If Sajun found someone in his blind dates, she wouldn’t even get to enjoy that. She knew their relationship, solid for 13 years, was gradually fading away. Hence, she thought it was okay to be a little selfish.
In the moment that felt like an eternity of silence, Sajun called out in a low voice.
“Min Tae-hee.”
She reluctantly turned her head but did not look at him.
If their eyes met, she feared her impure feelings hidden deep in her heart would be exposed.
“The answer you just gave, means to delay things with blind dates and confess to you a hundred times, right?”
She wished he misunderstood her poorly phrased words. But, Sajun understood correctly, which irked her.
Feeling as if her true feelings were exposed, heat rushed to her face.
“I want to go home now.”
That’s why she said it, turning abruptly to leave.
But before she could step away, her wrist was caught, pulling her back around.
The grasp of his large hand, in contrast to his delicate face, brushed against her tender wrist.
“……Let go.”
Instead of releasing, the grip on her wrist tightened.
Sajun’s face, leaning in close, approached.
“You don’t like seeing me with other women, do you?”
His teasing voice, laced with laughter, brushed past her ear.
Meeting his gaze with a glare, Sajun’s eyes locked more deeply with hers.
“You said you wouldn’t be swayed.”
His softly whispered gaze felt leisurely yet piercing to the heart.
“You’re swayed, Min Tae-hee.”
As Sajun drove the point home again, Tae-hee’s strength left her.
Moments passed before she regained her senses and hurriedly denied it, but it was too late.
“I’m not. I wasn’t swayed.”
“Yeah, you weren’t swayed.”
Sajun’s cool gaze, affirming her denial, was full of conviction.
“You don’t believe me.”
“I do.”
“Liar.”
“Dead serious.”
Placing his large hand over his heart, Sajun spoke calmly, a smirk on his face.
Strangely, Tae-hee’s lips wanted to loosen and follow Sajun, despite her anger towards him.
‘Don’t smile, don’t weaken.’
Resisting the urge to smile, Tae-hee’s hand tensed, and Sajun handed her his phone.
“I’ll be out after a shower. Answer any urgent calls for me.”
Tae-hee didn’t respond readily, so Sajun tempted her with a sweet offer.
“I’ll buy you macarons of every rainbow color from the bakery below. Take them and go home.”
Before Tae-hee could say anything, Sajun had already strode into the living room.
Watching Sajun disappear into the bathroom, Tae-hee finally burst into laughter. Despite her resolute dislike, she found Sajun, who stubbornly clung to her, not entirely unpleasant.
She was seriously afflicted.
Sitting on the sofa in the living room, Tae-hee gazed at Sajun’s phone.
Just then, a message buzzed in.
[Next Saturday, 12 PM, Apgujeong, Laurent’s Dessert Café, Seat 8. Contact if schedule needs changing.]Vroom.
The sound of a sports car, out of place in an alley crowded with studio apartments, echoed.
It was the sound of Sajun’s car leaving.
As the noisy roar faded, Tae-hee, standing at the entrance, finally took off her shoes and entered the house.
Returning home after a whole day, Tae-hee’s arms were full.
Three elegant shopping bags with macarons and a large black bag with lettuce Sajun bought from yesterday’s restaurant.
Unlike the casually tossed shopping bags, she quickly opened the black bag to check the lettuce’s condition.
She worried it might have wilted after being left in the car all day, but it was fine.
Sighing in relief, Tae-hee placed the bag of lettuce in the refrigerator and flopped down beside the bed.
It was the first time a day had felt so long. Recalling the past 24 hours, it seemed a lot had happened.
An unexpected call, Sajun outside the window, a drive, dinner, pretending to be a couple, a movie, popcorn, soju. Sajun’s bed, a declaration of war, Sajun under the dazzling sunlight, her heart shaken again, a little bit of her feelings revealed.
It was only the fourth of Sajun’s promised hundred confessions, yet she was shaken and exposed again.
Yesterday’s Sajun, who was usually cheerful, caring, and attentive, aggressively invaded, right into Tae-hee’s heart.
Recalling yesterday’s unfamiliar Sajun, Tae-hee muttered as if sighing.
“He wasn’t a bear, but a fox.”
Otherwise, the lettuce didn’t make sense. Sajun carrying a black bag, the Sajun who thought money could do everything, buying lettuce.
If it was a strategy, it worked well. She was more swayed by the lettuce than the macarons from an expensive hotel bakery.
Women are more moved by the thoughtful attention to casually dropped words than grand gifts. Of course, the idiot Sajun wouldn’t know, and he shouldn’t in the future.
Half of Sunday had passed, and there were still chores left, but she couldn’t be bothered.
Tae-hee lay on the bed, staring blankly at the ceiling.
‘Can I really reject the remaining 96 times? I’ll try, but honestly, I have no confidence.’
She could have rejected a thousand confessions from the old Sajun, who was indifferent, casual, selfish, and immature.
But it was hard to reject the current Sajun, who unexpectedly started doing things he never did before.
She found herself expecting, smiling, and getting swept away.
“Ah, now I don’t even know.”
She was resigned to whatever would happen. If she fell, she fell.
Crying and suffering, pathetically pleading – such things were for a distant future.
Then, a call came from Hyesuk.
“Ah, Mom.”
Tae-hee, answering the phone, stayed quiet for a few minutes.
Listening to senseless advice about just pretending to go on blind dates because she might meet a really nice man, which she mustn’t oppose as per Seontae’s wishes.
Without asking, the situation was clear. Seontae, who wouldn’t listen to her anyway, must have nagged Hyesuk again.
Usually, she would’ve placated Hyesuk and hung up, but today she had no patience left.
Her head was about to explode because of Kang Sajun, and with Hyesuk adding to it, her irritation skyrocketed.
“I’m not going on blind dates, Mom. Why should I do what he says?”
As Hyesuk started to plead desperately, Tae-hee cut her off.
“I’m tired, Mom. Let’s talk later.”
She ended the call abruptly and carelessly threw the phone.
Hyesuk was to be blamed. Why did she have to call and do this today?
“Why won’t everyone just leave me alone?”
Both Kang Sajun and her mother, Hyesuk.
Today, of all days, she even wished she wasn’t Shin Hyesuk’s daughter.
Her mind was that cluttered and her heart that stifled.
To make matters worse, even the previously fine white incandescent light now seemed to pierce her eyes.
Lifting her arm to cover her eyes with the back of her hand, the phone rang again.
Sighing deeply, Tae-hee fumbled on the bed to pick up the phone.
Thinking it must be Hyesuk, she pressed the side button and snapped.
“Just stop calling today, leave me alone!”
The other side of the phone went silent.
Only then did Tae-hee pull the phone from her ear and check the caller ID, her eyes widening.
……It was Kang Sajun.
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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