Sun Woo, who had connected an IV to Eun Jae’s slender arm, touched her feverish forehead with his hand.
Although he didn’t show it, he realized he had been tense. His cool hand quickly warmed up from Eun Jae’s heat.
Upon checking with a thermometer, her temperature exceeded 38.5 degrees.
He had thought his hand felt warm when he had touched Eun Jae’s cheek earlier, but now he knew it was because he always felt passionately fervent around her.
He remembered Eun Jae saying she didn’t like rainy days because she had more memories of getting wet. That it would lead to catching a cold as well.
Regrets about the things he knew but overlooked surged in like a tide.
Sun Woo, who had been looking at his wristwatch, let out a long sigh. It was really time to head back to the hospital.
Sun Woo turned his head slowly. His eyes met Tae Gyu’s, who had been hesitantly standing outside the door watching.
“Are you off?”
“Yes.”
Though he wasn’t pleased that his only option was Tae Gyu, objectively, there was no better candidate.
“It will take about 6 hours.”
Sun Woo slowly released the clamp connected to the IV line. He had been carefully controlling the drip speed.
“Time it and remove the fluid. That doesn’t mean to sit here until then.”
“……”
“Check the vital signs in 4 hours and contact me. I’ll decide then whether to give her antipyretics.”
Picking up his jacket from the chair, Sun Woo left the room. Tae Gyu grabbed Sun Woo’s shirt with a slightly surprised look.
“You’re not coming back until then?”
“Please.”
With hesitant steps, Sun Woo left. He turned to look at Eun Jae once, then again. Only after repeating this twice did he finally go downstairs.
She seemed to have fallen asleep in the brief time she lay down.
Was it because her tense body relaxed after washing off the cold with warm water? Her body felt drained of energy. She collapsed onto the bed as if fainting just after coming out of the bathroom.
She didn’t remember much after that. The man had told her to make sure to eat. She should go eat… and with that thought, her eyes closed unknowingly.
She thought she heard some noise in her half-asleep state.
The sound of someone panting, a worrying voice, and the thumping of a heart.
‘It’s cold…’
Even after waking up, Eun Jae couldn’t easily open her eyes. Despite being covered with a blanket, she curled up like a shrimp against the cold enveloping her.
Then she felt something connected to the back of her hand and slowly lifted her heavy eyelids.
What is this…?
She looked at the IV connected to her hand with widened eyes, and her gaze naturally moved to the chair where someone was sitting. The blurry back of a man entered her field of view.
“Sir…?”
At Eun Jae’s stir, Tae Gyu turned around and gave a slight smile.
“Sir? Is that a term of endearment?”
“Sorry. I thought you were Sun Woo.”
“So what if I’m not Sun Woo. You’re not fully awake.”
“How are you feeling now? Is your body okay?” Tae Gyu’s worried questions poured out incessantly.
“I’m a bit cold, but I don’t feel sick at all…”
“Why are you so insensitive?”
The voice she had heard in her half-asleep state didn’t seem to belong to him.
Was it the man? No, the man said he had to go to the hospital soon. Was it a dream?
“How long have I been like this?”
“About 3 hours.”
“I see.”
Do you know as well, sir? Are you worried? Even while conversing with Tae Kyu in front of me, my thoughts were entirely focused on Sun Woo.
“Did you insert this? I’m really scared of injections. It doesn’t hurt at all.”
“Is it different because Yoon Sun Woo inserted the needle?”
“Ah… I didn’t feel anything. I must have slept really deeply.”
You do know. Eun Jae absentmindedly brushed her hand over the back of her hand connected to the IV.
If you said you have to go to the hospital, why not go immediately.
Maybe the emotions and voice full of worries that I could clearly feel even in my sleep could be Sun Woo’s.
“Why do you keep speaking informally to Mr. Sun Woo? You’re six years older. Don’t just call him by his name like that!”
“What’s so special about being older? Are you the one who collapsed from a fever? Why are you so cheerful?”
“I’m always like this, so it’s not surprising anymore.”
Eun Jae slowly sat up. She wrapped the blanket, still retaining some lingering cold, around her whole body.
“Still cold?”
“Yeah, a little cold.”
“The fever has gone down. Maybe it’s because your body is weak… Want some porridge? Aunt made some because you’re sick.”
I felt somewhat sorry for giving her work to do on such a hot day.
“Ha… I’m a nuisance in so many ways.”
“It’s not a nuisance. I’ll go get it. At least have a spoonful for aunt’s sake.”
As Tae Kyu left his seat, Eun Jae, who was sitting blankly for a moment, picked up her cell phone on the coffee table. It was almost 9 PM.
—Where are you?
Ah. You had contacted me.
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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