Na Young just stared at his face, not quite grasping the weight of his words.
“Is that important?”
To her question, Tae Hyuk grabbed her hand tightly.
“Yes, without you, my surgery loses its luck. So you must always be by my side.”
Her hand throbbed, or rather, her heart did.
Director Cha Hyun had said it.
There must be a reason why they met.
Na Young also wanted to believe that now.
That they were not just a one-night connection but destined to be together.
Choi Tae Hyuk professor looked at her seriously.
“In that sense, I have prepared for tonight too.”
Preparation?
Wondering what it could be, Choi Tae Hyuk professor reached into his gown pocket and suddenly scattered red rose petals high into the air.
It was petals again.
Last time it was cherry blossoms, but today it was roses.
Na Young watched in a daze as the rose petals fell onto her.
She never imagined she would see this again, especially since the cherry blossoms had long since fallen.
“Actually, I got a bit delayed buying these.”
At his words, Na Young burst into laughter.
After a tough surgery, starving, and then going to buy flowers.
In her view, it was nonsensical.
As she laughed, Tae Hyuk sprinkled the last of the red rose petals over her head.
“I should treat my lucky charm like this.”
Offering flowers to a goddess was the right attitude of a devout follower.
Na Young’s cheeks turned as red as the roses he had bought, laughing at the absurdity of the situation.
This man was driving her crazy.
Clunk.
When the rooftop door opened, Tae Hyuk and Na Young both jumped.
Quickly, Tae Hyuk grabbed Na Young’s hand and quickly hid behind a ventilation shaft.
As they hid, three male doctors in gowns emerged onto the rooftop.
“What’s this? Someone had a birthday party here?”
The only food Tae Hyuk left was the cake.
“Wow, champagne and roses. Someone’s lucky, having a love affair in the hospital.”
Hearing this from behind the ventilation shaft, Na Young’s face paled.
The thought of being caught was dizzying.
Unable to move, Tae Hyuk gently tilted her chin towards him and showed her a message on his phone.
Na Young shook her head vigorously, signaling no.
Tae Hyuk clicked his tongue.
He wasn’t afraid of those three, but he hid for Na Young’s sake.
Then, one of them made a sharp deduction.
“Don’t tell me they hid because we came?”
“Are they still up here?”
Na Young buried her face in Tae Hyuk’s chest.
Her heart pounded uncontrollably, instinctively seeking the safest place to hide.
Tae Hyuk, with one hand, protectively held her small frame and picked up a small stone, throwing it in the opposite direction.
Thud.
At the sound, the three men immediately turned their attention there.
“Must be over there.”
“Let’s see. Who is it?”
“My guess is definitely a doctor and a nurse.”
As the people moved in that direction, Tae Hyuk pulled Na Young.
“We need to leave now.”
Na Young didn’t want to move, fearing they would be caught immediately.
Unlike her, who was fraught with worry, Tae Hyuk was more action-oriented and quickly lifted her, rushing towards the rooftop door.
Na Young clenched her eyes shut, biting her lip, fearing a scream might escape.
As Tae Hyuk pushed her outside the rooftop door, one of the three men returning from the other side spotted him.
“Oh? Professor Choi?”
Tae Hyuk immediately turned, blocking the entrance with his body and stared down the resident with a menacing glare.
“Were you partying and having fun here? Do you think this hospital is a school?”
He didn’t bat an eyelid as he pinned the antics on the three residents.
Caught off guard by the sudden appearance of the feared professor on the rooftop, the three resident doctors vigorously defended themselves.
It really wasn’t them who had partied.
“No, that’s not us. Someone else did that.”
“Who else is here besides you guys?”
“Really, it wasn’t us. We just came up to the rooftop to smoke.”
“Stop making excuses and clean this up now!”
The residents, feeling unjustly accused but unable to defy a professor in the hospital, reluctantly began cleaning up the food packaging waste and rose petals.
Having successfully shifted the blame onto the residents, Tae Hyuk looked satisfied as he turned towards the entrance, but Na Young was nowhere to be seen.
Apparently, she had fled on her own, thinking ‘save my own skin.’
His lucky charm was quite selfish.
Tae Hyuk took out his phone and snapped a photo of a fallen rose petal on the ground.
Then, he sent the picture to Na Young with a message.
An Indifferent Woman is the One Men Desire the Most
One-line summary: The female lead is actually cold-hearted and extremely rational. She has stage-by-stage relationships and won’t two-time, but there will always be someone who secretly likes her.
This novel has the following triggers, so if you’re sensitive to these, please don’t read:
1. The female lead has had many relationships, but she treated each one seriously and broke up properly.
It’s just that the men unilaterally pestered her incessantly. For the female lead, when she doesn’t like someone anymore, she simply doesn’t like them.
(This applies to her relationships with Male Lead 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well, but she’s loyal in each 1-on-1 relationship!)
2. In this novel, Male Lead 2 and the female lead kiss in a car, and Male Lead 1 sees it and beats up Male Lead 2.
The female lead calls the police and sends both Male Lead 1 and 2 to the police station! Male Lead 1 begs the female lead not to break up with him.
3. Male Lead 1 has a gentle appearance but an obsessive personality.
Male Lead 2 has a delicate and soft appearance, slightly green tea-like (two-faced).
Male Lead 3 is a youthful college student and a smart person who has secretly liked the female lead for a long time.
Male Lead 4 is the female lead’s father’s special assistant, a business elite with deep, hidden thoughts.
4. At the beginning of this novel, the female lead has already broken up with Male Lead 1 (Chapter 4) and gotten back together with Male Lead 2 (ex-boyfriend).
5. Enter with caution if you have triggers!!!
