“I didn’t ask. I don’t need to know the details of your love story with him.”
“Ah….”
Seo Yeon Ji tilted her head for a moment, then gave a faint smile.
Like Moon Hyuk Joo, Seo Yeon Ji’s face relaxed, seeming to think that Eun Soo had acknowledged their relationship.
“I asked to meet because I have a favor to ask.”
“Tell me.”
Eun Soo spoke in an emotionless voice.
Seo Yeon Ji’s face was much lighter compared to before. She took a quiet breath, then moved her small, full lips.
“Just stay by Hyuk Joo oppa’s side as you are now. I don’t ask for more, that’s all I need.”
“…Alright.”
With a slow response, Eun Soo stood from her seat.
She forced strength into her legs to prevent herself from hesitating. She concentrated all her nerves on her feet.
Step by step, Eun Soo walked towards the flower shop’s door. She bit her lip hard, worried that the clicking sound of her footsteps might falter.
Clank.
The door closed with a sound.
Eun Soo hastened her heavy steps, wanting to get as far away from the flower shop as possible.
Just keep walking.
Walk and walk, and get far away.
After a while of walking, Eun Soo suddenly realized one of her hands was empty.
“My medical records….”
The envelope containing her medical records given by her father was missing.
“I’m going crazy.”
How could she have left it at the flower shop?
Eun Soo let her shoulders slump. Holding her forehead, she retraced her steps.
As she neared the flower shop, she saw Seo Yeon Ji. Seeing Eun Soo, she ran over and handed her the envelope.
“You left this.”
“Thank you.”
Eun Soo received the envelope, nodding briefly in acknowledgment, then turned around.
“Excuse me….”
At the sound of Seo Yeon Ji’s voice calling her, Eun Soo turned her head.
“Did you go to Sincere Hospital?”
“Yes.”
“It’s written on the envelope.”
Seo Yeon Ji pointed at the envelope in Eun Soo’s hand. She looked up at Eun Soo, her pupils trembling under her eyelashes.
Eun Soo was puzzled by the sight of Seo Yeon Ji looking at her with a serious face.
Did she know about Sincere Hospital?
Sincere Hospital was in a small provincial city. Unless one lived in that area, they wouldn’t know about the hospital.
“My friend briefly worked as a nurse in that hospital.”
“…Really?”
“Yes.”
“But Sincere Hospital closed down 10 years ago?”
“Er… was it another hospital?”
Flustered, Seo Yeon Ji stumbled over her words.
Eun Soo looked at the blushing Seo Yeon Ji with a cold gaze, then walked the way she came.
Left alone, Seo Yeon Ji stared at Eun Soo’s back for quite a while.
Until Eun Soo’s figure completely disappeared from her sight, she chewed nervously on her fingernails.
“It can’t be her, can it?”
Anxious, Seo Yeon Ji clasped her forehead with her hand.
“It must be a coincidence. There’s no way the girl Hyuk Joo oppa mentioned is Oh Eun Soo.”
She shook her head, trying hard to erase the troubling thought that came to mind.
Hyuk Joo rubbed his forehead with a finger, listening to the silence over the phone.
— The branch manager said he would find all the money, do you really know nothing about this?
During the meeting, he received a memo about an urgent call from Director Moon Young Ran and stepped out to take it.
He thought there might have been a problem at the company he wasn’t aware of.
However, his aunt asked if there was anything going on, mentioning that Eun Soo had gone to the bank where she was transacting that day and said she would collect all the money. It was a question he simply couldn’t answer.
— Did she say she needed money for her family?
“Yes.”
— Chairman Oh Ju Hwan might have overstepped his boundaries.
“……I will check.”
Hyuk Joo said in a subdued voice.
Perhaps waiting for him to say he would confirm it, his aunt’s fervent questioning subsided.
Quickly mentioning that he had stepped out of a meeting, Hyuk Joo hung up his aunt’s call.
He ran his hands through his hair with a tired look in his eyes.
Chairman Oh Ju Hwan, Eun Soo’s father, was not a clean man.
This applied to his private life as well as his company affairs.
The marriage wasn’t unknowing.
The reason he met Eun Soo first out of several matchmade candidates was precisely because of Chairman Oh Ju Hwan.
He thought that like her father, the daughter would have many weaknesses and be greedy.
He thought she would be a partner he wouldn’t mind having an unloving marriage with.
However, Eun Soo was a completely different person from her father.
Because of this, Hyuk Joo was inwardly taken aback.
Eun Soo was too clean a person to marry him.
Hyuk Joo still hadn’t clearly realized why he, who could have rejected the marriage, chose Eun Soo.
He just wanted to do it.
He just wanted to say yes to Eun Soo, who said she needed to marry him.
“Vice President.”
As Hyuk Joo’s absence grew longer, Director Song came out of the conference room.
“Please check where Eun Soo is now.”
Hyuk Joo loosened his necktie knot in a subdued voice.
“Madam, I’m leaving now.”
Eun Soo, who had been diligently massaging her mother’s legs, lifted her head at the greeting from the caregiver.
Normally, the caregiver had been nursing her mother from morning till late at night, but today, she had an important appointment and said she would leave a bit early.
So, Eun Soo had to watch over her mother’s sickroom until the night shift caregiver arrived.
“Take care.”
“Yes, Madam.”
The caregiver was about to leave the sickroom when she suddenly approached Eun Soo.
“Madam.”
“Yes?”
The caregiver whispered in a low voice as if she was about to share some monumental secret.
“Doctor Kim said that another doctor would be coming for a month because of a conference or something, right?”
“Yes.”
“The substitute doctor who came to greet us earlier today was young and handsome. He said he’d definitely greet you later, so please meet him when he comes.”
The caregiver covered her mouth with her hand and chuckled secretly.
“Yes, I will. I’m curious to see how handsome he is.”
“He’s not quite up to the Vice President’s standards though.”
“But don’t you need to leave now?”
“Oh, my.”
The caregiver checked the time on her mobile phone screen and opened the sickroom door with her distinctive Busanstyle gesture.
“Oh my goodness!”
Startled by the caregiver’s exclamation, Eun Soo turned her head.
“Did the Vice President come?”
“Yes.”
Seeing the sudden appearance of Hyuk Joo, Eun Soo rose from her seat with surprised eyes.
The caregiver, saying she had some business to attend to, gave a slight bow and left the room.
Eun Soo directed a puzzled gaze towards Hyuk Joo entering the sickroom.
“Why are you here?”
“Do you think I shouldn’t have come?”
“No, it’s not that……”
Before Eun Soo’s hesitant words could fully come out, someone knocked on the sickroom door.
Shortly after, the door opened and a doctor in a white gown entered.
“Hello.”
“Hello.”
Eun Soo bowed her head toward the doctor who greeted her first. When she raised her face to look at the doctor, she was momentarily surprised.
It was the person who had found her cellphone.
“Are you the guardian of the patient, Um Hye Yeon?”
“Yes.”
In response to the doctor asking who she was, Eun Soo nodded her head.
When she turned her head slightly, she saw Hyuk Joo’s stiff profile.
He seemed to be wary of the doctor who was showing an excessively friendly smile.
“Starting from today, for a month, I will be in charge of patient Um Hye Yeon, standing in for Professor Kim Won Jin. My name is Hwang In Woo.”
“Hwang In Woo……?”
Upon hearing the doctor’s name, Eun Soo tilted her head.
It was a name she knew.
Eun Soo slowly looked at the face of the doctor standing in front of her. The doctor, seeing Eun Soo carefully examining his face, asked with a smile.
“Guardian, do you not remember who I am?”
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