Earlier in the evening, Eun Soo’s husband, Moon Hyuk Joo, had come to the hospital room. He had looked for Eun Soo, panting heavily like a man in a hurry.
When asked if Eun Soo hadn’t come here today, In Woo shook his head.
When he shook his head, Moon Hyuk Joo, letting out a deep sigh, had made him want to argue for a moment.
You’re her husband, if you don’t know where Eun Soo is, then who does?
But before he could argue, Moon Hyuk Joo had left the room.
Seeing her like this, Hwang In Woo was worried that something might have happened to Eun Soo. He had called her, but Eun Soo didn’t answer. Despite this, he visited the hospital room just in case, and Eun Soo was there.
He opened the door to the hospital room, but Eun Soo didn’t notice.
“We’ll meet soon.”
Eun Soo choked up after uttering these words with a stoic finality.
“Mom, mom…… I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I’m really sorry.”
In Woo noticed that Eun Soo’s hand, which was holding the respirator, didn’t leave her head.
When a patient’s fight with illness dragged on, it was common for the weary caregiver to harbor extreme thoughts.
It was often due to the mounting hospital bills and the exhausting life of caregiving. For a moment, he thought that Eun Soo, who must also be struggling, might feel the same.
But Eun Soo’s situation was different from those caregivers.
She didn’t have to worry about hospital bills, nor did she have to take care of her mother all the time.
What on earth made Eun Soo cry like that?
“Drink this.”
In Woo pulled out an energy drink that was said to contain vitamins from the vending machine, opened the lid, and handed it to Eun Soo.
“Thank you.”
Eun Soo took a sip of the energy drink.
In Woo, sitting next to her, licked his lips and after a moment of hesitation, asked,
“Are you having a hard time?”
“……No.”
“Actually…… I saw earlier.”
“……!”
Eun Soo looked at In Woo with surprised eyes. She understood what his words of seeing earlier meant.
Eun Soo gripped the bottle of the energy drink tightly.
A laugh escaped at the absurdity of having revealed her lowest point.
Eun Soo held her face with her dry hand, then removed it.
“I’m just too tired……”
“What’s making you so tired?”
“Every day……”
Eun Soo emptied the rest of the energy drink.
As if they were in a vacuum, the two sat side by side without saying a word.
“Eun Soo.”
“Hmm.”
“Don’t do it again. You can’t do that now.”
“……”
“You’re someone who can’t do that now.”
“Somebody who can’t do that……”
Eun Soo slowly repeated the words In Woo had said. Then she confessed the torment she had been holding inside her.
“I think about it every day. Tomorrow will be harder than today. And the day after that will be even harder.”
“……”
“What’s most frightening is that there’s no end. I don’t know when this pain will end. Oppa, I’m really scared of that.”
“Hyeyeon Auntie……”
“It’s not just because of mom.”
Eun Soo bit her lips.
Her father, who used her mother as a hostage and forced her to raise the child of Moon Hyuk Joo’s woman.
And the pain of feeling her blood drain as she lived alongside Moon Hyuk Joo, who had to live as a couple with her in order to protect the woman he loved, was too hard.
The despair that this pain would not end until her death almost led her to do something she shouldn’t have.
“Not just because of mom?”
“……”
Watching Eun Soo’s silent figure, In Woo’s eyebrows subtly furrowed.
“Could it be……”
Seeing him trailing off, Eun Soo let out a dry laugh.
He must have heard the rumors related to Hyuk Joo as well.
As time passed and things seemed to calm down, the rumors didn’t tire and revived, circulating among people.
Even though Eun Soo didn’t respond, In Woo’s pupils hardened in an instant.
“‘Please make it so that our daughter’s medical history cannot be confirmed by her future inlaws.'”
Her father, who had nearly caused a scandal by demanding that Eun Soo’s medical history be erased.
In Woo still remembered that face filled with greed. There was no way he would have cared about rumors of Moon Hyuk Joo having another woman.
Eun Soo, what should I do with you?
In Woo could not muster the courage to unfold the test results he had put in his coat pocket.
“He’s a good husband, except for that.”
“…he’s not worthy of being a husband.”
“To me, he still is……”
He had instinctively realized.
Why Eun Soo was hesitating, why she was living in resignation in this ridiculous situation.
Because of her mother.
That’s why he couldn’t bring himself to ask her why.
Eun Soo got up from her seat.
In Woo followed her to the ward. He had something he needed to say. But he couldn’t bring himself to open his mouth.
He was worried that his words might make Eun Soo’s difficult situation even harder.
Although he often felt, even several times a day in his life as a doctor, that telling the truth was a difficult thing, he was extraordinarily distressed when it came to Eun Soo.
“Oppa.”
“Hmm.”
“Forget what you saw earlier. I think I must have lost my mind for a moment.”
“……”
“I wasn’t myself because of the cold. This is why I should take my medicine on time.”
Eun Soo pulled out a cold medicine from her bag.
It was a medicine she had got prescribed and intended to take, but she had been out of sorts and had only taken one packet, leaving the rest untouched.
She poured some water and tore open a packet of medicine.
“Eun Soo.”
In Woo grabbed Eun Soo’s hand that was holding the cold medicine. At his sudden action, Eun Soo’s eyes widened in surprise.
“Don’t take it.”
“Why?”
“……”
“Do you want to prescribe me a better cold medicine, Oppa?”
Eun Soo said with a laugh. But for some reason, Hwang In Woo was looking down at her with a rigid, hardened face.
Eun Soo’s throat dried up in tension under his serious gaze.
Could her health really have deteriorated?
To the point where she couldn’t carelessly take a common cold medicine.
Even though she knew it was an absurd thought, for a moment, Eun Soo thought it might be a blessing in disguise.
She wished she was really seriously ill.
She bit her dry lips.
She had been living with all her might, trying to hang in there somehow……
A sting came to the tip of her nose.
“I’ll prescribe you a different medicine.”
“I’ll just take this one today.”
Eun Soo tried to put the medicine in her mouth.
But then In Woo tightened his grip on her wrist and snatched the medicine away.
“Oppa?”
Eun Soo looked surprised at his unexpectedly rough action.
In Woo pulled out the packet of cold medicine from Eun Soo’s bag. Then, to prevent her from taking any, he put the pills and the packet in his coat pocket.
“Eun Soo.”
“Tell me. Why are you doing this.”
Eun Soo managed to put on a smile on her pale face, indicating she was prepared to accept any truth.
In Woo let out a long, heavy sigh.
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The Villainous Demon Lord Laid an Egg for Her (Female-Dominated)
Several months after transmigrating into a book, Yu Wu found herself facing the demon lord Li You, who could no longer conceal his dragon horns. With one hand on her aching waist and the other gripping a sharp sword, she stared at him.
The demon lord’s eyes were red with fury:
“This is all your doing! Today, I won’t rest until I kill you!”
Yu Wu rubbed her temples. Putting aside the taboo against bloodshed during pregnancy, wasn’t it this very man who willingly walked into her trap that day?!
Warnings:
- Male pregnancy.
- Height ratios are set to mirror typical male-female height proportions.
- Characters include a foot-loving demon lord and an eldest daughter from an immortal family’s concubine lineage.
