SYNOPSIS. Five times world-renowned chef Jeong Jaehyun tried to end your journey to be a chef because you weren’t ‘qualified enough to be a chef’ and that one time you proved him wrong.
WORD COUNT. 28.8k+ words (is this my new record? omg)
author's note. i posted a long time ago about how i must write a chef!jae fic and now, here she is. i'm so sorry for such a long wait (and all those postponements oop) but i'm glad that she's finally done and posted for you to enjoy reading! i hope you enjoy this fic as much as i enjoyed writing it :-) also pls reading the author’s note at the end for all my thoughts about writing this fic! happy reading~
can’t I just send a quick note to let you know how much I appreciate your writing? 😭💗 the angst always hits and the way that I always end up falling in love with your writing makes me all warm inside. I’m currently reading your 13 going on thirty inspired fic (awesome movie choice btw) and I love it so much !!
So thank you for taking time to write your fics and sharing them with us✨
hi love!
awww thank you :') i'm happy my fics make you feel warm inside! that's the goal! and i hope you enjoyed reading my 13 going on 30 inspired fic hehehe
please stay safe! i hope you have a beautiful day!
omg alsoooo i forgot to add TT doctor!jae is gonna be the death of me 😭 i'm a med student so im really excited okayyy ajjskamkslalamkkajjh but take your time <3
AHHH yes i know
i have all my ideas jotted down jkdfhskjdhf i just need to write it out skjdhfskjdhf BUT AHHH i might have to go to you if i have questions about med school and residency and all that jazz
omg one year anniversary already??!? happy (almost) one year anniversary to you guys ❤ we stan simp boy, okayyy? (and yes as i mentioned, i'm nosy and would love to hear about the whole story 👀)
don't feel bad for not writing :((( as mark lee said, 'life is a bastard' and it just happens. i'm sure you're very busy, so i hope you don't feel bad :') maybe jot down all the ideas that come up to your mind (which you probably do), you can write them when you actually CAN.
aaand aah 'people we meet on vacations'!! it's on my tbr list! i'll read it asap, now that you've said that it's your fav lol and my life?? it's so boring :') (lowkey wish my life was like a ppangjae fic 😩 universe, just gimme a man written by ppangjae 🙏🏻) i've been trying to befriend a squirrel that comes to my home everyday for food TT but squirrels are so so hard to befriend, but at least it's not running away when i go near to feed it :)
also, totally random but i noticed that our signs are a lil similar ;-; i'm a pisces sun, a cancer moon and taurus rising (yours is cancer rising and capricorn moon right??) not the same but two water signs & an earth sign!
i hope you have a great day! lots of love to you!!
ahh thank you love! but also i'm not with simp boy anymore skjdf it's been a long time since we broke up. this is a new guy! let's just call him 🧸 hehe
we've known of each other since 2017. we also had crushes on each other since 2017-18, but never acted on it. so basically, we've been dancing around each other lol. we have a lot of mutuals lol his cousins went to the same high school as me so i knew them. it's truly a small world!
i used to work in this office as a part time student and he'd be a frequent visitor, so i'd seem him once a week. we never acted on our crushes because we never really expected that we liked each other back. a couple of years go by and it's the middle of the pandemic (this is a while after i broke up with simp boy), and he comes up to my office and asks for a form. he uses this form as an excuse to talk to me lol, and he asks me if i'm single and if i wanted to go out for a coffee. since we were in the middle of the pandemic, i told him not right now because of covid.. and he took it as a rejection. a few years later, i catch him lurking on my socials and we start talking again. we got to know each other and it turns out that we have so much in common, we're on the same wavelength, and he just gets me lol. a couple of months and dates later, we decided to start dating! and now we're going to be a year into our relationship this month hehe
there's more to it but i'll save those stories for another time too lolol
yes! you must read people we meet on vacation! THAT BOOK IS LITERALLY EVERYTHING I EVER WANTED.
