The Time-Limited Baby Doctor Doesn’t Hide The Fact That She’s A Genius - Chapter 243

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The Terminal Baby Physician Doesn’t Hide Being a Genius

Additional Side Story Episode 8

‘I thought Mother would be happy.’

To be precise, her reluctant feelings seemed greater. This was the first time something like this happened, so I was bewildered.

Before I could ask anything, Mother seemed to have finished organizing her thoughts and spoke to me calmly.

– Um… baby. It would be better not to tell Brother about me. Even if the topic comes up, don’t tell him whether I’m alive or dead.

Mother looked at me and let out a small laugh. As if to reassure me.

– You can tell him you’re my daughter. There’s no way he wouldn’t recognize you.

I must have been making too serious an expression.

‘Well, I am Mother’s spitting image after all.’

Of course, our Mother is much prettier! Though Mother always says that’s not true whenever I say this.

Anyway.

“Mother… then, you didn’t tell him about getting married either?”

– Hehe… I cut ties when I left.

I nodded. I had glimpsed it in Dad’s memories before, but Mother was a physician with tremendous decisiveness.

If Mother decided this way, there must have been some circumstances.

Come to think of it, I had never heard anything about Mother’s family from her.

‘Was there something painful that happened?’

– I’m sorry. I’ll tell you all the circumstances later. And… could you make sure Bihu doesn’t run into Brother? I’m sorry for making such a request…

“Yes, I understand.”

I spread out my palm. As if telling Mother to stop.

“And you don’t have to tell me the reason. If there’s something weighing on your mind, tell me slowly.”

After saying this, I smiled brightly.

“We have plenty of time now, Mother.”

When I spoke cutely, Mother looked surprised for a moment, then smiled softly.

– Yes, thank you. I… raised my daughter too well.

“That’s because I take after Mother.”

We spent a long time talking about which parts of me resembled Mother and which parts resembled Dad, when Dad returned.

“…Biyu resembles me too.”

At Dad’s timid protest and assertion, Mother and I couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

* * *

The next day.

The Eastern Continent envoys arrived at the Imperial Capital.

While the entire delegation visited the audience chamber, and afterwards the delegation representative went to have a private meeting with Emperor Raon.

I was able to meet my Uncle that Raon had mentioned.

“…!”

I couldn’t mistake him the moment I saw him.

Long black hair reaching his waist, but eyes the exact same color as Mother’s.

Most of all, except for the hair color, he had the exact same face as Mother, so I couldn’t mistake him.

‘Wow, I’d believe it if someone said he was Mother with black hair.’

However, he had a much more masculine impression. His nose bridge was distinct and his jaw was both sturdy and sharp.

Overall, he seemed like a calm and elegant young master harboring noble convictions. Instead, his eyes felt more prickly and cold than Mother’s.

Among other things, his upright posture and the long fan made of feathers in his hand made him look noble and stubborn. He seemed incredibly obstinate.

The man’s eyes widened the moment he saw me and showed no signs of shrinking.

“You…”

The man, my Uncle ‘Baek Aryun’, approached with large strides.

“Excuse me, but what is your mother’s name?”

“Arin. Baek Arin.”

The man must have had the same thought when he saw me. He must have thought of Mother.

So I wasn’t surprised when he immediately spoke informally.

Instead, I smiled brightly.

“Hello, Uncle. You are my Uncle… right?”

The man looked very confused.

‘Well, Mother did cut ties and didn’t even announce her marriage.’

Actually, when the delegation arrived at the audience chamber, I had introduced myself too, so he would have known my name and position.

From that moment, the man couldn’t take his eyes off me until the audience ended.

“We sent a letter to the Bai Family of the Eastern Continent, but didn’t you receive it?”

The man shook his head.

“…We didn’t receive it.”

He hesitated, then added.

“Until recently, our Bai Family was a closed-off place, so the letter… was likely burned.”

“When you say until recently?”

“Recently, my mother, that is, the Family Head, and my father, the Family Head’s husband, passed away together. I’m referring to that time.”

Hmm, it seems Grandmother and Grandfather have passed away.

“Ahem, the Hei Family Estate doesn’t have a very good reputation within the Eastern Continent…”

Uncle said this while slightly avoiding my gaze. As if it was a bit embarrassing to tell the person involved.

