The Time-Limited Baby Doctor Doesn’t Hide The Fact That She’s A Genius - Chapter 183

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The Terminal Baby Physician Doesn’t Hide Being a Genius

Chapter 183

Mother’s eyes widened as if they would tear apart.

– What…?

Not content with just turning her body toward me, Mother grabbed both my arms with her hands.

Though not among the living, she gasped for breath as if she had just emerged from water. The shock Mother felt was transmitted directly through my arms.

“M-Mother?”

I was also momentarily startled and lost for words.

– What do you mean by that, baby?

“…”

– What do you mean…! That, how could…!!

She couldn’t continue her words.

Mother’s eyes, which had come right up close to me, were trembling with shock.

I knew she would be surprised. I had also thought she would be shocked.

But the reaction was beyond what I had imagined, so I didn’t know what to do and could only move my lips wordlessly.

– This mother, this parent heard wrong, right? Right? Please tell me…

Mother’s face became blurred.

I couldn’t express it in words, but from her trembling fingertips, from her quivering eyes. I felt deep despair and sadness.

– Baby, baby… sob…!

Like the expressions of parents who heard about their sick child’s fate when I was working as a Physician long ago.

That expression was so deep and profound that I couldn’t bring myself to say anything.

– Say I heard wrong…

My eyes, which had been wandering aimlessly, not only dropped but trembled. I was someone who hadn’t trembled even before the Imperial Family, said to be the highest in the Empire.

Was that all? I was someone who always said everything I wanted to say in front of anyone, but now my mind seemed to be bleached completely white.

All of it, in front of Mother’s sobbing voice and face.

‘Why…?’

It was already a past event, something that couldn’t be undone. I thought it would be okay to talk about it.

But seeing Mother’s desperate eyes, as if pleading that if it could be changed, please let it be so, I absolutely couldn’t open my mouth.

I had confessed the same fact to Dad before.

However, Dad at that time was in a state where he couldn’t remember me, and it was when he was unstable due to illness.

Because it had passed over vaguely, I unconsciously didn’t think much about telling Mother either.

– Sob, baby, it’s not true, right?

When I didn’t answer, Mother grabbed me and shook me. With desperation.

– Do you think your dad would have wanted that? No, even if it were me, I would have refused.

“…”

– Say it’s not true! Quickly!

It wasn’t that Mother didn’t know and was pressing me, nor was she asking again because she couldn’t hear my words.

At this moment, Mother’s words hit me deeply. Even if I couldn’t understand everything, I could feel her anguished heart completely.

Because soon Mother’s face and body collapsed.

– What parent in the world would want to become healthy by stealing their child’s time…!

Thud, her face buried in my shoulder, Mother’s frail shoulders trembled finely.

– If you love your child, that’s not allowed, absolutely not allowed…

I hesitated before raising my hand.

My hand patting Mother’s arm was incredibly awkward. Of course it was, since I could count on my fingers how many times I’d comforted someone in my life.

“…I’m sorry.”

I didn’t know this was such a big mistake. Maybe I’d become numb from dying and coming back to life so many times.

No, there were times when my lifespan wasn’t precious to me. There were times when life was tiresome too.

“I never thought… such a happy day would come for me.”

Even when I used my lifespan for Dad, didn’t I use my lifespan because I thought there would never be any way or medicine to treat Dad?

And just before returning home, to the Original World, I only thought about using all my remaining lifespan to completely cure Dad’s incurable disease.

Not knowing that This Place would become my ‘home’.

“I didn’t know I’d have a family, and I never thought I’d become greedy… I was wrong, I was wrong. Mother.”

Mother lifted her head up. Her face was a mess from tears.

In the short time we’d spent together, it hurt my heart that I seemed to see more tears than smiles.

Soon Mother covered her face with both hands and collapsed.

– Don’t apologize… Mother is sorry, sob, it’s all Mother’s fault…

Mother bit her lips.

– I shouldn’t have died leaving behind unstable Bihu and you whom I love, I…

I quickly shook my head.

Then I firmly grasped Mother’s hands with both of mine.

“Mother.”

At this moment, I couldn’t help but be grateful to Raon for allowing me to touch Mother. Because touching each other’s warmth sometimes conveys more than conversation or eye contact.

Even if it’s touching a dead person.

“I was also wrong for thinking about it too easily. But I won’t regret it. Making Dad even a little better.”

– …Biyu.

“That’s how Mother became able to remember, and I became able to cry while looking at Mother. How wonderful that is.”

Before Mother could say anything, I gripped her hands tighter.

“I want to become happier together with Mother and Dad.”

Even if just for a moment longer.

So.

“From now on, let’s treat Dad together. I won’t use my lifespan anymore either…! I promise, okay?”

I reflect. That I didn’t know Mother’s heart at all. That ultimately my choice was like driving a nail into Mother’s heart.

So I shouldn’t cry.

“Don’t cry, Mother… I was wrong, sob…”

I said once more.

“Let’s treat him together.”

– …

“From the beginning. One by one.”

Only after seeing Mother did I realize it. I could be certain that my eyes came from Mother.

So I was able to love my face, my eyes, and everything that makes me even more.

If, just if….

Even if all methods fail and I end up dying once more.

I will start my next life with more hope.

Because now I know that I am a daughter who received love from Mother and Dad.

– …Yes.

Mother took my hand. Not satisfied with that, she trapped me tightly in her arms and hugged me.

It was warm.

I was happy to know this embrace.

– Yes, let’s do that.

Mother held me and whispered.

– Promise me. That you’ll never use it again….

“Yes….”

I nodded earnestly while holding back my tears. Because I don’t want to make Mother sad anymore!

Like that, we held each other tightly for a long time.

And we talked about countless, so very many things.

Until Dad returned as the day was ending, after circling around the house countless times.

* * *

Some time later.

The numerous guests staying at the Hei Family Estate were driven out. Or should I say they were sent away?

Actually, they had been gradually sending people away since the day of the rebellion, and now they sent the remaining personnel away all at once.

‘Well, they can’t keep guests at the estate while facing war.’

Who knows if they’re guests or spies.

And among those who were quietly sent back or driven out.

There was also Knight Benton from Wolfsbane, who had declared he would observe me.

He pleaded, going beyond mere requests, to see me one last time, but I refused everything.

‘What he has to say is obvious.’

That knight was moved by me. I remember his face full of admiration several times – I’d be a fool not to know.

So what he has to say is obvious.

‘He’ll ask me to treat their family’s Young Master.’

My past ‘Friend’, that is.

‘Previously, there was a reason I needed to hear Benton directly ask me to treat ‘Friend’.’

But now that Hei Haran has shown her true colors and is even being punished, all of that has become unnecessary.

That was part of a plan to observe Wolfsbane’s movements while bringing the Eight Families’ conspiracy into the open.

And in this life, I didn’t want to get involved with him.

The lingering attachment I had left was completely shaken off through my conversation with Raon. I decided not to look in that direction anymore.

This was my choice.

Benton, who couldn’t see me in the end, left me a letter.

“This is it, he said.”

Dad held out the letter. I stared at it for a moment, then raised my gaze again without taking it.

“Can you burn this for me?”

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