“I told you, the CEO didn’t do anything wrong. Hmm, he probably got wet because of the water. The CEO asked for water in the middle… He drank half of it and spilled the other half.”
“Really? Something like that happened?”
Even though Seok Ju wasn’t in front of her, Se Kyung awkwardly smiled and nodded.
“Well, that’s a relief. It’s very late. Go and rest.”
“Yes. You should rest, too, senior.”
After ending the call, Se Kyung sighed. As the chilly wind messed up her hair, she tucked a lock behind her ear.
“I still have that handkerchief.”
Se Kyung muttered to herself, recalling Yuna’s words.
In the winter cold enough to freeze one’s cheeks, Tae Jo’s scent that permeated into the tip of the nose, and the warm body temperature that had touched the neck.
Even with Seok Ju by her side, all she could see was Tae Jo.
She hadn’t believed in things like love at first sight, but it was to such a degree that she wondered if this was it.
His neat forehead, revealed by his pomadeslicked hair. Tae Jo was a man who looked exceptionally well in a camelcolored coat draped over his suit.
Whenever she caught his gaze, her heart would flutter so much that she had to avoid his eyes.
She wished she had committed his face to memory, thinking that she might not see him again.
“I’m in big trouble.”
The thought made her want to see him again.
She thought she might need to avoid Tae Jo for a while, what was she going to do.
Se Kyung contorted her face as if she was about to cry.
A leisurely weekend morning.
Tae Jo stood in front of the mirror with a haggard face, looking quite unhappy. His hand, which had been mechanically brushing his teeth, gradually slowed down, distracted by some other thought.
What was… that dream about?
Tae Jo gurgled with a mouth full of water.
Surely up until the moment he woke up, he had remembered something important, but in a mere instant, the contents of the dream seemed to have evaporated and disappeared.
Not that the dream’s content was insignificant enough to lose sleep over.
On the contrary, it was so pleasant that he still felt good after waking up, and it seemed like he had briefly seen the face of a familiar woman somewhere.
“Why am I like this?”
Had he been looking at too many scripts lately, and they were all appearing in his dreams?
Tae Jo, who grumbled while rinsing his mouth, washed his face and left the bathroom. He picked up a freshly brewed coffee and headed to the living room.
Tae Jo turned on the TV and pulled up the entertainment section of a portal site on his tablet.
Incidents didn’t choose whether it was a weekday or a weekend, so he had to check the articles whenever he had time.
“Nothing unusual overnight.”
Tae Jo quickly scanned the headlines of the articles posted on the main page.
Whether it was the name of an artist from his agency or their current work, he would automatically click on anything familiar.
And among the dozen or so articles, the first thing that caught Tae Jo’s eye was the name Moon Seok Ju.
“I thought he was a bear that only acted. Now he’s even playing matchmaker?”
Tae Jo chuckled as he read Seok Ju’s article.
Moon Seok Ju’s name was mentioned in a love scandal article about a certain celebrity.
According to the article, the person who brought the couple together was none other than Moon Seok Ju.
Could that oblivious bear really have matched the two?
From Tae Jo’s point of view, it was highly likely that Moon Seok Ju didn’t even know the two were dating until the love scandal broke out.
If he was so quickwitted…
“Even in his own love life, he comes in second.”
A smirking Tae Jo shook his head and checked the other articles. While quickly scrolling down the screen, his hand abruptly stopped in the middle.
It was because of the combination of the words Yoon Se Kyung and nuisance guest.
“Nuisance?”
Tension rose in Tae Jo’s forehead.
The word “troublemaker” didn’t fit well with Yoon Se Kyung. She was surprisingly gentle, and I was worried that she might be taken advantage of by a mean guy, but to call her a troublemaker…
“Tsk.”
Seeming displeased with the word choice, Tae Jo clicked his tongue and clicked on the article title. The article’s body, along with two pictures, appeared.
The article wasn’t much. Se Kyung had attended the wedding of a girl group member she used to work with, and the term “troublemaker guest” was attached, meaning she was more beautiful than the bride.
“The title is a bit off, but… the picture is pretty.”
Tae Jo tapped the screen lightly with his fingernail. Se Kyung, dressed in a pastel dress, was slightly smiling while looking elsewhere.
“She seems pretty comfortable now.”
Compared to when he first met her, it was a significant improvement.
Back then, Se Kyung appeared pitiful yet somehow unstable. She looked like she had no leisure, as if she was utterly worn out.
There was no need to find out the cause.
Seeing her company abandon their artist to care for herself in the middle of winter told enough about the company’s level.
And that was not the only issue.
Later, when looking over Se Kyung’s activity history and contracts, he could even identify some missing amounts.
After showing the willingness to send a certified letter and even initiate a lawsuit, the company belatedly apologized and returned the unpaid settlement.
Se Kyung probably didn’t know the inside story. She wouldn’t have known that Tae Jo had met the head of her former agency and directly negotiated.
“Anyway, I can’t help but worry.”
Tae Jo, who smiled fleetingly, put down his tablet. As he drank his coffee and changed the channel, he got up as his cup emptied.
And as he was about to move towards the kitchen to prepare more coffee, his steps halted.
“I like you.”
The line from the woman on the TV stopped Tae Jo in his tracks.
Simultaneously, a bright scene appeared and disappeared as if a flash had exploded.
“…?”
What was that? It seemed like something flashed before his eyes just now.
He slowly turned around.
Before the scene changed, Tae Jo’s gaze briefly collided with Se Kyung’s figure on the screen.
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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