I Became the Oriental Doctor for Divine Beasts - Chapter 73

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The Divine Beast’s Doctor
#73
At her daughter’s interrogation, Kim Mi-jung quickly waved her off.
“Right, right. You said not to. Said it’d be a hassle.”
“Good call.”
Yun Se-rin’s eyes betrayed her exhaustion.
“Word’s already all over the broadcasting world anyway. Oh Hwi Korean Medicine Hospital’s director’s daughter trying to get on air, reaching out to producers everywhere.”
She clicked her tongue quietly.
“If they find out what I do, they’ll be insufferable. That’s why I keep it quiet.”
The truth was, Se-rin’s reason for going to Oroji Korean Medicine Clinic was simple.
It was where her mother worked—nothing more, nothing less.
She hadn’t even known she was visiting the clinic run by the successor to the famous Oh Hwi Korean Medicine Hospital.
In her mind, diet herbal medicine was diet herbal medicine, one place as good as another.
“That director really is something. Must be getting anxious with patient numbers dropping lately. Now she’s got me spying on other clinics for her.”
Kim Mi-jung, who’d been grumbling steadily, suddenly asked a question.
“By the way—so your PD has no intention of getting the director on the show?”
Se-rin shrugged with an ambiguous expression.
“To be honest, it seems like they’re still on the fence. I mean, if it were the Oh Hwi director herself, sure, but her daughter is kind of… whatever. Still, she’s got good verbal skills and decent visuals, so it’s on hold for now, you know?”
“I see.”
Kim Mi-jung nodded.
Then she grabbed her daughter’s arm again and started pleading.
“Anyway, Se-rin, you’ll do this for your mom, right? Baek Myodang’s closed for vacation season right now, so once the break’s over, you’ll pop in and come right back out? Okay?”
That was the moment.
Yun Se-rin’s eyes, which had been half-closed in boredom, snapped wide open.
“What? Baek Myodang? You mean where Director Go Yeon-hee works?”
“Yeah, that’s the one. Why?”
Kim Mi-jung nodded, her expression puzzled.
In an instant, Se-rin’s demeanor shifted.
“Mom! Why didn’t you say so earlier?”
Se-rin turned her body fully toward her mother, away from the TV.
“That doctor, Go Yeon-hee—she’s the hottest topic lately. Lunalight’s main dancer Jeong Ra-bit goes there, and I heard she treated national team soccer player Ma Yun-sang too. Even actor Yang Si-heon is supposedly a regular there?”
Her eyes sparkled as she rattled off the names of celebrities.
Now it was Kim Mi-jung’s turn to widen her eyes in surprise.
“Oh my, Se-rin. It’s that big of a deal?”
“You don’t use the internet much, so you wouldn’t know, but anyone who knows what’s going on in the entertainment world knows about that place.”
Se-rin’s mind was already working overtime.
‘Go Yeon-hee….’
This was someone whose name had been circulating lately, even in broadcasting circles.
A young female doctor of herbal medicine who’d appeared suddenly and captivated all manner of famous entertainers and national team athletes.
And there were even rumors that her treatment skills were unnaturally good.
She rested her chin on her hand and murmured.
“Might be worth checking out.”
“So you’ll go?”
Kim Mi-jung asked carefully, hope lighting her voice.
Se-rin waved her hand dismissively.
“Fine, fine. I’ll just go pretend to be a patient, see how she runs consultations, and report back to you. Deal?”
Kim Mi-jung’s face brightened immediately.
“That’s my girl!”
Se-rin collapsed back onto the sofa with a tired expression.
“Covert reconnaissance at a herbal clinic. Look at me, doing all sorts of things.”
Yet the corners of her mouth had lifted just slightly.
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And so it came to pass.
Yun Se-rin eventually found herself at Baek Myodang, half out of curiosity and half out of apathy.
In truth, the consultation itself wasn’t particularly important to her.
She’d already been prescribed several months’ worth of diet herbal medicine from Oroji, and the only reason she was at Baek Myodang was because her mother had asked her to come.
‘I’ll just have a quick look around, meet the director, and leave.’
Though she was curious about Go Yeon-hee, to be fair.
But she figured a few words exchanged would be enough to get a sense of the woman.
As a screenwriter with considerable experience, she’d developed an eye for talent—or so she believed.
To tell the difference between the ‘fakes’ who’d lucked their way into stardom and the ‘real deals’ who possessed something different from the rest.
‘Ugh… but I really don’t have time for this.’
Upon arriving at Baek Myodang, Se-rin suddenly ruffled her own hair.
