“Wow. I’m drunk, but it doesn’t show.”
Lee Soo washed her face with cold water from the sink.
She tried to clear her head, but it was to no avail.
She wondered whether she had drunk at least two or three bottles, continuously without any food.
She had gotten drunk from the alcohol Minwoo senior gave her, but it was more bearable than listening to Juhee’s bragging.
The drinking with the seniors, who shared her sense of humor, was also fun.
However, she felt it would be too much to drink any more.
Lee Soo left the bathroom to sober up and went outside.
People staggering in drunkenness. People talking in groups. Even the noisy music coming from the speakers.
Despite the deep darkness of the streets, all around was chaotic.
Lee Soo headed towards Luna Garden, located behind the school auditorium, to avoid the dizzying noise and lights.
It was a quiet place with few people during the evening, and she thought the walk there and back would help her sober up.
While walking, her shoulders involuntarily hunched in the chilly night air.
She didn’t realize she was this drunk while sitting, but every time she walked, it felt like the asphalt floor was surging into thin air.
Her body, where gravity didn’t seem to apply properly, swayed from side to side.
“Ah, I feel like I’m going to fall.”
Lee Soo stopped walking and deeply bent her waist.
With her hands on her knees, she took a deep breath.
The cool air went deep into her lungs and came out with a strong smell of alcohol.
After a few deep breaths, Lee Soo straightened her waist.
As she lifted her head and took another step, her vision spun and her body swayed heavily.
“Ah!”
A large hand caught Lee Soo’s shoulder as she was falling sideways.
It was a solid hand that gave a sense of stability, making her want to lean on it for a moment.
“Be careful. You almost fell.”
A familiar scent wrapped around her, and a sweet voice penetrated her ears.
She knew who it was without looking.
Thinking that even Seo Jiho’s hurried voice was melodious, Lee Soo lifted her head.
Again, is this a coincidence? She looked at Jiho with a face that asked why he was here.
“You kept staggering along.”
He thought she might fall.
Lee Soo’s eyes were halflidded.
Her breath smelled heavily of alcohol.
Jiho, who had followed her out, had kept a distance from which he could reach out at any time, seeing her sway from time to time and feeling anxious.
“Wow, …… thank you.”
Lee Soo straightened her leaning body with force in her legs.
“Strangely, every time I see you, something happens that makes me grateful. I think I say thank you every time I see you.”
Lee Soo chuckled as she spoke.
“You seem to be quite drunk.”
Jiho found Lee Soo’s disheveled face a bit unfamiliar.
Her relaxed eyes. Her slightly twisted pronunciation. Her bloodless skin. Her unprovoked smile.
“Do I look drunk?”
Looking at Lee Soo blinking her eyes as if there’s no way that could be the case, Jiho laughed incredulously.
“You’re staggering like this, how can you not know.”
“Ah……. But my face looks fine, doesn’t it?”
Lee Soo threw her head back and, in a showoff manner, thrust her face up to Jiho’s chin.
At her gesture, like a child asking for attention, Jiho clenched his fists tightly.
If he didn’t, he felt like he would end up wrapping his hands around Lee Soo’s face.
“No. You look clearly drunk.”
“Really? I didn’t realize I was drunk because my face was pale.”
“You know it. You’re very aware. Go sit over there before you fall again.”
He gestured towards a bench a few steps ahead with his chin, and Lee Soo staggered over to it.
Luna Garden, far from the main gate, was silent.
Only the sound of cars rushing past beyond the fence densely covered with trees could be intermittently heard.
“Why do you drink so much when you’re not good with alcohol.”
“Well……. It breaks the mood. They say something if I don’t drink. So I just drink.”
Lee Soo slumped onto the bench, leaning her drooping body loosely against it.
Every time he exhaled, a strong smell of alcohol wafted.
“Aren’t you tired living like this?”
“……”
“I mean, not just An Ju Hee but also senior Min Woo. You can’t even refuse alcohol when they force it on you.”
“Ju Hee, she was a bit mean.”
“You should do the same. Have you ever been in first class?”
Ji Ho laughed playfully.
“Uh…… No. It’s too childish.”
Lee Soo grimaced and shook her head repeatedly.
Even thinking about such arrogance made her cringe.
“You seemed uncomfortable listening but you endured well.”
She had endured so much in her life.
Lee Soo gave a bitter smile as if it was nothing.
That reminded her that Yumi had called Seo Ji Ho, Ji Ho oppa.
What were they to each other?
Lee Soo thought for a moment and then shook her head.
It wasn’t her business, and frankly, she was more curious about something else.
“……Why didn’t you contact me?”
If she were sober, she wouldn’t have asked, but drunken Lee Soo’s tongue moved on its own.
There was a tone of disappointment in her voice.
Lee Soo looked at Ji Ho with resentful eyes.
“Did you wait for my call?”
Lee Soo frowned.
Did he mean he didn’t expect her to? Or was he really asking if she waited?
It was difficult to read Ji Ho’s expression.
Lee Soo wanted to say calmly that she didn’t, but her gaze and expression had already strongly affirmed it.
“……Was that umbrella meant to be a parting gift?”
Instead of answering, Lee Soo asked another question.
“……Didn’t I ask if you were waiting?”
Ji Ho asked back instead of answering.
Their will to get an answer from each other created a long silence.
Her tightly closed lips wouldn’t open, but Ji Ho seemed to have received his answer from Lee Soo’s gaze and expression.
Lee Soo’s flushed face was reflected in Ji Ho’s settled eyes.
When Lee Soo averted her gaze and bowed her head, Ji Ho’s voice came from above.
“I waited.”
It was a calm voice.
“I thought you wouldn’t contact me first, but I hoped you would.”
Ever since he brought Lee Soo home, he had been thinking.
When and how should he contact her?
He had typed and deleted characters on his phone several times, and had hesitated to make the call.
He had never been in such a situation before, so it was both confusing and new.
Would it be an answer if he said he didn’t do it because he was curious about how you were and your reaction?
Because she was drunk, Lee Soo couldn’t understand what Ji Ho was saying.
“Why?”
Her mind was foggy like a thick fog and her heart was strangely throbbing.
“I hoped you would care about me.”
“……You said you would contact me.”
But why were you waiting.
“That’s why I waited.”
She wanted to return the umbrella. It wasn’t Seo Ji Ho she was waiting for.
Saying it made her realize something was wrong, she thought she should rephrase, but she heard Ji Ho’s voice with a low laugh.
“I’m relieved.”
Half of Ji Ho was relieved, and the other half found himself absurd.
What was he relieved about, Lee Soo looked up at Ji Ho.
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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