From then on, he couldn’t see anything. After arriving at the hotel, he ran through the lobby and got on the elevator. Breathing steadily, he thought and thought that it wouldn’t be Jina’s true feelings.
When he opened the door and entered, the reality was truly a raw scene. Dojin’s behavior was not strange enough to be suspicious. Jina, who was on the bed, didn’t say a word, just froze when she saw herself.
What Jinwoo saw in that brief moment was Jina’s empty fingers. The ring he gave her when he proposed was not there.
It felt like his heart had fallen to the ground until it stopped, lacking only the pounding.
Did she really abandon me?
He wanted to say something, anything, to scream at her.
The warm emotions surged through his throat, but he barely swallowed them.
There was something that needed to be resolved first. He came here solely for this purpose.
It was for Jina.
“When this is over, I will also look at you calmly.”
I vowed throughout the conversation.
However, when Jina collapsed, my body reacted first. More than anyone else.
Ah, I can’t abandon you.
Even if you abandon me, I can’t abandon you.
In the desperate realization, my body struggled.
But when Jina saw the black USB she presented, it seemed like she knew why she had met Dojin and why she was here. As if cold water had been poured over me, I suddenly regained my senses.
Why couldn’t I trust her?
For a moment, I doubted her.
I felt angry at myself and feared I might go crazy.
Please, snap out of it.
Throughout the journey to the hospital, Jinwoo held Jina’s body, and he couldn’t even breathe properly.
If something happened to Jina, he had no reason to live either.
Because she was his everything.
“You seem to have suffered severe shock and temporarily lost consciousness.”
Upon the diagnosis of the chief doctor in the VIP ward, Jinwoo could breathe a sigh of relief.
“Is that all?”
“Yes. And looking at the blood test results, there doesn’t seem to be any other issues.”
Jinwoo’s tense shoulders slowly relaxed.
“You’re pregnant.”
“What?”
At the shocking news, Jinwoo’s expression stiffened.
“We will administer nutritional supplements for expectant mothers.”
After the chief doctor left, Jinwoo looked down at Jina with a numb face.
With a face that seemed to have fallen asleep with a faint smile, tears welled up in his chest.
Jina’s hand, cooled by the antipyretic effect, was cold. Jinwoo, with trembling fingertips, held Jina’s hand.
“Jina.”
Calling her name faintly hurt.
“Jina.”
Once more.
His chest tightened at her name, silently rolling in her mouth.
Even if she rejected him, he was ready to bear it.
Whatever the reason, Jinwoo had no intention of letting Jina go.
“I can’t let you go.”
Carefully passing her sweat-soaked hair, he murmured.
This was the extent of his love…
“I’m sorry…”
Don’t forgive me for suspecting you.
Jina opened her eyes after a whole day had passed.
“Oh, Jina! Are you coming to your senses?”
Her mom and dad were in front of Jina’s eyes.
“Mom…”
“What is all this about? We told you to eat well. Malnutrition is no joke.”
Her mom gently stroked Jina’s pale face.
“Maybe you pushed yourself too hard on the diet.”
Jina smiled with a graceful smile.
“What diet did I do with this skinny body!”
“How did you end up here?”
“They called from the hospital, so I rushed over.”
“Ah…”
Thinking that Jinwoo might have called, Jina asked with a disappointed sound.
“Is your husband doing well on his business trip?”
At the sudden question, Jina’s eyes widened slightly.
“Huh? Uh, yeah.”
“As soon as your husband left, what’s all this fuss?”
“It’s nothing.”
The memory was faint. Was the person who entered the hotel room Jinwoo?
The longing fragrance that tightened his heart was undoubtedly Jinwoo’s.
And the voice.
His endlessly low and gentle voice seemed to have called her.
It was undoubtedly so.
Why aren’t you by my side now? Where are you, Seo Jinwoo?
Jina turned her longing gaze out the window.
“Rest a little more. Mom and Dad are here.”
In response to her parents’ warm voices, Jina closed her eyes again.
How long had she been asleep?
When Jina opened her eyes again, she saw the darkened hospital room. Blinking slowly after waking up, Jina realized her parents weren’t there; they must have been sleeping in the guardian room. Getting up from the bed, Jina swayed slightly.
At that moment, someone grabbed her. The familiar scent that touched her nose made Jina’s eyes widen.
“Seo Jinwoo?”
Even his low whisper was familiar. His sturdy embrace, too.
As the moonlight shone in the dark shadows, the face of the man she missed appeared.
“Are you okay?”
Jinwoo’s voice made Jina feel breathless with joy. Her heart pounded.
“When did you come? Didn’t you go to the U.S.? Is it really you who came to the hotel?”
Unasked questions poured out all at once.
“Yes.”
Jinwoo looked at Jina with a faint smile.
“It’s me.”
The atmosphere surrounding Jinwoo, whom she faced after two days, seemed somewhat dark. Jina, with a worried expression, opened her mouth.
“What happened?”
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.”