The medical variety show she was working on lately had been seeing its viewership slip steadily.
Because of that, the PD had been pestering the writers constantly to book ‘blockbuster guests’—
‘If it were easy, would I be suffering like this?’
In any case, work was hectic and her body was exhausted.
So throughout the consultation, Yun Se-rin’s attitude remained somehow detached.
“It’s summer and my clothes are getting thinner, so I feel like I’m putting on weight. I’m worried about it.”
Say that, and the doctor would ask a few routine questions, prescribe some medicine, and that would be the end of it.
Then she’d say she’d think about the price and slip out.
But the situation unfolded differently than expected.
“By the way, Se-rin, what do you do for work?”
Go Yeon-hee’s expression, which had been asking various questions, suddenly hardened.
She shifted to an earnest tone.
Even Se-rin, who’d been unconcerned, was genuinely surprised at that moment. She straightened visibly, caught off guard.
And the questions that followed were striking.
They were questions that seemed to pierce through Yun Se-rin’s physical condition and current situation with surgical precision.
‘Okay. So the rumor about her skills isn’t completely baseless.’
Se-rin let out a silent whistle to herself.
What was even more impressive was the moment she’d solemnly insisted that diet herbal medicine was still medicine, after all.
She’d somehow ended up feeling scolded, but not in an unpleasant way.
If anything…
‘Aren’t doctors like that rare these days?’
Who really knows what other clinics prescribe or how they do it?
Besides, it wouldn’t be easy for a doctor to speak harsh truths to a patient who’d come asking for medicine.
Yet Go Yeon-hee’s words and actions didn’t seem to stem from calculation—they appeared to come from genuine sincerity.
‘Does she actually have something like… professional integrity?’
As Yun Se-rin was roughly finishing her mental assessment of Go Yeon-hee,
an unexpected moment unfolded.
Yeon-hee had taken Se-rin’s wrist to check her pulse and frowned.
“Se-rin.”
Her voice was low but firm.
“Now is not the time to diet.”
“Pardon?”
Yun Se-rin blinked.
What on earth was that supposed to mean—to a patient who’d come in specifically asking for diet medicine?
It was as if the shop owner was throwing out a customer who’d walked in on their own feet.
“Your body is already sending danger signals.”
Whether or not aware of Se-rin’s confusion,
Yeon-hee continued speaking with clarity and precision.
“Your body is already severely exhausted. If aggressive weight loss is introduced in this state—”
Her gaze slowly swept across Se-rin’s face.
Confronted with those eyes that seemed to see right through her condition, Se-rin instinctively hunched her shoulders.
“What’s been barely holding together will collapse.”
For a moment, Yun Se-rin’s expression grew tight.
But she soon laughed awkwardly.
“Come on, just over a diet? I’m not exactly a critical patient. I don’t have any chronic conditions.”
Then Yeon-hee shook her head firmly.
“You don’t need a diagnosis to have illness.”
……
“Your body right now is close to barely holding on by burning through your youth.”
Yeon-hee continued speaking calmly.
“For now, stop thinking about dieting. You need to rest properly. Get decent sleep, cut down on caffeine, eat regular meals. And quit the late-night snacking.”
“…Yes.”
Yun Se-rin’s expression listening to all this became increasingly subtle.
“And even if you diet in the future, absolutely no starvation diets. If you lose weight by starving, you’ll just get the yo-yo effect all over again.”
Se-rin felt a bit flabbergasted internally.
‘Wait, why is she suddenly doing this? Spouting textbook stuff like that?’
To be honest, it sounded like pretty obvious advice.
Who doesn’t already know this?
These were things that came up everywhere online nowadays.
‘I thought there’d be something special about her with all the hype….’
She felt slightly deflated inside.
Meanwhile, Yeon-hee remained serious.
“Don’t diet at all right now. You need to build up your physical condition first. If your symptoms don’t improve even after you fix your habits, come back and see me then. I’ll get you properly sorted out.”
“Ah… yes.”
Yun Se-rin nodded with an ambiguous expression.
But her inner thoughts were different.
‘What’s her problem? Isn’t that kind of an overreaction to just a diet?’
It felt like making a fuss over nothing, honestly.
In the end, all she kept hearing was the same old advice about living regularly.
‘So it’s a trendy herbal clinic, a young prodigy doctor, and all that—but when you actually visit, there’s nothing special about it.’
Guess the rumors were exaggerated after all.
Yun Se-rin left Baek Myodang with that thought in mind.
And a few days later.
Ignoring Yeon-hee’s warning, she began taking the diet herbal medicine that Oroji had prescribed.

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