It was already past 4 o’clock, nearing 5. Soo-young realized she had been in the house since 12:30, making it four and a half hours.
The problem was the hand-washed wet clothes. Despite running the small dryer repeatedly, they were still damp. Perhaps it was because she didn’t spin them first.
“Woo-jin, stop running the dryer. The whirring noise is annoying!” Woo-jin complained as he came out of his room. He had forgotten about the dryer’s existence since he usually sent all his laundry to the dry cleaners.
But Soo-young insisted on drying her clothes, “I have to dry them before I can go home! You soaked even my underwear!”
Woo-jin blushed at the mention of underwear, realizing she wasn’t wearing any at the moment. He stuttered awkwardly.
“You’re wearing my clothes, right? Just go home in those.”
“How can I go home like this? I’m wearing your T-shirt like a dress because my pants got wet too.”
“My T-shirt looks like a dress on you? Are you a dwarf?”
Although he said this, Woo-jin couldn’t help but imagine her in that state, which was almost unbearable. To hide his thoughts, he sighed loudly, prompting Soo-young to sigh in response.
“Ah, Woo-jin…”
“Why?”
“I envy you, you know? Not many can speak their mind like you do. You must not have any pent-up frustrations, right?”
“Are you holding back then?”
“Of course! I’m holding back so much!”
To Woo-jin, it seemed like she too spoke her mind, but he slightly feared what more she might say if she didn’t hold back.
“If not having clothes is the issue, buy some online.”
“Will they arrive right away? Even if they come fast, it’ll be tomorrow. Annoying.”
Woo-jin thought about calling Yeon-seo but decided against it, considering she might be busy with the memorial service today. Frustrated, the dryer’s noise seemed even louder.
“Just turn that dryer off already. It’s giving me a headache.”
“And how am I supposed to go home then?”
“Wear it like a dress! Just go like that!”
His blunt remarks left her speechless. “Wow… So easy for you to say… Do you know how sexy I look right now? I can’t take the subway like this!”
Woo-jin struggled to respond, especially when she mentioned being sexy. Overwhelmed, he covered his face with his hand and turned away, bumping his shoulder on the doorframe as he hurried into his room.
Confused by his sudden fluster, Soo-young stared blankly at the closed door. Then her phone rang with an unknown number.
“Hello?”
“Look for the laundry service number. Just send it there,” Woo-jin said from the other side, having called from his room.
“Will they deliver today if I send it now?”
“If not today, then stay over.”
“Stay over?”
“Yeah, you can’t go home, right?”
Startled by the prospect of staying over, possibly even sharing a space with Woo-jin, Soo-young’s heart raced.
“Breathe,” Woo-jin’s soft voice came through the phone, but she was too flustered to respond.
“I am breathing, okay?”
“Just try sending it. Ask them to do it as quickly as possible. And well, if you really have to stay, don’t push yourself.”
“I never said I would…!” Soo-young began, but Woo-jin had already hung up. Staring blankly at her phone, she thought, if she can’t find the number… she has to stay! The idea of being scolded by her mother seemed worth it at this point.
“Where is that number…”
Soo-young started to search for the laundry service number slowly.
It wasn’t due to slowness; there really was no number. She turned off the noisy dryer, took out the wet clothes, and hung them on the balcony, then started searching for the number again. She called all the laundromats listed on Diver but all replied they couldn’t do it today.
Initially, she just accepted their responses, but fearing Woo-jin might think she didn’t try hard enough, she made more calls. Finally, one place asked if they could deliver around 10 PM. She agreed, though a part of her felt empty at the thought. She should not have seen that David statue…
However, the laundromat didn’t show up. She needed to show Woo-jin she tried her best.
As she was about to call them again, Woo-jin entered the kitchen.
“I’m hungry.”
“Huh?”
Soo-young was more surprised by his repeated requests for food than by the fact that it was dinner time.
“What do you want to eat?”
“Gimbap.”
“Huh?”
“Gimbap.”
Lunch’s tteokbokki and gimbap were both menus she had brought before. There were lots of lunchboxes in the fridge, which should be eaten before they spoiled.
“Aren’t you going to eat those lunchboxes? Won’t they go bad?”
“They taste bad. Make gimbap.”
“Make it?”
“Can’t you understand? Make it.”
“I don’t know how to make gimbap. And we don’t have the ingredients, do we?”
“Order it from the mart. The number should be somewhere.”
“You keep saying the number is somewhere, but there’s no number. I had to look it up myself for the laundry service.”
“Really? I saw Seol Ji-hyun order from the mart. They delivered quickly.”
Muttering, Woo-jin turned and left the kitchen. Soo-young rolled her eyes at his broad back.
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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