“If you’re tired, sleep. I’ll wake you when we arrive in Seoul.”
“No, I’m fine.”
Na Young responded, staring into the dark night of Gangwon Province.
She had to say something before they arrived in Seoul; there was still a chance.
The opportunity was something Professor Choi Tae Hyuk had asked for, but now she was the one searching for it.
Na Young glanced at Professor Choi Tae Hyuk driving beside her.
His face looked as if it had been sculpted by a great artist in pursuit of perfection.
But his personality was far less orderly than his refined appearance, often too much for her to handle.
Yet, if she couldn’t stop liking him, perhaps it was time for her to change to be worthy of these feelings.
“Something feels off.”
Hearing him muttering, Na Young turned her head to look ahead.
A line of cars stretched out before them.
It would have been normal in Seoul, but it was odd on the Gangwon Province highway, where they hadn’t expected any traffic jams.
“Could there be an accident ahead?”
Traffic jams in Gangwon Province often meant a vehicle accident had caused a roadblock.
Professor Choi Tae Hyuk turned on the radio and scanned frequencies until the traffic report came on.
Hearing the news, Professor Choi Tae Hyuk’s expression grew serious.
A bus accident likely meant numerous injuries.
“This is within the medical jurisdiction of Sokcho.”
“Huh?”
In Korea, where most resources are concentrated in Seoul, there is significant inequality among medical institutions in different regions.
This led to disparities in patient mortality rates, and Sokcho’s area had the second-highest death rate nationwide.
This meant a severe shortage of doctors to treat patients from such a major accident.
Tae Hyuk quickly instructed Na Young without much hesitation.
“Find the nearest major hospital on the navigation. Let’s go there.”
They were originally on their way back to Seoul, but Na Young couldn’t object to Professor Choi Tae Hyuk’s decision to go to a hospital in Gangwon Province, unrelated to them.
She was a doctor too, after all.
Na Young quickly searched for the hospital where the accident victims would have been taken.
When they arrived at the hospital, the emergency room was in chaos due to patients from the four-vehicle collision.
Even a hospital as large as Hangang University Hospital would have been overwhelmed by such a traffic accident, let alone one in Gangwon Province.
Tae Hyuk had called the emergency room on the way, informing them that he was a surgeon from Hangang University Hospital, so he immediately sought out the ER chief.
“I’m Choi Tae Hyuk from Hangang University Hospital, I called earlier.”
The ER specialist was visibly relieved to see him.
“Ah! Glad you’re here. We have a patient with severe abdominal bleeding who urgently needs surgery, but all our surgeons are currently in operation. Can you perform the surgery?”
Under normal circumstances, delegating surgery to a doctor from another hospital would require procedures, but the situation was too critical for such formalities.
Saving the patient was the priority.
Before heading to the operating room, Tae Hyuk also directed Na Young.
“You handle the patients in the ER. I’ll be back after the surgery.”
Na Young nodded in agreement.
Her heart pounded as she watched Professor Choi Tae Hyuk’s retreating figure heading towards the surgery room.
She hurriedly approached a nurse to ask for a doctor’s gown to do her part.
As more and more accident victims kept arriving in the emergency room, time flew by, and it was soon midnight.
Professor Choi Tae Hyuk, after not only performing the abdominal bleeding surgery but also assisting in another critical operation, returned to the ER to find her.
Na Young had just finished suturing a patient’s leg wound.
“It seems the critical situation is under control, so let’s return to Seoul.”
Na Young nodded in agreement and removed her latex gloves.
After briefly exchanging goodbyes with the emergency room staff, they stepped outside the hospital to find a white moon floating above their heads.
Tae Hyuk stretched his arms, gathering energy.
“I need to muster strength again for the drive to Seoul.”
It was already past midnight, so by the time they arrived in Seoul, it would be around 3 a.m.
Na Young felt uneasy about having someone who had just spent five hours in surgery drive such a long distance to Seoul.
But finding a driver to travel from Gangwon Province to Seoul at this hour was no easy task either.
“Are you going to drive me home tonight?”
“Of course. You have to be at the hospital by sunrise, right? I’ll make sure of it.”
Tae Hyuk showed determination to drive all the way to Seoul.
It was as if, since he had brought her to Gangwon Province, the responsibility was his.
Na Young should have just quietly got into the passenger seat, but she hesitated.
She bit her lip, then spoke in a small voice.
“……It’s okay to sleep over.”
Pause.
Tae Hyuk, who had been loosening up his arms to drive, stopped and looked at her.
Na Young was looking the other way, so her face wasn’t visible.
“What did you just say?”
Tae Hyuk leaned closer to her, asking again.
Na Young turned her head even further away.
“Huh? Didn’t you just say we can sleep over?”
The tone in his voice suggested that it wasn’t a misunderstanding.
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
