Meteor Garden AU

The New Girl

"You again?" Meiling said with annoyance the moment she saw his familiar face. Shancai looked at Meiling, concerned and whispered to her, "You know one of them?" 

"Not really," she whispered back, "I met him the first day of school. I didn't know he was one of them."

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Ximen whispered to Mei Zuo. "Who's the girl with the long hair?" Mei Zuo had to think for a moment.
"The good looking one? She's that new rich girl, Wu Meiling." Ximen looked slightly surprised at this.
"Really? If she's rich why is she be hanging out with that girl; didn't she attack Mr. Bobbit?"

"And her friend threw that cake at Si," Mei Zuo added with a slight smile, thinking about what had happened. While the two were talking Shancai had marched up to Daoming Si with the joker card in her hand. Daoming Si stared down at her, as if she was nothing more than an ant in his way.

"So? Will you accept the challenge against us or are you too afraid?" he taunted her, expecting her to surrender. "Why would I want to chall-" Shancai started but was interrupted by Meiling.

"Of  course she accepts. What's the challenge?" she asked casually. The boys of F4 regarded her, curious. Shancai looked at her good friend, slightly furious. 

"Bridge," Hauze Lei, the quiet and dull one, said. "It's a game of cards." Meiling bit her lip. 'A game of cards?' she thought 'I can deal with that.'

"When and where?"

"Tomorrow. At noon. Right here," Daoming Si responded, trying to come across as intimidating. Meiling looked at Shancai, who was obviously nervous. The boys of F4 walked away, pushing aside the two girls. "See you tomorrow then," Shancai muttered under her breath.

"Let's go," Meiling hurried, pulling Shancai with her.

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As the two were walking away Meiling's phone beeped with a text from her sister, Wu Ya.

 'Meet me outside for a ride home.'  read

'okay.'  sent

Meiling told Shancai that she had to leave since her sister would be giving her a ride home.
"Bye MeiMei," Shancai waved as Meiling unchained her bike. She dragged her bike over to her sisters car and stuffed it in the trunk. Ya was standing outside the car and just staring at the school.
"Let's go," Meiling said, waiting for her sister to get in and start the car. Ya nudged Meiling's arm with her elbow. "Mei, is that your boyfriend?"

Meiling raised an eyebrow.
"What are you tal-" Ya nodded her head towards a boy who was looking at them. "Baha! That's Feng Mei Zuo. He's not my-" Meiling started in defense. Ya ignored her and got into the car. 

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Ximen's gaze followed where Mei Zuo's. He spotted the girl from erlier, Wu Meiling. Next to her he saw,
"Wu Ya? Isn't that the daughter of Wu Xiefeng. One of the wealthiest families in China, and the States, and Europe?!"
Mei Zuo nodded. 

"Meiling is from quite an interesting family." Meizuo mumbled.

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Wu Ya pulled up in front of their large estate.
"I thought we were going shopping," Meiling questioned and crossed her arms. "We are. Just later. Mom wants to talk to you."
"Mom's back?"

The two girls walked through the halls of the mansion. Workers bowed in a polite manner to greet them and they responded back with 'Hello.' On a large, white leather couch sat a woman. She looked at the door with delight once her daughters entered.

"Sweety! How were the first few days of school?" Wu Xiefeng asked while engrossing Meiling in a hug.

"Fine. Shouldn't you be in the states?" Meiling asked after pulling away from the hug. This was suspicious behavior of her mother. "If you wanted to talk you could have just called."

Xiefeng sighed. She waved to a little cushion across from the couch. Meiling sat with her legs crossed.
"As you know, our business is very successful. But we're neck and neck with the Daoming Group and He Group.  We're one of the top 3 companies. In order to go higher, we'd need another company working with us. And in order for that to happen....blah blah business stuff.....we'd need a type of contract." Meiling felt like this conversation wasn't going to end well.

"And that contract.....would be a marriage agreed upon by both heads of the company."

"Mom!" Meiling groaned. "No. I'm not doing some arranged forced marriage. Even if it wasn't arranged I don't want to get married." Meiling stood, her face red.

"MeiMei, just listen. That's not what she's doing." Ya tried to tell her sister.

"I'm not trying to force marriage upon you sweety," Xiefeng said in a soothing tone. "I just want you to know that since you go to a good college there will be boys who are from good families. I just think you should consider them."

Meiling sighed and nodded her head; she didn't want to disrespect or upset her mother.