Chapter 18

[DISCONTINUED] family
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Rosé didn't know what the hell was going on in her mind.

But after hearing what has been happening with Jennie, she was frustrated. She wanted to help her somehow.

So there she is.

The innocent and dumb Rosé, who can't even talk is standing in front of the CEO, God knows saying what. And what's even more appalling is she brought Jennie with her, that Ji-Hoon guy wouldn't leave an opportunity to insult the girl.

But she can't back out now.

"Look all I'm saying is why can't we give it a try?" She musters all her courage, clutching onto Jennie's hand tight.

She wonders why the girl even agreed to come with her.

(She might or might not have dragged her here.)

"I haven't read into anything but if Rosé is saying something, she means it, Ji-Hoon. What's the harm?" She's grateful for Wendy to always back her up.

She's grateful of heaving her as a sister.

"No, Wendy, you don't understand what's been happening. And I'm sure Chaeyoung doesn't-"

"Sir, I understand everything." Rosé is getting impatient now. Her anger is fueling up.

"It'll just be one photoshoot, I'll attend to it myself. Besides Jennie has been the face of the company, for what, 2 years? 3 years? You can't just exclude her from the project, sir."

Ji-Hoon scratches his chin, probably thinking about the outcomes.

"But she needs to be promoting something." He mutters out.

I didn't think about that. Dumb Rosé.

"She'll land a job, soon." Rosé just says it for the sake of saying it. She has no idea how it's going to happen. She looks at Jennie again.

The said girl still looking down. This is not like the Jennie she knows. This Jennie seems weak.

Much like the first time they'd met.

"I trust Chaeyoung too. I've seen her sincerity and we all know how sincere Jennie is. I want to give it a chance, as long as Jennie is comfortable with it." Ms. Kang speaks, facing Ji-Hoon. Rosé is suprised at the compliments coming from someone she thought hated her, but she's grateful nonetheless. "Jennie, are you ready to be back on screen?" Ms. Kang's voice and expression have softened now.

It could be seen she cares about Jennie and her well-being.

Rosé wonders why Ms. Kang isn't the CEO instead.

"I-I uhh it's-" Jennie stutters.

"We'll make it work." Rosé tightens her grip and softly mumbles. Jennie rubs her thumb on Rosé's hand. She takes it as her cue. "Yes, she is. Thankyou so much Ms. Kang."

"Please, Chaeyoung. You make me look so old, stop with the Ms. Kang already. My name's actually Seulgi, in case you didn't notice." Seulgi chuckles.

Maybe she doesn't hate me, after all.

From her peripheral vision, she sees Wendy giggle a little, but she almost instantly stops.

Rosé knows why.

"Thanks, Seulgi. So what do you think, sir?"

Ji-Hoon is still busy thinking, if this guy disagrees now, she'll probably shout or something. But what he says suprises Rosé.

"It's been 5 years. I've seen Jennie act for 5 years. You're like my little sister, you know that, right?" He stops to glance at Jennie, who finally looks up. "But every artist here is like my family and I can't risk thier work." He looks down.

The next course of events suprise Rosé, leaving hanging.

"Oppa, trust me." Jennie speaks timidly. She takes Ji-Hoon's hands and speaks in a small volume. "Please."

They're closer than I thought.

Rosé waits for an answer while her hands start sweating. What if the CEO still denied and she couldn't do anything to help Jennie. The girl would just keep on

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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 :)