Emergency Blind Date - Chapter 11

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#Episode 11

Shouldn’t he state his business for calling her here first? She stared intently at Tae Bo-kyung, who was only sipping her coffee.

Tap, tap.

Dry hands drumming meaninglessly on the table.

Despite her glamorous appearance, those hands without any adornment were unmistakably a surgeon’s hands.

As a surgeon who had to enter the operating room several times a day to perform operations, hands that were scrubbed with stiff brushes couldn’t possibly remain intact.

Wasn’t she the very person who had called Bo-kyung to the operating room as soon as they went down to the emergency room today?

By the way, what happened to that fall patient?

A man in his thirties who fell under a bridge while riding his bicycle on his way to work in the morning had been brought in by a 119 ambulance.

The patient’s vitals were a mess from the moment he arrived.

There was significant intra-abdominal bleeding and he was on the verge of arrest.

“What happened to the splenic rupture patient?”

Kang Hyeok asked.

“Nephron rupture plus splenic rupture – it was very serious.”

Bo-kyung, who had briefly relaxed her wrinkled eyes, finally looked directly at Kang Hyeok and spoke.

“So? I made sure he could go straight to the operating room, but you didn’t fail to save him, did you?”

The Emergency Medicine Department’s role was to somehow hold onto the vitals of critically ill patients and serve as a bridge so they could continue living afterward.

This time too, they had done their best with treatment before sending him to the operating room, but honestly, it wouldn’t have been strange if there had been a table death.

“You really have no conscience.”

From the way she spoke while rolling her eyes slightly, it seemed they had managed to save him anyway.

“Is he in the ICU?”

“Yeah.”

She nodded slowly and then looked quietly at Kang Hyeok. Bo-kyung’s eyes were gleaming strangely.

Kang Hyeok, who had been looking at her with narrowed eyes, spoke first.

“Anyway, why did you want to see me? Aren’t you busy?”

“I’m busy. So busy I don’t even have time to properly drink a cup of coffee.”

“Then why did you want to see me?”

“Our Goh Ah-reum has been nagging me quite a bit.”

Kang Hyeok’s eyes gradually narrowed.

It wasn’t that he couldn’t guess. Hadn’t Goh Ah-reum called him yesterday too?

“Get married. I don’t want to be tormented by Mom anymore either. Why should I have to suffer like this over your marriage problems? Can’t you handle even one thing properly?”

Her characteristically irritated, sharp voice pierced Kang Hyeok’s eardrums.

After exchanging a few words, they would inevitably return to those days when they fought until their heads split.

Kang Hyeok barely suppressed what was rising up and spoke in a cold voice.

“Tell her I’ll handle it myself. Then just back off.”

“Is that as easy as it sounds? You even went on a blind date with the woman the General of Cheongdam-dong picked out and said you liked her. What are you dragging your feet about, so unlike you?”

It’s easy to talk about others.

He had heard that even his sister, who married the brother-in-law that the General of Cheongdam-dong had chosen, didn’t have a smooth start at first.

But what did the process matter? Anyway, since they got married and were living well, that’s why her voice carried such conviction.

If only it weren’t his sister…

As Kang Hyeok swallowed his words and just stared quietly, predatory cold eyes swept over Kang Hyeok’s face.

Even if she stared like that, he wouldn’t answer, and this kind of interference was just annoying.

“If that’s what this is about, I have nothing to say. I’ll get up now.”

“Don’t tell me you got rejected by the blind date woman?”

“…”

Since the blind date woman had sent someone as a substitute, it could be considered being rejected.

But hearing those accurate words come from Tae Bo-kyung’s mouth made him feel quite disgusted.

“Right, you got rejected.”

She openly displayed an expression of being thrilled to death without even trying to hide it.

Her brother got rejected, and that’s something to be so happy about?

As Kang Hyeok looked at her silently, she slyly sipped her coffee, avoided his gaze, and then spouted something absurd.

“Why don’t you try getting along with Professor Choi instead? When I see Eun-ju, it seems like she has feelings for you.”

Choi Eun-ju was a pediatric surgery specialist. She was also Kang Hyeok’s colleague.

“What kind of nonsense are you talking about?”

“It’s not like I don’t know you, and from what I can see, things seem to have fallen through with the blind date woman, so at least catch Eun-ju.”

“I don’t see women in gowns as women. And who said I got rejected?”

When Kang Hyeok spoke firmly, Bo-kyung looked at him with narrowed eyes.

“You didn’t get rejected? Then that’s good.”

Seeing her eyes light up, it seemed she had definitely discussed something with Goh Ah-reum beforehand.

“Come with me to the 30th anniversary celebration event. I’ll naturally introduce you to the relatives too.”

I hoped not, but she’s really trying to stick me there.

“…Where do you think you’re taking me?”

“You said things are going well. Isn’t that right?”

