Kim Jun. Jun-ah, is it really you?
Driven by the certainty that it was Jun, I turned my head roughly. The dimly lit street, untouched by the streetlight, was blindly searched with my gaze. In the dark emptiness, Jun’s figure gradually regained its outline, faintly emerging.
Jun-ah… It’s really Kim Jun. How did you come? When did you come? You should have told me in advance…
Words I couldn’t voice were trapped in my throat. The unreal sense of joy of seeing Jun, as welcoming as it was, was blocked by a poignant surrealism.
Regret for the intentional indifference I had shown to not scrutinize Jun’s pain, which had lingered since the noon of today. From that noon until now, thinking about Jun alone should have been burdensome.
At least, I should have given myself that much time to turn a blind eye to Jun’s pain.
But now, Jun was standing in front of me like a lie.
A mixture of joy and an impossibility to feel joy. Wanting to embrace you, but unable to run to you willingly. Such ambiguous moments existed between us.
Then suddenly, I felt that I shouldn’t let this moment pass like this. Jun only looked at me and showed no intention of approaching me first.
It didn’t take long for restlessness to unravel all the complexities of my thoughts.
I cautiously took a step forward. One step, narrowing the distance to where Jun was standing. Since there had been much hesitation in the first step, the next step was easier.
Thus, in that moment when I was gradually closing the distance between Jun and me.
“Don’t come closer.”
The foot that had slightly lifted from the ground lost its direction and withdrew back vacantly. A confused gaze was directed at Jun. It seemed like he had just told me not to come closer. Despite clearly hearing the words, an instinct to give room for interpretation pushed my steps further back.
Jun seemed to see through my small confusion.
“Don’t come closer.”
A firm statement that didn’t want to give any room for interpretation scattered harshly across my chest. Despite that, my blank gaze managed to capture Jun without losing its focus.
“Shall I say it again? I can say it as many times as needed.”
That’s when it happened. In the dimly lit distance, Jun’s face, which had become clearer, began to emerge more distinctly.
“Ha… Jun-ah…”
I covered my mouth with my hand and exhaled trembling breath.
Jun was crying. How long had he been crying here exactly? Tears, held in the reddened eyes, were falling incessantly.
Just looking at that sight made my eyes warm, and my chest started to tremble as if it were about to burst. Unconsciously, I took another step forward that I couldn’t take a moment ago. However.
“Iha Ru. I told you. Don’t come closer.”
“No, I… because you were crying. I missed you so much. So…”
Jun exhaled a damp sigh soaked in tears and began to stare at me. Unlike the summer temperature filling the air right now, his gaze was chilling.
“I missed you…….”
Probing my recent words, Jun, trembling, captured the shaken sight of me. I felt like I needed to say something. However, I couldn’t figure out what to say. I held my breath. It felt like I was going to get dizzy.
Amidst the scattered words like a puzzle, while hesitating without finding the right words, Jun filled the silence.
“I really didn’t intend to speak. I tried to keep it inside and endure somehow.”
“……. ”
“Well, that’s true. Because I chose to do so. Because I wanted to. But you, why haven’t you tried to find out even once in a day?”
“What… do you mean?”
“I have to tell you again, right? You’ve always been like this.”
“But do you know? It’s so hard, because if I die, I can’t see you, so I endured, holding onto that. Even if I wanted to see you, I couldn’t, and waiting never ended. Because I wanted to meet you again somehow, so I crumbled and repeated the days of collapsing and getting up for those 9 years. Why have you never been curious even once about those 9 years?”
Painful words flowed incessantly between the spoken words. More painful words filled with resentment.
The 9 years of time I wasn’t with Jun. Jun’s time during that period when he had to walk through his pain alone.
Jun resented me. Not only did he let me walk through that time alone, but he also felt that I didn’t take any responsibility during that time. He poured in the emotions he had been suppressing and squeezing for years.
Jun still seemed like his vehement tears might be swallowed up. Jun wiped his face with one hand, but it only spread the already shed tears wider. It was indistinguishable whether he was standing or enduring.
In the end, Jun’s figure began to blur in the rising tears.
Jun… It’s not that I wasn’t curious.
Honestly, I was afraid. Afraid to look into that time. Even now, just by looking at the movie poster you took, tears well up, and whenever you unexpectedly mention our memories, my heart aches.
So, I was afraid. I was too afraid to look into that time. I was really too afraid…
At that moment, seemingly unable to wait for my hesitation any longer, Jun opened his mouth.
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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