Emergency Blind Date - Chapter 54

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#Episode 54

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He had planned to leave the hospital around 12 o’clock, but time had passed much more than expected while working.

Kang Hyeok stretched and rolled his stiff neck, then organized what he had been doing.

He decided to go down to the emergency room to see Da-som’s face before leaving work and got up from his seat.

As he got off the elevator and was about to enter the emergency room lounge, a nurse who saw Kang Hyeok came running over quickly.

“Professor, the emergency room doctors are in chaos right now.”

Kang Hyeok’s eyebrow shot up.

What did she mean?

Had a drunk person wreaked havoc in the emergency room? Or maybe some gangsters had come.

As he looked around, he saw bodyguards in black suits and a man.

Had some high-ranking official come?

“Did some corporate chairman come?”

When Kang Hyeok asked, the nurse said with an excited face, glancing inside.

“Maybe if it were a corporate chairman’s son, but not a chairman. The people standing over there seem to be actor Han Bin’s bodyguard and manager.”

…Han Bin?

That Han Bin that Jeong Da-som liked?

“You mean Han Bin?”

Kang Hyeok’s voice sank. It was something he could have brushed off as no big deal, but the fatigue washing over him this late at night brought irritation.

“You know him too, Professor. Well, who wouldn’t know him.”

“So you’re saying our hospital’s doctors are in chaos because of that actor?”

“Yes, everyone’s making a fuss about wanting to see him. Just now, people from OS came rushing down too. It’s a fracture case.”

The people who never came down on time even when called at night had all rushed down upon hearing a celebrity had appeared.

It was absurd.

Kang Hyeok left the nurse behind and entered the emergency room.

The patients and guardians were also looking in one direction with expressions full of curiosity about the celebrity’s appearance.

Without needing to ask where Han Bin was, he could tell immediately as medical staff were gathered around the B Zone area.

Even from the station side, they were craning their necks to look toward the B Zone.

“Incredible…”

“Insane…”

Ignoring the sounds erupting here and there, Kang Hyeok looked for Da-som.

He could see Da-som among the crowd of medical staff.

Da-som was peering toward the curtained area with her pale, slender neck stretched out, clutching her chest with her small hands.

Kang Hyeok was familiar with that sight.

The female students who used to wait for Kang Hyeok in front of his house during his student days looked exactly like that.

But to think our Da-som would be acting like that.

A snickering laugh escaped from his amazement.

He was curious what she was thinking with that small head of hers.

Was it strange of him to feel such intense betrayal that the back of his head felt numb from that fervent gaze?

Unless he was doing this because he wanted to confirm just how childish and petty a man newly in love could become.

Da-som, who had been breathing heavily and waiting for the curtain to open, finally staggered as if entranced when Han Bin revealed himself.

Kang Hyeok rested his elbow on the station bar and watched that scene with his chin propped up.

He put strength into his legs that wanted to rush out immediately.

When Han Bin in a wheelchair passed by Da-som, Da-som muttered something.

Something about the left ventricle or something like that.

Then Han Bin stopped his wheelchair and recited something like a code toward Da-som.

Did she get… membership rights?

If his ears weren’t wrong, that’s definitely what he said.

A bleak smile bloomed at the corner of Kang Hyeok’s mouth.

“My goodness, it seems like Dr. Jeong Da-som knows him.”

The nurses inside the station were making a fuss.

Sasaeng fan, homma, fan.

The two people exchanging incomprehensible words clearly seemed to be more than just acquaintances you could laugh off.

After the two people who had created a tear-jerking scene parted ways, Da-som suddenly slapped her own cheek with a sharp sound and turned around.

Well, let’s get it together. It seemed like that kind of gesture, but Kang Hyeok had already seen everything.

Kang Hyeok, with one eyebrow raised, stared directly at Da-som.

Why was she surprised?

Kang Hyeok, who had been wearing a twisted smile, approached Da-som and grabbed her wrist that seemed like it would break if squeezed.

“Are you that happy?”

Are you that happy about that guy?

Da-som, startled by Kang Hyeok’s sunken gaze, hurriedly pulled her arm away and looked around.

“Oh my, how do you know Han Bin?”

Everyone was so crazy about Han Bin that they didn’t care who Kang Hyeok had grabbed or what he had said.

“He’s really handsome. All his features fit in that small face. My goodness, so that’s why everyone goes ‘Han Bin, Han Bin.'”

Kang Hyeok, who had only had eyes for Da-som, turned around with deeply sunken eyes.

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“Cotton ball, I heard there was quite a commotion because of Han Bin. You must have felt good?”

“More than that, I think the Professor is a bit upset.”

