He didn’t need to open it to know what was inside.
“What are you trying to do with this?”
“Aren’t you going to open it?”
“No matter how much is in there, you cannot buy me.”
“Oh my. Buy you? For what purpose would I use Mr. Choi Jae Yoon?”
“What then?”
With a smile still on her face, Baek Sa Ra opened the envelope and showed him.
Enjoying his startled expression at the amount on the check was a bonus.
“Would you consider it a proposal? My older brother runs a large entertainment business in Seoul. It’s been expanding lately and he needs a lot of employees. How about it? I think Mr. Choi Jae Yoon would be a perfect fit.”
“I’ve never done that kind of work before, and I’m not capable of it.”
“You can learn the job over time.”
“Regardless, I have no intention of leaving the island. If I did, I would have left already.”
“Hmm~. A man without ambition.”
Even in the face of a firm refusal, she didn’t withdraw the envelope, but lifted her cup of coffee and took a gulp.
Then she changed the subject.
Even this man who had been coolly indifferent until now, wouldn’t have been free with this topic.
“Seems like you don’t want to see the child, Wooju?”
Seeing Jae Yoon flinch, she seized the moment to press harder.
“You’ve been caring for him as your own for 5 years, aren’t you upset that he’s completely forgotten about you and is happily living with his wealthy real father?”
“…He’ll be back soon. He promised.”
“A promise? Ha ha.”
Jae Yoon looked at her nervously as she laughed aloud.
She became more blatant in mocking him and raised the level of provocation.
“Mr. Choi Jae Yoon. You’re unexpectedly naive. You believe what he said? They probably won’t come back.”
“…”
“A quiet life on an island and a flashy, comfortable city life. Even a child would calculate which one is better for them. Plus, Mr. Kwon Chae Ha is not just rich, he’s a chaebol, a chaebol.”
“Seol Won is not a woman who would fall for such things.”
“Hahaha. Is this truly innocence, or just ignorance? I can’t tell.”
As her speech became more and more impudent, Jae Yoon clenched his fist tightly and abruptly stood up from his seat.
“I need to get back to work. There’s a lot to do on the island. Please take this money back.”
Instead of stopping him, she still casually looked up at him.
Then she smiled subtly.
“My number is on my business card, contact me if you change your mind.”
“There won’t be a reason for that.”
“People’s actions and feelings are unpredictable, Mr. Choi Jae Yoon. Thanks for the coffee. I am also busy, so I’ll wrap up here for today.”
As she finished speaking, she stood up from her seat and left the cafe before Jae Yoon.
As soon as she disappeared from his sight, Jae Yoon let out a sigh that he had been holding back.
He had already known about her existence, having heard about her in passing from Seol Won.
He felt sorry for Seol Won, who always hid her wounds and never opened up, so he even investigated it himself.
One clear fact was that both she and Kwon Chae Ha belonged to a completely different class from him.
They were the kind of people whose names alone brought up countless information on the internet.
‘They probably won’t come back.’
The words filled with certainty from Baeksara lingered heavily in his ears like an echo.
As he took steps again towards his home, Jaeyoon recalled the time about 5 years ago when he first met Seolwon.
When she appeared on this island as a halfdead refugee.
Ironically, Jaeyoon felt as if he had learned the meaning of life because of her.
Min Seolwon, it was for her and her child that I was on this island.
He had thought exactly like that back then. Seolwon was his destiny.
Of course, he never expressed such feelings to Seolwon.
He knew well that it would be a sin to gloss over her horrific tragedy as destiny.
So, he silently watched over Seolwon like a shadow.
After Seolwon gave birth to Woojoo, he strived to become a sturdy fence for Woojoo too, living only with that thought.
When the deep void in Seolwon’s eyes disappears one day, then I decided to confess my feelings to her.
“Sigh……”
Contrary to his confident reply to Baeksara, a question whether they would really come back surged like a ripple on the water in his heart.
If they don’t come back just like this, even before I could confess.
If I have to send Seolwon, so helplessly, back to the man who hurt her.
If I can’t meet the pure, innocent eyes of Woojoo, who used to call me “Dad”……
His heart felt so tight it could burst.
Jaeyoon hurriedly took out his phone and checked what he had noted down a while ago.
It was the name of the daycare center Woojoo started attending, which he had heard while talking to Woojoo.
Two days later, in front of the “Leaves Daycare Center”.
Between the children who were being dismissed, a round head popped out like a dwarf.
Woojoo, with his chubby cheeks, was exchanging greetings with the teacher with a radiant smile.
A faint smile spread on Jaeyoon’s lips at the sight of Woojoo, who was as lovely as ever.
After deciding to trust and wait, in the end, he came looking like this.
Jaeyoon had no intention of doing as the woman named Baeksara wanted, so he was just planning to watch the child from afar and leave.
But there was a strange point.
Naturally, he thought Seolwon would come to pick up Woojoo, but he couldn’t see her.
“Do they send them home in groups with a daycare bus?”
Mumbling to himself, Jaeyoon fixed his gaze on Woojoo.
Knowing how precious Woojoo was to Seolwon, he found it all the more puzzling.
Because she was so worried about not being able to protect the child properly even when she was leaving for Seoul.
Then, it happened.
A luxurious black sedan smoothly pulled up in front of the daycare.
Shortly after, the car door opened, and a man got out.
It was a face that Jaeyoon knew all too well, having recently met him.
“Kwon Chae Ha……”
Even from a man’s perspective, his appearance, dressed in a charcoal grey suit, was impressive.
Unbeknownst to him, while his gaze was momentarily snatched away, Woojoo’s bright voice echoed loudly.
“Dad, King Size!”
Then, with a pure face overflowing with joy, Woojoo dashed towards him.
The moment he saw Woojoo jumping into the broad arms of Kwon Chae Ha, embracing him.
A strange emotion, one he had never felt before, surged in the middle of Jaeyoon’s chest.
It was jealousy.
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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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