Emergency Blind Date - Chapter 3

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#Episode 3

Just from smiling, is this even possible?

Should I get an EKG when I go to work tomorrow?

Slurp.

When the sound of sipping coffee through a straw echoed loudly due to the air, the woman glanced at Kang Hyeok as if startled.

When their eyes met again, this time she even let out a small laugh.

“I’m someone who drinks iced drinks even when it’s freezing, so I only drink cold coffee. I’m sorry.”

“It’s fine. I’m the same way.”

“Oh, really?”

When he went along with her, even changing his coffee preferences, the woman smiled brightly.

When she smiled, her already young-looking face appeared even younger.

Just how old could she be?

He tried to gauge the woman’s age with narrowed eyes.

No matter how much he looked, she seemed three or four years younger than the youngest intern.

Marriage was fine, but was his mother really planning to turn her son into a thief?

“Excuse me, but how old are you?”

Kang Hyeok asked her age to confirm.

They say love knows no borders, gender, or age, but wouldn’t a gap of more than ten years be hard to handle?

“Twenty… nine.”

That face with its fluffy-looking peach fuzz was twenty-nine? It was hard to believe.

Then.

“How old do I look to you?”

“Huh? …Aren’t you thirty-five?”

“You knew.”

Well, that was natural. His information would have been given to her side too.

“Still, you look younger than thirty-five. …Thirty-two, …thirty-one?”

Kang Hyeok slightly raised the corners of his mouth and asked his next question. When he got her talking, she was surprisingly good at gentle conversation.

“Then what do you do for work?”

“I, I’m an academy instructor.”

Academy instructor.

At first glance, she looked exactly like someone from the same field, but being an academy instructor also seemed to suit her well.

He wanted to ask what kind of instructor exactly, but thinking she might turn away again if he dug deeper, he decided to let it go for now.

The atmosphere was getting quite good right now.

He was starting to think that fortune teller was quite skilled.

“I see. As you probably already know, I work in the emergency room at SJ University Hospital.”

“Yes.”

The woman nodded as if she knew, answering. Her long hair that fell below her shoulders swayed gracefully along with the movement.

It was glossy hair that looked like it would slide smoothly if you ran your fingers through it.

Was it because of that hairstyle that seemed familiar from somewhere?

“Have you ever come to our hospital’s emergency room? You look somewhat familiar.”

It was a question thrown out without much meaning.

But as soon as Kang Hyeok finished speaking, the woman turned to the side and frantically pressed her hair against her cheek.

Had she perhaps come to the hospital and caused a scene? Otherwise, why would she act like this?

The woman’s behavior was cute enough to cover Kang Hyeok’s suspicions, but he felt this couldn’t continue as is.

It seemed better to change locations and refresh the atmosphere.

“So-yeon, have you eaten dinner?”

“Oh, no.”

“Then shall we move to a place where we can have a meal and drinks?”

“Why, why?”

She looked at Kang Hyeok with round eyes like a startled rabbit.

Why, she asks. Because I’m curious.

She must have been planning to just drink coffee and leave.

“Is this your first blind date?”

“Yes.”

The woman nodded with reddened cheeks.

“That’s usually what people do when they go on blind dates.”

Of course, when there’s mutual interest.

“…Oh, is that so?”

Though she looked somewhat skeptical, raising questions in her large eyes, when their gazes met she hurriedly looked away.

That sight made him chuckle.

Was it okay for a twenty-nine-year-old woman to be this cute?

Kang Hyeok took out his phone and held it out to the woman without any intention of hiding his rising smile.

“Why this?”

“May I have your contact information?”

Could there be a more direct way to show interest in someone?

“…Ah.”

The woman took the phone with trembling hands, slowly entered her number, and held it out to him.

“Here it is.”

Kang Hyeok saved the number under Jeong So-yeon and pressed the call button to confirm her phone was ringing.

Wee-ooo-wee-ooo, wee-ooo-wee-ooo.

An ominous siren sound that was unsettling just to hear rang out from inside the woman’s bag.

A very familiar ringtone. Half the Emergency Medicine Department residents had that ringtone.

The flustered woman quickly took out her phone, pressed the end button, and changed the sound to vibrate.

“Your ringtone is unique.”