Da-som finished entering the chart with an awkward smile.

“That Person is so petty, what should we do? Oh right, more importantly, I went home today and heard… shall we go out for a moment?”

After checking around, Eun Hyeok headed toward the lounge and outside the emergency room. What could he have heard when he stopped by home?

Da-som followed Eun Hyeok with a puzzled expression. Eun Hyeok, who had walked toward the flower garden outside the emergency room building, looked around once more when Da-som approached.

“What is it?”

“Mother said the woman with strong negative energy that she saw at the fortune teller’s wasn’t So-yeon sister. The fortune teller made a mistake and wrote down the wrong contact information. What happened was…”

Eun Hyeok explained enthusiastically, spitting as he talked.

Now it seemed like the pieces were finally falling into place.

…No wonder.

So Mother probably told hyung to go on another blind date with that woman.”

“…”

“Completely ridiculous, right?”

It was indeed ridiculous as Eun Hyeok said. Mother who had been inflated with false hopes without knowing, and sister who was suffering emotionally thinking she had sent a substitute to an unnecessary blind date.

She wondered what all this was about.

And most absurd of all was herself. She rubbed her hollow nape and chuckled.

“Well, I thought it was strange. It was tilted way too much.”

“Hey, cotton ball. What do you mean tilted? Honestly, not just you, but is So-yeon sister even plausible?”

Simple guy. Wojeong-i’s tears are touching.

Da-som looked up at the pitch-black night sky as if ink had been spilled.

“But even if they say that now, would anything change? Don’t you think?”

Da-som asked, looking at Eun Hyeok.

Nothing seemed likely to change except that the blind date partner was that nameless woman instead of sister.

After all, the person he’s seeing now is me.

If Kang Hyeok were to go on another blind date with that woman, that would be something to think about, but from what he was doing to me, it didn’t seem likely.

Didn’t he make all that fuss and storm off just because I exchanged a word with Han Bin?

“Let them tell him to go on a blind date. Would I just sit still?”

Honestly, she was confident now.

“He’s not that kind of person. He’s someone who won’t do what he doesn’t want even if a knife is held to his throat.”

“Right?”

When Da-som narrowed her eyes and asked while looking at Eun Hyeok, Eun Hyeok nodded his head vigorously.

“Probably hyung didn’t tell you because he felt it wasn’t even worth mentioning.”

Da-som actually felt relieved.

Being involved with a complete stranger was psychologically more comfortable than being involved with her sister.

“Thanks for telling me.”

“I’m always on your side. You know that, right?”

“I know, of course.”

Da-som smiled and patted Eun Hyeok’s head.

Then Eun Hyeok grinned back at her.

“Let’s go inside.”

“Okay.”

Da-som recalled Kang Hyeok’s icy gaze as he looked at her, asking if she liked Han Bin that much.

The more important problem for Da-som right now wasn’t that blind date woman, but how to appease Kang Hyeok.

How could she have known that Kang Hyeok would be watching?

A man who sulks easily like this cute Eun Hyeok would get over it as if nothing happened with just a couple of pats on the butt, but Kang Hyeok wasn’t like that.

“Eun Hyeok, you said hyung holds grudges really well, right?”

“Yeah, his grudges are explosive.”

Should I look up ways to appease my man?

Sister would know about this kind of thing. I’ll ask her when she comes.

Since she’s practically an expert in that area, she’ll have a solution. Or maybe I should just beg for forgiveness during the clinic opening event.

Da-som soon shook her head and moved to see the next patient.

Just a few more hours to endure.

Maybe because Kang Hyeok wasn’t there, time seemed to pass slowly.

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Ding dong. Ding dong.

Da-som, who had just finished showering, checked the intercom at the sound of the doorbell.

It was her sister So-yeon.

When she opened the door, So-yeon held out a large shopping bag. It wasn’t just empty words from that day – the shopping bag was full of clothes.

“Why did you bring so much?”

Da-som took it and stepped aside.

“I should get a car or something. I thought my arms were going to fall off.”

“I know, right.”

“I’m not late, am I?”

“No. You’re not late. I need to be ready by 6 o’clock.”

“Then give me that bag.”

So-yeon placed the shopping bag on the living room floor and poured out its contents. The small living room was filled with clothes.

“You seem to have lost more weight, so I had a hard time choosing clothes. Isn’t this pretty?”

The dresses and suits suitable for bright spring were all beautiful without exception.

Da-som sat down and told her sister about what happened yesterday while looking through the clothes.

So-yeon, who had been listening thoughtfully, summed up Kang Hyeok’s condition in one word.

“Jealousy. He’s clearly jealous.”

“Jealousy?”

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