Emergency Blind Date - Chapter 5

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#Episode 5

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After leaving the Sky Lounge, Kang Hyeok got in his car and muttered a low curse.

“What an idiot. Can’t get my head straight at all.”

He sank deep into his seat and ran his hands over his face.

No matter how much he liked her.

He’d been too hasty. And reckless.

Talking seriously about meeting again in front of a woman who had a fit whenever he approached her even slightly aggressively.

If it hadn’t been for Ma Seong-ho’s phone call, he would have been rejected on the spot without being able to say a word.

What the blind date woman would say as she kept drinking wine and acting like she had something to say was obvious, wasn’t it?

Even when he should take his time and slowly make an effort, his head was clearly messed up.

Though acting like this after meeting her for the first time today was proof of that, his heart had pounded loudly twice while he was with Jeong So-yeon.

And just from the woman’s gaze as she looked him up and down, his body had reacted on its own.

What more needed to be said?

If it got hard, that was the end of it.

Kang Hyeok loosely curved his lips upward and started the car.

Let’s go to the hospital for now.

He slowly pulled out of the parking lot.

Though leaving the blind date woman alone bothered him, he decided to consider it a strategic retreat for next time.

Kang Hyeok picked up a bit more speed. As he was driving and stopped at a red light, he took out his phone.

He typed the message he’d been thinking about the entire drive and sent it to the blind date woman.

This much should make her meet him out of pity at least.

The face of the blind date woman, probably biting her small, plump lips while pondering, flashed through his mind.

The light changed and cars began to move. As Kang Hyeok drove through the downtown area soaked in complete darkness, he carefully reviewed his meeting with the blind date woman.

The feeling had definitely been good.

So much so that he wondered if this was the compatibility that fortune teller had mentioned.

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Thud, thud.

When Kang Hyeok entered the Emergency Room Lounge, the medical staff who spotted him looked at him with bewildered expressions.

Department chief Kim Kyeong-tae had an expression close to shock.

‘Why did you come back after leaving work? What are we supposed to do?’

Pretending not to notice the message being shot at him with their eyes, he leisurely headed to the station.

According to what he’d heard, on days when Kang Hyeok appeared at the hospital again after leaving work for some reason, emergency patients would pour in non-stop or patients who needed to go to the Red Room would arrive one after another.

Well, it did seem like that was true, but for Kang Hyeok it was just familiar daily life.

Looking at the surprised medical staff, Kang Hyeok chuckled and looked for the culprit who had called him out.

Obviously he’d be pathetically crouched in a corner somewhere, stubbornly holding his position.

“Oh my, Professor! What are we going to do? I mean, I didn’t think Professor Ma was like that, but why did he call Professor Tae when we told him not to?”

The elderly head nurse said while looking at Ma Seong-ho, who was indeed slumped over the station desk, with resentful eyes.

“That’s what I’m saying.”

Kang Hyeok lightly responded to the head nurse’s words while looking at Seong-ho.

Just how sick are you?

Despite his large build, seeing him lying there made his heart ache.

When it came to patients, both he and Seong-ho would jump in regardless of fire or water.

Maybe that’s why they became especially close among their peers.

Kang Hyeok clicked his tongue low and entered the station, tapping Seong-ho’s shoulder.

“Hey, get up. Who are you trying to catch by lying here?”

The words came out gruffly due to his frustration.

“Oh, you came? Hehe.”

Then he lifted his head with a face full of fever and giggled.

“Don’t look at me with those disgusting eyes and go in right now.”

“I’m so sorry about this. I tried to tough it out somehow, but I just couldn’t do it.”

Seong-ho, who despite his build would occasionally get severely sick and then recover, seemed to be in that phase right now.

“Follow me. I’ll give you an injection.”

Seeing Seong-ho finally getting up, the head nurse rolled her eyes and said,

“Professor Tae, please make the injection hurt. Look at him being so stubborn even when his body is in that state – he’s really obstinate.”

Even while saying that, she didn’t forget to prepare an IV set for him.

Kang Hyeok pushed Seong-ho into the on-call room next to the emergency room and put an IV in his arm.

“Get some sleep. I’ll go out and check on things.”

“Sorry about this. Were you on your way home?”

“…Yeah.”

“I’ll definitely repay this debt later.”

“Whatever.”

Kang Hyeok left Seong-ho, who was making silly jokes, and headed from the on-call room to the Emergency Room Lounge.

As soon as he opened the automatic door and went inside, he heard a nurse’s shout.

“Professor, a female trauma patient in her 50s is coming. She’s currently unconscious and receiving CPR.”

“Everyone get ready.”

At Kang Hyeok’s instruction, the medical staff began moving swiftly. Several CPR patients came in every day.

Everyone’s work processing speed was accurate and quick enough to be called mechanical.

While waiting for that patient, another female patient in her 20s entered the emergency room.

“Anaphylaxis new patient!”

After confirming the erythema and hives on her face and her gasping symptoms, Kang Hyeok instructed the first-year resident.

“Check vitals.”

“Yes!”

“Nurse Lee, please prepare epinephrine 1:1000, 0.3ml subcutaneous injection.”

“Understood.”

After giving the order, hearing the siren sound from far away, Kang Hyeok and the medical staff quickly exited the emergency room.

The ambulance stopped at the emergency room entrance and the doors opened wide.

But instead of the expected CPR patient, three adult men came tumbling out of the ambulance.

The faces of the three men, who were staggering so much they could barely control their bodies, were covered in blood.

“Thank you for your hard work. Friends got drunk and fought each other. They’re all intoxicated.”

A paramedic approached with an apologetic expression. They were drunk patients – the type the emergency room most wanted to avoid.

All three were quite agitated, probably because they were bleeding.

The emergency room was like a battlefield.

Kang Hyeok pretended not to notice the resentful gazes of the medical staff looking at him and focused on commanding the situation.

“Move them all to the treatment room and contact Plastic Surgery.”

It wasn’t even 10 PM yet, which was still peak time.

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After confirming that Seong-ho’s condition had improved significantly, Kang Hyeok was finally able to leave the emergency room around dawn.

“Good work. I’m leaving first.”

“Thank you for your hard work, Professor.”

After exchanging greetings and leaving the emergency room, Kang Hyeok took a quick shower and headed to his research lab.

Unlike the emergency room that was bustling day and night, the corridor leading to the research lab was quiet.

Kang Hyeok passed through the corridor where only his footsteps echoed and entered the research lab.

Click.

He turned on the lights and collapsed onto the sofa, leaning his head against the backrest. Since he spent so much time at the hospital, he had brought in a soft and comfortable sofa.

Should he get some sleep?

To start moving again in the morning, he needed to get at least a little sleep.

But as he closed his eyes, he remembered the materials about the blind date woman that he hadn’t had a chance to check yet.

Slowly getting up from the sofa, Kang Hyeok picked up the document envelope placed in one corner of his desk.

What could be inside this?

It seemed like there would be something new that he hadn’t seen before.

Kang Hyeok rubbed his tired eyes and pulled out the documents.

Thud.

A single photograph fell onto the desk.

Kang Hyeok’s eyes narrowed.

…Who is this woman?

After staring intently at the photo for a long while, he put it down and opened the documents.

It clearly said Jeong So-yeon.

It wasn’t like he had suddenly developed face blindness.

No matter how much photoshop had been done, the woman in the photo was not the Blind Date Woman.

How should he interpret this?

Kang Hyeok slowly rubbed his temples and sharply raised his eyebrows.

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