Acquaintance From The Past (II)

Chen Ziyi seemed embarrassed facing him. Fu Xingjie deemed that she might be embarrassed that a man that she knew through their parents, bumped into her in this kind of awkward situation.

They met before but only when their parents present along with them. Furthermore, he could counted with his fingers on just how many times they met as it was not like they often met. Thus, he did not expected that she would remember his name and even greeted him.

However, what he did not know was that Chen Ziyi never remembered him as an acquaintance from her mother side, until she met him as an adult, and that was then Fu Xingjie reminded her that they met before. It was also the reason she was unafraid to greet him as according to what Fu Xingjie said, they should have met in this timeline even though she did not recalled him much.

Both in the past and this timeline, she never know of what identity Fu Xingjie hold but he helped her a few times in her future life. It was until when Han Meirong told her the restaurant they were going to, she had a click in her mind about something familiar with the surname of the 'Fu'.

Chen Ziyi however, brushed it off since she was only back to current timeline two weeks ago and she could barely recalled everything at one time as a whole. It was not easy for her to discern and sort of which memories was belong to the past timeline and which for the current timeline.

In addition, there were still fog and unclear events that would sometimes flashed in her mind, but as the girl who brought her here reminded her to not seek too much in to it, she could only brushed it off and go with the flow.

Fu Xingjie and his brothers had quite similar face features. Chen Ziyi in fact had met the three brothers and coincidentally, his younger brother, Fu Xingren 10 years later face was just a spit image of his current face.

Recounting the years difference, Chen Ziyi chose to trust her instinct that the man in front of her was Fu Xingjie, not Fu Xingren or Fu Xingjie's elder brother. She was not close much to them but if she could have an option, she also wanted to at least avoid from meeting any of the sibling in a kind of awkwardly embarrassing state.

Not that she care. It was just she truly embarrassed for how they can- when she just barely arrived in this timeline, she could meet him in such embarrassing event. Again! Although it was less worse than what she had in the future, she obviously prefer to meet any people in a normal way.

"Hm."

"You know her?" Jiang Jingguo asked.

"Yes. She is a daughter of my father's friend. We met few times through our parents."

"Are you okay? We will talk more in my office after we treat your wound." Fu Xingjie said to Chen Ziyi after he answered Jiang Jingguo question. He then gave instruction to his assistant to take the recordings of the event from the CCTV room.

Zheng Haozu and his group were utterly ignored by him from the moment he arrived. Upon Fu Xingjie saw it was a girl from his father's circle of friends, and they even had few lunch together previously, he was a bit worried if this issue would cause harm to his father's friendship with Chen Rumin.

His father would questioned his skill for such incident could happen in their place and it even involve that aunt's daughter!

Both Zheng Haozu and Zheng Shuyu was chastened that Fu Xingjie gave cold shoulder to them. Fu Xingjie only talked to Jiang Jingguo and then talk to Chen Ziyi's group.

Looking at how Chen Ziyi acted docile and polite towards the man, Zheng Haozu squinted, became reddened more. When it seemed that the 'owner' finally looked at Zheng Haozu's group, Zheng Shuyu with her innocent face looked at Zheng Haozu. Her hand pulled the tip of her brother's shirt from his side.

Sensed that Zheng Shuyu was nervous, Zheng Haozu put on his brave act and his hand pulled Zheng Shuyu's hand into his hold. He tightened the hold, with hope it could comfort his sister and make his sister feel safe by being with him.

Chen Ziyi at that time already was surrounded by her classmates and was about to follow Fu Xingjie's assistant to his office.That's when Chen Ziyi turned back facing Bai Wenqi and Jiang Jingguo. She bowed to them and apologized to them.

If it was not because she went to them to take back her bracelet, she would not bump into Zheng Haozu's group and she would not disturb their meal time for the second time. She was also embarrassed for showing her vulnerable state to them.

Although her appearances was a fifteen years old girl, she was a twenty six years old woman in her mind and she felt like being involved in a siblings fight in a public place was an embarrassing thing to have in a lifetime.

She then walked away along with her group lead by Fu Xingjie's assistant. She did not even glanced at Zheng Haozu before she walked away.

When Chen Ziyi entered into Fu Xingjie's office, only Han Meirong, Lu Zixin, Ren Linna and Lin Chao-xing accompanied her. Wan Zhen accompanied Fang Peizhi and An Huiyin went back to their room to take their belongings include of their friends' before coming to them.

Chen Ziyi did not know how Fu Xingjie solved the situation with her brother, but Fu Xingjie was expressionless when he entered the room. It was either the issue was too easy for him to handle that he did not even need to lift his hand much or he just did not bother to go through Zheng Haozu's group to solve the issue.

But when Fu Xingjie's eyes met with hers, his face immediately darkened. He was worried and Chen Ziyi saw that. She ignored his upset look and let the assistant to treat her cheek.

Although the assistant's hand was cautious when she use the cotton swab to apply the medicine on Chen Ziyi's injured cheek, Chen Ziyi still flinched and hissed at the sting when the cotton bud touch her skin.

Fu Xingjie was watching the video recording of the fights that sent by Jiang Jingguo to him. He then looked at the pictures sent along with the video. After he watched them, he seemed to try to think on how to handle the situation.

Chen Ziyi was his father's good acquaintance's daughter and although he was not directly acquainted much with Chen Rumin, but he heard about her a lot from his father. His father seemed to have a good relationship with her and he could not afford to let the issue to harm that.

Chen Rumin might not blamed him, but his father might be the one who feel awkward and blamed him for making things awkward. The issue would be always a thorn that his father might use against him later in the future.

He was thinking hard until there was a knock on his door. It was An Huiyin and the others brought their coats and belongings. An Huiyin walked to in front of Chen Ziyi and knelt down on the floor and lifted her chin up to look at Chen Ziyi's cheek with both hands holding Chen Ziyi's folded coat.

"That man sure very inhuman. I never saw that there would a brother who so daringly hit his own sister with my own eyes until today." An Huiyin was clearly still upset with what Zheng Haozu did to her.

Chen Ziyi chuckled and smiled at her upset look. Her one hand patted An Huiyin's hand and another hand grabbed Han Meirong's who sit on her right side. Both Han Meirong and An Huiyin was her chevalier today. "You. An Huiyin. Next time, really, don't get hurt because of me anymore."

Chen Ziyi looked at An Huiyin with pleading eyes. She was worried when Zheng Haozu pushed An Huiyin in such way. Chen Ziyi was full aware of her brother's strength so she was sure Zheng Haozu did not hold back at all his strength when he pushed An Huiyin.

Chen Ziyi believe that she could get her fifteen years old body accustomed to that although she herself would like to avoid that kind of situation in the future. However, she could not forgive herself if something bad happen to her friends during their stay with her.

No one can touch her friends. The friends she managed to have after a lifetime. They were just starting to rekindle their friendship before they part away soon. She did not want to lose the warmth that she only able to have today.