A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)

Chapter 1939

“Let's put aside the nuclear bomb, or other means you thought could threaten my life. Tell me, what are you going to do if you can kill me?

“The moment you use the strength of the entire nation to threaten a Supreme, you have set up the whole country as the enemy of the Supreme! In that case, I won't have any burden killing any one of your citizens then.”

Despite the expressionless look on his face, Ye Fan's calm-sounding warning had an undertone of murderous intent, fury, and craze.

“Y-You...”

King Folo's mask ofcalm and confidence cracked. His body trembled with fear at Ye Fan's threat.

He pointed at Ye Fan with shaking fingers and roared, “Madman! You're a madman! How could you even think about harmingthe people?

“Aren't you scared? Your action might provoke all the fighters from the martial arts world to come after you? Have you no fear that it will destroy your reputation in China's martial arts world?” Exclusive © material by Nô(/v)elDrama.Org.

Ye Fan's words horrified King Folo and Haibu.

There was a consensus within the martial arts world.

No martial artists could release their wrath upon the citizens no matter what, especially supreme grandmasters. After all, they possessed the strength to destroy the whole world.

They could obliterate a city within a day at their will.

Realizing the extent of what the Supreme's terrifying capabilities could cause, the International Martial Arts League had come up with a new rule. Any action that involved the killing of the general public would be severely punished by all martial artists in the martial arts world.

Every country had its elite fighters, and they were responsible to capture and kill those who broke the treaty.

It was the rule and the bottom line.

It was rare that anyone would go against it, but that didn't mean no one did.

Once, there was a mayor who seized another man's wife and daughter.

That man went into hiding for decades and achieved Supreme rank when he turned eighty.

Upon achieving the Supreme rank, that man annihilated the mayor's entire family and city to exact revenge on the mayor's despicable action.

Half a million people had lost their lives that day.

Even though that man had a reason for his actions, martial arts leaders from a few nations insisted on imposing a death sentence on him despite many others pleading for his case.

It was the red line that supreme grandmasters could never cross.

So never once had King Folo expected the hooligan in front of him to say he would commit such a horrendous act.

What is he thinking? Is he anti-humanity? Also, I thought the Chinese cared deeply about benevolence?

A few thousands of years of implementing etiquette lessons in their education had ingrained tolerance and benevolence in the Chinese populace.

They practiced repaying gratitude with kindness and retaliating resentment with virtue.

When Japan committed a heinous crime against the Chinese during the Second World War, the Chinese exempted war reparations from the Japanese despite the terrible act.

Moreover, anyone who researched the world's maritime history would be surprised to find that the western nations sailed across seas and oceans to commit war, plundering, massacres, and colonization against the lands they stepped foot on. They stole other countries' riches and brought them back to their homeland.

In contrast, China's most famous sea voyager was a diplomat who traveled to the Central continent. His travels were earlier than anyone from the West. Instead of going into war, he brought silks and ceramics for trade. China was bringing wealth and riches to strangers in faraway lands across the sea.

The Chinese also propagated the moral influence theory of atonement.

King Folo had actually liked to form diplomatic ties with nations that adopted such benevolent acts.

When one treated that country well and the people would reciprocate with kindness a hundredfold.

They wouldn't retaliate even if one had treated them badly. They would have a chat to sort things out at most. They might even send some gifts as a plaster over the wounded relationship.

That was what retaliating with virtue meant.

Yet, the man standing in front of King Folo at that moment seemed to have thrown away this practice and tradition.

What happens to benevolence? If we're talking about kindness, he should obediently nullify all his powers, then retreat to China and vow to never step foot in India.As for his woman, we'll release her after a couple of years of monitoring his behavior.

King Folo and the rest had no intention to release Junie immediately, even after Ye Fan did what they asked.

They planned to monitor Ye Fan for a few years. Once they made sure he had no intention to exact revenge and was no longer a threat, only then would release Junie.

During his negotiation with Ye Fan earlier, King Folo

didn't mention he would release Junie immediately. He merely said he would release her after Ye Fan returned to China.

So it was a word play of the word “after”.

It could be an hour later, three years later, or even five years later.

However, it was not the time to dispute that matter because King Folo realized the guy he met that day could possibly be a madman.

King Folo wanted to use Junie as leverage to threaten Ye Fan, whereas Ye Fan turned the tables and threatened him with one billion four hundred million lives.

Ye Fan laughed as though someone had cracked a joke.

“Benevolence? So you're planning to use morality to restrict me?” Ye Fan mocked.

“Don't you think your words are like a knife pressed against my neck? You intend to kill me yet forbid me from fighting back.” “It's considered inhumane and immoral if I resist and that I'll trigger

the wrath of the populace leading every martial artist to go after me.

“On the contrary, you killing me is an act of justice and righteousness. What kind of bull are you pulling?” Ye Fan scoffed.

Ye Fan's remarks had rendered King Folo speechless.

“Chu Tianfan, I don't care how clever your tongue is in tipping the right into wrong. I'm warning you now that the entire martial arts world will be going after you if you dare to hurt any commoners,” King Folo warned.

Ye Fan shook his head. “Do you think I still care about that? I thought I'd already turned into a monster that you guys called me two years ago at the coast of the Eastsea.

“This world no longer has a place for me, so why will I be afraid to go against the world?” Ye Fan retorted with a smile.

His soft voice had an undertone of somberness.

However, Noa was the only one who caught the overwhelming sadness and loneliness in Ye Fan's voice.

He sounded like a little boy that had been abandoned by the whole world. It was as though he was walking alone on the endless empty plains with only silence as his company.

So a lonely soul had been hiding behind the dazzling mask of the powerful man with the strength that could go against the world.

Noa wondered what kind of horrible life he had lived in the past to have such overwhelming loneliness in him.

Everyone knew about Jiangdong's finest man, Mr. Chu's boldness and the dignity of the Hall Master of Dragon God Hall, who ranked first on Sky Ranking.

Yet, how many had known about Ye Fan's loneliness and tattered heart behind his shining mask of glory.

He was abandoned by his family when he was very young.

When he and his mother were humiliated, the beloved father whom he thought would protect him forever merely stood and watched from afar with a dispassionate gaze.

Then, the label “unwanted child” had stuck with him for his entire childhood.

His memories from his years back in Yeyang were filled with the disgusted gazes of his other aunts and uncles. It was one of his most hated memories.

After that, he married into the Qiu family and got a stunning wife by coincidence.

He thought that was the turning point of his life.

Unfortunately, his three years of marriage only brought him further humiliation.

Everyone had looked down on him and thought of him as a loser.

Even his cousin didn't address him respectfully because she thought him unworthy of the title.

That wasn't entirely accurate.

There was someone who didn't look down on him.

His brother, Chu Qitian.

Chu Qitian had been searching for him for a decade to kill him.

The only presence Ye Fan had felt during those years was from his brother who pursued him with the intention to kill him.

It was ironic.

Sometimes, Ye Fan felt it was a miracle that he managed to grow up to his age.