The latch was pushed back bit by bit with each kick as it lacked strength, and the man held the latch tightly with all his might.
Eun Jae looked worriedly at the man. Perhaps feeling her gaze, the man, filled with a smile, looked at Eun Jae and whispered.
“Why? Did you think I’d knock them down like a hero? I can’t do anything like fighting.”
Eun Jae shook her head as if to say no.
“So don’t expect too much, this is all I can do.”
“……”
“But I’ll protect you, I promised.”
The outside was so noisy that their conversation didn’t spill out. The knuckles of Sun Woo’s hand, holding the latch, gradually turned white.
“It’s taking a while.”
He had said it was urgent.
Still feeling relaxed, Sun Woo looked down at his wristwatch on his left hand and clicked his tongue.
At first, one person was kicking, now two or three were kicking at once. The bathroom door started to shake faster and harder.
Sun Woo glanced at the woman. Holding out like this was now inadequate.
But he couldn’t ask the slender woman, who was waiting with trust in him alone, to help him, and she probably wouldn’t be of much help anyway.
It was a dilemma.
Why did he have to say to trust him for no reason?
Sun Woo, chewing on his regrets, listened to the sound of their feet hitting the door.
Reading the rhythmic pattern, Sun Woo suddenly opened the door wide. One of the men who had been kicking the door fell forward into the bathroom and hit his head on the toilet.
“Aaargh!”
The woman, startled by the man’s scream, barely managed to stifle her own cry.
The man who had hit his head on the toilet fell down holding the toilet from the impact.
As one of the two men standing in front of him rushed in, Sun Woo, using the open door frame as a brace, forcefully pushed the man’s solar plexus with his foot.
The man who had been hit squarely in the solar plexus rolled backward with a ‘ugh!’ sound.
“Offering your solar plexus in front of a thoracic surgeon, fearless.”
The last remaining man looked to be the top guy, just at a glance.
The moment the fairly muscular man spat out expletives and advanced menacingly,
“You can’t do this here!”
The man, grabbed by the suddenly appearing security guards, couldn’t resist much and floundered. The guards had even more robust bodies than the man.
Meanwhile, Sun Woo extricated himself with exaggerated care, as if worried about touching the man who had fallen after hitting his head on the toilet.
“You handled it the worst.”
It seemed that the crisis had been avoided because of that.
Sun Woo, who had been quietly checking the time on his wristwatch, frowned deeply. He asked sharply toward the only guard who wasn’t holding anyone.
“It’s been 7 minutes since I contacted you, didn’t I say it was urgent?”
The guard was flustered by Sun Woo’s words.
In this hospital, Yoon Sun Woo was a hot potato.
A ferocious and persistent viper that virtually no one did not know about.
And to add to it, an invincible name, the grandson of the hospital director. No further explanation was needed.
“Well, there was also a disturbance on the first floor. Perhaps they’re part of the same group…”
“Are you shortstaffed?”
“I’m sorry, professor.”
The man easily subdued by the muscular guard was screaming loudly, and the man who was winded from Sun Woo’s kick to the solar plexus was held by another guard.
Watching the spectacle, Sun Woo closed his eyes tightly and turned around.
“Remember, the manual is 5 minutes.”
With his head bowed, Sun Woo turned back toward the guard who was receiving the reprimand.
“Let’s get rid of those guys first, the noise is unbearable.”
“Yes.”
He grimaced, plugging his index finger into his ear.
“Make sure you identify them and get their contact information. There may be a need for a police investigation.”
“Yes.”
“Oh, and, keep evidence photos. We have to claim for the precious toilet door that got broken.”
It was my favorite spot, tsk.
As soon as Sun Woo finished murmuring, the guard quickly pulled out his phone and took several photos.
Upon Sun Woo’s order to remove the man who had fallen after hitting his head on the toilet, the guard belatedly dragged him away.
The woman, who seemed ready to peek out at any moment, was strangely silent. Sun Woo peeked into the toilet stall from a distance.
Her figure was not visible through the slightly open door, perhaps due to her slender physique.
Don’t tell me, she’s still in there because I told her not to come out?
Sun Woo scratched near his eyebrow.
“You can come out now.”
Only then did the woman, who had been quietly clinging to the wall, let out a long breath and walk out of the toilet stall.
From the men’s restroom, moreover, from the narrow stall where Professor Yoon was just a while ago, a petite woman walked out, causing the guard to look up at Sun Woo in surprise.
He knew what that look meant.
Sun Woo narrowed his eyes and warned the guard.
“Whatever you’re thinking, it’s not that.”
“Yes…”
The guard gave a short response and, pretending not to have seen anything, he easily dragged the fallen man and exited the restroom.
Eun Jae stood at a suitable distance beside the man, her body rigid.
As soon as they left, the man took off the gown he was wearing and draped it over his broad shoulders.
The man, quickly unfastening his onyxembedded cufflinks and rolling up his shirt to his elbows, vigorously wiped his hands in an unusual manner.
Eun Jae watched the man washing his hands through the mirror from a distance.
She hadn’t noticed before because of the sudden situation, but she thought the smooth lines that made up the man’s features were quite beautiful.
He’s good looking.
“Do you always listen to instructions so well?”
As her eyes met with the man’s in the mirror while he was washing his hands, Eun Jae approached him and gave him a polite bow.
“I am truly grateful for today.”
Before Eun Jae could finish her greeting, his phone, soaked with moisture, was pushed in front of her.
“Input your number.”
“My number?”
“Then whose number do you think I’m asking for?”
The man, who handed over his phone and was engrossed in washing his hands again, didn’t turn around.
He only lowered his head to wash his hands again, asking Eun Jae who was still reflected in the mirror.
In that brief moment, Eun Jae caught the man’s upwardly curving lips in the mirror, causing goosebumps all over her body.
“I did save your life, didn’t I?”
The man dried his hands with a paper towel and shoved them into the pockets of his black pants. A small portable hand sanitizer fell out.
After squirting a generous amount onto his palm and rubbing his hands together, he put on medical gloves on both hands.
The man who had been looking at Eun Jae for a moment extended his hand as if asking for something.
“You should give me the phone.”
Ah.
Instead of speaking, Eun Jae mouthed her response and handed him the phone with her number inputted.
The man who received the phone tilted his head slightly and smiled.
“Do you know? You’re the first person to touch my phone.”
This person is a first for many things.
In movies or dramas, the male protagonist would say, ‘You’re the first woman to do this to me!’ and suddenly lean in for a kiss…
Oh, what am I thinking now.
Eun Jae, who had briefly lost track of time and space, gathered her useless thoughts and bit her lip quietly.
The man slid his arm into the white gown hanging on his shoulder.
The embroidery in blue on the left chest of the gown was noticeable.
Yeonrim Hospital, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Yoon Sun Woo.
Ah, he’s a doctor.
As she repeated the name to herself, staring at the embroidered name, the embroidery gradually got larger until it was right in front of her eyes.
With a calm smile on his lips, he lowered his mouth over Eun Jae’s shoulder and whispered.
“Don’t just say thanks—”
“……”
“You must repay a favor.”
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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