“Not L but P?”
Ye-eun turned to Doha, noticing the light on the penthouse button, not the lobby lounge.
Doha’s smile deepened a bit more.
“Why? You know the meaning of our fifth meeting, Seo Ye-eun.”
He raised his hand, gently touching her chin.
A languid warmth flickered in his emotionless black eyes.
She involuntarily swallowed hard.
“Of course, Seo Ye-eun’s purpose was elsewhere.”
Suddenly, a sharp light flickered in his eyes, and a cold blue hue shone through.
The hand that gently touched under her chin now gripped it more firmly.
“If you want to take me there.”
Ye-eun’s eyes trembled as she looked up at Doha.
It seemed he had known why she was here from the beginning.
No, he had known and brought her here from the start.
“Make some effort, Seo Ye-eun. You suggested meeting at night.”
Other efforts.
What he wanted was clear, and she had responded to his call for that very reason.
Even changing clothes in front of the mirror numerous times.
But not now.
“Later.”
Ye-eun didn’t avoid Doha’s gaze and quietly responded with a shaky voice.
“You have to go to the Itaewon main house now.”
It took some time to realize, but she finally understood the basic rules of this project.
Her miserable life and Doha’s sharply honed life were entangled in a trap woven with terrible threats and dramatic mechanisms. It was a play of sorts.
“Help me.”
Her role seemed like the cheese in a trap or the invisible tape hidden inside a fancy wrapper.
A despicable and trivial role, too valuable to lose, yet too risky to abandon.
“If you go there, I can survive.”
Realizing her situation, she clearly saw Cha Hyun’s intention of intricately entwining her and the emotionally detached Doha.
The hidden meaning behind Cha Hyun’s instruction not to spare any means and the “beauty trap” became clear.
And eventually, she had no choice but to comply with Cha Hyun’s intentions.
“Please save me. Then I’ll do what you want.”
Doha’s hand then slid up to just below her ear.
“You know what I want.”
His languid voice and the warmth that followed sent shivers down her neck.
Trembling slightly, Ye-eun did not resist his touch and softly whispered.
“Whatever it is…”
October’s fourth day.
The air was slightly heavy, and the nape of her neck, where Doha had nestled, felt cool.
Oddly enough, her body was hotter than ever before.
“I will do it. So…”
She couldn’t finish her sentence.
Doha’s lips cast a shadow as they approached.
The dryness of October was palpable on his lips.
The area around the Hanju Group chairman’s mansion in Itaewon was bustling.
The Hanju Group’s annual autumn party was exceptionally grand.
The first week of October brings the new harvest from the Hanju family’s private farms across the country.
Chairman Cha Ji-seop would invariably gather relatives and host a garden party in the yard, coinciding with the anniversary of his late wife’s passing, perhaps making it more splendid.
The scale of the autumn party grew year by year, and this year’s was the grandest yet.
Chefs from HJ Hotel’s food service grilled meat under white tents, and a quartet performed chamber music.
The party was brimming with drinks and food, and laughter echoed everywhere.
However, Chairman Cha Ji-seop, the host of the party, did not look pleased.
“Any word from him yet?”
Chairman Cha Ji-seop inquired to Cha Hyun, who was standing by his side, and checked the time.
He had clearly instructed to bring Doha by 9 PM at the latest, yet there was no news even after 30 minutes had passed.
Having told the guests that Doha would be attending today, it seemed like he had spoken prematurely.
Since earlier, Chairman Jin of ST Group had been questioning whether Doha was really coming.
“Call her. That Seo Ye-eun girl.”
Doha would not answer his phone anyway.
It’s his routine to switch off his phone on days with family events.
“Chairman Jin’s waiting to see Doha before leaving for another event, isn’t he?”
“Just wait a bit longer. Detaching Kim Haeri isn’t easy.”
Cha Hyun calmly reassured Chairman Cha Ji-seop and looked towards the gate.
He was feeling anxious too.
Reports from other sources claimed they left the party room an hour ago.
Doha was reportedly cooperative without much resistance.
But why hadn’t they arrived yet?
Concealing his anxiety, Cha Hyun glanced at Doha’s half-brother, Hyun-oh, playing in the middle of the lawn.
Six years old this year.
The posthumous child born after his father’s death.
As much as he wanted to deny it, Hyun-oh, who strikingly resembled their late great-grandfather, was undeniably part of this family’s bloodline.
Yet, Cha Hyun felt no affection for him, perhaps because his existence seemed to push Doha away.
In-woo approached Cha Hyun, who was watching the child with a grim expression.
“Stop hating them. Both Doha and Hyun-oh are from the same uncle’s bloodline.”
The same? Hardly.
Cha Hyun scoffed and spoke to In-woo.
“Stop it. Why are you always around him? What about your fiancée?”
Anyone would think you’re his father.
At her comment, In-woo laughed brightly.
Male lead is a Love-Obsessed Merman
When he discovers she has gone, he risks everything to pursue her on land, enduring agonizing pain to transform his tail into human legs…
One-line summary: Male lead chases female lead. The male lead’s love is a bit sick, an invincible love brain.
Synopsis
During a voyage at sea, Jiang Yang accidentally captures a merman.
Servant: I heard that mermen are fierce and brutal.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman obediently rubbing her palm like a puppy: “You call this fierce and brutal?”
Servant: I heard that mermen have no human nature.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman with wet puppy eyes, obsessively calling her ‘A Yang’ like a childish infant: “You call this having no human nature?”
With great difficulty, she releases the merman back into the sea and returns to shore.
Who would have thought that in less than half a month, the merman, who should have been freely wandering in the South China Sea, would shed his scales, endure the pain of losing his tail, transform into human legs, and come ashore to find her?
He kneels at her feet, rubbing her palm, with merman tears rolling down: “A Yang, don’t abandon me.”
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