Bad Impression

"Yeah. it's true. I was thinking on how to 'introduce' her to you and the others since she was going to transfer to our school later. But she's here already. She is Chen Ziyi." Zheng Haozu told his friends. Emphasized the word 'introduce' in his sentences, it gained snickers from his friends. Although they tried to suppress their laugh voices, Chen Ziyi heard them.

"But I heard the transfer paperwork was still on hold. Apparently her mother tried to cancel the procedure. Do you know about this, Chen Ziyi?" Another voice called out.

" Heh~It seems your mother really love to control other people's life, Chen Ziyi. First, it was Uncle Zheng and next, yours," he continued, mocking her. Apparently they thought Chen Ziyi did not know of her mother interference with the procedure, so they were looking for a fight with her.

It crossed to her mind that Zheng Haozu might badmouth her mother to them. Ever since in her past life, she realized that they love to make fun of her mother. She believe that the Zhengs' might be the one who started it in their circles while Zheng Haozu only played his role through his peers. The story on how her mother turned the city into commotion was treated as ridicule to their circles and they sometimes made it as their inside jokes. They called Chen Rumin as another spoiled proud rich girl who act like lunatic when it was just an affair. They made it sound like it was Chen Rumin's misfortune for those thing happen.

They instead pitied Zheng Shuyu and claimed it was not Zheng Rong's fault to be infatuated with his first love. They even made it like a sweet loving reunion of long lost love story. Chen Ziyi did not mind if they were talking about her, but they were badmouthing her mother! The things that her mother did.. She could only laugh bitterly in her heart. What did they expected her mother to do? Forgive and forget? She had a dark expression thinking that. She clenched her both hand tightly fighting her inner desire to punch both Zheng Haozu and the man who said that- Tian Qisong!

The boys stood facing her saw that and they smirked thought that their friend's words hit the mark. With Chen Ziyi still stood clenching her hands, Tian Qisong sarcastically said. "It must be pity to be you. You must feel the world is unfair right? You can't get Uncle Zheng's attention and throw that anger towards Shuyu. Haoze and Haozu also were uncomfortable around you. From what we heard, we can't blame Uncle Zheng for having another love if he also can't stand with your mother's wrath, isn't it? So who should you blame for the world unfairness? Don't you think you should blame your mother for how we act around you?"

The boy was Zheng Haozu's closest friend, Tian Qisong and he was clearly trying to provoke Chen Ziyi. Chen Ziyi know that fact since Tian Qisong used the same way to provoke her and instigated her feelings towards her mother in her past life. She had once asked him for why they acted like that around her, bullying her and tossing her like goods whenever they were making fun of her. Tian Qisong gave his answer similar like he had currently said just now.

Among Zheng Haozu's friends, Tian Qisong had the most manipulating mind and use harshest words when he belittled others. That was also how he could defeat his cousins in competing for the general manager position in his family's company in the future.

In her past life, it was Tian Qisong who kept provoke her in every way. He instigated Chen Ziyi's unsatisfied feelings towards the things happen around her by keep saying it was her mother's fault for such things occurred to her. However, she clearly remember, after her mother's funeral, when she bumped into him, he bluntly asked, "You must be happy right, that your mother is gone already?" "But don't you know why we still like this? It's not just your mother, we simply hate you."

Truthfully, she never believe hundred percent and fully instigated by Tian Qisong words, but she somehow sometimes was affected a bit by his words. Every time her mother came to find her, they would ended up with a fight, which made Tian Qisong and Zheng Haozu happy with the result.

Putting aside her father and her big brother, Chen Ziyi did realize that Zheng Haozu was rather being too offensive against her that he made his friends act like that around her. In her past life, when she was entering LanShu high school as a freshman, Chen Ziyi thought she could just have her low-key student life without known as Zheng Haoze's or Zheng Haozu's sister if they themselves did not want their relationship were exposed. However, what she did not know, Zheng Haozu had planted a bad impression of hers into his friends mind and even manipulatively said he couldn't do anything much even if Chen Ziyi vent her jealousy and anger towards Zheng Shuyu.

For others, it would seems like Zheng Haozu was helpless against Chen Ziyi due to Chen Rumin's status both in society and Zheng Rong's company shareholders. However,Tian Qisong who had more calculative mind than him, knew that Zheng Haozu was merely asking their help to avenge his suffer on his behalf. By asking others who had no direct ties with Chen Ziyi, Chen Rumin could not interfere if there was anything happen to Chen Ziyi. Hence, whenever they had time or bumped into Chen Ziyi, they would making fun on her and bullied her by using their status as 'Chen Ziyi's brother's close friend'.

It was them who also took advantage of a bullying case by making Chen Ziyi half-involve in the case. Another reason for them to cause troubles for Chen Ziyi was to cause the person who would attend the school feel agitated against Chen Ziyi. Knowing Chen Ziyi's already poor status in the Zheng's household, they knew that by doing such things, Chen Ziyi would lose respect and trust from others, and even maids would feel the need to avoid her.

When they found out from Zheng Haozu that it was Zheng Haoze who would be in charge of Chen Ziyi's school matters, they were elevated of how Zheng Haoze would hate Chen Ziyi more and more, knowing the top thing that their eldest brother dislikes was unnecessary troubles and things that can bring him to shame.

The difference between her and Zheng Shuyu was clearly shown by how they were treated. When it came to Chen Ziyi, they would act like she was a disdain, like she was the one who had a disgraceful past. When it came to Zheng Shuyu, they treated her like a dear honey younger sister that like she had no at all the shameful status.

Chen Ziyi clearly remembered when Zheng Shuyu visited Lanshu during it's opening day for new students, Zheng Haozu and his friends were showing off their close relationship by greeting Zheng Shuyu meerily at the school's gate and took her around the school. Zheng Shuyu of course loved the welcomed feeling and felt entertained with their lively acts.

Zheng Haozu was obviously showing off Zheng Shuyu to others as his younger sister and even jokingly said to others to not bully her. To some people, Zheng Haozu was just acting like another brother that act so protective towards his younger sister and could feel the warmth feeling, thus felt envious of Zheng Shuyu for having him as her brother.

However, there were others that able to interpret it as another meaning. 'You must not bully her and I am not joking when I do this. You messing with the wrong person if you do the opposite thing. Shuyu is a sister that I acknowledge. No others.' Chen Ziyi, her classmates and Zheng Haozu's friends could see that. Even when Zheng Haozu had already graduated, which meant when Chen Ziyi was in her sophomore year and Zheng Shuyu was in her freshman, Zheng Haozu would occasionally visited the school using his status as the alumni and as one of the school fund sponsor, to ensure Zheng Shuyu's good state in the school.

As he and his friends could no longer do much on Chen Ziyi when they had graduated, they still could not let Chen Ziyi to be freed from their grasp for the remaining two years Chen Ziyi had in LanShu. There were few of his friends who would continue bullying Chen Ziyi just for the sake of too accustomed for such entertainment. Meanwhile, there was also few that truly hate Chen Ziyi as a person and thus even planned few events which would really give bad impact to her record.

Back to present time, Chen Ziyi was glaring back at Tian Qisong. Meanwhile, Tian Qisong clearly had his own enjoyment of irritating her. To him, she must be looked like she was affected by his words and later allowed the words interfered with her relationship with her mother. The goals of Tian Qisong and Zheng Haozu must be either to have her hate her own mother or might also want to cause her emotionally unstable and later embarrassed herself by venting her anger towards them at this place.