Emergency Blind Date - Chapter 8

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#Episode 8

“Hmm, …is that so?”

At Kang Hyeok’s voice that drew out the end of his words as if questioning, I clenched my fists tightly. Cold sweat trickled down my spine.

It sounded like he was speculating about something.

“Haha, yes, I’ll work hard from now on.”

Han Byeol shouted loudly with exaggerated enthusiasm. At times like this, having Han Byeol by my side was incredibly reassuring.

“But you said your name was Jeong Da-som?”

When Kang Hyeok, who seemed about to leave, called Da-som’s name in a low voice, Eun Hyeok and Han Byeol’s gazes poured onto Da-som.

“…Yes?”

Why, why is he calling me?

Startled, Da-som answered in a voice that was barely audible.

But after calling her, he said nothing. Even in that brief silence, Da-som felt like she might collapse.

“I wanted to see you, and here we meet like this?”

“…?!”

What does this mean? Have I been caught?

It wasn’t just me who was surprised – I could see Han Byeol and Eun Hyeok’s mouths dropping open one after another.

“I was curious about who made that guy human.”

Kang Hyeok said while looking at Eun Hyeok with a smirk. Only then did everyone nod with understanding expressions.

Da-som also managed to compose her frozen expression and barely answer.

“Haha…, yes.”

“Well then, see you at Shinwha-ru.”

After the nerve-wracking greeting ended, Kang Hyeok joined another group and left.

Da-som, who had been shocked to her core, watched Kang Hyeok walking away and slowly turned her head.

“Wow, shit…. That’s so cheesy.”

Eun Hyeok shuddered and rubbed both his arms.

Da-som also rubbed both her arms next to Eun Hyeok. Rather than cheesy, it was scary. She worried whether he might have recognized her.

“Eun Hyeok, anyway, our EM life has blossomed, right?”

Han Byeol muttered without taking his eyes off Kang Hyeok in the distance.

“Whether it’s blossomed or died, we’ll only know once we face it. Honestly, he’s absolutely not the type to go easy on you just because you’re an acquaintance.”

…So he really didn’t recognize me, right?

I was becoming more and more convinced that Kang Hyeok hadn’t recognized me.

Unbelievably, this disguise was a complete success.

“Hey, we’ll be late. Let’s hurry and go too.”

My chest felt relieved as if the heavy stone that had been pressing down on it had disappeared.

It felt like I could finally breathe properly.

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“Now, has everyone filled their glasses? Then we’ll make a toast together. When I shout ‘To EM!’ you all respond with ‘Forever!'”

Kim Kyung-tae raised his glass forward and shouted.

“To EM!”

“Forever!”

Everyone shouted so loudly that Shinwha-ru seemed to shake.

An annual event, always at the same Shinwha-ru. But this year was different.

Kang Hyeok kept his gaze fixed on one spot as he raised and lowered his glass.

“Now then, everyone eat comfortably and order more if there’s anything lacking.”

“Thank you for the meal!”

The five people gathered around the round table answered well, like freshmen who had just entered university.

Then, as if something was so amusing, they were busy chatting and laughing among themselves.

Normally, he would have considered it a good time and sent them a warm smile, but as long as his blind date woman was in that group, that wouldn’t happen.

Honestly, he never imagined they’d meet again this quickly.

And as an Emergency Medicine resident, no less.

He should have been suspicious when she gave off such a strong scent of being in the same industry.

For Kang Hyeok, who had been feeling like he’d developed some kind of illness that hadn’t existed before, this was the perfect opportunity.

The memory of that day when he vowed not to let it slide if they met again came flooding back.

Short-cut hair and large horn-rimmed glasses.

She might have thought she could hide her face with those, but the moment Kang Hyeok saw Da-som, he recognized her instantly.

Kang Hyeok, who had run all sorts of simulations with the mindset of “just get caught” while imagining their reunion, felt like humming a tune.

Did she think she just needed to get through today?

She couldn’t possibly believe she could fool him forever with such a sloppy and adorably cute disguise.

He wanted to join the first-year residents’ table right now and watch, but he decided to wait for the right moment in case she might run away to another hospital.

There would be plenty of time ahead.

The situation was turning out quite interestingly.

Now he understood why Jeong Da-som’s face had seemed so familiar on their blind date.

Since she was from Central General Hospital, he must have seen her in passing at least once.

Moreover, if she was Eun Hyeok’s best friend Jeong Da-som, he had already heard about her endlessly from his mother.

She said that stupid Eun Hyeok was able to safely graduate medical school and complete his internship all thanks to Jeong Da-som.

Jeong Da-som, whom his mother wanted to pair with Eun Hyeok.

And Jeong Da-som, who had appeared as his blind date.

Kang Hyeok looked at the problematic woman with deeply sunken eyes.

