had lived on the edge for the past ten years.

It had never occurred to Ye Fan that even his uncle would try to kill him personally.

Ye Fan was perplexed by how much these people seemed to hate him and couldn't wait to have him killed.

Ye Fan had not shed a single tear in the past, no matter how tough life was.

To him, tears were only meant for the weak!

But in front of his great grandmother, Ye Fan could safely remove his facade and reveal his true self to her.

It was simply because Ye Fan trusted his great grandmother the most.

Ye Fan wouldn't be where he was if not for his great grandmother.

"Fan, you need to rest and heal first. We can talk later. You are very badly injured this time. If you had arrived any later, even I would not have been able to save you from the gates of hell," Old Madam Chu said with a small laugh that sounded sad as she tried to make light of the situation.

It was clear that Ye Fan's injuries really broke her heart.

When she first saw Ye Fan lying at the gate, Old Madam Chu found it hard to believe that this youth who was so badly injured and on the brink of death was the same mischievous boy who loved to run around in the courtyard.

She has lived for so many years and had been through life's many ups and downs, but she hardly ever saw anyone with injuries to this extent.

"Ok." Ye Fan said while nodding his head.

He followed the instructions given by his great grandmother and stepped into a wooden tub filled with medicinal herbs.

"Although your external injuries are serious, they should heal on their own as you have the powers from Invoke the Celestial Cloud. Your internal injuries are what's worrying. There is an energy force that has penetrated deep into your arteries and lungs. It would take some time to drive it out of your body, but it isn't a big

deal."

"Your great grandmother's Revitalization Bath is able to regenerate your flesh and bones, so your injuries are not a problem. As long as you follow my instructions and soak in these medicinal herb baths for some days, your arteries and lungs will be healed. I guarantee that you will be able to walk and jump about in less than a month. But it will take more time for you to heal completely."

"Alright now, just soak in this bath for now. We will talk when you feel better later." Old Madam Chu had to hold back her questions as Ye Fan had just woken up and was feeling weak. He needed more rest. She would ask her questions when he felt better in a few days.

"I would like to know who is the person who had the audacity to do this to the eldest grandchild of the Chu family!" Old Madam Chu muttered to herself with an icy look in her eyes.