If I spoke while eating again, I would get scolded. I nodded my head and started focusing on eating.
Objectively speaking, Ji Seo Joon was a man who found it easier to like things than to dislike them.
The reason I was so indecisive was because Ji Seo Joon was not only a decent man but also a good friend.
Because I didn’t want to lose a friend.
If Ji Seo Joon asking me out was just a sense of responsibility for that day, and so if we started dating in a vague way, I thought neither Ji Seo Joon nor I would be happy.
I couldn’t lose a precious friend over an obvious ending.
After scraping and eating until the bottom of the earthen pot was visible, I left the restaurant to find the sun at its zenith. The feeling of cooling down even by a small breeze after sweating and eating rice soup, it truly felt like summer.
“What did you say you wanted to ask?”
On the pleasant way back home. Ji Seo Joon slowed his pace as we neared our house.
“Ah. Did I say that I wanted to ask you something?”
I had been so focused on eating that I had quickly forgotten. I chuckled at my own stupidity, and Ji Seo Joon clicked his tongue and shook his head.
The unsettled Ji Seo Joon had disappeared somewhere, and the proud and arrogant Ji Seo Joon was looking down at me again.
It was just a step away.
The line between friendship and being a couple could have changed greatly if I, or Ji Seo Joon, took just one step.
“Do you… like me?”
It was a question that came out after a moment of wondering how to ask. It was a pitiful question, making me wonder why I had bothered to worry about it.
Sure enough, a crease appeared between Ji Seo Joon’s eyebrows, perhaps finding my pathetic question ridiculous.
“No… I explained unnecessarily from this morning, in case you misunderstand me and the olive oil, and also….”
I mumbled in embarrassment and tapped the end of my hastily put on slipper. Ji Seo Joon was silent. When I lifted my head to look at Ji Seo Joon, he was still looking down at me with the same expression.
“Honestly, don’t I look like I wouldn’t misunderstand? It’s all your fault that I think this way. What. Suddenly you approach me so closely, and you became subtly kind too.”
Ji Seo Joon’s eyebrow twitched slightly.
“And what’s with that manners!”
“Manners?”
“Although we don’t have that kind of relationship, it’s not right to show off your exgirlfriend, right?”
“Did I show her off?”
At Ji Seo Joon’s words, I clamped my mouth shut like a clam.
Yes. He was right.
I was angry at Ji Seo Joon’s words.
“Fine. You didn’t show me. Go well. I’m going home.”
Feeling like I would only get angrier if I continued the conversation, I swiftly turned and headed towards the entrance of the apartment.
“Hey. What will you do if you leave like this?”
Ji Seo Joon urgently chased after me and grabbed my arm, turning me around.
“So, are you curious whether I like you? Or, are you suspicious about the relationship I explained about me and Olivia?”
I was momentarily surprised at Ji Seo Joon’s urgent voice and expression.
“Tell me. What are you curious about?”
In response to the pressing question, I lightly gripped the wrist of Ji Seo Joon who was holding my arm.
“Both.”
At my answer, Ji Seo Joon’s throat gurgled. The hand that was holding my arm slid down.
“Firstly, everything about Olivia is as I explained before. She was one of my first friends in America and we didn’t break up badly, so we kept in touch from time to time. There’s really nothing between us.”
I already knew the answer, but I liked the firm expression and tone of Ji Seo Joon. And I still had one more question left.
“And my feelings about you……”
I fixated my gaze on the lips of Ji Seo Joon, whom I liked. Those pretty lips twitched. And then, he spat out the words.
“I don’t think you’re just a friend to me. No. You’re not.”
There was no wavering in Ji Seo Joon’s eyes. At his all too direct gaze, I unknowingly swallowed saliva.
“Then, what am I to you, if not a friend.”
At my words, Ji Seo Joon pulled me towards him. I fell weakly into Ji Seo Joon’s arms. This made the two of us come closer. Ji Seo Joon, who was still holding my wrist tightly, looked down at me. He probably felt my trembling in full.
“I am……”
Just as Ji Seo Joon was about to speak, the shared entrance door of the apartment opened and a family came out. They were taken aback when they spotted us standing close to the door.
“Oh my!”
The child’s mother seemed to be the most surprised. Then quickly, she covered her child’s eyes.
“Oh dear. I’m sorry. Excuse us.”
“Mom! I can’t see!”
As the child complained about not being able to see, she quickly picked up the child and hurriedly left the apartment. The family disappeared.
The atmosphere between us, who had made room for the passing family, was awkward.
“Let’s go somewhere else for a moment. It doesn’t seem right to talk about this here.”
I pulled Ji Seo Joon’s arm.
We passed through a small path and found ourselves at an old tennis court inside the apartment complex. We went to an old pavilion nearby and sat down.
“……”
Maybe it was because we had changed spots. Or he had lost his timing to speak.
Ji Seo Joon closed his mouth.
“Tell me, if I’m not a friend to you, what am I.”
“……Don’t you know, after all I’ve said?”
The tips of Ji Seo Joon’s ears turned red.
This was one of the signals to understand the atmosphere, back from his childhood, when Ji Seo Joon always had a poker face.
His ears turning red either meant he was extremely angry or incredibly embarrassed. It was one of the two.
“Say it. If you don’t say it, I won’t know. Like you said, I left my intuition in my mother’s womb when I was born. If you don’t tell me directly, I’ll never know.”
“……”
At my words, Ji Seo Joon scratched the back of his neck fiercely.
“You’re not just a friend to me now. You’re a woman.”
After saying so, Ji Seo Joon suddenly stood up, took a few steps forward, and left me behind.
He seemed to want to hide his expression, but the tips of his ears, which he couldn’t hide, were particularly noticeable as they were burning red.
‘Woman.’
To Ji Seo Joon, I was no longer a friend, but a woman.
My heart started to pound. It was beating so fiercely that I thought it might explode at any moment.
“So, does that mean you like me?”
When I redefined Ji Seo Joon’s words, he nodded.
“I like you, Moon Da Yul.”
Ji Seo Joon, who turned around to look into my eyes, had not a hint of hesitation in his gaze.
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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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