At Suk Hee’s nagging, which sounded like a habit, Sol opened her eyes wide.
“Why would I be alone? I have Si Woo. I raised half of him. When he grows up, he has a duty to support me.”
“If only you could just keep your mouth shut.”
“Then I should just have a baby!”
“Oh my, if only you could do that if you were able!”
Suk Hee’s furious palm flew in succession.
Sitting on his mother’s lap and observing the mother and daughter with curious eyes, Si Woo threw his head back.
“Uh… Mom. Fighting is bad for kids….”
Worry filled his innocent eyes, not knowing what to do in this situation.
“That’s not it. That’s not fighting, it’s showing love.”
“Mom and Si Woo show love too, but mom doesn’t hit Si Woo?”
Da Jung crinkled her nose and smiled.
It felt like just yesterday when she was nursing him every two hours, and losing sleep over it. It was fascinating how he had grown so much and started articulating his thoughts.
“Everyone has their way of showing love. Grandma shows love to your aunt like that, and mom shows love to Si Woo like this.”
“Heehee!”
At her tickling touch, Si Woo wriggled and let out a dolphinlike sound.
Three months ago, Da Jung moved to a newly built apartment complex in Pangyo, Gyeonggido. Although it was an expensive area, she had taken out a loan and stretched her finances for Si Woo’s education.
Gum Sticky Sol and her mother also moved their base to follow Da Jung. They had been coparenting for the past five years without compensation, and it seemed they felt uncomfortable sending them alone.
Three years ago, after a battle with illness, Sol’s father passed away, and Sol’s mother cleaned up the house in Cheongju and moved up to join Sol.
Except for Sol among the four siblings, all the sisters and brothers were scattered across the country after getting married, and they were all living well.
Sol moved her cafe to a mixeduse building adjacent to Techno Valley, and Sukhee opened a small sidedish store near the apartment complex.
The first time she met Sol was when Da Jung entered middle school. They were classmates and neighbors two houses away.
Since then, to Sukhee, Da Jung was just like her daughter.
“Siwoo’s mom. Is Siwoo’s grandmother coming the day after tomorrow?”
At Sukhee’s question, Da Jung’s face grew heavy.
“I’m not sure. I told her over the phone a few days ago…”
The upcoming weekend was Siwoo’s birthday.
She planned to invite close acquaintances to serve dinner in honor of Siwoo’s kindergarten entrance.
These were the people she was grateful to for helping her in every possible way since Siwoo was born.
She had also contacted her mother. Last year, she was told not to wait, but a few days ago she gave an ambiguous answer saying she wasn’t sure.
“Just make another call. After all, isn’t Siwoo her only grandson?”
“Why bother when she doesn’t even consider Siwoo her grandson?”
Da Jung’s tone hardened in an instant. The reason was her mother, who had never hugged Siwoo, which seemed cruel.
Da Jung’s mother, Lady Nam Jeongae, was living alone farming in Cheongju.
Seven years ago, after her second husband died and she finally became free, it seemed that she had no intention of escaping from hard labor.
When her second husband died, Jeongae cursed the dead man saying she was feeding a corpse to the dogs.
She resented the man, as if she had endured the harsh years for the sole purpose of having someone to hold her daughter’s hand at her wedding.
For such Jeongae, Da Jung’s pregnancy must have been a bolt from the blue.
Unlike Sol and her family who supported Da Jung’s decision, Jeongae harshly beat her pregnant daughter.
She wasn’t unaware of her mother’s feelings. However, it was inevitable to feel bitter about her mother, who was still cold and distant even when Siwoo turned five.
Nevertheless, when she started going into labor, she wanted to see her mother the most.
Jeongae, who had acted as if she would never see her again, ran to her in a month’s span when she heard the news, and firmly held Da Jung’s hand.
At that moment, seeing her mother’s mismatched shoes, Da Jung couldn’t help but burst into tears.
Her heart ached for her mother, who must have run frantically without even realizing her shoes were mismatched, and she felt so sorry that even in the midst of labor pains, she couldn’t stop crying.
Just when it seemed that the mother and daughter’s resentment was being resolved, as soon as Jeongae saw newborn Siwoo, she turned around and went back down to Cheongju without looking back.
The sight of a mother looking at her newborn baby as if she were the enemy who ruined her life, she could not forget even now.
“Still, mothers don’t feel that way. I may understand since I’m past that, but if Soli had a child without a father like you, wouldn’t I feel the same?”
With the intention of Siwoo hearing, Sukhee lowered her voice to a whisper.
“Just make sure to call again and tell them to come, okay?”
“I got it. I’ll handle it.”
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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