In the middle of the hospital rooftop.
Sori found herself in a dilemma, seeing Minkook’s excited face, believing they were going to eat tteokbokki.
No matter how she thought about it, her promise to Minkook during the day was not a right action.
A child scheduled for surgery in a week.
Though not absolutely forbidden, the spicy and hot tteokbokki was hardly suitable for his sensitive condition.
“Teacher, why are you just standing there? Let’s go to that corner, not here. Someone might see us.”
“Minkook…”
The burden Sori had already taken from the child at their meeting weighed as heavily as her heart.
“Why? Is it because of some paperwork or whatever? Can’t do your homework?”
“…”
“What’s so much to study even after being a doctor?”
So, there’s no time even for tteokbokki now?
Minkook’s voice, tinged with frustration, grumbled.
“Wow, I could never be a doctor. I hate studying and homework the most. Well, I couldn’t be a doctor anyway since I’m bad at studying.”
He talked to himself, chuckled, but it wasn’t a happy laugh. It was a laugh full of self-derision.
Sori suddenly felt as if life itself was like homework.
No matter how much she solved, it seemed like a repetition of wrong answers, the most difficult task.
“Minkook. I’ll keep this. Once the surgery is over next week and you’re recovering well.”
“Ah, it’s annoying. I don’t need it. Just throw it away.”
Minkook turned and quickly walked towards the door.
“Minkook, walk slowly. You shouldn’t move that fast!”
“Don’t follow me!”
As Minkook hurried down the stairs, Sori chased after him. At the landing, she managed to catch the grumbling Minkook.
“Why are you so stubborn!”
“It’s all crap.”
“Minkook.”
“This, being stuck in the hospital, not being able to eat anything I want. Not being able to play soccer or basketball ever again. It’s all crap.”
“…”
“Even my mom working late because of my surgery fees is crap!”
Minkook roughly wiped the tears that formed in his eyes, as if annoyed by them, and pushed Sori’s hand away.
He continued down the stairs quickly.
“Minkook! Stop there. I said stop.”
Sori’s loud voice, rarely raised, made Minkook slow down his descent. Sori’s heart ached as if it was being scraped against the asphalt.
“I’m sorry. First of all, for making a promise I couldn’t keep. I’ll apologize for that first.”
“…I was stupid to trust and expect from you, teacher.”
Calming down the child seemed urgent.
Crying a lot could lead to decreased cerebral blood flow in moyamoya disease patients, potentially causing paralysis or seizures.
“I was thoughtless earlier. Or rather, I was too focused on getting you to the hospital. If you get this angry, I won’t be able to concentrate on anything. Won’t you accept my apology?”
“…”
“Minkook.”
“Hey, first-year.”
Just then, a voice echoed across the stairwell, and Sori turned around.
Sori was interrupted mid-sentence by Kang Se-hoon, the head of the department, whose presence at the emergency exit was unknown until now.
“Here I was wondering where Minkook had gone off to again after leaving his bed empty.”
After 9 PM, the hospital ward was as quiet as a mouse. This was when Minkook, who couldn’t sleep, would usually be in the recreation room, playing games.
“Today, he wasn’t even in the rec room. I was just about to call his mother.”
“Ah, jeez! Why would you call my mom about that!”
“Minkook. Chief.”
Sori stepped in between Minkook and Se-hoon, facing Se-hoon. She judged it better not to provoke him further.
“Hey, first-year, get out of here.”
Despite her efforts, Sori was roughly pushed aside by Se-hoon.
“Minkook. I didn’t mean to eavesdrop, but I did. Let me tell you something, as an older brother figure who sees you as a little brother. Listen carefully.”
Anger flared in Minkook’s eyes as he glared fiercely at Se-hoon. His rebellious gaze quickly became bloodshot.
Sori felt a wave of anxiety at that moment.
“Chief.”
She wanted to stop Se-hoon, even if it meant talking back. But he casually ignored her.
“Behaving like this in the hospital, causing trouble – you’re just causing your parents’ hearts to break and eventually draining them dry. You get that, kid?”
“Chief! Stop it! I’ll handle it.”
“Hey, first-year. Didn’t you hear me? What do you think you’re doing butting in? Butting in, really.”
“A patient, especially a young one, should be spoken to more carefully. This is not right!”
“What? Are you getting ahead of yourself now? You can’t even control the kid, and you’re playing along with him.”
Se-hoon approached Sori aggressively, pushing her shoulder and sending her stumbling against the wall.
In the meantime, Minkook, who had been fuming at Se-hoon, pushed past him and ran down the stairs, opening the emergency exit door to the ward corridor.
“Minkook!”
Sori shot Se-hoon a look of resentment and hurried after Minkook.
Se-hoon, stunned, pushed up his glasses and followed after her.
“Hey, stop right there. You little brat, come here!”
As Sori emerged through the emergency exit door, Se-hoon followed shortly after.
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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