One day Choi Siwon decided to sit his 2 teenage kids down to tell them a story.

Kids, I’m gonna tell you the story of how I met your mother. And it all starts in January of 2012. You see, kids, back then I was working for one of the largest, most successful companies in America. But then, one of the owners stole all the money from the company and ran out of the country. They found him after a couple of months, but at the time I was jobless. And broke. Just as I thought things couldn’t get worse, my fiancée of 6 months left me. Then I lost my apartment ‘cause I couldn’t afford it anymore.

So me and your uncle Minho, who was 18 at the time, moved to Brooklyn. I went from a giant apartment in Manhattan to the cheapest one in Brooklyn. I lost everything and I thought my life was over. I didn’t have a job, I didn’t have any money and, what shocked me the most, I didn’t have any friends. But the day I stepped into that building in Brooklyn, it all changed, drastically.