Maybe…… has Sunwoo ever been to her house? If not, has he at least come this far?
Various thoughts came to mind, and even the idea that Sunwoo might have met Lahjin when she was meeting with me crossed his mind.
“…No.”
Jehun immediately lifted his head. Lahjin is not that kind of person. That, he could be sure of.
He wanted to believe that her sincere and diligent appearance, which he had seen so far, was not a lie.
At that moment, Lahjin, wearing a large cardigan, appeared at the building entrance. She unbuckled the safety belt and got out of the car.
“Director, what brings you here?”
Today wasn’t a meeting day, and seeing Lahjin’s expression, he felt his heart boil again.
“I’m on my way after meeting Sunwoo.”
“Sunwoo oppa?”
Without any preamble, she immediately brought up the main topic.
“Have you ever talked about our contract?”
Jehun closely observed her expression. In a moment, her enlarged pupils returned to normal, and a bit of strength was put into her calmly closed lips.
She lowered her head in that state.
“Sorry.”
The strength drained from her body.
“…Ha.”
“I misspoke during our conversation.”
Were Sunwoo’s words entirely true?
“But I didn’t talk about the contract.”
He narrowed his eyes.
“What does that mean?”
“Mr. Sunwoo and I… just said that we are not just a boss and an employee and that we will return to the way it was soon.”
“It will return to the way it was.”
He pondered Lahjin’s words and slowly blinked his eyes containing her.
“You said that to Sunwoo. To Sunwoo.”
The guilt of being caught by Sunwoo for not hiding her emotions blocked Lahjin’s mouth.
Jehun, who had been staring at her like that, finally opened his mouth at the end of the long silence.
“There’s one thing I want to ask.”
“…….?”
“Has Sunwoo ever come to this house?”
Unconsciously, Lahjin’s pupils shook.
‘Did Sunwoo oppa talk to the director that day?’
About what happened between Sunwoo and me.
Sunwoo said it was okay, but it would definitely look strange to others.”
Sunwoo insisted that everything was fine, but it was clear that it would seem like a strange relationship to others.
A daughter who greeted her mother with a smile but inflicted wounds with words, and a daughter who, while treating her mother politely, stood coldly with her shoulders squared.
The conversation they had when he scouted me as his secretary came to mind.
“Why do you want to choose me?”
“Because you’re someone who doesn’t have false expectations of me.”
“False expectations?”
“Because you don’t giggle at me, it’s good that you’re not noisy.”
“Ah.”
“And also… Ah, yes. Because you seem to have received good family education.”
“Family education?”
“Because it seems like you grew up in a harmonious family, well-mannered. My grandfather always said that. Even if you have abilities, if the foundation is wrong, it will crumble someday. You seem to endure well with resilience.”
He didn’t want to be exposed to Jehun as much as to himself. He wanted to appear as someone who learned good manners in a harmonious home.
So, no matter how difficult it was, he never mentioned any minor flaws about his family.
But… Did they find out?
“……”
In Lahjin’s silence, he let out a faint bitter laugh. Her shoulders twitched.
It seemed like she found out after all. That he wasn’t loved at home.
That the image he had been thinking of himself was a lie.
“Yeah, I got it.”
At Jehun’s words, Lahjin’s chest crumbled. She didn’t want to be exposed like this.
“Go in.”
“…Director.”
She barely opened her mouth to call him.
“Ah. Remember that I’ll bring the bed.”
Having finished speaking, Jehun turned around without regrets and headed for the car he had parked for a moment.
“It’s the 8th-floor auditorium. The entire Sales and Marketing departments are waiting.”
“Understood.”
Jehun, having turned off the monitor screen, rolled up his sleeves on his jacket and stepped outside. Lahjin followed him without a word.
Yoonhee, who was waiting by the desk outside the office, also stood alongside Lahjin as they headed towards the meeting room.
“How’s the marketing proposal?”
“The 5th revision is complete.”
In response to Yoonhee’s whisper, Lahjin nodded slightly while looking ahead.
It should please Director Lee.
Lahjin watched his back as he walked ahead.
It had been two weeks and two days since they decided not to have private conversations.
During that time, the schedule of going to Jehun’s house on the designated day remained unchanged.
However, unlike before, they both stayed in their respective studies until it was time to sleep, then went to their separate beds in the master bedroom. Occasionally, they looked at the ceiling, but mostly they turned their backs to each other.
Due to the chilled atmosphere, her heart ached, but she couldn’t bring herself to start a conversation with him.
“Ugh.”
At that moment, Lahjin clasped her chest area with her palm.
“Director, are you okay?”
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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