The Physician of Traditional Medicine Returns from Murim - Chapter 270

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Chapter 270

“Wow….”

“Who’s the person with the string instrument? Was there someone like that at our school?”

“They’re all string instruments. The haegeum?”

“Right, the person holding the haegeum.”

“Didn’t they say Korean Medicine?”

“Wow, I thought they were a celebrity.”

When Seol Yuhui appeared, even people who didn’t know her exclaimed in admiration and murmured.

She already had striking looks, but with the hanbok and haegeum added, her mysterious atmosphere was enhanced even more.

“Oh my! Our son looks so cool~.”

While everyone’s attention was captivated by Seol Yuhui, the camera of the person sitting in front of us zoomed in on a male student.

Must be a parent.

I quickly turned my head back to the stage, but perhaps sensing my gaze, the man sitting next to them suddenly looked back.

“Oh, aren’t you Director Hanyewon?”

And he recognized me.

“Huh? I’m sorry. How do you know me?”

Could he be a patient or patient’s guardian that I don’t remember?

“Ah, you don’t know me, Director. I’m Jin Gyeongsik, I run a Korean medicine clinic in Busan. I’m Doyul’s father over there. I saw you in an article.”

“Nice to meet you, what a coincidence. I’m Hanyewon. Student Seol Yuhui next to student Doyul is our staff member, so I came to watch.”

So he was a Korean medicine doctor.

His wife also turned to look at me and nodded in greeting.

Just as I was about to exchange simple greetings and take out my business card.

Ding-.

A low, deep resonance settled over the space like it was calming it.

‘Geomungo?’

Since both the parents and I were here to watch this performance, we postponed greetings for later and focused on the performance.

It was the sound made by the male student the father had just introduced as Jin Doyul.

True to the geomungo, it marked the beat heavily and solidly, while gentle reverberations spread out.

‘Somehow it sounds sad….’

Over the solid flow of the geomungo, the clear and soft melody of the gayageum was layered.

The thin and clear sound of the haegeum bloomed.

‘Wow, playing the haegeum well is really difficult. She must have practiced really hard.’

I looked at Seol Yuhui with admiration.

While drawing the bow across the strings produces sound, making beautiful sound is a completely different story.

As expected of our staff member! So multi-talented.

“When did he grow up so much…”

“You really.”

Jin Doyul’s mother sitting in front also had tears welling up.

They said the three of them practiced so hard together, and Jin Doyul’s skill seemed considerable too.

Moreover, this friend wasn’t just skilled.

‘He’s still a young friend, but I can feel such deep sadness… han.’

There was something that stirred the heart.

The song selection was a drama OST everyone knew, but Jin Doyul filled the melody with so much emotion that it created a strange feeling.

Clap clap clap clap clap!

After the enchanting performance ended, the gathered people applauded.

“We enjoyed the performance by students Seol Yuhui, Jin Doyul, and Kwon Nayoung. It was a performance that felt clear yet sad. Could we have a brief interview?”

It wasn’t just me who felt that way, as the host also mentioned feeling sadness.

“Ah, yes.”

“Student Seol Yuhui? You’re a second-year in the College of Korean Medicine, right? Wow… I was really surprised! I thought you were a major. If I may ask, are you mixed race? Are you perhaps an exchange student?”

After a short interview with Seol Yuhui and Kwon Nayoung, the microphone moved to Jin Doyul.

“We felt particularly deep emotion from the geomungo. Have you perhaps experienced something impactful recently?”

The host asked Jin Doyul with a bright smile, as if joking.

“Yes. Actually, there’s something I really want to say at this occasion.”

But Jin Doyul’s face was very stiff.

“A confession would be interesting.”

“Ugh, here?”

Half the people were looking at their phones with no interest, and half had shifted their gaze slightly after staring blankly at Seol Yuhui.

“Honey, we told him we were coming, right? Maybe he wants to say thank you to his parents?”

“That might be it.”

The middle-aged woman and man sitting in front were fully prepared to be moved.

But that didn’t seem to be the case.

Seol Yuhui right next to him and the other female student were very restless.

“Ooh, what is it?”

And finally.

Jin Doyul opened his mouth.

