Cha Na Jung had seen Seo Hyun Woo and Yoo Sori together dozens of times over the last month.
Wasn’t it the same Hyun Woo who never gave her a second glance?
What’s so special about that tiny, insignificant girl?
Could it be that they’ve gone as far as they could together?
Thinking this far made Na Jung’s anger boil again.
At that moment, she felt the urge to shove Sori, who was crouched down collecting glass shards.
Meanwhile, in the NS Department.
After completing ward rounds with the professor, the residents gathered in the department were having a brief tea time.
The brand-name coffee was bought with Hyun Woo’s card.
Sori had briefly visited Hyun Woo’s office and lamented not being able to make good coffee, prompting the generous use of his card. Of course, no one else knew this reason.
Moreover, the protagonist herself was absent from the scene.
“Ah, it’s delicious. Caramel macchiato is the best when you’re tired.”
For the first time in a while, Se Hun looked relaxed. It was probably because Sori was handling the troublesome task for him.
On the table, only Sori’s cup of coffee was left untouched, as she had been called away without having a chance to claim her share.
Ki Tae, her colleague, looked displeased at the sight.
Jong Woo and Eun Seok also seemed unusually subdued, unlike their usual selves.
“But why haven’t we heard anything from the hospital director or the board of directors? Such a patient should be discharged promptly.”
Jong Woo brought up the topic gently, and it seemed everyone was thinking about Sori simultaneously.
“Really. Why do we always get the problematic patients? Are we seen as pushovers?”
“But isn’t my colleague amazing? I heard something crashing inside the room, but when she came out, she acted as if nothing happened.”
Ki Tae boasted, having overheard the story.
“She doesn’t usually show it.”
“She’s surprisingly tough, our Yoo Sori.”
Jong Woo and Eun Seok joined in praising her.
But no matter how much they praised Sori, Se Hun only found it irritating. In his eyes, Sori was a fox pretending to be a bear.
“You guys are talking nonsense. Don’t you have any discernment?”
“Uh?”
But everyone looked back at Se Hun with questioning eyes.
Annoyed, Se Hun crossed his arms and stretched his legs out on the table.
“Forget it. What’s the point of saying it, anyway.”
Se Hun closed his eyes to take a brief rest, after shaking the last drop of his coffee.
Just then, Professor Hyun Woo entered the department.
“What brings you to the department all of a sudden, Professor?”
Se Hun, who had his legs on the table, was the first to reflexively stand up at lightning speed.
The other residents, who were sipping their coffee, were about to get up when Hyun Woo gestured for them to stay seated.
Having heard some strange talk while passing the nurse’s station, Hyun Woo’s eyes naturally looked for Sori first.
But she was nowhere to be seen.
Looking around the department, his gaze fell on the unattended cup of coffee on the table and he asked casually.
“Where is Doctor Yoo Sori?”
“Ah… that is…”
Everyone seemed to avoid his gaze, sensing something odd.
“Why can’t anyone tell me where she went?”
It should only be either the ward or the emergency room.
Suddenly, Hyun Woo’s gaze sharpened compared to when he first entered.
In the awkward silence, no one gave a clear answer, just exchanging glances.
“Has everyone eaten honey?”
It seemed obvious that they were hiding something.
“Kang Se Hun.”
“Yes?”
“Tell me what’s going on.”
Not wanting to defy a direct order, Se Hun stood up again, sweating profusely.
He wished he had stayed out of the department.
Once again, he found himself in the situation of having to report that Doctor Yoo Sori had been called to take care of his patient.
“What’s going on right now?”
Hyun Woo’s expression noticeably cooled.
At this, everyone stood up, one by one, as the atmosphere turned tense.
Se Hun hesitated to speak, prompting Eun Seok to step in.
“A VIP patient named Cha Na Jung, who was hospitalized due to a traffic accident, called for her.”
Cha Na Jung?
“That patient wasn’t on the ward round.”
“That’s because she’s a malingering patient with no apparent illness. Dr. Park said she didn’t need to be included in the rounds.”
“What?”
As the story unfolded, anger seemed to condense in Hyun Woo’s brow.
However, realizing this wasn’t something to blame the residents for, Hyun Woo swallowed his anger with patience.
“Who’s the attending physician?”
At this point, Jong Woo, realizing it was his turn, stepped forward to explain.
“Initially, I was the attending… but…”
He inevitably confessed everything that had happened, including the change of the attending physician three times.
And the conclusion was that currently, Sori was there in place of Se Hun.
No one expected that they would have to disclose this to Hyun Woo.
“NS is really going downhill.”
Hyun Woo coldly uttered this and then irritably opened the department door and left.
His departure left a chill in the department.
Hyun Woo remembered a conversation he had overheard in passing by the nurse’s station.
“Yesterday, she threw a glass cup at the wall, that patient.”
“That screaming was her?”
“Anyway, it seems like Dr. Yoo was the target from the beginning.”
“That’s strange.”
His steps hastened towards the VIP ward.
Just as Cha Na Jung was about to act on her impulse to push Sori, Sori had finished picking up the large pieces of broken glass. She quickly stood up.
“I’ll request someone to clean up the room.”
Sori bowed and was about to leave the room.
“Sorry, but could you get me another glass of water before you go?”
Suddenly, with a calmer tone, Cha Na Jung looked somewhat more reasonable.
Had she calmed down?
Sori faced Cha Na Jung at the door of the room.
“Ms. Cha Na Jung, pardon me, but I must say this before I leave. NS has many critical patients. Please ensure that your behavior does not cause harm to other patients.”
“Okay, I’ll do that. The water, please?”
Although Sori sighed, it seemed better to give her the water quickly and leave.
Having said all she had held back, Sori walked towards the fridge.
“This kind of summoning, whether by other doctors or me, will probably be the last time.”
Thinking she should find some way out of this situation once she left, she considered even directly appealing to the hospital director in the worst case.
Cha Na Jung looked for something to throw at Sori, who was now turning her back.
Hoping it would make her feel better, Cha Na Jung impulsively picked up a vase that Sori had brought earlier today.
Would Sori still speak so nobly?
As Sori poured the water, Cha Na Jung aimed the vase at her back.
Just then, the door to the room burst open.
“Yoo Sori!”
But the vase had already left Na Jung’s hand.
“No!”
The vase flew and hit someone who had just rushed into the room.
Thud!
Crash.
In an instant, Sori found herself completely enveloped, from head to toe, by someone.
And from the person holding her, a soft groan of pain escaped.
It was Seo Hyun Woo.
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
