Seol Hee was sitting in a restaurant in Gangnam. She bowed her head, regretting what she had done that day.
“I’m sorry, Mr. Ok.”
“……”
“I guess I lost my mind for a moment.”
After work.
Seol Hee invited Eun Woo to a restaurant saying she had something to tell him.
It wasn’t as nice a place as the restaurant he had taken her to, but it was the best place I knew in this neighborhood.
She thought that she needed to buy such an expensive meal to ask a favor. Just as he had done.
While Seol Hee was talking about the situation, Eun Woo rested his chin and quietly watched her. Without laughing or frowning.
His deep, black eyes that made it impossible to know what he was thinking, shone brightly.
“I see.”
“Yes, that’s how it turned out. I was upholding my pride.”
Telling the whole situation was so embarrassing, with every word she said, her whole body shrank.
Eun Woo also told the same lie, but the weight of the matter was different.
Eun Woo’s story of following along with the misunderstanding because his grandmother was sick, and my proposal to fall for my exboyfriend’s childish provocation were far too different.
“I ended up saying we’re considering marriage.”
When she told him that, she really wanted to die. Eun Woo just listened to Seol Hee’s excuses as they continued.
His lips softly curved into a smile.
“I understand. It happens. Just like when I was under a spell.”
“That’s really it.”
It felt just like being under a spell. Cold sweat is still pouring out.
The restaurant she was sitting in had a wonderful Tomato Fettuccine. She always felt happy when she came here, but today, even with her favorite menu coming out, she didn’t know if it was cream or tomato, she was out of her mind.
Seol Hee tightly clenched her fist and whispered in a trembling voice.
“Thank you for understanding. So, I was saying…”
Oh, I really want to die.
Telling Chan Jung now that she can’t go, that it was all a lie, seemed really impossible. It seemed just as impossible to ask such a favor of Eun Woo.
Leaving all that aside, her unclean desire to break Chan Jung’s nose came first. But as she tried to speak, the words didn’t come out. Seol Hee licked her lips.
“So, I was saying, I……”
“Let’s go together, to that gathering.”
Eun Woo said, opening his eyes wide.
“If I’m alright, let’s go together.”
“Really?”
“What do you think?”
At his question, Seol Hee tilted her head slightly and looked at Eun Woo in front of her.
“If I’m alright,” he said.
Regardless of Seol Hee’s subjective discomfort with him, objectively, the visual of this man, Ok Eun Woo, was perfect.
His slightly raised hair stylishly revealed his forehead. A straight forehead, a straight nose, and red lips. This handsome man, who had so many handsome features, even had long and smooth eyelashes.
“If Mr. Ok will go with me, I would be grateful, of course.”
How desperate must she be to think that even Chan Jung would say she was lacking for this man, she was not in a position to refuse.
No, rather, she should be grateful.
Eun Woo opened his mouth.
“But I have a condition too.”
“I was going to say that too. You mean the thing about your grandmother, right?”
“Yes. Will you go with me to greet her?”
“Yes. I’ll go.”
It might have been a good thing, after all.
His grandmother is ill right now. Giving her a shock might worsen her condition, and then she would regret it later.
At Seol Hee’s words, Eun Woo nodded.
“That’s good, then. Let’s get along from now on.”
“I should be the one saying that.”
It wasn’t impossible to think of it as repaying the debt of him coming to the gathering.
Just once.
But, it would be just once, right?
On the way home.
Having done this once already, Seol Hee was a little more accustomed to riding in Eun Woo’s car. The scent of irises emanating from the car, and the sight of Professor Oak Eun Woo, adeptly driving, were no longer unfamiliar.
He was indeed very handsome.
At the hospital, due to the tension, she didn’t have time to appreciate his face. But now, looking at him up close, in this confined space, she finally took in his appearance.
Long eyelashes, underneath them were dazzling hazel eyes. His nose was so prominent that it cast a long shadow in the light pouring in from outside.
Sometimes, the guardians or other hospital staff would say, “He’s too good to be stuck in a hospital.” And it made sense.
If Professor Oak had looked more ordinary, maybe Chan Jung wouldn’t have been so suspicious.
“What a day today has been…”
She sighed without realizing it.
The day Chan Jung stormed into the hospital, and she started a fake relationship with Eun Woo.
Life is truly unpredictable. Chan Jung, who had long been a friend and a lover, she didn’t know he could act so rudely.
The same was true for Eun Woo.
He always seemed stern and demanding. But now, she was supposed to help him, receive help from him, and even pretend to be in a relationship with him.
Could she pull it off? Fooling not just her classmates, but also his grandmother.
Looking at the city night view flowing past, Seol Hee opened her mouth.
“Professor.”
“Hmm?”
“My class reunion is next month, when would be good for us to meet your grandmother?”
“Well.”
He adeptly parked the car in front of Seol Hee’s house and changed gears.
“How about next month? We need to get used to each other.”
“Get used to each other?”
Eun Woo shrugged his shoulders.
“My grandmother has dealt with many people. If we tell a clumsy lie, we’ll be caught immediately. So, we need practice.”
“What kind of practice?”
“I don’t know anything about Yu Seol Hee outside the hospital, to the extent that I didn’t even know you had a boyfriend. And you don’t know much about me, do you?”
It was true.
At the hospital, Seol Hee worked most closely with Eun Woo, so she knew him well as a veterinarian, but she didn’t know him personally.
She didn’t know he was such a warmhearted man who cared deeply about his family, she didn’t know his car smelled like irises, and she didn’t know his eyes were so deep they seemed to draw her in, even in the dark.
Eun Woo resumed speaking.
“So, let’s get to know each other.”
He was right. Not only was Eun Woo’s grandmother sharp, but Seol Hee’s friends would find it strange if they didn’t know each other well and were awkward like they were now.
Especially that cunning Lee Chan Jung.
They needed to get a bit closer.
“How should we get to know each other?”
Eun Woo’s eyes sparkled as he looked at Seol Hee.
“Let’s go on a date.”
“……What?”
“I want to go on a date with Seol Hee.”
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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