And his colleague Seong-ho had the same ringtone as his blind date. Seong-ho, who fell into a coma-like state once he fell asleep, wouldn’t wake up to ordinary sounds.

So he had chosen that siren ringtone as the most unpleasant and intense sound.

“I, …I like siren sounds.”

“Siren sounds.”

“Yes.”

Well, it was personal preference, so it wasn’t his place to judge.

“Shall we get up then?”

“Yes.”

Kang Hyeok finished paying and left the lounge.

Is she following well?

Curious, instead of turning around, Kang Hyeok glanced sideways at the woman’s reflection in the hotel’s floor-to-ceiling windows.

Instantly, Kang Hyeok had to suppress his laughter by wiping his mouth.

His blind date was not only grabbing her head with both hands, but also shaking her body while silently screaming.

Why on earth was she acting like that?

Could it be because of the siren sound?

When Kang Hyeok stopped walking and turned around, she looked at him with a perfectly normal face as if nothing had happened.

“…What?”

“Let’s walk together.”

Then the woman quietly approached his side.

Kang Hyeok, who had been planning to go to the Hotel Sky Lounge without going far, walked slowly to match his blind date’s pace.

The woman was petite, barely reaching his shoulder. The fresh scent of shampoo that lightly brushed his nose was so pleasant that he took a deep breath.

She was a woman who was strange in some way, but that made her even more intriguing.

Meanwhile, Da-som was internally cursing her sister Jeong So-yeon.

She clearly knew where the blind date man worked and what he did, yet she had sent Da-som here pretending to know nothing.

Even if he was an employee at SJ University Hospital, of all things, he was an Emergency Medicine Department professor. How absurd.

She’s not human. There’s no enemy like her.

Of course, I’m also crazy for coming out here obsessed with money.

But anyway, I was so flustered earlier that I impulsively gave him my number, and now I’m worried about getting caught later.

Should I snatch his phone back and delete the number? What should I do?

Should I have just run away as soon as I saw him at the lounge?

I thought the name sounded familiar. But still, to think he’s Eun Hyeok’s older brother!

Da-som quietly turned her head away from those terrifying eyes that were silently looking down at her biting her lips.

Fortunately, he didn’t seem to recognize me, but that wasn’t the important issue.

I might be able to get through today somehow, but what comes after was the problem.

I was scheduled to start working in the Emergency Medicine Department in March.

What would happen if he found out that I wasn’t just the blind date partner, but came as a substitute?

From what she’d heard about Eun Hyeok’s older brother, Tae Kang-hyeok, Da-som’s peaceful hospital life would be over.

Just as she was wondering if she should get plastic surgery to change her face, the elevator arrived.

Kang Hyeok escorted Da-som to get on the elevator first.

“Please get on.”

Brother, this isn’t your usual personality.

The Tae Kang-hyeok she’d heard about countless times from Eun Hyeok was a cold-blooded person who wouldn’t bleed even if pricked with a needle.

He was even someone that the chairman, his own father, couldn’t touch.

Would I even be able to save my life later?

“Miss Jeong So-yeon.”

Startled by the heavy low voice, Da-som ended up screaming.

“…Yes?!”

Kang Hyeok silently stared at Da-som. His expression clearly said he was dumbfounded.

“I, I have anxiety disorder. So I get startled easily.”

Being flustered, any words just came out.

“Ah, I see.”

She avoided his gaze that was looking down at her coldly with an expression that showed he wasn’t convinced at all, and fixed her eyes on his chest area.

…But brother. You don’t live at the gym, do you?

Watching the thick muscular chest positioned under his tight vest rise and fall with each breath made her feel strange.

So she lowered her gaze a little more…

B, big.

Her thoughts stopped there.

Ding―.

Just then, the elevator arrival sound rang and the doors opened.

“Let’s get off.”

He was looking at Da-som and smiling, pulling up the corners of his lips as if he found it amusing.

Get it together, Jeong Da-som.

She almost forgot who the man in front of her was.

Da-som graciously got off the elevator while receiving Kang Hyeok’s escort.

But perhaps due to the aftermath of unintentionally stealing a glance at his private area, her heart was pounding more and more intensely.

And what about her burning earlobes.

She was definitely crazy.

“It’s over there.”

Even in this situation, Kang Hyeok treated me like a blind person and led me to the Sky Lounge.

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