“I was worried it might be something to do with drugs when you said you needed documents.”
“Ha, what kind of image do I have to you, Choi Mi Joo?”
Ignoring his question, Mi Joo expressed her relief.
“I was a bit anxious when I started, but as I got closer to this house, all sorts of thoughts crossed my mind.”
“Like what, besides drugs?”
Si Yoon, looking astonished, heard Mi Joo’s slightly apologetic response.
“I was worried if you had done something big, like issues with immigration or visas.”
Si Yoon put his hand to his forehead. Where would this woman’s imagination go if left unchecked?
And why was Si Yoon increasingly curious and interested in her? He couldn’t understand it himself.
“I’ve been worried a lot lately, so I thought maybe you were too. I overreacted.”
Si Yoon was curious about Mi Joo’s concerns but suppressed his curiosity.
He then leaned his head back against the sofa headrest.
Mi Joo, who had been sitting upright, also leaned back into the sofa, seeming more relaxed.
“You didn’t seem like someone who would do strange things.”
Si Yoon looked at her with lowered eyes, his head tilted back.
“Do I look proper to you? Earlier you thought I was a drug user. And I’m not proper.”
“Really?”
“About to tell you a crooked story.”
Mi Joo tensed up again, sitting up straight on the sofa, slightly biting her lip.
“I’m done with my studies and research, and I need to go back to Korea soon.”
“Oh, you studied?”
‘What does she really think of me? I want to mess up that hair of hers.’
“And then?”
“Before I leave, I need a marriage certificate.”
“Ah, right. You said you needed a marriage certificate.”
“And I need a bride too.”
Si Yoon tried to bring the conversation to the main point, but Mi Joo waved her hands in protest.
“No, that’s not possible. In our state, same-sex marriage isn’t allowed….”
“Wait a minute.”
Si Yoon pondered whether to clear up Mi Joo’s misunderstanding. But seeing her stubbornly hold onto it, he didn’t feel like clarifying it right now.
‘I’ll clear up that misunderstanding myself later.’
Si Yoon temporarily concealed the truth and took out Mi Joo’s business card from the pocket of his robe.
“You said you would do anything. I’m not asking you to sleep with me, just need someone to play the role of a bride.”
Indeed, whether real or fake, a male bride would shock his family, so Mi Joo became quite serious.
“So, you mean a sham marriage?”
“It’s something like that. We don’t need to maintain a direct marital relationship, but I need someone to prove to my family that we are legally married.”
However, Mi Joo had never done such a thing before. She didn’t know whom to introduce, and there was no one suitable for such a task in her circle.
“What should I do? I don’t know many people.”
“I would like you, Choi Mi Joo, to do it.”
“…….”
The silence was broken by Si Yoon.
“Of course, I understand it’s a strange offer.”
“An offer?”
“Or should we call it a deal?”
Mi Joo lightly slapped her cheeks, as if trying to snap out of it, and opened her eyes wide.
“Whether it’s a deal or an offer, it’s not something I can do.”
Taking advantage of Mi Joo’s confusion, Si Yoon continued.
“Think of it as a contract where both parties are equal. There’s a lot that Choi Mi Joo can gain from this agreement.”
“No, that’s enough. There’s no point in hearing more if I’m not going to do it anyway. I’m sorry, but I cannot take up the task you’ve requested, Kim Si Yoon.”
Si Yoon swept back his damp hair. As his hair fell back onto his forehead, despite his shocking words, Mi Joo still saw him as beautiful.
‘Ah, why would such a handsome man like men and be troubled by this.’
Mi Joo looked at him with a pitiful gaze.
Marriage had been a longstanding issue for Si Yoon, but for Mi Joo, it was too sudden a proposal to persuade her.
And he couldn’t just ask her to leave after she declined, not having lived as a frivolous person to anyone.
Especially since he genuinely had curiosity and interest in Mi Joo, he didn’t want to retract his proposal.
“Did my words sound like a joke to you?”
“Yes.”
Mi Joo glanced around the luxurious interior connected to the garden and swimming pool.
“It feels bad to think that a person who lacks nothing is just bored and playing around, setting up people to fool them.”
Mi Joo put her notebook and pencil in her bag and stood up.
“Sit down. I still have things to say.”
“No, there’s nothing more to hear.”
Si Yoon reached out and grabbed Mi Joo’s wrist.
“If you leave like this, I’ll really end up as you said, a bored man who fooled a woman for fun.”
“…….”
“Shouldn’t I at least have a chance to explain myself, to give my excuses or tell the truth?”
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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