“Nowhere. I’ll just take a taxi.”
“Medicine?”
“I had an IV during lunch break.”
Silence followed Nurse Jung’s substitute answer. Taegyu, who had been lost in thought for a moment, took a step towards Nalim, and in an instant, his hand moved towards her.
Startled, Nalim recoiled, but his hand had already covered her forehead. When flustered Nalim brushed off Taegyu’s hand, he immediately turned towards the emergency exit.
“Wait here for a moment. I’ll get the car keys.”
“No, I really—”
“What’s the big deal? I can do this much. Among colleagues.”
“…….”
“No, right, Nurse?”
Eunjae listened to the sound of water coming from the bathroom and took out an envelope hidden in a drawer. After a long sigh, he pulled out a piece of paper tightly clenched in the envelope.
A document that began with the name “Marriage Contract.”
Just a single sheet of paper.
This single sheet of paper had turned us, who were nothing, into a married couple, capturing weaknesses and being captured in return. Ultimately, it even led to love.
Although it was the same document, it seemed to be read a little differently now due to the changed circumstances. Back then, the contract that symbolized a beginning was now indicating an end.
Wife Eunjae, Husband Yoon Seonwoo.
Eunjae, who had traced the names side by side with his thumb, clenched his fist.
The titles that used to feel unfamiliar had now become somewhat accustomed. Back then, just hearing the words ‘wife’ or ‘husband’ would make my face blush, and it felt strange. Unlike back then, now that I was your wife, being your husband, it felt overwhelming and thrilling.
Now, those words seemed to pierce the heart.
It hurt. Now, it’s not a wife and husband, but Eunjae and Yoon Seonwoo that we have to go back to.
Eunjae’s fingers, moving slowly downward, stopped.
Article 5.
This contract takes effect as soon as Party A affixes the seal, and the term is one year from the date of acceptance of the contract.
It was an eye-catching phrase, whether then or now. I didn’t know until I signed here. I didn’t know that you and I would come to love each other so much.
Then, laughing while looking at the clauses full of violations. No, it felt like tears. The carefully written clauses were utterly useless.
“The contract period is not even halfway filled.”
Still, I have to leave.
Before it’s too late, before the remaining attachments catch my ankles, before I become happier, before my love for you deepens more than yesterday.
Thoughts that were branching out in various directions abruptly stopped, along with the sound of water.
Sniff, wiping away tears flowing down the bridge of the nose and cheeks. In the silence that had settled, the unusually loud sound of a heartbeat echoed like the beat of a drum.
In the brief pause for breath, Seonwoo, dressed in pajama pants, walked out of the bathroom. Perhaps because of the injured arm, the nightgown draped over his shoulder, having been hastily removed, revealed the dislocated shoulder. Eunjae’s worried gaze naturally turned towards Seonwoo’s right arm.
“Wash up.”
Hair that wasn’t fully dried, and water droplets flowing down onto the chest, vividly showed how hastily he had come out.
Without looking back and intending to leave the room, Eunjae’s voice scattered behind him.
“We signed a lease for a house.”
Stopping in his tracks, he turned around with a furrowed brow. When their eyes met, a chilly gaze fell on his face. Unable to meet eyes, he lowered his gaze. Looking down at my restless bare feet, he continued speaking.
“It’s a newly built one-room. Although it’s small, it’s enough for Mom and me. It gets good sunlight, and the water works well. It’s not in the basement either.”
“I told you, you can’t leave. Why do you think I assigned a driver to you? I’ve been monitoring your movements since then.”
“…….”
“It’s too late. Just sleep.”
As if indicating not to talk anymore, Eunjae grabbed Seonwoo’s arm, which he was trying to pass by, again. He thrust the contract in front of Seonwoo’s eyes. Seonwoo’s eyes, checking the contract, narrowed sharply.
“Why this…”
As Seonwoo tried to snatch the contract, Eunjae quickly hid the contract behind his back, raising his head to stare at Seonwoo.
“You said that to me back then. After finishing the work, you’d release me before the contract ends.”
“So?”
“I hope you keep your promise.”
Seonwoo’s head tilted slightly.
“Divorce, please. As you mentioned before, I’d be more thankful if you could file a nullity suit.”
“Divorce?”
A mysterious smile played on his lips.
“I knew. Someone was surveilling me through the driver. If Seonwoo stops me like this, I won’t be able to leave this house. So, I’m asking you to let me go.”
“The only person who was surveilling you wasn’t just the driver, right?”
“…….”
“You still don’t know me.”
He still held onto that. Seonwoo chuckled inexplicably into the empty air.
“You didn’t trust me. From then until now.”
“…….”
“I did. I said the contract had no favorable terms for you.”
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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