So-ri had to clench her tender lips to avoid crying.
She forced herself to appear calm, but her trembling lips betrayed her effort.
“Please give me some time. Director.”
Even though it was time to go home, So-ri was heading back to Imperial Hospital.
In the midst of her heavy and complicated thoughts, she wanted to see Hyunwoo.
Baek Sun-hwa deliberately revealed her illness to separate me and Hyunwoo.
When she was called separately to the chairman’s office and heard those words, she already realized it.
Even so, until that moment, her heart had never wavered.
Mom and Hyunwoo, who shared a secret unknown to me, seemed cruel, but I knew it was for my sake.
But now, after confirming Mom’s condition at the hospital and accurately learning the truth I was worried about from Gukhwan…
Overcoming it together seemed simple, but it wasn’t such an easy problem.
Overcoming it together meant burdening him with a load.
Isn’t that too selfish?
Now, my mind was swaying without coming to a conclusion on what to do.
I don’t know how I arrived at the hospital in what state of mind, but when she raised her head, she was in the emergency room of Imperial Hospital.
The inside of the emergency room was unusually chaotic.
Outside the hospital, the ambulance was still blaring loudly, and the sound of crying filled the emergency room.
It seemed like someone had rushed in with a patient.
A white sheet covered the bed, and people crowded around it.
In So-ri’s dazed eyes, those scenes looked like scattered pieces of a puzzle.
The sound of crying gradually grew louder, then suddenly, as if muted, it subsided. And an inexplicable murmur spread out as if to fill the void.
The sound came from the people around the bed. It seemed like they were offering condolences or prayers.
As if in dilemma, alone, Gitaek, who seemed unable to stop it or leave it as it is, and So-ri’s eyes met unexpectedly.
Reflected Gitaek approached So-ri.
“Weren’t you off work?”
“I went out for a moment and then realized I had something to do, so I came back. What’s going on?”
“Don’t go inside. It’s scary. I think ghosts might come out.”
“Why?”
“I don’t know what kind of cult it is.”
The two stood side by side in front of the emergency room gate, looking inside.
“A cult?”
“A few hours ago, when a patient was brought in alone, Professor Seo barely managed to revive him with CPR. The husband who arrived late this time didn’t agree to hospitalization or surgery until the end.”
“So?”
“Forcibly, the husband who had taken his wife home came with those people this time. They didn’t let anyone touch his wife’s body. They waited for her to stop breathing, covered the patient’s head with a cloth, and suddenly came to me to get a death certificate. I was terrified at that moment. It was incredible.”
“Is there such a guardian in the world? Unbelievable.”
At that moment, a man ran in from outside the emergency room gate.
As Gitaek and So-ri watched, the man, who seemed to have no business inside, rushed into the emergency room and frighteningly approached the bed where the deceased patient lay.
“Oh, what do we do!”
So-ri, watching him, was shocked and covered her lips with both hands.
The man who grabbed the neck of the husband of the deceased and ruthlessly pushed him against the wall.
It was none other than Seo Hyun-woo, distorted by nothing but rage.
The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
