Why do the people we love the most leave us in such a state…
His mother had been the same.
She had suffered in bed for a long time before leaving this world. The reason Juhyeok’s words felt so frightening was the trauma from the day he bid farewell to his mother.
Rather than sending her to a place where he could never see her again, it might be better to let her go, alive and well, doing what she loved wherever she could.
The room where she had left was filled only with the sound of his sighs.
Juhyeok headed to the hospital where Line was hospitalized. He immediately met with the doctor. When the doctor said Line’s condition was not good enough to be described as a matter of life and death, Juhyeok’s stomach sank.
He held Line’s small and delicate hand.
“Line… I’m sorry. If I had just answered the call that time…”
It wasn’t deliberate to not answer the call, but the regret of not answering promptly washed over him. Regret for the times he had treated her harshly also flooded in.
“Line, I was wrong. Open your eyes a bit…”
Juhyeok brought his lips to the back of Line’s hand, conveying warmth.
“Ah…”
At the faint sound mixed with Line’s thin breath, Juhyeok sat up and looked at Line’s face.
“Line, are you awake?”
He quickly pressed the nurse call button.
Line wanted to open her eyes even if just faintly, but it wasn’t easy due to the swelling around her eyes.
“Where is… this?”
“It’s a hospital. A hospital. You really…”
Before Juhyeok’s nagging could begin, doctors and nurses rushed in.
“What happened?”
The doctor, knowing that the patient’s condition was not very good, rushed over in case something had happened.
“She regained consciousness!”
Juhyeok told the doctor and looked at Line again. However, she had lost consciousness again.
“I said something just now! Where is this!”
“It seems she regained consciousness briefly. Although the time was short, fortunately, it happened during this unfortunate situation.”
Suddenly, Juhyeok was overwhelmed by the worry of what would happen if Line couldn’t lead a normal life.
“Doctor, is it possible for her to lead a normal life when she wakes up? She’s about to return to work…”
“I can’t guarantee that now. Let her wake up first. Even if there are no issues according to the examination, there could be problems with her physical functions.”
Upon hearing the doctor’s diagnosis, Juhyeok’s anger surged. Those who had made Line like this had undoubtedly intended to make her permanently unable to return to society, with attempted murder, kidnapping, assault, imprisonment, and more.
And even revealing the mastermind behind it…
Juhyeok visited Line’s hospital room every day. On the fourth day, Line regained consciousness.
“Ah…!”
Line, as if waking up from a nightmare, screamed and opened her eyes.
“Line, why? It’s me. Me.”
Juhyeok held Line’s hand and comforted her. Line, upon seeing him, gradually relaxed and blinked her eyes slowly.
“Ah… ha… I survived…”
When Line spoke those words with her own mouth, Juhyeok could only let out a bitter laugh.
“Can you sit up?”
“Even if I can’t sit up… I want to sit for a while. I want to drink water… and I’m thirsty.”
Juhyeok hugged Line and helped her sit up, giving her water. As the water moistened her parched and cracked lips, she seemed to regain some vitality.
“Ah… it’s too dizzy. I want to lie down again.”
When Line suddenly felt dizzy and complained as blood rushed through her body, the medical staff rushed in to check Line’s condition.
The doctor explained that the symptoms Line was experiencing were perfectly natural. Fortunately, it seemed that she had passed the major crisis as a stroke of luck.
“What day is it today? It hasn’t been my first day back to work yet, right?”
“What? Jin Line, I thought you were really going to die…! Are you really behaving so recklessly?”
“I was just on my way home, like usual, to buy some beer…”
Line also had her share of grievances. However, Juhyeok wasn’t blaming her for that. He wanted to talk about why she had gotten involved in such a situation with Na Songgang. Juhyeok handed Line a new phone.
“It’s a new phone. I changed the number too.”
“The phone… Ah… it seems to be broken… Then the information data inside…”
“Jin Line, is now the time to worry about information data? Do you know how worried I was that the information data in your head might fly away and cause memory loss?”
Thinking back to that time, Line shivered all over.
“They didn’t confess to having a personal grudge against me?”
“How did you know?”
“I remember from the previous investigation. The conversation content, and one of them, I recognized the voice and speech.”
“So, is it really a personal grudge?”
“No, it’s not. I’m telling you not to be deceived because it’s not.”
Saying that, Line tried to get up. She tried to lift her upper body, trembling all over, but it didn’t work as she wished.
“Just stay still. I’ll set up the bed for you.”
Juhyeok set up the bed so that Line could sit. Line stared at him with determination.
“Jin Line, what are you thinking again? Rest without thinking about anything for a while. I’ll see if I can delay the return-to-work date.”
“No. I’ll go back on my scheduled date.”
“With this body?”
“Yes.”
Juhyeok sighed deeply and lowered his head.
Line continued to wait for a call, constantly looking towards the phone. Juhyeok also sensed that she was waiting for someone’s call. He just hoped it wasn’t Na Songgang.
“Sunbae, it’s that day. I’m sure I heard Director Na Songgang’s voice.”
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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