Wishing for Salvation (Completed Main Story) - Side Story 7

A shadow as dark as the nights when he’d been tormented by severe insomnia enveloped Kang Hyun once more.

Back when Seo Yoon was around seven years old, Kang Hyun had been so sensitive about her health that he’d even insisted on assigning her a personal physician.

Perhaps because she’d grown up without proper care in the orphanage, she was prone to frequent minor illnesses and possessed a frail frame that stubbornly resisted gaining weight.

“I didn’t let you do anything because I was afraid you’d get sick.”

Not wanting anything to happen to the one person he felt emotionally attached to, he’d started controlling Seo Yoon from a certain point onward.

He wouldn’t let her go anywhere even slightly risky and drew strict lines to prevent her from even speaking with her cousins.

After learning that Seo Yoon had a weak stomach, he made sure she ate only the most carefully selected foods.

He must have been terrified—terrified of losing her someday.

Back then, Tae Kang Hyun’s reason for sitting at the negotiation table, his desperate struggle to reach the highest position possible—it might all have stemmed from that unconscious fear he carried within.

In the end, though, he lost her anyway—just in a different way.

After staying awake for over two sleepless nights, Kang Hyun now held the hand of Seo Yoon, who lay fast asleep.

Unlike Seo Yoon, who dismissed it as just a minor fever, he’d been gripped by constant anxiety.

If this was a complication from the car accident or stemmed from issues during the process of recovering her memories, it would truly be serious.

He’d planned to take her to the hospital immediately if her fever hadn’t broken by today—but her temperature, measured at dawn, was almost completely normal.

Even so, he couldn’t quite relax yet. Still, it was a relief to see Seo Yoon breathing evenly and peacefully.

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