“…Even if he does, it might be unpleasant, but what can we do? If you reject me in this situation, Chairman, it will be uncomfortable for you, who has been my support for many years.”
Over the past years, perhaps Secretary Kim, rather than his wife, spent even more time with Jo Dae-hoon. So, just as Seung-hee knows her husband well, the secretary would be the same. Seung-hee silently realized her belated awareness.
“And regarding Chairman’s temperament, he won’t care who the biological father is. Chairman didn’t marry because of the child; he married for money, after all.”
It was not a false statement. Watching Seung-hee, who showed symptoms of hyperventilation due to anger and contempt, Director Kim, who observed her for a moment, whispered as he crossed the study.
“It seems that Chairman is keeping a competent dog by his side rather than his wife.”
With a mocking tone, the study door opened with a thud.
“Mrs. Shin.”
“Yes, yes!”
Mrs. Gwacheon, who was in the kitchen, seemed to quickly approach the study at his call. Seung-hee was holding her trembling hands together, trying to endure and not collapse.
“It seems Chairman is not feeling well.”
“Oh my, how could this be?”
“Please take him to his room.”
“Yes, yes. I’ll do that. Chairman, hold onto me.”
With her eyes closed, Mrs. Gwacheon held Seung-hee, who was standing, by grasping the edge of the desk. Seung-hee didn’t want to see Director Kim’s face anymore. She was just concentrating on the steps to the bedroom to endure this embarrassment and disdain.
“If you’ve lived as a dog for over thirty years, haven’t you repaid enough kindness?”
In the closing study door, Seung-hee did not hear Director Kim’s voice, filled with a bitter smile and a low muttering.
“Jae-in, there are difficult days in life. Besides occasional difficult days, there are times when difficult days continue. What do you do on days like that?”
“I should get strength by watching Mom.”
“What if there is no Mom?”
“Why wouldn’t there be Mom?”
Recalling the time before her mother collapsed and was taken to the hospital, Jae-in took out an album from the bookshelf.
“Does Mom live forever? Someday, Mom will get old, become a grandmother, and then…”
“No. I’ll live with Mom forever.”
Entering adolescence and still not knowing anyone other than Mom, her daughter’s firm declaration.
While looking at Jae-in like that, who smiled softly as if in her twenties and combed her hair, Mom’s hands, which used to comb and smile at her, were warm. Jae-in, wiping away the falling tears, quickly turned the pages of the album.
“But still. Even if Mom needs a lot of money without Mom…”
“Is my daughter causing trouble? Why do you need a lot of money?”
Listening to Mom, who was constantly talking about the day when Mom was not there, Jae-in, feeling hurt, burst into tears.
In Jae-in’s world, there was only Mom. And in Mom’s world, there was only Jae-in. Knowing this, young Jae-in felt even sadder.
“Okay, our Jae-in never does anything to make Mom sad. Then, um… when Mom is angry or upset, at that time…”
“Why do you keep saying strange things? There won’t be such a thing.”
“Just… just… at that time, show me a picture.”
“A picture?”
“Yeah. How much fun did our Jae-in and Mom have? How much do our Jae-in and Mom resemble each other. It’s interesting to see things like that.”
At that moment, Mom might have realized that her illness was deep. Jae-in cautiously lifted the protective film from the album, which contained Jae-in’s growth process, revealing the largest picture.
The photo of her protruding belly while wearing a ballerina outfit was one of Mom’s favorite pictures.
“Oh…”
As I lifted the edge that was neatly attached to the adhesive part of the album, what appeared was a small note that still looked brand new. It bore the dearly missed handwriting of Mom.
With a heart drawn tightly at the end of the sentence, a tear fell onto it. Mom always drew a heart, filled to the brim, at the end of letters and notes to Jae-in.
Quickly wiping away the traces of tears, Jae-in uncovered another photo. Again, and again. Behind the memories of her younger days, there were unfailingly notes from Mom related to the photos.
“I gave birth to such a beautiful you. Mom is happy because she’s Jae-in’s mom.”
The notes discovered one after another were too precious and valuable to dare to look at. Jae-in, who had been crying and laughing while checking the notes from the beginning of the album, lifted her head after checking behind the last photo.
Jae-in could immediately understand what the note on the frame meant.
Standing in front of the dressing table, Jae-in, who had been silently staring at the frame, stood up. In the frame slightly smaller than a notebook, there was a bright photo of Jae-in and Mom smiling happily.
On the day of kindergarten graduation, Mom skillfully puffed up Jae-in’s hair into the style that was popular at the time, and Jae-in, dressed up as if participating in a beauty contest, proudly attended the kindergarten. It was a ludicrous but dearly missed memory.
Reaching out to the photo where they had the same hairstyle, wore the same makeup, and hugged each other while smiling, Jae-in’s hand trembled as she dismantled the fixed device behind the frame that had always accompanied Jae-in, whether in Chicago, Korea, or Bali.
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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