[F] Chen/Baek/Yeol: Take a left at the broken tree

Baekhyun and Kyungsoo Recommendations

Title: Take a left at the broken tree
Author: Black_Keys
Characters: Kim Min Ji, Park Chanyeol, Byun Baekhyun, Kim Jongdae, Jang Ye Jin
Genre: Romance, Friendship, Slice of life, Drama, Slight Angst
Description:
Jang Ye Jin was the girl of every boy’s dream. She was smart, she was pretty and she was athletic. Byun Baekhyun ranked her as the most beautiful girl in the school for three years in a row. Kim Jongdae acknowledged her as his only worthy competitor in academics. And Park Chanyeol openly declared her as his ideal type since the day they met. Jang Ye Jin was the girl of my nightmare. My name is Kim Min Ji and I am invisible. 
Preface:

When you are a young and energetic kid in the 90s, there weren’t any smartphones or no one got quite understand the internet yet. Thinking back, how did we occupy ourselves? I suppose, there is no such thing as boredom when you grow up in the same street as Byun Baekhyun, Kim Jongdae and Park Chanyeol.

We knew each other since we were babies. Since we were all born in 1992, we had been been in the same class since pre-school. Naturally we would haven been separated if there were enough kids in this street to make two classes, unfortunately the teachers would just have to bear with us.

It’s really not as if we try to make their life difficult. I mean, I try my best for every single tests, it’s not like I failed everything on purpose.  Baekhyun was a naturally curious kid, how could you blame him for having a question for every piece of new knowledge we were learning? Jongdae wouldn’t be disturbing our classmates so much if he weren’t so smart that every lessons bored him to death since he knew all of it already. And Chanyeol… Well okay. I have no excuses for Chanyeol. He is just Chanyeol.

Our childhood wouldn’t have been the same without Chanyeol though. He was the one with the crazy ideas, like the time we tried driving Uncle Byun’s car when we were eight or the time we decided that a living rooster would be a good teachers’ day gift when we were 10? When Chanyeol has an idea, Jongdae would make a plan to ensure 'maximal success rate'. Baekhyun would always be the lookout and distraction so guess who had to catch a rooster? You guessed it, yours truly.

I am not a pushover. No. I don’t blindly listen to the things they told me to do. Their reasoning always seem to make sense to me. As the only girl, the adults let me off easier than them if we got caught. I mean they do try and bail me out, sometimes.

These boys, are my everything. When you are the middle child, you get ignored a lot. But the boys never leave me out of anything. We are a team. We are inseparable. My childhood wouldn’t be the same without them.

Good things never last, unfortunately. Everything changed when we were 11. Nothing was the same since Jang Ye Jin moved to our street.

I remembered it well, the day we met her. We were cycling back from the jetty, the four of us, when a moving van pulled up beside us, nearly causing me to fall off my bike. A Chinese man popped his head of the driver’s window and asked us for the location of Street 61 in broken Korean. That was our street. We turned to each in confusion, none of us knew that we were getting a new neighbor. Chanyeol smiled politely at the man, who we would eventually learned to be Ye Jin’s stepfather, and replied him.

“All the way down this road  and take a left at the broken tree.” 

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Please do read this story! It's one of the best I've ever read. Even though it wasn't mainly about Baekhyun, it just killed me to read about my bias. Min Ji's feelings are relatable as well. Though I'm more of a Ye Jin person. It's a great read!

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donutdoremi
#1
kyungsoo x oc need more recognize and tq for this btq
SkyeButterfly
#2
Chapter 147: My friend showed this to me, and omg I'm so flattered!!! I'm crYING OMG. I'm actually going to screenshot this so I can keep it forever haha. Thank you so, so much for your kind words. When I first wrote Touching Beauty, I was honestly unsure if people would even take the time to read // every // word since there is a lot of detail. I'm glad that you found it harmonious which was my goal :')
AHHHH I'm going to sleep tonight very, very, VERY happy. Thank you! ♥♥♥♥
sooyoung2345
#3
Chapter 136: So I just discovered this aND I'M HONESTLY SO SHOOK ASDFGHJKL THANK YOU FOR THE REC!! This honestly means so much to me <3
exowifey
#4
I'd like to recommend this :D
it's like my fav fic ever <3 <3 hope u give it a read !
https://www.asianfanfics.com/story/view/415805
shantanas
#5
Chapter 78: Thank you for the recommendation! It's been a while since I've last logged in and updated my story, Arcanum, so I found this a bit late. Hopefully, I'll be able to update it more regularly. :)
-natsukim #6
I saw kyungsoo and i subscribed. XD
kpopaddictionsoo #7
Can i recommnd a Kyungsoo story i'm reading? it's not completed but i find it really really well written xD
it has gangs (exo, bts), violence, romance (LOVE THE WAY SHE WRITE ROMANCE), death and i think some psychological stuff with one of the gang leader but its not revealed/confirmed yet. the story keep hinting toward death of one of the two main character with the songs the author uses but we'll have to wait to find out >.<

it starts off with kyungsoo (exo) leading a normal life and because of (sad) circumstances keep falling deeper and deeper into the gangworld that author calls "underworld". there he wants to climb to claim throne and become king of underworld. there are quite a few side stories too

DESCRIPTION author has on her profile:
How can you trust anybody in a world where everything is a lie?
Being left in charge of his father's secret business, Kyungsoo makes shocking discoveries that make him question his morals.
Matters only get worse for him when his life becomes entwined with that of Miran, a persistent girl who has her heart set on breaking through his cold façade. She not only intrigues him but also makes him want to break his vow to never have unnecessary relationships ever again.
Will Miran be able to save his heart or will Kyungsoo give into darkness?

LINK:
https://www.asianfanfics.com/story/view/1154189/heartless-angst-comedy-crime-gangs-romance-exo-love-kyungsoo-bts

would be awesome if you could give it a try and even more awesome if it makes it to the list! ^.^