She looked at Lee Han’s signature on the contract and shook her head. It’s already been five days since the incident that will go down in Cheil Hospital’s history, and Hae-joon still can’t escape from that day.
“professor!”
“Yes.”
However, it is not a reality that will wait just because I cannot escape it. As soon as Hae-jun saw the children who had come to pick me up at Uiguk, he folded up the cards.
“It’s time for rounds, right?”
“ah. yes.”
“… … .”
Maybe this awkwardness is good?
Hae-joon swallowed his saliva between Kyung-min and Minguk, who were avoiding his eyes. If anything has changed since that day, the biggest difference is that nothing has changed.
What everyone knows, not everyone says.
No one once asked about that day, as if it were an unwritten rule for everyone. When she found out that Lee Han was the sender of the card, she was so shocked that she couldn’t even lift a finger, but when she came to her senses, her world had turned upside down.
“Ugh.”
“Yu, Professor Yoon! “Why are you doing this!”
If you’re going to pretend not to know, then just stick with it until the end.
Although everyone was acting like nothing had happened, I was so startled by my own small sigh that I felt guilty for not even breathing. However, I cannot be the first to ask this out loud.
I feel like the man behind all of this is waiting and getting annoyed.
“What on earth did you say? What did Mr. Lee Han say, so everyone… … “Is it something like that?”
“You didn’t say anything?”
“… … I didn’t say anything, but everyone is like that? “Not everyone is stupid, just like the person who erased that day from their memories?”
“I guess that’s because I’m not stupid.”
As if he was already seeing everything before his eyes, his arrogant smile spread along with his fingers as he brushed his lips.
“I guess our professor hasn’t even watched the drama properly?”
“excuse me… … Guys. “Today’s lunch.”
“Don cutlet.”
“Uh huh.”
To what extent is this hospital being played into such strange hands?
Now she was solemn with just the lunch menu and pursed her lips. In fact, it is extremely convenient for Haejun. Even though an unprecedented incident has occurred since the opening of Jeil Hospital, no one bothers me.
I might ask this at least once, but honestly, I might be curious.
At this point, I found it funny that I had been struggling to think about the future for several days and nights. Of course, there were minor changes, such as the attitude of people toward me becoming a little more polite, or people sticking to the wall just as they passed by, but there were other things that were truly difficult for Haejun to endure.
“… … “Hey, Professor Yoon.”
“huh?”
“sorry. Because of us.”
“… … .”
Today again, as always, the three men in the hallway, Kyungmin and Minguk, bowed their heads. The corner of her mouth twisted as if she didn’t have the courage to look at her.
“Professor Yoon, if it weren’t for us, you wouldn’t have had to do something like that or make that choice!”
“Because of us, the professor lived his life like that…” … “Hmm.”
“hmm… … Guys.”
A martyr who jumped into the devil’s den, a spy who loved his enemy, Nongae of Jeil Hospital. In the meantime, the number of nicknames increased. When I see people looking at me with pity, I don’t know where to start and my fingers automatically bend.
“Professor Yoon! You haven’t been able to say anything for a while… … .”
“Yes.”
Then where can I go to say something like that?
When I think about what I went through with Lee Han over the past few months, even I can’t believe it. I don’t have the confidence to explain all of the most breathtaking, thrilling, painful, and heartbreaking emotions in my life.
And as for the story between him and himself, it started much earlier.
“professor. “There’s no need to force a smile.”
“that’s right. “What is this heart center all about?”
“… … “But that’s not true, is it?”
Hmm, Hae-joon lightly tapped the two people’s foreheads. When you are sold, even if you are sold, you must speak clearly. Gyeongmin and Minguk, who had said things they couldn’t say even as a joke since they worked in thoracic surgery, immediately lowered their eyes.
“Well, it’s because of us, Professor.”
“no. It’s not because of you… … .”
He told me to just like him, that I like him so much.
Hae-joon, unable to say that, wiped his dry face. Where should I start with this? Unable to do anything, she found someone standing in front of her elevator and asked for their help.
