A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)

Chapter 183 Getting Their Just Desserts

Sun Yu-Hao had already taken a look at the receipt earlier.

Just that teacup in Ye Fan's hands that Han Li had smashed cost $80,000 on its own.

Sun Yu-Hao didn't think Peng Zhen-Ying was pulling a fast one on them either. He had seen such tea

sets before too. Both the teapot and the teacups were part of the same batch and so the color was

identical. The most important part was that the design on each teacup formed one complete pattern as

well.

Now that Han Li had smashed one of them, it was as if there was now a crack in a unique ceramic

piece, and that greatly decreased the value of this tea set.

Destroying one part was as good as destroying the entire set.

It really wasn't surprising that Peng Zhen-Ying was making them compensate the restaurant with

$80,000.

But of course, the most expensive item was that collector's wine.

That bottle alone cost $400,000 already.

So after adding it all up, it did come up to more than $600,000.

So Sun Yu-Hao didn't have anything to say against the establishment after seeing the receipt.

But he secretly swore to himself to never bring Han Li out to eat ever again. Over his dead body.

Even after he really married Qiu Mu-Cheng, he was going to stay far, far away from this Han Li.

There was no way he would live in the same house as this crazy bitch.

While Han Li and the rest were stuck in Haiyuan Restaurant, Ye Fan had gone to the hospital to

accompany Qiu Mu-Cheng.

Han Hai had been sent to the hospital in time and he wasn't too heavily poisoned either. After a brief

period of treatment and some medicine, Han Hai was going to be okay after a good rest.

"Is Uncle Hai ok?" Ye Fan asked with a chuckle as he walked over to Qiu Mu-Cheng in the ward.

"You still dare to laugh! My uncle has turned out like this all because of you," accused Qiu Mu-Cheng

as she glared angrily at Ye Fan.

Ye Fan put his hands up and looked all innocent. "Mu-Cheng, you can't blame me for this."

"Uncle Hai was the one trying to make me drunk. I was just accompanying him. I didn't expect him to

put up such a strong front and end up getting alcohol poisoning instead," laughed Ye Fan as he shook

his head.

"Alright, just shut up now. Once my mum and Fei-Fei gets here, you're going to get a good scolding."

Qiu Mu-Cheng knew that this was not Ye Fan's fault at all. Han Hai brought this upon himself.

But so what if she knew that? As long as Han Hai was the one lying here, then Ye Fan would still get

scolded.

"They can scold me all they want. I'm already so used to it anyway. As long as my wife understands

me," said Ye Fan with a faint smile. He looked like he didn't care anymore and wasn't bothered by his

impending doom.

The room was suddenly quiet and the dim light swayed slightly.

Qiu Mu-Cheng was next to the bed while Ye Fan was leaning against the table next to her.

Neither of them spoke and just enjoyed the gentle breeze coming in from the window.

Han Hai was in a deep sleep and didn't look like he was going to wake up soon.

It was a rare moment where Qiu Mu-Cheng and Ye Fan were alone together. Qiu Mu-Cheng's cheeks

were still flushed from drinking earlier and she sighed quietly.

"Ye Fan, wouldn't it be nice if we had our own place? Then you wouldn't have to get scolded by my

parents all day and let them pick on you. It'll be so nice if it was just the two of us." Perhaps Qiu Mu-

Cheng was really drunk. She seldom spoke to Ye Fan about her thoughts like that.

Ye Fan started to smile. "Two of us? I don't think it's a good idea."

"Oh? Why? You mean you prefer to let my mum scold you all day?" Qiu Mu-Cheng got a little annoyed

and decided that Ye Fan was really an idiot. She was considering his feelings but he didn't seem to

care for it.

"That's not what I was referring to. I meant that just having two in the house isn't a good thing. It'll be

better if we have a few kids too. Having my wife and children in the same house would really be nice."

Ye Fan was still speaking when Qiu Mu-Cheng felt her face redden in embarrassment. She picked up a

pillow from the bed and threw it hard at Ye Fan.

"Go and die! Who's your wife and children?! And you even want more than one? Dream on! I'll never

bear you any, you shameless twat!" Qiu Mu-Cheng scolded him in embarrassment.

