Chapter 13

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"It's okay, Wen. You can let it all out."

I can't, and I didn't.

Wendy didn't tell Rosé everything, but sharing definitely makes it better. And sooner or later she'll tell her everything.

She finally wipes all the tears that remain, but she says nothing.

"You don't need to feel stressed, I'm sure they would still love to talk to you, Wen."
 

They hate me, chippie.
 

After hearing that, Wendy wants to cry more, but she fights the tears and chuckles bitterly.

"I don't think so." Wendy smiles grimly.

"Look if they don't want to, it's their loss. You did nothing wrong."
 

I did.
 

Rosé suddenly looks away, seems like she's mulling over something. After a moment she has this embarrassed smile and it doesn't go unnoticed.

"What?" Wendy asks, raising one of her brows.

"Uhh- it's uhh- nothing."

"I know that look chippie, what's going on in that mind of yours?" Wendy crosses her arms in front of her chest.

"I just had a..a question. D-does that mean Ms. Kang is your age?"

"Of course, we did high school together."

Rosé chortles and looks like she's amused by something.

"Okay seriously, you're acting weird." Wendy scowls and moves towards her bedside table and settles herself under the covers.

"It's nothing serious." Rosé settles besides Wendy and is looking at her now and she has another one of those amused smiles. "I can't imagine you in high school! Tell me what it was like?"

Rosé waves her hands in excitement like someone just told a kid something fascinating.

Wendy can't help but remember the golden days.

"I bet you were like the smartest kid in class." Rosé raises her brow.

"I can't deny that." Wendy smirks and winks. Rosé laughs gleefully and taps Wendy's shoulders constantly.

They are finally laughing and happy like they normally are, but there are things in the back of Wendy's mind that have been bugging her ever since she saw Seulgi.

"Um Wen...do you think uhh- Ms.Kang would be......um....you know..uhh-" Rosé fumbles.

"What chippie?"

"You think she's....uhh....single?" Wendy is shocked by the words coming out from the other's mouth.

Don't tell me you like that stupid bear, chippie.

"What? Why do you ask that?" Wendy's brows shot up and her eyes widen.

"No, no, no, it's not what you think. I-I'm uhh just......curious." Rosé waves her hands making a cross. "Forget that I asked, sorry."

"You are really confusing sometimes, you know that?" Wendy sighs playfully.

But she knows, she couldn't answer that question either.

"Come on Seul, he's good looking AND interested." Wendy huffs.

Seulgi and Wendy were in Seulgi's house, in her practice room. Seulgi had completed practicing the same rountine for the nth time now, and Wendy had just been watching her.

Oh and she'd also been talking about this guy in thier college who apparently likes Seulgi. It's not like Wendy can't see Seulgi single, but Wendy knows Seul needs to move on.

"Stop! I told you I'm not interested." Seulgi slightly raised her voice. And it looked like she immediately regretted and came to sit by Wendy.

She rested her head on Wendy's shoulder and muttered a little 'sorry'.

Wendy felt a little guilty, but she knew Seulgi has to move on, it's been years already.

"Seul you know, you're 20 now, you have to get back in the dating game."

"I don't wanna." Seul whines.

Wendy sat up straight and looked at Seul.

"Okay that's it! No one will say this, so I have to. He was ing stupid to leave you, but you're being even more stupid to hang onto him. You have to move on, Seul. He isn't coming back."

Wendy realised h

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vitoriafranca #1
Chapter 38: Wow, what sad news, I really had hope for this story. I mean, even if things didn't turn out the way I expected (Like Joohyun confronting Seungwan the first moment he saw her about the daughter she just took away and Joohyun misses so much or the revelation of Joy's supposed other relative where she only discovers that she didn't really have a father but a mother?) And of course, even though Joohyun knew that Seulgi was back in contact with Seungwan, she never confronted either of them about the whereabouts of her other daughter, which makes us wonder what kind of parents Joohyun and Seungwan are who don't bother to look for or finally reveal the truth to Joy and why does Seulgi continue to collude with both sides when she considers her niece so much?
Despite everything, what really saddens me is that despite everything, the flashbacks to their past were without a doubt the best part of the story, I really kept waiting for more of them. I don't know if you intend to go back to this story and rewrite it, but I would particularly love it if you could show us their past in full. I think exploring what you've already done here would be a way of reusing this story that had so much to show.

