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The Right Choice - Part 1

Summary: You had hoped going to Korea to look after your estranged grandmother would allow you to connect in some way to your mother’s culture. However, being half-Korean and a single mother meant you would face the stigma of a narrow-minded society instead. Had you really made the right choice to come here?

Pairing: Mark Tuan x reader

Genre: single mother au / strangers to lovers au / self-growth / angst / romance

Warnings: open prejudice and stigma over solo parenting

A/N; Although the warnings seem rather negative, this story is one I hope a lot of you will enjoy! I’ve wanted to write this for over eight months now, and I’m glad I finally sat down to do so. It isn’t as dark as it sounds, and nor is it intentionally a dig at Korean culture as a whole.

The Right Choice will be posted daily at 10am NZST.

Parts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8

“Are you sure it’s going to be fine?”

Smiling warmly up at the man before you, you stepped up onto your toes and grazed your lips over his cheek. The worry in his green eyes didn’t settle any, his brows still knitted together as he looked at the assorted suitcases on your bed.

Truth be told, you didn’t know how to answer him. You wanted to assure him that you would have no issues on your trip to Korea, even though he was aware of how things were with your Grandmother. You wouldn’t just be flying there to help her with her ailing health, but right into the path of a venom tongue that had no qualms of lashing out its opinions, so you had learned over the years. It wasn’t exactly your first choice of spending the second half of your year, especially towing your eight-month-old daughter along as well.

However, you were a mother now. You knew you would face a lot of trying times ahead that you needed to overcome. You couldn’t just shirk away, especially when that person was family.

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