Chapter 1266: Chapter 1266: The Collapsing Honey Trap

"Jian Tao invited us to dinner."

Ye Fan found Mengyao and explained Jian Tao’s intentions.

"Is it a sincere invitation? Or does she have other motives?" Mengyao asked.

"Probably both." Ye Fan answered.

"In that case, I’m not going, you can go by yourself." Mengyao said seriously, "Jian Tao’s main target is you, I won’t join the fun. You go and observe, just be careful, don’t fall for a honey trap."

Regarding Jian Tao’s invitation, Ye Fan and Mengyao felt the same; just go along with Jian Tao’s wishes.

Since they knew Jian Tao had motives, might as well see what she does. Refusing wouldn’t serve any purpose, it’s better to let Jian Tao reveal her intentions slowly.

"You mean?" Ye Fan seemed to understand Mengyao was hinting at something else, he automatically ignored the honey trap.

"Think about it, you go out for dinner with Jian Tao and her daughter, doesn’t it look like a family of three?" Mengyao chuckled, "Take this opportunity to observe Jian Tao’s reaction. If Jian Tao resorts to any means to stick to her subjective opinions for revenge, we’ll be prepared. But, if she knows the consequences and has a sense of humanity, we might as well indulge a little."

"That’s good too!" Ye Fan left.

Jian Tao and Zhao Ruixi waited in the car, Ye Fan got in directly.

"What about President Chu? Why isn’t she coming?" Jian Tao asked puzzled.

"She has work, can’t get away at the moment, I can only go alone." Ye Fan said calmly.

"Oh!" Jian Tao responded helplessly. She felt awkward about the situation; she planned to invite Ye Fan and Mengyao, bring her daughter, so outsiders wouldn’t say anything, but now the three of them could easily be imagined as a family of three.

She had just lost her husband, if any unfavorable rumors spread, where would she save face?

But the invitation had been made, Ye Fan didn’t drive, was already in the car, what could she do?

Have a change of heart midway? That would be too ridiculous. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

She expected Ye Fan and Mengyao to drive themselves, not like this.

"Uncle!" Xixi ran from the passenger seat to the back, snuggled up to Ye Fan.

Jian Tao could only drive, saying she wouldn’t treat them to a meal now would be too embarrassing to say out loud.

...

Western restaurant.

Ye Fan, Jian Tao, and Zhao Ruixi were sitting, the table was filled with a sumptuous feast.

Jian Tao’s thoughts were chaotic, she had no mood to taste the food’s quality. She watched Xixi clinging to Ye Fan, feeling particularly uneasy, couldn’t help but think, "What’s so good about this man, ignoring mom and just sticking to him."

She could understand Xixi’s actions, who let Ye Fan carry her husband’s scent?

But as for Ye Fan’s actions, she sneered at them, disdainfully saying, "Xixi is my daughter, is it your place to comfort her? Can’t you push Xixi to my side? Indulge her every whim, isn’t this reckless? I admit, Xixi being close to you, it’s not good to give her a hard time, but you should consider my feelings."

Jian Tao felt aggrieved at heart, couldn’t stand seeing her daughter so close to someone she considered an enemy.

Even though Ye Fan’s actions were for Xixi’s good, she still looked down on Ye Fan, without an ounce of good impression.

Jian Tao now felt what it meant to shoot yourself in the foot, that’s exactly how she felt.

Thinking back to the waitstaff’s enthusiastic service, calling them ’Mr. and Miss,’ as if they were family; she couldn’t argue, just had to suppress her anger, with a smile plastered on her face, the struggle was real.

"This shameless guy, how can he be so indifferent?" Jian Tao began to complain, feeling like she alone bore all the grievances, while Ye Fan seemed unaffected, with an attitude of indifference and nonchalance, she wanted to grind her teeth; if Ye Fan were the meat under her knife and fork, she’d shred him to pieces.

She couldn’t figure out how a person, especially a man, could be so composed.

Aside from showing warmth towards Xixi’s clinginess, he appeared unconcerned about everything else, which infuriated Jian Tao.

"The waiter treats us as a family of three, and you don’t care, act oblivious, don’t even utter a word of explanation; this is too much. How can a man be so shameless?" Jian Tao’s grudge against Ye Fan grew immense.

She had endless complaints, no matter how she looked at Ye Fan, it made her angry.

Especially thinking back, to prevent misunderstanding, she blurted a clarification to the waiter, which was only met with more enthusiastic smiles, treating her like a woman throwing a tantrum at her family, this made her angrier.

"Deliberately, he must be doing this deliberately to cause misunderstanding." Jian Tao looked at Ye Fan’s close interactions with her daughter, images of her holding a knife and fork, chopping Ye Fan into hundreds of pieces naturally surfaced in her mind.

Even so, she felt unsatisfied.

"Xixi, is it tasty?" Ye Fan asked Xixi with concern.

"Uncle, it’s delicious." Xixi replied with a happy smile.

"Come, let’s toast." Ye Fan held a glass of wine.

"Cheers!" Xixi held her drink.

Ye Fan and Zhao Ruixi chatted and ate, completely ignoring Jian Tao.

Ye Fan wasn’t intentional, he had nothing to say to Jian Tao, so he only interacted with clingy Xixi.

Xixi, with the innocence of a child, couldn’t understand the complex inner world of her mom.

In Jian Tao’s eyes, however, it was another picture.

Jian Tao felt a burning anger throughout her body.

"Tricking my daughter, treating me insignificantly, not caring or explaining misunderstandings, shameless man, I want to use a knife and fork to eliminate you." Jian Tao’s inner world had murdered Ye Fan countless times, yet externally, she had to maintain a smile, not letting others see her anger, not letting Ye Fan see she hosted with emotions, and definitely not making Xixi unhappy.

Inside Jian Tao’s mind, two versions of herself were at war, tearing her apart.

She was about to collapse.

If she could regret, she wouldn’t have invited Ye Fan to such a high-class, ambiguous place for dinner.

She sadly realized, Ye Fan was such a bizarre man.

The kind that infuriates people to death.

The most frustrating part is, obviously so bizarre as to anger others, yet unaware of it himself.

He’s faking it, must be pretending.

Such a pretentious idiot, you are purposely embarrassing me, aren’t you?

In Jian Tao’s heart, Ye Fan’s image was further tarnished.