“Ah, this should work. I’ll switch seats with my older sister and sit with the teacher. I’ll be here, and the teacher will be over there on the sofa. Is it okay if we sit apart like that?”
“Really? Yeah! Got it.”
Yeongjin focused his eyes, nodded vigorously, and then the girl smiled brightly as she gently stroked her younger brother’s head. The gaze she directed at him was warm, like sunshine.
For a moment, it felt like the breath was caught in his throat.
Could that be affection?
I had heard the word love before, but it always felt distant to me. It seemed overly common and cringe-worthy in dramas.
However, the word “affection” that I had read in a corner of a novel lingered in my heart for a long time.
The feeling conveyed by the word itself was warm and pleasant. It had the kind of pleasant tingling sensation that the spring sun gives. No, it seemed like it would. Although I had never felt it before, affection seemed to carry that kind of feeling.
I wish someone would smile at me like that.
In an instant, from the deep recesses of the empty heart, a quiet resonance spread. The affection encountered for the first time in life was tender yet intense.
With a quick glance, Hyunwoo, who had checked on the children’s condition, returned to the living room with a tray containing two glasses of milk and a few small breads.
“Hey, kids, let’s eat this.”
“What is this?”
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Yeongjin, who had gradually transformed into a smiling face, looked at the tray with curious eyes.
“Madeleine.”
“Mad…leine?”
“Madeleine. Try it.”
Hyunwoo placed the tray on the table next to the sofa.
The children, smiling at each other, rushed towards the sofa. Hyunwoo handed Madeleines to each child, and then headed towards the terrace.
“Here.”
“…It’s okay. I don’t like sweet things.”
As Hyunwoo offered the Madeleine, Taesang made a small gesture of refusal.
“Isn’t it fascinating?”
“Yes?”
“The little one playing the instrument.”
“Oh, yes…”
Hyunwoo seemed to think that I hadn’t been coming because I was listening to the music. While the prodigious talent was indeed fascinating, it wasn’t the reason for my continued absence. Involuntarily, my head bowed at the unintended lie.
“He’s a prodigy, a prodigy.”
Hyunwoo, with a Madeleine in his mouth, said hesitantly.
That short phrase felt like permission to look in that direction. Taesang slowly raised his head again.
The girl was peeling a Madeleine and offering it to her younger brother. Yeongjin, who was drinking milk, put down his cup and casually accepted the bread.
Their eyes met at that moment.
“…”
Taesang froze, unable to avert his gaze.
‘What am I staring at so intently…’
Embarrassment about being caught peeking, an inexplicable shyness about one’s identity. In the midst of various awkward feelings, a warm sensation crept up his throat.
Taesang quickly shifted his gaze away. His eyes, staring at the floor, shook rapidly, as if an earthquake had occurred.
For some reason, the edges of his cheeks stung.
Was he still looking in this direction? Or not? Was it just a feeling?
He wanted to lift his head and check, but he couldn’t muster the courage. If their eyes met again, he didn’t know how he should express himself.
Taesang subtly pushed his shoulders back, hiding behind Hyunwoo’s legs.
“I think I need to have some coffee. If you need anything, come to the kitchen.”
“Yes? Oh, okay…”
As Hyunwoo, who had served as a shield, disappeared, his heart felt even more unsettled.
Thump-thump.
He couldn’t understand why he had stared so intently at someone he didn’t know. Regret flooded in, but it was useless.
I should just go home.
As he cleared his seat and stood up.
“…”
Two round eyes, like golden tangerines, blinked right in front of him. Startled, Taesang took a step back.
“W-What’s…?”
Unintentionally adopting a somewhat confrontational tone. However, due to the thin, trembling voice, it didn’t sound very threatening.
The girl took a step forward. Her light, almost skipping footsteps resembled a rabbit seen at an experience farm.
“Here.”
“…?”
“Eat this.”
Ha, did she think I was looking at this because I wanted to eat it?
Looking at the Madeleine the girl offered, Taesang was at a loss for words.
It’s definitely not because I wanted a snack. Snacks like this can be easily eaten at home, and besides, I don’t even like bread.
“But I… ”
However, if I didn’t want to eat it, why was I looking at it? Faced with such a question, his lips stiffened. He didn’t know. What should he say, if anything at all?
“If I give you this, what about you?”
Taesang smoothly redirected the conversation, concealing a strange tremor.
“It’s okay. I’m a generous person as long as you are kind.”
“Generous… what?”
“Hehe.”
Her softly laughing face seemed quite pleased.
Do I have to accept this to make her smile even more?
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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