“A tour of the school. Ah, I also want to be your university junior. I mean… But do I have to be your school junior? Can’t I just be a doctor’s junior?”
Hyun Woo chuckled at Sori’s pure questions, as if worried about making a promise she couldn’t keep.
“If you’re done eating, let’s go. I’ll show you around the school.”
Sori walked around the campus with him in the cool September breeze.
She achieved the feat of receiving his inkstained fountain pen and spare lab gown as gifts.
And that day, as soon as she returned home, she stood in front of the mirror wearing a large white robe. The robe had a faint scent of the soap that had been coming off Hyun Woo all day.
Throughout the day, a fever blush spread on Sori’s face.
In the place where her confusion retreated, one person began to fill.
It was not a university where she should have gone when the time was right, but she wanted to go to medical school soon.
She wanted to become a doctor like him.
In this way, Seo Hyun Woo gained an absolute advantage in her heart from that day onward.
First love, puppy love, unrequited love. Any of these words would be a joy to attach.
‘But why am I so fluttered?’
She thought she wouldn’t be nervous to meet him again, since quite a bit of time had passed.
That was a huge mistake.
Soon after, Hyun Woo came in carrying a medicine box.
Upon seeing Sori standing in front of the sink as ordered, he let out a short sigh.
All she had to do was raise her hand, it wasn’t some icebreaker game.
“Stay seated.”
“Ah, that’s…”
The moment she came face to face with Hyun Woo, she became a fool.
The entire situation was so sudden that Sori’s body was creaking like a malfunctioning machine.
“Come here.”
“Yes.”
He said as he put the medicine box on the marble table. His somewhat languid voice sank to the bottom with a unique weight.
With no countermeasures, Sori sat across from him, hiding her throbbing heart.
But the large marble table was too far to treat face to face.
He quietly got up and pulled out the chair next to Sori and sat down.
Ah, she made another mistake. She should have sat next to him.
She was pathetic, all tensed up.
‘Please come quickly, Ji Woo.’
If Ji Woo was there, it would be less awkward. Was he brewing alcohol in the basement?
“Give me your hand.”
“Ah… yes.”
Responding like a student caught daydreaming during class, she extended her left hand to him.
After removing the soaked handkerchief, he began to carefully examine her hand, his expression crumpling.
Sori stole glances at Hyun Woo’s face.
‘He is still handsome and shining.’
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that Seo Hyun Woo’s appearance stood out more than the beautiful actor, Seo Ji Woo.
But Sori liked his strong inner self, which surpassed his appearance, more.
Since before, it seemed like she could overcome anything if he was by her side.
It was strange.
It was comforting that he, who was not familiar or affectionate, simply existed.
Living with a mother who couldn’t help but be swayed by her surroundings, she had been relying on him internally.
She thought it was a feeling that could not be explained by simply saying that she liked him.
It felt like there were no words in the world that could accurately express her feelings.
Even after knowing him for a long time, Sori was extremely nervous being next to him.
She wanted to say something, but it felt like her head was completely empty.
“When you were young, you always hurt your knee. You still get injured.”
“Ah, back then you always treated me.”
“Now you don’t fall as much?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
It doesn’t seem like it?
His gaze that glanced at Sori was saying just that.
Sori nonchalantly scratched her cheek.
“But now you don’t run away.”
“Huh? Ah……”
As a kid, Sori often hurt her knee falling while playing with Jiwu.
The treatment for her knee was too painful for her young heart, and he, being firm, was too scary.
So she would try to run out of the main gate, but she was caught by him more than once or twice.
Thinking about those immature times, Sori felt embarrassed for no reason.
“You remember everything.”
“A kid who said she’d go home alone without fear, I can’t forget.”
Feeling like she had returned to her young days when she could hardly use the term “brother”, Sori couldn’t say anything.
Her eyes, which had been glancing at Hyunwoo, were now fixed on her wound.
Back then, was Sori really only scared of Hyunwoo? Why did she run away like a fool?
Sori tended to remember most of the old times clearly, but she couldn’t remember what she felt back then.
Because she was too young then.
However, she remembered that every time he treated her, her cheeks burned more than her painful knee.
Just like now.
But the problem, if it was a problem, was that she knew very well that it was not because she was simply scared of him now.
‘Get a grip, Yu Sori.’
He was not an entity that could dare to expect trivial feelings of love.
Moreover, he was the older brother of her closest friend, and soon to be her professor.
Seo Hyunwoo was someone she wanted to look at and follow for as long as possible.
So Sori defined her old feelings for him as admiration.
Whatever her feelings for him now, she planned to keep them a secret and cherish them as memories.
After composing herself, Sori calmly spoke to Hyunwoo, who was still bleeding.
“I think it would be better to put a bandage on it right away……”
He furrowed his brows deeply and clicked his tongue.
Having removed the thickly applied gauze instead of a handkerchief, blood still flowed from the finger.
“Why isn’t the bleeding stopping.”
“……”
Sori, seeing the blood still not ceasing, was also a little bewildered.
“You haven’t been eating properly, have you?”
“No, that’s not it……”
Somehow his firm tone of voice, as if he saw right through her, was somewhat intimidating.
While struggling as an intern, the luxury of taking care of meals was nearly unattainable. It was merely instinctive energy intake for survival.
His gaze, as if it was all too clear, briefly brushed past Sori’s cheek.
Then, he neatly wiped the spilled blood with a tissue and thickly spread several sheets of tissue on the table.
“It’s going to hurt a lot. Bear with it a little.”
“……Yes.”
Her hand held by him seemed delicate, and the cold disinfectant was about to touch the wound. Tense for several reasons, Sori swallowed dry saliva.
He held the injured finger over the tissue and generously poured the transparent disinfectant. The treatment was rough, yet his touch was tender and soft.
“Uh……”
With the sting of pain, Sori bit her lips even harder, enduring the pain. As the pain intensified, she turned her head completely the other way.
Suddenly then, the tip of the throbbing finger became warm.
It was a warmth similar to the breath he blew on a wounded knee in her childhood.
The acute pain subsided rapidly.
She was afraid that her composed mindset might fly away in the wind.
PK (Polyclinic: clinical practice)
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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