“I know.”
Hyunseung sighed as he hung up with Minsuk. Thinking about his mother, Minsuk, he felt a mix of melancholy and suffocation because of the constant pressure she put on him.
From the moment he was born, perhaps his life was predetermined. There was never any time to take it slow. His life was always a rush, having to walk faster than others, learn things faster than his peers, and even study high school-level subjects that were incomprehensible since elementary school.
The reason was one and only one: to make his mother, Minsuk, smile.
However, Hyunseung couldn’t satisfy Minsuk. He always lagged behind in every aspect compared to the benchmark, Kang Hyun.
“Hyunseung, if it doesn’t work, we can just take it all away,” Minsuk would say this like a song.
“Yeah, we can just take it all away.” Hyunseung’s lips twisted.
Last year, Hyunseung joined Woosung Construction’s headquarters as an assistant manager in the strategic planning team.
Last year, Hyunseung joined Woosung Construction’s headquarters as an assistant manager in the strategic planning team.
Woosung Construction, known for its transparent talent recruitment, caused quite a stir when they placed the owner’s son, who was in his twenties and had no twenty years of experience, as an assistant manager in the key department, the strategic planning team, right after returning from studying abroad. However, Chairman Cha didn’t budge.
Hyunseung always behaved modestly in front of Chairman Cha, as his mother, Minsuk, instructed him. That seemed to touch Chairman Cha’s soft spot, and he became a kind father figure to Hyunseung.
But Chairman Cha’s kindness had its limits. He was simply a well-behaved, somewhat awkward illegitimate son, nothing more.
Hyunseung was well aware of where Chairman Cha’s heart was wandering.
Since they were similar in age, they were always compared to each other. Kang Hyun was superior to him in every way, to the extent that he was hopeless.
Because of that hopeless guy, they had never truly straightened things out and lived a day without rivalry.
Once, at a gathering where Minsuk and Chairman Cha attended as partners, Kang Hyun, who was a high school student at the time, appeared and tried to serve wine to Minsuk, but she chased him away.
Minsook, who had returned home, had suffered shame in front of people, and Hyunseung saw her wrapping her head and lying in bed, groaning for several days.
“Damn it! I’ll take everything away,” he muttered.
He had been trying his hardest to beat Kang Hyun. But in reality, he didn’t have confidence in winning.
Hyunseung was exhausted now. For several years, he had been plagued by anxiety, restlessness, and insomnia, and now he no longer listened to any medicine.
Then, he began to touch other medications little by little. However, the problem was the cost. There was no way Minsook didn’t know that Hyunseung had money hidden away.
It was no longer under control, whether it was an addiction or not. So, in the end, he dipped into the company’s funds.
Thinking he could get away with it because he was the chairman’s son, he conspired with the planning office employees to embezzle funds through fraudulent accounting.
“Damn, they’ll find out.”
For several days, his hands trembled as he couldn’t get the drugs. With shaking hands, Hyunseung made a call. As soon as the signal went through, the other party answered.
[Dash]Hey, it’s been a while.“The drugs?”
[Dash]Money?“I called because I have it. You bastard!”
In response to Hyunseung’s curse, the other party chuckled. With trembling hands, Hyunseung hastily grabbed his coat and left the house.
“He’s even messing with drugs.”
Kang Hyun stared at the tablet and clicked his tongue.
“Pitiful.”
He wondered whether it was recklessness, foolishness, or perhaps a combination of both that led to someone being so unprepared.
“Chae Min Suk, your son is paying the price for what you’ve done.”
He even felt sorry for Min Suk, who was trying to seduce these board members with her son, considering this kind of son she had.
“Poor thing.”
There are people who truly deserve pity.
Kang Hyun first saw Chae Min Suk when he was about 12 years old.
After finishing school and returning home, Chae Min Suk was sitting there like a ghost with heavy makeup, while her sick mother was trembling and unable to say a word. Chae Min Suk, upon seeing her mother in such a state, chuckled.
The look in Min Suk’s eyes as she gazed down at her mother was pure contempt, as if she were looking at dirty insects.
During this time, Kang Hyun, not able to take it anymore, rushed in, tore the photos into shreds, and threw them on her face. This woman had sent photos to her mother, and she was also the woman who had given birth to a half-sibling with her father.
Daringly barging in and insulting her mother, the young Kang Hyun thought that this wasn’t an ordinary audacious woman.
“I’ll taste hell soon.”
Kang Hyun got up from his seat.
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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