The voice added a bit more certainty. When he turned his head, a clear face full of mischief was floating. She seemed excited; perhaps they didn’t argue about the recipe today.
Swoosh Even the sound of slippers was warm. On the table were rice cake soup and a few side dishes of herbs. The bright yellow laver on the savory white rice cake soup looked adorable. It looked like a winter-blooming forsythia, or a chick playing in the snowy field. It felt familiar.
Gratefully sitting down, stirring the rice cake soup, the lingering question kept coming back. The question was finally resolved when he put the rice cake soup in his mouth and raised his head.
Under the flower bud cushions on both cheeks, a forsythia gazing brightly this way. A chick wearing white attire. Just a person in front of me. Can it taste bad when I’m anticipating like this?
“It’s really delicious.”
“Well, you say it so nicely.”
Only then did the flower that had descended from the flower bud gently smile brightly.
The two of them enjoyed simple dishes together. Hye-yoon thought Jiho ate a lot, as much as his height and physique, and Jiho felt that Hye-yoon chewed her food bit by bit.
“Wow, you’ve finished already? Should I give you more? I have some left.”
“Yeah.”
Jiho, who had emptied a bowl compared to Hye-yoon, who had only eaten half, understood both of their thoughts and feelings. Watching her prepare for another serving of rice cake soup, Jiho subtly expressed his intention. The words that he would eat one more bowl seemed to bring happiness to her.
“What are you doing next Friday? It’s the last episode. How about watching it together?”
“Wow, sounds good. I don’t have any plans right now.”
The returning footsteps and the answer were both refreshing. Jiho gazed at the new rice cake soup placed in front of him. On top of it were cute laver chicks that seemed to sing sweet songs.
“Then, let’s watch the last episode that day and… want to see the sea I know?”
And his eyes turned to the real chicks. Hye-yoon, who was picking up vegetables with chopsticks, was looking this way. A faint smile appeared on Jiho’s face.
“It might not be as beautiful as the Busan sea. It’s a real sea for fishing. It might not be a tourist destination, and there might not be good hotels around…”
The voice was as calm as the faint smile. So Hye-yoon cut through that calm heart. Cut, snatch it away, and left a fresh answer in its place.
“How about an inn if not a hotel? Guesthouses are good too, and if it doesn’t work out, you can sleep in the car. I’m really looking forward to it!”
Cheep-cheep. Cheep-cheep. She intentionally raised her voice high like an excited child.
‘I didn’t know the sea I know was like this.’
‘Jiho, what was the sea you know like?’
‘It’s really rough, dark. Everyone struggles to survive every day… Well, that’s how it was.’
Jiho remembered that his sea was not such a beautiful place.
‘So, it’s a bit worrisome.’
‘…What?’
‘Your sea, like the one the writer sees, is like this, and the sea I see is different.’
Showing the sea meant showing his world, and he probably knew that it was an invitation to show more.
Now Jiho’s suggestion was an invitation to a world that only he knew. That’s why she chirped even more energetically. Of course, Jiho couldn’t be unaware of that consideration. A small gratitude was contained in his gently folded eyes.
“So, let’s watch the last episode together. Since it’s Mokpo, go on Friday and stay for a day or two.”
“Yeah. We can take turns driving.”
“Not that.”
It wasn’t gratitude, nor was it an imminent death. The once lively chicks also quickly became sulky.
Feeling ignored, or perhaps by blocking all the worries, that expression was always there. I keep doing it because that reaction is cute, but I’ll probably never know for a lifetime.
I hope I never find out.
With a mischievous thought, Jiho laughed and lifted his chopsticks.
“Oh, then…”
At that moment, Hye-yoon once again caught Jiho’s attention. Her slightly tilted head was pondering something. Jiho nodded, waiting for the continuation of her words.
“I should do some work until then. It would be nice to finish before going out to play.”
“Yeah. Sure.”
A more ordinary story than expected. Jiho easily agreed and picked up his chopsticks again. Until he swallowed a bite quickly, Hye-yoon didn’t move her chopsticks. It seemed she had more to say. No, it seemed like this was what she really wanted to say.
“But once I start working, I might be a bit busy. I might not contact you as often as now.”
“Why wouldn’t you contact me?”
At the word ‘contact,’ Jiho, too, stopped his chopsticks. His paused movement, along with his focused gaze, froze.
“Well… that’s just how I work. I can ideate anywhere leisurely, but when I’m actually working, I tend to focus.”
“I see…”
Jiho slowly moved his head. There was a subtle disappointment mixed with the indifferent response. Relieved by that answer, Hye-yoon slowly moved her chopsticks again, with a satisfied smile.
And from the next day, Jiho pondered over this indifferent response several times a day.
He mulled it over several times, regretting it hundreds of times.
[Dash] The power is turned off, and after the beep, the sound is restored…“Wow…”
On the fifth day, every time he heard that machine-like sound four times a day, he heard hallucinations.
‘I understand. I shouldn’t disturb.’
In the process, scenes with Hye-yoon’s voice even started appearing in his mind.
‘But once I start working, I might be a bit busy. I might not contact you as often as now.’
‘Why wouldn’t you contact me?’
‘Well… that’s just how I work. I can ideate anywhere leisurely, but when I’m actually working, I tend to focus.’
Every explanation was completely wrong. It wasn’t that the contact wasn’t good; it didn’t happen at all. It wasn’t about focusing; it was about disappearing from the world altogether.
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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