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Author's Note:
A New Year gift.
Set in His Beautiful Disaster Alternate Universe. Written for The Royal Fanfic Affairs Fic Exchange Project. I'm sorry this is not in AO3. I'm comfortable with wattpad.
Happened two years after Go Eun returned from London. Spoiler for the story as a whole, but it's ok: she will start her own skincare brand, to be her mother's direct rival.
Pretty sure I have to return to the previous chapters to correct the timeline. Then again, it's alright.
I hope you wouldn't be confused. Basically, this is a timeline jump and a chapters jump.
3,100 words. SFW.
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A lot of things have changed. She had graduated college and got her bachelor degree. She immediately started her master degree, and had endured so many bitter fights with her mother where she refused to work for their family's skincare brand, and started her own.
She only had one product so far, a moisturizer cream. But it was the most popular beauty product in the country that year, since it's gentle and could be used for all skin types. So it was a great year for her.
Despite everything that changed, some things would remain the same. Like attending the Christmas Eve dinner at the Lee Mansion.
She had done that ever since she could remember.
Not that it was easy.
She and her mother had shown openly that they were enemies. And Min Ho Oppa had finally started a relationship with Song Hye Kyo, after a confrontation she'd rather forget entirely between them that happened on her last birthday.
Ji Ah imo invited her, and she couldn't refuse, no matter what. Even when she dreaded seeing that beautiful partner of his at the sacred Christmas Eve dinner.
"You can't have it all, Go Eun. You can't have your independence and beating your mother, with Lee Min Ho Oppa by your side. You're too selfish for him, and you've hurt him too much. Now, hold that chin high, and attend that dinner."
These were the things she told herself in the mirror before she went to the parking lot of her apartment.
When she arrived, nostalgia hit her like a ball of snow on her face.
She used to spend her days there, escaping from her mother's expectations and naggings. Yet she felt like she was a stranger there already. How could she forget, that the last time she was there, she just discovered that she and Min Ho Oppa had been betrothed since they were children. Back then, she felt that she had been betrayed by everyone she thought would never do that to her.
The butler walked her to the main dining room on the ground floor. She could hear conversations flowing.
"Miss Kim Go Eun has arrived," the butler mentioned.