“Oh, that’s good. Junho Kim! Are you a little… … .”
“Pay back the money.”
“… … what?”
“Please pay back all my assets quickly.”
“… … .”
Was I born just to be in debt?
Hae-jun was speechless and tasted bitterly. The children who shed tears every time they saw me were children, but Junho, who wipes his eyes with light, is no slouch either.
“Yoon Hae-joon, who was proposed to by a chaebol, how dare you take away all my small and precious assets?”
“Well, who is extorting? “You gave it to me first.”
“Wow, I heard the person there is is scarier. “I saved up everything I had in my negative life and gave it all away!”
“… … “476,000 won?”
“Do you even have that?”
“… … .”
The two classmates were silent and looked down at the floor. Dejected that 10 years of friendship would end with a debt feast like this, Hae-joon secretly shook the hem of his clothes.
“… … sorry. “Junho, I should have told you in advance.”
“No thanks? “Anyway, that bastard Oh Chan-seong just disappeared and they told me to come out somewhere.”
“What are you going to do when it comes out?”
“Of course we have to end the man’s bloody struggle. Did you see it that day too? Hae-joon is devastated because you stopped him, haha. “Brother, I almost had an industrial accident at the hospital that day!”
Junho, who was already possessed as the main character in a movie in his head, gritted his teeth. What happened after he was stuck in the emergency room… … . When Hae-joon, who was worse off, grabbed the hem of his sleeve again, even the hand that shook him away was merciless.
“Don’t shake it. “Thanks to someone, I feel like pork cutlet crumbs are falling out of my body.”
“Sigh!”
“Anyway, thanks to Yoon Hae-jun, I get to see really good things and eat good things? “Do you think you lived a fulfilling life?”
“… … I know.”
How on earth did I live?
Hae-joon leaned against the railing next to the stairs and tilted his head back. You can’t even say that the green vines flowing down the circular stairs have nothing to do with you.
Still, I think I’ve lived really hard.
No matter how much I thought about it, I didn’t do anything shameful. In that desperate moment, she lived by following the outstretched hand. She always tried her best to be the best and never once stopped. I have done everything I can to one day convey this feeling I felt to someone else.
“ah… … .”
Looking back on his life of running to keep his old promise, Hae-joon raised one hand above his head. In the white and blue light pouring out from his fingers, perhaps there might be the answer I was looking for.
“professor! “Call!”
“Yoon Hae-jun! ER!”
“Huh?”
Suddenly, without even a moment to take a breath, Hae-joon lowered his hand, following those who passed by him. He doesn’t even have time to think. It seems like he wasn’t trying to run on purpose, but was always running like this when he came to his senses.
“professor!”
“I go first!”
She jumped up the stairs and ran to the hospital at full speed. No matter who was looking or who was whispering, I didn’t have time to stop and look around. Every time I crossed her indoor garden, the scent of the restless wind was imbued with the hem of her clothes.
“Haaa.”
I’m not sure what’s right yet.
Have you lived well or not? What kind of life is right? However, if you keep running like this without stopping, someone will at least once… … .
“I’m sorry!”
“Oh, that!”
The head of the planning office, standing in the lobby, took a step back hesitantly, avoiding Hae-joon, who was sprinting at full speed. What in the Holy Hospital! I tried to spit it out as the heat was boiling inside me, but I couldn’t.
“… … “Hey, Chairman.”
“… … .”
Tap, tap, tap.
Lee Han, who was standing behind the manager, took a step closer. The complexion of Director Han, who was supposed to create a comfortable, quiet, and best hospital in Korea, darkened.
“ha ha ha. this. really. It shouldn’t be like this. “Find out who it is quickly.”
“no.”
Lee Han, who had been following someone’s footsteps just moments ago, lowered his body at some point. After winter and spring, he picked up a leaf with its green edges showing through and smiled softly.
“I can tell who it is at a glance.”
– the end.
