Emergency Instinct - Chapter 49
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All she knew how to do as the mistress of Hanyeong Group, a flower in a greenhouse, was useless charity work for the underprivileged.
So she was easy to deceive. All she had to do was pretend to be kind.
She was weak-hearted and would never be able to handle this kind of threat.
She would have no intention of being connected to an in-law like Park Soon-ja, so she would oppose the marriage by any means necessary.
-As promised, when Seo Tae-jun and Ji-an are torn apart, you have to give me another share. If you break your promise, I won’t let it slide.
“Before that, hurry up and get your granddaughter kicked out of Hanyeong Hospital.”
-Don’t worry, I’ve already bribed a caregiver. If I threaten her by taking away her mother, she’ll write her resignation.
“Are you sure about that?”
-Of course. She’s been helpless when it comes to her mother since she was young. If you make her choose between Seo Tae-jun and her mother, she’ll eventually choose her mother, right?
Park Soon-ja spoke confidently.
-I’m going to make that insolent bitch kneel before me again.
Cha Bo-kyung chuckled at Park Soon-ja’s words as she ground her teeth.
“I’m looking forward to it. Watch your mouth.”
-But what kind of grudge do you have against Seo Tae-jun to be doing this?
“You’ll get hurt if you know, so mind your own business.”
After ending the call, Cha Bo-kyung burst into laughter, holding her stomach.
“What grudge. I’m doing this to marry him.”
How stupid. Living over eighty years, how could she be so dim-witted?
She was deceived so easily that it was rather absurd.
“By now it must have reached Seo Tae-jun’s ears too, right?”
She had lost sleep for a while, feeling wronged after being rejected by Seo Tae-jun.
When she investigated while grinding her teeth, there really was a woman.
Cha Bo-kyung glared at the photos of Tae-jun and Hong Ji-an on her phone.
She thought he had high standards, but pathetically, he was just a man chasing after some insignificant emergency room resident.
Her pride was hurt.
Even so, she couldn’t give up because she coveted Hanyeong Group.
Born with a golden spoon, she had never lived a difficult life.
She went to medical school because being a doctor seemed smart and cool.
She was intelligent, and even quicker at reading situations.
With her parents’ full support added to that, studying wasn’t difficult.
With money and information, grades could be maintained indefinitely.
Since middle school, tutors had done her performance assessments for her. The academic competitions needed for college admission were also easily solved with exam papers leaked in advance.
But once she entered medical school, the situation changed.
She couldn’t keep up with the classes.
For the first time, all her studies felt overwhelming.
After much deliberation, she made a different choice.
She created a ‘fake’ to replace herself.
She replicated a face through plastic surgery and obtained a medical license through proxy testing.
From the beginning, patients weren’t important to her.
Only the signboard of being a ‘doctor’ mattered.
She would open a practice, hire salaried doctors to run the hospital, and just get married at the right time.
Starting her unwanted resident life at Hanyeong Hospital was also all because of Seo Tae-jun.
When she said she wanted to marry him, her father created a resident position at Hanyeong Hospital for her.
The chairman of Hanyeong Group was said to prefer capable people. Also, since Song Jeong-suk volunteered at Hanyeong Hospital every month, it was good for approaching her.
This time, there was a risk of being caught, so she attended work directly without using a fake.
Instead, the hospital director, who had received money from her father, covered for her.
Still, the resident work was really headache-inducing and annoying.
At least she was satisfied with successfully approaching Song Jeong-suk, who came to the hospital monthly, and winning her heart.
Everything was flowing according to plan.
Until Hong Ji-an appeared…
“I absolutely can’t give up.”
Cha Bo-kyung smiled wickedly.
“I absolutely won’t let her take him. Not to that insignificant thing.”
She had come this far while working miserably as a resident, ruining her skin and even getting stressed.
Seo Tae-jun would have no choice but to marry her in the end.
When Park Soon-ja caused a scene, she planned to subtly approach Song Jeong-suk pretending to comfort her and cry about Tae-jun being her first love.
Pretending to be an innocent woman in love, if she played the good daughter-in-law act appropriately, Song Jeong-suk would eventually be deceived.
Her father had also agreed to help with this matter by earnestly persuading the chairman.
“If the family pushes for it, there’s nothing he can do, right?”
Cha Bo-kyung headed to the club excitedly.