Anyway, thank you for everything so far, I hope you are well and come back soon, author-nim!
shadowhunter1640 #2
Chapter 38: Oh i see the problem now. The seulreners want more seulrene moments.

Though i've always thought this is wenrene fic with how often Wendy's pov appears. But i agree that the story's really dragging. And so many side character povs.

I always look up wenrene tags coz that's all i'm interested in and this story was really promising. But i suggest if you're writing a wenrene fic, just use wenrene tag and don't add seulrene and vice versa if you're writing a seulrene fic to avoid being accused of clickbaiting and confusion.

Thank you for your work author! Please keep on writing.
Gwernica #3
Chapter 37: Heavy seulrener here and yes the story is dragging. This story is similar to wenseulrene fic titled 'Unrequited' in terms of the structure where it's clearly a seulrene fic with wendy as the 'heartbreaker' but for some reason the pov heavily came from wendy perspective. I think other readers already mentioned it out: Seulrene is clearly still going strong in this fic but for some reason, they have less moments compares to Seulgi with Lisa. This wenrene/seulrene bait & switch is clearly not working because now people started to criticize Irene, Seulgi and Wendy characters (similar with that fic 'Unrequited') and it's not even because they don't understand the concept of flawed characters, it's just they're getting tired of the story and the characters. I just don't get why most wenseulrene fics authors always have the same concepts and settings when they wrote their dynamics and it made me wonder if they really see each individual irl like that, because let's be real here, yes these are fictional characters, but they are real person fictions (rpf) characters. Even in kdramas, triangle loves don't always have the same dynamics. It's like these fics' authors are actually on one camp, but they pretend to care about the third person (in this case wendy) so that people would think that these authors actually like both camps. Might as well make it a polymorph relationship.
2014605911 #4
Chapter 37: Chapter 37: Well I'm still reading this though the story is undoubtedly dragging its heels before moving a fraction of an inch for whatever plot there is. I get that the characters are still stuck in some of their past, but it doesn't mean that the story should be too. Stuck at a snail pace, I mean. The Joohyun and Wendy arc has the two agonizing every now and then in addition to the Joy issue keeping this story going in circles. I'm interested enough to keep on reading this but something has got to happen soon and change the pace to get things moving. The Seulgi and Wendy talk finally happened, but any attempts of figuring out how to approach Wendy and Joohyun closure as well getting Joy known as the missing child is not even on the horizon. I've also not seen a solid Seulrene tidbit here that is solely about them and not a segway to enter another Wenrene flashback and Wenrene agenda. I get that this story is about past Wenrene and daughter Joy, but I think there has been more Lisa-centric chapters/POVs than a Seulgi one that is not related to past Wenrene. Seulrene doesn't even shine that much other than small stolen moments here and there.
yannahays #5
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EzraSeige #6
Chapter 34: It's okay otornim, take your time and thanks for the update 🙆🙌💗💙
rvlv_bless #7
my two favorite fics right now: The Internship and this one (Family). Seulrene with pathetic pos Wendy, yes that's my kind of romance.
xeembiote #8
Chapter 33: What I don't get about this whole thing is why are they talking around Irene instead of just telling her the truth? This will all blow up in all of their faces once Irene finds out that Joy is her kid and that Seulgi is keeping things from her. It's bordering stupidity at this point. Seulgi is well aware of how devastated Irene was when Wendy left with their kid and now that said kid is back, instead of telling her outright, she goes and hides it from her. I mean who does that? There's no justification as to why she's doing what she's doing at this point. And not just Seulgi even, the same goes for Wendy. She has every opportunity at this point to stop beating around the bush and get her daughter and Irene to meet. But she keeps delaying things.

I don't even get Irene's reaction when she first met Wendy again either. I'd have been angry on the spot and demand to see my child. Why is she so passive?

Still curious to see how this runs through but I'm also getting frustrated at how this is turning out.
wenrene012 #9
Chapter 32: First thought comes to mind when the revelation happened like- what the hell was Irene thinking volunteering for that? Everything became SO messed up after that. I don't even know what to say
Thhhgggg #10
This chapter seems familiar to me, i think you've already posted it by mistake? But i must say that this is a Story im looking forward every Monday :)
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