Eunjae took out a tie from the shopping bag and wrapped it around his neck. It had been a long time since she tied a tie. That’s probably why her hands, tying the knot, fumbled and wandered in confusion.
To prevent him from having different thoughts.
No, before I change my mind.
Eunjae, with trembling eye movements, quickly filled in the remaining two buttons, preventing him from having different thoughts.
He couldn’t have any other thoughts.
Smiling at the thought, Sunwoo made a light, joking sound, “Today’s service is good.”
“…”
“If I may say so myself, I’m quite a good husband, right?”
Sunwoo’s question made Eunjae, who was tying a tie, stop. Her gaze lingered on Sunwoo’s face for a long time.
“It’s not just good.”
Eunjae adjusted the tie again, gently brushing his broad shoulders as she spoke.
“I wonder what good deeds I did in my past life to have a man like him as my husband.”
“Really? Feels good.”
Eunjae’s fingers, which had risen slowly from his lips, gently touched Sunwoo’s cheek. His skin, now slightly prickly, was clearly felt.
Although it had not been said before, perhaps as much as me, or maybe even more.
His appearance, which must have been exhausting to decipher both physically and emotionally for me and Mom, flashed through my mind, making the bridge of my nose tingle.
Eunjae pinched her nose with her fingers, trying not to cry.
“Did you eat?”
“I’ll eat when I go home later.”
“Are you coming to my place today?”
“The bed here is too hard.”
“Pfft…”
She shouldn’t laugh, but a burst of laughter erupted momentarily. The tears that were about to come out of her eyes rushed back in. Sunwoo made a quiet gesture, mirroring Eunjae’s expression, and gently wiped her eyes.
“Above all, without you, I can’t sleep, I have no strength. I’m exhausted.”
“…”
“Now, I can’t sleep without you.”
In response to his gaze, which was firmly fixed on her, as if unable to endure any longer, Eunjae hugged Sunwoo’s neck. Eunjae’s warm and soft lips, like marshmallows, lightly touched Sunwoo’s lips.
“Thank you. Really.”
“It’s been exactly two weeks today since you couldn’t sleep.”
As their eyes briefly met, the downturned lips rose again.
“Do you know how much I’m holding back right now?”
Sunwoo’s hands, which had unknowingly climbed up Eunjae’s neck, were warm. Heat dripped off from his eyes, responding to his voice.
Her heart, responding to his voice, made a loud sound. One side of his lips smirked provocatively.
“I clearly said I locked the door.”
The soft murmur, as if warning, seemed to be heard near the lips. Without time to think otherwise, the lips were swallowed up in an instant.
Messing up Eunjae’s hair at the back of her head, Sunwoo breathed deeply into her. Though hastily coordinated, the movements were soft.
As Eunjae, who was overwhelmed by the significant height difference, exhaled heavily, her body, which had been raised on the table, returned to normal.
Sharing many glances at a similar height for a short time, they once again pressed their lips together as if making a promise.
Inhaling warm breaths, he entangled her mind with more intense movements.
Dazed and confused.
In a hospital room filled only with the sounds of breathing and mucous membranes colliding, a lively melody echoed after quite some time had passed.
Slowly parting his lips, Sunwoo looked at Eunjae once again. As if regretful, he pulled out his phone from the outer pocket, matching his lips full of laughter to Eunjae’s pretty lips.
Checking messages on his work phone, Sunwoo furrowed his eyebrows.
“This guy always does this when he says he’ll leave work.”
“Go quickly.”
Eunjae, who was wiping his red lips, smiled and said, “The rest, do it when you leave work and get home.”
“Wait here, I’ll tidy up and be back in 10 minutes.”
Sunwoo’s steps toward the intensive care unit were light.
Before leaving work, he planned to meet his mother-in-law and tell her that they would move to a regular hospital room tomorrow.
She had always been a source of concern for Eunjae. She must have wanted to see her. She waited as much as Eunjae did.
Two days after the major surgery, his mother-in-law, who regained consciousness, looked for Eunjae first.
She didn’t ask if the surgery went well. With a voice that was very hoarse, she asked if Eunjae had a hard time because of her, if he cried a lot, if he was eating well.
In fact, he had a hard time, cried a lot, and didn’t eat well. Thanks to his mother-in-law, he became a bad husband.
I couldn’t bring myself to say that, and I vividly remembered sweating while adding a little lie.
Looking back, it was another memory.
Laughter never left Sunwoo’s face.
As he wiped off the lipstick on his lips, Sunwoo’s eyes, which had been pondering the words she had said to him, narrowed.
“Do the rest when you leave work.”
Looking up at him with both cheeks red, that expression, with a languid look, was very seductive.
If it weren’t for the hospital room, no, if it weren’t for the hospital room…
Where did he learn to make such an expression?
“Ji Eunjae, this is a provocation.”
He would willingly respond to that provocation. Already, looking forward to the night was a first.
Sunwoo, who was walking while wriggling his tail that kept rising, suddenly stopped in his tracks about ten steps away from the intensive care unit. The lips that had been pouting until a moment ago now calmly descended.
At the front of the intensive care unit, she was seen biting her nails and looking restless. A gloomy energy passed through Sunwoo’s mind at her unusual appearance. Following her gaze slowly, I saw the bed where my mother-in-law was lying down.
When moving my mother-in-law to the intensive care unit, I quickly changed my direction, with the station story I heard a while ago swirling in my head.
Returning to the VIP room where Eunjae and I were just now, Sunwoo, who had returned to the station, tapped the shoulder of the first-year resident who was looking through the chart in front of the respiratory medicine department.
When my mother-in-law lost consciousness, the resident who moved her to the intensive care unit was the same one.
“Oh, Professor, have you come?”
“Wait, let’s talk for a moment.”
Moving a little away from the station, Sunwoo looked around and asked the resident.
“It’s Patient Jung Miran. Didn’t Dr. Joo discover her first?”
“Yes. Dr. Joo said he found her while passing by the ward. She had no breath… Imagine how surprised he was. We were on the verge of a serious incident.”
“Yeah, take a look.”
Sunwoo, who was patting the resident’s shoulder, immediately turned and descended the emergency exit stairs without catching his breath.
Arriving at the security room located on the 2nd basement floor, Sunwoo stopped a man who was about to pass by without a chance to catch his breath.
“Two weeks ago, let’s check the CCTV footage in front of the VIP ward corridor.”
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.”
