Early morning.
Yeonju was busy in the kitchen.
As a savory smell filled the kitchen, Yeonju opened the lid of the pot. Inside was a pot full of seaweed soup, carefully prepared.
Yeonju ladled the soup into a thermal lunch box. While letting it cool a bit inside, she finished getting ready to leave.
She wore a neat dress and black coat, and wrapped a scarf around her. It was because the weather had suddenly become much colder.
Having finished all her preparations to go out, Yeonju returned to the kitchen and closed the lunch box. She put the lunch box, containing seaweed soup, rice, and side dishes, into her bag. Holding the bag, Yeonju stepped out of the house.
Outside, the fierce wind was shaking the branches.
Yeonju greeted the waiting driver and got into the car.
“Please take me to the hospital.”
Today was Mihyeon’s birthday. Every year on Mihyeon’s birthday, Yeonju would prepare seaweed soup like today and visit her.
She knew that Mihyeon couldn’t eat the soup she prepared. She knew she wouldn’t hear words of gratitude.
Still, she couldn’t just pass by. Who else would take care of her birthday if not herself?
After Mihyeon’s accident, the people who had visited gradually disappeared after a month. Even Daehan stopped visiting after finding a new girlfriend.
Mihyeon’s birthday wouldn’t change anything. Mihyeon, who grew up without parents, had only Yeonju to care for her lonely birthdays.
There was about 10 minutes left to reach the hospital through the congested roads.
“Rrrrr, Rrrrrr.”
Feeling the vibrating sound from her phone, Yeonju checked the caller. It was a call from Aeran.
As soon as Yeonju saw the caller’s name, her head began to ache. It was obvious she was going to ask about pregnancy or preach.
Yeonju recalled what Jinyook had said the night before.
“It’s the marriage you chose, the path you chose. If you don’t want to ruin this path, endure it even if it’s hard.”
“That’s your duty as my wife now.”
Accepting her mother-in-law’s lamentations was also her duty.
With a resigned expression, Yeonju answered the phone.
“Yes, Mother.”
[Where are you now?]“On my way to the hospital.”
[Come to our house right now.]Aeran’s voice was unusually sharp. Yeonju replied with a slightly startled face.
“I’m going to visit my mother at the hospital for her birthday today, then I’ll stop by….”
[Can’t you hear me telling you to come right now?]The sharp voice pierced her ears.
[Birthday or whatever, come here right now!]Then the call ended. Aeran seemed to be in a bad mood, though Yeonju didn’t know why.
Yeonju looked through the car window at the approaching hospital and then, with a bitter expression, said to the driver.
“Mr. Park, let’s go to the main house in Cheongdam-dong first, instead of the hospital.”
“Ah, yes. I’ll go there.”
The car made a U-turn and started driving in the opposite direction. A sense of unease overwhelmed her. Yeonju tightly clutched the still-warm lunch bag.
Yeonju got out of the car on a road lined with luxurious mansions.
She walked towards the most striking mansion. It was Jinyook’s family home where Aeran lived.
Standing in front of the house, she rang the doorbell, and the front door immediately opened. Yeonju first greeted the housemaid she met.
“Hello.”
“Come in. The madam is waiting for you.”
Yeonju followed the housemaid to the living room. The atmosphere inside the house seemed somehow dark. Amidst a heavy tension, Yeonju found Aeran sitting on the living room sofa.
“Mother, I’m here.”
Aeran didn’t even pretend to look at Yeonju. With a cold expression, she spoke to the housemaid.
“Ma’am, please leave us.”
“……Yes, I understand.”
The housemaid bowed her head and left.
In the stark air of the house, only Yeonju and Aeran remained.
“Mother, what brings you here…….”
Aeran threw a handful of papers onto the table. Yeonju’s gaze fell to the scattered papers.
“!”
Her large eyes shook violently. The papers were Yeonju’s medical records from the hospital, specifically about her difficulty in getting pregnant.
Aeran, trembling, asked.
“Is this true?”
“Mother, I…….”
“Just tell me if it’s true or not!”
The sharp outcry seemed to tear through the eardrums.
“……It’s true.”
At that moment, Aeran stood up abruptly and slapped Yeonju’s cheek fiercely.
Slap!!
With a loud frictional sound, Yeonju’s face turned sharply to the side. One cheek swelled up red.
“Despicable thing!”
Aeran’s face twisted in anger.
“You’ve been hiding this important fact?! Knowing full well how long I’ve been waiting, you’ve been deceiving me?!”
Her furious outcry continued.
“How shameless and conscienceless must you be to do such a thing?!!!”
Aeran’s body trembled violently. It was the first time Yeonju had seen her collapse like this. The betrayal and sorrow that Aeran must have felt were palpably felt, and Yeonju’s eyes moistened.
There was nothing to say. Any words now would be just an excuse. She could only bow her head in apology.
“I’m…… I’m sorry, Mother.”
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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