Jae Oh looked towards Chae Yoon, who was entering the meeting place, without sparing a glance at me, and anticipated.
He assumed that even after the drinking session was over, Chae Yoon would not contact me.
He thought so because of the words that often came out of Chae Yoon’s mouth.
[I’m busy, you know.]While engrossed in her work, Chae Yoon had become accustomed to being alone.
Such a fixed perception developed over a span of 3 years couldn’t be shaken off quickly, so Jae Oh anticipated that even if Chae Yoon contacted him, it would be right after she got home.
That’s why he didn’t hasten his steps. He felt uneasy knowing she was with her friends, and especially the thought of Chae Yoon taking a taxi alone after their gathering made him restless.
Should he have followed Chae Yoon inside and at least marked his presence in front of her friends? He contemplated entering even now, but concluded it would be better to intermittently check on her rather than disturb her gathering.
Back at the office, he resumed his work but couldn’t concentrate at all.
“Ah, why isn’t there a response?”
How much time has passed?
The rising impatience he’d been trying to suppress began to surge.
Jae Oh felt like he couldn’t accomplish anything until he saw Chae Yoon.
Eventually, he headed towards where Chae Yoon was.
Throughout his journey to drop Chae Yoon off, there was no contact from her.
Given that she didn’t seem to be in a state to contact him, he figured she must be having a good time. Jae Oh decided to wait outside for Chae Yoon to come out.
Not wanting to waste waiting time, he spread out the documents he had brought with him.
Maybe because he was closer to Chae Yoon, he was more focused than when he was at the office. Still, it wasn’t as usual, so every chance he got, Jae Oh would check his phone and glance at the entrance.
Time, which felt excruciatingly slow to Jae Oh, passed 10 PM.
Unable to wait any longer, Jae Oh called Chae Yoon.
Contrary to what he expected, the person who answered was one of Chae Yoon’s friends.
His gut feeling was uneasy from then on, and the subsequent words tested his patience.
[Chae Yoon is really drunk now. It seems she can’t go home by herself…]I knew it would be like this.
He didn’t need to hear any more.
Jae Oh immediately got out of the car and entered where Chae Yoon was, meeting a heavily drunken Chae Yoon.
“Huh? It’s Han Jae Oh.”
Where had my words of not drinking too much gone?
Even if she was with her friends, the fact that she drank this recklessly enraged him. There were many men around, what would happen if something went wrong?
And seeing Chae Yoon smile so brightly at him made him want to shoo away all the men around her.
Don’t smile so beautifully when drunk.
The thought that people here saw her like this upset him. Now, not only the men but also the women around seemed unpleasant to him.
Perhaps because of this, Jae Oh, without noticing how Chae Yoon’s friends were looking at him, said to the beaming Chae Yoon,
“You shouldn’t have drunk so much.”
His deep voice echoed lowly. At that, Chae Yoon’s lovely eyes widened even more.
It was a smile that seemed to clear away all stray thoughts.
His heart started to race at the sight he had never seen before, except when she was drunk.
He was about to reach out to Chae Yoon, entranced.
“Um… hello.”
His gaze, which had been fixed on Chae Yoon, turned to the direction of the voice.
“I’m Chae Yoon’s friend who answered the phone earlier.”
Only then did Jae Oh notice Chae Yoon’s friends.
Wondering why they seemed so surprised, the two women beside him stared blankly. After roughly gauging the situation, he greeted the woman in front of him, Ga Young.
“Hello.”
“Yes. Please sit here.”
The seat Ga Young offered was diagonal from Chae Yoon.
Desiring to sit next to Chae Yoon, Jae Oh didn’t sit in the offered seat and looked at Su Min, who was seated next to Chae Yoon.
Then Su Min, who had been blankly staring at Jae Oh, stood up from her seat a beat later and spoke.
“Please sit here.”
Jae Oh moved, as if he had been waiting for that invitation.
Chae Yoon tracked his movement with her eyes, but perhaps due to being quite inebriated, she showed no reaction even as he sat next to her.
With Chae Yoon just beaming and silently observing Jae Oh, Hyo Jeong initiated the conversation.
“We are Chae Yoon’s college classmates.”
“Yes. I’ve heard.”
“Oh really? Chae Yoon told us about herself, but she never mentioned having a boyfriend to us.”
Glancing briefly at Chae Yoon and commenting as though speaking to herself, Hyo Jeong soon fixed her gaze on Jae Oh.
“Ah, Chae Yoon has been saying she has a boyfriend, but we’ve never seen a photo of them together, nor did she talk about any relationship troubles or concerns. So we’ve been quite curious. Now seeing you, our long-standing curiosity feels somewhat alleviated.”
Hearing Hyo Jeong’s words, a faint crease appeared on Jae Oh’s forehead.
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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