Chairman Oh erupted with a face like an irritated toad. The echoing commotion in the Hansong Group’s chairman’s office was indeed something not seen in a long time.
“Honey…”
“What the hell did you do to our daughter! Now, this and that, ugh!”
Chairman Oh’s thick hand, like a pot lid, grabbed the back of Seon-yeong’s neck. Trembling in fear, Seon-yeong could only roll her eyes.
“Before you cause any more trouble, find a hospital right away!”
“A h-hospital? Chairman, are you trying to put Hyeon-a in the hospital again?”
“Is there any other way besides that?”
“No! What did Hyeon-a do wrong?! Why would a father lock his own daughter in a hospital?”
“Then, let the crazy beast roam freely without a leash anywhere? What will you do when it goes wherever it wants later!”
With Chairman Oh’s firm determination, Seon-yeong kneeled down.
“Chairman. Please spare her. Hyeon-a is our daughter. She can’t survive if she goes to jail. You know that too, right? Please.”
Kneeling down and pleading with clasped hands, Chairman Oh finally softened his temper.
“Resolve it immediately! If you can’t solve this, be prepared for a divorce with you!”
The white SUV, which had been running non-stop, had arrived at the entrance of the rural house. Dajeong parked the car under the oak tree and turned off the engine.
She unfastened her seatbelt first, then turned to Hyun-jin, undoing his seatbelt and said towards the rearview mirror, “Si-woo, we’ve arrived at Grandma’s house.”
“Uh… Grandma…”
Si-woo’s eyelids, which were about to fall asleep at the sound of his mom’s voice, flickered.
Jeong-hyuk looked around in all directions. Although it wasn’t as eerie as the last time, perhaps because the sun hadn’t completely set, there was still a creepy feeling lingering in the air.
Usually, they would have crossed through the pepper field, but the overgrown pepper field made it impossible to traverse. These days, they preferred the slightly longer route back.
“Mom, where are you? Si-woo is here.”
Shouting and leaping over the rusty gate, Dajeong called out for her mom. Soon after, Jeong-hyuk followed with a set of Korean beef sirloin.
After calling for her mom, Dajeong turned back to Jeong-hyuk and smiled, “Mom, I called out, so she should come.”
Smoothing her adorable grandson’s bottom, Jeong-ae smiled with satisfaction. As she attentively looked at her daughter’s face for the first time in a while, for some reason, her plump cheeks seemed quite thin.
Worriedly, Jeong-ae asked, “What’s going on, dear? Is something wrong?”
“No, nothing’s wrong.”
Dajeong tried to brush it off naturally, but the more she tried, the more suspicious Jeong-ae’s gaze became.
“Then why do you look like that? Your face seems thinner. Was it tough building the police station?”
She already knew the story of building a police station in this remote mountain village where even phones didn’t work properly.
“It was a long business trip, that’s all. Now that it’s over, a few days of rest, and I’ll be fine.”
Dajeong, who vaguely went around the topic, hugged Jeong-ae tightly. Just as she smelled her son’s scent, her eyes welled up with tears again.
“Mom…”
“Omaya? Why are you crying?”
“Why wouldn’t I? I missed you so, so much.”
Jeong-ae made a puzzled face at Jeong-hyuk’s attempt to act cute, but Dajeong didn’t mind and snuggled into her mom’s embrace.
Indeed, it felt like starting a new life after being confined for what seemed like the end of the world in a cold iron cage for a whole week. Moreover, everything looked beautiful as if seeing it for the first time.
“Oh my, get yourself together. My son-in-law must be hungry.”
Only belatedly did Jeong-ae worryingly ask, “Aren’t you hungry, my son-in-law?”
“What’s the matter with that? Too hungry, sir?”
Jeong-ae, who became concerned a bit late, groaned and holding her aching waist, went back to the kitchen.
For the first time at Jeong-chu’s house, Jeong-hyuk quietly explored every nook and cranny as if looking at a cultural relic.
He didn’t show it, but what surprised him the most was that there was a kitchen connected to the main hall and beyond it, a sink with a gas stove, a regular refrigerator, and even a kimchi refrigerator were all equipped.
Regardless, the fact that there was no fireplace for chopping wood was surprising, but what was even more astonishing was the crimson wired telephone placed on one side of the floor.
He only knew it as a backwater village. It was quite different from what he had imagined, soaked in modern amenities even with no signal for a mobile phone.
After having dinner and cleaning up, Jeong-ae returned with a basket full of corn.
Si-woo pointed to the yellow and plump corn kernels with his finger, “Mom! Corn!”
“Wow, that looks delicious.”
Sitting around casually, they ate corn and chatted. Almost as if subtly anticipating something, Jeong-ae kept glancing at the wall clock inside the house.
“It’s already past 11. What will you do?”
“Of course, I need to sleep. We don’t have a car, and I can’t drive.”
Rather than continuing to nibble on corn, Jeong-hyuk lifted his casted arm. Laughter spread across Jeong-ae’s face.
“Well, you’ve been thinking well. I’ve prepared a sleeping mat in my bedroom. Just a moment, where could the new blanket be…”
Muttering to herself, Jeong-ae, once again, groaned and got up, bustling around.
After finishing dinner and even having corn for dessert, Si-woo yawned. Jeong-ae, who often took early evening naps, had already laid down in the adjacent room after preparing a sleeping mat.
Feeling sleepy and naturally seeking comfort, Si-woo snuggled into his grandmother’s arms. The man and woman, who had been through quite a lot in the past few days, gazed at the chilly night sky for a while.
Perhaps due to the absence of a dazzling night view, unlike Seoul’s night sky, countless stars seemed to fill the night sky as if pouring down.
“Mr. Chajunghyuk, what are you thinking?”
Sitting side by side as usual and looking up at the full moon, Dajeong asked. At that, Jeong-hyuk smirked first.
“I’m thinking about living here. How about that?”
For some reason, thinking it was a forced answer, Dajeong burst into laughter.
“Stop it. Even if you really want to live here, you won’t be able to endure a single day because it’s inconvenient.”
“How does Yoo Dajeong know that?”
“It’s our house, but I feel like I can’t live here.”
“I’m okay. As long as I have Yoo Dajeong and Yoo Si-woo, I can endure any inconvenience.”
Embracing his knee, Dajeong turned her head and looked at his side profile. Somehow, it felt like the cheeky young man had matured in just a few days, but now, any appearance was fine.
Looking at him with a content gaze, Jeong-hyuk’s eyes shifted as he gazed at the night sky. When their eyes met and they smiled, he pulled her closer, narrowing the distance to face Dajeong.
“I’m sorry.”
It was so out of the blue that Dajeong just laughed. Gazing at that smiling face, he whispered again.
“I love you.”
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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