I didn’t care much for a flashy relationship, and my dream was just to meet a regular guy and get married in a normal way. Cinderella stories don’t go down well these days. I don’t even dream, because it’s quite offputting from the getgo.
For a moment, the woman’s eyes met mine. The woman, who looked up and down at Seo Woo as if she was strange, quickly got on the bus that had just arrived.
Boowoong. After the bus left, Seo Woo realized she had been staring hard at a stranger whom she didn’t even know and felt a sense of selfloathing. Her mental state was certainly not normal.
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Hotel.
Cha Woong had been uneasy since Tae Min Hyuk told him to come to the hotel in the morning. Why was that, what did he want to talk about?
From the moment he suddenly ran up to the restaurant yesterday, Tae Min Hyuk seemed to have something else on his mind. Even so, he didn’t think it was about a relationship.
“Phew. So you’re interested in Ms. Eun Seo Woo. You don’t even know about her.”
“Is that a problem?”
Tae Min Hyuk, deeply sunk into the sofa and sitting crosslegged, asked as if it was no big deal.
His eyes were so cold and emotionless that they seemed to be dripping ice. His languid voice contrasted with Cha Woong’s impatient voice.
“Ah, so it’s not a problem?”
Tae Min Hyuk showed a mobile phone with a file on it.
Inside it was the story of Eun Seo Woo’s life.
“Kim Min Joo. At the age of three, she was left in an orphanage, adopted and then abandoned several times until she was adopted by her current parents at the age of six. Then, at twelve, her adoptive father left the world due to business failure, and she lived a difficult life due to the suddenly impoverished family situation. Her current family relationship is with her adoptive mother and twin younger brothers.”
Tae Min Hyuk could recite it line by line, as if he had all her details input into his head.
“She had a GPA of 4.3 while doing various parttime jobs, and although she was recommended to go to graduate school, she decided to find a job due to her circumstances. At that time, her adoptive mother’s health was not good, so she applied to the reception team, which has more definite commuting hours compared to other departments.”
She might have had dreams of her own, but it was evident that the journey of her life had not been smooth.
“Her first year as a regular employee in our company’s reception team was competitive, but she got in with excellent grades. Currently, she is working three jobs, translating parttime without letting the company know, and has a weekend cafe job that she has been doing since her college days and continues to do so. The cafe job will end next week.”
“Huff……”
He seemed like an AI, effortlessly vomiting information about Eun Seo Woo.
“Can you know her better than this?”
Han Cha Woong spoke in a regretful voice.
“There’s something missing.”
“What is it.”
“…… Emotions.”
Tae Min Hyuk tilted his head slightly. His face was questioning, really?
As if he expected this, Han Cha Woong took a deep breath and explained patiently.
“Brother, you can’t just date. You need feelings. You should consider Eun Seo Woo’s feelings too.”
“‘Feelings’.”
“Put yourself in her shoes. She must have been baffled and dumbfounded when you suddenly asked her out……”
At that moment, Han Cha Woong paused. He had forgotten that the concept of ‘putting oneself in someone else’s shoes’ did not work with Tae Min Hyuk. He had to explain it in a different way.
“Okay, yes. David Kim found his daughter before he died, and her boyfriend is you? There can’t be a more surprising connection than this. Being lovers is a stronger bond than being a boss and employee. Fine. Then, brother, honestly tell Eun Seo Woo and make a contract, a contract. Propose terms and negotiate, that’s your area of expertise.”
“Do you think David Kim wouldn’t be able to distinguish between real and fake?”
Tae Min Hyuk seemed to have made up his mind. Moreover, his logic silenced Han Cha Woong.
“And to a person who still doesn’t know the existence of her biological father, would it be acceptable for me to say, ‘I have investigated your background, and I would like you to cooperate’?”
“……”
“What would Kim Min Joo gain from that.”
Tae Min Hyuk’s gaze was frightfully cold. Considering the pros and cons was far easier for him than understanding ’emotions’.
“Mutual winwin is the basic principle. If I want something from Kim Min Joo and have to approach her for that, Kim Min Joo should also gain something through me.”
After staring blankly at him for a while, Han Cha Woong shook his head hard.
“Ah, I almost got persuaded. Get it together.”
“I don’t need to persuade you.”
Tae Min Hyuk’s unwavering expression was as chilling as the wind that bit into the skin.
“So, what does Miss Eun Seo Woo gain from you?”
“She likes me.”
“Good for her if she likes you, ……what, likes? Who? ……Eun Seo Woo? Likes you?”
Cha Woong opened his mouth in surprise, then nodded as if coming to his senses.
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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