I’m Obsessed With the Suspect - Chapter 9

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9

Cheong-a covered her face with both hands.

What caught her eye was the rubber gloves that had been gripping the toilet just moments before.

“Ahhh!”

Cheong-a screamed once more and swatted away her hands that had almost touched her face. Because of this, she had to watch as Yushin tucked something away inside his pants.

“What, what! Look away!”

“…”

Yushin shouted in embarrassment, but Cheong-a couldn’t turn her head and remained frozen in place. Then her head tilted to one side crookedly.

“Wait, hold on… That… Why is it so big?”

At that quiet murmur, Yushin’s face turned even more bright red.

Cheong-a swallowed.

She had to mobilize all the knowledge she possessed to analyze what she had just witnessed.

Could it still be swollen like that from being hit with the mop?

‘Wait, wait! This seems like a big problem?’

Really? Crazy. Crazy!

What the hell did I do?

“Ah!”

Only then did Cheong-a feel like she could understand why Min Yoo-shin had been so irritable.

If that’s still swollen in that state…

Hitting me? That’s justified.

Getting angry? Of course he would.

Kicking me? He could do it ten times.

Yeah, absolutely.

‘On top of that, I stabbed his back with a tanghulu skewer, so seeing me would make his anger surge up, right?’

The suspicion and anger toward Yushin that had remained in her heart until just moments ago melted away like snow.

“Professor…”

Cheong-a bowed her head deeply and quietly opened her mouth. Her voice was even lower than before.

“Really… What, what should I do? I’m sorry. I didn’t know it was still swollen to this extent.”

Yushin stared blankly at Cheong-a, then covered his face with his hands with an audible slap.

“Ms. Park Bokseon.”

Yushin’s low voice flowed out between his fingers.

“Yes, yes…?”

“Get out.”

At his firm voice, Cheong-a’s guilt deepened.

“Huuung. Professor, I’m sorry. Should I, should I get on my knees? What should I do, really…”

“No. Don’t! Don’t do anything and please just get out!”

Yushin’s voice grew louder.

Due to panic, anger, and shame all tangled together, he was shouting loudly, unlike his usual self.

“But you haven’t accepted my apology yet. Huhuhuk, I really didn’t stab you with the skewer on purpose, what am I saying. It really wasn’t intentional, okay? Waaah. I can’t leave like this. I can’t get fired. I need to earn money.”

Cheong-a clasped her hands together and begged desperately. Each time, the toilet brush dangled with the squeaking sound of rubber friction.

At that sight, Yushin turned his head away in disgust once more.

“I understand, so right now. Get out. Please just get out!”

“Really? You’re accepting my apology, right? A person shouldn’t go back on their word, right? Really? Really!”

After pushing Cheong-a, who was bowing frantically, out of the restroom, Yushin leaned his head against the door.

‘What is she? Is she really crazy?’

Yushin’s heart pounded mercilessly once again.

Meanwhile, Cheong-a, who had been pushed out of the restroom, hurriedly moved her steps. She chewed her lips nervously with a troubled expression and muttered to herself.

“This is a big problem? What should I do… Why hasn’t the swelling gone down yet?”

Cheong-a overlapped her hands and held them in a circle to gauge the condition of the area she had seen earlier. Then she sighed without realizing it.

“Ugh, it seems worse? This is a big problem. No, this isn’t normal, right?”

No matter how she thought about it, there was definitely a problem.

The condition was much worse than when she had directly checked it before.

“That bastard. Is he really a doctor? Why did he leave it in that state? …This is driving me crazy!”

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Yushin’s steps stopped as he was returning to his research lab after finishing at the outpatient clinic.

It was because he spotted Cheong-a who had come carrying an armful of something.

“What is it?”

Cheong-a hesitantly held out a paper bag to Yushin. Yushin, who glanced at its contents with just his eyes, let out a snort.

“What is this,”

“I gathered everything that’s supposed to be good for reducing swelling.”

She fumbled around and pulled out the contents to show Yushin.

