Gaeul, who had embraced once again, carefully placed it on the easel and then sat down as if her legs gave out. Though her eyes were slightly red from crying, a happy smile naturally bloomed.
‘Our dad.’
While warmly gazing at the painting and letting out small laughter, Gaeul suddenly began to look around the workshop. Soon, her forehead wrinkled with concern. In her eyes, which had become somewhat serious, a small worry surfaced.
Come to think of it, there wasn’t a suitable place to preserve this precious painting.
The paintings she had done so far were either practice or ones to be submitted directly to the gallery, so storage hadn’t been that important. However, this painting was different. It was a painting I would continue to have, and the workshop, located just behind the garden, somehow felt humid.
‘What if the painting gets damaged at this rate…? Humidity is crucial.’
Gaeul sighed. It seemed keeping the painting in the workshop posed a risk of deformation.
While deeply contemplating, Gaeul suddenly grabbed her phone. Then, she sent a text to Director Park.
[Director, if it’s not too much trouble, can I leave one painting in the gallery storeroom?]Fortunately, he responded promptly, seemingly not too busy.
[Of course. Feel free to leave as many as you want. What kind of painting is it?]Thanking him and briefly explaining the painting, Gaeul spread a white cloth over the canvas again.
Although she wanted to keep it where she could see it every day…
As the preservation of the artwork was more important, Gaeul, who had barely calmed her regretful feelings, lovingly embraced the painting again.
If you want to see it, you can visit occasionally.
When the day came to move out of the chairman’s house independently, she planned to find a suitable place and take this painting with her.
Around the time the busy exhibition ended, Director Park appeared in the lobby, seemingly having some free time, at the scheduled time for Gaeul’s visit.
“Gaeul, hi!”
“Director Park. Hello.”
Director Park approached with a friendly smile, as if he was glad to see her. Gaeul greeted him warmly with a practiced smile.
After exchanging greetings, Director Park quickly turned his gaze to the canvas Gaeul was holding. He seemed quite curious about what kind of painting it was.
Gaeul, discreetly, shook the painting and asked him.
“Would you like to see the painting?”
Director Park nodded quickly. Gaeul chuckled and revealed the painting by removing the white cloth.
Director Park’s eyes widened as he faced . Then, with a puzzled expression, he asked.
“Uh…? Isn’t this the painting you presented at the Lion Gallery for this exhibition?”
“Lion Gallery?
“Yes. But I didn’t know Gaeul had bought it. Since there are many of Father’s paintings at home, I naturally thought she wouldn’t be interested.”
Gaeul smiled as if it were amusing. To her, it seemed that he had no idea about her circumstances, and it appeared as if he assumed that there were plenty of Father’s paintings hanging at home.
By the way,
Did the chairman visit the Lion Gallery? Or was it through the secretary…?
As Gaeul seemed to be guessing on her own, Director Park continued speaking.
“The chairman asked about the Lion Gallery exhibition schedule, so I naturally thought he had bought it.”
Gaeul’s eyes widened at Director Park’s words.
He never visited the main house? Gaeul quickly recalled uncertain words and asked.
“The chairman went to buy it?”
“Well, who knows? Honestly, I don’t know much. He just asked, and he didn’t tell me what happened.”
Could it be that the chairman bought it?
Why would the chairman buy Father’s painting…?
Even as she moved toward the storeroom, all her attention kept focusing on him.
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Six months had passed since Gitae, who had roamed around overseas to expand the gallery business on a large scale, settled in Korea. Sufficient time had passed for him to return to the position of headquarters director, take over the tasks temporarily delegated to his younger brothers, and establish himself perfectly.
There were occasional voices of envy from executives who occasionally raised their voices, implying that even though he had rested for a long time, he immediately returned to the position of headquarters director. However, they quickly fell silent in the face of his perfect task handling, raising doubts about whether he was sleeping while working. The rumors had subsided a long time ago, along with a department store performance that unusually rose that year.
Thanks to Gitae, who lightened his workload, Kijeong had the leisure to look around recently. Recently, he had been furious at Manager Seo.
He found it suspicious that she secretly spent money to hire an unknown celebrity as a promotional model. Investigating, he discovered that she had secretly withdrawn company funds while trying to take advantage of the situation by placing her nephew, a celebrity, and got caught.
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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