Illusion Blind Date - Chapter 10

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#Episode 10

“Just sit down for now. My throat’s sore.”
When Tae Moon pointed toward the sofa, Han Bom shuffled over and sat, hesitant.
She’d been too flustered to put on her slippers—her small, pale feet were bare.
They were so delicate they barely spanned his palm.
Noticing his gaze, she wiggled her toes.
Tae Moon tore his eyes away and looked at her directly. “Let me introduce myself first. I’m Tae Moon, Ji Moon’s cousin. I also own this place.”
He smiled, his eyes crinkling at the corners in a way that suggested genuine warmth.
One would notice, upon closer inspection, that he and Ji Moon shared quite a resemblance.
“Th-then what about the hotel…?”
“That was your mistake.”
Han Bom fell silent for a moment.
She pressed a trembling hand to her forehead as if fighting off dizziness, then caught her lower lip between her teeth.
When her eyes finally met his, she dropped her hand and forced a smile, as though nothing had happened.
Her small face was like a doll molded from a ball—her features clustered together in miniature. It was a completely different impression from the woman at the hotel.
Tae Moon studied her wavering gaze intently once more.
He could have sworn he saw beads of sweat forming above her hairline.
Did the hamster he’d kept as a child look like this? Or perhaps a cat?
Whatever she’d been raised on, the woman was small and endearing.
“I… I had no idea. I’m truly sorry about that day. I must have had something in my eyes.”
Now that the situation had finally registered, Han Bom lowered her head and apologized earnestly.
Her small cheeks flushed a deep crimson.
“It happens to everyone.”
“Thank you so much for understanding.”
He understood her impulse—she’d just wanted the blind date to end quickly, so much so that she hadn’t even bothered with a proper introduction. He couldn’t fault her for that.
And hadn’t he also played along without pressing further, simply because he’d been intrigued when she mentioned being a Resident at YJ University Hospital?
“But… why did you go along with everything I said?”
The unspoken question hung there: why didn’t you just kick me out right away? Tae Moon paused for a moment, considering his answer.
Actually, there wasn’t much to consider.
“Your first impression simply appealed to me.”
In truth, Han Bom’s first impression had captivated him.
At his words, Han Bom tilted her head with a puzzled expression before breaking into a bright smile. “Ah, thank you for that. I hear it all the time—that I have a good face.”
Her tone and expression were hollowed out, much like they’d been during the blind date. There was something about her that seemed slightly adrift.
He watched quietly as she brushed back the strands of hair that had fallen across her small face, as if trying to ward off the awkwardness.
She’d struck him as beautiful even with that elaborate makeup and outfit at the hotel, but now, with her face freshly washed, a pure innocence illuminated her beauty even more. It shone with renewed brilliance.
Beneath her refined forehead lay neat, well-shaped brows; a prominent nose bridge that divided her face perfectly; and a clear philtrum.
And those plump lips, which she kept nervously biting, seemed all the more red in contrast to her snow-white complexion.
……So, a rare beauty.
That was Tae Moon’s conclusion.
“Is there… something on my face?”
Tae Moon stared at her face for a few more seconds, then shook his head briefly.
“No. Anyway, have you calmed down a bit from the shock?”
“Yes… Um, by the way, please speak comfortably. Since you’re Ji Moon’s cousin, you’re practically family to me too.”
She managed to say something so bold without even looking him in the eye properly.
Amused by her audacity, Tae Moon let another smile slip out.
“Should we be like that, then?”
“Yes, of course you should.”
Her bright smile sent a flutter through his vision.
When he looked away to escape her gaze, her delicate neck came into view.
It looked so fragile, as though it would snap in the slightest breeze.
The image of her throwing herself into action with such passion to save patients flashed through his mind.
That image had been so striking that he’d found himself anticipating the day he’d see her again.
One way or another, it was true that Han Bom stirred something dormant deep within him.
And what’s more……

