At the word “photo” from her mouth, Professor Choi Tae Hyuk’s expression hardened as if steel had been laid in an instant.
“So, you mean, Ms. Moon had people take my picture?”
Where did it all go wrong?
What was he talking about when he said he knew something?
Did he just guess her intentions?
Her mind was in turmoil, but her priority was dealing with Professor Choi Tae Hyuk right before her eyes.
It was as if she had willingly walked into the mouth of a venomous snake.
It seemed impossible to come out without getting hurt.
Na Young slowly explained with a tense voice.
“I thought patient Soo Ji Lee would be pleased to see your picture, so I used it as a gift voucher prize.”
Upon hearing her confession, Tae Hyuk’s expression involuntarily crumpled.
“How dare you sell me, a professor, for a gift voucher?”
The way Professor Choi Tae Hyuk scolded her, it felt as if she had committed a grave mistake.
She didn’t sell him, she merely took his picture.
And it was for a patient.
However, the look in his eyes as he looked at her was precisely that of betrayal.
Seeing him looking at her with those eyes, Na Young felt desperate.
“I only showed the picture to patient Soo Ji Lee. That’s the truth. Please believe me.”
The tension visible in his clenched fist seemed to represent his anger.
“Get out.”
His heavily dropped words scared Na Young more than comforting her.
“You don’t want me to write a report?”
Nam Ho Jin, who was caught just for taking pictures, had to write 50 pages.
Since she was the ringleader, she should be given a more severe punishment than Nam Ho Jin.
“Get out now.”
Upon hearing his harsh words, Na Young quickly turned around and left the lab.
Thud.
As soon as she closed the door, she heard the sound of something being kicked hard inside the lab and she tensed.
What should I do.
Shaking with fear, Na Young returned to the wards.
And inside the lab, Tae Hyuk, who had kicked the trash can hard, bowed his head deep and endured the soaring shame.
It was his first time feeling this embarrassed in his life.
He was on the verge of confessing to a woman without thinking, completely misunderstanding.
And that too, as if he was magnanimously accepting her feelings.
The more he thought about it, the more mortifying it felt.
Na Young posted in the residents’ group chat, instructing them not to take any more pictures of Professor Choi Tae Hyuk.
And the steady stream of photos suddenly stopped.
Professor Choi Tae Hyuk was quiet, and so were the people who took the pictures, it felt like nothing had happened, but Na Young could feel it.
This was not the end.
Perhaps she did not realize that her trials, caused by this incident, were only beginning.
Na Young had sent a long apology message to Professor Tae Hyuk late at night.
There was no response from Professor Tae Hyuk.
She wondered if he was maintaining silence in order to impose some sort of harsh punishment on her.
That night, perhaps because she was trembling with anxiety until bedtime, Na Young had a terrible dream of being scolded by Professor Tae Hyuk’s mother and living in her house.
When she woke up from her sleep, she couldn’t move as if she was paralyzed.
What a crazy, dog dream.
She didn’t even know the face of Professor Tae Hyuk’s mother.
But the fact that his mother had a dog assured her that it was indeed a dog dream.
She was unable to sleep due to the dream and went to the morning meeting with a tired face, when all eyes converged on her.
Everyone seemed to want to ask about Professor Tae Hyuk, but no one dared to ask.
She didn’t initiate the conversation either. It seemed that getting forgiveness from Professor Tae Hyuk was the priority.
Professor Tae Hyuk appeared exactly at 7:50 a.m. as usual.
She tried to make eye contact with him, but Professor Tae Hyuk didn’t even glance at her.
And this continued until the end of the meeting.
It seemed that Professor Tae Hyuk decided to treat her, who had violated his portrait rights, as an invisible person.
“Professor Tae Hyuk!”
She was the one who first called after Professor Tae Hyuk, but he left as if he hadn’t heard her.
The residents who were watching this all had a thing or two to say.
“It’s my first time seeing Moon Na Young chasing someone and the venomous snake torturing people with silence.”
“Isn’t a 50page report a tougher punishment?”
“Yeah! I’m the biggest victim.”
Although Nam Ho Jin expressed his grievance, there were few people who sympathized with him.
“People have different genres of suffering. For Moon Na Young, a 50page report might be less painful. When has Madonna ever been ignored by someone?”
“That’s true. Wow. Professor Tae Hyuk is really a venomous snake.”
Seeing her returning with a deadpan face, it seemed that Professor Tae Hyuk’s ignoring her was effective.
The Villainous Demon Lord Laid an Egg for Her (Female-Dominated)
Several months after transmigrating into a book, Yu Wu found herself facing the demon lord Li You, who could no longer conceal his dragon horns. With one hand on her aching waist and the other gripping a sharp sword, she stared at him.
The demon lord’s eyes were red with fury:
“This is all your doing! Today, I won’t rest until I kill you!”
Yu Wu rubbed her temples. Putting aside the taboo against bloodshed during pregnancy, wasn’t it this very man who willingly walked into her trap that day?!
Warnings:
- Male pregnancy.
- Height ratios are set to mirror typical male-female height proportions.
- Characters include a foot-loving demon lord and an eldest daughter from an immortal family’s concubine lineage.