and a squirrel! that's so cute. have you tried giving it nuts? they're so cute when they stuff their mouths LOL
omg an earth sign and two water signs! that's so cool! i'm not really that good at astrology skjdhfsdjkhf but i kinda like being a water sign, i feel like i truly know how to be intuitive with my emotions. don't you agree? i feel like as pisces, we are so good at acknowledging our emotions and reading the emotions of others. i feel like that's just our strongest trait!
i hope you have a wonderful day love! and thank you for dropping by :') please stay safe!
omg hi akskkskjskskks how have you been, alex? sooo, i've re read ALL of your works for the 127th time in the last three days, as the mentally insane person that i am aaaand i found it cute that you've inserted cute lil things like ice cream (ah yes the good old pistachio and cookies & cream), long eyelashes, jungwoo being the best cupid (and a few like that but honestly i can't even remember rn TT i was giggling while listing out all of those lil things @ 3 am last night tho) have a as snippets in almost all your works TT
nostalgia hit hard when i was reading the older fics 🥲 i can't quite remember but the first one that i've read of yours was either planet girl/seven letters, and you've written alot of masterpieces since then and i'm so proud of you TT you're my favorite writer in the whole damn universe ngl (that was cheesy but i mean it) aaaand ily akskkakalakjska do you have any book recommendations?? i'm aching to find good books but the modern romance books that i've come across make me feel like i hate romance (when i'm a literally a hopeless romantic) 😩
aaaand i really hope that you're doing great! (would love to hear about what's going on in your life cause i'm nosy) and how's your dog (...i forgot his name but what i didn't forgot is, how cute he was! i feel like the name starts with m...) and sorry for going on and on 🤡 i just felt like it wouldn't be fair not rambling about how much i love your works after re reading all of those masterpieces. have a good day!
hi love! i've been doing well! just super busy with life lol how have you been?
yes i love having cute little details. i'm not sure why but i always pick jungwoo as the cupid—there's just something about him that's giving cupid or like the matchmaker friend kjsdhdf and yes! jaehyun's long eyelashes! they are honestly my favourite little thing about him.
hehe yeah, i read my old fics from time to time. it was the time during covid and i had nothing to do with all the free time i had jkshfdf honestly, i look back and reminisce those times because i was so motivated and i was always writing when i had the time. but nowadays i've been struggling to find the time to write, which is kind of sad lol because there are so many ideas i have occupying my brain but i just don't have the time to sit down and write it :(
book recommendations! i haven't been reading lately but my all time favourite romance books are from emily henry hehe 'people we meet on vacation' is hands down my favourite romance book I WOULD HONESTLY RE-READ IT that's just how much i love it
and my dog! you remembered! his name is maui hehe, he turned three last month! he's a spoiled kid because my parents and i love him so much lol.
in regards to what's going on in my life, there's not much LOL. my boyfriend and i are reaching our first anniversary next month! i'm super happy and excited.. i already got my gifts for him :') also it's weird how we're only reaching one year of being together when we've known of and danced around each other for years (literally since i was still in high school.. but that's another story for next time if you're interested lol) but that's my life update! lol my life is so boring sjkdhf
thank you for dropping by love! i love getting asks from yall because i genuinely love catching up and seeing if everyone's keeping well hehe
Uhm, hi! I just want to apologize for all of the asks you’ve been receiving. I’ve been reading your works for about two years now, I believe?
I’m just letting you know, your writing is genuinely the only fic that I genuinely think about all of the time and to this day. It created an entirely new standard for me, and I still come back and read it as much as I can recall it. It truly shaped my perception of writing, and I honestly love it so much. You are a phenomenal writer. It constantly lives on my mind, as do you. Im really glad to see you’re still active sometimes.
hi love!
thank you :') but don't worry, i'm not affected by the rude asks lol.
thank you for appreciating and reading my fics! i enjoyed writing them just as much as you reading them hehe.
you are so sweet!
