It seemed as if she would explode if she didn’t say it, so in the end, her mouth caused an accident.
Did she want to hear that she’s pretty? Or did she want to hear that she’s okay? Even though she regretted it, the words had already reached him.
At her call, he half turned his body and looked at Sori with indifferent eyes.
His eyes seemed rather different up close. They were cool as a dewladen dawn.
For no reason at all, she said.
In an instant, Sori’s lips went dry.
Her hemline fluttered with a sudden gust of wind.
Startled, Sori grabbed onto her hemline, and one shoulder of her cardigan slipped down.
The look in Hyun Woo’s eyes narrowed as he watched this. His gaze chilled a bit more.
The brief silence felt oppressively long. Sori, who had been needlessly licking her lips, chewed on her nowdry lips.
That moment.
“You’re beautiful.”
“What……?”
Was it because of the counterquestion? He had walked right up to Sori’s face in an instant.
Sori’s eyes trembled greatly.
He reached out his long arm towards her.
“I said you’re beautiful.”
“……”
His pure hand, which seemed surprisingly calm, merely lifted her slipped cardigan.
“But I don’t think it’s a suitable dress to wear in a hospital.”
The low voice that layered like fog was clear in its order not to speak.
However, to Sori’s ears, it sounded sweet.
He’s not the type to make idle talk. He clearly said she was beautiful.
“The wind is cold, so go inside now.”
He simply turned and walked away.
Sori’s heart swelled so much it felt like a hotair balloon. It felt as if it would float into the sky and fly all night.
His voice, which had said she was beautiful, echoed in her ears all night.
A few days before her first day at the Imperial Hospital.
Sori, who had come to Seohan Hospital, was receiving a simple blood test and waiting.
Normally, a blood test would come out in about 30 minutes.
“Did I just do this for no reason…….”
The waiting time felt like a waste as it lengthened.
The reason she had an unexpected test was because of the nagging Jiwoo did last week.
‘Hey, why doesn’t your blood stop? I was startled seeing my brother’s handkerchief. He said you should have a blood test too.’
‘What test? That’s over the top. There’s nothing to worry about.’
That day, Sori thought that her heart was pumping violently because of the sudden appearance of Hyun Woo, which was why her blood did not clot well.
There was no other reason.
‘Anyway, go to the hospital. Think of it as a health check before you become a resident. Absolutely! If you don’t go, I really won’t talk to you.’
‘You’re childish. Fine, fine.’
She had a tendency not to clot well whenever she had a nosebleed. She simply thought it was her constitution.
She did have a lot of nosebleeds during her intern life, but she didn’t think much of it as it wasn’t only her.
But she began to feel a faint regret that she had been too negligent of her body.
“Ms. Yu Sori, could you come this way?”
“Yes.”
It seemed the results had finally come out.
Not too long ago, I was an intern at the hospital, but being called in as a patient made me oddly nervous.
“Dr. Yu Sori … long time no see.”
“Yes, have you been well, Dr. Park?”
“You said you were going to Je Guk Hospital?”
“Yes. That’s what happened.”
Feeling awkward, I unconsciously scratched my head.
Department of Hematology, Park Ji Woong.
As I stared at the name tag of this firstyear fellow, I waited for his words.
Ji Woong’s eyes, which were looking at the monitor beyond his glasses, busily moved left and right.
However, Ji Woong’s expression was somehow not good.
“Uh ….”
In the midst of the silence, I inadvertently swallowed my dry saliva.
Could it be anemia, which is common in women? That’s probably it. Even though it’s nothing, I started getting needlessly nervous.
Feeling anxious, I called out to him first.
“Doctor?”
“You said you usually have trouble with hemostasis, right? Has it been like that recently?”
A cut on the finger that was placed on my knee immediately caught my eye.
“Yes, I cut it a bit. Hemostasis took quite a while.”
“I see. That’s right. Hmm ….”
“Why do you look like that? You’re making me nervous. Please speak up.”
But I could read the awkward look in Ji Woong’s eyes.
I had a bad feeling.
“Who’s your guardian?”
“My guardian?”
At the word ‘guardian’, the face of my mother naturally came to mind.
Actress Yu Su Hyang, born to be an actress, was indeed my legal guardian.
But my mother, who was more girlish than her daughter Sori, was still innocent and knew little about the world.
Judging from experience, asking for a guardian usually meant trouble.
Although she was a guardian in name, it was better for me to hear about anything rather than my weakhearted mother.
“So, is it something serious? Why? Did I get leukemia or something? Just tell me comfortably.”
“…. It seems that might be the case.”
“Excuse me?”
“Leukemia.”
“Ha… That’s… impossible.”
The absurdity made me burst out laughing.
“At first glance, your platelet count is abnormally low, and the white blood cell count has rapidly increased ….”
Ji Woong shared his opinion calmly, and I was too shocked to say anything else.
“For an accurate diagnosis, we have to start with a bone marrow examination, but with this level of platelet count, even a bone marrow test is difficult. Prepare to be hospitalized for a day or two for a blood transfusion. When do you have time?”
“…..”
Blood transfusion? Bone marrow test? The words flowed in and out nonsensically.
Could I possibly have leukemia?
My sense of reality was momentarily dulled.
I was stunned, as if I was hearing about another patient’s story.
Looking at Sori’s expression, Jiwoong spoke in a soothing tone.
“Dr. Yoo knows well. There are many patients with good prognoses these days.”
Sori, whose focus had vanished from her eyes, spoke dryly.
“I know. If the medication works well, treatment can be completed in three months, and if not, death can occur in as little as one month… without any treatment, it can be as long as a year. Or as short as six months.”
“Let’s not despair first, get a transfusion, and hurry with the bone marrow examination, okay?”
“Yes, doctor, I’ll be back soon.”
Concealing her collapsed composure, Sori got up and left the consultation room.
She completed her checkout at the administrative department and started walking aimlessly out of the hospital.
Having lived with the sole purpose of becoming a doctor and healing patients, she had never considered that she herself might be afflicted with a serious illness.
Her numb ears didn’t register any of the surrounding noises.
She couldn’t muster a single thought.
Then, Sori who suddenly halted, tilted her head back and blankly looked up at the sky.
Tears welled up without a sound, beginning to wet her white cheeks.
“Is this even possible?”
Do I have leukemia?
It’s a lie, right?
How diligently have I lived.
How hard have I studied to become a good doctor.
How excited was I about the new beginnings ahead.
Without even having a typical romance.
No, romance isn’t everything.
“I haven’t even had a chance to properly express love.”
She didn’t know why Hyun Woo’s face came to mind at this moment.
But Sori felt incredibly aggrieved.
“This must all be a dream.”
Turns Out He’s Been Secretly in Love with Me
One-line summary: He acts like he doesn’t like her but is actually playing hard to get.
Synopsis:
Xu Muzhou like her. He has liked her for a very long time, and through repeated schemes, he finally closed the distance with her.
But this is still far from enough.
He wants to be the one who stands out among her many suitors, to fight for her attention, and to make her take the initiative to pursue him.
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