Professor Lee Myeongseop’s explanation of the theory about memories didn’t linger in Ji An’s mind; it flowed out through one ear. Leaving Hajun behind, who held both hands tightly, Ji An followed Professor Lee through the curtain, revealing a completely different dim space from the examination room.
“Don’t be too nervous.”
Sitting in a beige recliner, Ji An stretched out her legs and leaned back as comfortably as possible. The subtle lighting didn’t bother Ji An.
“Childhood memories may appear first, or the last memory might be revealed. It’s also possible that nothing will be seen at all.”
Professor Lee Myeongseop was quite talkative. Ji An didn’t know if he usually set the atmosphere like this.
Will this really be effective? What if memories don’t appear even with hypnosis?
Listening to Professor Lee’s stories, Ji An closed her eyes tightly, trying to clear her mind of complicated thoughts.
How much time had passed?
After a clear ringing sound passed, the gentle voice gradually diminished and became faint.
The moment that felt like falling asleep arrived.
Conscious yet with limbs relaxing as if sinking deep into somewhere, Ji An experienced a sensation.
She wanted to say her head felt heavy, but her mouth wouldn’t open.
And suddenly, her previously obscured sight brightened.
“Where are you going?”
A cheerful voice that couldn’t come out of Ji An’s throat flowed. It was so awkward that laughter burst out.
In front of her were a girl who looked like a kindergarten student and a young woman who appeared after the girl called for her mother.
“Mom’s here to pick you up. Now we can live together. Right, Mom?”
After the girl called her mother, a young woman holding the child’s hand appeared.
“Pei…”
A gust of wind passed through the open gap.
Watching the girl holding her mother’s hand move away from the orphanage, Ji An lightly tapped the ground with the toe of her sneakers.
Suddenly, she thought her sneakers were too dirty.
Not as much as those sneakers, but a black-stained cuff covered the back of her hand and stretched out, touching her palm.
The dress, mismatched with the body size, had a hem that loosely brushed against her ankles.
Playing with the loose sleeve, she absentmindedly walked on the dirt road, thinking of the familiar wooden bench.
Arriving at the sturdy wooden bench with brisk steps, she saw a stranger, a man, sitting there, looking bigger than the oldest brother in the orphanage.
Hiding the dirty cuff behind her back, she climbed onto the bench, slightly taller than her height.
Just as she was feeling bored and looking for someone to talk to, the man, who had been briefly staring at her, quickly averted his gaze.
“Hello.”
No response to the greeting.
Although the man didn’t show any reaction, he continued talking.
“You came to bring gifts to our orphanage, right? When big people like you visit, we can eat delicious food and choose pretty new clothes. That’s how it works, you know.”
Staring at the distant red building, Ji An murmured incessantly, voicing whatever came to mind. She didn’t know if she might start crying at any moment, even if it meant closing her mouth for a short while, thinking futilely that it would be good if her mother came to pick her up.
The man didn’t seem to be paying attention to her story, but she didn’t want to be left alone, so she spoke earnestly. Fortunately, the man seemed unwilling to leave.
“My friend went home with her mom. She’s the only one my age.”
With a gust of wind against her dry cheek, she rolled her feet, now detached from the ground.
“We could have had chicken or pizza, but unfortunately, we just missed it today. I envy when moms come.”
Until then, Ji An hadn’t heard the man’s voice.
“I don’t have a mom. Or a dad. The director has been taking care of me since I was a baby.”
Only then did the man’s gaze seem to linger above her head.
“The dress is too long. What’s your name, Oppa? I’m Han Seo Yoon.”
“Seo Yoon, do you know where this is?”
At the moment of introducing the names, a piercing ringing echoed in Ji An’s ears. The world that had momentarily flashed turned briefly dark, then transformed back into light.
“Yoon Ah.”
“Oppa!”
The brother she had seen on the bench and a much older, imposing adult were right in front of her.
“Hello, Chairman.”
Under the warm gaze, Ji An felt incredibly good, as if walking on clouds.
Smiling as kindly as possible, the chairman twitched his eyebrows, and her brother quickly reached out, suggesting they should go home.
“Han Seo Yoon.”
When she firmly held the large hand without hesitation, the authoritative low tone echoed multiple times.
“Aack!”
Immediately after, a shocking impact that shook her body, as if colliding with something rough, made Ji An stand up abruptly.
“It’s okay, Ms. Ji An. You’re safe no matter what you saw.”
“Ah…”
It was Han Seo Yoon again.
The relentlessly persistent name felt terribly dreadful, so Ji An wrapped her head in her arms and sobbed for a while.
“Ji An!”
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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