The employee, who walked ahead of her, opened the door to the manager’s office. When the employee announced Eun Soo’s visit, the manager came out and greeted her.
“Please come in.”
“Yes, hello.”
Eun Soo forced a smile, lifting the corners of her lips.
“Please, come in.”
Following the manager’s guidance into the room, Eun Soo only fiddled with the handle of the bag she held in her hand.
The branch manager, wearing glasses, looked at Eun Soo’s face and spoke with a kind smile.
“You could have called me to your place, thank you for coming all this way. What would you like to drink?”
“……I’m fine.”
“Should I bring you some water?”
“Yes.”
As Eun Soo’s answer fell, the branch manager signaled to a waiting employee to bring water quickly.
“What brings you here today?”
“How much is the balance in my account right now?”
“Are you referring to the account under your name, Madam?”
“Yes.”
Eun Soo nodded and added.
“All accounts.”
“If you’re talking about all accounts, including securities, I need to verify.”
“……Can I withdraw all of that?”
“Pardon?”
The manager widened his eyes over his glasses at Eun Soo’s question about whether she could withdraw all the money in her account.
Had something happened to the Myungjin Group that he was not aware of?
Why would the vice president’s wife of Myungjin Group suddenly need so much money? He was puzzled.
The manager tilted his head repeatedly, glancing at Eun Soo’s unusual demeanor. It was strange. But he had no choice but to comply with the request of Eun Soo, an important client among the branch’s VIPs.
He needed to check the balance in the account first.
The manager, rising from his seat, headed to his desk. As the manager checked the account, an employee came in, placed a glass of water on the table, and left.
Eun Soo held the cup with both hands and drank the water. The water inside the cup rippled slightly due to her hands trembling subtly.
The manager, lifting his head, held a tablet in his hand and asked as he sat down.
“Do you plan to withdraw the entire amount in cash?”
“……Yes.”
“When should I prepare it?”
“Today, right now.”
“That’s……”
At the sound of withdrawing all the money from every account in cash immediately, the manager put down his tablet. With a difficult expression, he explained the situation to Eun Soo.
“It’s difficult to do so right away. Our branch doesn’t have enough cash on hand, so we’d have to request it from the headquarters.”
“…….”
“Also, we would need time to coordinate with the security team to move the cash to your place.”
The manager stressed that several things had to be resolved first in order to handle Eun Soo’s sudden request. Observing Eun Soo, whose complexion had become even paler than before, he added in a careful voice.
“If Vice President Moon Hyuk Joo requested this, we would contact him separately and discuss it with him.”
“No!”
Eun Soo cut off the manager’s words with an urgent voice.
Hearing Hyuk Joo’s name, Eun Soo finally regained her sense of reality.
What am I doing right now?
After receiving the call from Seo Yeon Ji, who wanted to meet, she had lost her reason for a moment, wanting to protect Hyuk Joo from her at all costs.
Having regained her senses, Eun Soo realized what a foolish thing she had been about to do.
I must have been out of my mind.
Covering her flushed cheeks with her hands in embarrassment, she rose from her seat.
“I’m sorry. Please disregard everything I said today.”
“Madam?”
The manager stood up following Eun Soo.
“I have something to take care of, so… Anyway, please forget what happened just now.”
“Yes, I understand.”
Watching Eun Soo abruptly cancel her request and leave the office, the manager tilted his head as if wondering what had happened.
Shortly after, he returned to his seat and picked up the phone.
His finger, with no intention of fulfilling Eun Soo’s request to pretend as if nothing happened, was dialing Chairman Moon Young Ran’s number.
Eun Soo, who had left the bank, got into the car that had been waiting outside.
Sitting in the back seat of the car, Eun Soo covered her face with both hands and then removed them.
She let out a hollow laugh as she recalled the act she had just committed.
She was out of her mind.
She almost did something crazy in a desperate desire to give all her money to that woman and plead with her.
But that’s how desperate Eun Soo was.
She wanted to cling even to the shell of a man who didn’t love her.
Like a fool, like a dimwit.
Blaming herself, Eun Soo tightly closed her eyes.
Seeing Eun Soo’s distinct pale complexion, the driver wondered if he should head to Cheongdamdong as planned.
Thinking it would be better to wait until Eun Soo said something, he turned the hazard lights on again.
At the sound of the hazard lights, Eun Soo slowly opened her eyes and called the driver in a weak voice.
“Head to Cheongdamdong.”
“……Are you okay?”
“Yes. I’m fine.”
Eun Soo answered with a strained voice.
Her voice and complexion were clearly not okay. However, the driver moved the car, his gaze fixed forward as if unaware of her state.
Sometimes pretending not to see the obvious was a way of showing consideration for others, he thought, heading towards Cheongdamdong.
“Madam, we’ve arrived.”
“……Yes.”
“I’ll wait nearby.”
“No. You can go home for today.”
Eun Soo got out of the car immediately.
“Madam!”
The driver’s voice calling her was heard. But Eun Soo, pretending not to hear, kept walking.
The address that the woman had mentioned was a place Eun Soo knew.
It was one of the buildings named after her husband.
[The J Room]That was the name of the shop the woman had mentioned.
What she thought was a café turned out to be a flower shop.
“The J Room…… J, J…… Moon Hyuk Joo, Seo Yeon Ji……”
Eun Soo stared quietly at the ‘J’, which was shining in the sunlight, in the signboard written in English.
It was the same English initial in both their names.
Could it be a misconception that such a simple letter, just an alphabet, felt as though it held a very special meaning?
Probably not.
Eun Soo let out a bitter laugh.
Confronting the reality she had wanted so desperately to avoid in this manner took her breath away.
“……Is this how mom felt?”
For a moment, Eun Soo thought of her mother.
The realization hit her that her current feelings were no different from her mother’s when she had seen her close friend cheating with her husband.
Perhaps it was due to the sunlight, but her eyes were stinging.
Shielding her eyes from the sun with her hand over her forehead, Eun Soo walked towards the flower shop.
A few pots with congratulatory ribbons at the entrance indicated that the shop hadn’t been open for long.
The many colors of flowers filling the shop were truly beautiful. But Eun Soo’s pupils, looking at the flowers, were emptily drained of strength.
“Haah……”
The beautiful flowers seemed to be celebrating a reunion of lovers.
Eun Soo wanted to simply sit down right there and cry.
She felt like screaming out, asking why they had to be so cruel to her.
Staring blankly at the flower shop,
Ting.
Along with the bell sound, a woman who seemed to be the owner came out.
Seeing the woman’s face, Eun Soo instinctively recognized who she was.
So, it’s you. The woman named Seo Yeon Ji.
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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