“Manager, your basics aren’t solid. You should listen to people until the end. You don’t interrupt customers while they’re speaking, do you?”
“That, that can’t be true. I apologize.”
“Did you know about the problem but didn’t replace it? In this case, there could certainly be mold underneath. Sensitive guests might not be able to sleep due to the sound of falling water.”
“I apologize. I will replace it immediately.”
As Ha Joon left the room, the manager quickly took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat from his forehead. Cold sweat was running down his back.
‘How dare this young one lecture someone?’
At that moment, Seok Hoon approached Ha Joon and whispered quietly.
Ha Joon, who had been listening calmly, turned without a moment of hesitation and spoke to the staff.
“I will come back when the entire room inspection is complete. Let’s look at other places together then.”
And then, he approached the manager and quietly opened his mouth.
“I can’t let it slide a second time. It’s a pressing time, so I hope you keep your nerves, Manager.”
The manager’s hand, which was holding the handkerchief, trembled.
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“Ha Joon, how come you’re here at this hour…”
Surely Ha Joon, who should have been at the Myeongdong branch until the afternoon, perhaps even until quitting time, why is he here? Min Jeong, who knew his schedule, wore a puzzled expression.
Seo Ah was also taken aback. She thought that Min Jeong had called Ha Joon, but seeing Min Jeong’s reaction, it didn’t seem to be the case.
Soon, as Ha Joon took off his shoes and came in, squeezing next to Seo Ah, she moved over a bit.
“I had a lunch appointment. I ate in room 3, but on my way out, it seemed like Seo Ah and Mother’s shoes were side by side, so I wondered if maybe…”
Seo Ah was a bit taken aback. How did he recognize her shoes? She thought he had absolutely no interest in her.
“I thought the security was strict. It doesn’t seem so. Even if it’s family, they shouldn’t just let anyone in.”
“Why? Was it not a place I should have come?”
Caught in the middle of a fight between the adults, Seo Ah sipped her water in quick succession.
“Hmm, did you take a good look at the Myeongdong branch?”
“I only looked at one room, but it was in such a mess that I thought there was no need to look any further. I decided to go again next time.”
“How bad was it that you didn’t even look further. If there’s one thing wrong, you usually dig deeper.”
For a moment, Ha Joon felt like he had been hit on the head with a hammer.
Right. What am I doing here right now? Making an obvious lie that I just happened to come by? Knowing that Min Jeong would realize it quickly, the lies just slipped out.
He could tell Min Jeong the truth, but he didn’t want Seo Ah to find out. That he had come to this place just because of Seo Ah.
“There should be times like this. Otherwise, the employees will hate me.”
“Why, did anyone say anything? Are they giving you a hard time?”
Although she didn’t like that Ha Joon was here, Min Jeong couldn’t stand to see her son disliked, so she raised her voice a bit.
“Wouldn’t it be harder to find employees who don’t hate you? How many employees would like a department head who got his job because of nepotism?”
“You heard that. Your husband works this hard.”
Min Jeong turned her gaze back to Seo Ah and spoke.
“Ah!”
While drinking water, Seo Ah was so surprised that she choked.
“Cough! Cough!”
“Are you okay?”
Ha Joon quickly pulled a handkerchief out of his jacket pocket and handed it to Seo Ah, who immediately took it, covered her mouth, and coughed a few more times before finally calming down.
“I apologize.”
“Why are you apologizing for choking? That can happen.”
Seo Ah’s heart raced again at Ha Joon’s seemingly indifferent yet affectionate words. She knew he was acting like this because Min Jeong was there, but why did she always get excited?
“Ha Joon, do you know that you’re going to Jeju Island for a night and two days this Friday?”
“Huh?”
Seo Ah, who had no idea, looked at Ha Joon. She didn’t think he would cooperate to this extent. Shouldn’t he have told her in advance if it was a scale that would require staying overnight?
“I haven’t told her yet. I wasn’t sure when and how the schedule would change, so I was planning to tell her tomorrow.”
Ha Joon calmly responded. There wasn’t exactly a reason he hadn’t told her, but he had intended to tell her tomorrow.
“Really?”
Minjeong lifted her glass of water, took a sip, and studied their expressions.
Soon after, she put down her glass and continued.
“Let’s go for a 2night 3day trip together. You didn’t even get to go on a honeymoon, it would be nice to get a few affectionate photos of you two.”
Seo Ah’s eyes widened in surprise. So suddenly? She hesitated a bit then wet her lips.
“I’m sorry, but I have a class on Friday. Because it’s exam period soon…”
“You can skip a class, can’t you? Ask for permission from your professor in advance and go. You can study when Ha Joon is touring the Jeju branch.”
“Mother.”
Ha Joon was about to say that he would go alone, but Seo Ah cut him off.
“I’ll do it.”
Ha Joon looked at her with a puzzled expression. Didn’t she know they had to share a bed for two nights, in a place where there were many eyes and they couldn’t get separate rooms?
“Okay, remember what I told you before. A couple must sleep together no matter what happens, even if they fight, even if they don’t like the look of each other. If the husband spends a lot of time in the study, it means that your homemaking skills are lacking, Seo Ah. Somehow get him into the room.”
Ha Joon’s expression distorted. He had thought she would say something like this, but he didn’t expect her to say it in front of him.
Seo Ah also didn’t expect to say it in front of Ha Joon, so she was just as embarrassed.
Minjeong didn’t intend to listen to Seo Ah’s words from the start.
I want to have a child after two years, after graduating from university. The honeymoon too then…
But we can’t have separate rooms. I’ll understand even about contraception.
It was what Seo Ah had said when she asked for separate rooms before the marriage.
Minjeong pretended to trust Ha Joon and took a step back. Because her son was healthier than anyone else.
“Mother, we’ll take care of that ourselves.”
“I’m telling you because you can’t do it yourselves.”
“Don’t call Seo Ah again for such a thing.”
“What?”
Minjeong, who had been calm throughout, distorted her expression for the first time.
Even if you raise a son, it’s useless, she thought. I thought my son would be different, he had no interest in women, so I thought Seo Ah would be no exception, but she trembled all over feeling as if her son had been stolen.
“Let’s go, Seo Ah.”
Ha Joon gripped Seo Ah’s small and soft hand and stood up.
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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