The Physician of Traditional Medicine Returns from Murim - Chapter 216

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Chapter 216

I called Kim Jinsang.

Telling him to come to the clinic right now.

“Oh, but the driver said he was tired today and wanted to rest…!”

So that’s why he showed up secretly.

Of course, I lightly ignored Park Seon-yun’s attempts to stop me and summoned Kim Jinsang.

Tired or whatever, I need to have a three-way meeting first to relieve my fatigue.

“Don’t go anywhere, just wait right here.”

I pointed to a corner of the waiting room.

I had to treat patients until Kim Jinsang arrived.

Fortunately, it wasn’t long before Kim Jinsang arrived.

“Director, what’s the matter… Gasp, young master!”

“Oh, hello.”

I brought him into the examination room along with the embarrassed Park Seon-yun.

I gave the desk a signal not to call me for about 10 minutes and closed the door.

“What’s going on? Why is the young master…?”

Since I hadn’t told him the purpose, Kim Jinsang looked at me resentfully.

“I didn’t call Park Seon-yun here. He came to ask what kind of illness you have because he’s worried about you.”

“Ah…”

“Now! Here’s your chance! Please tell us in your own words what happened!”

What chance are you looking for? I created it, so hurry up and spill it!

I pressed him hard.

“Since you already know your blood pressure temporarily rose, you just need to explain the circumstances that caused the stress in great detail.”

“No, Director. You said you’d keep it secret, but now you’re doing this…!”

“Driver, please tell me.”

Kim Jinsang’s escape attempt was immediately suppressed.

“I understand you want to hide it, but I am still a director. If there’s any way I can help, I want to do my best.”

Park Seon-yun, who still thought he had a serious illness, pleaded earnestly.

“What? No, well, I, that is…!”

Kim Jinsang looked around in surprise, but there was no one here to help him.

“I’m sorry!”

In the end, Kim Jinsang bowed his waist awkwardly.

Park Seon-yun nodded quietly. He was still misunderstanding, thinking Kim Jinsang was apologizing for hiding his illness.

“I, well… the car next to me door-dinged mine and I got angry… that bastard, I mean that person turned out to be an executive at JS… what was it? A foreign company.”

“The GMCL executive? The car door-ding incident you mentioned before was that person?”

How did he not get a single letter right?

Still, Park Seon-yun understood perfectly.

“You remembered.”

“I had it repaired, so of course I remember…?”

And then for a moment.

Silence fell.

Park Seon-yun waited for Kim Jinsang to continue.

Kim Jinsang had a slightly relieved expression after confessing everything.

“But, so what did that person do?”

After almost 10 seconds of silence, Park Seon-yun spoke first.

“What?”

“There was the door-ding incident, and what happened after that? Threats? Or maybe bribery attempts to steal something? Gasp, maybe it wasn’t you but a family member who got sick? You must have suffered mentally…”

“Park Seon-yun’s imagination is very plausible, but no.”

Does he usually watch a lot of makjang dramas with chaebols?

I cut off Park Seon-yun’s rich imagination on Kim Jinsang’s behalf.

“That’s all there is.”

“…?”

“…?”

Park Seon-yun looked at me once and Kim Jinsang once with a completely confused expression.

“So the car got scratched, the driver got angry, the secretary apologized and paid for it instead… isn’t everything resolved?”

“That’s exactly what I’m saying.”

“He was worried that the deal with GMC… might be cut off because of that incident…”

“What? No way.”

When Kim Jinsang revealed what he had been worrying about all along, even Park Seon-yun was flustered.

When I added that this was exactly why symptoms like bloodshot eyes, poor sleep, and high blood pressure occurred, Park Seon-yun waved his hands frantically.

“Absolutely not! GMCL has been handling a lot of overseas distribution for us, but this time they crossed the line so we cut ties!”

“…Really?”

“I can’t tell you the details, but they’ve been continuously demanding that we cut ties with competitors if we want to keep doing business with them. Of course, we wanted to resolve it through dialogue if possible, so we kept making contact and tried offering other conditions. But GMCL probably thought we would give in, so they came on strong, and it was decided after a board meeting.”

“Oh, really…?”

Kim Jinsang muttered with his mouth agape.

Ah, ah. After letting out a few exclamations, he hung his head low.

‘Right, I knew it absolutely wasn’t because of Kim Jinsang. That’s exactly the kind of problem that can’t be solved through conversation.’

Very flustered, Park Seon-yun continued the story.

“We’ll have to rebuild our distribution network, so it’ll be a bit troublesome, but it’s not impossible. The competitor offered better conditions from the start anyway, and to avoid being pushed around anymore, we need our own system─”

“You don’t need to tell me confidential information.”

Fortunately, it didn’t seem to be a big deal. Judging by how everything was resolved within a few weeks.

In a situation like that, wasn’t cutting off the deal ultimately PK’s choice? If they had stubbornly held on, that foreign company might have been the one in trouble instead.

“I, I, I see. Not knowing that, I thought for no reason that you were angry, young master…”

“Angry? You knew everyone’s been busy lately because of the clients coming from the Middle East, right? On top of that, I was worried you might be sick, so I was completely focused on that and had completely forgotten about the GMCL matter. How could this…”

“That’s right…”

“You should have told me. I had no idea you were thinking such nonsense…”

“I’m sorry, young master!”

Yes, Mr. Park Seon-yun. You didn’t do well either.

You could have just asked directly, but you came all the way to the clinic!

“Mr. Park Seon-yun said he drove himself on purpose because Mr. Kim Jinsang seemed tired lately.

Of course, instead of unnecessarily stirring up trouble, I added words to help them understand each other.

Since Park Seon-yun wasn’t here as a patient for consultation, it was okay to share some information.

“Ah?”

