Yeon Woo’s voice, announcing Ji An’s visit, was excited toward the basement workshop where the sound of an electric saw could be heard.
“Oh dear, how lovely. …Honey, Ji An’s here. Come out quickly.”
The sound of the electric saw stopped, and footsteps could be heard on the stairs.
A man appeared, a pencil behind his ear and dusting off sawdust from his hair. It was Yoon Ho, Ha Joon’s father.
He alternated between looking at Ji An and Yeon Woo and spoke.
“Seems like mom got through to you.”
“The pomegranates arrived today. You said they were delicious last time.”
“Maybe because of you, it seems like mom is getting through her menopause easier. She says that she feels good chewing pomegranate seeds. I have to understand what she means.”
“With three sons and a husband, who would I want to live for? If not for Ji An, who would I talk to about hormones? Women understand women’s hearts. …Ji An, over there by the window.”
Under the long winter sun at the window, Yeon Woo sat next to her on the wooden bench, smiling at Ji An.
The sunlight scattered brightly off their heads.
Taking out her mobile phone from her apron pocket, Yeon Woo caught Ji An’s eye as she pressed the call button.
The call connecting tone was followed by the sound of the call being answered.
“Ah! It’s me.”
Smiling at Ji An, Yeon Woo continued her call.
“My daughter’s here. Can we reschedule our meeting to tomorrow?”
A bright smile spread across Ji An’s face. Despite her cheerful expression, one thought unsettled her mind.
‘Yoon Ha Joon, seems like you were right. I was parasitizing your life.’
She had always assumed that the comfort provided by Mrs. Yeon Woo for a long time was a given.
‘But if I were you.’
With that thought, she might have been a parasite, just like he said.
Placing her hand on top of Mrs. Yeon Woo’s, Ji An smiled warmly.
Ji An stepped into Gimpo Airport and headed toward the domestic terminal.
Driven by the flight booking time, she had hastily left the Arumdri workshop, which didn’t sit well with her.
She set down her forsythiacolored carryon and looked around.
“Is it because it’s a weekday? It’s quiet.”
She had impulsively left home.
She was helpless. Kim Ji An.
The first time she visited Jeju was with her dad on the day of her middle school graduation, and the second time was with So Min and Yu Jin, just before her university graduation.
No matter how much Ha Joon scolded her for having no fear despite being so defenseless, it was a trip she couldn’t forget.
“Why is Yoon Ha Joon here again? I told him to disappear from my life.”
Separate from Mrs. Yeon Woo, she couldn’t help but be angry with Ha Joon.
Having passed through the gate and gotten on the shuttle bus, Ji An thought about making a call but then shook her head.
“Ah, damn it. Hey! Parasites don’t behave like that.”
Feeling the cold breeze of the runway, she quickly put her phone back into her pocket.
Once seated in the airplane, she pulled out a book.
[The Ugly Duckling]The ugly duckling.
It was a book she had purchased from the gift shop of the Andersen Museum in Odense, Denmark, a few summers ago.
Ji An muttered as she looked at the book.
“I was with Yoon Ha Joon when I bought this.”
It was a forced vacation, where she had pestered Ha Joon to go along, despite knowing how busy he was about to become as a responsible lawyer.
“I deserved to be called a parasite. Dragging such a busy person along.”
Throughout the short flight, the thought that she had never done anything by herself tormented her.
‘Parasite’, that one word made her mind filled with too many thoughts, fighting.
As the plane entered the airspace over Jeju, Ji An’s eyes were filled with the ocean.
The ocean viewed from the sky was enough to evoke a feeling of having come a long way.
“Really, I’ve arrived. I really can’t turn back now.”
The plane, having lowered its altitude, drastically changed direction and descended towards the runway.
Stepping off the boarding bridge, her long hair was blown by the cold wind and her heart was heavy like ashcolored clouds.
“I’ve come this far, there’s nothing I can do. I just have to try what I was going to do. I guess the answers will come then.”
The noise from her scraping carryon quieted as she stopped in front of the rented red compact car.
Having put the carryon in the trunk, Ji An climbed into the driver’s seat and tapped the steering wheel. Her voice, building determination, was solemn.
“I count on you for a month.”
After entering the address into the navigation, she pressed the call button on her phone.
When the call connection tone switched to automated response, she vented her frustration.
I said I would call when I arrived, did you forget?
The night Ji An decided to live in Jeju for a month.
She was captivated by a Jeju native houselike gray fence and quickly proceeded with the reservation and payment.
Her phone immediately rang and the man on the other end of the call confirmed the reservation.
Ms. Kim Ji An? You’ve made a payment for living in Jeju for a month, right?
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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