Chapter 2200

Ye Chen suddenly burst into laughter, leaving Liu Jiahui and Fang Jiaxin both shocked and angry at the same time.

They finally understood that the reason Ye Chen had been bringing up the roast goose topic wasn't because he missed the taste, as he claimed, but because he had been deliberately teasing them all along!

However, Liu Manqiong didn't feel surprised at all; instead, she was amused by Ye Chen's sudden sharp turn and laughed out loud. The two of them, sitting face to face, laughed together in tacit understanding.

Liu Jiahui's face became increasingly ugly with their laughter.

A moment later, he slammed the table and looked at Ye Chen, shouting angrily, "Mr. Ye, from the moment we met, I have treated you with courtesy and held you as an honored guest, but why are you so deliberately trying to humiliate me?!"

Ye Chen wasn't nervous at all and smiled indifferently, "Humiliate you? Mr. Liu, what do you mean by that? Although this is your home, you can't stop me from laughing, can you?"

Liu Jiahui said with a flushed face, "I invited you to my home to discuss cooperation, not for you to take the opportunity to mock me! This is too impolite!"

Ye Chen said with an innocent face, "Mr. Liu, what do you mean by that? The reason I laughed just now is because Miss Liu kept making me laugh. We are both young people; when she laughs, I want to laugh along. Is there a problem with that?"

Liu Jiahui said angrily, "But you clearly know what roast goose means! Doesn't your previous remark amount to admitting that you did it on purpose?"

Ye Chen's face was filled with confusion, "Roast goose is just roast goose. Besides being edible, what else could it mean? The reason I said that just now is because I thought Miss Liu was deliberately teasing me, wanting to see if I could hold back my laughter, so I had the intention to play a little game with her, which can be considered as enhancing our mutual understanding."

After finishing, Ye Chen looked at Liu Manqiong very seriously and said, "For a girl as beautiful as Miss Liu, being able to make her smile is my honor. To say something presumptuous, didn't the ancients often say, 'A fair lady is a gentleman's desire'? Seeing Miss Liu, I naturally wanted to express myself a little. Is that wrong?"

As soon as Ye Chen said this, Liu Manqiong's expression became somewhat unnatural.

She didn't expect Ye Chen to suddenly shift the topic to her, and in these words, besides the teasing, there seemed to be a bit of sincerity.

Liu Jiahui was also a bit confused at this moment.

He really couldn't understand whether Ye Chen was deliberately teasing him or truly intending to please his daughter.

If it were the former, then with his temper, he certainly couldn't tolerate it and would have to settle the score with Ye Chen; otherwise, how could he live up to his current status and position? Furthermore, his wife was sitting right across from him; if he were mocked in front of her, where would he put his old face?

But if it were the latter, then the direction of the whole thing happened to meet his expectations.

Because his original idea was to bring out his cold daughter, let her hook Ye Chen's soul, and then he would strike while the iron was hot to finalize the cooperation with Ye Chen.

After the cooperation was finalized, with his daughter's personality, she would absolutely not give Ye Chen any chance to take advantage of her.

In this way, he would be the winner who laughed last.

Others would say this kind of tactic is called "using a wolf to catch a wolf."

But in Liu Jiahui's view, this was clearly a lure-fishing expert using a simulated lure to catch fish.

Ordinary people fishing, besides fishing gear, have to prepare all kinds of bait and ground bait, trying every possible way to get the fish in the water to bite. There are plenty of rookies who throw ten pounds of ground bait just to catch half a pound of fish.

But lure experts are different; they only use realistic lures. When the fish bites the simulated lure and gets caught, the lure can be reused after being removed. As long as the technique is good, it can be reused infinitely without paying any extra costs.

Therefore, at this moment, he didn't dare to continue arguing with Ye Chen about this issue.

After all, he still intended to catch the big fish of Yisu Shipping, so he would try his best not to fall out with Ye Chen. As long as Ye Chen didn't explicitly say he was mocking him as a cuckold, then he had to treat it as if he didn't know about it.

Consequently, he hurriedly changed his expression and smiled, "So that's it. Mr. Ye, it seems I misunderstood you. I'll punish myself with a drink!"

After saying this, he immediately picked up his wine glass and drank the white spirit in one gulp.

Ye Chen nodded with a smile and said, "I really didn't expect that a mere roast goose would make Mr. Liu so unhappy. Since that's the case, let's not eat roast goose tonight."