Taming the Wicked Professor (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 10
Tae Hyuk had barely managed to hang on as an orthopedic surgery resident.
“Let’s have a quick word.”
Professor Choi Tae Hyuk suddenly emerged from behind and coiled his arm around the resident’s neck like a venomous snake, causing the orthopedic resident’s face to pale instantly.
“P-Professor, I haven’t done anything wrong!”
You’re about to. And something he’d find deeply unpleasant, at that.
So Tae Hyuk dragged the orthopedic resident out of the surgical ward.
“Min Ho Joon?”
When Tae Hyuk read the name off the staff ID card hanging around his neck, Min Ho Joon stiffened noticeably.
“See, I really don’t get along with your department head at all.”
Min Ho Joon couldn’t fathom what that had to do with him and just stared wide-eyed at Tae Hyuk.
“So I’d prefer it if there were absolutely no private entanglements between orthopedics and general surgery. Do you understand what I mean?”
As Professor Choi Tae Hyuk spoke gravely and stepped closer, Min Ho Joon felt increasing pressure until breathing became difficult.
“But I—”
Min Ho Joon couldn’t understand why, of all days, the professors had to fall out on the very day he’d decided to confess to Moon Na Young.
Seeing Min Ho Joon hesitate, Professor Choi Tae Hyuk’s eyes instantly flashed like a viper’s.
“Are you not answering because you think I’m joking?”
“Absolutely not! I’ll keep it in mind!”
Min Ho Joon shouted in a voice stiff with military-like discipline.
Having successfully protected Madonna, Tae Hyuk turned to leave but paused briefly upon spotting Yoon I Na.
He simply walked past her without a word.
Yoon I Na watched his retreating back for a moment, then turned to the scolded resident and asked,
“What happened?”
Min Ho Joon recounted every detail of his ordeal to Yoon I Na in a deeply aggrieved tone.
A new twenty-year-old liver cancer patient had just been admitted—and officially declared herself fan number one of Professor Choi Tae Hyuk.
She’d said it herself: she was smitten.
Unfortunately, she happened to be under Na Young’s care, which meant Na Young had to endure endless praise of Professor Choi Tae Hyuk’s looks every time they met.
“He really looks like the male lead in a romantic drama.”
She had no idea his personality was perfectly suited for a high-stress profession.
Though Professor Choi Tae Hyuk lashed out at residents like a venomous snake, he did at least choose his words more carefully around patients.
But he certainly wasn’t being kind.
“Yes, Professor Choi is quite handsome, isn’t he?”
Na Young agreed vaguely while checking the patient’s condition.
The patient had a persistent low-grade fever that wouldn’t subside, which was worrying.
“I wish my first kiss were with someone like Professor Choi.”
Na Young flinched involuntarily, her expression freezing without her realizing it.
PK, who’d been watching her, recalled how Na Young had once frowned in front of a patient with hepatobiliary disease and received a scolding for it.
It’s about a first kiss!
How could anyone not be startled?
Na Young hurried out of the room, but while walking, she spotted something outside the window and stopped abruptly.
Two people were arguing—one was clearly Hwang Myung Soon’s daughter, who was scheduled for a liver transplant, and the other she recognized as the husband of the organ donor.
Seeing their raised voices, Na Young sensed something serious was happening and immediately pulled out her phone to call Professor Choi Tae Hyuk.
[The customer you are trying to reach is on another call. Please try again later…]Of all times, he was on a call.
Na Young rushed off to find Professor Choi Tae Hyuk in person.
Having heard he’d gone to his research lab, Na Young arrived there in a hurry and flung the door open without thinking.
“Professor! Aaah!”
Tae Hyuk, who’d been changing clothes, froze in shock at the sudden intrusion and her scream.
“Don’t you know how to knock?”
“I’m sorry!”
Na Young apologized flustered and quickly turned away.
Her heart pounded violently in her chest like a hammer striking metal.
Watching her deliberately avoid even glancing his way, Tae Hyuk chuckled quietly to himself.
It wasn’t like he was naked for the first time—why was she being so dramatic?
“So what’s the matter?”
Tae Hyuk asked while fastening the last button of his shirt. Na Young kept her back turned as she explained.
“I just witnessed Hwang Myung Soon’s daughter and son fighting outside the hospital.”
“And?”
His calm response made Na Young’s voice rise in frustration.
“They’re clearly fighting over the transplant surgery! You should go talk to them and resolve this properly—”
“My job is to perform the transplant surgery.”
“But!”
“I’m not God. I can’t control or fix everything—and I don’t need to.”
Thud. Thud.
As he spoke, Professor Choi Tae Hyuk stepped closer to her.
He stopped right behind her, and she could feel his presence clearly.
“And when you talk to someone, look them in the eyes—not the wall.”
