Having finished the last scheduled operation, Hyun Woo, feeling the stiffness in his shoulders, exited the operating room’s gate.
As always, brain tumor surgery required full concentration.
A mother waiting outside the operation room approached Hyun Woo.
“Excuse me, doctor.”
“The operation went well. Fortunately, the location was not bad, and we removed all visible tumors.”
“Oh, thank you, doctor. Thank you.”
The elderly mother, who had been anxiously waiting, teared up.
“The patient will soon be in the recovery room.”
“Please, doctors, have this. I intended to give it to you when you were out.”
The mother, who had been waiting for just a word that the surgery went well, handed out vitamin drinks in a white bag to the doctors.
Hyun Woo received the bottle held in her wrinkled hand. It was warm from how tightly she must have been holding it.
Staring at the bottle in his hand, Hyun Woo remembered the call he had with his father just before the operation, in front of Jong Woo and Eun Seok.
“Even if you’re busy, stop by the hospital for a bit. We need to discuss something important.”
“Can’t you tell me over the phone? Is it about Ji Woo?”
“Don’t say that, come and talk.”
“I have to go into surgery now.”
“Stop by today no matter what. I’ll wait without going home until you arrive.”
After his mother passed away, all of young Hyun Woo’s anger was directed at his father.
His resentment was expressed in his own rebellion, and his authoritative father often had to raise his voice against him.
Such behavior, continually shown to Ji Woo, was also laughable to his father and older brother.
Avoiding confrontation with his father, Hyun Woo had been living on his own for a long time.
For him to be specifically called to his father’s hospital was unusual.
‘I wonder if something happened.’
Had he really grown older? Compared to when he once strongly resisted his father, he seemed to have mellowed a lot.
Considering that he didn’t brush off his father’s words about waiting, it seemed to weigh on his mind.
“Dr. Kang, make sure to monitor the patient’s awakening well.”
“Yes, don’t worry, professor.”
As Hyun Woo thought he should stop by Seo Han Hospital and was on his way from the operation room to the research lab, he casually looked back at the dialysis room of the nephrology department and spotted a familiar woman.
The mature woman, with her graceful demeanor, took out her cell phone from her handbag.
‘Isn’t that Sori’s mother?’
Hyun Woo recognized Su Hyang at a glance, a woman who often came to his house to pick up Sori, who had been playing with Ji Woo since childhood.
As Su Hyang operated her cell phone and slowly walked towards Hyun Woo.
“Hello.”
“Huh?”
As Hyun Woo passed Su Hyang and greeted her politely, she was taken aback by the unexpected attention.
However, the radiant doctor in surgical attire was Seo Hyun Woo, and she too recognized him and smiled brightly.
“Oh my. Is that you, Hyun Woo?”
“Hello, ma’am.”
“Ah, you were a doctor here. Why did I think you were a patient? No, I mean. Our Hyun Woo is still shining.”
For some reason, Soo Hyang looked a bit out of it.
“Thank you. But what brings you here?”
“Eh? Me? I’m here because a friend of mine is hospitalized.”
“Oh, I see. If you’re about to leave, shall I escort you?”
“Oh my. No, I drove here.”
“I see. Please take care on your way.”
Soo Hyang, watching Hyun Woo bow politely, had a big smile on her face, as if she was seeing her daughter’s boyfriend.
Then, for a moment, an anxious expression crossed her face.
“Listen, don’t tell anyone that you saw me here. Not Ji Woo, not Sori.”
“I understand.”
“No one, absolutely no one. Promise me.”
“Yes, don’t worry.”
Soo Hyang was also an actress. A youth star from the 1980s, she was still actively working as a midlevel actress.
Knowing that her younger sister, Ji Woo, was also a celebrity and being worried about her private life being exposed, Hyun Woo naturally understood in that context.
“I’ll go first. Take care.”
Soo Hyang hurriedly left the hospital. Hyun Woo watched her retreating figure for a while, tilting his head.
It didn’t add up that she came to visit a friend and then came out of the dialysis room.
Well, she must have been lost for a moment.
An unexpected encounter had delayed him a bit.
He hurried back to the lab and prepared to leave.
Hyun Woo, accustomed to the routine, parked his car in the underground parking lot of Seohan Hospital and took the elevator.
As it was close to evening, more and more people boarded the elevator at the hospital ward.
Was it due to his instinctual aversion?
Whenever he came to Seohan Hospital, he parked his car far from the director’s office.
It felt more familiar for him to go through the ward, pass through the corridor connected to the ground, and cross to the annex.
His brisk stride came to a sudden halt.
Because someone who looked like Yu Sori had just walked past in the distance.
‘I must have seen wrong.’
Male lead fell into her trap — and shattered when she walked away
This is also on my reread list!
This one is a slow burn, but when it burns, it burns hard.
Definitely worth a read, y’all!
The story follows a thousand-year-old seductive spirit who, on a bet, sets out to charm the male lead—a once-promising but unfortunate cultivator.
But just when she succeeds in making him fall for her, she heartlessly leaves, driving him to madness.
Determined to find her at all costs, he captures her, keeping her by his side no matter what, even if she hates him.
I love this kind of trope—I enjoy watching the male lead suffer in agony.
The ending drags a bit with unnecessary filler, but that’s fine.
As long as I enjoy the beginning, I’m good.
Intro
As an enchantress, Su Heng possesses captivating eyes and charming beauty, easily manipulating the joys and sorrows of living beings at her fingertips.
But to enchant a god, making him taste the bitterness of love’s separation, long-lasting resentment, unattainable desires, and inability to let go…
Do you dare?
Su Heng assists a divine lord in his cultivation, aiming to make him experience all the sufferings of love, so that he can attain the Great Dao.
Only after being chased down from the heavens by the divine lord, confined and completely possessed by him, does she realize how successful she has been.
The once gentle and polite youth has transformed into someone she no longer recognizes.
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