Doctor’s Rebirth - Chapter 60

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Chapter 60
If Cheon Yu-rang pretended to be mad and confessed to King that he had been spying for him, it would be Haowen that burned.
For Haowen to survive, they had to silence Cheon Yu-rang through whatever conspiracy necessary.
But Cheon Yu-rang survived with an injury to his leg.
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He survived despite being injured.
‘I just want to treat patients. What happens in their lives is their own concern….’
The complicated politics of the Martial Arts World gave me a headache.
The Prince asked.
“Do you trust me?”
“Yes.”
“If evil comes from within me, I wouldn’t believe anything I said either. Why do you trust me, Doctor?”
He laughed bitterly.
The Prince had told me everything he could.
It was like the dying words of a dead man.
Since no one would believe him anyway, he simply poured out the blood that had accumulated in his chest.
The young man before my eyes didn’t stop his words and listened calmly from beginning to end.
At first, he thought the young man was pretending to believe him while interrogating him.
It was a method commonly used in Haowen after all.
But the young man was sincere.
“Let’s tell Ju Wang together. She might forgive you.”
….
Ju Wang was his savior.
The one who pulled him out with a single gesture from the deep mire that no one else could extract him from.
To deceive her and now seek forgiveness?
He laughed bitterly.
“Doctor, you may not know this, but love cools as easily as nothing else.”
What would become of her if he ended his own life here?
A heart with nowhere to go lingered around his chest.
As if a hole had been pierced through it.
I watched carefully to see if the Prince would attempt suicide again.
If he made another move, I was ready to press the pressure point immediately.
“I won’t take my own life. Unfortunately, I no longer have the strength for that….”
The Prince wiped his eyes forcefully with his palm.
After wiping away all his tears, the Prince’s eyes held a completely different light than before.
It was the gaze of one who had made a firm resolve.
“I understand. Please, help me.”
I nodded. He was the only one who had believed in me.
Whether he was naive or possessed some mind-reading technique to see through him, the Prince couldn’t know.
‘I want to repay the Doctor’s kindness, but that day may never
not
be.’
It would likely be impossible. If that were the case, the Prince thought, he would bless this young man even as a spirit after death.
* * *
I informed everyone that the patient had awakened.
Everyone, including the King, entered the Recovery Room.
As the King settled into her chair, the guards immediately positioned themselves on both sides of her.
They also took positions on both sides of the Prince lying in bed.
‘It looks like we’re interrogating a criminal.’
I sighed softly at the thought.
Since the Gu had been discovered, there was nothing to be done about it.
The situation was dire.
Even if the misunderstanding were cleared up, the fact that he had deceived her would not change.
Moreover, he had no free will in this matter whatsoever, but this was not an era that respected such things.
And could he escape from here?
How could he flee on those legs?
Even if it were possible, he would be pursued by the Imperial Army during the day and by Haomu at night.
In the end, there was nothing to do but take the straightforward approach.
Ju Wang set down a glass vial on the table before her.
Inside the vial, the Gu that had been in his body writhed weakly.
Having lost its host, it seemed to be dying soon, its vitality nearly gone.
Ju Wang spoke in a languid voice.
“Well then, speak.”
A suffocating atmosphere pressed down over the entire Recovery Room.
Yet I alone maintained a composed expression throughout.
“Before Your Highness speaks, might I be permitted to offer my counsel first?”
“Hmm, the attending physician’s counsel, is it?”
Her lips curved downward in displeasure.
“Very well. Let me hear it.”
She granted permission, though her mood seemed far from pleased.
I bowed deeply and thought quickly.
‘The situation is simple enough. His life rests in the King’s hands, and she prioritizes intuition over imperial law.’
That’s why she hadn’t consulted the Emperor.
She had chosen suitable people by instinct and entrusted them with authority.
‘And whatever others think, once she decides something is right,
she
pushes forward like an ox.’
Once she made a decision, the opinions of others mattered little to her.
She could not become a benevolent ruler of a peaceful era, but she had the makings of a hegemonic ruler in times of chaos.
‘And such a ruler has not yet made her decision. She hides it behind a leisurely expression, but she has not yet determined what to do with him.’
Someone I loved as dearly as my own life.
No one could readily accept betrayal from such a person.
Though I was interrogating him like a criminal, I was actually giving him a chance.
‘She’s… searching for a reason not to kill him.’
She was looking for reasons—that the feelings they shared weren’t false, that there must have been circumstances beyond his control.
‘As proof of that, she’s even willing to listen to my third-party advice by using the excuse that it comes from the attending physician.’
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“Even my frank advice, he is allowing me to hear it under the pretext that it is the attending physician’s words.”
The appearance might be lacking, but she wanted to find a reason.
Jin Cheon-hee took a deep breath.
Then, as concisely and deeply as possible, I explained his circumstances.
That Haowen purchases orphaned children and raises them as entertainers.
That in some of their operations, they forcibly feed young children with Gu parasites, giving Haowen control over their lives and deaths.