Na Young flinched at the reprimand.
But realizing how foolish she must have looked, she turned around and looked up at him.
“If you won’t mediate, then who will?”
“You do it.”
Na Young’s eyes widened.
“Am I allowed to?”
“Yes. But shouldn’t you focus on your own patient first?”
“What?”
“Isn’t Lee Su Ji’s fever still not going down?”
When Professor Choi Tae Hyuk pointed that out, Na Young replied heavily, as if it were entirely her fault. Yes, that was right.
Lee Su Ji’s condition, already concerning due to her persistent fever, had now worsened.
She’d stopped chattering about Professor Choi Tae Hyuk altogether.
With a high fever that wouldn’t break, all she could do was lie in bed all day.
She couldn’t even go to the bathroom easily and had to have a urinary catheter inserted.
Seeing the once-lively twenty-year-old now so helpless, Na Young almost missed the version who’d playfully claimed to be his number one fan.
If complications developed, things could take a turn for the worst, so they had to monitor her closely.
“What? You want me to take photos of Professor Choi Tae Hyuk?”
The intern looked utterly bewildered at her request.
“Yes—maybe showing Lee Su Ji his photo will cheer her up a bit.”
That made sense, but getting caught sneaking a photo of Professor Choi Tae Hyuk would be disastrous.
Seeing the intern hesitant, Na Young had no choice but to take matters into her own hands.
“I’ll try to take photos when I get the chance, too. Let’s work together to make Lee Su Ji smile again. Okay?”
The intern nodded in agreement.
It wasn’t exactly a medical duty, but since it was something human and kind, Na Young wanted to bring some happiness to Lee Su Ji—even in this small way.
She briefly considered telling Professor Choi Tae Hyuk the truth and asking permission, but doubted he’d lift a finger for Lee Su Ji—not when he’d ignored the donor family’s conflict.
And if she asked outright and got rejected, sneaking photos afterward would be even harder. So she decided to just go ahead and take them secretly from the start.
He’d probably be fine with it if he considered it a donation of his good looks.
A few hours later, the intern sent over the photos he’d taken—but they were either of Tae Hyuk’s back or taken from so far away his face appeared tiny.
The pictures clearly showed just how nervous the intern had been.
Since someone volunteered without even being asked, Na Young decided to take things up a notch.
After all, humans were instinctively more motivated when there was a prize involved.
Thus, the hospital quietly became a factory for Choi Tae Hyuk paparazzi.
If Professor Choi ever found out she was the mastermind behind this…
Ugh. She didn’t even want to imagine it.
Click.
The instant he heard the shutter sound, Tae Hyuk whipped his head around to check behind him.
It was a noise he’d been hearing with increasing frequency over the past couple of days.
Initially, he hadn’t paid much attention—after all, everyone these days took photos on their phones—but as it kept happening, his hearing had grown sensitive.
He felt certain someone was taking pictures of him specifically.
Tae Hyuk scanned the area with sharp eyes, noticing people seemed to deliberately avoid his gaze.
He had a nagging suspicion something was going on in the hospital without his knowledge, but since he couldn’t pinpoint exactly what it was, mild irritation began to rise.
He turned forward again to keep walking,
Click.
This time, he spun around even faster at the sound,
Determined that if he caught the culprit, they wouldn’t get off easily.
Just two days after launching the photo contest, someone finally got caught by Professor Choi Tae Hyuk.
Nam Ho Jin—never known for caution—had gotten greedy and tried snapping a close-up shot of the professor, only to get caught red-handed and have his phone confiscated.
Na Young feared all their efforts would go to waste, but thankfully, Nam Ho Jin showed loyalty and took the fall alone.
When word spread that Nam Ho Jin had been punished with fifty reports to write, some participants began dropping out.
The coffee gift card simply wasn’t worth such a heavy penalty.
Though this little event for Lee Su Ji was starting to take a negative turn, Na Young couldn’t stop now—
Because now that there was a prize, genuinely good photos were pouring in.
When she showed Lee Su Ji the photos of Professor Choi Tae Hyuk, the patient finally smiled again after a long time.
“Later, you’ll have to pick your favorite photo from this bunch, Su Ji.”
At her request, Lee Su Ji nodded and gave a thumbs-up.
Seeing a reaction from her put Na Young slightly at ease.
On her way to deliver a compiled research paper about live-donor liver transplantation to Professor Choi Tae Hyuk, Na Young bought a coffee for him—
Partly out of guilt for secretly taking his photos, maybe as a sort of bribe.
“Professor, here’s your coffee.”
He looked at her with puzzled eyes—the first time she’d ever bought him coffee.
“Do you need something from me?”
He’d already given plenty as their unwilling photo model.
Na Young denied it shamelessly.
“No, I just bought one for myself and got you one while I was at it.”
