Just before the surgery, Tae Hyuk received a message from Oh Seung Jun.
Doctors most foolishly thought that patients would exacerbate their illness by enduring their pain.
But why was he always told to endure?
Tae Hyuk shoved his phone into the locker and went to scrub in.
He meticulously scrubbed his hands and arms with a scrub brush soaked in Betadine soap, wiping away any stray thoughts.
He couldn’t act like a fool, at least not inside the operating room.
Thus, leaving behind thoughts of Moon Na Young with the scrubbing, he entered the operating room. But the moment he opened up the patient’s abdomen, Tae Hyuk’s brow furrowed.
Not only the liver, but nodules showing the cancer had metastasized to the pancreas were visible.
Tae Hyuk handed the frozen biopsy to the assistant and instructed him to send it to the pathology department.
For the 10 minutes he waited for whether it was malignant or not, Tae Hyuk couldn’t tear his gaze away from the patient’s rotting intestines.
Rrrrrrrrrr Rrrrrrrrrr
The phone in the operating room rang noisily.
It was a call from the pathologist who had finished the tissue examination.
[It’s malignant.] Tae Hyuk closed his eyes deeply and opened them to say,“I’m going to close.”
He had entered the operating room, but had to leave without doing anything.
It was also his job to inform the patient’s family about the patient’s dire state once he left the operating room.
No matter how much time passed, he never got used to seeing the families cry in front of him.
Comforting was something he was terrible at, so he bowed his head in greeting and left the place.
Na Young was lost in her own thoughts, staring at the chocolate that Professor Choi Tae Hyuk had given her, unable to eat it.
Did he give it out of affection, like for a pet dog he was raising?
Or was he trying to train me like a dog with food?
The meaning changed completely depending on the slight nuance.
Either way, Na Young didn’t feel particularly good being compared to a dog.
‘But isn’t it the dog that marks the territory, not the owner?’
Then does that mean Professor Choi Tae Hyuk is the dog?
Na Young shook her head and stuffed the chocolate in her apron pocket.
Right now, the more she thought, the weirder the answers seemed.
Feeling somewhat foolish for thinking too deeply about Oh Seung Jun’s comment, she decided to stop.
It was just a piece of chocolate.
If Professor Choi knew she was worrying about this when he hadn’t even confessed to her, he might even laugh at her.
As she entered the emergency room, she heard a loud voice.
“We came first, why do you keep making us wait!”
The emergency room wasn’t a place where treatment was administered on a firstcomefirstserved basis, but rather, it was based on the severity of the patient’s condition. This made it a place where the complaints of waiting patients and their families were often the loudest.
It seemed like a hottempered father was extremely angry because of his sick child.
Although she couldn’t help, she quietly walked by.
“Dr. Mun, please come and look at this patient.”
Hee Sun Park, a firstyear internal medicine resident, called her.
As Na Young approached, Park Hee Sun grabbed her and spoke in a low voice.
“I think this patient has Wilson’s disease.”
Wilson’s disease was a genetic disorder that manifested liver disease or neurological symptoms due to abnormal copper metabolism.
Since it was a rare disease that was hard to find, Na Young looked at Park Hee Sun with doubtful eyes.
Since Park Hee Sun had also encountered such a patient for the first time during her medical career, she wanted Na Young to see the patient to gain confidence.
“Really?”
“There is a yellowishgreen ring in the cornea, just like in the books.”
Her gaze shifted to the patient visible over Park Hee Sun’s shoulder.
The patient appeared to be a teenager. Na Young thought her patient, Soo Ji Lee, was young, but this one was even younger.
If the patient really had Wilson’s disease, they would have to depend on medication for their entire life.
The moment they stopped treatment, there would be fatal liver damage.
Her heart grew heavy.
Na Young came out of the emergency room and took a breath of fresh air.
She thought it might help clear her stifling chest.
As Na Young walked toward the bench, she stopped at the sight of the back of a male doctor already seated there.
His broad shoulders, which seemed more suited to an athlete than a doctor, were unmistakably those of Professor Choi Tae Hyuk.
But she had never seen him taking a break in a place like this before.
She considered passing by, but then decided there was no reason for her to avoid him, so Na Young started walking again.
Even when she sat on the opposite bench, Professor Choi Tae Hyuk was oblivious, just staring straight ahead.
Upon closer observation, he didn’t seem in a good mood either.
He had seemed fine when he gave her chocolate, so the difference was distinctly noticeable.
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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