Seeing Eun Soo’s anxious appearance, Hyuk Joo’s heart ached even more.
Could she be ill?
Hyuk Joo reached out his hand.
“Eun Soo.”
“……It’s just a cold.”
“I know.”
“But why did we come all the way here? We could have gone to a small hospital nearby.”
“You’ve been very sick.”
At Hyuk Joo’s voice, Eun Soo raised her head.
The words ‘Why are you worrying about me, Hyuk Joo?’ almost came up to her throat, but Eun Soo swallowed them back down.
His face was full of concern. The sincerity in his gaze made Eun Soo’s heart ache.
If she had refused to go to the hospital, Hyuk Joo seemed ready to drop to his knees. Eun Soo realized that her constant refusal would be useless.
It would be better to tell the doctor that she was pregnant and return.
Ignoring the hand he held out to her, Eun Soo got out of the car.
She thought that if she didn’t hold his hand, he would be taken aback, but Hyuk Joo didn’t seem to be. As if he had already guessed that Eun Soo would not hold his hand.
“Let’s go in there.”
Hyuk Joo pointed to the building in front of them.
Eun Soo walked ahead in the direction he gestured. She walked briskly, like an angry person.
She wanted to keep as much distance from Hyuk Joo as possible.
If she were next to him, seeing his face, meeting his eyes again, her determination might crumble. Eun Soo was afraid of that.
It seemed better to quickly meet the doctor, explain her condition, and leave the hospital.
An engine roared and a motorcycle sped up. Eun Soo’s eyes widened in surprise. Before she could even think about avoiding it, her body froze.
Throughout this, her two hands were wrapped around her flat stomach.
It was just before the motorcycle narrowly sped past them.
Hyuk Joo suddenly pulled Eun Soo into his arms. Like an instinctive reaction, he embraced Eun Soo deeply.
“Are you okay?”
“……Yes.”
Eun Soo answered in a faint voice.
As she exhaled a sigh of relief, she realized. She was in Hyuk Joo’s arms.
His heavy body scent tickled her nose. A flood of emotions surged at the familiarity she had felt countless times in the past, when they had lived closely together.
How much comfort and warmth had she felt in his arms?
Even when she couldn’t read love in Hyuk Joo’s eyes looking at her, it was why she continued to hope.
She might as well have laid everything bare from the beginning.
Then I could have understood you too.
Misunderstandings upon misunderstandings piled up and warped their relationship into an irreversible state. Hence, even when he said he would try, Eun Soo turned away from Hyuk Joo.
She thought she had said goodbye forever, but at the moment she was in his familiar arms, she couldn’t help but feel how much she had missed him.
As she pulled away from Hyuk Joo’s embrace, Eun Soo deliberately turned away from him.
“I’m really fine. I’ll just ask the doctor to prescribe cold medicine.”
“Since we’re here, let’s get a checkup.”
“I’ll take care of that from now on. Just like I’ve always done.”
“……”
Hyuk Joo’s eyes hardened.
Just like I’ve always done.
Eun Soo’s recent words pierced his heart like a needle.
Those words sounded like a reproach, as if she were saying ‘why are you suddenly acting like this after ignoring me all this time?’. At the same time, guilt welled up in him for having messed up his role as a husband.
He had to admit that his relationship with Eun Soo had distorted beyond recovery with just an apology. But that didn’t mean he could give up.
So far, Eun Soo had followed him, now it was time for him to follow Eun Soo.
“Let’s go to an internal medicine clinic nearby, not here.”
“Alright.”
Upon hearing Hyuk Joo’s reply, Eun Soo’s face relaxed considerably.
If she went to the university hospital and revealed her pregnancy, it was clear that somehow the news would reach Hyuk Joo’s ears. And then, it would only be a matter of time before Yeong Ran found out.
She didn’t want to push the situation that far. If it did, it seemed like she wouldn’t be able to protect the baby.
Eun Soo quickly returned to the front of the car.
They moved to a hospital located 10 minutes away from the townhouse where Eun Soo was staying.
It was a small hospital, so there weren’t that many patients. While waiting for the doctor after the reception, Hyuk Joo constantly checked on Eun Soo’s condition.
Whether she had a fever or if her cough had worsened.
“How could your morning sickness not go away?”
The hospital door opened and a pregnant woman with a big belly entered. Next to her, a man who seemed to be her husband was anxiously pacing.
Eun Soo’s eyes naturally went to the pregnant woman who sat down with a scowl on her face.
How many months does it take to get a belly that big?
She found herself staring at the woman, and when she raised her head, she made eye contact with the pregnant woman. Eun Soo cautiously asked the pregnant woman who turned her head slightly.
“How many months along are you?”
“I’m 8 months.”
“Ah……”
“Are you in the early stages?”
“Pardon?”
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
