Chapter 5

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They're now standing in front of a huge building that's supposed to be 'Brass Records' but it almost seems as if it's a big hotel.

Wendy is finally feeling excited, disregarding the constant ache in her heart. The building, the vibe, the extremely excited adults (who are dancing and playing around) are all helping her forget her worries.

She can get used to this.

"Oh my godd! I can't imagine how many hot girls are going to be in there." Sana's jumping up and down, really excited to be there. "Aaaa it is going to be fun!"

"I know right, it seems like it's been forever since I've met hot girls." Jin says still looking at the building in awe.

Momo glares at Jin. "Excuse me?"

They all just burst out laughing. Wendy sees that Joy's also very excited to be here, and she remembers that she will have to visit the school Rosé was talking about to see what they can do about their situation.

"You guys are gonna go inside or...?" Mina finally speaks shyly. Lisa just puts her hands on Mina's shoulder as if to let her know it's fine.

It is still morning time and Wendy could see some people with cameras, just sitting outside the building. Many people were exiting and entering the premises. It was a busy place.

They finally go in and as soon as they take a few steps, Wendy sees a small girl with blonde hair and an extremely cute dimple, running towards them.

"Oh! Um guys, this is my Son Chaeyoung, she was actually the one who got me the lead to this project." Mina says looking between Chaeyoung and everybody else. Since nobody was saying anything and it made the air awkward, Wendy decided to speak up.

She's always been the one to do the speaking.

"Hi Chaeyoung, I'm Wendy, it's nice to meet you." Wendy waves her arm aggressively. And just like that everybody starts introducing themselves.

"Heyy, name twin!" Rosé who start moving towards Chaeyoung says.

"Huh?" Chaeyoung's one brow twitches up in confusion.

"Hi Chaeyoung, I'm Park Chaeyoung." Rosé says putting her hand forward.

"Ohhhhh, Son Chaeyoung." Chaeyoung gives her full name taking Rosé's hand, grinning widely, showing her cute dimple. "Anyways I'll take you guys to Oppa's- umm I mean CEO's office."

They go into the elevator and pass through so many doors that Wendy's almost tired, but also astounded at the huge building.

"Just go to that room over there." Chaeyoung mumbles before bidding goodbye.

They start walking towards the room. It was right at the end of the hallway, and Wendy really wanted to see the rest of the place. Thier conversation is cut short when they reach near the room and hear some screams.

"This is getting harder day by day." A male voice is heard from the room.

"Oppa don't do this, please don't trust them. Please!" A female voice screams, Wendy could sense she was on the verge of crying and could also sense vulnerability in that voice and as they finally got closer to the door, she knocked.

A few mummers were heard and the door finally opened.

Wendy sees a man , a man she knew. Jung Ji-Hoon, the current CEO. She also sees a woman, who is wearing extremely fashionable clothes. She couldn't see her face because the other woman was just looking at the floor.

The woman just mumbles a little 'Annyeonghaseyo' and bows and just starts to rush out. Wendy's sight then went on Rosé, who was clenching her jaw, the younger's sight not leaving the stranger, who Wendy assumed was screaming and on the verge of crying.

Rosé was almost about to run after the woman but Wendy holds her wrist. Rosé's eyes move to her wrist and then to Wendy. Wendy just shakes her head to indicate that she shouldn't go after her right now, after all they had to meet the CEO and Rosé was an important part of thier company.

Rosé obeys, her sight still at the woman who's now at the door, running away.

Wendy is puzzled. Why would Rosé want to go after a stranger like that?

She just shrugs it off. "Hi Mr. Jung, I'm Wendy from JJS, Canada, this is Rosé and this is our team." They all introduce themselves. Joy was told to just roam around.

"Hello Wendy, it's such a pleasure to meet you all. Was the journey okay?" He just hits his head like he realised he said something wrong. "How stupid of me to ask that, it must've been tiring. I actually thought that, you guys could just rest today, so I've already prepared all the accommodation."

"Ahh thankyou so much for thinking that much about us, sir." Wendy says looking at the man

"Come on Wendy we'll be working together, that's the least I can do and you can drop the 'sir'." Ji-Hoon says waving his hand as if saying it's nothing.

"Oh and Wendy, Rosé I would like to introduce you to some of our artists and some other important people. So you can just call me, in the evening after freshening up and I can schedule that. That's fine right?" Ji-Hoon starts calling someone on the phone.

"That's absolutely fine."

"So I called someone they'll be taking you to your rooms." Ji-Hoon's gaze lands on the others, who are confused right now, including Wendy.

"Ohh, you must be confused, actually this building has two wings, so this one is basically recording studios, practice rooms and all, and the other wing is almost like a living place, you know for all the artists who want to just live here. It's actually easier."

Although Wendy was a bit disappointed they weren't going to stay at a hotel or something, she just nodded.

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Turns out she was so wrong, this place was even better than a hotel. When they arrive in the second wing they see many rooms, a big lobby, a swimming pool, a gaming centre. The person taking them there gave them a whole tour of the place.

"I know that you all want to have fun here, but just have a little rest right now okay? Later we can go out, maybe do something." Wendy says while lazily sauntering towards her room.

All of them go inside thier rooms to have rest and Wendy, Rosé and Joy are in Wendy's room right now.

"Joy we'll need to visit that school today, I don't know if I'll be able to do that later." Wendy is taking out her clothes and putting them in the closet.

"Ohh don't worry about it I'll go with her, you can rest. I practically slept or ate throughout the whole journey." Rosé is sitting on the bed. She was very quiet up until now and Wendy remembers the earlier incident.

"Thanks alot, chipmunk." Wendy says side eyeing her.

Joy is busy doing something on her phone, barely listening to them.

"Oh and what was that earlier? Huh?" Wendy finally asks curiously.

"Uhh....what?"

"That girl, chipmunk. You know her? You were literally willing t

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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 :)