“I see.”

It seems that in the Eastern Continent, families or people who went to the Western Continent were treated as criminals, or even if not to that extent, it was hushed up.

In reality, many criminals who escaped also went to the Western Continent.

Uncle’s story was as follows.

The late Bai Family Head couple despised those who went to the Western Continent to a disgusting degree.

But their own daughter left for the Western Continent.

‘…Somehow I think I glimpsed the reason why Mother told me not to mention her to Uncle.’

The man’s face, having overcome his confusion, held what seemed to be his natural prickly coldness.

“But the Bai Family Members of my generation don’t antagonize those who went to the Western Continent like the older generation did.”

Since I was currently wearing Eastern Continent style clothing, our outfits looked similar.

“That’s also why I participated in the delegation representing the Bai Family…”

I had indeed heard that this Eastern Continent delegation visited for friendship with the Imperial Palace.

“While my parents were alive, my Sister who went to the Western Continent was forbidden to be mentioned in the family, but still… I thought she was living as she pleased.”

The man frowned slightly. Still, his face looked noble.

“Where is Arin by any chance?”

“I don’t know.”

I shrugged my shoulders.

“At least until the age I can remember, I never saw Mother.”

It was true. The Mother I’m seeing now is Mother who became a ghost, right?

“I see…”

Uncle rubbed his face.

“She always had a wandering streak. Now she’s even leaving her own child behind to wander around. That tomboy…”

I could feel affection along with the harshly scolding voice.

I felt like I understood why Mother told me not to tell Uncle, but on the other hand.

‘If Mother hears about my conversation with Uncle today, wouldn’t she say she doesn’t need to hide her whereabouts anymore?’

I had this thought.

“Ahem, I heard you’re a physician. May I see your achievements?”

“Well… that’s fine with me. May I ask just one thing?”

“What is it?”

Honestly, until now I had thought about various things because I didn’t know what kind of person Uncle was or what his personality would be like.

I decided while facing and conversing with him this time.

He seems like someone I can speak directly to about the main point.

‘Of course, I have no intention of mentioning plans to save Mother or anything like that.’

Since Mother dislikes it, I have absolutely no intention of speaking about it on my own.

Just.

“There’s research material I absolutely must obtain, but it’s only found on the Eastern Continent. I’d like to take the liberty of asking about its whereabouts.”

I only planned to ask about what I wanted.

“Good. What kind of material?”

I clenched my fist inwardly.

“Bone-life flower, breath-life flower, and flesh-life flower. These three types. Do you happen to know them?”

“…!”

Uncle seemed surprised for a moment, then looked around. Since we were talking in the corridor, there was no one else around.

His expression somehow became serious, and he frowned.

He seemed to be thinking about something, then opened his mouth after the silence.

“First, let’s go to the room I’ve been assigned.”

A short while later.

We arrived at the room Uncle had been assigned. Since he was the second highest-ranking person in the envoys after the representative, the room was very spacious and nice, even coming with an office.

Uncle sat on the sofa with a prickly expression and asked.

“So why are you trying to obtain those?”

How should I put it.

From the outside, his face looks prickly and sensitive….

‘But somehow, it doesn’t feel that way inside?’

His tone is also slightly aggressive, but the more I think about it, he’s not really saying anything harmful.

“Because of research.”

“No other reason?”

“No. I saw it in old family records, that they once revived dead animals. As a physician, how could I not be curious? I’m really so curious about it.”

“Is that all.”

For a moment, I felt an unfamiliar energy. It seemed like he was trying to pressure me.

However, for me who had endured all kinds of tyranny and thuggery from the Hei Family in the past, this much wasn’t even ticklish.

I innocently tilted my head.

“Yes, what else should there be? If I understand the principle of those ingredients, I might be able to save more people, right?”

“….”

I also thought Uncle wouldn’t believe me easily. How much could he believe the words of a niece who suddenly appeared….

“Alright, I understand. Certainly, even having just one of those three ingredients can be used to save someone on the brink of death.”

“Yes.”

Since he definitely seems to know the whereabouts of those ingredients, how should I coax this uncle….

“I can give them to you.”

“Ah, yes… Yes?!”

…What did he say?!

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