The Time-Limited Baby Doctor Doesn’t Hide The Fact That She’s A Genius - Chapter 175

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The Terminal Baby Physician Doesn’t Hide Being a Genius

Chapter 175

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“All the vows I made with Hei Haran had one condition—that unless my daughter came to find me directly, I could do nothing on my own.”

The sound of rain grows quieter.

‘What am I hearing right now?’

From the moment I was struggling in Uncle’s arms, I had been desperately trying to break free.

But from the moment Dad confessed that he had taken poison that would destroy his brain.

It felt like the entire world had gone quiet.

The sound of rain, Uncle’s restraining voice, Second Uncle’s voice trying to comfort me, Brother Gyewon’s concern.

Everything disappeared.

‘What did Dad do…? For whom? For me?’

He took poison for my sake?

I couldn’t say anything at all.

Dad’s story was both short and long. No, to me listening, it felt like decades.

The first life, the second life, and then the third life all flashed before my eyes.

‘Her dad abandoned her.’

‘She doesn’t have a mom or dad.’

The children who tormented me in the first life.

‘Miss, don’t you understand yet? Your father abandoned you!’

In the second life, the servant I had briefly opened my heart to.

And finally, even in the third life.

Everyone said the same thing with one voice. That your father abandoned you in every moment.

As evidence, Father never came to find me in any life, at any moment.

So I believed it that way.

While overlooking the simple fact that everything in the world has another side.

I knew that poison and medicine were like two sides of the same coin, so why had I never tried to understand this?

‘Because it hurt…’

Because it hurt so much. Because I hated the fact that the parents I wanted to have even once didn’t exist in this world either.

I won’t say it was wrong to focus only on my own pain.

But…

There was someone who hurt more than me. Someone who endured injuries and losses that threatened his life for my sake.

I had a dad too.

From a very long time ago.

Everyone said I had been abandoned.

But that wasn’t the case.

“Ah… Sob, sniff…”

In the scene of pouring rain, my vision melted away like rain. Rain fell in my heart and in my eyes.

My chest ached as if it would tear apart.

It was an illness I couldn’t diagnose despite being a Physician.

“Ah, ah…”

Dad, why did you do that?

Dad. Dad.

How frustrated you must have been?

Dad, who had lost his memory and didn’t even know what he had lost, was so pitiful that words wouldn’t come out.

They say everyone carries their own misfortune.

But this is too cruel.

Why.

Only to my Dad…!

“Ahh… Ah, Dad…”

Dad kept blurring and becoming clear repeatedly. Tears burst from my eyes without cease.

I didn’t know how to express this sadness. Even when my most trusted ‘Friend’ betrayed me, it didn’t hurt this much.

There was no comparable pain.

“And since this is a vow carved into the soul, Hei Haran must have foreseen that even if I forgot this someday, I would be bound by the vow and unable to do anything.”

What about Dad’s appearance as he said this calmly without even tears?

– My child…

Mother’s voice kept coming and going. My ears became muffled with tinnitus.

I had resented only Dad my whole life… I, I.

Dad, who had finished all his testimony before the Family Head, trembled slightly in his shoulders. I couldn’t tell if it was relief, anguish, or sadness.

It was sad not knowing anything.

Dad and I could only selectively share sincere emotions, tender times, and the truth of the past.

Even that wasn’t our choice.

Misunderstandings had piled up like a Castle.

Nevertheless, one thing became clear.

Dad.

Loved me.

From a very, very long time ago that I can’t remember.

Even on countless days when he had lost his memory.

By keeping his vow, he protected me and proved his love.

Even on all those days I didn’t know about.

I felt Dad slowly turning toward where I was.

The moment Dad looked straight at me.

“Ah, Dad…”

Tears burst out uncontrollably. The sorrowful crying that had been blocked in my mouth finally erupted violently.

“Dad…! Waaahhh.”

I desperately stretched out my arms. Hoping to reach Dad. Uncle, who had given up on comforting me and was just quietly holding me, handed me over with a complicated expression.

In the wind and heavy rain, I settled into Dad’s arms without getting wet.

“…Biyu.”

“Sob, Dad, Dad…”

I had never cried like this even in my childhood. At first, I didn’t want to express my sorrow. At some point, holding it in became a habit.

One day, it became natural for me to have no parents.

I became accustomed to living alone.

But it was all a lie. I had only deceived myself.

“Dad, Dad, I’m sorry, I’m sorry…”

I couldn’t compare who was more pitiful between me, who repeated life through Regression, and Dad, who eternally lost his memories.

However, both of us suffered from something that was no one’s fault.

“If I, if I hadn’t been born… sob, if only…”

At least your brain might not have been damaged beyond repair.

Large hands held me tightly.

“Then I would have become a demon.”

“…”

“Because you exist, I remained human. I have never, not even for a moment, regretted saving you.”

Shh. Skilled hands that seemed slightly awkward stroked my back. A voice lowered like a lullaby penetrated my ears.

