Yeoreum tightly gripped the armrest of the sofa and almost shouted, as if pleading. However, Ji Hyeonjeong did not answer. She only glared at Yeoreum with a cold expression. That was all, but Yeoreum seemed to have received the answer.
“So…”
Even though she tried to endure, her voice trembled.
“So, I… took the money and broke up with Seotaeseok?”
Yeoreum touched her forehead.
“You deliberately created such a misunderstanding? Why? We broke up, so that should be enough!”
The last voice was almost close to crying. Unconsciously, Yeoreum was crying. Looking at Yeoreum like that, Ji Hyeonjeong spoke in an emotionless voice.
“Yeah. I did that. Because Taeseok needs to get a divorce quickly.”
It was a tone with no hint of apology.
“But recently, there have been suspicions about that money. I became curious about why you needed the money. So, to avoid suspicion, just say you used it vaguely.”
Her tightly clenched fist lost its color.
In the end, the only thing she could endure even while breaking up with Seotaeseok was that she didn’t receive anything from him during their relationship.
Luxury goods, jewelry, a car, and even an apartment. There were so many things Taeseok had prepared for Yeoreum that she couldn’t count them all.
Yeoreum consistently declined, and Taeseok was always dissatisfied. He was a man who wanted to give everything.
“Oppa, thank you. But I don’t need all this. I’ll just take your heart.”
Although it was an ending that wasn’t good, she believed that the feelings they had while dating were pure.
What did he feel when he found out she took the money after breaking up?
All the things he gave were flatly refused, yet she left with a large sum of cash from behind. Unbelievable. It was exactly as he put it, she had truly stabbed him in the back. There was no scammer like her.
She felt like she knew why she was standing there on the day they met again.
“Choi Yeoreum. Are you listening? Answer.”
Yeoreum wasn’t listening. Her mind was empty. Something inside her heart snapped.
‘Seotaeseok. Fool. Why did you suggest starting again knowing I took 500 million won? What a sucker. Then, why didn’t you even ask me about it?’
“Hey. Aren’t you going to answer?”
Yeoreum bit her lip and glared at Ji Hyeonjeong.
No more sensations were felt in her tightly clenched fist. Whether this intense despair was grimness or misery, it couldn’t be distinguished. One thing was certain, a fierce anger was welling up towards the woman in front of her.
The cooling coffee caught her eye.
“If you really love Taeseok, break up.”
Two years ago, Ji Hyeonjeong’s voice echoed. Yes. She had threatened her with a cliché line that would appear in a 90s drama.
The outdated drama was created by Ji Hyeonjeong, and such dramas always had a development that one couldn’t help but fall into. It was a dramatic turn of events.
Yeoreum alternately looked down at Ji Hyeonjeong and the coffee. She imagined splashing coffee on her face.
“Not answering and enduring it will only hurt you.”
When Ji Hyeonjeong sneered, Yeoreum finally spoke.
“Insane.”
“What, what did you say? What are you saying right now?”
Ji Hyeonjeong shot back with a sharp voice.
Yeoreum wiped away the tears falling down roughly and glared at her. Everyone has a limit. Ji Hyeonjeong touched the area that should never have been touched, and Yeoreum had no patience to endure humiliation.
“You’re the real scammer.”
“What?”
“Why are you so involved in Seotaeseok’s life? I don’t know, but if you keep acting so vulgarly, you’ll eventually be pitifully abandoned. You. Stop manipulating his weaknesses.”
“Do you really want Taeseok to be ruined? Say it clearly!”
Ji Hyeonjeong slammed the table.
“…”
“You shameless woman. Because of you, Taeseok will fall. Watch carefully! Ah! What’s this!”
Unable to endure any longer, Yeoreum threw the coffee at Ji Hyeonjeong’s face.
“Ah! Hey!”
Hearing the commotion, Secretary Kim rushed in hurriedly.
“Speak clearly. Taeseok is falling because of you.”
Yeoreum answered in a chilling voice.
“This crazy woman!”
“Don’t threaten me again. Next time, I’ll tell everything to Seotaeseok. Yeah. Let’s really see it all end.”
Watching Ji Hyeonjeong wipe her clothes with a twisted face, Yeoreum stood up. Secretary Kim grabbed her clothes, but she shook him off with all her strength and left the office.
It’s a mess.
Today, the breakup two years ago, and the feelings she had for him back then—all of it had turned into a mess.
Emotions didn’t settle, and she walked for a long time. She remembered the broad shoulders that used to embrace her tightly. There was no such solid support.
“Wow… It’s really the end now.”
Starting again after taking the money. Yeoreum didn’t have the audacity to be that shameless. The courage she tried so hard to summon crumbled before it could even bloom.
“Wow. This is so amusing.”
In the spacious office where only the monitor light brightly shone, K revealed his teeth while laughing.
“Isn’t it impressive, Mr. Je?”
Then, he tore open another bag of potato chips, put them in his mouth as if eating and cleaning up, and swallowed them. With his familiar touch, he downloaded the video, checked the quality, and edited it to look good again.
Unfortunately, due to the camera angle, Yeoreum’s face did not appear.
‘I want to know about that’—like the technique commonly used in exposure programs, only his hands to shoulders were visible. But since he had all the important evidence, it didn’t matter if her face wasn’t shown.
“I have to inform Taeseok. Ah, this should be a fee in the tens of millions. Seriously.”
K called Taeseok, praising himself, and hung up when there was no answer, then the call came ten minutes later.
[What’s going on?]There was no leisure in the voice. As K wasn’t one to beat around the bush, he quickly got to the point.
“Taeseok, Choi Yeoreum visited Ji Hyeonjeong’s office.”
[…Why?]“Well, it’s better if you come and see for yourself.”
As soon as he hung up because it was a missed call, the call came back after ten minutes.
[I’ll be right there.]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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