It hadn’t even been a month since he’d met her, yet this act of random kindness felt completely out of character for Na Young.
She wasn’t the type to offer kindness lightly.
“I’ll enjoy it.”
Watching his hand take the coffee, Na Young thought inwardly,
‘One handhold from him would probably do more for Lee Su Ji than a hundred photos.’
Her involvement had gone beyond just the photo event; she was slowly starting to think like a fan club member herself.
At this rate, she might even become fan number two of Professor Choi Tae Hyuk.
As she stared fixedly at his hand holding the coffee cup, Tae Hyuk narrowed his eyes.
Something was off—not just the coffee, but her behavior today was strange, too.
“Do you have something to say to me?”
When Professor Choi Tae Hyuk asked first, Na Young flinched and quickly looked away from his hand.
“Oh! It’s just—”
She briefly considered saying it.
But fear of rejection kept her lips sealed.
If she couldn’t even ask permission to take photos, asking him to hold hands would be impossible.
Seeing her hesitate, Tae Hyuk grew sensitive too.
What’s taking so long to spit it out?
Since she couldn’t say it easily, it probably wasn’t hospital-related.
Her eyes blinked faster than usual, and there was a trace of shyness in them.
Could it be…?
His heart began racing with anticipation.
Well, he wasn’t the kind of man who could neatly end things after just one night.
It made sense that admiration alone wouldn’t be enough for her.
She hadn’t even uttered a word yet, but he’d already run far ahead in his thoughts—
And nearly convinced himself of it.
“Hmm. If it’s hard for you to say it, I’ll just say it myself. I think I understand everything.”
The moment he took on that “I already know everything” tone, Na Young jumped in alarm.
“What? You already knew I was the ringleader behind the photo project?”
“…”
“…”
“What?”
A cold chill enveloped her.
She had a sinking feeling this was going very, very wrong.
Ex-husband Wants Reconciliation
One-line summary: Chasing the wife to the crematorium (making an effort to attract someone who has become indifferent), the female lead doesn’t look back, the second male lead takes the position.
Intro:
To repay the kindness of the older generation, Su Mu crossed into a female-dominated world and became a live-in daughter-in-law of the Yan family, single-handedly saving the Yan family from fire and water.
But her husband, Yan Jiyue, the eldest son of the Yan family, treated her with sarcasm and never showed her a good face.
It wasn’t until after Su Mu’s death that this pampered and arrogant young master shed a few fake tears and pretended to want to die for love.
This life’s kindness was enough. If there was a next life, she would definitely kick Yan Jiyue away.
Who knew that the heavens would be so kind as to allow her to be reborn, returning to the time when she had just married into the Yan family.
Su Mu glanced at the Yan eldest son, who still spoke coldly to her, and threw a divorce letter in front of him.
“Let’s divorce!”
***
Yan Jiyue never imagined that he would be reborn. He happily went to find Su Mu, wanting to make up for the mistakes he had made in his ignorant youth.
Wasn’t the reason the heavens allowed him to be reborn to let him reconcile with Su Mu?
But when he pushed open the door to Su Mu’s room, the person lying on the bed was another man.
Su Mu’s personal attendant, Xie Yi.
Yan Jiyue hated him so much that his teeth itched. In front of Su Mu, Xie Yi was a gentle and considerate whisperer of sweet nothings, but in reality, he was vicious-hearted and deliberately sabotaged their husband and wife relationship.
In the previous life, it was he who secretly hid in Su Mu’s coffin and committed suicide, stealing a step ahead of him to be buried with Su Mu.
Yan Jiyue’s eyes were filled with hatred as he cursed, “What kind of thing are you? Your background is lowly, what right do you have to occupy Su Mu?”
Xie Yi looked at the sleeping Su Mu and no longer pretended to be a whisperer of sweet nothings.
He proudly stuck out his belly, “I have the right because my belly is capable of giving the Wife-master a daughter.”
***
Yan Jiyue was consumed with jealousy. He spread rumors that Xie Yi had once been branded with the mark of a “harlot” on his chest.
But on the night Xie Yi cut off the flesh bearing that mark, Su Mu suddenly realized something was amiss.
“How did you know the exact moment I was poisoned? And why did you show up a month early?”
Xie Yi remained silent, blood from his wound soaking through his robes. His sapphire eyes brimmed with anguish – or was it just a flawless act?
Between a once-arrogant husband now seeking redemption, and a gentle soul willing to die for her – who truly held the darkest secrets? And could it be that Su Mu and Yan Jiyue weren’t the only ones given a second chance at life…?
[Reading Guide]
1. True divorce, chasing the wife to the crematorium, the female lead doesn’t look back, the male lead is Xie Yi.
2. The ex-husband did not cheat, he just realized too late and didn’t realize that he liked the female lead.
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