Qiu Mu-Cheng's reddened face under the dim light was so beautiful that even the flowers in bloom

outside the window looked away sadly.

For that one moment, Ye Fan suddenly had an urge to embrace this mesmerizing woman in front of

him.

And he really acted on it.

The more surprising thing was that Qiu Mu-Cheng didn't protest nor move aside as her charming and

slightly inebriated face watched Ye Fan came closer to her with open arms.

But at this moment, Qiu Mu-Cheng's phone suddenly rang.

This sudden sound made Qiu Mu-Cheng snap out of her daze. Her face was ever redder now as she

got startled and quickly avoided Ye Fan's embrace to pick up the call.

"Mu-Cheng, come and save me! Your mother has been detained!"

What?!

"Mum, don't cry. Tell me what happened?” Qiu Mu-Cheng was so shocked that her face instantly paled.

After Han Li cried and wailed for a long time while telling her story, Qiu Mu-Cheng finally pieced the

whole thing together.

"$700,000?! My god, what on earth did you guys eat?!" Qiu Mu-Cheng was equally floored by this

astronomical figure.

Han Li sounded guilty as she replied in a quiet voice, "Nothing really, it's just that we broke one piece of

a tea set and drank a bottle of very expensive wine..."

In no time, Qiu Mu-Cheng angrily hung up on her mother.

"Mu-Cheng, what's wrong?" Ye Fan was curious because he didn't know what happened.

"Don't talk about it. I can't believe it. Can you believe it? My mum and the rest actually chalked up a

$700,000 bill?"

"I can't be bothered. Since they managed to chalk up such an amount, they can bear the responsibility

of paying it off. I don't have so much money anyway." Qiu Mu-Cheng was so angry that she was

shaking.

Ye Fan was gleeful when he heard this. NôvelDrama.Org © 2024.

He had pretty much guessed that this would happen.

He figured that the manager at Haiyuan Restaurant must have charged them for that bottle of wine he

gave away.

It wasn't difficult to make a guess. That was a bottle of extremely fine wine and Peng Zhen-Ying had

made the difficult decision of giving it away only because he wanted to get close to Ye Fan.

But instead of getting any closer to Ye Fan, Han Li and the rest had finished it off. And worse still, they

had even chased Ye Fan away.

Without Ye Fan around, Peng Zhen-Ying wasn't going to be polite to them either and he was going to

collect every single cent owed to the restaurant. Since they couldn't pay up, then of course the

restaurant was going to detain them until they could.

Nobody was to blame. They were getting their just desserts.

Ye Fan had initially meant to accompany them until they finished footing the bill. With him around, the

manager would either waive the entire bill or just charge them 10-20% of the bill, and that bottle of wine

would definitely have come free of charge.

But since those people looked down on Ye Fan and chased him away, they ended up bringing this

upon themselves. They couldn't blame anyone for that.

Eventually Han Li, Qiu Lei, Sun Yu-Hao and Han Fei-Fei were stuck in the restaurant overnight, and

Sun Yu-Hao only managed to find someone to transfer the money the next morning before the four of

them could finally go home with their tails between their legs.

After embarrassing himself so badly, Sun Yu-Hao didn't dare to stay at Qiu Mu-Cheng's place anymore

and checked himself into a hotel instead.

As for Han Hai, he only woke up on the second night.

When the first person he saw was Ye Fan, Han Hai's face reddened and he was too embarrassed to

even say anything.

What a disgrace.

He was the one who thought of making Ye Fan drink until he dropped. But in the end, nothing

happened to Ye Fan while he got alcohol poisoning and was sent to the hospital instead.

Just thinking about it made him feel ashamed of himself.

After regaining consciousness, Han Hai also decided to stay in a hotel instead.

The Mid-Autumn Festival was almost upon them and they had to get down to serious business, so

neither Han Hai nor Sun Yu-Hao were interested in going after Qiu Mu-Cheng for the time being.

Indeed, Han Hai and Sun Yu-Hao were in Yunzhou not so much because of Qiu Mu-Cheng, but

because of that auction that was happening on the night of the MidAutumn Festival.