and yes, i try to be active sjdkhsd it's hard but i try lol
i hope you're keeping safe! and staying healthy! <3
sure, sure, i’ll drink some water and toast to your illiteracy (just throwing it back to you and your friend btw since y’all can’t comprehend proper manner of speaking that matches its timeline 😌) and no worries, i’ll def get off tumblr now since all that this site is offering are lacklustre, dull “writers” like you and your friends anyway. better get rid of that kinda energy 🥱 no peace and safety whatsoever for you!
lmao okay anon <3 bye! i don't care.
clearly, you care a lot since you came back to my askbox to send me yet another 2 asks. just like the last time, i'm not answering to your second ask because i have better things to do and i also have a life.
yeah it’s all always the same lacklustre writers and readers with dull comprehension that defend each other anyway 🤣 when pointed out how l a c k i n g you write, it’s always the same excuse of “iT’s nOt tHaT sErIoUS” — but hey, you’re right! ‘cause ain’t nobody takin’ you seriously with that awful thing you do that you think is called “writing”. no wonder y’all always gotta reblog your own works just to beg for interaction on what you’ve posted lol then blame it on “iT’s ‘cAusE tHe rEaDeRs arE nOt rEbLoGgInG” — but no they really don’t wanna interact and just take advantage of your “hArDwORk” bc y’all actually ✨ s u c k ✨
lmfao you're honestly just wasting your time and it's hilarious in my opinion. it's the fact that you took time out of your day to send me not one, but two asks.
you could've been more productive with that time, like get a cup of coffee, take a power nap, maybe meditate. meditation is a good habit to have to remove all of the negative energy that consumes you.
but i guess we're just not productive as we want to be, huh?
what's even more hilarious is that my best friend was just going about her day peacefully, only to hop on tumblr to a horrible ask. it was completely unprovoked and honestly, i'm not quite sure where all of this negativity comes from.
anyways, if you have a problem with me defending and speaking up for my own best friend, i don't care.
let's take some deep breaths, anon. drink some water. take a nap. i feel like there's just a lot of negativity and stress that you need to get rid of.
OR! even better! get off of tumblr and stop reading fanfics (which again, aren't that serious.. i don't know why you're so pressed about that) because clearly, us writers just don't live up to your high expectations and we're tired of putting up with anons like you.
(P.S i don't reblog my fics just to beg for interaction, i reblog them as part of my queue. clearly, you don't know how i run my blog.)
Your Y/N in said story: “i’Ll sEe yOu gUyS tOmOrRow”
Just in what universe did people from the 1600s speak like this? And you have the audacity to put a disclaimer that says “aNy siMilAriTiEs aRe cOiNcidEnCes” when you can’t even keep their manner of speaking as historically accurate as possible — and this should have been the least of your “story”’s problems.
Another thing.
smoll-tangerine in her A/N: “tHaNkS tO mY pRoOfrEaDer”
The “proofread” work not even halfway through later:
“aT tHe aGe oF mAjOrITy”
“lEft riGhT fInGEr”
Yeah, don’t ever come back and write. Y’all put to shame and great waste every resource material available for actually-decent writers.
I honestly don’t know why I’m taking the time of the day to reply to such message. But I figured, since you also took the time to read through 30k words and also took the time to write wtv issue you had with my fic, I might as well answer it lol
1) “Just in what universe did people from 1600s speak like this?”: If I were to use the English people used to speak back in the 1600s, no one would be able to understand. Technically, Early Modern English which was prominent from the 1400s to the late 1600s, is unintelligible to modern speakers (i.e., plebs like you and me) unless you’ve studied it. I would have to write like Shakespeare. You can argue that a lot of Modern English words or sayings came from Shakespearean English, and people will only understand some of it. Also, issue is, I can’t write Shakespearean English, and Shakespearean English is so complicated that I didn’t even want to attempt it because of annoying hating readers like you who nitpick at every irrelevant detail that has nothing to do with the plot.
2) The fic is also set in Versailles, France. Going by your logic, the characters should then be talking in French. Hell, I could’ve written everything in French if I wanted to because I am French. But that wouldn’t be fair to people who cannot read French. Once again, Middle French is highly complicated and no one would be able to understand unless they’re a) a native speaker, and/or b) someone who studied and understand Middle French. Honestly, in WHAT universe do FICTIONAL CHARACTERS set in FRANCE speak ENGLISH!!! Cannot fathom this logic!!!
