TK General Hospital, in front of the operating room.

Inho kept silent with his eyes closed in front of the operating room.

Though he hurried to the hospital following the ambulance, Suyeon had already entered the operating room.

“Oh, the patient… Besides the visible contusions, there are fractures and intra-abdominal bleeding, so she went into emergency surgery just now.”

When Inho asked the nurse at the desk about Suyeon’s whereabouts, an unexpected answer came back.

He felt like collapsing into the chair at any moment, but Inho came swiftly to the operating room.

“Sigh…”

He recalled what happened just a while ago, and a deep sigh escaped.

Inho pressed both hands to his forehead, closing his eyes tightly.

Straight into his view, the events from the previous night came vividly back.

“Trying to deceive me, not knowing the value I’ve raised!!”

“Ugh…!”

Unable to overpower Daeho with Suyeon’s body, in the midst of enduring the beating while defending herself, an unexpected blow struck deep into her abdomen.

She gasped in pain, and as she lost consciousness, looking back, it seemed like that had become the problem.

Inho furrowed his brows and took a deep breath.

The solid and oppressive pain in his chest felt like a lump settling down.

Ultimately, it was all his fault.

If he had just kept his wits about him and defended well, there wouldn’t have been a need for surgery.

Thinking that Suyeon was enduring the horrific pain he felt just before his body changed, his heart ached as if it were being torn apart.

“Please…”

If only her body hadn’t returned to normal, so that he could be the one inside.

Inho couldn’t bear the fear that Suyeon might go wrong.

One second felt like one minute, and one minute felt like an hour.

“Hey, Inho!”

Suddenly, a voice calling him reached his ears not far away.

When he slowly raised his head, he saw Youngseon running towards him anxiously.

Inho looked at Youngseon without even thinking about getting up from his seat.

“Hey, what’s going on! Suyeon is getting surgery! Why!”

Youngseon, with a pale face, couldn’t hide her shock.

It seemed like the hospital had contacted her since she knew about Suyeon’s condition without him having informed her.

“…She had intra-abdominal bleeding, so she went into emergency surgery.”

Inho conveyed the current situation with a heavy breath.

Youngseon’s complexion turned even paler.

The heavier her sighs, the less comprehensible her words became.

It seemed there were stories exchanged between Suyeon and Youngseon during the time when he had Suyeon’s body.

Inho closed his eyes tightly, overwhelmed by the complex emotions flooding in.
After the body switch, Inho never had a moment of peace, and Suyeon might have endured even more difficult times than him. Knowing better than anyone what was happening in Taesin, she must not have had a single comfortable second. Even amid such difficulties, she was depicted as someone who tried her best to run around and even take care of Youngseon to save herself. Inho’s shoulders shook roughly. The fact that all he could do for her was stand guard here was so agonizing that he couldn’t even breathe. And he was terrified. Terrified that something might go wrong with Suyeon. Terrified that he might never see her again. Terrified that she might never come back to him forever.

“Haah…”

The weight of the sighs that flowed out incessantly became increasingly heavy. Inho had to shake off his head without hesitation.

“Suyeon. Suyeon.”

Through the familiar voice that invaded his consciousness after a long time of achieving a brief nap, Suyeon forcibly flickered her eyelids.

‘….’

She definitely heard someone’s voice and opened her eyes, but there was nothing to see. No matter how she fumbled around, she couldn’t find a single spot of light, as if what she had always thought was nothing but darkness in her life had become a reality. Suddenly, fear surged. She called out desperately the name that instinctively came to her mind while groping around.

“Mr. Inho! Mr. Inho!!”

The voice she heard during her half-asleep state clearly resembled Inho’s, but she couldn’t understand why she couldn’t see him.

Still, clinging to hope that he might be nearby, she headed towards an unknown place, one step at a time. Wandering through the place full of darkness, which seemed like nothing but fear, each step became an indescribable horror.

Nevertheless, Suyeon didn’t give up and reached out her feet earnestly to find Inho.

She walked and walked. If Inho didn’t appear in this direction, she turned her steps in the opposite direction. If he wasn’t visible there either, she turned her body towards another place.

But no matter how she roamed around, she couldn’t find him, and she became more and more exhausted.

It was when she was about to sit down, unable to overcome the pain in her tired legs.

“Suyeon.”

The voice that resembled Inho echoed once again in her ears.