Surprised, La Jin quickly covered her face with both hands. Whether the struggling appearance was amusing or not, Jiho chuckled and kissed La Jin’s palm.
“You’re pretty.”
“I probably have a swollen face from eating ramen and sleeping. I’m sorry.”
“I guarantee it. You’re definitely beautiful now.”
“Is it not a necessary lie?”
“Absolutely not. Let’s quickly wash up and have lunch in the garden. The weather is nice.”
Even though she had slept after eating ramen for the first time in years, at Jiho’s mention of food, hunger rushed in. Was she always this greedy? Feeling like she was fasting, La Jin lowered her hands.
“What are we going to eat?”
“I’ll grill some meat over charcoal.”
“Meat over charcoal?”
“Yes. Let’s eat meat and play by the small stream.”
He was a man more perfect than a perfect plan. La Jin grabbed Jiho’s hand and stood up first.
“Okay. Really okay.”
“‘Okay’ twice, let’s start counting.”
Whether it was two or three times, La Jin didn’t care. Grilling meat over charcoal. Although there was no one chasing to snatch the meat, La Jin’s heart became unnecessarily urgent.
“Meat, no. Jiho, let’s go quickly. Us!”
When shooting a long historical drama, there were often moments when colleagues gathered in the shade of a tree. At such times, senior actors consistently exclaimed.
-This, there’s no other way to describe it but refreshing.
Despite the uncomfortable hanbok and heavy headpieces, La Jin couldn’t understand why it was so good. Senior actors would exclaim “Oh my, oh my!” at golden sunlight-drenched leaves and small flowers blooming by the road. Of course, La Jin didn’t feel any excitement at all…
But today, right now. La Jin felt like she understood the meaning of that refreshing play.
Sitting on a large platform under a big tree, enjoying the refreshing nature. Saying goodbye to the troublesome things so far, humming along to the unknown bird songs as background music.
“La Jin, it’s all cooked.”
Jiho, wearing short sleeves and shorts, shook the tongs and spoke. As if waiting for that, La Jin got up and ran over.
“It looks delicious.”
“Wait a moment. It’s hot.”
Cooling the meat of bite-size in the air, Jiho fed it to La Jin’s mouth.
“How is it?”
“Mm!”
An exclamation involuntarily escaped. The meat melted gently in her mouth, rivaling the steaks of a famous restaurant. As La Jin raised both thumbs, Jiho wiggled his eyebrows.
“You don’t even need to chew. It’s really delicious.”
“Is it that good?”
“Yes. It’s a taste I’ll think about every day.”
Whether he liked the praise or not, Jiho was busy feeding La Jin.
“You should eat too, Jiho. I’ll give you some.”
“If oil splatters on your face, it’s a big problem. Access to my shoulders is prohibited.”
“I want to give some to Jiho too.”
“Like this?”
He intertwined La Jin’s hand on his hand holding the tongs. Then, quite naturally, he took it to his mouth.
“I did it a bit.”
“Not a bit, but a lot. How are you so good at grilling meat?”
“I’m good at gathering too. After eating, shall we go pick strawberries?”
Who is this man? Why does he know my taste so well? Unlike the urban mask, La Jin’s heart, which had traveled a bit in the countryside since childhood, thumped loudly.
Work is work, cooking is cooking, and a date is a date. I wonder how he knows how to tease and let go of a person’s heart so well. It was easier to find something this man couldn’t do.
“In fact, my parents divorced, and I went to the mountains with my dad every weekend.”
“Oh, really? It must have been tough.”
Looking at his apologetic face, La Jin grinned. It felt good to bring up the memories with her father that she had buried deep in her heart in front of him.
“No. It was fun enough to the point where I feel sorry for my dad, who just stared at distant mountains like a lost soul.”
“What made it fun?”
“Just everything.”
At that time, what was difficult for La Jin wasn’t her father lost in thoughts but her father drinking and crying. Just knowing that her father couldn’t drink because he had to drive to the mountains made her happy.
Even without friends to play with, wandering alone in the silent mountains. Hoping that enduring her father’s wounds from not accepting the separation from her mother would somehow be better, she endured.
Perhaps that’s why.
La Jin loved going to the mountains that showed different faces each season. Of course, she stopped going after losing her father.
“So here, it’s really fun.”
“Oh! It’s already the fifth time.”
“At this rate, we’ll reach fifty. We’ll pick strawberries and go to the valley too.”
Responding to her urging that wasn’t really urging to try everything, Jiho nodded. Then, he neatly placed the well-grilled meat on a plate.
The taste of meat eaten alone on a narrow platform with a small table on it. Except for salt, no seasoning was applied, yet it was delicious.
The two emptied the plates in an instant, and without any discussion on who should do it, they tidied up the surroundings. Then, they placed the empty dishes inside the entrance.
“La Jin, do you want this? It looks like it might cover your face.”
Jiho pointed to a flower-patterned hat hanging near the shoe rack. The hat, with brightly colored flower patterns, had a curtain-like cloth hanging under its large brim.
“Is it too old-fashioned?”
“No. Do you not have one, Jiho?”
La Jin’s gaze turned to two hats hanging on the wall. One was a flashy red Marine Corps hat with an eagle, and the other was a green hat with the name of a pesticide prominently written. La Jin, putting up her hair, placed the green hat on Jiho’s head.
“This way, we look like a rural couple, don’t we?”
At La Jin’s words calling them a couple, Jiho’s mouth curled up nicely.
“Does it look strange?”
“No. It suits you well.”
The man who seemed difficult to please, strangely, had no complaints as La Jin did whatever she wanted.
“Originally, the backyard was all an apple orchard. There are a lot of bugs because of the tall grass.”
Due to Jiho’s consideration, who sprayed mosquito repellent, La Jin reached out her hand first. Wearing matching old-fashioned hats and with fingers intertwined, the two walked leisurely.
Calling it a backyard, a vast field appeared, and a large vinyl greenhouse was visible. Opening the blurry vinyl door and entering, they found various trees densely planted.
“Oh! Jiho, what’s that?”
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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