Hyeri approached the two of them.
Seeing her, Do Han came to a halt. Since he remained silent, Hyeri, avoiding his gaze, explained why she had come here.
“I had dinner in front of the school with my classmates. Sorry for bothering you on the weekend.”
“Wait. I’ll bring the car keys.”
“Okay.”
Do Han told Sa Rang to go in and then entered the studio apartment building.
As Sa Rang was about to turn to leave, Hyeri started a conversation.
“Are you dating Do Han?”
With no malice perceived in her clear eyes, Sa Rang shook her head.
“No, we just went somewhere together for a project.”
“Oh, I see. I saw you together last time, so I thought you were his girlfriend.”
Following Sa Rang’s awkward smile, Hyeri also wore a smile.
“You seem like a freshman. It looks like you’re pretty close. He usually doesn’t hang out much with freshman or sophomore girls.”
Hyeri’s gaze landed on the cardigan Sa Rang was wearing, belonging to Do Han. Sa Rang felt somewhat uneasy.
Although it didn’t seem to hold a particular meaning, Hyeri’s gaze bothered her. Her words also sounded somehow sarcastic.
Sa Rang felt an unwillingness to lose.
“But you’re close with Do Han, right?”
Sa Rang remembered hearing from Tae Hoon that Hyeri was a sophomore.
As she said that, Sa Rang couldn’t hide her questioning expression.
Reading her emotions, Hyeri wore a faint smile.
“Are we close?”
“If he brought you home, that means you’re close.”
Hyeri thought for a moment with a contemplative face, then nodded.
“Well, yes. But calling us ‘close’ seems to be an understatement.”
Sa Rang’s heart started beating faster.
So, were they in a relationship?
She couldn’t dare to ask what kind of relationship they had. Then, Hyeri softly muttered.
“A deep relationship.”
For a moment, it seemed like one corner of Hyeri’s mouth rose, but it quickly returned to an angelic smile.
“We could define it that way.”
Sa Rang couldn’t believe what she had just heard.
No doubt, her vision had been blurred by the shocking revelation.
She was so frozen she couldn’t even blink.
As she stood there blankly, Do Han came down the stairs of the building.
Seeing him, Hyeri folded her eyes beautifully and gave Sa Rang her final goodbye.
“See you next time.”
Sa Rang could barely turn her head.
Do Han opened the passenger door of the car parked in front of the house, and Hyeri got in. This scene came into view.
He then got into the driver’s seat and started the car.
Even though they were out of sight, Sa Rang couldn’t leave that spot.
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It was a Sunday evening, and the road was jampacked.
It would usually take 20 minutes by car to get to Kyung Cheol’s house, but they were stuck in traffic for over 30 minutes.
“I thought about taking the subway, but then dad would complain if he had to call my brother.”
Hyeri’s voice filled the quiet car.
She had been talking nonstop since they left.
Do Han didn’t answer, but she kept speaking in a soft, low voice.
She said she had met up with her military friends who were on leave and that they shouldn’t go home early as it was a rare reunion. But she was worried about her dad, so she left first.
She hadn’t drunk much, but if her dad found out, he’d be angry.
While she was talking about this and that, Do Han was simply driving in silence.
As if that was all he had to do.
“Earlier, that freshman said she was coming back from doing a project with you.”
His emotionless eyes shook for a moment.
Hyeri, who had been watching Do Han, felt the change instantly.
“You should have taken the car. Public transport is inconvenient.”
“It’s the car your dad bought for you.”
It was the first time he had opened his mouth since he got into the car.
Hyeri, who had been talking to herself, was pleased to hear Do Han’s voice, but his words felt sharp, casting a shadow over her face.
“I’m sorry. If I were healthier, you wouldn’t be uncomfortable. It’s scary not knowing when I’ll have trouble breathing again. I guess that’s why my dad is anxious too.”
Arriving in front of Kyung Cheol’s house, Do Han stopped the car in silence.
“Go in.”
Hyeri opened her mouth to say something, then stopped.
She had hoped he would come in and greet her father, but it was a pointless thought.
“Thanks for the ride. Drive safely.”
As soon as Se Ah got out of the car, Do Han immediately drove off.
He didn’t want to linger in that place, not even for a moment.
He had left that house on the condition of going to the same university as Hye Ri.
For four years. Until she graduated, he had decided to play the role of a big brother, just like Kyung Cheol said, with the feeling of repaying his debt.
Because the day he sinned against his younger sibling still remained as a terrifying memory.
Strangely enough, at this moment, Sa Rang came to Do Han’s mind.
The scene where she was innocently smiling under the red camellia tree and he was capturing her with his mobile phone camera, felt like it had turned into a black and white photo of a longgone past.
Perhaps it was a dream.
It was a beauty that did not fit with his reality.
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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