Chapter 23

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Somehow Joohyun feels relieved. Joy just repeated the sentence she told Joy some days back, but it seemed to have alot of effect on her.

She feels like maybe it isn't wrong.

Maybe it isn't wrong to think about Sooyoung and Seungwan, when she has her beautiful family in front of her.

But that maybe is always there.

And it won't ever disappear.

She chooses not to think about her past anymore. But she's failing, especially since the day she saw Seungwan at that party. She never ever wanted to see that woman again.

But she's a liar.

She didn't talk to Seulgi about it, didn't want to enquire why she's here. She doesn't care if Seungwan is here, she wouldn't care if she walks into this house, she wouldn't care if she dies.

But she's a liar.

She pushes her past out of her thoughts and thinks about the beautiful girl in front of her. Joy is a real gem. Her mother must be a great one.

She understands stuff that even some adults can't. She doesn't say it but she must know what Joohyun is feeling. Her eyes tell that much.

Joohyun wonders if her little girl Sooyoung also grew up to be this kind, charismatic. She wonders what she likes, what does she want to be in life, does she have many friends, maybe even a partner.

As much as she wants to know. She knows she can't.

They're gone from her life and they're never coming back.

"Joy you're still here?" She sees Seulgi with a frown.

She decides to enjoy what she has, and to stop thinking about what she lost.

She walks up to Seulgi and gives her a quick peck on her lips. "I love you."

Seulgi backs up slightly as she glances at Joohyun's face, but a smile appears on her face soon with her eyes disappearing. "That's sudden. But I love you more." She snuggles close to Joohyun or at least she tries to.

Joy appears in between them and clears . "Guys I'm still here, don't start with all the gross activites please."

She puts a hand in front of her to say 'Stop'.

"Eomma did Joy leave already? I didn't even say goodb-" Yeri storms out of her room in a hurry as she scans the whole place and shouts loud enough for the voice to go in every corner, but she stops as she sees Joy. "Oh you're here."

Joy smirks and runs to Yeri.

"Aww. You were upset because you couldn't say goodbye. You're so cute." Joy pulls her cheeks as Yeri swats her hands away.

"Don't get too ahead of yourself Miss." Yeri makes a serious expression, but Joy just smiles seeing her.

Joohyun feels Seulgi dragging her towards the kids.

"Joy it's dark. Come on I'll drop you off." Seulgi offers and before Joy could say anything she wags her finger to and fro. "No, no you don't get a say in this. Besides I know we've just met but I'm sure you don't want me to die, cause if I don't drop you off this woman would surely kill me." She points to Joohyun as the three laugh.

Joohyun sends glares to Seulgi, and she freezes. Seconds later though she breaks into laughter and holds Seulgi's arm. "Damn right, I will."

Seulgi and Joy leave and Joohyun retracts to her room.

She opens her closet and fishes for a precious thing in the lower most shelf. She digs her hands under clothes she no longer wears, things she no longer uses. She finally takes it out.

The notebook decorated with the most vibrant colours with the title 'To Sooyoungie'.

She's been writing this diary for 12 years, even since they separated. It's the things she would want to say to her little girl, who's not so little now.

She writes in it randomly when she's missing Sooyoung. She writes it on her birthday and on other special occasions, as if directed to Sooyoung. It's as if she's taking to her for real.

She wishes her Sooyoungie could read this.

She takes her pen out and writes.

'Dear baby girl,
Eomma misses you too much today. I won't write alot today, but I n

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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 :)