Chapter 3

Jie Min looked at the familiar house in front of her and sighed, she really does not want to enter back into this horrible house. She can feel something is up, she can feel things are about to change. Cheng Kai looked at her expression on her face like she was dreading to go back home.

"Hey, are you okay?" Cheng Kai asked concern lace in his tone.

"Yea of course I'm okay. I just can't bare to leave your handsome ass here" She joked around trying to distract herself from stuff she does not like.

Cheng Kai rolled his eyes at her words before shooing her out of the car, "Take care, text Uncle once you've reached home." He said through the window.

"Yes, yes I will. Text me when you've reached home too" She said as she waved goodbye to Cheng Kai and walked back home. She walked into the mansion after one of the maids opened the door and allowed her to enter. When she walked into the house, she saw everyone at the living room sitting serenely.

She looked over at Tian Xin who had an extremely uncomfortable facial expression as she eyed the phone that her father had made her place onto the coffee table. Jie Min took a deep breath, "What's wrong?" She asked sounding extremely carefree and happy like how she would normally sound.

Chen Guo Min looked at Jie Min's mother, "Where have you been the whole day?" Her mother asked her condescendingly.

Listening to what her mother have asked her, Jie Min understood what was going on already. Chen Guo Min must've received news from the school that she had not attended school today, and had send people to check up on her. He wanted his fresh flower to be untainted, a dodder flower he wanted.

She should've known that he would have people following her but it has slipped her mind after she came to realise everything.

"I went to visit dad." She said matter-of-factly.

"Why would you go visit him?" Her mother asked, her tone filled with disgust. Jie Min was holding back her urge to roll her eyes, she smiled at her mother instead.

"Dad had asked me to go visit him after all I haven't visited him for over a year." Chen Guo Min at the side seem to be getting impatient, his wife wasn't asking the correct and proper questions he was interested in.

"Who was that man?" He finally asked as he looked straight at Jie Min, he was sure he had taught her not to have a boyfriend. He was shameless in thinking he had full control of her.

"He's my friend." Jie Min said softly, although she knows she must face up and be strong but his psychological control over her had basically been imprinted into her even if she had wanted to change it would take her awhile before she can adjust.

"Friend? Why are you with him at such a late time, what have you guys been doing, is he actually your boyfriend but you don't want to tell daddy about it?" He questioned as he folded his arm against his chest. Jie Min looked straight at his face, she could see that if she had answered something wrong, she'll get it from him.

"Yes, he is just a friend, I was with him because he was sending me home. We didn't do anything." She felt disgusted at his behaviour, his possessive behaviour but she still meekly replied to him.

"I'll believe you." He said with a smile on his face, extremely disgusting. "All of you go back to your room, I want to have a word with Jie Min" He added quickly after.

Jie Min started panicking, she wants to escape she have to escape. She looked over at Tian Xin, who was also looking at her worriedly. Jie Min immediately thought of period, she quickly clutched onto her abdomen as she hints at Tian Xin. She dropped on the floor as she bit hard onto her lip, "Jie Min! Are you okay??" Tian Xin asked as she quickly rushed over to her.

Slowly helping her up, "Dad I think it's not the right time, she's not feeling well" Tian Xin said. You could see the slight irritation in Chen Guo Min's eye, but as quickly as it came, he hid it away and nodded his head to agreeing to let her go rest. Tian Xin helped Jie Min up to her room and the both of them heaved a sigh of relief.

Jie Min invited Tian Xin into her room as they started chatting, Jie Min was filling Tian Xin up on her plans of moving back with her father and going to university in that area.

"Have you thought of where would you go after leaving this place?" Jie Min asked Tian Xin.

"Honestly no. I'm still looking for a suitable place to move." Jie Min honestly feel bad for Tian Xin, she had no other kin left after her mother had passed away and her dad could be as good as dead to her. She really wants to treat this stepsister of hers like a real one after all, Tian Xin still treat her nicely even though she had treated her so meanly.

"Hey, how about moving to my area? I can ask dad to look for apartments near my place or I can ask him if you can move into one of the vacant rooms? You don't have any relatives; I've decided to treat you like my real sister now." Jie Min smiled at Tian Xin when Tian Xin stared at her in shock.

"Hmm, that seems to be a good idea! From today onwards, we'll be good sisters and help each other!" Tian Xin said happily. After chatting awhile, Tian Xin lent Jie Min her notes to copy after all she had missed lessons today and returned to her room.

Jie Min started thinking back to events that had happened in her 'dreams' trying to recall if there is anything important that had happened. However as though those memories were locked up, she couldn't recall anything.

"Ah whatever, when it comes it comes." Jie Min mumbled as she jumped onto her bed feeling mentally drained. She better be careful and not mess up like today.

The next morning, using excuses that they both were on duty to clean up the classroom they left earlier and skipped having breakfast with their parents.

"Uncle Lee, today me and Jie Min will go to school ourselves. We're going to go to school with another friend. You can just pretend you dropped us off at school, I won't get in trouble okay." Tian Xin said as they both quickly got off the car and dashed off.

"Tian Xin, have you eaten Macdonald before?" Jie Min asked as they walked towards the mall, she looked over at Tian Xin as she shook her head seeming embarrassingly.

"How about we have Macdonald for breakfast?" Jie Min suggested and before waiting for Tian Xin to agree she dragged her into Macdonald and ordered two McMuffins set with water as the drink.

"let me pay" Tian Xin suggested as she pulled out the credit card her father gave her.

"No, no. Tian Xin if you used that card your father would be notified that we had spend money at Macdonald. Just let me pay, my card is given to me by my dad it won't be traceable by him." Jie Min said as she quickly paid for the meal with her money.

Handing the burger to Tian Xin, she excitedly took a bite of her sausage McMuffin. Jie Min turned to her right and looked at Tian Xin starring at her burger inquisitively, "Try it! It's good, if you don't try this, you'll die a regretful death." Hearing Jie Min's word, Tian Xin chuckled a little as she took a bite as well.

"Woah" Tian Xin exclaimed after taking her first bite, it was surprising delicious even though it can't be compared to food prepared by a chef that takes 30 minutes but it's good!

They ate their burger in bliss as they walked to school, as they reached the school gate, they saw Zheng Nan the top scorer of their cohort. Although he wasn't rich, he got into the school through scholarship and because of that he stood out among them, moreover he was an extremely handsome young man.

"Zheng Nan!" Tian Xin called out happily as she saw him, looking sceptically at Tian Xin and at Zheng Nan, Jie Min seem to recall some things.