Tae Moon lifted his dark eyes.
“Han Bom.”
At the sound of her name, Bom straightened her back and looked up at him carefully.
“You saw everything just now, didn’t you?”
Tae Moon asked, his voice pitched low.
Hidden in a dark corner of the Powder Room, he hadn’t been discovered at first.
If he hadn’t made a sound, she would likely have noticed much later.
And while drying the water from every corner of her body with a towel, she would have been completely exposed.
Tae Moon’s gaze deepened, growing darker still.
“……Y-yes? I’m not entirely sure what you mean, sir.”
Look at that.
The sight of her blinking with an expression of complete bewilderment drew a soft laugh from him.
“You don’t know?”
When Tae Moon pressed further, Han Bom lowered her long lashes and let her gaze drift toward the front of his trousers.
The moment her eyes found their mark, his body responded instinctively.
“I didn’t ask you to look.”
At his teasing, Han Bom started in alarm and quickly looked away.
“I-it just happened to catch my eye without thinking…… But regardless, what exactly did I see just now? I really can’t remember a thing.”
She was cute, clever, and managed everything perfectly.
She made him want to tease her more and more.
“…….”
When Tae Moon simply stared at her without speaking, Bom squirmed uncomfortably, at a loss.
“I’m being serious, really.”
The warrior-like appearance she’d shown at their blind date had been appealing, but her current cuteness and peculiar charm drew him in even more.
Yet instead of a proper greeting, they’d started with a nude encounter?
“I’ve never shown my naked body to a woman since I grew pubic hair.”
Tae Moon drawled, and Bom stammered as she repeated his words.
“P-pubic, ha, hair.”
“Right. So how are you planning to take responsibility?”

Bom swallowed hard.
Ji Moon, why didn’t you mention your cousin was like this?
Bom had considered herself well-versed in human nature, but clearly she was nothing more than a frog in a well.
She’d sworn she’d never encountered a person of this type before.
“Why don’t you just pretend you didn’t hear?”
His words, spoken almost as if to himself, were equally unconventional.
It’s not that I’m pretending not to hear — my ears are blocked and my nose is stopped up!
“Please give me some time.”
In situations like this, buying time was the only strategy available.
She’d have to look up how to handle a psychopath or something later.
“Since we’ll be seeing each other at the hospital every day going forward, have you considered my psychological trauma?”
“What do you mean by that, sir?”
Bom blinked her large eyes as she asked.
Layer upon layer of complications.
“Didn’t Ji Moon say anything?”
“No, he just mentioned you were his cousin.”
“Starting April first, I’ll be working at the YJ University Hospital Surgery Department. Have you heard that a new professor is joining?”
“Could it possibly be the professor who performed emergency surgery today?”
“That’s right. That professor is me.”
Bom straightened her posture and closed her slightly parted knees together.
She didn’t forget to fold her hands and place them on her thighs.
“Ah…… I, I see.”
As if it weren’t enough that the man she’d mistaken for her blind date turned out to be her landlord, now he was also a surgery professor.
Bom forced her facial muscles, which trembled and convulsed of their own accord, back under control and pulled the corners of her mouth up tightly.
“You look surprised.”
“Ha-ha, not at all.”
This wasn’t servility — it was simply yielding to the laws of nature.
“I don’t have much time to give you. Despite how strong I appear, my mental fortitude is rather delicate.”
Say something that makes sense.
“You don’t seem to believe me.”
Tae Moon’s dark eyes narrowed.
“No. I believe you.”
“Good. Then I’m relieved.”
In the span of mere minutes, Han Bom felt as though her soul had been wrung dry.
She couldn’t help but wonder if coincidences like this could pile up so relentlessly—yet here they were, multiplying by the hour since yesterday.
“From now on, I’ll be using the 3rd Floor, so keep that in mind. Go inside and rest. For the record, you can use the bathroom on the 1st Floor.”
To everyone living in the house, the 3rd Floor was inviolable territory.
The way he declared so confidently that he would be using the 3rd Floor only confirmed it—he was the owner.
With that, Tae Moon brushed off his clothes and stood. Han Bom rose as well.
“……Wait.”
Han Bom called out to stop him as he headed toward the elevator. He turned around.
“Something to say?”

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