However, despite her words, there was a faint smile on her lips.
Hye Ju’s such appearance was delightful. It was good that she acted according to her own convictions, no matter what others said, and it was also good that she was so kind to the point of being foolish. It was good to see her pretending to be flexible but ultimately ending up at a loss, and it was good to believe unconditionally that she was a person within my boundaries.
As Hye Ju ran towards me, shaking her hands vigorously, Ju Won observed her intently as if engraving her in his eyes. Her hair fluttered in the wind, and when our eyes met, her eyes folded into crescent shapes, naturally making my heart feel refreshed.
Yes, I like Oh Hye Ju.
I can’t help but like you because you’re like that.
“You suddenly asked to meet today, so I was a bit surprised. It’s the weekend, what were you doing?”
Hye Ju asked as she sat down next to me, bobbing her head.
“Exercising and cleaning.”
…And thinking about you.
In fact, even while exercising, even while cleaning, I couldn’t bring myself to say that I thought about you.
“How about you?”
Suppressing the overflowing emotions, Ju Won casually asked.
“I did something similar too. I wandered around in the morning and then went to the laundromat for lunch. It was a bit hot on the way back, so I bought an iced Americano, and it was really delicious.”
“You had a good weekend.”
“Oh, but the weekend is already over. I can’t believe tomorrow is Monday when I’m here. Look over there. Everyone is having fun without even looking at the time. Aren’t they going to work?”
Her words resonated with the romantic night of the Han River. Lovers exchanging sweet words and young people forgetting about the night. The air they created was youthful, vibrant, and beautiful. It was a day in early summer that closely resembled them.
“Ah, it’s so nice.”
Immersing herself in the scent of early summer that filled the air, Hye Ju nodded her head with satisfaction.
Ju Won, who was sitting next to me, answered as if it was flowing.
“I like you too.”
“?”
It almost slipped past me in an instant. It was exactly three seconds later that I realized Ju Won’s answer was somewhat strange.
“What did you just say?”
“What?”
“You said you like me. You know that ‘like’ and ‘like’ are completely different, right? I heard it very clearly.”
The more I chewed on it, the faster my heart pounded.
Ju Won has expressed it a few times before, but this was the first time he said it so directly.
Is this a confession? It’s a bit… ambiguous.
Even if I insisted that it was just a passing remark that you misunderstood, there was nothing to say. Even if I said that I was just playing along with your words, there was nothing to say. Unfairly, his sentence was missing a crucial object.
I like you too.
“What exactly do you like?”
Hye Ju stared at him as if urging him to speak quickly. But annoyingly, Ju Won simply shrugged off her gaze.
“So this is how it comes out.”
Anxiety welled up in Hye Ju, and she grabbed Ju Won’s cheeks with both hands and turned his face to face her. Looking directly into his eyes, she asked insistently.
“Do you like me, Oppa?”
Ju Won wasn’t surprised by her sudden touch. His eyes, even more fitting for the dark night, engulfed her. After staring at her like that for a while, his lips moved slowly.
“Do you have the courage to handle the answer?”
Thump. Thump.
Hye Ju’s heart trembled.
“Do you have the courage to handle it?” he asked.
“Yeah. Do I have the courage to handle him?”
Hye Ju didn’t know what answer she was hoping for from him. What should she do if he really liked her? It felt both pleasant and scary.
Just thinking about it made her head spin, and she had been avoiding it all along, but she couldn’t avoid it any longer.
“I’ve been thinking about it all weekend. Everything you’ve said and done to me.”
Hye Ju spoke with a trembling voice.
“At first, I didn’t think so. I’m not very perceptive when it comes to these things. I didn’t even realize I was dating Da Hee and Seung Won.”
“But?”
“I think you like me.”
Hye Ju said, prepared for laughter. If he caught on to something trivial, it would be an incident worth kicking the blanket over for a long time.
Who would have thought the moment would come when I would utter such embarrassing words!
Ju Won didn’t laugh. He didn’t answer easily. His burning gaze swept over Hye Ju’s flushed face.
“What about you?”
“When I think of you…”
A dry swallow passed through Hye Ju’s throat.
“I feel grateful and scared.”
“Scared?”
“I keep thinking that I shouldn’t like someone like you. You’re the company’s CEO and Seung Won’s hyung. Oh, of course, Seung Won and I were nothing. I mean, there was nothing between us.”
“….”
“Sometimes I feel nervous too. I don’t know if it’s just nervousness or something else. I don’t know if I like you as a man or… I don’t know, I’m not sure what this feeling exactly is.”
Sometimes, there are things you only know when you speak. The fog of emotions also lifted that way. As she spoke, the fragments of her emotions became clearer, leaving Hye Ju both flustered and relieved.
If I like him, and if he also likes me.
Perhaps this moment might become an unforgettable scene for a lifetime.
“So, I wanted to ask. Can we try something?”
Hye Ju raised her flushed cheek and faced Ju Won. When he gestured as if telling her to speak up, a word that she had kept in her mind, where she had gathered the courage from, popped out.
“Would you kiss me?”
Ju Won lowered his gaze and smirked.
“Of all things, you chose the riskiest method.”
A large shadow tilted in an instant.
The veins on the man’s hands, the body with a deep fragrance, and the chilling lips all converged upon Hye Ju as if they were enclosing her in his world.
“!”
Although she was the one who made the proposal, Hye Ju hadn’t expected him to respond like this. She instinctively covered her mouth while wetting her body. Ju Won, who supported her leaning back with one hand, grabbed her wrist and pulled it down.
“Open your mouth, Oh Hye Ju.”
A warm breath brushed over her lips.
“To confirm.”
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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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