“Yu Ri, are you up? Come down now. You have to eat lunch.”
Ignoring her mother Seung Hee’s call from outside the door, Yu Ri stayed buried under her blanket. Underneath it, her eyes were red and moist from weeping. Her lips and cheeks were still puffy from not being able to subside her anger all night.
She had been adored for her beauty since birth. Wherever she went, she was lauded as the charming only daughter of Hyunyang Construction. Yet why did it seem that only when she encountered people related to Kang Tae Seo did she become a laughingstock?
No matter how outstanding Kang Tae Seo was or even the Kang Sun Group.
Just recalling last evening made her grind her teeth again.
“Good to see you, Grandmother. I should have visited earlier, I apologize. From now on, I will visit you more often. I came to share a warm cup of tea with you, Grandmother.”
It was a greeting given with a pretty smile. However, Madam Lim Hong Jin, seated at her desk, did not lift her eyes from her documents. As Yu Ri stood there bewildered, the door opened. The secretary brought in a one-person tea set.
“Director, here’s the honey ginger tea you requested.”
“Ah, yes. Give some to this young lady too.”
“Yes. What would you like for your tea?”
Even while offering tea, Director Lim Hong Jin’s gaze remained fixed on her papers. Yu Ri told the secretary she would have the same. After the secretary left, how long had she been standing there?
With a click, Director Lim Hong Jin put down her pen and looked up. The eyes gazing at her over the rims of her glasses were mildly folded.
“Sit down. You said you had something for me?”
“Yes.”
Yu Ri relaxed a little when she finally faced the smiling Director Lim Hong Jin. She sat down at the spot offered by the director with a faint smile.
Despite being over eighty, the director looked vigorous. Her neatly coiffed white hair revealed the passage of time but added to her dignified appearance, and the natural wrinkles on her face felt like marks of wisdom.
“I baked these snacks myself. I’ve been learning baking, and they came out soft and well-done. I thought of you, Director, or should I say, Grandmother.”
“Why on earth did you suddenly think of me?”
Madam Lim Hong Jin murmured to herself, sipping her tea with a smile. Her eyes were solely on the neatly arranged tea table.
“Well, it’s because my grandparents passed away early. I’ve always thought it would be good to have an elder guide me on the right path, and then I realized, Grandmother of Tae Seo…”
“You’ve packaged it quite nicely.”
Director Lim Hong Jin’s words, interrupting Yu Ri’s lengthy speech, felt surprisingly gentle. Yu Ri calmed her nerves and placed the box she was holding onto the table.
Just as Yu Ri was about to unwrap the box with a smile, suggesting the director try one, the door behind her opened. The secretary quietly approached and placed a teacup in front of Yu Ri before disappearing.
“If you came to have tea, then drink.”
“Yes.”
It was when Yu Ri let go of the knot and took the teacup. Director Lim Hong Jin, savoring the sweet and slightly bitter taste and aroma of the tea without losing her thin smile, spoke up.
“I can tell you’ve taken care in making it, but take it with you. Your parents will like it if it’s soft and well-baked. I don’t have much of a taste for sweets anymore as I’ve gotten older.”
Yu Ri, who was just about to take a sip, froze. She then lifted her round eyes to look at Director Lim Hong Jin. The once gentle smile had disappeared, and Director Lim Hong Jin, with a stern expression, was glancing down at her teacup.
“And, I’m busy with urgent matters, having to come in even on the weekend, so I don’t have time to leisurely drink tea and chat with a guest who has rudely come without an appointment.”
“…I, I apologize.”
“Knowing that, you won’t carelessly come by again, will you?”
“Yes, yes…”
“You chose the wrong person to impress. What do you think you’ll achieve with me? Now then, finish your tea before you go.”
After setting down her empty teacup, Director Lim Hong Jin rose and returned to her desk.
While she checked documents and gave instructions to the summoned secretary, Yu Ri sat there, trembling, treated as if invisible, clutching the hot teacup.
The moment she emptied her teacup, Yu Ri left Kang Sun Art Center as if escaping. The secretary, who hurried after her, handed her the elegantly packaged box of traditional snacks.
“You left this behind. Please take it with you.”
With a face flushed red, Yu Ri returned home. She had gone to see Director Lim Hong Jin to dispel her anxiety, only to come back with an even greater sense of unease.
Furthermore, the honey ginger tea that Director Lim Hong Jin, who claimed to dislike sweets due to her age, had been drinking was sickeningly sweet. Yu Ri had drunk the same, so she knew. It was a clear boundary drawn by a kind face.
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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