Days passed yet, there was no improvement in Changyu and Jianjun's relationship as she had imagined. She had been thinking after their little hospital trip, he would become nicer and speak with her more often. But everything went back to normal.

Cixi had even helped her a couple of times to be left alone with him after work hours. Yet, he never appeared.

'It must be because of that Helene'. Why did Helene have to take away all of his attention?

She thought Helene was pretty also. She didn't look down on her even though Helene didn't have a family. She did see her as a worthy opponent.

No matter what, Jianjun was the love of her life and she was never going to let another woman have him!

She didn't even want to think about the crazy plan her parents were making to marry her off to someone else.

It was nothing new that her parents didn't care about her. Just three years after he betrothed died, and she could not count the number of times her parents had sent her on a blind date and later changed their mind when they saw someone from a better family. They kept pushing her back and forth every single time like she was some irrelevant doll. Times like this, she envied her younger sister who didn't have to live like her.. Well, yet!

Her parents were all about money, power, business etc. They also liked to show off unnecessarily. The Songs were not number one in the Socialite echelon then but they were known to be ruthless and powerful.

So, she had specifically hidden that information from the Wangs and everyone at the restaurant. If they knew she was their daughter, they might begin to treat her with fear and maybe, unnecessary respect and she didn't want any of that.

No matter what, she still decided to take matters into her own hands and follow her heart instead of her family's greed. If Jianjun refused to love her, she was never going to get married to anyone!

But her parents were still one big obstacle for her. Especially now that they were trying to marry her off to the contesting governor's son.

They kept monitoring her every second and kept reminding her every half a second not to make any mistakes or do any funny thing because she was going to be officially meeting her prospective groom's family once her father-in-law to-be won the election as the governor of their region.

There was no doubt he was going to win the election since her family and a lot others also supported him.

After her high school, the plan was to prepare her to 'become a perfect wife' for a year before sending her off to college. Since her mother was always busy, she didn't know how to do any chores. Well, why did she have to? It's not like her mother did any either. They were all left to the maids.

But once the idea was raised, she happily leeched on the idea, saying she wanted to learn how to cook first since she had seen Jianjun the previous week when she was speaking with his mother. They had taken her suggestion and agreed to enrol her on a three months culinary course since she specifically told them she didn't want to learn from the maids, rather, she wanted to learn it professionally.

After the three months, she would take another course on something else related to her 'wifely' duties.

But now, to her parents, it seemed she wasn't doing what they asked her to do and was busy doing something else instead. They had been noticing her funny movements and her eagerness to always go to the restaurant. "I like the scent in the kitchen" was the excuse she ways gave to them as the reason for her over excitement.

Now, she had to walk on eggshells every second. But it was none of her business. She was going to have Jianjun no matter what.

So the plan was set in motion. Tonight was the night. She was going to leave the house no matter what. Since her closing time was usually around 6pm, she could only guess Jianjun was still at the restaurant helping out. She'd heard from Cixi that he usually returned late or doesn't even return home sometimes and just spends the night at the restaurant.

"Are they asleep yet?" Changyu asked her elderly maid the moment she entered her room to hand her her night wear.

"Young miss, where are you going to by this time of the night?" She asked nervously when she saw Changyu all dolled up. She looked at the wall clock. It was already past 11pm and no one was supposed to go out, especially her! This was the time she had to be extra careful since she was soon going to be the governor's daughter-in-law.

"Aunt. Just let me go out okay? I won't waste time." She tried to talk her into agreeing.

"What if you get caught? We would both be in deep soup" she said, still looking all tensed.

"I will take the fall. But you don't have to be pessimistic, I won't get caught. I already settled everything with the people at the gate and the driver. I only need your assistance so the maids and bodyguards won't be able to see me. Please Aunt help me this once will you?"

Changyu held her hands and pouted sadly as she tried to cajole her into agreeing. She knew her maid liked her so much. She had practically raised her up instead of her own mother so it was always easy to have her way since she knew the maid would somehow agree to her wish.

Her maid sighed deeply before whispering. There was no one else in the room but she couldn't take any chances with the ones moving outside. "You want to go see that boy? Why can't you just wait till tomorrow?"

Changyu shook her head. "I'm sure Helene must have gone to the orphanage now so she won't be there besides, tomorrow is sunday. You know I do not go to the restaurant"

After much pleading and convincing, her maid finally agreed to help her.