She entered breathlessly and quickly explained Lee’s situation.
Taehong made a quick call to Lee. The call ended with Taehong having to handle the trip himself. His face was full of concern.
“Assistant Manager Jung.”
Her shoulders tensed at his low voice. Once caught in his gaze, there was no looking away.
“Make a choice.”
He stood with his hands clasped, decision already made. The trip couldn’t be postponed just because Lee couldn’t go. It was a schedule set months ago, and there was an important party involved in the trip.
“As you know, Manager Lee might not be able to accompany me on the trip.”
“Yes.”
“I can’t go alone. Someone must accompany me.”
Haegin swallowed hard, sensing what the choice implied.
“If Assistant Manager Jung doesn’t go, then Manager Kim Yeonjeong will have to accompany me.”
At the mention of Kim Yeonjeong, Haegin’s brows furrowed. So, if she doesn’t go, Kim Yeonjeong will.
The thought of Taehong and Yeonjeong together in the car, having a merry time, was also unpleasant.
“Make a decision. Are you going on the trip?”
The decision seemed already made. But why did she feel so averse to the idea of them together?
“I will go.”
Putting aside the reason for her decision, Haegin answered without hesitation. Taehong’s lips briefly curled into a smile but quickly disappeared. He checked the time.
“It’s a bit early, but let’s leave now.”
“Now?”
The trip was to the countryside, but it was too early to leave now.
“Aren’t you going to pack?”
Ah, packing. It was her first business trip in a long while, and she hadn’t thought about that.
Taehong explained the situation to the team. Despite some concerns, he arranged for Haegin to handle things in his absence.
Haegin drove first to her home. It felt like she was on her way home from work, but this was just the start of her business trip.
Haegin’s eyes were fixed on the calendar. She was counting the dates with her finger, looking quite serious, making Byungsoo stop in his tracks as he passed by.
“Assistant Manager Jeong, what are you doing with the calendar?”
“Ah?”
Haegin, still clutching the calendar, looked up at Byungsoo. He peeked at the calendar she was staring at and noticed a big heart drawn on a particular date.
“A heart? Is it your birthday?”
Assuming it was an important date marked on the calendar, Byungsoo casually asked.
“It’s not my birthday.”
Haegin leaned forward towards Byungsoo, looking around cautiously as if she was about to share a secret.
“It’s payday.”
She whispered, resembling someone guilty of a crime. She probably worried about being perceived as a parachutist eagerly waiting for payday.
“Your first payday?”
Byungsoo nodded understandingly with a kind smile.
“So, it’s almost been a month since Assistant Manager Jeong joined? Time flies.”
Lost in thought, Byungsoo continued.
“I remember when I got my first salary, I bought thermal underwear for my parents.”
Haegin’s eyes wandered aimlessly as Byungsoo reminisced about the past. She briefly remembered going to a Japanese restaurant with her parents and insisting on paying when she worked at Sion.
“What are you planning to do with your first salary?”
Byungsoo asked, to which Haegin was about to indulge in happy thoughts when Taehong, passing by, added his comment.
“If you get your first salary, you should buy a meal for your superior, right? Isn’t that right, Assistant Manager Jeong?”
Haegin’s social smile and flattery vanished at the mention of money. She turned serious and quickly changed the subject to work.
“Manager, you are going on a business trip with Manager Lee, right?”
She focused on work, diverting attention from the payday discussion.
It was the day Taehong was leaving for his business trip. His suitcase was already packed in the trunk. Haegin felt unusually light-hearted on her way to work.
“Are you in a good mood?”
Haegin hummed a tune while driving, clearly in high spirits.
“A good thing? Going to work is my pleasure.”
Her newfound sense of duty surfaced, looking forward to a week of blissful quasi-vacation. She still had to send real-time backup data to Taehong, even in his absence.
“Really? The person paying your salary would be happy to hear that.”
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.”
_____
Please help me, I want to bring you the best possible things.
If you find any chapter or novel with poor translation and editing quality, let me know by commenting directly under that novel or chapter. I will retranslate it as soon as possible.
[Touch the gear icon in the bottom right corner of the screen to move to the next chapter if you want.]
