The Time-Limited Baby Doctor Doesn’t Hide The Fact That She’s A Genius - Chapter 42

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The Terminal Baby Physician Doesn’t Hide Being a Genius

Chapter 42

Biyu rubbed her reddened eyes vigorously. Hei Birang’s face contorted with anger.

Hei Birang felt his rage boiling up.

“…Hey! Didn’t you say you were sleeping?!”

“I was sleeping.”

Biyu let out a long yawn.

At her nonchalant expression, Hei Birang’s face darkened while Hei Biwon’s smile deepened.

‘What are you talking about, you little thing, when you barely fell asleep at dawn.’

Hei Birang fumed as he recalled last evening.

‘Brother, when is she coming?’

‘I don’t know~ We have to wait for the Family Head to eat~’

‘Ah, I’m hungry though.’

‘Yet Youngest Uncle is also waiting, isn’t he? I can see your leg shaking.’

‘Ah, no I’m not?!’

The night before, the two had been eating a late dinner including Gyewon.

They had planned to eat when Biyu came, but she didn’t show up, so they ended up eating first…

‘Uncle Baek! Uncle Baek! Uncle Poo!! Is anyone there? Haa, huueeng, help me…!!’

‘What, what is it?!’

Hei Biyu had come running while crying. Moreover, her clothes were covered in dirt.

She always told them to take care of their bodies, yet she had come running with her own body neglected like this.

‘Had she been crying?’

Furthermore, her face, body, and hair were all soaked. She was drenched in water and sweat.

When they went to Hei Bihou’s Residence while holding and comforting Biyu, they found Hei Bihu trapped in water.

He had done so to cool down his fever.

By this time, the calmed Biyu requested help.

‘…This place is too much of a mess because there’s a patient here.’

At those words, even Hei Birang was mobilized to fix the house.

In the meantime, a whole day passed by quickly.

They could have just brought the sick Hei Bihu to Hei Biwon’s House,

‘That damn bastard brother will return home like a salmon once he regains consciousness.’

The two brothers knew Hei Bihu all too well – he would return to his own house as soon as he opened his eyes.

Hei Birang clicked his tongue as he thought up to this point.

He understood why Hei Bihu, who seemed to have no attachment to life, stubbornly insisted on staying in front of the home and the large tree.

Baek Arin.

Even though he couldn’t remember those mere three characters, only obsession and lingering attachment remained.

‘He can’t even remember his own daughter.’

Hei Birang pouted.

Whether he liked it or not, he was still his brother, so feeling sorry for him was unavoidable.

But…

“Sniffle.”

“Hey, what’s wrong, are you crying?!”

“Who’s crying? I’m just a little cold.”

Instead of Hei Birang, Hei Biwon quickly intervened and made a fuss.

“Oh my, our Family Head says she’s cold! Uncle will quickly call Brother Gyewon to bring some firewood!”

“Uncle Baek will do it, Uncle Baek!”

“No no, Uncle is tired. He’s already moved around a lot.”

What’s the big deal about this little one crying… Hei Birang felt his heart sink as he looked at the child who had been a mess from crying yesterday.

It was fortunate that his brother intervened at the right time. Otherwise, he might have scolded her.

Why should you suffer because of that damn father? He felt indignant.

It was heartbreaking.

What has your dad ever done for you? Does he treat you just because you’re cute?

‘Though I’m not one to talk since I just sleep all the time.’

Hei Birang grumbled.

“Hey, little one. Instead of your father who just sleeps all the time, take care of me. I’m more… Ack!”

“What kind of garbage are you spouting, little brother?”

“Ah, why are you hitting me? It was a joke!”

Hei Bihu should know how blessed he was!

His daughter was cute and pretty, and she was a genius too! How dearly she thought of her father.

She was nursing him without even sleeping.

Moreover, her stubbornness resembled Sister-in-law.

‘Sister-in-law was also a genius. Are all geniuses stubborn?’

Look at her now, even when told to sleep, she won’t sleep and crawled out determinedly.

‘That Second Brother bastard deserves to be beaten.’

Perhaps feeling similarly, his brother Hei Biwon’s expression was also unusual.

Watching his brother Hei Biwon, who was smiling but quietly building up anger, Hei Birang thought it served him right.

That bastard Hei Bihu, he should get struck by lightning.

…Get struck and regain his memory.

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Hei Bihu opened his eyes in pitch-black darkness. No matter where he looked around, there was nothing there.