Pumpkin tea, buckwheat tea, Job’s tears tea.

And even a gua sha massager and a thermal compress.

Yushin, who had been watching Cheong-a cheerfully show him the contents, silently turned his body. Then he began taking large strides to avoid her.

“Uwaaah, Professoooor.”

Cheong-a’s troubled voice rang out from behind him. However, Yushin didn’t answer and took even larger steps toward the elevator.

Cheong-a ran after him with quick steps.

“You said you’d accept my apology!”

“…”

Unfortunately, all the elevators were located on the upper floors.

Judging that it would take time for the elevator to come down to the 1st floor, Yushin immediately turned toward the staircase. Then he bounded up two or three steps at a time and climbed to the 5th floor where his research lab was located in one go.

However, Cheong-a was faster than Yushin had expected.

The moment he opened the staircase door, Cheong-a immediately followed him out.

“Professor!”

It was the moment when Yushin reflexively turned around at the voice that was right behind him.

Thud!

“Ugh?”

Cheong-a’s forehead hit Yushin’s solid chest directly and bounced off.

She was startled and blushed as she stepped backward. Then she fumbled with the bandage on her forehead and apologized.

“Ah, ah… I’m sorry.”

Yushin stuck both hands in his coat pockets and looked down at her.

“Ms. Park Bokseon, don’t you have work to do?”

His slightly curved eyes and mocking tone were clearly close to ridicule, but Cheong-a couldn’t back down. Instead, she smiled brightly and pulled something out of the paper bag to show Yushin.

“I do, I do. The job of reducing your swelling, Professor. Hehe.”

In her hand was a gua sha massager.

A pale pink stone piece with smooth curves sparkled and gleamed.

“I searched really hard and this one had the best reviews.”

At Cheong-a’s demonstration of earnestly rubbing her forearm, Yushin’s eyes squeezed shut.

‘It’s not swollen…!’

Yushin’s lips twitched several times. He kept his mouth shut and swallowed the words that were about to burst out, then turned around sharply.

Cheong-a shook the paper bag and earnestly chased after Yushin.

“I’m busy. I’m not a leisurely person like our Ms. Park.”

Yushin still spoke in a sarcastic tone, but Cheong-a didn’t give up.

“I’m busy too. But today I came to work 30 minutes early to give you this!”

“Is that so?”

Only when they reached the front of the research lab did Yushin’s steps stop. Cheong-a quickly seized the opportunity to hold out the bag again.

After being lost in thought for a moment, Yushin pushed away the bag in front of him and opened his mouth.

“I don’t need any of this stuff. If you have time to chase after me to apologize, how about paying with your body instead?”

“Eh… Body?”

Cheong-a looked up at Yushin with wide eyes. A wicked smile hung on Yushin’s face.

“If you’re sorry. If you’re apologizing. You can at least provide that much service.”

“What do you mean by that…?”

Her mind was confused by the bewildering words. Meanwhile, Yushin’s large hand wrapped around Cheong-a’s shoulder.

“Ah?”

And with a click, her body was pushed through the open doorway as if thrown.

“Ah!”

Cheong-a barely managed to stop herself with stumbling steps, then quickly turned her gaze toward Yushin. She bit her lips tightly and raised her head to meet Yushin’s eyes.

Her heart pounded mercilessly.

What does this mean right now? Pay with her body?

No matter how much she racked her brain, only bad thoughts kept coming to mind.

Other thoughts didn’t come easily.

Cheong-a had just finished taking a quick deep breath and was about to tell him not to talk crazy and punch Yushin in the face.

It was really just at that very moment.

But fortunately, Yushin’s next words came a little faster.

“Why are you looking at me? Your job is over there, ma’am.”

For a moment, Cheong-a just blinked a couple of times while keeping her fist clenched.

Yushin, meeting her gaze, looked down at Cheong-a with an indifferent expression and raised his finger to point at his room.

Cheong-a’s head slowly turned following his gesture.

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