Zheng Haozu's friends

Meanwhile, the man noticed there were something entangled with his cuff links. He sighed and put his chopstick on the table. He then put off the cuff link from his shirt so he can release the chain from his cuff link. He then took the chain with a locket with a three alphabets engraved on it. "Ask her what she can remember about the locket."

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"SCW"

Chen Ziyi said when the man who was still with his grief looks came back asking her what she can remember about her own bracelet.

"It was combination alphabet of SCW engraved on the back of the small locket. It was a gift given by my mother as a charm protection. Even when someone tried to snatch it away from me, I would fight for it back." Chen Ziyi said. She knew she just had to be frank with these type of people. In fact, it was true she could feel safe when she had the bracelet with her.

Although she did not know the meaning behind SCW, .. - No. It was more on she never had time to ask about it from her mother. She never care to ask. Her mother once said, if among the things she had, other than her violin and piano, she should never give up the bracelet. At that time, she did not think much. She assumed the bracelet might be Chen's heirloom which her mother would not forgive her if she lost it, especially to Zheng's. However, when her mother died, it was not only act as her charm protection but it also one thing that made her remembered her mother, so she treasured it dearly.

In her past life, her mother gave that bracelet to her when they were parting from each other. She could still remember her mother's disappointed look when she insisted to study at Lanshu compared to ZuYin, the school that she was trying to register her name into. To her mother, her decision to stay with her father and study at LanShu was just similar like giving up her future. To her mother, LanShu was clearly inferior to ZuYin and even Chenhe could at least will allow her to have better chance to get accepted to A university. So her mother said "You had already give up your future, I hope you will at least not giving up this tiny bracelet. Just consider this as my small request from you".

When she went back to this life, she realized the bracelet followed her and her mother did not said anything when she saw the bracelet on her hand. It was like there was a missing event that she did not know. But she was reminded of what the girl had once said at her, to not unnecessarily investigate something out of science which was clearly not her expertise. Hence, she gave up the idea to muse on it.

Listening to Chen Ziyi mention about protection and fight, the man who crashed with her gave the bracelet to Jiang Jingguo without any comment. Later, Jiang Jingguo gave the bracelet to the man who hold the door before he walked back to his seat. The other then felt at ease when they realized the girl who came was really looking for her bracelet.

"Sister?" a soft voice called out.

Chen Ziyi stiffened upon she heard that voice.

The bracelet was already in Chen Ziyi's grasp. The man's skin which slightly touched Chen Ziyi's skin could sense the cold skin of the young girl in front of him. His enchanting eyes landed on Chen Ziyi's little face.

There was no warmth on her face, only cold . Her expression also was different than she was showing to himself just now. She was at least friendlier towards him and his friends in the room, but now she was like full guarded against the people who own the voice.

Bai Wenqin was trying to find the exact time to get out from any possibility to get involved as the audience of a show that will soon happen until Chen Ziyi herself smiled towards him and pushed him back to the room. He was surprised that a mere fifteen year old girl tried to push him away in that way. It was opposite to others who would be fidgeting to do that to a stranger and adult on top of that. "Are you going to watch a free show? It is embarrassing enough for me to get caught in this kind of thing, aren't you feeling embarrassed to watch a teenagers' fight?" Chen Ziyi casually asked him.

At that time, Bai Wenqin felt truly weird on how Chen Ziyi acted towards him. At first, there was still respect and and courtesy in her manner and tone of talking, but she gradually went into her comfort zone that she subconsciously act like a same age friend with them. Both Bai Wenqin and the man Chen Ziyi crashed to realized that. From Chen Ziyi scolded the man for being too rash to she scolded Bai Wenqin for being dumb enough to not know when to excuse himself.

"Who is that, Shuyu?"

"Who?"

"Ah~The girl you mentioned who are going to transfer to our school?"

"Your -sister?"

"Shuyu, why are you calling her?"

"I mean, I just saw her. I afraid I look at the wrong people. But it seem it is sister Ziyi."

It was Zheng Haozu's friends. And she loath them.

"Sister?"

"Who are you guys talking about?"

When that voice come, Chen Ziyi unconsciously clenched her hand that pushed Bai Wenqin into the room. She was afraid to that voice. She clenched her hand hard that she tried to not remember of what the man who owned the voice did to her in her previous life. Bai Wenqin who sensed that tried to not budge but stopped when Chen Ziyi said. "It's okay. My friends might come if they realized I am taking longer time than enough just to report a missing item. I am sorry for taking your time and for disturbing your meal time." Chen Ziyi bowed her head towards Bai Wenqin, made him feel loss on what he should act like.

When the door was closed, Chen Ziyi was piling up her strength to go through this obstacle, then turned her body towards the room she shared with her friends. Even if the 'friends' that Zheng Haozu and Zheng Shuyu brought would try to start a fight with her in this lifetime at this moment, she did not want it to happen too near to the room of the upper class just now.

"You don't need to call her sister, Shuyu. She's not even living with us. Not a Zheng."

To Chen Ziyi at that moment, she was not prepared to see any of the Zhengs in this life. She literally did not want to see them. Her life aim in this second life was to move to new city to have a new life with her mother, choose a different path, and live as a person without interference of the Zheng's. Now, their meeting here would be their first meeting after she returned to the past.

Zheng Ziyan, Chen Ziyi's cousin was frustrated looking at Chen Ziyi's silence response to them. Usually, she would at least greeted her and Zheng Haozu as she was her elder cousin and Zheng Haozu was her own brother. Despite of being happy a bit looking at Chen Ziyi's timid expression to them, although she did not know to whom the fear for, and why, she still felt not satisfied with Chen Ziyi's not talking to them.

"So she is Chen Ziyi?" Chen Ziyi's body stiffened when she listened to that voice again. She should not meet him yet in this life. Her eyes was looking at her shoes and Zheng Ziyan could see that and felt weird. 'Does she know him? Does she deliberately want to attract Jin Zedong's attention by doing this?' Zheng Ziyan started to has hostile feelings towards Chen Ziyi. Looking at Chen Ziyi's kid face, and recalled at what Zheng Haozu often told her and other cousins about Chen Ziyi, she sneered at Chen Ziyi. 'Do you think Jin Zedong would look at you? He is not that low!'

Uncomfortable already at Jin Zedong's presence, sensing hostile feelings from a few others towards her made her silence herself more. In her past life, a few from the group, contributed to her suffering and bullying, so it was inevitable for her to be scared of them. No matter if she had already gone through all those events. Even if those incidents had not happened yet in this life, she was still a lone kid facing a group of bullies that managed to make her suffer for years. Furthermore, most of them were at older than her so they have the seniority against her. She felt herself was very small facing them.