As Professor Choi Tae Hyuk set foot on the ground, Cha Hyun immediately released Na Young’s hand he had been holding. Professor Choi Tae Hyuk, who had rushed over to the cafeteria where the two were sitting, glared at Cha Hyun with a face ready to start a fight.
“You!”
In a situation where it seemed like he might get punched by Tae Hyuk, Cha Hyun asked Na Young leisurely, with her as his focus.
“Moon Na Young, did you by any chance tell Professor Choi what happened in the bathroom during the housewarming party?”
“What?”
Na Young was puzzled by the question in this context and how Cha Hyun even knew about it. Surprisingly, Professor Choi Tae Hyuk, who had been expressing his anger like a furious gorilla, had suddenly become calm.
Na Young looked back and forth between Cha Hyun and Professor Choi Tae Hyuk. She had never seen someone subdue Tae Hyuk in such a short time. They must truly be close friends.
“Director Cha. Let’s talk, just the two of us.”
Tae Hyuk, clenching his teeth, spoke to Cha Hyun.
He must want to take him somewhere private to comfortably lash out.
In front of Moon Na Young, if Cha Hyun spoke out of turn, he would be finished.
For a moment, he forgot how cunning Cha Hyun could be.
He wasn’t the type to die alone. If he were to die, he’d take someone with him.
“Moon Na Young just arrived. We haven’t had a proper conversation yet.”
As Cha Hyun used her as an excuse not to get up, Tae Hyuk grabbed his shoulder and scolded him.
“You need to break that habit of hitting on every pretty girl you see.”
“That’s rich, coming from you. Remember when you used to hand me all the love letters from pretty girls in school, uh!”
Tae Hyuk immediately covered Cha Hyun’s mouth with his large hand and dragged him away forcefully.
He repeatedly told her not to follow them and to wait there.
Na Young watched them with her mouth agape.
The sight of grown men with social status acting like teenagers was astonishing.
This must be why they say men never really grow up, she thought.
Tae Hyuk finally released Cha Hyun outside the building, letting him go abruptly. Cha Hyun staggered, almost falling, but managed to regain his balance.
Tae Hyuk unclenched his fist and sternly warned Cha Hyun.
“You really crossed the line today. Been a while since you got a beating from me, huh?”
The friendship between these men in their teenage years was mostly built on fights.
Even as Tae Hyuk threatened him, Cha Hyun laughed.
“Seeing you this fired up means you can perform surgery just fine.”
The word ‘surgery’ coming from Cha Hyun’s mouth made Tae Hyuk’s clenched fist lose its strength.
At this very moment, the baby with 70% liver function damage was slowly losing life, and here he was, caught up in his friend’s jealousy-triggering tactics, feeling disillusioned. Tae Hyuk turned away and walked over to a bench, sitting down heavily.
“Did you hear from Moon Na Young?”
“Yeah.”
Cha Hyun put his hands in his pockets and observed Tae Hyuk’s expression.
“It’s not that you lack confidence in the surgery, right?”
Tae Hyuk silently gazed at the hospital building before finally speaking.
“I chose Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery because it’s the field with the least young patients.”
Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery typically involved older adult patients. It was rare for young children with liver issues to require surgery.
“When I saw that baby’s CT scans, I kept being reminded of my own childhood. The common thing between that baby and me is that we both were terribly unlucky from birth.”
“But if that baby receives your surgery and gets better, they won’t know anything about that and can grow up without any issues.”
The weather was getting warmer, but Tae Hyuk huddled as if he were cold.
“What I mean is, if I can’t control my emotions, I might make a mistake during the surgery. A mistake could be fatal for that small body.”
Tae Hyuk had simulated the surgery alone in his research lab. However, he couldn’t complete it due to constant intrusive thoughts. He didn’t trust himself with this surgery. That’s why he said he couldn’t do it.
“That’s something you need to overcome.”
“It’s easy for you to say since it’s not your problem!”
Tae Hyuk lashed out angrily. Watching him, Cha Hyun wore a bitter expression.
“Then you shouldn’t speak so lightly to Moon Na Young either. If she, a first-year resident, makes a mistake because of her emotional issues with you, would you blame her inability to overcome them?”
Tae Hyuk looked at Cha Hyun speechlessly. He was already struggling with the fact that Na Young expressed disappointment because he didn’t even attempt the surgery, and now Cha Hyun was pushing him further by connecting the issue to Na Young.
Cha Hyun never intended to persuade Tae Hyuk with lengthy arguments. Tae Hyuk was a man of action rather than words. So, Cha Hyun had no choice but to bring up the things that would affect Tae Hyuk the most.
He turned to leave, offering one last piece of advice to Tae Hyuk.
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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