“Thank you so much for listening to my last performance! I am.”

Last?

“I will enlist next semester!”

It wasn’t a public confession.

It was a public enlistment announcement.

‘Enlistment? Not going as a public health doctor? Suddenly in the second semester?’

Perhaps having similar thoughts to mine, Yang Jimin and Jin Doyul’s classmates sitting around her exchanged glances with each other.

And soon.

“Waaaaaaah!”

Cheers erupted in an instant.

While the Korean Traditional Medicine University classmates and seniors and juniors were confused, those who didn’t know the situation cheered first.

“How cool!”

It was a much more enthusiastic reaction than when the performance ended.

“Go protect our country!”

Everyone gathered there applauded.

Jin Doyul’s friends also waved their hands and threw their support.

“Hehe, that kid really. At a place like this.”

Jin Gyeongsik, who had greeted me just before the performance, seemed to be hearing this for the first time too, looking flustered yet proud.

After being stunned for a moment, he awkwardly scratched his head.

“Ahhhhh….”

And at the same time, Jin Gyeongsik’s wife grabbed the back of her neck and collapsed.

I hurriedly supported her shoulder.

“Wow~. I wondered what kind of sadness was contained in this, but there was such a situation? We’ll all support Jin Doyul’s wonderful military life!”

The host livened up the atmosphere to the fullest.

Soon the rest of the club members entered and the next performance began.

* * *

‘I did it! I didn’t make a single mistake!’

Seol Yuhui clenched her fist after finishing the stage.

Having practiced just one song countless times, the pitch, rhythm, everything was perfect.

She harmonized well with the friends who had been awkward at first, and the sound came out much smoother than during practice.

‘I did it!’

While the sound of applause could be heard, Seol Yuhui was feeling immense pride and relief.

‘To think I could perform like this…!’

Her heart felt touched.

She also remembered the high school festival where she had waited months to participate but suddenly collapsed and had to spend it in the hospital.

Really, it was so good.

She was happy.

She wanted to remember this moment forever.

“Yes, we practiced hard to give you a good performance. Thank you.”

How did the Clinic Director handle the reporters’ questions so well?

Seol Yuhui answered the host’s interview very awkwardly.

After Seol Yuhui, the microphone was passed to Kwon Nayoung, then to Jin Doyul.

‘Phew, it’s good that I persuaded him in advance.’

I almost had to hear a public confession at this place.

Just when Seol Yuhui and Kwon Nayoung were completely relieved.

“There’s something I really want to say at this place.”

At Jin Doyul’s sudden words, their hearts started pounding again.

‘Surely not, right. Surely?’

Seol Yuhui and Kwon Nayoung looked at each other.

How hard had the two of them worked to persuade him over the past two weeks!

The nerve-wracking days flashed by like a revolving lantern.

– Public confession is absolutely not allowed. It would cause tremendous harm to Jimin too. Besides, we still have to attend school for four and a half more years, and the number of students is small, and from the main course onwards, we listen to all subjects in one classroom, right? But think about having stories like ‘Hey, that person publicly confessed to that person!’ following us around continuously. How terrible would that be? Maybe that story will come up even after graduation!

Kwon Nayoung gave a passionate speech with specific examples.

– That’s right. I’ve experienced it quite a bit too, and it was very troublesome. A kid from the next class whose name I didn’t even know came with a teddy bear and bouquet to confess, and I really didn’t know what to do. I understand wanting to confess in a cool way, but there are people who hate being the center of attention.

Seol Yuhui even brought up memories she wanted to forget to stop Jin Doyul.

She couldn’t let even her first friend made in college suffer harm.

– Actually, 99% of people hate public confessions.

– It’s much better to do it in a quiet place with a good mood after becoming close enough. Just because you make a public confession doesn’t mean someone who wouldn’t accept you will accept you. Rather, you might get rejected when you could have dated if you had approached carefully and become friends.

– Right. When I was in middle school, one kid cried right on the spot after being confessed to.

– Hmm, a sensitive kid might cry. Jimin wouldn’t do that, but… she might have to attend school for 4 years receiving disgusted looks. Think it over carefully, okay?

With the two women saying this much, fortunately Jin Doyul was quickly convinced.

