Send Her to Boarding School

Infuriated and disgusted with the shamelessness and audacious of the whole family of Zheng, Chen Rumin changed Ziyi's surname not wanting her daughter to share same surname with the Zheng's. Chen Rumin later continued her life with just her daughter and her friends' supports.

What she missed at that time, was how Chen Ziyi as a child, had just lost an important figure in her childhood. Due to her childhood memory filled with her father most of the time for the first of three years but later was abandoned, Chen Ziyi growing up always wishes to get spend time with her father.

Everyday, Chen Ziyi would ask her mother to make a call to her father to have a weekend together. But Zheng Rong, being a douche-bag with his also douche-bag sons, most of the time spend good time with the cute younger girl ignoring Chen Ziyi's appeal.

Chen Ziyi who just wanted an attention from her father sometimes would act like a child wanted a candy thus was often being compared to the younger girl who appeared to be more adorable and lovable. So she changed her strategy to become a perfect and well-behaved daughter that her father could ever wished for. Little did the little Ziyi knew, that her father never cared on those aspects.

His sights only had Zheng Shuyu and literally forgot that he had another daughter. He ignored all Chen Ziyi's efforts and did not even praise for any of her achievement. To Zheng Rong, he was just unable to comprehend with Chen Ziyi's face and attitude who was just a spite of his ex-wife's strong image. He dislikes those kind of image. He was in no need a strong woman on his side.

Chen Ziyi thus later grow up with her working mother and no her dear father by her side. For the next few years until she get into middle school, Chen Ziyi never forgets to sometimes request her father to spend time together. But, as usual, the request was either postponed to no specific date or Zheng Rong would bring his other three children along ruining Chen Ziyi's expectation to have a date with her father.

Chen Rumin made Chen Ziyi attended a different school from what Zheng Rong signed for his three sons and daughter. Zheng Rong's family's Blue West city was still in Province G but was more on the West side. Meanwhile, Chen Rumin and Chen Ziyi's was more on the east side facing sea and they were much closer to center of Province G more than Blue West. With Chen's family help, Chen Rumin made sure there would be no chance for Chen Ziyi's growing up in the same environment as the Zheng's. But of course that ruined when they would meet each other by coincidence as Chen Rumin could not control everyone's movement however she like and sometimes Chen Ziyi herself wanted to meet her father.

Growing up looking at her father's back who his eyes always on the another girl, sometimes made Chen Ziyi tend to attract her father's attention by dressing and behaving like the cute younger one. She would choose white dress which was not her favourite colour and the younger girl's cute style which was clearly opposite of Chen Ziyi's style.

She picked singing performance for her school stage performance hoping that would attract her father's attention since the younger one loves to sing and has a knack for it. She intended to choose a singing club at first, but was scolded by Chen Rumin for such poor reason. So she could only find her own time to practice by herself and even send a request to the crew to participate as singing performer. Nevertheless, her father never came for every her performance day and she would either cancel her stage or replaced the singing performance with her piano performance.

Disappointed with no result of her effort, Chen Ziyi stay low for a while until when Chen Rumin was offered to continue her teaching career at B university at Province Y. Accepting the offer would means moving to a new place. Province Y was quite far from the current city they live in and it was impossible for Chen Rumin to go back forth to and from her home to her workplace. Chen Rumin inevitably decided to just move in to Province Y with her daughter as it was a normal thing to do.

Although Province Y was just a second to Capital Province, and the city they were moving to more like greenly environment and isolated, Province Y was a quite well established city and Chen Rumin thought it was suitable for them to start new life.

As expected when she told Chen Ziyi about the decision, Chen Ziyi was reluctant on the whole idea. "Can't I stay here? Can't we…." Chen Ziyi was going to suggest about going back and forth, but realizing the travelling distance, she dropped the idea.

"How are you going stay alone here. How can I abandon my daughter here while working more than 100km from here? It is normal for me bring you along with me. It is a good place you know. You are my daughter, so you should come with me."

"But mom. I can-"

"You can what? Don't tell me you want to move to that Zheng's house? Then what? You want to go the same school as hers? You would be bullied there, do you aware of it? That man never-"

"MOM!!"

Just two weeks ago, they had fight about it and now her daughter suddenly said she wanted to follow her. She had mixed feelings about the sudden changes. She felt relief, excited, happy, and worry at the same time.

After they had the fight, with hopes that she could change her daughter's mind while her instinct told herself that it would be difficult, considering how stubborn her daughter was, Chen Rumin still made an appointment with Zheng Rong for the matter. When Chen Ziyi fainted at the school and started to behave differently, she thought that her daughter's wish this time might be one that she could not be budge.

Zheng Rong was hesitate at first and even suggest to arrange for Chen Ziyi to just go for boarding school until Chen Rumin scold him for being unreasonable. She even splashed a glass of cold water to his face and insulted his family, listing every his family member's name include the children along with their shameful misdeed, excluding his first wife who was obvious the only one who had good upbringing.

She did all those in a very cynical and sarcastic tone which later infuriated him. He indeed hate how people would bring up his poor baby girl's story as a shameful past wherever she go so he took extremely good care of her. When she also insult his sons and his parents, he just later decided to agree to take Chen Ziyi into his house on the condition that if she made trouble to his family, he would not hesitate to send her to boarding school.

Listening to how Zheng Rong still being shameless in front of her, Chen Rumin just clenched her fist and wickedly threatened that if he dared to do so, she would sell both her and Chen Ziyi's shares in the Zheng's company randomly at strangers at cheap price. "I have all your enemies contact number. I can even sell to them if I want".

Despite of her threats to Zheng Rong, Chen Rumin was still unease about leaving her precious daughter to Zheng's. Although she rarely able to spend more time with her daughter and most of Chen Ziyi's time was spent on her piano and violin class, she would pay attention to every detail in her daughter's growth and development. She did not interfere much in her daughter's life previously as she wanted to give her daughter her own pace and to enjoy learn about life by her own.

Chen Rumin was chewing her food, with her dark eyes looked at her beautiful teenager who still wearing her baby pink cotton sleepwear sitting facing her. The long sleeve top was loosely buttoned which would make any person who had a nice collarbone appeared alluring, include her ladylike daughter.

Although her daughter was still fifteen years old, and most of the body still growing and not yet had her first menstrual cycle,Chen Ziyi's fair skin and her black hair that was inherited from her already gave her a good look. But at that time, Chen Rumin could also see how her daughter look as frail and delicate despite of how strong she want to try to make as.

'My daughter is just a little girl'

'Umph!! My daughter is much pleasant to see compared to that girl. Taking advantage of her situation, how pretentious! Very suitable for that stupid blind Zheng Rong'