The Day I Quit Being a Wife (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 11
The doctor, hearing Eun Soo’s words, hesitated and bit his lip.
“I want to have a healthy baby.”
Eun Soo said firmly.
She couldn’t recall exactly when it had happened—she’d been too young—but the image of her parents arguing because of her illness remained vivid in her mind.
Her father’s voice, blaming her mother for everything, saying they should’ve known earlier since there were many cancer patients in her maternal family, echoed in her ears as if it had just occurred. And her mother, silently weeping while holding her sleeping hand in the hospital room.
Eun Soo was afraid the same situation might happen to her.
If my child gets sick…
Just imagining it made her nose sting.
Memories of the pain she’d endured during treatment as a child flooded back, filling her with intense fear. Her tightly clasped hands trembled violently.
“Oh Eun Soo?”
“…….”
“Eun Soo?”
Eun Soo was so deep in panic she couldn’t even hear the doctor calling her name.
Noticing her distress, the doctor stood up and called her again. When she still gave no response, he stepped closer and gently tapped her shoulder.
“Eun Soo.”
“……Yes?”
Eun Soo slowly lifted her head, emerging from her thoughts.
Her large eyes were filled with tears. The doctor, looking at her with pity, took a tissue from his desk and handed it to her.
“Wipe them.”
“Thank you.”
Biting her lower lip, Eun Soo pressed the tissue firmly against the corners of her eyes to dab away the tears.
After returning to his seat, the doctor waited until Eun Soo had calmed down before speaking.
“Eun Soo, are you all right?”
“……Yes, Doctor.”
“Don’t be so scared. What’s most important is believing a healthy baby will come to you.”
“I suppose so.”
Eun Soo nodded tightly as she replied.
“Most of all, you need to stay relaxed.”
“Yes.”
She’d heard countless times that staying calm helped a baby settle in. Yet somehow, those same words comforted her today—probably because this doctor genuinely empathized with her more than any other.
Instead of saying thank you, Eun Soo simply smiled brightly at the doctor.
After leaving the examination room, Eun Soo covered her face with her palms, then pulled them away.
She’d only ever longed to have a child without once considering how dangerous that desire might be.
If my child becomes sick like I was…
Her eyes grew warm again. Not wanting to burst into tears right there in the hospital corridor, she pressed her fingertips firmly around her eyes and then pulled away.
“I’ve been too selfish.”
She muttered to herself with a bitter smile.
Eun Soo turned on her phone screen and checked the time. She’d told the driver she’d be attending an art exhibition and that it would take about three hours.
She’d calculated the travel time from the museum to the hospital and added the consultation duration when giving that estimate.
She still had about an hour before the three hours were up.
She wanted to walk a bit and clear her thoughts. Figuring she’d walk for ten minutes, then take a taxi back to the museum, Eun Soo began walking slowly down the street.
She’d taken just a few steps
when something suddenly dropped from the sky onto the pavement—plop, plop.
At first, she thought it was rain. But whatever fell on her felt colder than rain.
Covering her head with her palm, Eun Soo looked up at the sky.
What she’d assumed was heavy rain turned out to be sleet—rain mixed with snowflakes here and there.
She glanced around but saw no place nearby to take shelter from the sleet. Without an umbrella, her clothes would get soaked, so Eun Soo quickly stepped onto the main road and waved her hand.
In her urgency, not a single taxi—though they’d passed frequently just moments ago—was in sight.
Only the sound of cars speeding by reached her ears, frustratingly distant.
Her beige coat was already stained with damp patches from the sleet.
Just then, a taxi pulled over and stopped.
Eun Soo hurried inside, gave the museum’s name, and pulled a handkerchief from her bag to wipe the moisture off her coat.
When the taxi stopped at a red light, the driver clicked his tongue while looking out the window.
“If it’s going to rain, just rain. If it’s going to snow, just snow.”
He let out a long sigh and muttered to himself.
