“You should be careful about your image, right? Asking to meet or for my contact right off the bat doesn’t seem wise. Especially for a newcomer.”
“Oh.”
Woo Yeon turned away coldly.
She walked quietly along the dimly lit street.
Why am I thinking of that man after letting out my anger on a young boy?
Damn Cha Tae Kyung.
His lips that had enveloped hers kept haunting her.
Stepping out of the bar and walking outside, Han Director, who had been waiting, opened the car door for her.
Tae Kyung slightly tugged at his tie.
Ever since he saw Yoon Woo Yeon, an unquenchable thirst had developed within him. He unscrewed a bottle of water and gulped it down. Han Director glanced back but Tae Kyung paid no mind.
He remembered the blind date with a woman a few nights ago.
Despite the late hour, she was receptive, smiling and asking questions non-stop.
“What should I call you?”
Tae Kyung’s gaze locked onto the woman.
“Just call me ‘Director’.”
“Ah, yes. Director.”
“So, to summarize what I said.”
“I understand. What kind of woman you’re looking for, and the type you’d like to marry.”
But as she continued talking, Tae Kyung couldn’t concentrate on her.
She was friendly, yet he ultimately rejected her.
A silly excuse that she didn’t seem like the right person.
“I’m sorry for the inconvenience.”
Tae Kyung turned his gaze towards the window. He remembered his mother left in the U.S. and the man’s face he now barely recalled, only from a single photo.
The man who abandoned his loving wife and children went back to Korea.
The woman, left alone to care for her young son and daughter, started to fall ill and was diagnosed as terminally ill last winter.
Unlike his mother who chose a life away from the chaebol world, Tae Kyung desired the opposite.
Wealth and power. He wanted to have it all, to consume it.
The life of their abandoned half-sister, the life shattered by a man, the mundane days of his foolish mother who couldn’t care for herself while tending to her sick children.
Tae Kyung grew up witnessing it all.
When he declared his intention to live the chaebol life in Korea, his mother vehemently opposed it, shaking her head.
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But she already knew. That nothing could sway her son’s stubbornness.
Tae Kyung, who had been exceptional from birth, had always taken care of himself.
He wished his pursued life was not one drowned in the greed and self-interest of Myeongsan.
He wanted to know love, to hurt and cry because of love, to grasp something more precious in life.
That’s why she made her final request. To bring home a woman to marry before the shadow of death that loomed over her knocked.
A daughter-in-law who tickles your heart is enough, she had said.
That was all it took.
This was why Tae Kyung squeezed in time from his busy schedule to meet women.
His requirement was simple. Just to pretend to be his partner for marriage until his mother passed away.
To feign being deeply in love, to act like the most affectionate couple.
But then there was a variable.
Yoon Woo Yeon, a turning point in Cha Tae Kyung’s life for the first time.
“Ha.”
As he closed the cap of the water bottle, Tae Kyung wiped the traces on his lips.
Having rejected the second prospective marriage partner, claiming she didn’t fit the criteria, he had proposed a relationship to Yoon Woo Yeon.
Indeed, it was unplanned.
The idea was to meet casually two or three times, have meals, drink tea, and eventually, one day, take her back to a hotel. He thought it would end as just that.
But the moment he saw Woo Yeon’s face flushed from their kiss, Tae Kyung wanted her.
That was the decision he came to today.
Throughout his life, women were always dull beings. Had he ever desired someone this much?
Finding his own thoughts amusing, he gazed blankly out the car window, paused at a traffic light.
“….!”
In his sight was Yoon Woo Yeon, the woman who rejected him with a sly and audacious gaze.
Despite the distance, he recognized her immediately.
Even from afar, she made her presence felt. The first time in the lounge, when she visited the hotel, the moment she popped her head into the vast bar alone.
Every time, she disrupted the air like then, stirring something deep within him.
So, of course, that woman had to be Yoon Woo Yeon.
Beside her was a young man. Though they didn’t seem like lovers, the man appeared to be interested in Woo Yeon.
Well, who wouldn’t be, with such a captivating woman…
Tae Kyung chuckled. Thinking of her, who rejected his offer and went drinking elsewhere, somehow infuriated him.
Woo Yeon left the man standing and walked alone. The cold night wind fluttered her clothes.
It looked like a living painting. Just as Han Director was about to step on the gas at the changing signal, Tae Kyung interrupted.
“Wait a moment.”
“Yes?”
Sensing something odd, Han Director followed Tae Kyung’s gaze. He didn’t immediately recognize Woo Yeon due to her outfit but soon realized who she was.
“Should I stop the car?”
“No. Why bother.”
Wasn’t it Yoon Woo Yeon who ran away after refusing him?
With a dry laugh and about to withdraw his gaze, he sighed.
“Ha.”
He suddenly remembered when he first met Yoon Woo Yeon.
Han Director called out to him. It was dawn, and there were no honking cars, but they couldn’t keep the car stopped at the signal forever.
“Director?”
“That man Yoon Woo Yeon mentioned before.”
“Yes.”
“Find out more about him. The more details, the better.”
“Understood.”
“How much longer to the hotel?”
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“About 12 minutes are expected.”
“Let’s go a bit faster.”
He quietly curled up the corners of his 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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