How to raise a father who is overly controlling of his daughter

She treated Rena like her own younger sister. She was worried that Rena would suffer because of her personality, hence this reminder.

Xingzi took out her Chinese textbook and turned to the classical poems at the end of the lesson.

Rena stood there in a daze, staring blankly at the cover of her Chinese textbook.

Kyoko whispered a reminder: "Rena, hurry up and memorize it. Otherwise, if the Chinese teacher calls on you, you'll be punished by copying the text again."

"Oh, oh." Rena snapped out of her daze and immediately picked up her Chinese textbook, starting to recite it quietly.

Seeing that Rena had started to memorize seriously, Kyoko felt relieved and started memorizing the book as well.

Chapter Seventeen: Unpleasantness (Double updates daily starting today)

After memorizing for a short while, Rena felt bored and didn't want to continue. She was always only enthusiastic for a short time and couldn't concentrate on anything for long.

I noticed that the girl at the table in front of me was having a great chat with the girl at the next table.

The boy in front of me was named Chen Mingzhen. He had a lot of white hair, spoke in a sissy voice, liked to make effeminate gestures with his fingers, and got along very well with some girls.

It's rumored that he's gay, but I don't know if it's true or not. Anyway, he admitted that he likes Chen Bailun and wants to marry him.

Chen Bailun is a Taiwanese celebrity. He is a handsome young man with fair skin and good looks.

Many girls in the class liked him.

Rena, however, didn't like it; she wasn't into idol worship. She thought he was just so-so, very ordinary-looking, with nothing particularly outstanding about him, and she really didn't understand what the girls in her class liked about him.

Looking at Chen Mingzhen's white hair, and his unattractive appearance, plus his effeminate manner, and then imagining Chen Bailun standing next to him, I felt a chill run down my spine and a wave of nausea washed over me.

The two girls at the next table who were talking to Chen Mingzhen were named Lin Yuxin and Zhu Ke.

Lin Yuxin has a pretty face and is quite charming. She touched her long, black hair that reached her eyebrows and talked about Chen Bailun with a bit of a crush.

Zhu Ke has dark skin and an average appearance. However, she has a bad temper, often swearing and being a bit of a smart aleck. The more petty guys call her an ugly duckling. While she's not actually that ugly, they just think she's cheap and the more they look at her, the uglier she gets.

Rena listened to their conversation with distraction and slowly put down her textbook.

Chen Mingzhen noticed that Rena was listening to their conversation and asked Rena, "Do you also like Chen Bailun?"

"I don't like it," Rena said bluntly.

Chen Mingzhen was surprised: "You don't like Chen Bailun?"

"Why should I like him?" Rena pouted. "I don't even know him."

Chen Mingzhen stared at Rena as if she were an alien: "He's really popular, didn't you know? Every girl in the class knows him. He just filmed a movie this year called 'The Lost Dandelion,' you must have seen it, right?"

Chen Mingzhen talked incessantly about his idol, gesturing wildly with his fingers as he spoke, appearing very enthusiastic.

But every time Chen Mingzhen said something, Lingna would shake her head.

“I don’t watch movies, and I don’t like following celebrities,” Rena said.

"Then why are you listening to that!" Zhu Ke said unhappily from the side.

Reina was unhappy with Zhu Ke's tone and muttered under her breath, "I really don't know what you guys like about him."

Chen Mingzhen took out a magazine from the drawer; it was a gossip magazine about celebrities. The first page of the magazine featured Chen Bailun.

Chen Mingzhen pointed at Chen Bailun and exclaimed in a fangirl voice, "He's handsome!" She then handed the document to Lingna, asking, "Isn't he handsome?"

"Huh?" Rena tilted her head and looked at Chen Bailun on the cover. She really didn't see what was so handsome about him. "What's so good-looking about him? He's just ordinary."

Because of this, Lin Yuxin, who had been quiet, became unhappy and glared at Lingna.

Chen Mingzhen immediately put the magazine away, giving Rena a sidelong glance, feeling that Rena had come specifically to cause trouble.

Everyone else says he's handsome, but she's the only one who says he's not.

He's clearly just being stubborn and arguing for the sake of arguing.

Zhu Ke said sarcastically, "Yeah, yeah, you're good-looking, okay?"

Rena is indeed very cute. With her mixed-race blonde hair, she looks like a little princess straight out of an anime.

She can chat with anyone, even boys. As long as it's about anime and manga, Rena can talk for ages.

She is quite popular among boys, and many girls also like her and treat her like a younger sister.

Being the center of attention and the center of attention everywhere she went made Zhu Ke, a girl like her, very unhappy and a little jealous.

"What are you pretending for? What's there to pretend about?"