“On days like this, I should just stay home and peel tangerines. I’ll drop you off and head straight home myself.”
While scratching the gray hair near his ears, the driver continued talking almost to himself. Throughout the drive, he kept rambling about how his daughter worked as a designer at some famous company and had gotten there entirely through her own efforts—a story that grew slightly tiresome.
Even though Eun Soo didn’t respond, he never stopped boasting about his daughter.
Suddenly, Eun Soo thought how happy the driver’s daughter must be. To be praised so endlessly by her father out in public—she must truly be a beloved daughter.
Feeling envious, Eun Soo looked out the window.
The falling sleet had already turned into heavy rain. All of a sudden, she missed her mother.
“Mister, can we go somewhere other than the museum?”
“As long as it’s not back the way we came.”
Eun Soo gave the name of the hospital where her mother was staying. The driver happily agreed, saying his house was in that direction anyway.
As she entered the hospital, Eun Soo called the driver to tell him he could finish work for the day.
The driver looked surprised at first, but once Eun Soo explained she’d arrived at the hospital, he quickly understood. After hanging up, Eun Soo removed her wet coat, held it in her hand, and headed straight to her mother’s room.
Madam Sang Joo, seeing Eun Soo suddenly enter the room, jumped up from her seat in surprise.
Puzzled by Eun Soo’s unannounced arrival, soaked thoroughly in rain, Madam Sang Joo tilted her head.
“Oh dear, you didn’t even say you were coming.”
“I just felt like visiting.”
“You got caught in the rain? Goodness, your coat is completely soaked.”
Madam Sang Joo took Eun Soo’s coat and hung it on a hanger. Worried that the expensive fabric might stain from rainwater, she dabbed at the damp spots with tissues.
“Just leave it.”
Eun Soo grabbed Madam Sang Joo’s hand. Startled, Madam Sang Joo rubbed Eun Soo’s icy hand vigorously between her own palms.
“Why are your hands so cold? You’ll catch a cold!”
Madam Sang Joo’s overly fussy concern touched Eun Soo, making her nose tingle. It felt just like having her mother here.
If her mother had been healthy, she’d surely be acting exactly like Madam Sang Joo right now.
Tears welled up in Eun Soo’s eyes, and she pressed her lips tightly together before parting them.
“Please finish work early today.”
“Because Madam will be staying?”
“Yes.”
“With this awful weather, why not wait for Vice President Moon and go home together?”
“He’ll probably be very late again today.”
“Even so, if he hears you’re here, he might drop everything and come right away.”
At Madam Sang Joo’s words, Eun Soo only offered a faint smile.
Madam Sang Joo clearly thought Hyuk Joo was an exceptionally caring husband, based on how he occasionally visited to hand over envelopes or receive updates from the attending physician.
She had no idea it was merely guilt—guilt over keeping a wife he no longer loved by his side while his heart belonged to another woman.
“I’ll handle it myself. So please go home for today.”
Eun Soo sat down in the chair beside her mother’s bed as she spoke.
“I feel guilty taking such a generous salary and leaving so early.”
“Thanks to you, I can comfortably stay with my mother, so please don’t think that way.”
“I’m grateful you say that. Then, Madam, I’ll be off now.”
“Yes. Please be careful.”
After Madam Sang Joo left and Eun Soo was alone in the room, she opened the closet and took out spare clothes—her training outfit for long hospital stays.
She changed into the training clothes, gathered her hair into a ponytail, and even washed her face.
She wanted to spend the night with her mother.
She tried calling Hyuk Joo to let him know, but he didn’t answer—probably in a meeting. So she sent a message saying she’d stay at the hospital tonight.
She also called her mother-in-law, who said the driver had already informed her about the hospital visit and told her to go ahead.
Though it was her mother’s hospital, Eun Soo still felt grateful that her mother-in-law so readily agreed, even after Eun Soo had abruptly changed plans.
Yet at the same time,
“……She knows everything.”
