Emergency Blind Date - Chapter 43
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#Episode 43
“Jeong Da-som.”
At Kang Hyeok’s call, the dazed Da-som quickly came to her senses and responded.
“Yes, Professor.”
“There should be coffee and snacks at the station. Have some while you work.”
Kang Hyeok spoke loudly as if for everyone else to hear.
Professor, even so, isn’t this going too far?
Da-som looked around with wavering eyes.
Han Seon-woo looked back and forth between Kang Hyeok and Da-som.
A perceptive senior might have noticed something.
Da-som answered in a small voice as if resigned.
“Th, thank you. I’ll gratefully accept it.”
But what brings you here? Did you come to give us snacks?
As she was about to quietly leave, Kang Hyeok spoke again.
“I’ll be writing papers in the research lab, so call me if anything happens.”
Kang Hyeok, who seemed completely oblivious to others’ gazes, stared at Da-som as if to pierce through her, then finally glanced at Han Seon-woo before leaving.
It felt like something had swept through and disappeared.
“Good work.”
Seonwoo, who had been preparing to transport a patient, greeted Da-som and then disappeared with the patient.
Anyway, the brain hemorrhage patient was taken by the Neurosurgery Department, and Kang Hyeok had also gone to the research lab.
Da-som let out a low sigh and headed toward the station when Eun Hyeok, who had been hiding in the distance, came running over to her.
“Didn’t that bastard say it was his day off?”
“Right. He said he came out to write papers.”
“No way, they say when that bastard shows up in the emergency room on his days off, patients come flooding in like crazy. Is he doing it on purpose? Knowing I’m working the night shift today. Yeah, I knew it. Damn it, he’s doing this to mess with me, isn’t he?”
What am I going to do with this guy?
Da-som clicked her tongue inwardly and shook her head.
He didn’t come to screw you over, he came because of me.
Of course, it’s nice that he came, but…
Da-som let out a deep sigh. There were definitely medical staff in the emergency room who had carefully observed Kang Hyeok’s behavior.
Even if the Professor is straightforward and unstoppable, how am I supposed to live when I’m only a first-year and have to worry about people’s reactions?
It seemed she’d have to go up to the research lab later and tell him not to do that.
The Professor might be fine, but there was a high chance I’d get criticized for dating right after starting work.
“Doctor, we have a finger amputation patient.”
“Aaah, my finger!”
The screams of a patient brought in with his finger wrapped in a large towel echoed throughout the emergency room.
“Damn it, I knew this would happen.”
Curses poured endlessly from Eun Hyeok’s mouth as he ran toward the patient.
Da-som thought there might be a slight tendency for that, and ran toward the patient along with Eun Hyeok.
“Did you bring the severed finger?”
“Ugh, yes. My wife should have brought it.”
The pale guardian held out something to Da-som with trembling hands.
“I’ll clean it, so you contact PS (Plastic Surgery Department).”
“Uh, o, okay.”
After that, patients came flooding in like crazy.
Da-som gritted her teeth, thinking she’d have to earnestly ask Kang Hyeok not to carelessly appear in the emergency room.
The night was long and morning was far away.
***
In the evening, after dropping Da-som off at the hospital and returning to the officetel, Kang Hyeok’s phone briefly rang.
When he checked, it was a text from Goh Ah-reum.
“Son, call me when you have time. Mom is on the verge of burning up inside.”
Generally, burning up inside was likely to be about children’s problems.
Kang Hyeok hesitated for a moment with an ominous feeling, then pressed the call button.
“Yes, Mother.”
—Son, can you come home today or tomorrow?
“Is something wrong?”
—Yes, it seems like there’s an important problem regarding your personal situation.
“My personal situation?”
—That’s right, since there’s such a thing, stop by home. Let’s talk face to face.
“I understand. I’ll come right now.”
—Ah, it’s your day off. Alright, I’ll wait.
“Yes. I’ll see you later.”
Goh Ah-reum’s voice, which sounded completely drained, was concerning.
What could be wrong with my personal situation?
Unable to make sense of the conversation, he tried to guess what it might be, then decided to put his thoughts aside and hear it directly when he got there.
Arriving at the family home, Kang Hyeok opened the front door and entered.
“I’m here.”
“Oh, you’re here?”
Goh Ah-reum, who had been lying on the sofa, sat up. She had a necktie tied around her head.
Does she have a headache?
Kang Hyeok approached and asked.
“Do you have a headache?”
Goh Ah-reum shook her head, untied the necktie, and sat up.
“Let’s go to the study for a moment.”
