All It Takes Is One Step | Yoonmin

Chapter 25

Someone with a 2 hour old account is asking if they can translate 'Hidden Secret' into Russian 😕 I don't trust it at all. What do you guys think? It's got me a worried mess that someone might try and plagiarize 🥲

On another hand, someone finally touched my danganronpa adaptation on BTS universe lol which got me motivated to touch it again. I still have no idea how I'm gonna do that sksk I have no experience in the mystery genre at all.

On another other hand, SKZ's ODDINARY releases in a little over an hour and I'm so excited to hear MANIAC 😭 I pre-ordered all three versions and I'm so excited I can't contain myself~♡

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That night when we finally got home (after my mom realized that my phone was completely broken, she took me to go and get a new one and ended up making me go clothes shopping with her), my mom finally sat down with me to tell me what was what.

"So...what was the negotiation you made with them?" I asked as I followed her into her room.

"You and Yoongi," She paused as she took off her lipstick at her vanity. "Are going to be models for a collaboration line between our two brands. His mother recently wanted to try and extend their business into the fashion world. Well, I offered to do a joint brand with her and co-own it with her so she could learn the trade. Now where you and Yoongi come in, is you're going to model the joint brand. This is the solution I've come up with. You're going to be introduced as the main models for the brand, and as a couple. To the public, a married one. But we won't make you actually go through the process of being legally married, nor will you have to act like it outside of the public's eye. But we want you to pretend. The reason being that other business owners around here think that we've conjoined our businesses through your marriage and make them think that we're a lot more, well--I can't think of a good word to explain it. But you get what I mean, right? We want you to pretend to be married and model for a new brand for us. It is your choice, but I think it would be in your best interest." She mumbled as she took off the rest of her makeup. She turned her chair to look at me and smiled. "Because if you don't accept, they're just going to try and marry Yoongi off to some other family and do the same."

"But...they're the Mins. What need do they have to expand their business with another family?" I asked softly as I tried to process the information she told me.

"They don't. Unless they're having some kind of internal problem. Yoongi's mother and I have been pretty good friends for awhile so I know her pretty well. She wouldn't be trying to get in on the business world if she didn't have a damn good reason. The thing is, I won't ask. My friend is asking for help because she knows she can trust me. I'm sure it's probably just a spat between her and her husband. They were an arranged marriage, you know. They don't get along super well. She's probably trying to make herself more useful so that Yoongi's father doesn't try to ditch her now that her parents are gone and he completely owns her side of their old business. She probably wants to expand something in her name that would make divorcing her a profit loss for him. You know how people like that are." She shrugged.

I furrowed my brows. "So you think that she wants us to marry so she can keep their marriage together with business?"

"Yes. Naturally whenever I'm gone, you will receive all of my assets regardless of whether or not you're married, and you won't be sharing them. Her parents didn't choose to go that route and it's biting her in the ass now."

"Oh..." I mumbled. "So...Yoongi's parents...are potentially going to divorce...?"

"It's all assumptions right now. But it wouldn't surprise me."