“It’s clearly not a real pumpkin but a model.”
“Still looks like a pumpkin, doesn’t it? Did I ever say to bring a ‘real pumpkin’?”
Letting out a sigh of disbelief, Jae Heon retorted.
“Ha. Why do you pull pranks like this? Act your age.”
“Age and innocence are unrelated. If my heart is young, then my life is youthful. Anyway, put that on the table over there and go.”
Yeon Sil sometimes acted in incomprehensible ways.
Grumbling, Jae Heon placed the pumpkin model on the table Yeon Sil pointed to.
“Miss, even if the director is a bit clumsy and sometimes upsets you, please bear with him. He’s not a bad guy.”
“I heard that.”
“Good. It was meant to be heard.”
“And what’s there for me to be clumsy about? If someone else upset her, then they did. I never would.”
Yeon Sil clicked her tongue.
“Sigh, that pride of his. Don’t let it hurt you too much.”
When Jae Heon chuckled at that, Yeon Sil said to Ra Jin,
“Don’t let him off too easily. Not until he’s down on his knees begging. You’ll be right in the end.”
“Ah, okay…”
At Ra Jin’s response, Jae Heon’s eye twitched.
“Did you just respond with ‘okay’?”
“You must have misheard.”
“I have sharp ears, you know.”
“It’s noisy, and please leave. I’m closing the shop early today.”
After Yeon Sil’s statement, the two left the store.
“I’ll come again, director.”
“Of course. You’re always welcome. Just come alone, without him.”
As Ra Jin gave a light laugh at that, Jae Heon looked at her with a displeased expression.
“Take care on your way.”
“Thank you for the meal.”
“…I’ll come again. Together.”
Emphasizing the word ‘together’, Jae Heon walked to the car with Ra Jin.
Watching their retreating figures, Yeon Sil clicked her tongue.
“Since he was young, he hated showing his feelings. Now, he’s practically dripping with them.”
She could even become a beekeeper at this rate.
After watching the car leave the parking lot, Yeon Sil adjusted her collar and tilted her head.
‘Still can’t clearly see the gender due to all the space travel. I wonder if it will become clearer soon.’
“Is that so?”
As the car merged onto the road, Jae Heon abruptly uttered, prompting Ra Jin to turn her head.
“What do you mean?”
“About coming without me.”
“Oh.”
“Oh?”
At a signal stop, Jae Heon looked at Ra Jin.
“Did the director say anything strange about me?”
“Have I ever acted strangely?”
He scrunched up his face as he responded.
“What? I would never.”
“Then why did you think that?”
“Why do you think so?”
“I sense an oddly intimate atmosphere between us. You’re not one to let people in easily. I think I read in a book that badmouthing someone else is one of the fastest ways to get close.”
The peculiar sense of closeness that flowed between them definitely wasn’t present before he went to get the pumpkin model.
“I don’t speak ill of Director Seo Jae Heon behind his back.”
“That’s because you do it upfront.”
“By the way, I wasn’t referring to Jae Heon just now, so no penalty.”
Seeing Ra Jin diligently keeping score in the midst of all this almost made him unwittingly smile.
Jae Heon, barely managing to keep a straight face, nodded.
“Alright.”
“In that case, don’t harbor such unnecessary misunderstandings. Also…”
“Also? When have I ever had another unnecessary misunderstanding?”
“You always ask if I go to lunch with another man when Director Seo Jae Heon is not around, don’t you?”
Well…
Finding himself without a retort, Jae Heon cleared his throat for no reason.
“…I did apologize for that. With all my heart.”
“Don’t say things like that from now on. It upsets me.”
She must have been truly hurt. Seeing the bitterness on Ra Jin’s face, Jae Heon felt a pang in his chest.
He never wanted her to wear that expression.
Now that he looked, Ra Jin was much more suited to smiling.
“I apologize again. I’m sorry.”
Should he speak? After much contemplation, Jae Heon finally threw out his words.
“Isn’t it strange if I felt okay with my woman being with another man?”
Ah… So that was the reason?
So, it’s… jealousy?
His ears reddened slightly under her gaze.
“Anyway, I misunderstood, and I want to apologize.”
Jae Heon reached out, covering the neatly folded hands of Ra Jin.
“Sincerely.”
His eyes, which seemed to be trying to pierce through to her very soul, grew deeply sincere.
“Will you accept?”
Ra Jin’s fidgeting hands subtly grasped one of his fingers in response.
“Do you remember what I said earlier?”
“What… did you say?”
“That reconciliation between lovers isn’t done with words.”
After parking in the garage.
Upon entering through the door connecting the inside, Jae Heon immediately wrapped his arm around Ra Jin’s waist, pulling her close.
“Jae Heon…!”
His hot lips brushed softly, then separated from her flushed ones with a faint sound.
Their foreheads touching, Jae Heon whispered warmly.
“Let’s reconcile, Ra Jin.”
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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