When she looked at him as if he was ignorant, Tae Hyuk clicked his tongue and turned his head.
“So what else do you like? Tell me. It doesn’t matter what.”
He insisted on having a meal with food that she liked, so Na Young had no choice but to think about it.
She was not the type to be particularly foodobsessed, so she didn’t have many options.
“I do have something I like but right now…”
“It’s fine. What is it? Just say it. No matter how expensive, I’ll buy it.”
Professor Choi Tae Hyuk looked so serious that Na Young couldn’t lie.
“Tteokbokki.”
“……”
“When I was stressed studying medicine, I used to eat it with Seung Hee.”
“Do you feel stressed being with me now?”
“No. Tteokbokki is my comfort food.”
Professor Choi Tae Hyuk murmured something, turning his head.
So childish.
Na Young, curious about what sophisticated dish the older Professor Choi might choose, advised him.
“So, Professor, choose what you want to eat.”
“No, let’s go eat Tteokbokki.”
“Really? You’re serious?”
“What can’t you eat? If you want to eat, you eat.”
Dressed to dine at a hotel restaurant, going to a snack bar for Tteokbokki would be extremely awkward, so Na Young could not easily decide if this was the right choice.
“Are you sure it’s okay?”
“Instead, you should be honest. Do you like pasta? Or do you like Tteokbokki?”
Na Young didn’t need to think.
“Tteokbokki.”
Naturally, she chose her comfort food.
“I also prefer Tteokbokki over pasta.”
This time, Professor Choi Tae Hyuk’s words sounded 100% sincere, so Na Young had to laugh.
It was strange that he was a mature adult man but sometimes he could be boyish.
At those times, he tickled her heart like a cat’s fur.
So, the two ended up going to a snack bar Na Young knew well.
Facing each other at the small, wornout table, Tae Hyuk ordered almost everything on the menu.
With the table filled with food, Na Young felt full even without eating.
“I absolutely can’t eat all of this.”
“Don’t worry. I’ll eat it all.”
Professor Choi Tae Hyuk matched his meal rhythm to hers by eating fast but a lot.
It was a familiar place for Na Young, so it was easy to talk.
So, she could ask something she was curious about to Professor Choi Tae Hyuk first.
“How did you become friends with Director Cha Hyun?”
“We were classmates in middle and high school.”
As a child with no friends, Na Young was envious of their relationship.
“You’re lucky to have such a friend, Professor.”
It must’ve been his luck, because his personality wasn’t likely to have been good even as a child.
However, at her words, he smiled with a subtle expression.
“Why do you make such a face?”
“You’re the first one to say I’m lucky.”
Na Young didn’t press him further, assuming he simply didn’t believe in things like fate or luck.
A group of ten female students entering the snack bar blatantly gawked at the two of them.
“Professor, let’s eat quickly and leave.”
“Why?”
“Because they are staring at us as if we’re strange.”
“It’s not because we’re strange, it’s because we’re a handsome man and a beautiful woman.”
Na Young was momentarily at a loss for words at his audacity.
Somehow, leaving the hospital, the professor seemed even more immature than the resident.
After leaving the snack bar, Na Young said to Professor Choi Tae Hyuk,
“Let’s part ways here today.”
Nothing dramatically changed between the two of them at the second opportunity, but Tae Hyuk didn’t insist and simply nodded his understanding.
The truly important one was the last, the third opportunity, after all.
“Where is your house?”
“I’ll just take a taxi.”
“You think a taxi is safer than my car? Isn’t that a bit much?”
Na Young hastily clarified, taken aback, because that’s not what she meant.
“It’s not that. My house is just too far from here. You have to go to work tomorrow, don’t you?”
Knowing that Na Young was still staying at the hospital dorm, he asked when the opportunity arose.
“Wouldn’t it be better to find a place closer to the hospital if your house is far away?”
Her father was an executive at a large corporation, so it certainly wasn’t a money issue.
“My father won’t allow it.”
Her father was quite strict, and she was likely to get a major scolding for coming home late tonight.
This made her even more uneasy about Professor Choi Tae Hyuk taking her home.
If she caught her father’s attention, it would truly be a disaster.
“You’re not busy because of your residency, it’s because you haven’t moved out. So, move out.”
That way, there would be time to date.
Tae Hyuk strongly urged Na Young to move out.
For her sake, and his, she needed to leave her house.
“I’m fine because I can sleep in the hospital.”
Na Young, who did not have the confidence to get her father’s permission, simply compromised with reality.
Anyway, it was hard for a firstyear resident to get home.
A resident was a person who lived in the hospital.
“Do you really find a hospital bed more comfortable than home? Then, do you want to use my house?”
Seeing her surprised look, Tae Hyuk emphasized how good his house was.
“It’s a newly built office building across the hospital.”
He deliberately chose the place closest to the hospital, so it was the best condition in terms of distance.
“If you give me your house, what will you do, professor?”
She hadn’t known that he was such a sacrificial character, but as expected, Professor Choi Tae Hyuk’s answer surpassed her expectations.
“My house is spacious enough for both of us to use.”
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The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
