Emergency Blind Date - Chapter 103

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#Special Side Story Episode 7

Side story. Eun Hyeok’s story

~3 years later, on a bright sunny day.

“Oh my! Eun Hyeok, did you eat all the rice cakes here?”

Goh Ah-reum pointed to the empty plate on the dining table and asked.

“Yeah, why?”

Eun Hyeok, who had just woken up from a nap and entered the kitchen, absentmindedly picked up and ate the rice cakes placed on the dining table.

The rice cakes filled with sweet red bean paste and sweet potato were chewy and delicious. Perhaps that’s why he kept reaching for more.

Before he knew it, only an empty plate remained.

“Why did you eat those!”

Goh Ah-reum shouted angrily.

“Don’t tell me they were spoiled? They tasted fine to me.”

“Oh goodness, that’s not it. I made those to give to Min.”

“…?”

For a moment, Eun Hyeok doubted his own ears.

How could mom treat me like this?

“So you’re scolding me because your youngest son ate what you made for your grandson?”

Having worked the night shift and come to his family home for some much-needed healing, he couldn’t help but be flustered.

“You know it, so why are you asking!”

“Wow… How can mom treat me like this? I’m Eun Hyeok, the youngest. The youngest son who wouldn’t hurt even if you put me in your eyes!”

“Youngest son or whatever, our little puppy is due back from daycare soon, and when am I supposed to make more? Aunt!”

“Yes, ma’am.”

The helper aunt came running at Goh Ah-reum’s call.

“We need to make rice cakes again. Do we have ingredients left?”

“Yes.”

“Start with making the sweet paste.”

Eun Hyeok stared blankly at the two women bustling about.

But more importantly, I’m hungry.

“…Mom?! I’m hungry!”

“You ate a whole plate of rice cakes, what do you mean.”

“…!”

Mom has changed. She’s not the mom from before.

How can a person change like this?

It had been a grueling schedule.

Critical patients came one after another, making him wonder if all the seriously ill patients were being directed his way.

Among them, the most serious patient was one brought in by 119 at dawn.

The sanitation worker hit by a drunk driver had no consciousness and wasn’t breathing.

His clothes were soaked with blood.

Eun Hyeok battled alongside the patient in the resuscitation room.

The patient’s heart would stop again as soon as they managed to revive it, and each time the medical staff had to aggressively rush in to resume CPR.

Couldn’t they see the haggard face of their youngest son who had worked so breathlessly and intensely?

While it was true that his one and only nephew Jeong Min was adorable enough to want to bite, still.

“What am I going to do? I made a firm promise with Min.”

Watching Goh Ah-reum stamp her feet anxiously, Eun Hyeok let out an incredulous laugh.

“Mom, I have something to tell you.”

Goh Ah-reum stopped what she was doing and looked at Eun Hyeok.

Eun Hyeok, now in his second year as a fellow, would soon be leaving to serve as a military doctor.

His peers went to the military as soon as they became specialists, but Eun Hyeok had taken the fellowship route.

The reason was.

“What, that you’re going to the military?”

Her youngest going to the military wouldn’t faze Goh Ah-reum at all anymore.

But this would be different, right?

“No, I’m getting married.”

That’s right.

It was because of the sweetheart he met late in life.

“Do you get married alone? Do you have a woman?”

Saying he was talking nonsense, Goh Ah-reum focused on making rice cakes for her grandson.

“She’s a second-year internal medicine resident. Her name is Lee Go-eun. Height 163, weight 48. The youngest of one son and one daughter. Both parents are alive and her older brother is a third-year in our hospital’s rehabilitation medicine department.”

Clatter.

Only then did Goh Ah-reum stop what she was doing and turn to look at Eun Hyeok.

“E-Eun Hyeok!”

Eun Hyeok rubbed his nose and shrugged his shoulders.

Goh Ah-reum embraced Eun Hyeok with her flour-covered hands and patted his back.

“Well done, my child!”

“Now you understand?”

“Bring her over sometime. Mom will prepare a feast that’ll make the table legs bend.”

“Of course.”

Since Go Eun got along well with Jeong Da-som like sisters, there would be no problem at all with her becoming part of the family.

How many years had he lived shuddering at his brother’s cringeworthy antics?

Having finally stolen Goh Ah-reum’s attention away from Jeong Min, Eun Hyeok patted his belatedly rumbling stomach and left the kitchen.

“Argh!”

Eun Hyeok screamed after stepping on Lego blocks scattered in the living room.

“Eun Hyeok, but you’re not lying to mom, are you?”

Goh Ah-reum came out of the kitchen and looked at Eun Hyeok with distrustful eyes.

“Mom! It’s real!”

“….”

Goh Ah-reum clicked her tongue with a coldly skeptical expression and went back into the kitchen.

“Mom, can’t you trust your son’s words?”

