A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 619 That's Nonsense

The banquet continued.

Ma Ming-Bo kept chatting with Su Qian every now and then.

But Su Qian was clearly unhappy.

Each time Ma Ming-Bo asked Su Qian a question, she turned to ask Ye Fan instead.

"Fan, what do you think?"

"I don't know either. Let me ask Fan."

"Fan..."

Su Qian kept calling Ye Fan, 'Fan', left and right, and appeared obedient to him.

Although Ma Ming-Bo kept up a calm faqade, there was already a look of hostility and coldness when he made eye contact with Ye Fan. Since all Su Qian cared about was Ye Fan, Ma Ming-Bo didn't make things difficult for himself by continuing to win over Su Qian.

He knew women well. The more he fawned over them, the less they fancied you.

It would be wiser to demonstrate how outstanding he was.

As the saying goes, if he was noble and upright, he would win favor without even trying.

He was confident that if he was brilliant enough, there was no way Su Qian wouldn't fall for him.

Just then, Granny happened to gaze over and looked at Ma Ming-Bo and smiled delightedly.

"Ming-Bo, did you come by yourself? Did your parents come too? I heard the Feast of the Sea and Sky is happening in a couple of days. Since the Ma family is one of the most influential families in Nanquan, you must have gotten invited, right?" asked Granny as she smiled.

"Granny, we did get invited. But my Dad is too busy with the company and can only arrive on New Year's Day. I was too eager to see you, so I came a couple of days sooner," said Ma Ming-Bo. His words pleased Granny even more immensely.

"The Ma family is more highly respected. The Su family can only forcibly make it into the ranks of an elite family because we are in Yunzhou, but we aren't good enough to attend the Feast of the Sea and Sky. Qianqian, don't you get it? If you are looking for a husband, you should replace someone like Ming-Bo. Then you can get to meet the people standing at the pinnacle of this society," said Old Mrs Su profoundly. Then the old lady looked at Ye Fan and said, "Oh yes. You're Ye Fan, right? I haven't asked what your parents do for a living? Where are you working now?"

Su Qian's face turned pale. She hurriedly interrupted without waiting for Ye Fan to reply, "Granny, Ye Fan's parents run a business overseas, so they are barely home. Dad offered Ye Fan a $1 million paycheck and headhunted him from my best friend's company to be Yuanshan Group's senior appraiser."

"What? Just $1 million? Qianqian, I heard Mum say that Ming-Bo makes over $100 million a year. Isn't he too far off in comparison?" blurted Su Qian's younger cousin.

Su Qian glared at her and said, "Just eat your food. The adults are having a conversation, and you shouldn't interrupt."

Su Qian's younger cousin swiftly shut up.

The corners of Ma Ming-Bo's lips curved upwards uncontrollably.

At first, he thought the man whom Su Qian favored must be a talent, but he ended up being nothing.

"Fan, does your family run a business too? What business are you in? Mind sharing more? Maybe I can have the chance to learn from you," said Ma Ming-Bo as he smiled ambiguously in an instant. He seemed to detect something amiss from Su Qian's reaction.

"Erm...Fan's family is..." said Su Qian, who was about to help cover up for Ye Fan.

"Qianqian, why are you interrupting? Can't your boyfriend talk on his own?" said Old Mrs Su as she reprimanded Su Qian.

Then Su Qian shut up but kept looking at Ye Fan.

She was clearly hinting Ye Fan to come up with a good story.

But Ye Fan ignored her and calmly replied, "I'm afraid I have to disappoint you. My Mum doesn't own a business. She's just a simple farmer."

What?

A farmer?

Everyone was shocked.

Su Yuan-Shan's face twitched.

Su Qian held her forehead.

It was all over now.

Sure enough, Su Qian's younger cousin said angrily, "Doesn't that make him a farmer? Qianqian, how could you date a farmer? It's embarrassing."

But Old Mrs Su was furious. Then she quickly asked Su Yuan-Shan, "Yuan-Shan, what's going on? How can you let Qianqian marry him? This is nonsense!"

Su Yuan-Shan instantly said bitterly in a deep voice, "Mum, the family we're born into doesn't mean anything, it's good enough as long as Ye Fan is talented. Even the famous Zhuge Liang was once a farmer, and the founding Emperor of the Ming Dynasty had a lowly background. But didn't they end up attaining unsurpassable power?"

"Enough. Stop trying to fool me. In the history of China, how many Zhuge Liangs were there? How many commoners became emperor?" interrupted Old Mrs Su furiously in a cold voice. "Do you think this man here is ordained by heaven and is a true dragon?"

Even though Su Yuan-Shan was the head of the Su family, he hung his head in silence after getting reprimanded by his

mother.

Ma Ming-Bo noticed how tense the atmosphere was getting over dinner, so he smiled and said, "Granny, why get angry while we are having a wonderful dinner? Qianqian is still young and inexperienced, so it's completely normal that she got fooled. I was once her age too, so I know she will learn in time. From this perspective, isn't it a good lesson? Also, Uncle Su was right too. Maybe Ye Fan is a genuinely rare talent? No matter what, you should take care of your health and not get upset. You can't rush affairs of the heart. We have to take things a step at a time."

Ma Ming-Bo sounded so well-mannered that it left everyone in the Su family deeply impressed.

Old Mrs Su sighed and applauded him, "Just look at Ming-Bo. He has the true bearing of a man from a rich and powerful family. He is extraordinarily broad-minded and has integrity."

"Qianqian, I don't ask for you to marry into a rich and powerful family for the sake of their background. What I like about them is their refinement. Just compare your pauper from the countryside and Ming-Bo. Although it is just a family dinner, it's still considered an official event to them. You just have to look at how Ming-Bo and the pauper are dressed to see the yawning chasm between them," continued Old Mrs Su deeply while she praised one of them and belittled the other.