Upon hearing Eun Soo’s words, the doctor bit his lip with a hesitant look on his face.
“I want to have a healthy child.”
Eun Soo said with force.
She couldn’t remember exactly when it was as she was young. However, the image of her mom and dad arguing because of her disease vividly flashed in her mind.
The voice of her father, blaming her mother for everything, insisting they should have looked into it since there were many cancer patients in the maternal family, rang sharply in her ears as if it had just happened. And even the image of her mother, sobbing silently while holding her hand as she slept in the hospital room.
Eun Soo was afraid that the same situation might happen to her.
If my child gets sick……
The mere thought made the tip of her nose sting.
Remembering the pain she experienced during the treatment in her younger days, Eun Soo felt a severe sense of fear. Her hands, tightly clenched in her lap, trembled.
“Eun Soo?”
“……”
“Eun Soo?”
Eun Soo was almost in a state of panic, unable to hear the doctor calling her.
Sensing that her condition was not normal, the doctor stood up from his seat and called her again. But when there was no response, the doctor came closer and gently patted Eun Soo’s shoulder.
“Eun Soo.”
“……Yes?”
Eun Soo, who had come to her senses, slowly lifted her head.
Her large eyes were filled with moisture. The doctor, looking at her with sympathetic eyes, took out a tissue from the desk and handed it to her.
“Wipe your tears.”
“Thank you.”
Biting her lower lip, Eun Soo firmly wiped the tears pooled at the corners of her eyes with the tissue.
The doctor, who had returned to his seat, waited until Eun Soo’s condition had calmed down before opening his mouth.
“Eun Soo, are you okay?”
“……Yes, doctor.”
“Don’t be too scared first. It’s most important to believe that a healthy child will come to you, Eun Soo.”
“That’s true.”
Eun Soo nodded in response.
“Above all, you need to be at ease.”
“Yes.”
She had heard countless times that a child comes when you are at ease. But today, the same words strangely comforted her. Probably because no other doctor empathized with her words more than this one.
Instead of saying thank you, Eun Soo showed a bright smile towards the doctor.
Eun Soo, who had come out of the consultation room, cupped her face in her palms and then released it.
She had only wanted to have a child, she had never thought about how dangerous that might be.
If the child gets sick like her…
Her eyes became hot again. Unable to burst into tears in the hospital hallway, Eun Soo pressed the corners of her eyes with her fingertips and then pulled away.
“I was too selfish.”
She muttered to herself with a bitter smile.
Eun Soo turned on her phone screen and checked the time. She had told her driver that she was going to see an art exhibition and that it would take about three hours.
She had calculated the time it would take to travel from the art gallery to the hospital and the time for the consultation.
There was still about an hour left until it was three hours.
She wanted to take a walk and sort out her thoughts. Thinking that she could walk for about 10 minutes and then take a taxi back to the art gallery, Eun Soo slowly walked along the road.
Just after a few steps…
Something dropped from the sky onto the sidewalk, thump, thump.
At first, she thought it was rain. However, what was falling onto her head felt colder than rain.
Eun Soo covered her head with her palm and looked up at the sky.
She thought it was heavy rain, but what was falling on her head was a mix of rain and snow in places.
Looking around, there was no place to avoid the sleet. Feeling like her clothes would get all wet without an umbrella, Eun Soo quickly waved her hand at the side of the road.
Maybe because she was in a hurry, she couldn’t see a single taxi, which were frequently passing by just moments ago.
The sounds of cars dashing down the road seemed harsh.
Her beige coat was starting to get stained with the sleet.
Just then, a taxi pulled up.
Eun Soo quickly got in and told the driver the name of the art gallery, then she pulled a handkerchief from her bag and wiped the moisture from her coat.
When the taxi got caught in traffic, the driver looked outside and clicked his tongue.
“If it’s going to rain, let it rain. If it’s going to snow, let it snow.”
The driver exhaled a long sigh and muttered to himself.
“On days like this, you should stay at home and eat tangerines. After I drop you off, I think I’ll just go home.”
Scratching his grizzled sideburns, the driver muttered again, more to himself than anyone else. All the while, he kept talking about how his daughter was a famous designer at some company and how she had studied all on her own, the story being somewhat tedious.
Even though Eun Soo didn’t respond, the driver didn’t stop bragging about his daughter.
Suddenly, Eun Soo thought the taxi driver’s daughter must be really happy. If her father was bragging about her nonstop like this, how lovely a daughter she must be.
The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
