The resolve quickly turned into action.
Having driven for about an hour, Ji An arrived at a rest stop and suggested they have lunch at the restaurant.
“Why aren’t you eating?”
Kang Hyun merely gazed at the ordered food, not picking up his chopsticks.
“Just eat, don’t mind me.”
Seeing Kang Hyun continuously emptying his glass of water, Ji An placed a piece of rolled omelet on top of his rice.
“Eat, driving isn’t easy, you know.”
“Thanks.”
Finally, Kang Hyun picked up his chopsticks, cut the omelet in half, and ate it.
“Tastes good.”
Observing his extended fingers and neat chopstick skills, which resembled him, Ji An continued adding side dishes to ensure he kept eating.
Kang Hyun looked unusually flustered but ate the offered food, which reassured her a bit.
“Oh? It’s snowing.”
While buying two bottles of sparkling water and heading back to the car, they noticed sporadic snowflakes. It was a belated first snow.
“There wasn’t a forecast for snow.”
While Ji An seemed purely happy, Kang Hyun, who wore a smartwatch specially for long drives, frowned, checking it.
Until yesterday, there was no forecast of snow, but it continued into the late night, though the accumulation wasn’t much.
Anyway, if he had known it would snow, he wouldn’t have driven a sedan that easily slips.
Kang Hyun grimaced, looking at the cloud-covered sun.
“It’s unfortunate we’re heading to a region with heavy snowfall.”
“Director Kang, this is the first snow, right?”
“Probably.”
Ji An softly exclaimed, smiling brightly and tilting her head back.
Was it because she was with Kang Hyun? This year’s snow felt different.
“Get in, you’ll catch a cold.”
Watching Ji An’s cheeks starting to redden, Kang Hyun opened the passenger door.
“Just a moment.”
“Okay.”
Kang Hyun didn’t urge her a second time and took a blanket from the passenger seat, draping it over Ji An’s shoulders.
In the past, he would have forcefully made her sit in the car, all under the pathetic excuse of doing it for Seo Yoon.
He chuckled softly to himself.
“Why are you laughing?”
Ji An, who had been joyfully watching the floating snow, turned her head, puzzled.
“Indeed, why am I laughing for doing something right?”
A small snowflake settled on Ji An’s eyelashes, which were quickly brushed away by Kang Hyun’s hand, moving very slowly. Or at least, it felt very slow.
Ji An breathed out a small breath, which had momentarily stopped, only after the warmth of his presence receded.
“It was just some snow on you.”
Wanting to hide her undoubtedly blushed face, Ji An looked down at her feet, then slowly raised her head, following his gaze.
Her gaze ascended from Kang Hyun’s black shoes, black pants, and black coat, finally resting on his palm, suspended in mid-air.
His large hand covered her head like an umbrella, shielding her from the fluttering snow, if only a little.
“Why make your hand cold for this?”
“It’s fine.”
Ji An took out her warm hands, clasped together with a hot pack in her pocket, and firmly grabbed his chilly right hand, pulling it down.
“Look, I knew this would happen. It’s cold.”
Pouting her lips, Ji An grumbled. As warm as her palm was, Kang Hyun’s hand was equally cold.
“You should always keep your hands and feet warm. Why did you only take care of mine with a hot pack?”
“If you hold it like this, it’s enough.”
“What?”
Her neatly aligned eyebrows shot up towards her forehead in surprise.
“If you hold it, it’s enough.”
Kang Hyun reaffirmed with clear enunciation, making Ji An doubt her ears.
Lost for words, Ji An closed her gaping mouth and looked up at him in a daze.
Kang Hyun didn’t avoid her gaze and lowered his heavy eyes.
His calm demeanor, while toying with her feelings in every direction, felt slightly annoying.
Who says such things to a secretary? To the twin of a deceased lover?
Her face, now flushed to the tips of her ears, released Kang Hyun’s hand from her limp grasp.
Kang Hyun, whose hand had briefly warmed, returned it above Ji An’s head to create a hand umbrella.
His extended fingers had reddened.
His nose tip and ears, too, had turned red from the cold wind.
The gradually thickening snow wetted his coat in spots, turning it a darker shade, and his neatly combed hair began to dampen.
“The wind makes it impossible. Wait in the car for a bit; I’ll buy you an umbrella. Let’s watch with an umbrella.”
His cautious hands were busy wiping off the snow that kept landing on Ji An.
“Huh?”
What’s the big deal with this trivial snow?
Watching Kang Hyun fuss over the melting snowflakes as if they were causing a major problem, Ji An bit her lip.
An indescribable feeling overwhelmed her, contorting her face.
“If you don’t like it, it’s okay to stay like this.”
Kang Hyun, who had been busy attending to her, quickly changed his words, causing her heart to feel tight and her eyes to well up.
Suddenly, it all felt so strange.
Whether he liked her or not. It wasn’t a matter of giving assurance.
Her stomach churned as if she were standing on solid ground yet feeling seasick.
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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