A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 708 Are You Qualified

"That's right! Sis, I told you before that your son is ill bred but you never believed me. Look at him now! This son of yours has no accomplishments but he can really stir up a lot of trouble for others! He has committed such a grave mistake today and this will result in a great disaster for the Ye family. If you ask me, you ought to drag him to the Qin family and make him kneel and apologize to them!" Ye Ya picked up the conversation from his wife and started shouting at Ye Fan fiercely as well.

"That's right! You also have to apologize to my dad and Uncle Ya!"

"Why are you still standing here? Go and apologize! Go kneel in front of Uncle Qin to apologize and beg for mercy!"

Everyone in the living room was shouting ferociously at Ye Fan.

They were all reprimanding him and condemning him.

In an instant, Ye Fan was like their public enemy.

It was as if he had been abandoned by the world.

He looked down and the sun rays shone on him like water, casting a long shadow on him.

Suddenly, Ye Fan looked up.

His sinister gaze swept across Ye Tian, Ye Ya and everyone else in the living room. Then a cold laughter slowly rang through the house.

"You want me to apologize? Do you think you're qualified to tell me to do that?”

A cold wind suddenly blew through the house.

The fallen leaves in the yard were all blown away by the wind.

Ye Fan's cold laughter was filled with anger.

And it was clearly lacking in respect for his elders!

Everyone immediately shuddered. They didn't expect Ye Fan to be bold enough to insult his elders like this.

"Fan, you really shouldn't..." Ye Xi-Mei immediately tried to persuade Ye Fan out of worry.

But it was too late!

Ye Tian and the rest were already angered by Ye Fan's impolite and harsh words.

"Shut up! You're one generation younger and you dare to be so rude to us? Do you still have any regard for the Ye family and your uncles?!" Ye Tian bellowed angrily at Ye Fan with a dark expression on his face.

"The Ye family? My uncles?" Ye Fan burst out laughing.

That laughter was sad and filled with self-deprecation.

It was as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world.

His icy words were like a cold gust of wind howling through the house.

"I treat you as my uncle, but have you ever treated me as your nephew? At the wedding today, even the Qin family didn't say anything and they were even polite and reverent towards me! But all of you? You only listened to Ye Jian spout nonsense and couldn't wait to condemn me and say nasty things to me. And you want me to kneel down before the Qin family to apologize?"

"It's true that the Qin family's attitude towards your families will affect your futures. But what has that got to do with me? You guys want to butter up to them and you want to have a good relationship with the Qir family? You want to lick their toes like a bunch of dogs? Sure? I'm not stopping you! But what right do you have to make me sacrifice my own dignity to help you to butter up to them?"

"You keep saying that we're related, you're my uncles, and how we should behave like a family. But in the end? For the sake of your so called future and benefit, you just want to treat me as a sacrifice to ingratiate yourselves to the Qin family. Just because I made trouble at Qin Yu's wedding, you want to force me to go kneel before them to apologize?"

"Then if I say that I didn't just offend the Qin family but I also forced Lei San of Jingzhou to beg me for mercy and made Lei Ao-Ting cry out in pain to spare him, are you supposed aunts and uncles of mine going to slaughter me in apology? So that my eldest uncle can have a bright future in his career path and my second uncle will be able to earn big bucks in his business?!"

His words were firm and sounded like the clattering of gold and rocks to the floor.

His angry voice resounded loudly in the living room.

Nobody knew how to respond to Ye Fan's words at all. They were all red in the face from anger but didn't know what to say.

Ye Tian himself opened his mouth but couldn't get a single word out.

Ye Fan's words had been really harsh.

Every single question, sentence and word was like a sharp knife.

Each one stabbed deeply into their souls, making them tremble. Every word had exposed their true feelings.

Finally, Ye Tian's wife, Dong Mei, quietly tried to talk him round, "Fan, why do you say such things?"

"You are your Uncle Tian's nephew, and your mother is his sister. If you get into trouble, your uncles will help you to settle the problem. They wouldn't kill you as way of apology. You've misunderstood their words. We're all one family, so even if our bones are broken, we're still connected by other joints and muscles," Dong Mei tried to calm Ye Fan down with a smile.

But Ye Fan only snorted coldly. The emotions he had been suppressing all these years finally exploded.

Ye Fan looked coldly at Dong Mei and started speaking angrily again.

"One family? It sounds good on the surface, but I really want to ask all my aunts and uncles. Do you even believe in these words yourselves? I finally came back after three years, but everyone only cared to welcome Ye Yu-Yan home but nobody bothered to welcome me. This is what you mean by being one family?

"Everyone else got together for dinner but only my mother and I had no idea about it. This is what you mean by being one family?"

"After coming home, my mother and I brought some gifts along to ask for an extra room to stay in. What happened in the end? My eldest uncle has such a huge house, but there's no room for his nephew to stay in! Is this what you bloody mean by being one family?!"

Ye Fan's angry words continued to spew forth as his face frosted over. He stared at Ye Tian and kept asking these questions.

Everyone looked away as Ye Fan questioned them. None of them looked angry and arrogant anymore.

Their faces were red and filled with shame. They didn't know where to hide themselves now.

Ye Fan's words were too cutting and his questions were like a slap in the face.

Ye Tian was the uncle, but his nephew was reprimanding him and he wasn't even able to argue back, so Ye Tian felt terrible embarrassed.

But even so, Ye Fan wasn't going to stop there.

Since he had already fallen out with them, then he was going to let everything out at once.

"All of you, my uncles, my aunts, my cousins. I know all of you look down on me. To you, I'm unaccomplished, ordinary, useless, unknown. I'm a child who was thrown out by my father, I'm a cowardly live-in son-in-law."

"But do you really think that everything you see is the truth? You have no idea what sort of person is standing in front of you!

You only think that I'm lowly and incapable, but do you know that all of you are nothing to me? You wanted me to apologize to the Qin family for your sake? Are any of you even qualified to do that?"