That the Prince had consumed medicine to escape Haowen, damaging the Gu, but because it had parasitized him for so long, it couldn’t be completely killed.
Though it had been driven into a comatose state, I also mentioned that he had awakened during the surgery.
In all my years across both Earth and the Martial Arts World combined, I had never explained anything with such detail.
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Throughout Jin Cheon-hee’s entire life, I had never seen her explain something in such detail, as if she had never spoken so eloquently before.
And at the end of that story, I subtly hinted at how much suffering the Prince must have endured.
I didn’t miss how her lips relaxed slightly.
“That’s all I can say, Your Majesty. I’ve told you everything I’m able to.”
“Hmm…”
She fell into thought, deliberating how much she could trust. And it was clear that in her heart, she still harbored the desire to believe in the Prince.
“Even if all of that were true, the deception remains unchanged.”
I nodded.
“That’s right. But I’ve heard that when Your Majesty commanded the battlefield, you brought the Prince with you. If he had harbored ill intent, wouldn’t he have leaked information damaging to your forces to Haowen?”
She stroked her chin, lost in thought.
“On the battlefield, whenever I led my troops in an ambush, it always succeeded. Not a single ambush I attempted was ever discovered.”
I spoke quickly.
“I suspect that when the Prince dealt with Haowen, since Your Majesty’s security was so thorough, he reported that he had learned nothing about your future plans.”
“Haha, I have never hidden anything from my beloved. Only petty people keep secrets from those they love.”
“…”
I was at a loss for words.
Never once? I had thought he might have let a thing or two slip, but it seemed he had always told her.
Even elderly couples who had spent decades together found that difficult.
Pain resonated from her bitter smile.
Ju Wang asked.
“Lang-lang, is what the Doctor said true?”
The Prince, Cheon Yu-rang, raised his body and straightened his posture.
Though the anesthesia had worn off and the pain must have been quite severe, he didn’t let out a single groan.
I drew a deep breath and opened my eyes.
My face was resolute, yet my expression carried something unsettling.
“It is not the truth.”
A bombshell fell from the Prince’s lips.
* * *
“What? It is not the truth?”
Her voice froze over with cold.
Cheon Yu-rang answered.
“I have been a spy in the service of Haowen. It is unfortunate that I have been exposed, but I harbor no regrets. I have already sold much of the Juwang House’s secrets to Haowen.”
“What?!”
The hall stirred. Everyone was shaken.
Jin Cheon-hee, Ju Wang, and her warriors alike.
Only my Master sat alone, composed as a doll.
“Your Majesty, the patient may have lost his reason to suffering….”
As Jin Cheon-hee spoke urgently, she stopped him.
“Enough! I have granted you but one remonstrance. I know you did not speak with intent to insult me, but hold your tongue for now.”
Her expression twisted into something demonic and fierce.
Jin Cheon-hee clenched his teeth.
‘Damn it, what is the Prince thinking?’
Guards naturally took positions on either side of Jin Cheon-hee.
It was a firm warning.
“Lang-lang. You came here intending to deceive from the beginning?”
“Yes.”
“And being forced to consume the gu was unavoidable?”
“It was unavoidable for Haowen’s advancement.”
The Prince, Cheon Yu-rang, tore her heart apart with an indifferent face.
He mocked the time they shared, mocked the affection they had exchanged.
He had once told Jin Cheon-hee.
-Doctor, you would not know, but there is nothing that cools as easily as love.
He was a criminal.
‘I am sorry, Your Majesty. I have deceived you. I have deceived your heart.’
All his life, he had only received.
Though he had been forced into espionage, he had not deceived Haowen in all things.
On days when he could not receive medicine from Haowen, he had to writhe through the night in agony.
What was more terrifying than that was hunger.
What could he do? In the end, he had to sell information and receive Haowen’s medicine to survive another ten days.
He had not sold anything truly important, but he had to surrender the trivial things.
Only after receiving the medicine they gave him could he finally eat something.
‘This madness must end.’
He thought to himself. This was not love.
A life prolonged through betraying a loved one is not love at all.
I had committed a sin that could never be forgiven.
I had deceived her, deceived her love.
Only after everything was revealed did I finally find courage.
The courage to face my punishment.
‘Ah, King. I beg you, please forget me quickly and find a good person.’
Today, in this very moment, he smiled like a serpent, as if to tear her heart asunder and devour it.
It was the finest performance he could offer her as an actor.
She asked him. Her voice like that of a beast drinking
poison.
In a voice as bestial as a beast’s.
“Have you never loved me, not even once? Lang-lang. Not even once…?”
A sound echoed from far away. It was the sound of a heart shattering.
“No, King. I despise one such as you. I cannot express how torturous it was to serve one I hated.”
It was like the sound of a blade breaking against armor.
Though shattered, the sword had fulfilled its purpose.
Through the fractured armor, his heart flowed out like blood.
He spoke like an actor in an interlude.
“It seems a shame to end
it
so abruptly. Would you not walk this final path with me as my companion?”
Silver light gleamed sharply in his hand.
He threw himself toward her.

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