A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage) novel Chapter 229

What?

Was he just a live-in son-in-law?

And a poor country bumpkin no less?

Qiu Mu-Ying's words fell on everyone like huge rocks crashing into the ocean. Almost instantly, it created a tidal wave among the crowd.

There was a commotion for a while as people chattered about it.

The look of admiration the crowd had for Ye Fan completely disappeared.

"No wonder he refused to tell us about his family!"

"So he's a good-for-nothing?"

"It's one thing to be poor, but it's another to have no ambition. How can he be a live-in husband?”

He's embarrassing us men!"

"What would a useless man like him know? How could he be talented?"

"From the looks of it now, this beauty must be right. He's probably just a poor country bumpkin who begged Young Master Shen to lie for him. He probably just wants a chance to go on stage and act cool, right?"

"To think I wanted to recommend him to my grandfather. I wanted to hire him as a rough jade consultant for our company."

"It's all thanks to that girl on stage that we know the truth!"

"Otherwise, we would really get duped!"

The crowd was riotous.

Everyone berated him one after another. They were furious for getting duped.

Of course, it was a one-sided account on Qiu Mu-Ying's part, but everyone believed her.

"I was just wondering how a rich young master would dress so poorly. He's even bloody wearing some random sports shoes."

"After all that, he was just a country bumpkin."

"He even lives off his wife. How could someone like that have any talent?"

"If he had any talent, he wouldn't have married into the family!"

"We were all conned!"

Everyone beneath the stage was gossiping wildly. They even berated Ye Fan for being a liar and boo-ed him off the stage.

Qiu Mu-Cheng's face turned pale as she stood there. She glanced at Ye Fan while he got verbally condemned. Even though she wanted to help Ye Fan explain matters, how should she do it?

Although Qiu Mu-Ying was harsh, she basically spoke the truth.

Ye Fan did indeed hail from a poor family and married into the Qius to be live-in husband.

In the end, Qiu Mu-Cheng lowered her face and bit her lip. Her eyes had unknowingly turned red.

"Fei, didn't you say Mr Ye was a big shot? After all that, he turned to be only a live-in husband and a country bumpkin?" Han Shao-Jie looked at Shen Fei perplexedly.

Shen Fei had always told Han Shao-Jie that Ye Fan was extraordinary and that he was the most influential person in Jiangdong. After he heard Qiu Mu-Ying exposing Ye Fan's identity, Han Shao-Jie was also filled with questions for his friend.

But Shen Fei replied in a low voice, "That woman is a stupid bitch and you believe everything she says?"

The host looked rather awkward on stage now and asked Qiu Mu-Ying, "Miss, did you make a mistake? This young man here is..." "How could I have made a mistake? I'd recognize this fellow even if you crush him to pieces! If you don't believe me, just ask him and make him say it!" Qiu Mu-Ying rudely cut the host off and laughed gleefully.

The host looked doubtful but asked Ye Fan anyway.

Ye Fan didn't hide anything and just said, "She's right.

"I do come from a lowly family and I'm just the child of a farmer."

"I married into the Qiu family and I'm just a live-in son-in-law."

Ye Fan took the microphone instead and said to the crowd again, "Please be quiet, everyone. I'd like to say a few words."

"What's there to say? Please leave!" The host chased Ye Fan away.

Qiu Mu-Ying folded her arms and waited to watch a good show. "It's alright, just let this useless bum say one more thing. Let's see what else he has to say."

The entire showroom quietened down again as everyone looked coldly at Ye Fan with a snort and much disdain on their faces.

They too, wanted to see what this country bumpkin had to say about himself at this point.

Ye Fan faced the crowd and remained calm. He cleared his throat and spoke calmly into the mic, "I won't hide this from you. It's true that I know nothing about rock gambling."

"But before leaving, I'd like to say that I've got my eye on that rock over there. How much will it cost?"

What the...

"This fellow still wants to buy a rock?”

He was even choosing one in front of everyone! Didn't he find himself embarrassing enough as it was?

Everyone looked surprised and turned to see the rock Ye Fan was talking about.

When they saw this, everyone in the showroom laughed instantly.

"He actually wants to buy a masked jade stone that no one wants?"

"Before this, I thought perhaps this young man does know how to do this. But it looks like he clearly knows nothing about these unpolished rocks."

"Don't embarrass yourself anymore and just get off the stage, will you?”

Everyone was chortling.

The host looked even more disdainfully at Ye Fan now. He ignored Ye Fan's request to buy the rock and just chased him away.

"Don't do that! Since he wants this rock to prove himself, then let him do just that! Nobody wants that rock anyway, so since this country bumpkin wants it, he can have it," Qiu Mu-Ying egged the host on since she wanted to make a scene here.