Hyuk Joo closed his stinging eyes and opened them again. At the same time, Young Ran’s words drilled into his ears.
“Eun Soo seems to have sorted everything out.”
The hand of Hyuk Joo, which had been holding the car door handle, dropped helplessly.
He should call Eun Soo’s name, but his voice wouldn’t come out. His gaze, with tightly closed lips, saw only one thing.
Eun Soo’s back.
He couldn’t take his eyes off her until she had completely entered the house.
“Haah……”
Hyuk Joo leaned his head on the car seat and tilted his head back.
He had believed thoroughly that he had come here to find where Eun Soo was.
That she left him was not due to her will.
But the moment he saw Eun Soo’s laughing face, Hyuk Joo felt as if he had been hit hard by something.
Eun Soo was laughing.
In this moment, this time without Moon Hyuk Joo, she seemed to be happy. The air around her was amazingly dazzling and bright.
It was as if she was telling him that to Oh Eun Soo, Moon Hyuk Joo was nothing.
It felt hollow, as if a hole had been punched in the center of his heart.
With a deep sigh, Hyuk Joo leaned his forehead on his hand.
“To you, I am……”
Really nothing.
He couldn’t bring himself to say the rest.
Eun Soo’s words that it didn’t matter what he did as long as his mother could receive treatment were heartbreakingly true.
Every time Eun Soo said such words, Hyuk Joo thought there was a little bit of falsehood mixed in.
Because she felt sorry for him.
That’s why he believed she said such things.
Hyuk Joo, lost in his thoughts, didn’t hear his cell phone ringing. He heard the bell sound belatedly and tried to answer the call, but it was already disconnected.
A moment later, a short vibration and a message alert came.
The sender was Young Ran.
The message was an address in Jeju Island, saying she had arranged to meet with Eun Soo there at 2 p.m. the day after tomorrow.
“Day after tomorrow.”
Hyuk Joo bit his lip. He couldn’t hold out until the day after tomorrow.
He wanted to see her right now.
He wanted to meet Eun Soo and ask her if Moon Hyuk Joo was really nothing to her.
Hyuk Joo, about to write a message, pressed the call button. Before the signal even went through, Young Ran picked up the call.
Hyuk Joo stated his request right away.
“I want to meet tomorrow.”
—I’ll have to discuss that with Eun Soo.
“If you tell me her number, I can call her directly.”
—Eun Soo doesn’t want that.
“You know better than anyone that if I try to find out, it’s only a matter of time.”
Hyuk Joo closed his eyes and rubbed his eyeballs with the tip of his finger.
—If you insist.
Young Ran was silent for a moment. She too knew that if Hyuk Joo put his mind to it, he would find out where Eun Soo was.
The reason she asked Eun Soo to tie the final knot was for this. If he heard the situation summed up from Eun Soo’s mouth, Hyuk Joo would give up.
Young Ran didn’t consider for long. Whether it was the day after tomorrow or tomorrow, all that was needed was for Eun Soo to declare the end.
—I’ll talk to Eun Soo.
As soon as he heard Young Ran’s response, Hyuk Joo hung up the call.
A few minutes later, Young Ran sent Eun Soo’s changed phone number. Given that she didn’t provide it immediately, it seemed she had gotten Eun Soo’s permission.
“It’s not like you.”
Hyuk Joo gave a short laugh. His target was Young Ran.
It was unlike her to ask for the consent of the other party.
Soon after, Young Ran called back.
“Yes.”
— She told me she wanted to start over. Don’t even think about lashing out at a girl who just finished getting her mind in order.
“Harsh words?”
Hyuk Joo’s words took a sharp rise.
— Eun Soo had a hard enough time over the past two years.
“……”
— She was holding it in until she burst.
“What do you mean she burst?”
— Are you really asking because you don’t know?
Hyuk Joo gripped the steering wheel with one hand. Anxiety spread throughout his body as if he had to hold onto something.
— It’s not easy to marry a man who harbors feelings for another woman. She was a girl who barely managed to live while thinking only of her mother, and you added fuel to the fire.
“What on earth are you talking about?”
Hyuk Joo asked with a voice expressing disbelief.
— If you really cared for Eun Soo even a little, you should have met Seo Yeon Ji without her knowing!
Hyuk Joo was lost for words.
It was a problem he hadn’t even considered.
He had said that Seo Yeon Ji came back and that he just wanted to help her.
He was sincere.
He wanted to help her, nothing more. That’s why he told Eun Soo.
But that…
Hyuk Joo sighed deeply, furrowing his brows.
— It’s a mess you created yourself. And now, because Eun Soo left first and your pride can’t accept it, you’re like this, right?
“……”
— Meet her and let her go kindly.
How was he supposed to kindly let her go when he couldn’t let her go at all?
Hyuk Joo was unable to let Eun Soo go. No, he didn’t want to.
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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