All of that happened in the blink of an eye.
The car that raced as if exploding lost its direction and crashed into a row of trees.
With a loud impact, airbags burst open, and the tires spun futilely, emitting the smell of burning rubber.
A moment of silence.
It felt as if time had stopped. The only things indicating the passage of time were the fluttering snowflakes and the white steam rising from the crumpled hood, distorted beyond recognition.
It didn’t take long for those present to realize that the sudden situation that had unfolded had come to an end.
“Someone, please call 119!”
A man shouted. Some rushed towards the car, which was stuck in the trees with spinning useless wheels, while others gathered in the middle of the road.
“Hey! Excuse me, are you okay?”
“What should we do! 119, quickly!”
Amidst the sighs and groans coming from everywhere, Dajeong’s shoulders shivered with a sense of unease.
Dajeong, who was still in disbelief at the scene that had just unfolded before her eyes, belatedly came to her senses and moved her feet.
“Ah… Mr. Chae Junghyeok… Siwoo, Siwoo!”
The two feet that barely stepped forward felt as heavy as if they were attached to lumps of lead.
“Hello! Is it 119? There’s been a traffic accident here, this is…!”
Somewhere, a desperate voice requesting assistance echoed.
“Uh… Shouldn’t someone perform first aid?”
“It’s better to wait for 119 rescue personnel. Who knows what could go wrong if you touch the patient recklessly when there’s an accident?”
A debate erupted as some argued while looking at the man who had collapsed like a lump on the cold ground. In the meantime, another man shook the fallen man’s shoulders.
“Hey, please wake up. Sir?”
He was unconscious. At that moment, something wriggled in the arms of the man who had just collapsed.
“There’s a child!”
“Huh…?”
Looking at the suddenly appearing people, Siwoo blinked with a bewildered face.
Trying to recall what had happened, Siwoo opened his eyes wide because he could smell his dad. It was a bit sudden, but it seemed like his dad was asleep.
Wait, didn’t Dad fly in like Spider-Man…?
Siwoo remembered that Dad covered him, but with the cognitive abilities of a five-year-old, it was challenging to precisely understand what had happened.
As the child was discovered, a middle-aged woman who seemed to be his grandmother rushed over. Then she lifted Siwoo from the unconscious man’s arms.
“Hey, kiddo, are you okay?”
“Uh…”
“Hey, kiddo, is this person your dad?”
“Huh? Dad…?”
Siwoo turned his head to look at the collapsed Junghyeok. He showed no signs of movement.
The cold fingertips without gloves spread out like snowflakes falling on the asphalt, and the tightly closed eyes were silent as if in sleep.
Siwoo bit his lip and whimpered at the sight of his dad, who had fallen powerless.
Maybe Dad was just asleep, but even a five-year-old knew that sleeping on the street was against common sense.
As Siwoo’s pupils shook, tears welled up in both eyes.
“Huaaaah! Our Appa is gone! Appaaaa!”
Siwoo, who was crying loudly, shook Jung-hyuk’s shoulders vigorously.
“Appaaaa! Appaaaa Hahaha!”
“Siwoo, Siwoo-yah!”
Pushing through the crowd in a panic, Dajeong shouted as if collapsing. It was unbelievable that Siwoo was crying so perfectly fine.
“Siwoo-yah! Are you okay? Any injuries?”
“Uh-huh, Appa is deeeaaad!”
Seeing Dajeong, Siwoo’s wailing intensified.
“No! No, Siwoo-yah! Appa is not dead!”
Dajeong shouted in denial.
Fortunately, Siwoo was unharmed with not a scratch. However, the same couldn’t be said for another person.
Dajeong, kneeling with Siwoo still in her arms, clutched his cheeks. The hand that brushed against the slightly colder cheek than usual shook uncontrollably.
“Chae, Chae Jung-hyuk…?”
Tears welled up with burning eyes as she looked at him.
“Chae Jung-hyuk, please open your eyes. You…?”
It was unbelievable. Just a moment ago, he was a man who waved at her with a smile, but in a short time, the fact that he was motionless was hard to believe.
“Open your eyes! Open your eyes! Oh, no! Don’t do this!”
“Illegal! Illegal! Our Appa is deaaaad! Illegal!”
“Chae Jung-hyuk! Please… Don’t die! Don’t die, please!”
Dajeong buried her face in his chest and sobbed.
“Don’t say this to me. I have something to say. We are getting married! I’m going to marry you, so don’t die! I love you a lot! So… Ah, don’t die!”
Afraid she wouldn’t hear his confession, she desperately clung to his clothes.
“No! I hate it! Don’t leave us like this!”
Suddenly, a gentle touch enveloped the back of Dajeong’s head. While she was startled, a light cough sounded from his chest where her forehead touched.
“Yuda-jeong… Words… can’t change…”
Incoherently sobbing, Dajeong stopped crying. When she raised her head in a flash, he, with a pained and tightly furrowed face, smiled with the corners of his mouth twisted.
Once again, in disbelief, Dajeong blinked only wet eyes.
“Chae, Chae Jung-hyuk. Are you okay? Are you alive?”
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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