reckless
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I tried to sort out the situation rationally, but a beeping alarm sounded from the heating pad. It was time to go remove the needles from Lee Seolwoo’s wrist. I shoved the contract back into the drawer and got up from my seat. Maybe I was just overthinking things. Jung Pureum had been telling me he liked me at the drop of a hat since he was young. Thanks to that, Jung Pureum’s admiration, affection, and reverence for me… all of it had been relegated to something completely ordinary. Could…- 199.5 K • Ongoing
- After the Riritang incident, our clinic lost quite a few regular patients. Some returned after the corrective broadcast aired, but there were far more cases where we lost touch with them completely. Lee Seolwoo was one of them. He was an early customer who had visited our clinic consistently when it was dead quiet, but he was a regular who stopped coming once the clinic became embroiled in controversy. If it were me, I don’t think I would keep going to a clinic caught up in a scandal either. There…
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- I felt carsick the whole taxi ride. Jung Pureum kept stroking my back next to me, asking if I was okay. The taxi driver, perhaps worried I might throw up in the car, rolled down his window. The air, full of fine dust, actually made me feel a little less dizzy. "Maybe it's because my stomach is empty..." "Should we drop off the luggage and go get something to eat?" "No, I just want to rest today." Originally, my plan was to take Jung Pureum out and buy him something to eat. Although Jung…
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- On the bus back to Seoul, I slept the whole way. I couldn’t help it. It was because my mom had been hounding me right up until I got on the bus. I felt like my soul had been completely drained. My mom showed a profound interest in Jung Pureum. Even though I had denied it several times, she seemed to have decided that Jung Pureum and I were some kind of couple. I felt sorry for Jung Pureum for constantly being subjected to this misunderstanding. An omega boyfriend or whatever, that poor kid had been…
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- Was he lying to reassure me? In the past, I would have believed whatever Jung Pureum said, but now that he had become so cunning, I couldn't trust him easily. "Really? I'm going to ask Jung Saebom, you know." —It's true... It was a little difficult to control at first, but it's fine now. I was a bit curious about how it had gotten better. I switched the call to speakerphone and sent a series of messages to Jung Saebom, asking if it was true that Jung Pureum was okay. Jung Saebom replied with…
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- I let my mom’s words, as she went on like a dreamer about the charms of a chaebol alpha male lead, go in one ear and out the other. My mom had always been like this. She got excited about a prince on a white horse and was enthusiastic about Cinderella stories. The fact that I have the kind of sensibility to cry my eyes out watching traditional Korean melodramas is about 80 percent my mom’s fault. Among the reasons why my grandfather and my parents can’t live together, there must surely be the…
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- There was no time to be down. While I was doing this, hyung was surely being tormented at his family home. Jung Pureum had never been to Moon Yeonghwa’s “family home” in person. However, he knew well that it was a den of demons, a place that turned people into zombies, and a never-ending source of nagging. Perhaps because of how much of a hellscape it was, Moon Yeonghwa’s replies on the messenger kept getting slower. It didn’t feel like he was ignoring the messenger while having…
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- At the same time, Jung Pureum was sitting in the student union building with a gloomy face. A national athlete, what’s so great about that, to tear apart the relationship between me and hyung like this… Of course, being selected as a national swimmer was a very important matter. Swimming was not only Jung Pureum’s career path but also suited his aptitude, and to do it for a long time, a stable athletic career was essential. However, separate from knowing that, Jung Pureum was too…
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- I think it's time to talk about my family again. My family is from a royal bloodline of oriental medical doctors. My grandfather is an oriental medical doctor, my mother is an oriental medical doctor, my father is an oriental medical doctor... my whole family consists of oriental medical doctors. "Son, it's been a while, hasn't it?" "Mom!" My mom had come to the bus terminal to pick me up. It was a huge relief. The buses in this neighborhood, unlike in Seoul, run on an hourly schedule. I rushed…
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- Both Jung Pureum and I were too accustomed to resignation, each in our own way. The only difference would be that I get angry even after resigning myself to something, and Jung Pureum doesn't. Jung Pureum was good at enduring everything. He would just laugh it off even when treated unfairly, and chuckle cheerfully even when someone asked why a beta was swimming. Unless I, who couldn't stand to watch, made a scene, he never got angry, as if he were the reincarnation of Buddha. So, it was necessary for…
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