“…What?”
The moment Arin heard Jiyoon’s words, her heart sank heavily.
“Flower shape?”
It can’t be.
It couldn’t be Jaehyuk.
There was no reason for him to be there late at night.
Since childhood, Jaehyuk had a red mark on his wrist from hot water poured by a maid’s mistake.
It looked like a flower.
“Arin, are you listening to me?”
Arin, who realized that the person who saved her was Jaehyuk, was confused.
‘Why in the world? How could my brother have been there that night? Could it be that he knows? Does he know that there was a child between us?’
“Arin?”
“Jiyoon, sorry. Director Han is coming back.”
[Oh, are you with Director Han?]“Yeah, at the park now.”
[Okay. We’ll talk later.]“Sorry, Jiyoon.”
[It’s okay. Don’t worry and have a good time.]After ending the somewhat perplexing call with Jiyoon, Arin looked at Director Han with a bewildered gaze.
“Director.”
“Yes.”
“Did Mr. Ban Jaehyuk ever take me to the hospital?”
Director Han’s pupils shook roughly at Arin’s question.
Could he tell Arin what he knew? Was it okay to say the words Jaehyuk asked him to keep a secret for a lifetime?
‘I can’t predict how Madam will react if she knows.’
Director Han once again pondered whether he had the qualification to tell Arin how much Jaehyuk desired her, missed her, and loved her.
Arin patiently waited for Director Han’s answer. As the silence prolonged, her frustration grew.
“Is it difficult for you to tell me?”
“It’s a bit difficult, but…”
Although she could have asked directly, somehow it seemed like he wouldn’t give her a proper answer.
And, above all, if she talked about it at that moment, she felt like she would hear him say ‘I’m sorry.’
‘I don’t want to hear “I’m sorry” anymore.’
That’s right. It wasn’t because she was worried that Jaehyuk wouldn’t honestly answer her question but because she didn’t want to see his apologetic face anymore.
“Before I give you an answer, I have one thing to ask.”
“Yes. Please go ahead.”
Stretching out his legs and crossing them, Director Han continued.
“Did Madam ask this question to Vice Chairman’s right-hand man, or did she ask her close brother?”
“What does that mean?”
“Is this question for me as the secretary-general, or is it for the person she considers her closest brother?”
As Director Han began to speak, Arin turned her head to look him in the eye.
“If you say both, wouldn’t it be too ambiguous? I can’t specify whether Mr. Ban Jaehyuk sees you as the secretary-general or as the dearest friend. He is too important to Mr. Jaehyuk, being both the secretary-general and the closest friend, so I can’t say exactly which one.”
After a short hesitation, Arin gave her answer.
As she answered, Director Han felt a pang in the back of his head.
“No. You’re correct. Please give the answer you desire.”
Arin nodded, swallowing her saliva without realizing it.
Somehow, it seemed like Director Han’s expression softened when he looked at me.
“Vice Chairman went to Director Seo’s hometown right after Madam handed over the divorce papers. However, he couldn’t appear right away because there was a reason.”
“A reason?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“What reason?”
The gaze that collided in the air seemed to contain hidden feelings.
There was a swirling premonition that I shouldn’t enter, as if knowing something.
“Just as Madam said, on the day she stood by the night sea, Vice Chairman was also in the same place.”
Jiyoon’s words were correct.
“At that time, Vice Chairman was the one who took Madam to the hospital.”
Arin’s heart sank.
To think that Jaehyuk was at the place where she had tried to let go of life, swallowing the sadness of parting with the child.
If that’s the case, does he also know?
Trembling with two arms she tried to hide, she asked.
“…Do you, by any chance, also know? What happened to me.”
Director Han nodded slightly with a shaky gaze.
‘He knew…? Jaehyuk knew?’
It was confusing. Once again, her heart sank completely.
Director Han handed her a handkerchief and excused himself from the seat.
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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