There was no place better than a club to relieve stress.
***
Mother had awakened.
When Ji-an received the call from the nursing home, she thought her heart would burst.
She ran out of the emergency room and rushed there still wearing her gown.
The moment she arrived in front of her mother’s hospital room, she threw open the door.
The moment she rushed inside without even catching her breath.
“Oh, Mother…”
It wasn’t a dream.
Her mother’s eyelids were blinking and moving as she lay on the bed.
At those tender eyes, Ji-an’s whole body trembled.
“…Mother…”
Her weakened legs couldn’t support her, and she collapsed in front of her mother.
Then, tears flowed down her mother’s eyes.
“Uh…”
Her mother opened her trembling lips as if trying to speak.
But her tongue and vocal cords weren’t functioning properly yet, and only labored breathing came out in broken sounds.
“It’s okay, Mother. You don’t have to speak right now.”
Her mother’s confused eyes shook anxiously.
She looked at the ceiling, then searched the window area, and swept over the unfamiliar machines.
And then she squeezed out all her strength to open her mouth again.
“…I… I’m…”
Her mother’s thin hand trembled as it moved.
Slowly, really slowly toward Ji-an.
Ji-an instinctively grabbed her mother’s hand tightly.
She could feel a pulse. Slow and irregular, but beating hotly.
Ji-an swallowed rough breaths and shed tears.
Her mother’s gaze, which had been wandering without focus, searched as if looking for a face that had been in that place for a long time.
And finally, her mother’s eyes fixed on Ji-an trembled.
“…Ji, Ji-an…”
Though it was small enough to crumble, it came through more and more clearly.
Mother was calling Ji-an.
“Mother. You recognize me now, right? It’s me, Ji-an. Mother’s daughter…”
Mother blinked her eyes and opened her lips again.
“My… daughter… Ji-an…”
“That’s right. It’s me. Ji-an. Mother’s daughter. I’m here.”
As if understanding, Mother blinked her eyes. Along with tears.
“Thank you. Mother, thank you. For coming back to me…”
Ji-an collapsed and embraced her mother, bursting into tears.
Hot tears poured down endlessly.
The quiet hospital room that had been filled only with the sound of the respirator.
Those countless nights when no matter how much she called, there was no answer.
The pain she had endured all this time.
All flowed away with Ji-an’s tears.
She cried and cried again with a heart that felt like it would burst from too much happiness.
***
Tae-jun hurriedly got into his car.
Gripping the steering wheel as he moved, he immediately called Kim Manager.
“Did she really wake up?”
-Yes. She’s currently being transferred to Hanyeong Hospital for examination.
Kim Manager’s calm voice flowed through the car speakers.
Tae-jun’s heart raced as he thought of Ji-an crying tears of joy.
But now was not the time to get excited.
After briefly organizing the situation, he spoke coldly.
“Kim Manager. The Dongsan Hospital materials we’ve gathered so far, turn them over to the prosecution tomorrow.”
-Tomorrow right away?
“Park Soon-ja threatened mother while demanding money from her.”
-No way. How could she do such an outrageous thing.
Kim Manager’s usually calm voice rose consecutively in surprise.
“Contact the corporate lawyer, and file a complaint together. I’ll send you the threatening content by text.”
He gave orders without hesitation.
He felt he could only be at ease after arresting Park Soon-ja immediately and cutting off all her hands and feet.
“What about Hong Chul-ho?”
-Speaking of which, I’m on my way back from meeting him now. If we provide settlement money and guarantee suspended sentence, he says he’ll testify.
“What cards does he have?”
-He says he has not only illegal Dongsan Hospital materials, but also evidence that his mother secretly distributed narcotic drugs all this time.
Park Soon-ja’s evil deeds truly had no end.
Illegal drug distribution.
“Perfect. Tell him we’ll give him what he wants. Instead, in exchange for the settlement money, recover Hong Chul-ho’s Dongsan Hospital shares and have him directly report to the prosecution as a whistleblower.”
-Yes. Understood.
“And look into Park Soon-ja’s call records. It seems like she has some accomplice.”
Tae-jun finally gave instructions about the part that bothered him.
He hadn’t heard that anyone had contacted the surveillance person.
But she must certainly have something to rely on. Otherwise, there was no reason for her to attack so recklessly.
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