Hyun Woo firmly held onto Sori’s wrist, which seemed ready to flee in fear, positioning her right in front of him.
Sori’s heart began to race.
He let out a short breath and sat on the edge of the desk. He appeared somewhat eye level with Sori now.
Sori cast her gaze down towards his long legs that seemed almost within reach.
A moment of awkward silence.
Unable to bear it any longer, Sori slowly lifted her gaze only to find him, arms crossed, staring intently back at her.
As if he had been waiting for their eyes to meet.
“Hand.”
His voice was calm, as if reaching for a scalpel in an operating room.
Suddenly, one of his hands was stretched out before Sori, palm facing up.
Sori looked down at his neat and tidy hand.
If she had hesitated like this in an operating room, she would have been scolded immediately.
But he simply waited patiently.
“Why the hand….”
Sori asked, looking up at him, but he only gave a slight nod.
It wasn’t right.
It really wasn’t.
Yet, like Pavlov’s dog, her hand moved. Barely suppressing her trembling heart, she gently placed her left hand on top of his.
Her small, pale hand was neatly placed within his large one.
His gaze slowly fell onto Sori’s hand.
The tips of Sori’s fingers slightly trembled, softly curling inward.
“Every time, how can your fingertips be so cold, you.”
Despite his annoyed tone, he ran his long thumb soothingly across the back of Sori’s hand.
For a moment, Sori thought she had been electrocuted. Unbeknownst to her, a small gasp escaped through her lips.
The thought that she shouldn’t be doing this in the hospital, let alone in his lab, crossed her mind just as she was about to pull her hand away.
But Hyun Woo was faster.
He flipped Sori’s hand and clasped it.
“Ah!”
The contact with his skin was hot. Gradually, her cheeks turned red.
Something long dropped from his left hand onto the clasped hands.
Something shimmered under the light.
At the end of the thin necklace, a glittering gold ring was hanging.
The ring hanging from the necklace cascaded onto Sori’s palm.
“Rings are too ostentatious for the hospital.”
He gave a light nod, as if he had been waiting for this, pointing specifically towards Sori’s neck.
“Use it as a necklace.”
He added briefly, rose from the desk, and distanced himself once again.
The absence of his warmth was slightly regretful, but looking at what was in her hand, her heart warmed.
“Why give something like this to me….”
It looked somehow more special than any extravagant jewel.
Truth be told, no matter what he gave, she might not have liked it, but his gift had accurately struck her heart at this moment.
Her pounding heart seemed glued to her ears.
Whose ring, deeply etched with the traces of time, could it be?
Perhaps it was a memento left by his mother?
Thinking so, she felt that the marriage he proposed wasn’t a mere joke.
She felt a bit scared, unexpectedly.
She did like Hyun Woo, but marriage was another matter.
“You don’t have to feel so burdened.”
Despite Sori’s growing heaviness, Hyun Woo spoke quite lightly.
It was as if he had read Sori’s innermost feelings.
“You take responsibility for your actions, and I’ll take responsibility for my words.”
Once again, caught off guard, Sori was unable to gather her wits.
“Professor, were you always this conservative?”
Why didn’t I know?
For a moment, Sori even thought that Seo Hyun Woo was someone who had travelled through time from the Joseon era.
“If we’ve kissed, we should get married.”
Saying as if it was a matter of fact.
With a seemingly joking yet serious tone, he let out a faint laugh from the corner of his lips.
At his rare smile, Sori became even more flustered.
“I meant to set aside some time to talk about this.”
“……”
“Let’s discuss it now since it’s been brought up.”
His following indifferent tone was lower and heavier than before.
“With this marriage, you’ll never be at a loss.”
At this point, Sori, who couldn’t even predict what he would say next, had no choice but to focus on his voice.
He was now.
“Replacing the wedding with a family meal.”
Our marriage is merely.
“Not letting the hospital know.”
A loveless.
“After you, teacher Sori, become a specialist, I’ll grant you a divorce.”
He was announcing a limitedterm.
Neurosurgery Office.
Sori, who was on duty, had just returned to the office after checking the ICU.
A quiet serenity swept over the office after everyone had left for the day.
In fact, without the mood makers Ki Tae and Eun Seok, the office was always like this in the evening, but today Sori didn’t like this quiet office.
She kept thinking about what Hyun Woo had said earlier in the lab.
‘Will a week be enough time? I hope you bring an answer within that time.’
Perhaps because of the conditions, the deadline had been extended from a day to a week.
Every time she recalled those conditions, a long sigh escaped from Sori’s mouth.
Sori, who was sitting at her computer entering prescriptions, put her hand into her lab coat pocket.
The ring necklace she had received from Hyun Woo was inside.
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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