It was a brief moment, but Kang Hyeok’s mind worked busily.

If he went alone, it would definitely become an established fact that he got rejected, but what would happen if he brought Jeong Da-som?

“I thought so. Why do you unnecessarily lie and make Mom upset? I’ll tell her the truth.”

While Kang Hyeok couldn’t reach a conclusion, Bo-kyung couldn’t wait and spoke in a matter-of-fact tone.

“What truth are you going to tell?”

“That you got rejected. That’s right, isn’t it? Mom got her hopes up for nothing. What good does it do if the General of Cheongdam-dong picks out a good girl? What can you do when the woman doesn’t like you? But why did you get rejected with that decent build of yours? You probably acted obnoxiously, as usual.”

It wasn’t that he couldn’t understand Bo-kyung’s heart, who had considered him a competitor from childhood until now.

Given her nature of needing to suppress him somehow and reign from above to feel satisfied, she must have accumulated a lot of resentment toward him when things didn’t go her way.

“You can’t get it right in one go like me? Well, you’ve had many character flaws since childhood. That woman saw right through it. But isn’t it such a waste? The General of Cheongdam-dong is very effective in that area. Look at me – how well I’m living with your brother-in-law.”

He silently glared at Bo-kyung, who was chattering away as if her dialect was coming out.

But this wasn’t right. If he listened any longer, his blood pressure would rise and it wouldn’t be good.

“I’ll go with someone that day, so know that.”

There was no need to think complicatedly – he could just take Da-som with him. After all, Da-som was his blind date woman.

“Well, if that’s what you say.”

He glared for about 3 seconds at Bo-kyung, who had an expression as if ten years of indigestion had been relieved.

“What, do you have something to say?”

Bo-kyung’s face was full of a victor’s smile as she swept her shortly cut hair behind her ear and lifted her chin.

“But does brother-in-law think the same way?”

“…What?”

He left the research lab, leaving behind Bo-kyung, who had an expression as if she’d been completely caught off guard.

His neck was stiff, and fatigue hit him as much as if he’d been on night duty all night.

“Good morning, Professor.”

A general surgery resident approaching from across the hallway spotted Kang Hyeok and greeted him loudly.

“…Oh, yeah.”

He lightly greeted the familiar-looking resident.

Tae Bo-kyung’s top student.

The quick-witted guy pressed himself against the wall and hurriedly lowered his eyes.

Right, my expression must be terrible.

Kang Hyeok, suppressing a bitter laugh, slowly left the hallway and headed to the ICU. It wouldn’t be too late to check on the fall patient and then go down to the emergency room.

***

Da-som, who woke up early as usual, got out of bed to do the work she had been putting off.

Compared to the perfectly organized bedroom, the living room area was a mess.

“…When will I finish organizing all this?”

After returning from orientation, she had finished moving with Han Byeol and Eun Hyeok’s help. Unlike the studio apartment she used to live in, this was a mini two-room with a separate living room and bedroom.

Eun Hyeok, who was also moving out of his family home to become independent, was planning to move to the officetel where Da-som lived soon.

Han Byeol had already found a place one block away from Da-som last week.

Unlike her well-off friends, Da-som, who couldn’t even be called middle-class, had paid off all her student loans with her intern salary and then took out a new loan to move here.

Every time she had to pay the university tuition that exceeded 10 million won per year, she had to watch her mother’s expression, so from her third year of medical school, she took out student loans to pay for tuition.

There wasn’t enough time to work part-time jobs to earn money since studying alone was time-consuming, and when it came to scholarships, there were too many people with far superior abilities than her. With just upper-middle grades, it was nowhere near enough.

Still, having made it this far without major setbacks, it could be considered a success.

However, there was a slightly awkward aspect to her newly starting resident life, but she thought that would also pass by safely.

If she only listened to Eun Hyeok’s words, Tae Kang-hyeok was no different from a thug, but after seeing him carry his drunk friend on his back, she thought differently.

Plus, he was heart-flutteringly handsome too.

Actually, whether looking at family background or as a match, one side was too heavily tilted, so she was curious how such a blind date arrangement had been made.

Her father, who ran a small private business, wouldn’t have stepped forward for this.

She thought there might have been some major misunderstanding.

Usually when she had such premonitions, they would invariably turn out to be right, but since there was no way to know for now, she thought she’d confess everything later and ask Eun Hyeok about it.

Da-som spent the entire morning devoted to organizing her house. While diligently mopping the floor, her phone on the bed rang.

Rrrrr. Rrrrr.

She put down the mop and quickly ran over to pick up her phone.

Could she have been found out?

The moment she saw the name on the screen, her heart started pounding rapidly.

Since moving out and living alone, it was rare for her mother to contact her unless it was something significant.

Thinking that her sister might have confessed everything, she pressed the call button on the loudly ringing phone.

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