Falling in Love (Mother's Garden Fanfiction)

At thirty, Zhao Zewen experienced the feeling of falling in love for the first time. All the arrogance and rationality he'd held onto for thirty years crumbled because of Xu Yunju. So this is what falling in love feels like. I've always been terrible at writing blurbs, so let me introduce the story here instead. A fanfiction of the daily drama Mother's Garden. Male lead with a boy-girl romance. The original pairing is broken up, and the male lead is paired with the original heroine. The original drama has a warm, heartfelt tone, with family love as well as romance. But I started writing this because I became obsessed with the heroine, so romance will take up a larger share of the story. The daily drama has only aired a quarter of its episodes so far, with ninety more to go. I really have no idea what this story will turn into in the end... The story will be filled in according to the episodes as they air, so Zongxin will update weekly from then on. Just so you know. For parts based on episodes that have already aired, Zongxin will update as quickly as possible. But Zongxin doesn't think the writing in this story is good enough to make readers eagerly await updates, so I hope those of you who enjoy it will talk it over with me. Thank you. For convenience, I copied the character introductions from Baidu Baike: Xu Yunju Against arranged marriages! Even more against marriages arranged for political reasons! A woman who dreams of meeting the man she loves in a movie-worthy way and marrying him. The eldest daughter of Xu Bingzhen, president of Daesung Enterprises. Cheerful, honest, and lively, she learned from a very young age to handle her sensitive, utterly unromantic mother Taiping with a carefree, joking attitude. Even when her mother, Madam Liu Zhixin, pressured and nagged her to marry, she didn't get angry, but instead knew to use affection to deflect her. After learning the secret of her birth, she cried alone and kept it from her parents. Cha Jijun A cheerful man who finds strength again after losing everything. He's not good with rules and restrictions, but his thoughts and actions are free. The second son of Cha Dongxiu, president of Namju Enterprises. He grew up enjoying all the privileges of being the younger son. At his father's urging, he went to New York to study business. One day, he fell in love with Italian cuisine and quit school, only to be discovered and forced to return to Korea. He defied his father's order to start working at the company immediately and was kicked out of the house. He now works at the restaurant of Taesu, a senior chef. Even when he can't freely choose either his dreams or love, he keeps searching for himself. Kim Sujin A woman who simply despises poverty and dreams of meeting a prince on a white horse to raise her social status. The daughter of Jeong Sunjeong, and Yunju's maternal half-sister. She has hated poverty since childhood and has always been rebellious. To escape the run-down exam prep village, she used her natural figure and looks to become a model, but never made a name for herself and could see no future in modeling. She sets her sights on Cha Seongjun, the eldest son of Namju Group, and stakes everything on becoming his wife and Namju Group's eldest daughter-in-law. Cha Seongjun A man with a cool smile and an outwardly perfect, calm demeanor that can even seem cruel. The eldest son of Cha Dongxiu, president of Namju Group, and Jijun's older brother. He is the director of the planning department at Namju Group and works with a strong sense of ownership. Though he falls under Sujin's spell when they meet, he dates her from the start on the understanding that she is not marriage material. Jeong Sunjeong A woman who has held on until now with the single conviction that her two daughters must never go hungry and must be sent to school. A boardinghouse owner in the exam prep village, and Yunju's birth mother. Twenty-seven years ago, she fell in love with Xu Bingzhen, a repeat exam-taker who was a regular at her mother's restaurant. They broke up because Xu's parents opposed them. After discovering she was pregnant, she decided to raise the child alone, but gave her daughter to Xu Bingzhen for the child's sake. She later married another man and had Sujin and Sua. After he abandoned her, she struggled to raise her two daughters in poverty. Then the daughter she had found, along with that daughter's stepmother, entered her life, and they began an unusual life together. Cast: Character | Actor | Notes Xu Yunju | Jeong Yumi | 27, daughter of Bingzhen and Sunjeong Xu Yunju (child) | Jang Seohui | ---- Xu Yunju (teenager) | Kim Seungyun | ---- Cha Jijun | Choi Taejun | 27, second son of chairman Cha Dongxiu Cha Jijun (child) | Yeo Mungi | ---- Kim Sujin | Eom Hyeongyeong | 26, Sunjeong's daughter and Yunju's maternal half-sister Cha Seongjun | Go Sewon | 32, eldest son of chairman Cha Dongxiu Xu Bingzhen | Gil Yongu | Father of Yunju and Jungha, president of Daesung Enterprises Yu Zhixin | Na Yeonghui | Wife of president Xu Bingzhen, Yunju's stepmother, mother of Jungha Xu Jungha | Danwoo | Son of Bingzhen and Zhixin Cha Dongxiu | Park Geunhyeong | Chairman of TS Construction, father of Seongjun and Jijun Oh Gyeongsuk | Kim Changsu | Dongxiu's wife, mother of Seongjun and Jijun Cha Boying | Choo Soyoung | Dongxiu's eldest daughter, older sister of Seongjun and Jijun Jeong Sunjeong | Go Dusim | Yunju's birth mother, mother of Sujin and Sua Kim Sua | Kim Bora | Sunjeong's youngest daughter, younger sister of Yunju and Sujin No Ra | Jang Jeonghui | Sunjeong's friend Byeon Taesu | Gong Jeonghwan | Jijun's senior Kim Jakyung | Lee Yi | Yunju's friend, travel agency employee Ha Dongchang | Kim Sagwon | Yunju's senior from university