Feeling annoyed, Zhu Ke said, "Don't get involved in this kind of thing. Go back to watching your cartoons." She spoke in a low voice, mocking, "You're in middle school and still watching cartoons, how childish."

She knew that Reina really liked watching those cartoons.

The backpack has a badge with an anime character printed on it;

The water cups are printed with cartoon characters;

The pencils and pencil cases used also have anime characters printed on them;

Even the book covers were made of paper printed with anime characters.

"That's not animation, it's anime! And it's not childish at all!" Rena said angrily. "If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense."

She hates it when people who don't understand anything insult her favorite anime.

"If you don't understand Chen Bailun, don't talk nonsense!" Zhu Ke retorted sharply, giving him a taste of his own medicine.

Zhu Ke's point is that if you don't understand Chen Bailun, you shouldn't comment on why others like him.

It's like I don't understand anime and I randomly commented that it's something for kids.

You insulted Chen Bailun first, so you won't allow me to insult your anime?

Rena's face flushed red, but she was speechless. She was angry, and with a huff, she turned her head to the side.

After a while, she turned her head back, her face flushed, and said in a soft voice, as if she was very unwilling, "I'm sorry."

"What did you say?"

Reina's voice was too soft for Zhu Ke to hear.

"I'm sorry!" Rena said, raising her voice and blushing. "Are you satisfied now? From now on... I won't say anything bad about him anymore, okay?"

She felt that she had indeed made a mistake and was a bit impolite.

Zhu Ke was extremely surprised and somewhat at a loss, not expecting that Rena would apologize.

His anger subsided, and his momentum gradually decreased. He had completely forgotten what he wanted to say to Reina, and was somewhat at a loss.

"Don't say things like that again, okay?" Zhu Ke said, feigning a bad tone.

"Oh." Rena nodded, pursing her lips.

A thought suddenly popped into Zhu Ke's mind: no wonder so many people like Reina. But she quickly banished the thought from her head. Somewhat annoyed, she turned her head away, not wanting to look at Reina, and continued chatting with Chen Mingzhen and the others.

Rena turned her head, pouting.

Kyoko glanced at the sullen Rena and comforted her, "Don't worry about it, that's just how Zhu Ke is."

"It's not her fault, it was definitely my fault," Rena said, promising never to judge others carelessly again.

Xingzi smiled and said, "Hurry up and memorize your lessons, or you'll be in big trouble when the teacher checks them later."

"Oh," Rena replied, picking up the book.

He was distracted and couldn't memorize more than a few lines.

Looking at the tables behind and around me, I saw people with their heads down, playing on their phones in their drawers, reading novels, or watching videos.

"I also want to watch the videos; there's still one anime I haven't caught up on."

Rena felt a little itchy and quietly took her phone out of her pocket.

Rena's phone is a keypad phone for the elderly.

All her classmates had smartphones, but her phone was a feature phone.

Most students' cell phones are old, unused ones given to them by their parents.

Apple, Xiaomi, Huawei, and various other brands, both new and old.

A small portion of these cases involve parents trying to save money by buying cheap, low-quality phones for a few hundred yuan to fool their children.

Even if it's bad, at least you can watch some videos to catch up on anime.

Rena looked at her keypad with disappointment and immediately stuffed it back into her pocket.

They were afraid of being seen and laughed at by others.

Because I'm the only one using a keypad phone while everyone else has a touchscreen smartphone, I feel out of place and afraid of being laughed at.

Yi Yue said, "If I buy you a cell phone, you'll play with it all day long and have no self-control at all. A button phone is fine; you can answer calls and send and receive text messages."

Reina looked displeased. Why did she buy such a nice phone for Yixue? Wasn't she afraid that Yixue would also lack self-control?

Chapter Eighteen: Collateral Damage

"Chen Mingzhen, Chen Shang, He Lingwei, you lot, be quiet!"

At first, the class was relatively quiet, but later they gradually became bolder and their voices became louder.

Unable to bear the noise any longer, Chen Yisi reluctantly pointed out a few of the most typical noise warnings.

The noise in the classroom did indeed decrease significantly, but it only lasted for a short while before it started making noise again.

Chen Yisi was, after all, just the class monitor, not a teacher. Her classmates knew her well, knew she had a good temper, and weren't afraid she would complain to the teacher.

Chen Yisi couldn't take it anymore: "If you keep doing this, I'm going to register my name!"

But nobody paid any attention to her.

All the classmates were hugging him. He made a fuss, and I made a fuss too. I was thinking that if my name was recorded, I would just ask the class monitor to cross it out.

After several unsuccessful attempts to persuade her, Chen Yisi sighed and simply gave up.

"Why are you all so noisy! I can hear you all from my office!"