Come Rain or Shine

Every cloud has a silver lining

Chaeyoung arrived at the house. The housekeepers are welcoming her. Chaeyoung brings her one box with her, leaving the others with the movers. Chaeyoung goes to her room and switches the light on. Her childhood photos are still there. She put the box on her bedside table, she pulled out one photo frame, the only picture she has as an adult with her mom and Jisung. She put just beside the old photos of her, beside the photo of 5 years old her with her mom on the piano. Chaeyoung looks at it.

The movers then start filling the house with her stuff, they carefully put Chaeyoung's musical instruments in its place, and Chaeyoung lets her boxes sit out. She will tidy up her things tomorrow. Today she's just glad that she arrived here.

She goes to the living room, looking at the garden from the big window. The housekeeper brought her tea.

"Thank you, Mrs. Lee"

Chaeyoung said to her, she sips her tea and just stares at the outside. Sometimes she regretted that she went home a little too late, she could spend more time with her mom. Glad that she's back here again. Chaeyoung imagined that she would spend her life here, but it was way too soon from her original plan. Still, it was the best decision she ever made. Her life has been turning upside down.

Finally, Chaeyoung is off the grid from Mina's life. It has to be that way. Mina won't forgive herself if Chaeyoung is around. And Chaeyoung is still occupied with the fact she's the reason Mina was buried all her dreams to be an opera. Back then Chaeyoung thought that she did the best thing she could but she wasn't. She kept hurting Mina even until now. The best way of giving life she deserves was to leave her. Chaeyoung asked Dahyun to take care of things, and let Mina stay in the company while Chaeyoung chose to work remotely.

Chaeyoung is still Yuna's producer, it's written on her contract, she talked to Yuna about her decision to move out. Chaeyoung would still write for Yuna's album, but she just did it remotely, Yuna understood and accepted her condition. Chaeyoung is still a songwriter under Music Factory as well, Chaeyoung also took the job if Barsuk needs her to compose and arrange music. Chaeyoung promised herself to be more productive because she needs that. Or else her mind would go somewhere and she can't concentrate.

After Dahyun visited her, Mina realized that she should work her ass off even harder. Though Chan left her a fortune, with his royalties and such, Mina felt that she shouldn't take that for granted. She would use that for Sujin's education. Mina started to sort her things out. 3 months after her contemplations, she showed up in Music Factory all of sudden, asking Dahyun if the job still opened for her, Dahyun accepted her to be the vocal trainer there. Mina and Sujin also moved out of the apartment. The apartment is so big for the two of them, and it holds memories of Bang Chan everywhere. Mina and Sujin moved to a smaller apartment near the Music Factory, enough for both of them.

Mina dropped Sujin off at school every morning. Sujin back at her old school, her old friends welcoming her, they were so happy that Sujin is back to the school again. Sujin told her mom that she wanted to continue practicing piano, while she also explored synthesizer on her own. Mina asked someone from JYP Publishing, Chan's best friend, Changbin to mentor her. Sujin has a talent for songwriting and composing, and glad that so many people helped her a lot.

Mina also got busy with her new post. Upon the great investment to the company, Dahyun signed with other artists, she scouted underground rappers, she monitored survival shows to pick her idol trainees. Mina trained all of them, she decided to work really hard to ease her mind off. She also got classes in Hanyang, she rejected classes at Gangneung-Wonju National University as she would like to focus on her job here in Seoul first. She took a break from GNWU for a while. Mina loves to teach. Teaching is energizing her and basically, Dahyun picked very good trainees, they already know the basics so Mina helped them sharpen their skills. Mina said that she learned a lot from the trainees as well, about their hardships, and for Mina, every trainee has their own story.