The Time-Limited Baby Doctor Doesn’t Hide The Fact That She’s A Genius - Chapter 214

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The Terminal Baby Physician Doesn’t Hide Being a Genius

Chapter 214

I didn’t even have time to be surprised at seeing the Shaman.

Blood was streaming down from my mouth. The Shaman’s expression hardened.

“No, cough, Mother, how did you end up here?”

– I was at the closest location.

Mother said she couldn’t very well bring some ordinary Warrior instead.

I understood too. As I had grown, the Warriors couldn’t hide their respect for me.

It was natural. I had somehow come to symbolize the very reputation of the Hei Family itself. It was only natural that those loyal to the Family would also become loyal to me.

Especially since their leaders were Uncle and Little Uncle.

‘No matter how much we try to keep it quiet, the problem would have grown bigger.’

It might be different if the Crown Prince hadn’t arrived yet. But after his arrival, there couldn’t be any disturbances whatsoever.

‘That bastard will definitely come looking with fire in his eyes too.’

He must have come loaded with greed. And I had to buy time from such a person.

“Mother.”

I staggered to my feet from where I sat. The Shaman supported me.

It wasn’t comfortable, but I couldn’t just sit there either, so I deliberately ignored the arm he offered and spoke.

“Can you help me stop this coughing up blood? I think I’ll have a nosebleed soon too, and that as well.”

Mother looked down at me with an expression as if seeing me for the first time. No, it wasn’t the first time.

‘This must be how patients feel when they look at Mother.’

The way she looked as a Physician.

I was unmistakably a Patient right now.

– Won’t you tell me the reason?

Soon Mother made a sorrowful expression.

I wouldn’t know since I’ve never given birth. But I once saw such a passage in a book.

The pain of sending away a beloved child born first is like having one’s intestines torn out.

That’s why I couldn’t help but hesitate. But I soon realized.

Even if I withheld my answer here, it would be revealed someday. I would have rather talked about it after this matter ended if I hadn’t been caught.

But now that I’d already been caught like this, dragging it out further wouldn’t postpone the pain.

And looking into Mother’s eyes, I knew.

How could someone who had seen as many patients as I have not know anything?

“Um.”

I coughed briefly as blood caught in my throat.

Then I looked at the Shaman who was holding my arm. My concerns deepened, but this was only momentary.

“My lifespan… seems to have run out.”

As expected. Mother’s expression was neither as surprised nor as shaken as I had thought it would be.

It only made me feel sadder.

‘I wish you wouldn’t cry…’

It would be pointless to say this to someone whose eyes were brimming with tears. Since this was my first time experiencing such a situation, I fidgeted with my sleeves.

“Um… I roughly knew about my lifespan. I had no choice but to use it.”

– …

“I have no regrets. Really, Mother.”

Mother said nothing at all. I became anxious. However, this was only for a moment, as Mother slowly nodded.

– …I understand why that child kept it a secret.

“Pardon?”

What came from Mother was a completely unexpected story. Something I couldn’t even guess what it was about.

However, since I had already revealed such a difficult truth, I felt an indescribable pressure and couldn’t ask anything.

Mother approached me and slowly stroked my head. Or rather, she tried to stroke it, but her hand passed through my body.

Even so, after stroking several times, she stretched out her arms and hugged me.

Though she couldn’t touch me, it was definitely an embrace.

– You should have lived thinking a little less about others.

“…Mother?”

– If I had lived more selfishly, you would have resembled me in that way. Even when I was pregnant with you, I only thought about saving people… That’s probably why you were born so kind, my baby.

I couldn’t say anything at all.

– This mother gave birth to you so frail, and you’re suffering because of it…

I wanted to say that everything here was my choice, and that being born with a short lifespan was just fate, not Mother’s fault.

But I couldn’t say anything.

While I couldn’t continue speaking, Mother released the embrace and looked at me with a sad expression.

Then she forced the corners of her mouth upward.

– I’m sorry.

“Nno. No, it’s not. It’s not Mother’s fault…”

– You probably never learned how to resent either.

That wasn’t true.

If you knew how much I hated and resented those who tormented me in my past life, you wouldn’t say such things.

Still, my silence seemed to be acting spoiled. I quickly wiped away the tears that had welled up.

Mother didn’t ask anything after that. Instead, she only said this:

– As long as you don’t cough up blood and your nose doesn’t bleed, that’s enough?

“Energy too, could I ask for something that can replenish stamina and energy? The effect can be short-term.”

Mother’s expression darkened at my request that set an end limit, but she ultimately didn’t refuse and nodded.

After finishing my conversation with Mother, wiping the blood, and simply taking medicine.

Someone who had likewise maintained silence stood beside me.

‘This is uncomfortable.’

It was Shaman. Having unintentionally revealed a fact I’d been hiding made me extremely uncomfortable.

Even if the Shaman from the third round had been in this place, I would have felt the same discomfort. But this one isn’t even that person.

“I unintentionally caused you trouble.”

“…No, you didn’t.”

He seated me on the simple bed. I looked at the medicinal materials placed on the desk, then raised my gaze.

“I’m sure you understand without me saying it, but I’d appreciate it if you kept quiet. At least until this meeting ends.”

“….”

Shaman’s lips twitched.

“I have already sworn an oath to maintain confidentiality so that nothing leaks outside. You need not worry about that.”

“….”

“However, after hearing what you shared, I realized one thing.”

Though the story wasn’t meant for him, I listened quietly.

“In this life, I am not qualified to be by your side.”

Shaman’s voice was calm. Knowing him as I did, I knew he became even calmer when he was enduring something.

What was he trying to say?

“The person who will be by your side in this life must be someone who can fill what you lack.”

I had thrown down my blood-stained outer garment because there was nowhere else to put it immediately, and Shaman picked it up.

“Isn’t that right? When you traveled with that person in the dream, just the two of you was enough.”

“….”

“But now countless people are by your side.”

He walked in front of me and knelt down on one knee. It was a sight I had seen often in the third round, but now I keenly felt how different our positions were.

“What I wanted to see after running such a long distance was probably something else.”

He didn’t reveal what that was. Instead, he raised his head and said this.

“The last image I saw of you in the dream was desperate, despairing, and beyond heartbreaking—ultimately one of resignation. It weighs on my mind.”

Actually, I was mostly just listening to his words due to lack of energy, but I understood what he was saying.

Certainly, the last image of me that he saw in the third round would have been one fallen into despair due to betrayal. Yes, I had resigned myself then too.

“Family Head, please live.”

I rolled my eyes downward. He spoke as if saying this would somehow create a way for me to live.

‘Who wouldn’t want to if they could?’

If there had been a way, I would have done so before anyone else.

And a way… I know it’s not entirely impossible.

Why did I try to go to the Imperial Palace in the third round? Wasn’t it because of the treasure that grants wishes?

If I finish my revenge against the Crown Prince in this life, the Imperial Palace will likely be overthrown afterward. No, it’s certain.

Then wouldn’t it be possible to secretly take the treasure that was in the Imperial Palace?

I have it all planned out, you see.

When I pursed my lips and looked down quietly, Shaman gazed at me intently, then smiled slightly as if he understood.

“Please live.”

He said with emphasis.

“And please become healthy… and happy.”

“….”

“I think that dead person would want that too.”

“That person’s wishes have nothing to do with me, though?”

At my grumpy words, Shaman nodded. As if it were natural.

“Yes. I know. And I’m telling you this because I think I can let go of my attachment to the dream I unintentionally had.”

He said nothing to those words. He just nodded as if it were nothing important.

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