Chapter 3

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Joy had just gotten into high school. She was happy, not knowing what high school actually was. She always thought it'd be just the same as middle school, but it was far from that.

It had been some months and weird rumors had already started to spread. They ranged all the way from a someone being slapped to someone being pregnant.

Joy always wanted to stay away from these gossips, she thought she was way better than these low life people who spread rumors. But little did she know one was circulating about her too.

"Bobby I already told you I don't like you, could you please leave me alone?" She was far from irritated, this guy won't stop staring, or sometimes even following her.

"Please just one date, what would that cost you Joy? I promise I'll make it worth your time." This guy Bobby said now tugging into her arm like he already has a right to touch her.

"ing stay away from me and don't ever try to touch me again." Joy huffed. Her eyes filled with anger. She can't even figure out why Bobby was being like this. She'd already rejected him multiple times.

Bobby didn't give up. He looked around to see people attracted towards thier argument and he looked like he mentally said to himself that he won't lose. So he moved forward and tried to hold Joy by the arm again trying to usher her away from the crowd. Joy was quick to push his arm away.

"I said stop." Those were the only words that escaped .

"Oh come on you can atleast give me a kiss, huh?" He moved forward trying to kiss Joy. Next thing she knew her arm went straight to his face. He was now holding onto his face looking around, humiliated.

", what the . You ing . Is that how your mom hit your dad so he ran away huh?"







 

She felt weak.







 

For so long she just pretended as if people weren't talking about her, as if she didn't know they were. About her dad to be specific. Making up stories on why she doesn't have a dad.






 

She ran.






 

She just ran. Far away from people. Tears were now rolling down her cheek rapidly. She felt angry, sad, weak. She felt guilty because a random guy said about her mother and she didn't do anything. She just ran, like a weak person, who couldn't even handle some words.

She didn't realise that running led her straight to her house. She walked in thinking she'd be alone, but as soon as she entered the main gate she saw a car, her mother's car.

She pretended, pretended that it didn't hurt, pretended that tears weren't fighting to come out, pretended that she was okay.

"Joy, why are you here so early?" But her mother, as always saw right through her façade.

"Are you crying? Come here and tell me what happened? Did someone say something?" 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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