“Yeah. Why?”
[No, why! That’s what I should be asking, why aren’t you answering the phone? I called five times before! Do you want to see me go crazy?]“Don’t go crazy. One person about to go mad, which is me, is enough.”
At his words, So Dam on the other end of the phone paused.
[Is something wrong?]“No, it’s not that. But why did you call?”
[I sent an email saying that I uploaded a file, but you didn’t check it. You usually check such emails immediately.]As Tae Joon got into the elevator and pressed the floor number, he asked,
“What file did you upload?”
[Ah, finally, I got a call from the person who was commissioned about your mother’s case.]His eyes, which had been dull, slightly lit up. It felt like he had sobered up instantly. The result that he had been waiting for had finally arrived.
“Is the person competent? Why did it take so long?”
[There was a good reason for that. You will know when you see the file.]“I see. Got it. I’ll check it out.”
[If you have any urgent instructions regarding that, please call me, otherwise, I’ll see you tomorrow.]“Yeah. Good job.”
As soon as he hung up, the elevator bell rang, and the door opened. As he unlocked the door and entered, the lit living room greeted him.
“Did I leave the lights on?”
Tae Joon put on his slippers and looked around the living room. At first, he thought he had mistakenly left the lights on, but a subtly different atmosphere suggested someone else was there.
He instinctively opened the bedroom door first.
As expected, he saw Seo Rin’s handbag on the console.
It was only five o’clock, but it seemed she had left work earlier than expected. Well, today had been a bit hard for him, and it must have been the same for her. No, as the one who had the nightmare, it must have been harder.
He went to the bathroom and let her know of his presence by knocking.
“I’m here. You came home early?”
“Yeah! I finished showering. I’ll be out soon!”
Hearing her voice, he turned around. He felt tired, maybe because of the alcohol. But Tae Joon had to check the file that So Dam had uploaded, so he left the bedroom and headed to the kitchen.
To wake his drowsy mind due to the alcohol, he took a sip of cold water from the fridge, made a cup of coffee, and went upstairs.
As he sat at the desk and opened his laptop, there was a knock.
“Tae Joon, are you working?”
“No. Come in.”
Seo Rin, who had just finished her shower, came in with a pure white appearance. The wet hair flowing over her shoulders and the moist skin that still seemed to hold the moisture were dazzling.
Seeing her like this, it felt like all the heartache he had endured all day was rewarded at once.
My woman, who heals me just by looking at her.
Only then did Tae Joon receive comfort for his heart.
“Dry your hair and come. You’ll catch a cold. Should I dry it for you?”
He gently moved her wet hair flowing from her shoulders behind her ears and spoke affectionately. Then Seo Rin shook her head.
“No, I’m fine. I’m healthier than you think, I won’t catch a cold from this. But Tae Joon… it seems like you had a drink?”
“Does it smell?”
“A little.”
“Is it bad?”
“No, just the smell of alcohol. But why did you drink in the afternoon? Did something happen?”
“No, I had a meeting.”
He lied. He couldn’t bear to tell her that he drank because of her.
Seo Rin seemed to believe him, looking at him calmly.
Her eyes spoke of something to say.
Tae Joon had a hunch. He anticipated that what she was about to say would be quite difficult.
“You seem to have something to say. Go ahead. I’ll listen.”
He pulled a chair in front of her, narrowing the distance between them, and prepared to listen attentively.
However, Seo Rin couldn’t easily open her mouth.
How should she start the conversation?
“So…”
“If it’s difficult to say, should I go first?”
“Huh? Yeah. Then you go first, Tae Joon.”
Caught off guard by his unexpected response, Seo Rin yielded the turn.
“I’m sorry about yesterday.”
Suddenly, an apology dropped. But Seo Rin couldn’t understand why he was apologizing.
“I thought everything would be easier because we had a past dating experience. But it wasn’t. It seems that was my greed. I didn’t consider you at all yesterday.”
“……”
“In retrospect, this marriage was forced by me, and so was last night… it was my coercion.”
For a moment, Seo Rin felt a sharp shock to her conscience. She hadn’t thought at all that her refusal last night could have caused such feelings in him.
Of course, to keep her distance from him, she had to avoid physical contact as much as possible, but she didn’t want to blame everything on him.
Moreover, it wasn’t just his unilateral feelings.
It was definitely mutual.
Her feelings were seeping into him, like water flowing.
Yes, that was the problem.
Because it wasn’t just a simple physical contact, but an act of love.
Therefore, even though she couldn’t give him love, she didn’t want him to feel guilty as well.
“Let’s make one thing clear. I’m not the type to be dragged around because someone else is forcing me. You know that better, Tae Joon. Everything was my choice. This marriage, you… everything was my choice. However…”
Her voice trailed off.
Now she had to say it. Yet, those words she had to say, they stuck in her throat like a thorn.
How could she spit out that she decided not to love him?
How could she say that was the only way to escape from that nauseating curse?
“But, I’m a little slow. So… I hope we can take it slow.”
In the end, she couldn’t say it. Instead, she laid out an absurd excuse, saying that her emotions were slow.
Her heart ached as if it was full of bitter water.
Sharing a bed and emotions. Having a child and becoming a family, not just a couple. Despite all of these being a natural course, she had no choice but to reject them.
She felt like a con artist. She felt as if she was torturing this man, who promised to love her, with false hope while evading the truth.
She didn’t have the confidence to control his emotions. But she had to block her flowing emotions.
She needed time.
Time to collect her emotions that had leaked out to him.
And time to thoroughly mend her fractured mindset.
“So, what if we… use separate rooms for a while?”
Thus, time to become completely emotionally independent from him.
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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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