The Time-Limited Baby Doctor Doesn’t Hide The Fact That She’s A Genius - Chapter 102

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The Terminal Baby Physician Doesn’t Hide Being a Genius

 

Chapter 102

 

Birang held the child in his arms, recalling past events with a complex and anguished expression.

 

It was a very long time ago.

 

* * *

 

Hei Birang’s narcolepsy and sleepwalking disease weren’t severe enough to interfere with daily life from the beginning as they are now.

 

So there was a time when he himself didn’t take it seriously.

 

Then, as the illness gradually became more serious.

 

‘By the Family Head’s order, we will escort Lord Hei Birang to the Eastern Wing.’

 

Hei Birang was treated as useless by the family, and with an accident he had caused added to that, he was confined to the east.

 

At that time, he was only confined and there was no tracking scent yet.

 

He secretly escaped from the house and headed somewhere.

 

After about a week had passed, he arrived at a quiet village.

 

“Welcome, Birang.”

 

When he reached his intended house, a beautiful but haggard-looking woman welcomed him.

 

The woman with light purple hair and green eyes was a beauty like no other in the world.

 

She was Second Brother’s wife and his sister-in-law.

 

And she was also an excellent physician named ‘Baek Arin’.

 

“Cough cough!”

 

Baek Arin, Hei Bihu, Hei Birang. The three of them had known each other since childhood.

 

To him, Baek Arin was the neighborhood physician sister who had outstanding talent from childhood but hid her abilities, and now had become his sister-in-law.

 

Both he and his wife had received much help from her.

 

“Ah, should I call you young master?”

 

“…Forget it. That’s disgusting. Just speak casually. Please.”

 

“Hehe.”

 

Baek Arin covered her mouth with her sleeve. Hei Birang was startled to see blood on her sleeve and was about to say something but hesitated.

 

Baek Arin covered her mouth with her sleeve and gently shook her head with a smile.

 

As if telling him not to speak since she already knew.

 

“…Where’s the child? I heard my niece was born.”

 

“Bihu took her for a moment. I pushed him to go for a walk.”

 

Birang glanced around the inside of the house.

 

This was the home of Second Brother Hei Bihu and Baek Arin, who had eloped for love.

 

It was a cozy house.

 

A cozy scene with the scent of people everywhere, with the child’s belongings scattered here and there.

 

It wasn’t unpleasant to see.

 

“That person doesn’t know you came here today, Birang.”

 

Hei Birang slowly turned his gaze. He wasn’t surprised by the fact that his visit had been hidden.

 

There was a reason he had come here despite the risk.

 

Thanks to their childhood connection, Baek Arin and he had been exchanging letters.

 

[…So this letter will be the last one I send to you. I hope you’ll come. I’m sorry.]

 

There was no way he couldn’t come.

 

“So what exactly was that letter about? And… why does your face look like this? Doesn’t Brother even feed you?”

 

Her slightly exposed wrist was terribly thin. But Baek Arin only smiled and covered her wrist with her sleeve.

 

“After time passes, I wonder if Bihu will even remember me.”

 

“What do you mean by that?”

 

“He’s losing his memory. Birang.”

 

Hei Birang hesitated for a moment.

 

It was because Baek Arin in front of him spoke so calmly that he couldn’t understand the situation for a moment.

 

Baek Arin slowly told him the facts.

 

That she was dying from an illness, and that Bihu had also fallen ill.

 

With a disease that couldn’t be cured immediately, perhaps an incurable disease.

 

“…There were signs from when Biyu was just born.”

 

“….”

 

“Sometimes he forgets important things too. Mainly things related to me and Biyu.”

 

Arin smiled softly, saying that even coming out to meet Birang like this might be a little dangerous.

 

“…Can’t you treat him?”

 

“I’m going to die soon. Birang.”

 

“….”

 

“That’s why I left, isn’t it.”

 

Birang thought he would never forget this moment. The sight of Baek Arin murmuring while looking into the distance.

 

‘A cold? Oh, that much, Sister will cure it for you. You’ll be able to go on the picnic tomorrow!’

 

‘Ahem, are you listening, Birang? Well, your brother, Bihu, asked me to date him! He’s 2 years younger than me! Ahem, ahem!’

 

She was always a confident and self-assured girl. When she would secretly whisper that she actually came from the Eastern Continent, she’d have the most mysterious expression in the world.

 

But then she’d quickly act like a neighborhood sister, a friendly person.

 

However, her talent was absolutely not ordinary—she was an amazing person.

 

That same person was now staring somewhere weakly, as if she had lost her vitality.

 

“One day it might be like this. While holding the child, ‘Who is this child? Why am I holding a child?'”

 

“…Then shouldn’t you not let him take her away, not leave them alone together?”

 

“It’s not that bad yet, not yet.”

 

“….”

 

“And… I hope it doesn’t come to that yet.”

 

Hei Birang saw Baek Arin’s powerless smile, so different from her usual spirited and strong-willed demeanor despite her delicate appearance.

 

He moved his lips. Was there something he could do for her?

 

Why did she call me here?

 

“Birang, telling you this… actually, I needed someone to talk to as well.”

 

“…”

 

“Since I’m living in exile, I can’t call any of my friends, right? And this isn’t something I can discuss in a letter.”

 

Baek Arin smiled cheerfully while tears dripped down her face.

 

“I still can’t believe it either. That he… will forget everything he loves. The worst part is, even if he comes to love someone again, he’ll forget that too.”

 

He forgets the things he loves first. When something he loves appears, he forgets it.

 

“How could I possibly tell him?”

 

Water streams flowed down her pale, snow-white cheeks. Baek Arin murmured calmly.

 

Her smile was sad.

 

“If he finds out his diagnosis… his heart will crumble.”