‘Like the inside of my head.’

Right, my stupid head that can’t remember anything would probably look like this.

He pondered with his arms crossed.

This wasn’t the first time he’d had such a dream. Therefore, he remained calm.

If he waited like this, he would open his eyes. Just as he had for a very long time.

Yes, that’s how it would be…

He narrowed his eyes.

Something was being created before his eyes.

When he closed his eyes and opened them again, something unfolded.

“Dad! Look, the cough, I’m not coughing!”

Ah, this was Tak Minjae and Tak Undeok, the father and son he’d seen today.

The child’s appearance, overwhelmed with emotion upon being healed.

It was a miracle that Biyu had brought about.

“My legs hurt less too…! Dad, will I finally be able to run? And Wind Power too…!”

“Minjae… *sob*, Father is finally seeing you laugh so freely…”

Watching Tak Undeok with reddened eyes, Hei Bihu felt something strange.

Could someone really be that happy? Why? Because it’s about his child?

He knew. He hadn’t lost his emotions, but his memories.

However, people overlooked something.

That emotions were ultimately interconnected relationships arising from chains of memory.

Though he thought it had nothing to do with him, he couldn’t take his eyes off Tak Undeok’s face.

His head hurt, so he pressed it firmly.

When he glanced down, his daughter’s expression was strange.

‘…As if she’s envious.’

Why does she look like that? Because I’m not much of a father? He acknowledged that fact.

But this child must have had a mother, right?

He knew he had a wife. He also knew she was dead. Though it didn’t feel real.

Seeing how the child was perfectly fine, perhaps her mother had raised her for a while.

Tak Undeok bowed deeply at the waist.

“Thank you, truly thank you… For this child, I could have given my life…”

Hei Bihu was purely curious.

What kind of feeling was an emotion worth giving one’s life for? What did it mean?

Wasn’t one’s own life ultimately the most important thing in human existence?

He wished someone would tell him.

What did it feel like to treasure something enough to risk one’s life?

One thing was certain.

Biyu’s expression as she looked at Tak Undeok was bitter, and this twisted Hei Bihu’s mood just a little.

‘Why is she making that kind of face?’

From any perspective, didn’t he have many better qualities than Tak Undeok?

First of all, he was young. He was also strong. As for money… if he searched somewhere in the house, jewelry would turn up.

Hei Bihu clicked his tongue with his mood twisted.

Soon after, he turned his head.

The scene before his eyes went black and then transported him somewhere else. A new scene unfolded.

“Waaah! Waaah!”

“It’s a daughter! It’s a daughter, Lord Bihu!”

He slowly opened his eyes wide.

…Daughter?

In his arms was a wrinkled child. Red and ugly. But the most beautiful in the world.

…When did I experience something like this?

His heart felt warm and also painfully torn.

“…See, I told you it was a daughter.”

And the moment he heard that weak voice, he somehow felt tears flowing down his cheeks.

He couldn’t understand why.

Eventually, the noisy voices around him disappeared, and the baby in his arms slowly faded away.

He desperately tried to hold onto the baby, but couldn’t catch her. She only crumbled like sand.

He felt emptiness and disappointment.

‘To reality…’

He earnestly wished. He wanted to return without forgetting all of this.

‘I proved my ability, didn’t I?’

And he thought that perhaps, this time it might be possible.

It seemed like the empty void wouldn’t steal away the fragments that had just emerged anymore.

‘Enough to risk my life.’

He thought of Tak Undeok again. Those reddened eyes, and that expression filled with desperation and gratitude.

He became curious once more.

What kind of feeling is that?

Hei Bihu slowly closed his eyes.

And after Hei Bihu completely disappeared from the black space.

The space moved on its own.

As if it knew its master wasn’t here.

It mockingly created a single scene.

Whoooooosh-.

Rain fell as if a hole had been punched in the sky.

On the vast stone floor in front of the grand mansion building, someone was kneeling neatly.

The rain fiercely beat down on Hei Bihu.

The man silently and calmly accepted the humiliation, bowing his head deeply.

His red eyes were tightly closed, hidden by his eyelids.

“…Please spare at least the child.”

On the steps stood a woman holding a long umbrella.

Under the umbrella, the woman whose lips were barely visible laughed wickedly as if amused.

“What will you wager?”

The man said calmly.

“My life, I will wager.”

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A day later, Dad opened his eyes.

Whether it was thanks to my dedicated nursing or the improved environment.

His face looked much cleaner than before.

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