Tap tap tap tap.

Eun Hyeok chased after Goh Ah-reum and ran back into the kitchen.

It seemed she wouldn’t believe him until he brought Go Eun over.

But did I really have so little credibility?

“Just bring her first. Bring her and then tell me.”

“I’m telling you it’s real?”

“Don’t say that, just help make rice cakes.”

Eun Hyeok was forcibly detained and had to make rice cakes until Jeong Min arrived.

***

Jeong Min, who was getting off the daycare bus, hesitated when he spotted Eun Hyeok.

It seemed unexpected that his uncle was there instead of grandmother.

After the daycare vehicle left, Jeong Min with his yellow backpack approached Eun Hyeok.

“Aren’t you going to give uncle a belly button greeting?”

“Why didn’t grandmother come and uncle came instead?”

“Well, that’s because I wanted to see you.”

“Really?”

“Uncle made rice cakes too. Let’s go inside quickly.”

Jeong Min smiled brightly and stretched out his small hand to grab Eun Hyeok’s hand.

His small, chubby hand was quite warm.

If he held it to his nose, it would probably smell sweet.

“What did you play at daycare today?”

“Um, I drew pictures.”

“A drawing? Did you draw your cool uncle?”

Jeong Min stopped walking and looked up at Eun Hyeok, then shook his head.

“No, I drew Daddy.”

“Draw Uncle next time. Got it?”

“…That’s difficult.”

Does this innocent four-year-old even know what difficult means when he says that?

“This kid. Anyone can tell he’s Tae Kang-hyeok’s son.”

Eun Hyeok scooped Jeong Min up in his arms.

Then Jeong Min’s eyes sparkled as he grinned.

“I like Uncle.”

He even knows how to melt people like this.

Cute little guy.

Eun Hyeok carried Jeong Min through the garden and entered through the entrance.

“Oh my, did our Jeong Min have a good time?”

“Our little prince, you’re back?”

The whole family made baby talk sounds as they warmly welcomed Jeong Min.

Jeong Min burst into giggles and spread his arms wide as if he’d found his whole world.

Jeong Min was growing up healthy, fed on love.

A little later, Eun Hyeok sat at the dining table and watched Jeong Min with expectant eyes.

“Uncle.”

Jeong Min furrowed his brow as he examined the rice cake on his plate intently, then called Eun Hyeok in a meaningful tone.

“Yeah.”

“Is this cracked rice cake the one Uncle made?”

Jeong Min picked up the rice cake with his fork, where the filling was oozing out, and stared at Eun Hyeok with narrowed eyes.

His spotless fair face, chubby cheeks, and clear, curious eyes were exactly like a four-year-old’s, but his way of speaking was a carbon copy of his father.

“No! The one Uncle made is this one.”

Eun Hyeok feigned innocence as he pointed to a perfectly intact rice cake.

From his expression, it seemed he didn’t believe it.

Jeong Min brought the cracked rice cake to his mouth and took a bite.

The way he chewed looked blessed, just like his mother.

“Even though it’s ugly, it’s delicious.”

“What?”

“The one Uncle made is delicious.”

Jeong Min stuffed the rest of the rice cake into his mouth until both cheeks bulged, then ate it with relish.

He’s cute and smart, which makes me want to tease him more.

“Jeong Min.”

“Yeah.”

“Your daddy, you know, when he was little, he wouldn’t eat any greens at all. Jeong Min eats everything well, right?”

“Grass? That’s what cows eat.”

“Then do you know how to eat things like spinach and carrots?”

“…”

Jeong Min quietly put down his fork and got down from the dining table.

“Where are you going?”

“To study.”

“Suddenly? Come here. Let’s play more with Uncle.”

“No. I have to study.”

Jeong Min scurried away as if making his escape.

Eun Hyeok watched this scene with a dumbfounded expression and let out a hollow laugh.

“Grandmother! Aren’t we going to Uncle’s house?”

“Did Uncle bully our little prince?”

Will my position improve even after I get married?

Anyway, I’m going to have a daughter who looks exactly like Go Eun.

Though I don’t know if it’ll work out as planned.

Eun Hyeok ate his rice cake while letting his imagination soar.

Rrrrrr, Rrrrrr.

Just then, as if to break his reverie, Eun Hyeok’s phone rang.

Eun Hyeok checked the screen and quickly swallowed his rice cake while clearing his throat.

Ahem, ahem.

After clearing his throat a few times, he pressed the call button.

“Hello?”

―Oppa, it’s Go Eun.

“Oh, Go Eun. Are you not too busy? How did you have time to call?”

―I’m calling during a brief break after making rounds. What were you doing, Oppa?

“Me? I was just looking up research papers.”

A smile of happiness spread across Eun Hyeok’s lips, which had rice cake crumbs on them.

Special Side Story 【Complete】

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