It meant it wouldn’t be good for the household staff to hear, but what could it be? After briefly pondering, Kang Hyeok silently followed behind Goh Ah-reum.
Click.
After closing the study door and entering, Kang Hyeok sat across from Goh Ah-reum.
“Kang Hyeok, open this.”
Goh Ah-reum handed Kang Hyeok a document envelope.
“What is this?”
“Open it.”
Kang Hyeok opened the envelope and unfolded the documents with a sinking feeling.
Gradually, Kang Hyeok’s eyebrows rose.
“This is the blind date woman you’re going to meet.”
Another blind date?
Inside the envelope was a photo and personal details about the blind date woman.
Kang Hyeok placed it on the table with a thud and spoke in a cold voice.
“I believe I told you I’m seriously dating Da-som.”
“Da-som won’t work. No matter how I think about it, she won’t work.”
“Mother.”
Kang Hyeok looked at Goh Ah-reum with determined eyes.
“I don’t know how you’ll feel about me saying this, but after hearing your story that day, I went back to Cheongdam-dong. Even though we’re the same blood, I still didn’t know, so I thought I’d have Da-som’s fortune told.”
If Mother didn’t know it was a remarried family, that would make sense.
Eun Hyeok wasn’t the type to gossip about his friend’s family history either.
“But did you know? It’s a remarried family. I only found out when I went to Cheongdam-dong.”
“Yes, I knew.”
“Well, fine. That could be understandable. But oh, my head.”
Goh Ah-reum rested her arm on the sofa armrest and pressed her temples. Kang Hyeok waited patiently to hear what Goh Ah-reum would say.
Meanwhile, Goh Ah-reum agonized over how to tell her son this incredible fact.
That old man has lost his mind.
Goh Ah-reum recalled her visit to the fortune teller in Cheongdam-dong.
It wasn’t that Da-som, whom she had marked as a match for Eun Hyeok, wasn’t pretty. However, she was always anxious about whether that delicate little thing could handle Kang Hyeok.
Since she was of the same bloodline as her sister, she might have strong yin energy, but no matter how she looked at it, that’s not how it appeared to her eyes.
So just in case, she had gone to check their compatibility through fortune-telling.
A place frequented by wives of husbands who were prominent figures in politics and business.
Having made a reservation, she entered the shrine immediately without waiting.
An old man who looked exactly like a corporate executive had his eyes tightly closed, then opened them wide and glared at Goh Ah-reum’s entrance.
His eyes seemed to hold a ghostly aura that invoked fear, but Goh Ah-reum believed this made him all the more spiritually powerful.
“It’s fortunate the college entrance exam period has passed, otherwise you would have had to wait a month to see me.”
Goh Ah-reum softened her expression and smiled awkwardly.
“So, what brings our Goh Ah-reum to seek me out again?”
“I arranged a blind date with the young lady you had marked back then, but the woman’s side sent her younger sister instead. Now my son says he wants to marry that younger sister, so I want to check if they’re compatible.”
“Younger sister? That can’t be right. That family has an only child.”
What kind of nonsense is this?
“That can’t be right. There’s definitely another daughter.”
“Let me see.”
Everything is managed by computer.
He opened his tablet and examined it carefully, then slapped his knee and recited a name.
“Here it is. Jeong Seo-hyeon. Only daughter of Seonjin Corporation.”
A premonition that something was wrong flashed through her mind. Goh Ah-reum’s expression visibly hardened.
She pulled out the note this old man had given her back then from her handbag and pushed it forward.
Then a look of dismay appeared on the old man’s face as he received it.
“Oh my, to make such a mistake. Tsk tsk. Our general must have been feeling mischievous.”
“A mistake? So you gave me wrong information?”
“Ahem, that’s why I said we should use a talisman back then.”
“I’m sure I gave you a sufficient amount.”
Goh Ah-reum’s voice dropped low.
“Shh! Wait a moment. Let me hear what our general says.”
Goh Ah-reum watched what the old man was doing with a cold expression.
He closed his eyes tightly and muttered like a monk chanting prayers, then scribbled something extensively on a memo pad.
What to do about this situation.
Her eldest son’s cold expression flashed through her mind. If she told him to go on another blind date, he would probably rush at her demanding to cut ties.
Moreover, didn’t he say he liked Da-som?
“Seonjin Corporation isn’t just any company. It’s a marine and fisheries business that represents our country. She’s the only daughter of that family, so it would be a waste to let her go. Have him meet her again.”
Thud.
The old man pushed a piece of paper across the table.
…Let me keep this for now.
Setting aside her anger, for Kang Hyeok’s sake, it would be better to accept it for now.
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