Names were written on the various envelopes. The team leader of the Travel Plan Team, someone from the HR Team, researchers from the Tech Research Team…
“These letters are from employees who got along well with Manager Moon. It seems a bit early for get-well-soon cards, so they all decided to write letters and gave them to me to pass along. They wanted me to convey it. They thought it would be better coming from you than from me.”
Smiling, she stood up from her seat.
“Now, let’s go back to the company. If we quietly work, everything will eventually return to its place.”
I nodded and carefully placed the envelopes that Team Leader handed me into my bag.
The team leader was right.
Dayul’s recovery was relatively fast, and she could be discharged earlier than expected.
They faced legal judgment, and we silently continued our daily lives. Despite being immersed in work as usual, we managed to find time for dates. After a day or two, everything began to slowly fall back into place.
“Really, are you going to the airport now?”
“Yes.”
After coming for a business trip, I worked like crazy. I attended meetings like crazy and wrote reports like crazy.
“Seriously, you’re amazing.”
The youngest, Jang Wooseok, stuck out his tongue.
“Mr. Wooseok, take it easy and come in when you’re ready. Let’s meet in Korea.”
Leaving Jang Wooseok, who shook his head, I hastily picked up my luggage and left the hotel.
There was no flight ticket back to Korea. It was a journey to the airport with the hope that there might be a canceled ticket.
Even at the airport, there was no ticket for a flight to Korea. Leaving only a contact number, I dragged my suitcase and sat on an empty chair.
The face of Dayul, who tried to hide her sad expression, came to mind. It was because of that expression that I worked like crazy as soon as I flew here.
I didn’t even listen to Jang Wooseok’s words, who said the power of love is amazing. I just wanted to go back quickly and spend Christmas together.
Looking at the planes flying over the sky tinted with the sunset, I felt anxious. Within the next three hours, I could meet Dayul before Christmas ended if I took the plane now.
Two hours passed quickly. At that time, when I anxiously stared at the planes, my phone rang.
So, narrowly, I got on a plane to Korea.
As soon as I arrived in Korea, I hailed a taxi. The roads were unusually congested. Christmas carols were playing on the radio that the taxi driver had turned on.
“It seems you’re back from a business trip.”
On the heavily congested road, the taxi driver, bored, asked me.
“Yes.”
“I hate going on business trips at the end of the year. I used to work before retiring, and when the company sent me on a business trip at the end of the year, I hated it.”
I smiled faintly at the driver’s words.
“Are you going to meet your girlfriend?”
“Yes.”
“You must have hurried to come in time for Christmas. Still, it’s fortunate that you can meet before Christmas ends. And…”
The taxi driver held the steering wheel with both hands, bent forward, and looked up at the sky beyond the front windshield.
“It looks like it’s going to snow. It seems like it’ll be a white Christmas.”
The driver’s words were true. From the time when there wasn’t much left until home, white snowflakes began to fall from the sky.
“Thank you.”
“Yes. Have a good day.”
The taxi driver dropped me off and quickly moved the car. Except for the road the car was moving on, snow began to pile up quite a bit.
“Where are you?”
Upon answering the call, Moondahyul quickly hung up when I mentioned I was in front of her house. She’s probably scrambling to find her coat. Even without seeing, it was likely a video call.
“Hmm.”
A brief wait. A white breath touched the snowflakes. After a while, Moondahyul, wearing a coat haphazardly, opened the shared entrance door with a clumsy motion.
Looking at me, Moondahyul blinked her eyes. I smiled brightly and opened my arms.
Her running towards me seemed to unfold in slow motion. Amidst gently falling snowflakes, Moondahyul was brightly smiling.
“What happened? Today wasn’t the day you were coming.”
“I had crazy meetings and work.”
Jang Wooseok stared at me so sharply that my back tingled, and it was intense enough to make my ears itch for cursing.
“Where do you want to go?”
With Moondahyul’s small hand in one hand and dragging a suitcase with the other, we went out to the main road to catch a taxi.
The weather was snowy, and it wasn’t easy to catch a taxi.
“It’s crowded here.”
In the pocket of her coat, Moondahyul’s hand fidgeted.
“I want to hold hands and walk in a crowded place. Is that okay?”
“Is that all?”
“Yeah. I just want to walk holding hands with you among people.”
It was a simple Christmas plan from the modest Moondahyul.
We took a hard-won taxi and headed to a crowded place. Perhaps due to the falling snow, there were more people than expected.
We stored the cumbersome suitcase in a nearby subway station locker with no specific destination and started walking aimlessly.
Crowds of people, snowy streets, people trampling on slushy snow. If it were me on a normal day, I wouldn’t have stepped foot in such a place.
However, because of Moondahyul, who was sparkling next to me, humming Christmas carols heard from the street, I didn’t pay attention to those things anymore.
We stopped in front of a large Christmas tree.
“Let’s take a picture too.”
At my words, Moondahyul’s eyes widened.
“You don’t like this kind of thing. If we take a picture now, we might have to wait a long time…”
“So what? We can wait.”
I stood at the end of the line with Moondahyul to take a picture together.
“What’s going on? Did you eat something wrong on your business trip? You listened to me when I suggested coming here and even suggested taking a picture first.”
“It’s Christmas.”
Moondahyul smiled mischievously at my words.
“I wish every day were Christmas.”
Standing in front of the large tree, Moondahyul and I took a picture with a sparkling background. With the large tree in the background, the photos Moondahyul and I took together became our phone wallpapers for a while.
In spring, in front of cherry blossoms; in summer, by the seaside; in autumn, under the red-dyed maple tree; and when winter comes again, in front of this tree, Moondahyul and I promised to take pictures.
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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