Kim Jinsang was deeply moved.

“Oh my, did he think he was being excluded from work?”

Park Seon-yun even realized that Kim Jinsang had been anxious about being fired.

“I’m ashamed to say… I thought I had caused great damage to you, young master.”

“No, absolutely not! And even if that were the case, I wouldn’t penalize you over such a trivial matter.”

“That’s… if that’s the case, then you would penalize me, no, it didn’t matter in the end, but I did do wrong…”

Park Seon-yun spoke firmly, but Kim Jinsang kept his head hung low.

Deep guilt was written all over his face.

Though the misunderstanding was cleared up, the past few weeks spent thinking he had done wrong had caused a major change in his mindset.

“Even if it wasn’t this incident, as someone who serves you, young master, I shouldn’t have behaved in such an undignified manner.”

If this were the martial arts world, this would be the timing for “Please punish me!”

But Kim Jinsang only continued apologizing.

“What are you talking about? You’ve always been good to me…!”

“Thank you for saying that. Sigh, if I’m going to continue serving you well, young master, I must fix this damn personality of mine.”

A different light appeared in Kim Jinsang’s eyes.

Setting aside guilt and shame, a different kind of determination had bloomed.

During our consultation a few weeks ago, he had said he wanted to fix his hot-tempered nature, but he’d been so dejected that he hadn’t had time to get angry about anything.

But now that Park Seon-yun had cleared up the misunderstanding like this, he must have pulled himself together.

“Now, now. There’s nothing wrong with improving one’s personality. For both Mr. Park Seon-yun and yourself, Mr. Kim Jinsang.”

I quickly interjected before Park Seon-yun could even object to this.

“Yes. When I first came to this clinic, didn’t I shout without understanding the situation first? I regretted it later and apologized, but… I’ve lost many relationships in life because I couldn’t do that. If the director and staff hadn’t forgiven me that day, I wouldn’t have been able to open up like this…”

He even brought up our past incident.

He was referring to when shingles appeared after his first treatment and there was a misdiagnosis incident at the clinic.

Hmm, I was angry then too. Not at Kim Jinsang, but at the doctor – I called right away and confronted him.

As for Kim Jinsang, there was nothing to forgive or not forgive.

“So that happened.”

But Park Seon-yun seemed more displeased about this incident than about GMCL.

Well, if I had kicked Kim Jinsang out back then, Park Seon-yun’s back and Chairman Choi Gwi-jae’s adductor muscles would have hurt for quite a while.

“I will truly become a new person with the resolve of a martyr.”

Kim Jinsang clenched his fists and declared.

“Even if I get angry in the future, I’ll be aware of my position and absolutely won’t lose my temper…”

“…I see. They do say that getting angry all the time is bad for your health.”

Park Seon-yun didn’t bother to stop him from this and agreed, but.

“No, that’s not it.”

I stopped him.

“Forcibly suppressing anger isn’t good for your health either.”

“Uh, then…”

“That doesn’t mean you should express anger and anxiety as freely as you do now. You need to cultivate your mind so you don’t get angry over incidents like this.”

“Ah.”

“Suppressing anger once is easy. Honestly, if you had just known that person was an executive at a foreign company, you would have controlled your anger that day, right?”

“That, that’s true.”

This was an undeniable fact.

When anyone feels someone is threatening, survival instincts naturally take precedence.

“So if you decide to be careful by being aware of your position from now on, every time you get angry, you’ll control it by thinking ‘that person might be an executive at a foreign company, so I should hold back my anger,’ right?”

“Uh…”

Kim Jinsang, who had intended to do exactly that, was left speechless.

Instead, Park Seon-yun interjected.

“That won’t do. No matter how powerless the other person may be, we shouldn’t do what’s wrong.”

Hmm, right and wrong. That’s Confucian thinking.

Excellent morality.

But that wasn’t what I wanted to say.

“It’s better not to get angry over trivial matters in the first place. If your mental strength is strong, you can maintain composure anytime, anywhere.”

When anger arises, just let it flow away. Emotional stirrings don’t become the basis for action.

Because one is internally strong, one can be externally gentle.

…Of course, I did call these two here today out of frustration, but this was also a rational decision for solving the problem!

“Ah!”

Kim Jinsang clapped his hands as if he had gained enlightenment.

“Just like how the Clinic Director didn’t get angry at me back then, and considered that I might not know better since I was a patient.”

“…Something like that.”

No need to say anything embarrassing about it.

“You can’t just decide overnight to control your anger and suddenly be able to do it. If we compare the mind to the body, right now Mr. Kim Jinsang is like a skinny person with no muscle at all. Every time there’s a situation requiring strength, you exhaust all your mental power and quickly become tired and sick. You need to build up your muscles through consistent exercise.”

As I explained calmly, both of them understood.

“I understand. I’ll build it up enough to compete in a bodybuilding competition!”

“You’re absolutely right. I’ll also try not to stress over trivial matters… and I’ll work hard to help the driver too.”

Kim Jinsang’s eyes burned with determination, and Park Seon-yun’s face showed some inexplicable respect.

“How did you cultivate your mental discipline, Clinic Director?

Perhaps having risen to another level through enlightenment alone, Kim Jinsang asked me directly about methodology.

Well, I.

I built up internal energy through breathing exercises.

I also practiced cultivation by swinging a secret sword ten thousand times a day, or tightrope walking on cliffs.

When you do that, even if weak commoners shout and yell right in front of you, it feels like a very small matter…

“As it happens, there’s an exercise I was going to recommend to you.”

I couldn’t very well recommend my methods.

“Oh?”

I wonder if it would be good to make a friend for Teacher Kim Jaegyu.

Even if not at the intensity I practiced, having senior and junior disciples in training helps them support each other.

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