Every time she heard her mother-in-law speak so openly—revealing she received reports through the driver or household staff about whom Eun Soo met and what she did—Eun Soo couldn’t shake the feeling of being watched.
Eun Soo stood up and looked out the window.
The rain was still pouring heavily, and puddles had formed in the sunken parts of the ground.
If it keeps raining like this, will the whole world drown?
Lately, she couldn’t understand why she kept having such absurd thoughts.
Probably because the situation surrounding Oh Eun Soo had become suffocatingly overwhelming.
“Sigh…”
As she exhaled, her breath fogged the windowpane white. Watching the fog gradually fade, Eun Soo furrowed her brow slightly.
When you feel suffocated, you simply have to free yourself.
Eun Soo turned her head and stared quietly at her mother’s face, deeply asleep without stirring.
After watching her mother for a long while, Eun Soo left the room to find a nurse.
“Can I check the hospital billing statement?”
“We send that directly to Vice President Moon Hyuk Joo every month.”
“I know. But I need to check something myself.”
“I see. I’ll check it right away and bring it to you. From when to when would you like the statement?”
“Just last month for now.”
“Understood.”
After hearing the nurse’s reply, Eun Soo returned to the room.
She wanted to know roughly how much her mother’s monthly hospital bills amounted to.
If Hyuk Joo asked for a divorce first, she planned to request that he let her mother continue treatment here as a condition of their separation.
He said he didn’t want a divorce, but his mind could change at any moment.
“I could just be the one to say it first.”
Eun Soo ran her hand once across her face.
Her relationship with Hyuk Joo might already be over. Or perhaps, from the very beginning, there’d never truly been a “beginning” between them at all.
It had been a relationship only she had suffered for.
Knock knock knock.
At the sudden sound of knocking, Eun Soo turned her head.
Hwang In Woo walked in through the open door. Dressed casually instead of in his doctor’s coat, he must have been on his way home from work.
“Why are you looking at me like you’re surprised?”
“Oh… I didn’t expect you to come.”
“To check on Auntie—and you asked me to bring this, right?”
In Woo handed her last month’s billing statement.
Eun Soo carefully examined the statement, checking how much each treatment item cost. But she couldn’t tell which treatments were essential and which could be omitted.
“But why the sudden request for the statement?”
“I just needed to check something.”
“What? You think our hospital’s scamming you or something?”
“No, it’s not like that…”
“I’m kidding.”
At In Woo’s words, Eun Soo bit her lip tightly before letting go and speaking.
“Hey, Oppa… can I ask you a favor?”
“What is it?”
“Could you tell me which treatments listed here are absolutely necessary for Mom, and which aren’t?”
Hwang In Woo slowly scanned the billing statement and then nodded.
“Of course I can. But only if you have dinner with me.”
He smiled, his handsome eyes crinkling slightly.
Male lead first thought she played hard to get, only to realize she
really disliked him
Short intro:
What she can’t stand the most is the streets full of effeminate men, especially that so-called top beauty whom she avoids at all costs.
Shen Yaoxing looks at Jiang Mingyue, who keeps approaching her with coy shyness.
Shen Yaoxing: Bro, don’t be like this, I’m really about to throw up!
She fears nothing in heaven or earth, except for him getting close to her.
*
At first he thought she was just using the trick of feigning indifference to attract his attention. Later, he learned that she truly despised him.
This dealt a heavy blow to Jiang Mingyue, and he vowed to make her, like everyone else, fall at his feet in worship!
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Synopsis:
Before transmigrating, Shen Yaoxing only wanted to find a reliable man to spend her life with. Who knew that after transmigrating, she would become a reliable woman herself…
A forced misandrist, highly skilled, and reliable female lead
vs.
An initially aloof and arrogant, later morbid, obsessed male lead
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The extreme miscommunication is getting on my nerves now.
I wish he could actually say what he fully means for once
Hyuk Joo does not mess around. When dealing with someone like this you have to be direct!