 

At her words that she had no one to tell, that she wanted relief but had no one to call so she called Birang, he could only bite his lips tightly.

 

“How wonderful it would be if I had time.”

 

Soon Baek Arin wiped away the tears that had flowed down her cheeks.

 

“Promise me. That you won’t tell anyone. Please don’t let anyone know, young master.”

 

Though she spoke playfully, when her serious eyes turned toward him, Hei Birang knew.

 

That there was no answer he could give other than making a vow.

 

“…Yes.”

 

He resented this moment when he could do nothing despite having received countless help from her.

 

“I absolutely won’t tell anyone. And… someone will be able to treat it. I choose to believe that.”

 

Baek Arin, who had spoken with the same decisiveness as when she was a physician, covered her mouth with her sleeve and coughed again.

 

This time black blood splattered out, but she paid no mind and continued speaking.

 

As if making a promise to herself.

 

“Yes, I choose to believe that. I… have taken measures as well.”

 

Her tear-soaked eyes shone as deep as new green leaves. They were eyes with firm resolve.

 

“If there’s someone like me in this world, another physician, they’ll surely be able to treat it.”

 

“…Where else in the world is there a genius like you.”

 

A girl who came alone from the Eastern Continent. She was the physician who had hidden her identity from a very young age and shown tremendous talent in treating others.

 

Baek Arin closed her mouth for a moment.

 

She knew it too. How exceptional her talent was.

 

Hadn’t she nearly been killed by the Hei Family because of it? It was also the reason she had to flee with Hei Bihu while carrying her illness.

 

“…I’m sorry, Birang. I wish I could treat you too.”

 

“…”

 

“As the physician who treated you, I pray. May you meet a good physician.”

 

Hei Birang thought for a moment. That good people seemed to leave too quickly. Otherwise, it made no sense for this person to die from illness.

 

“Thank you for taking the risk to come see me.”

 

Even while so thoroughly separating her roles as physician Baek Arin and as his sister-in-law and the kind older sister from his childhood.

 

He was a person full of affection. This person who was the benefactor of himself and his wife.

 

“…Could I ask you to look after that person and Biyu?”

 

“…What are you asking of someone lacking like me.”

 

“You’re not lacking. You’re a Family Head now too.”

 

“…”

 

Baek Arin gazed at Hei Birang.

 

“I told Brother-in-law as well, but still… I feel like you’ll be the one to help someday.”

 

Baek Arin coughed up blood again. She patted her mouth as if it were nothing and spoke.

 

While smiling brightly.

 

“Please.”

 

Hei Birang thought he would never forget that final smile for the rest of his life.

 

“I have good intuition, you know.”

 

Baek Arin smiled again, but it was neither the confident smile of the young girl from his memories.

 

Nor the happy smile she wore when they secretly married, as if she owned the whole world.

 

* * *

 

Back to the present.

 

Hei Birang thought that the ‘someday when help would be needed’ that Baek Arin had spoken of that day was now.

 

He hadn’t spoken of it because Second Brother had shown improvement without him having to say anything.

 

He thought hearing about her Father’s illness would only upset her, but that was a wrong judgment.

 

Hei Biyu was a Physician who performed her role so magnificently, yet he had made the mistake of treating her like a Child.

 

And because he didn’t speak up in time, the Child ended up getting hurt.

 

If only he had given her a hint beforehand.

 

‘He was getting better…’

 

He thought everything would be fine.

 

He thought it was fortunate that he wouldn’t have to break the promise that Baek Arin had made in the face of death, wagering her remaining time.

 

How wonderful it would have been if he could have passed it by without ever speaking of it.

 

Yesterday, even when Biwon whispered to him on the way Home that ‘Bihu has remembered everything,’ he believed that thanks to Biyu’s Treatment, Second Brother would never again forget the person he loved.

 

‘He actually kept remembering me and Brother…’

 

He believed everyone could be happy.

 

But it was all a delusion, and he had made a grave mistake.

 

Hei Birang realized this as he looked into the Child’s now empty eyes.

 

It was a realization and regret that came too late.

 

“…It’s an illness where you forget when you love someone.”

 

“…What?”

 

“Your Father forgot you because he truly loves you.”

 

Damn it.

 

Was it right to tell such a truth to a three-year-old Child?

 

He still couldn’t tell.

 

‘If that person finds out about his illness… his heart will crumble.’

 

…Sister-in-law, that was actually about you, wasn’t it.

 

Even Baek Arin, who was an adult, suffered heartbreaking pain.

 

How could this child endure it?

 

But.

 

How could I not tell a child who’s crying so sorrowfully?

 

…I don’t know how to do that.

 

Hei Birang bit his lips as if crushing them, then pulled Biyu into a tight embrace.

 

“I’m sorry. It’s my fault. I’m truly sorry.”

 

I can’t do it.

 

“Give up on your father.”

 

The child’s crying stopped for the first time. Her hiccupping shoulders trembled as the child slowly lifted her head.

 

“…Uncle Poo.”

 

“I’ll, treat you well.”

 

“Uncle Poo, why am I like this?”

 

The child filled with tears asked.

 

“Why can’t I be happy?”

 

“…Hey.”

 

“Uncle Poo is Ayan’s dad.”

 

“…”

 

“…You won’t love me more than Ayan…”

 

The child covered her face with her small hands like fern fronds. As if she didn’t want to see the world she was trapped in.

 

“Really, it’s too much.”

 

“…”

 

“I also, wanted to have… a dad.”

 

Hei Birang silently held the sorrowfully crying child. Until night fell and the child fell asleep, exhausted from crying.

 

When an uninvited guest came that night, Hei Birang was able to speak without surprise.

 

“Why did you come?”

 

The figure standing in the darkness flinched.

 

Surprisingly, the person who had come was Hei Bihu.

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