Kyungmi asked, her face expressing disbelief as if she heard about an alien invasion. Dajeong just nodded silently. Kyungmi showed her displeasure.
“No, you can’t go anywhere.”
“Ma’am.”
“I’ll give you a vacation. No, a leave of absence. I’ll do whatever it takes to approve it. But you absolutely can’t resign.”
Dajeong had made her decision, knowing that it wasn’t something that could just be endured. She had no intention of backing down. The memory of the tiny, bird-like warmth of those babies dryly lingered in her mind, consuming her heart. She hoped not to see such babies anymore. Sincerely, earnestly.
“……Please let me go. Sister.”
For the first time at work, Dajeong crossed a line by calling Kyungmi in such a personal way. It was a heartfelt plea, asking her to understand the magnitude of her sorrow. She was saying she couldn’t bear it any longer.
“No. It’s not possible. I know you well enough to not let you go. Dajeong. You need to work. Otherwise, you’ll collapse.”
Kyungmi shook her head.
“I’ll give you a month. Drop everything and go somewhere to the beach and rest thoroughly. That’s the best I can do for you.”
“I don’t want to…”
“Have you heard about the one-month living in Jeju? Go to the beach and rest for a month.”
“One month? Sister. You know it’s not possible.”
Dajeong countered, thinking of her mother lying in the hospital, but Kyungmi preempted her again.
“I’ll take care of mom. I’m as good as her daughter, too. Leave her to me.”
Left without a response, Dajeong paused to gather her thoughts. Kyungmi, not wanting to hear any more objections, busily shuffled some charts as if she was busy. Dajeong watched Kyungmi’s fingertips.
Swoosh.
The sound of the waves at the beach suddenly echoed in her ears.
When was it? There was a time when her whole family enjoyed a vacation at the beach. It was a time when laughter lingered. After that, life got too busy to see the sea again.
Kyungmi, interpreting Dajeong’s silence as agreement, continued.
“You love the sea.”
Did she like it? She wasn’t sure what she liked anymore. Only Lee Jaeho came to mind. When her family fell apart, Dajeong had forgotten the small joys of life.
“Throw everything into the sea.”
She had never spent time solely to let go. She was doubtful whether it would work, having never tried it. Yet, despite this, Dajeong suddenly realized her heart was beating quite vigorously.
A month living by the sea.
Could it be possible?
Mother in a nursing home, hospital bills and debts, hospital work. The thought of escaping all these things seemed unimaginable.
Kyungmi quickly searched and showed various materials. She pulled up cafes and blogs, presenting beautiful turquoise sea views. She continuously marveled at how beautiful Jeju’s sea was.
“They rent pensions on a monthly basis. You just have to go.”
“…….”
“Don’t think of it as not resigning. Go, and if you still feel it’s tough, we’ll talk again. If you’re still adamant then, I’ll let you go.”
Kyungmi held Dajeong’s hand. Countless words seemed to be transmitted through the warmth of her palm.
“I’m asking you as a sister, Dajeong. Alright?”
At this point, Dajeong couldn’t refuse any longer. A month was a sufficiently long time, and she well understood the great favor Kyungmi was extending.
She mentally said goodbye to Haetsal-i. Suddenly, Dajeong felt this time could be an opportunity.
Glancing out the window, she saw the sun setting intensely. It was a chilly autumn with the cold breeze settling in.
“Then, I’ll take a break and come back. I can’t continue like this, sister.”
Eventually, Dajeong accepted Kyungmi’s proposal.
The sound of the waves crashing and receding echoed in her ears.
One month.
What could she let go of and what could she gain?
As promised, Kyungmi swiftly got the leave approved. There must have been complex procedures, but she cleverly resolved them.
Dajeong, having finished work, settled for a convenience store meal and sat at her desk. She turned on her laptop to plan her vacation. A faint exhilaration was felt. Somewhere inside, a warm flame flickered like a lighthouse. Such emotions were a rarity for her.
Searching ‘Jeju one-month living’ on a portal site, she was flooded with endless information. She clicked her mouse.
“The sea…….”
Swoosh. The waves crashed again.
One day from her memory, the four family members, armed with hoes and boots, bravely ventured into the mudflats. They dug for clams, planning to cook clam noodle soup and even steamed clams, but the actual harvest was meager.
They ended up eating at a nearby restaurant, ordering a large pot of clam soup with extra noodles, and exclaimed that this was the taste of the sea.
Dad had said that even if they had dug a lot of clams, the desalination process would have been difficult, so it was more efficient to eat out.
Then why did we even bother digging? her brother had scoffed. Mom had said,
“It’s about the memories.”
Dajeong pressed backspace, erasing ‘Jeju one-month living.’
Jeju is a beautiful, green island, but it was far from the sea Dajeong remembered. Her sea was about mudflats and sunsets. Not emerald hues but cloudy sky colors, not surfing but clam digging. That was her kind of sea.
Let’s go to the West Sea. To Taean, where the family went together.
However, finding a detached pension available for a full month in Taean, where the month-long living culture hadn’t settled in, was quite challenging. Dajeong spent days scouring the internet.
When yandere male lead believes she loves him — but she never did
“How dare you!”
“How dare you make me love you, only to cast me aside as nothing more than a friend?!?
“I will never accept that.”
“I will never let you return to him.”
“Even if I have to burn myself to ashes.”
“Even if I must shatter my purity, my dignity, my very soul.”
“I will never let you escape me!”
This was the first novel that introduced me to the matriarchal genre. I’ve read it three times already!
At first, the male lead despised the female lead. Later, he misunderstood that she liked him, so he condescendingly and reluctantly reciprocated her feelings.
Then, he suddenly discovered that she was kind to everyone in the same way, and there was already someone she cherished in her heart, and that person was not him.
The male lead couldn’t believe it, he became angry and crazy. He was determined to capture her body and heart by any means necessary.
Synopsis:
Want to see how a green tea bitch male lead falls in love with the female lead?
Want to see how he flirtatiously pursues the female lead?
Want to see how he gets slapped in the face repeatedly?
The male lead is a green tea bitch, a poisonous lotus, jealous, ruthless, unscrupulous, with a venomous heart, and he’s also a delusional maniac.
The female lead is righteous, positive energy-filled, kind, a holy mother.
Let’s see how two people with extreme personalities come together~
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