3) “And you have the audacity to put a disclaimer that says ‘any similarities are coincidences’ when you can’t even keep their manner of speaking as historically accurate as possible.”: Bestie, go back and read what you just wrote because it makes no sense, and there’s no correlation between the two.
4) “The age of majority” is a thing. I don’t know why you’re so pressed about this. Are you illiterate.
5) “Left right finger”: Thanks for catching that typo! I still don’t understand why you’re so angry about the fact that my FANFIC had typos (but ok). But also, let’s see you try writing a fic that’s 30k words and see if you won’t make any mistakes or miss any typos. Make sure to drop the link in my inbox when it’s ready. I’ll give back the same energy you gave me. 💅🏼
i'm honestly living for queenie's response <3 pop off queen
i love when anons read a 30k word fanfic (yes, fanfic, because it's literally not that serious 😭✋🏼) and then when they don't like it, they go straight to the writer's inbox to write a long ass ask about it. and it's not even constructive criticism or feedback too, which is hilarious.
Hi Alex, not sure if you check your Tumblr regularly but I still want to leave a message here. Even though I'm not a NCTzen nor Jaehyun's fan, I'm here reading your stories because I like it so much. I like the plot and the way you write it. As long as you're not dropping midway, I will wait :D Wish all the best for you. ~Z~
awww thank you so much love!
don't worry, i've been writing from time to time hehe
Hello again today, Alex! I'd need you to forgive me in advance if I'm flooding your ask box 😅
I have just reread All I See is Red and my all-time favorite The Stages ❤️ and I was wondering — and I don't really know/remember if I've asked you this before — what your favorite story of yours is. Or just that one story that you'd personally recommend from your masterlist to anyone who'd ask. That's all!
I hope your day is going/has gone well! Take care always, Alex! —♡ anon
hehehehe hi!!
no… please flood my askbox hehe i love getting asks hehehehehehe
i think my fave fics that I’ve written have changed over time. i think it’s solely because i’ve matured - or at least i hope i’ve matured LOL
my current fave fic that i’ve written is five plus one! personally, it’s because i really loved the planning i did for it. BUT ALSO it was super easy to write. the ideas and the words just came so easily to me. i wrote half of it in one sitting! it was such a breath of fresh air. i would definitely recommend it to someone who’s stumbled across my masterlist for the first time hehe
another fave fic of mine is seven letters! there’s just something special about it. i think it’s the memories it comes with. it was the first ever fic from my blog that people enjoyed and it motivated me to write more!
please stay safe love! and don’t be shy to send an ask hehehe i don’t mind!
I have just read some recent news about some of the things happening in America and Canada. I hope you and your loved ones are doing okay and safe. Take care always, Alex. —♡ anon
we are keeping safe love <3
the smoke from the wildfires have travelled quite far though, i must say lol. but the air quality has been better since!
Hi, Alex! I know you haven't answered my last ask yet, but I really missed sending messages here, so I thought to tell you that I just reread barista!Jaehyun ☺️ I honestly forgot why I really liked that drabble series the first time, then I finished the last updated part again and was all up in my feels! I really believe I'm more inclined to your softer, cozier stories because I'm itching to reread The Stages again after I send this ask in 🤭
I think I may safely say that I'm slowly getting back to rereading your masterlist. I missed doing so, and since I have more time again nowadays, all the better.
I hope you've been well and that your day is going/has gone well, Alex! —♡ anon
skdjdjfjf don’t be sorry for sending messages! as i said in my last ask, i enjoy hearing about how everyone has been! life always gets busy and i always love catching up hehe
i personally enjoy writing fluff just because there are so many ways where you could get creative! that’s truly why most of my fics are fluff skdjdjd because i enjoy writing and reading them hehe (i’m also horrible at writing smut skfjdkfkd so it just works out for me)
i’ve been wanting to read fics again too! i guess this is my sign to read fics again lol
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