Her short hair made her long, slender nape stand out even more. Just yesterday, he had dreamed of burying his lips in that nape, breathing hotly while rolling around on the bed.

And that wasn’t all.

Ever since the blind date, whenever he relieved himself alone, the face he imagined was always that face.

But she was the woman his mother had marked as Eun Hyeok’s match.

Though that was probably just his mother’s wishful thinking.

The sight of her casually patting Eun Hyeok’s arm and Eun Hyeok grinning because he liked it was burned into his eyes.

“Who are you glaring at like that? Your brother?”

Seong-ho, who had appeared after having a drink at another table, sat next to Kang Hyeok and struck up a conversation.

Kang Hyeok frowned as he looked at Seong-ho’s reddish face.

“How long has it been since you recovered your condition, and you’re drinking already?”

“Uh-huh, I drank just a little.”

When the guy who looked exactly like Ma Dong-seok showed one finger joint with an eye smile that didn’t suit him, Kang Hyeok’s expression naturally turned cold.

“But Kang Hyeok. Do you see over there?”

As if he had discovered something interesting, Seong-ho’s eyes sparkled as he pointed somewhere.

“What?”

“The shy one. That shy one sitting next to your brother. She’s not ordinary, is she?”

She’s not ordinary, so she charmingly deceived me and came to the blind date.

But why are the Head of Department and this guy all making a fuss over Jeong Da-som?

Kang Hyeok’s crooked gaze turned toward Seong-ho.

Da-som’s hospital life would already be quite overwhelming with just his attention, so he wished everyone would stop being interested.

“She looks absolutely adorable enough to bite, but she’s quite sharp. It’s very interesting how she handles the Fixten too.”

“Bite? Are you a pervert?”

“It’s just a figure of speech. She looks like a squirrel and is so cute I could die.”

She was exactly the type that Seong-ho, who liked small, cute, and pretty things, would fall for. Though the person in question seemed unaware of how attractive she was.

Kang Hyeok cast his gaze back toward where Da-som was.

The big, dark guys were grinning like idiots.

Even setting aside his brother Eun Hyeok, the guys who were clearly from different schools and meeting for the first time today were all focused on petite Da-som.

…Well.

A laugh escaped him.

Who was he to criticize whom?

Here was a guy who had lost his mind in just two hours.

Rrrrr. Rrrrr.

“Oh, Professor Tae. You have a call. That’s your phone, right?”

Kang Hyeok pulled out his ringing phone from his jacket’s inner pocket.

It was his mother, Mrs. Go.

“I’ll go out and take this call.”

“Oh, okay.”

Kang Hyeok left the room with his phone and pressed the call button.

“Yes, Mother.”

―Kang Hyeok, when are you meeting that young lady again? You had to rush to the hospital that day, so you agreed to meet again.

Mrs. Go, who didn’t know the detailed circumstances, only knew that he had agreed to meet the blind date woman again later.

Until he confirmed the photo, he had actually planned to do so.

“I’m planning to meet her soon.”

Since she appeared right before his eyes on her own, there was no reason not to meet. Kang Hyeok stepped out of the noisy restaurant entirely.

―Don’t make her wait too long and meet quickly to make some progress, son. Okay?

How exactly should I make progress, Mother?

Kang Hyeok leaned diagonally against the corridor wall, looking toward the restaurant entrance, and let out a quiet laugh.

―You’re laughing at what I said again, aren’t you?

“Why would I do that?”

―Anyway, let’s get this done properly before relocating our ancestors’ graves. There’s a whole line of crap piling up behind you.

She said she wanted to sleep with her legs stretched out.

“I understand. I’ll contact you again.”

After ending the call, Kang Hyeok calmly put his phone back into his jacket’s inner pocket.

Normally, he would have headed straight to the hospital, but inside the restaurant was the problematic blind date woman.

Whether she was a substitute or whatever, Jeong Da-som was clearly the blind date woman who had never left Kang Hyeok’s mind since that day.

So even though this was the venue for the new resident orientation, he saw her as a woman, not a student.

He could guarantee that come March, she’d be bustling around in front of him wearing a white coat, but even then, he would definitely see her as a woman.

This wasn’t because he was trash, but because that’s how it started.

Whether his heart would race again like it did on that blind date remained to be seen, but it was true that endorphins were being released more than necessary right now.

He quietly clenched his fist and steadied his breathing at the thrilling sensation flowing through his fingertips.

Today, he planned to stay until the event ended.

Just as Kang Hyeok moved toward the restaurant and was about to enter, the door swung wide open and someone shot out.

“Ah! I’m, I’m sorry.”

The person who burst out defensively was none other than his blind date woman.

She seemed just as startled as he was, as bewilderment spread across her flushed red face.

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