“Why are you trembling like this?”
Perhaps thinking it was because of the night chill, Jun pulled me even closer into his arms. With his large and warm hands, he gently stroked my back.
“It’s not because I’m cold. I’m just, right now, too shocked…”
Jun’s sigh descended over my head.
“Haru, I’m sorry.”
Jun’s voice was trembling.
“I’m sorry. I keep pushing you to tell the truth, to express your true feelings, forcing it on you recklessly. I’m sorry for that.”
One affectionate word made sorrow surge forth. Tears that I had held back began to burst out without missing a chance. I wanted to wipe away the tears, but I couldn’t move an inch from Jun’s embrace, which held me tightly.
Jun’s shoulder absorbed my tears.
“I couldn’t help it either. You, even when I lightly pressed around that scar from nine years ago, you cried because it hurt. Please, like asking you to let me go, avoiding my gaze. I could barely breathe. What more could I have done there?”
The tear-stained fact was evident. The traces of tears on Jun’s shirt, scented with his fragrance, gradually grew larger.
“From nine years ago until now, there hasn’t been a time when you weren’t in this heart. No, I couldn’t fill it with anyone else because it was already filled with you.”
I had something I wanted to say, but my shoulders kept twitching, so I couldn’t utter a word. Jun gently enveloped me as if to say it’s okay now. The warmth of his hand embracing me permeated my entire body.
“I’m lamenting about my first love at this age. I’m already done for. This heart simply won’t listen. I’ve been searching for you for a whopping nine years. So now, it’s you, or it can’t be. If you’re not there for a day, it really can’t be.”
“I, I’ve also talked a lot about my first love. I couldn’t make a movie like you did, though.”
Jun chuckled.
“Oh, I should have confessed to Iharu directly. I’m really slow, too. As soon as I read the scenario you sent, I ran like a crazy person. Hah. I must have really been annoyed by you during that time.”
“Still, I practically confessed first. After I accidentally sent that scenario and knew how much I cried alone.”
“Why cry? Then why did you keep hiding it from me without confessing until the end? Planning to hide it again like that and eventually abandon me?”
“…Where did you hear such words?”
Jun, who easily spat out painful words that stabbed the heart, pushed me away. Trying to leave this embrace. But then Jun, swiftly closing the gap between us that I purposely left open, filled the space.
“No, I’m sorry. I spoke too harshly. You must have been in pain just like me… I’m saying it because I’m a coward. If I didn’t know your heart was like this today, what would have happened to us? Just thinking about it made it hard to breathe. I’m sorry. I was wrong.”
Quietly listening to Jun’s words, I wordlessly embraced Jun’s waist with both arms. The sound of Jun’s faint laughter pleasantly echoed in my ears.
“You should have spoken earlier. I didn’t abandon you. It wasn’t because I wanted to. If only you had spoken to me from the beginning…”
“…Sorry.”
There were many reasons why I couldn’t speak quickly, but I didn’t want to tell Jun all those reasons now.
In this warm embrace I was in right now, all those reasons felt meaningless.
Except for one thing.
“Jun.”
“Yeah.”
Jun lightly kissed the top of my head.
“But, you…”
“Yeah.”
While Jun’s hand gently stroked the back of my head, the other arm around my shoulders tightened its grip. Otherwise, I might disappear somewhere.
“Originally, you… you had a girlfriend, right? The one you broke up with now?”
Jun’s hand, which was caressing the back of my head, stopped in its tracks. Even I, who was surprised, held my breath for a moment. Jun grabbed my shoulders and pulled me away from his embrace.
“What do you mean I had something?”
Saying this, Jun casually wiped away the tears that hadn’t fallen from my eyes with his hand.
“You had, a girlfriend. Eunjeong saw you when she met you in Japan. In front of the house where you did homestay.”
Jun’s lips seemed to twitch for a moment, then he bit his lower lip hard without saying anything. Seeing a slight wrinkle forming between his eyebrows, it seemed like he was a bit angry.
“Wait a minute. So, from then until now. Including all your fellow writers and even you, I knew you had a girlfriend.”
It’s strange. The atmosphere is quite strange. Was there some misunderstanding?
In fact, everyone at the broadcasting station, including me, who participated in this First Love Search Project, knew that Jun had a girlfriend. We didn’t ask him outright during the time he was busy with work, but everyone knew.
I nodded slightly, looking at Jun’s expression. Jun closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
“So, Iharu, you. So, did you keep the secret from me about what happened that day nine years ago because you thought I already had a girlfriend? Just because you thought it wouldn’t be appropriate since I’m a guy with a girlfriend?”
“No, it’s not just that…”
Only hesitant mumblings came out of my mouth.
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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