Kept an Eye on Her

"Are you going somewhere?"

When Chen Rumin walked to enter the wardrobe room to put the gifts her student gave her, she noticed that her daughter's wardrobe was slightly open. She deemed Chen Ziyi either forgot or purposely not to lock back the wardrobe. She opened and saw that there was a familiar clothes protector hanging at the end of wardrobe.

She already knew what was inside the bag so she did not tried to reach the protector to see what was inside. The black clothes protector was the only protector that Chen Ziyi bought from a convenience store to keep all the dresses that she too bought by using her own pocket allowances. There were also some dresses given by her ex-husband.

The dresses were all white and all style that not complement to Chen Ziyi's beauty at all. Thinking of how her ex-husband's thoughtlessness choice, Chen Rumin truly felt want to punch the stupid man's face and stomach. A father should pamper his daughter. Recalling that, she could not help but being emotional about this and felt pity towards her daughter. Feeling tears already threatened to roll down on her cheeks, she stroked it away not wanting her daughter to see it.

When they were having dinner together that evening, she intentional pampered her daughter by cooking her favorite salmon grilled and few other vegetables.

"Hmm" Chen Ziyi truly enjoy her salmon grilled. Her mother purposely cook more since it was her most favorite dish.

"Conquest Plaza. My friend, Han Meirong will drive me there. Not her, should be her driver?" Chen Ziyi said, still giving the necessary information detail to her mother so she at least know where she was going. Knowing Han Meirong, Chen Rumin just smile and nodded her head. She just need to know that her daughter was going to a safe place and accompanied by good people and they was at her age.

Still, she was quite surprised yet excited for her daughter's first meet up with friends outside of school. Her daughter used to either spend her day at school or their home. At home, she would either study or made a phone call to her father to have a conversation which the later would acted impassive and unresponsive towards her. She rarely went home late or went out on weekend to hang out with her friends. She only went home late to go for her violin or piano class or to secretly practice her singing lesson.

Yes, she know all her daughter's secret. But she's not going to tell her that. She would only interfere if it get in the way of her academic goal. But now, luckily, her result was qualified enough to get a recommendation to the school she was going to signed her daughter's name in Province Y. Chen Rumin looked at her dear daughter with adore looks while eating her dinner.

"So what did you decide to wear for tomorrow?" Chen Rumin knew that kids her daughter age should have a concern regarding their first impression thus they would pay extra care on their looks especially on their attire and appearances.

"Just a simple wide neck and flared dress. The blue colour. The one you said your friend gave me." Chen Ziyi said enjoying her last bite.

"That was last year present. There's no other option? It's getting colder now."

"I will wear a coat when going out tomorrow. It was a hotpot restaurant so it must be hot plus they have heater there. I was going to wear something simpler but Meirong said we have to wear a smart casual attire since the restaurant made the regulations like that. So I am choosing for just a dress that was not too thick and use comfortable fabric. "

"Hotpot restaurant. Conquest Plaza? Hmm… Ohh it must be FuGui . Go taste their their salted egg custard bun later. And pack one for home."

Chen Ziyi nodded at her mother request.

"Han Meirong truly know how to choose a place. When you go to that place, don't walk by your own. It is a safe place, don't worry. It's just a common place for the upper class and businessman to have lunch and dinner over there. So, don't go wander around by yourselves if you do not know how to act around them.Take a walk with Han Meirong or Ren Linna. Lu Zixin can also be relied on even though he is like that. An Huiyin is not a good choice to take a walk around since she still not accustomed to that society yet." Chen Rumin kept on blabbering giving reminder while taking her plates to the sink and washed them.

"How come you know about them much better than me?" Chen Ziyi asked with her interrogating tone, looking sharply towards her mother. She can just guessed on how her mother would know them much better than her, by considering her own attitude for not attentive to such details previously. Furthermore, the possibility of her mother kept someone to watch over her is not zero but she still wanted to ask her mother to see her reaction. Her mother kept too much secret from her.

Chen Rumin stopped her movement for a while before continue wash her hands. She know that look and that tone. But this time much firmer. Although there was transparency and no secret that Chen Rumin would use her connection for her daughter's benefit, and it was inevitable for her to use those method to know her development in school, but there also must be bottom line for that.

Chen Rumin never interfere of how the school giving treatment to her daughter, be it the evaluation marks or punishment, who is going to be the class teacher, teaching that, teaching this, and her daughter know that fact. But one thing, that Chen Ziyi always disliked,- her daughter hate the feeling being lead to have a certain thought, being manipulated or being controlled.

Her daughter was much on the side to have her own personal thought so sometimes they had few fights if her deeds clashed with what she felt. Somehow, she felt Chen's gene truly gone too much in her daughter's blood. Her ex-husband often claim that their daughter was too much like her but she always believe that her daughter was another species. And that species would lead inevitable heavier clash if Chen Ziyi continued to insist to stay in the Zheng's. Zheng's inability to cope with her daughter would lead them to abandon her and that would just similar like bullying her!