The Designer's Return

My Brother's Substitute

I am really hyped up when I read your comments that I decided to always find time to work on chapters to update the fic everyday, I am saying sorry in advance because I am using mobile in typing so there may have a chance of many typographical errors. Thank you so much for reading and I hope you'll enjoy the story and the new characters appearing. :))
 
"Congratulations Yiyun, you really turned into a fine young man I never thought you'd become"
An old man, probably 60 years old and older attended the engagement party held at the Red light restaurant owned by the Liu's. It was a state of the art, events and restaurant venue where most influential personalities often hold their parties or meetings.
Currently, the place is packed with businessmen, politicians and even celebrities mostly coming from the Jung's side. They were all gathered around him, probably discussing business related matters once again.
While Amber was busy enough roaming around to greet the other guests like theur friends and relatives but was held by the man who seemed very happy to see Yiyun. 
"Thank you sir" Trying to act cool because she really don't have any idea of who the man was, she consistently answered the questions with one to two words.
"I remember how delinquent you are, bullying even girls you don't like, skipping classes and even disrespecting your professors. I'm really happy you changed for the better and was responsible enough to stand to your responsibilities" Amber's head ached with the new revelation, what more does she need to know about her 'idol' brother who turned out to be a total 360 degrees opposite.
"I'm happy too sir, if you'll excuse me, I saw my cousin just entered." When she spotted the familiar brown haired entering the door, she excused herself while dodging at the people to get a hold of the girl's arms which she succeeded when the girl's head snapped towards her direction. 
"Stephi!" Amber called excitedly. 
"Yiyun?" Tiffany's face scrunched upon seeing her, eyes confused and brows almost connected. 
"Of course! Who else? Amber's in LA remember?" 
"Yeah, uncle told me" she was staring at Amber's hand on her arm,still questioning herself if the person in front of her is really Yiyun or not.
Tiffany Hwang is Amber's relative from her father. Mr. Liu and Mrs. Hwang were half - siblings. Their mother married Mr.Liu's father and when he died, she remarried to Tiffany's grandfather.
Yiyun, Amber and Tiffany were really close since they were kids but Tiffany moved to Paris to pursue her designing career. They still communicate, but only though emails and phone calls and now that they met, Amber can't hide her happiness upon seeing her older cousin who she always considered her sister.
"Want a drink or something?" To prevent Tiffany from questioning further, she decided to place her attention away from the topic. Unfortunately, Tiffany didn't bulge and prevented her from walking away. 
"Can we talk? Privately please" Tiffany grabbed Amber's hand and dragged her outside the restaurant which didn't escape from the eyes of the three jung sisters who were busy minutes ago eating their favorite food. 
"You're not even married yet and now he's flirting" Jessica grumbled as she took another bite of the steak on her plate. 
"I wanna grab some cucumbers amd shove it to that 's face" Krystal seconded who has her mood in a worse state because of the changing hormones.
"Good idea, just don't get it near me" 
"You two seriously need to stop being angsty, we don't even know who that girl is" 
"Yah! Taeyon how can you be so calm about this?" Jessica blurted while pointing at the latter using her spoon.
"Remember I'm not a pure blooded icy Jung" 
Taeyeon is the adopted daughter of the Jung's. Her true family was killed when she was just one. Police says it was business related and the culprit, an influential leader of a mafia was never caught. Since the Kim's and the Jung's were close and treats each other as family, all the corporations of the Kim's were transferred to them and they adopted the only living Kim to their home. They treated her like their own, even if they already have their Jessica and Krystal followed. The latter even looked up to her and she was the sister's confidan even if she and Jessica shared a love-hate relationship.

"Tell me the truth... who really are you?" Tiffany and Amber stood beside the bench outside. Amber started to sweat cold with Tiffany's stern stare and flat tone. 
"I'm Yiyun, Stephi" 
"Shut up. Yiyun calls me Tiff and not Stephi. Yiyun's grip is lighter amd Yiyun's body is not that athletic like yours Amber" 
"I didn't know about that" 
"Of course you don't. Now tell me, what the hell are you doing?" 
Amber sighed in defeat and started to narrate everything she knows
"Yiyun ran off, hid, escaped. He left Krystal when Dad came to LA to pick him up to marry her. He just used the girl" 
"Seriously?" 
"Yes"
"All these years I never thought he'd be that stupid" 
"Right. I bet you wouldn't want to hear the rest." 
"You can tell me the rest later, all I want to know is why are you taking over his responsibilities?" 
"The Jung's threatened to bring my parents to jail and take back everything if Yiyun wouldn't show up...so...yeah" 
"What about Seulgi?' 
"She knows and we already talked about it" Amber averted her gaze away from her to prevent herself from crying. 
"Amber" Tiffany sensed the pain in her cousin's heart that she just wanted to hug her tight. 
"It's fine Stephi. Now, would you like a drink or something?" 
"Yeah sure" 
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"Would you mind if I take this vacant seat?" Tiffany shot her eyes up when a girl's voice spoke to her and then she saw a black haired, cute small girl with a glass of wine on her hand stamding infront of her. 
"Sure, I don't mind" 
"I'm Taeyeon, Krystal Jung's sister" 
"I'm Tiffany Hwang, Amber's cousin. Nice meeting you" Tiffany extended a hand and smiled. 
Taeyeon saw the other girl's sweet smile that even her eyes smiled with her. 
"And a while ago I thought you were Yiyun's mistress" Tifdany flinched when she realized that she almost slipped with Amber's disguise. 
"No, even if I kinda liked the idea" 
Taeyeon chuckled at the playful tone of her new found acquiantance. 
"So what are you up to?" Taeyeon asked and found herself feeling weird about the sudden urge to start a conversation. She grew up contented in silence, she rarely speaks unless it's worth discussing and she never ever engage herself in casual talks.
"Hmm... I'm an interior designer, I just came back here from London because of my oh so good cousin. You?" 
"Architect at my parent's own firm, are you free lanced?" 
"Back in London yes, now... I think I need to be hired." 
"Then congratulations you're hired" Tiffany's mouth fell open and followed by a loud laugh. Taeyeon just stared at her still with a serious look on her face which made Tiffany stop.
"You're not joking are you?" 
"I'm not" 
"Wow that was fast" 
"I am the head director of the Achitectural departmebt and I'm always known for being fast." 
"Okay then I accept"
 

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amhar03 #1
Chapter 40: Where are you authornim? please update. im dying to know the ending 😭😭
GEoRuth #2
Chapter 40: Update pls 😁
GEoRuth #3
Update please 😂😂
GEoRuth #4
Will wait for the next one 😁
Kimmy_Kim #5
Chapter 30: OMG PLEASE UPDATE
Kimmy_Kim #6
Chapter 40: please update!!!! this is just a good cliff hangerrrrrrrrrrr!!! its been yearsssss
ONCEXwizone
#7
Chapter 40: Can I continue this story somehow???
ezz1824 #8
Chapter 40: Update please
Dayang11
#9
I hope you'll update soonest authornim. I love this story....

Cliff hanging huhuhu
jovy0025 #10
Chapter 40: Omg updates please!!!!!!!