– I see… I thought it would be good, but I didn’t consider that it might not be from the other person’s perspective.

Yes, he was definitely convinced.

His face turned red as if he was imagining Yang Jimin making a public confession to him.

Even though the spread of the internet should have made it well-known that you shouldn’t act so recklessly, why do these incidents happen whenever you think they’ve been forgotten?

It seemed to be because he arbitrarily put himself in others’ shoes.

– Then what should I do?

– First, oppa, what’s your current status with Jimin? Have you two ever gone to see a movie together?

– No, right?

– A cafe, bowling alley, library, anything at all.

– Not yet…

Kyaaaah!

Kwon Nayoung let out a shriek and frantically hit her own forehead.

– Start by asking her on dates like suggesting studying together at the library, or asking if she has plans after exams, or saying you got movie tickets!

Still, she soon came to her senses and thought of an appropriate method.

– Th-that’s basically the same as confessing.

– Exactly!! That’s how you start with some romantic tension! If it goes well, a real confession should only be for confirmation! So that if she rejects you here, you can both attend school as if nothing happened!

Surprisingly, Jin Doyul was very embarrassed.

How did he think of making a public confession when he found it difficult to ask for an ordinary date? Was he planning to numb his embarrassment on stage?

Anyway, thanks to Kwon Nayoung’s earnest persuasion, Jin Doyul asked Yang Jimin on a date.

[Ah haha sorry haha I’m the type who studies alone haha]

Library study was rejected.

…And that afternoon, he grabbed Seol Yuhui as she was leaving work and asked her to study together.

[I don’t really like movies~ I get stuffy and can’t stay in a movie theater for two hours~]

The movie he suggested three days later was also rejected.

[I think my digestive function has been declining lately, so I’m trying to avoid eating out haha]

Five days later, even just a meal was rejected.

“Oppa, you’ve done enough at this point. There’s just no hope.”

“Yeah…”

Yang Jimin had put up an impenetrable iron wall.

Jin Doyul finally acknowledged it.

Despite doing his best with coaching from Seol Yuhui and Kwon Nayoung, he couldn’t win Yang Jimin’s favor.

And if he had made a public confession as he originally planned, the situation would have been much more terrible.

Jin Doyul was very depressed for several days.

But not wanting to cause trouble for Seol Yuhui and Kwon Nayoung, and perhaps needing something new to focus on, he attended practice even more diligently than before.

Ding-. Ding-.

The sorrowful sound of Jin Doyul’s geomungo held the center, beautifully harmonizing with the gayageum and haegeum.

Thus they succeeded in completing a wonderful piece incomparable to their ensemble from two weeks ago.

‘I thought everything was ending beautifully,’

What on earth was he planning to say?

Seol Yuhui squeezed her eyes shut.

And.

“I will enlist next semester!”

Suddenly he made an enlistment declaration.

* * *

I supported the woman’s shoulder with my right hand and caught her phone that was about to fall with my left hand.

“Are you alright?”

“Ah, yes… yes. I was so startled.”

She momentarily lost strength and dropped her phone, but fortunately it wasn’t to the point of losing consciousness.

I saved the video containing her son’s enlistment declaration and handed it to her husband.

“Honey, are you dizzy? You’re not having trouble breathing, are you?”

“No. I really just got feverish for a moment. I’m fine now. But that kid Doyul…!”

“Just in case, should we have you lie down for a bit?”

Jin Gyeongsik was very worried and agreed with my suggestion.

Fortunately her breathing was normal, but she seemed to have been really shocked.

“I’ll move the chairs.”

“No, this isn’t really necessary.”

Gong Nari, Jin Gyeongsik, and I gave up our chairs and made space for her to lie down.

Fortunately the seats weren’t too closely packed.

“It would be good to lightly stimulate the Shixuan acupoints, but needles… Clinic Director, do you happen to have any needles with you?”

Jin Gyeongsik regretted leaving his bag in the car.

I don’t usually carry a bag, but I did have needles.

“Yes, use this.”

I pulled out medical acupuncture needles from my sleeve.

Jin Gyeongsik blinked his eyes.

“Why are the needles coming from there…?”

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