The blanket was damp from crying too much.
Dahee couldn’t even let out a sigh beside Seungwon, who had fallen asleep quickly.
“Oh Hyeju? Hyeju, is that you?”
A voice rang out as if a lifeline had been lowered into a pitchdark cave.
Seungwon’s gaze calling for Hyeju was so earnest. Dahee couldn’t bring herself to answer, not even once, to that gaze she had longed to receive.
It’s not Oh Hyeju, it’s Cheon Da Hee.
The Dahee who only looks at you and loves only you.
She didn’t have the courage to meet that gaze that would instantly turn cold the moment she mentioned her name.
The dark room was filled with the sound of Seungwon’s sniffling. Every time he exhaled, it felt like alcohol was filling the room, a result of how much he had been drinking.
His body, exposed outside the blanket, was noticeably thinner than a few months ago. Dahee silently gazed at his bony back, which protruded sharply.
“In the end… it turned out like this.”
She embraced the man who called himself the biggest mistake in his life.
Under the man’s body who had pushed her away, calling her Hyeju, Dahee swallowed her tears over and over again.
She wanted to ask Dahee.
Can you really call that a mistake?
Everything flowed naturally like water tonight. You who didn’t even try to pretend to be Hyeju, but naturally played along with the delusion.
“You probably wanted to think of me as Hyeju. That’s what made you like this.”
I clearly warned you that making the same mistake twice would be intentional. Tomorrow, you’ll feel like the sky has collapsed. Just like I did.
“You may blame me, but you were the one at the beginning of everything. As long as my confession to you was sincere, stemming from genuine affection, it is innocent. However, can your reckless actions committed under the influence of alcohol also be innocent?”
Watching Seungwon embrace her tightly, as if not wanting to let go even in his dreams, Dahee clenched her teeth.
If only you realized it painfully.
That responsibility follows when mistakes are repeated.
Early in the morning, Seungwon woke up refreshed.
His head felt like it might split, and his body was heavy like soaked cotton, but he felt good as if he had woken up after dreaming of winning the lottery.
“Did Hyeju leave?”
The bed they had slept in together was empty. For a moment, he was confused, wondering if he had dreamt out of desperation, but then he was certain when he saw a long hair stuck to the pillowcase.
Yesterday’s events were not a dream.
Seungwon pondered over the night, burying his face in the pillow. His memories were hazy due to intoxication.
Calling Hyeju’s name, embracing her, feeling the ecstatic sensation.
Only the faint voice that responded to the words “Hyeju, are you there?” came to mind.
While refreshing his weary body with cool water, Junwon’s face briefly came to mind. But it was just a passing thought. It couldn’t be helped, even though he felt sorry.
“I met her first, she was my friend, and although I wasn’t aware of it, I liked her first… So if she also likes me, wouldn’t it be alright for me to have her?”
He believed she would be understanding as she always had been.
After going to work, Seungwon instinctively looked for Hyeju’s usual spot.
She was already at work, completely engrossed in her tasks. Seeing her diligently staring at the monitor, unaware of anyone entering, he couldn’t bring himself to interrupt.
“What kind of mood are you in right now?”
Seungwon, who had been contemplating all morning, called Hyeju right after lunch.
“What’s the matter?”
Hyeju, entering through the emergency exit door, asked with a puzzled expression. It was understandable since Seungwon had never called her separately at work since he started dating Dahee. Hoping that she would react like herself, Seungwon felt a bit disappointed.
“Did you sleep well yesterday?”
“Yesterday?”
Hyeju tilted her head for a moment and then retorted.
“Yeah, I slept well. Why are you suddenly asking about that?”
“You disappeared without any contact, so I was worried.”
“Disappeared? Me?”
Even though Seungwon was not the most perceptive person, if the other person seemed so surprised out of the blue, he couldn’t help but feel something was strange. In the midst of the uneasiness flowing through his spine, he spoke up.
“Don’t you remember drinking with me last night?”
“What?”
Hyeju’s eyes widened like lanterns.
It’s as if she’s at a loss for words due to extreme surprise. That was exactly how Hyeju appeared.
Just as Hyeju was about to retort in disbelief, poof! A sound of something falling came from upstairs.
Startled, Hyeju looked up and saw Ruby scrambling to organize some documents.
“Oh, my goodness, that startled me! My hand slipped. Why is this hand cream so slippery?”
Muttering to herself, she quickly disappeared. The sound of the door closing echoed behind her. Hyeju was too shocked to even care about Ruby.
“What nonsense. Why would I sleep with you?”
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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