“It’s no one’s fault.”

“…”

“Your birth was an incomparable blessing to me and to Arin…”

The violent crying subsided. No matter how heavy the downpour, there comes a day when it stops.

I slowly lifted my head.

– My baby…

I could see Mother’s face, crying just like me.

– I have never once regretted giving birth to you. Not even until the moment I died.

“…”

– Bihu and I only worried about you.

Tears flowed down Mother’s translucent cheeks. Even so, Mother was smiling.

– My Treasure. Please don’t think sad thoughts… Mother loves you.

I bit my lips tightly. I didn’t want Mother’s face to blur from my tears.

– We love you so very much.

I nodded while biting my lips. This wasn’t the time to just cry.

I rubbed my eyes hard with my sleeve. After wiping away all the tears, I raised my gaze.

The Family Head was watching the entire situation. I didn’t care what that person was thinking.

Hei Haran was bleeding from her head. It was because she had been banging her head down hard earlier.

“Dad, take me to that Woman.”

I was curious about what the current Dad remembered. What he was thinking.

I wanted to hear him say he loved me too. But I decided to hear it after tying up all the loose ends.

I looked down at Hei Haran while being held in Dad’s arms. Since the Family Head didn’t stop us, no one could restrain us.

“Family Head, please allow that person to speak.”

When I spoke to the Family Head, she stared at me intently and then waved her hand slightly.

“Argh, aaaaargh! Aaaaaargh!”

Hei Haran, whose mouth was now free, screamed. It was a scream filled with pain, irritation, rage, and resentment all at once.

The moment her scream that pierced through the rain subsided, I spoke.

“You’ve missed your last chance too.”

Hei Haran glared at me with bloodshot eyes.

“I gave you a chance. Then you should have stopped playing tricks and done your duty as a physician with all your might.”

I wouldn’t have forgiven her even then.

But if she had purely done her best to save patients as a physician in this competition, without any schemes.

There might have been a way to atone. But now it was water under the bridge.

That was my thinking before I knew what she had done to Dad.

“Then again, what could wash it away?”

This isn’t just me speaking.

It’s me from the 1st round, me from the 2nd round, and me from the 3rd round speaking together.

“The sin of forcibly worsening illness to kill the Territory People.”

“Ha, haha, you insolent little brat, you impudent bitch! Say whatever you want. Do you think a disease that’s already spread will easily subside? That pathetic treatment you showed in the competition will only work for now! That eye disease will continue to spread as a terrible illness!”

“Is that all you have to say?”

“It must have entered your damn body too. Die from that disease!”

Throwing away even the elegance she wore like air, Hei Haran spat curses while growling like a wild beast.

“Do you think you won’t catch the disease?”

“Ha, I already took the antidote! I won’t die from that disease. Though I’ll face execution!”

“The worst thing about that disease is that even if you develop treatment medicine, when variants appear, you need new antidotes accordingly. Let me ask you something too. When was the treatment medicine you took made?”

“….”

Hei Haran’s eyes trembled slightly.

“Don’t be ridiculous, there’s no reason I would suffer from such a disease…!”

That was the moment.

“Cough!”

With perfect timing, Hei Haran coughed. Whether it was from being drenched in heavy rain for so long, or from starving for three days.

Or because of the disease.

Blood was stained on Hei Haran’s hand. It was blood that flowed from her mouth.

I pulled up the corners of my mouth.

“You thought it would be fine to contact patients since you took the antidote, right? Didn’t you ever think about this?”

Arrogant fools. No one should treat disease as a tool. That is God’s domain.

“What if the family that gave you the antidote arranged the timing so that later… Yes, it would take about three days to kill and clean up the family members you wanted dead.”

Hei Haran’s lips trembled finely.

“What if they gave you an antidote that would let you catch the disease at that point?”

Since she was someone who dealt with poison, she would understand what I meant. There were plenty of poisons that showed symptoms with a time delay.

“I know. I know the story of arrogant fools who thought they had conquered disease, only to be wiped out by the very disease I created.”

It was something that had actually happened.

‘Sinion and Carmen, who aided Hei Haran, never intended to let this woman live from the beginning.’

They must have planned to exploit Hei Haran’s operation to kill everyone in the family for their own purposes.

Foolishly obsessed with one thing, this woman had become an idiot and failed to think of such a simple possibility.

“No, no. No… that can’t be, that can’t be! You, trying to deceive me, I’ll fucking kill you!”

I smiled brightly, hoping my voice would be drowned out by the sound of rain.

“Congratulations. On catching the disease.”

I was confident I could treat this eye disease no matter how much it mutated.

And I knew. The more the disease was left untreated, the more tremendous pain it would bring. Just as the patients had suffered.

“That disease must be eating away at you right now. I won’t let you die.”

Live in pain. Feel the suffering of the patients and brothers you killed.

Even if the virus in your body mutates, I will barely treat it.

This was the revenge I, as a physician, would take.

“Since I’m a physician, I won’t let you die.”

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