Dr. Shin Seonhan: The Doctor Who Sees The Future [EN]: Chapter 117

#117 Surfers (7)

“Your real name is Park Chorok, right?”

Her eyes widen.

She looks as if she’s seen a ghost.

Her tone suddenly changes to formal.

“How… how did you know my real name?”

“You can fool ghosts, but you can’t fool me. Should I guess something else?”

“Yes? Like what?”

“Give me your hand.”

I gently took her surprised hand.

Then, I intently examined her palm lines.

Well, to be precise, I pretended to look.

“Let’s see… judging by your lifeline, you must have been physically active when you were young. Like running.”

“!”

“But your fate changed in your twenties. So now you’re probably selling something. For example…”

I trailed off, then looked into her eyes and said,

“Something like an online shopping mall.”

“Gasp!”

She gasps for air.

‘How did he know?’

I only said I worked at a company at the drinking party earlier.

‘Who is this guy?’

As if shouting that, dozens of question marks appear on her face.

‘Good. She’s buying it.’

But it’s too early to let my guard down.

I need to press on without losing this momentum.

I narrowed my eyes and continued.

“Shall we look at your ears this time?”

“Ears, why my ears?”

“Hurry.”

She hesitated but carefully tucked her bobbed hair behind her ears.

I looked at both ears alternately and said,

“Your parents have been seriously ill, haven’t they?”

“H-how did you know?”

“Oh dear, your father must have had a major problem with his lungs.”

“Gasp, that’s right. He had surgery for lung cancer.”

She nods enthusiastically.

Already, tears are welling up in her eyes.

I continued with a look of pity.

“Your mother wasn’t as bad, but she must have had a problem with her back.”

“That’s right, sir…”

“A disc [slipped disc]?”

“Yes…”

I rattled off the contents of the chart I saw in the dream.

Now I will look completely like a shaman [spiritual healer] or someone who has received a divine revelation.

I slowly prepared to deliver the final blow.

“And… you, you broke your ankle about four years ago, didn’t you?”

She was startled once again and said,

“How did you know? I fell off a ride at Arabian Bay [water park in South Korea] a long time ago and had ankle surgery…”

‘That’s it!’

Let’s deliver the final blow.

I suddenly shouted sternly with a stern expression.

“You went to play by the water after going through that ordeal? Don’t you know your ancestors were protecting you!”

“Pardon?”

“You should be careful around water your whole life! It’s written in your fate!”

“Gasp… I didn’t know.”

She is terrified.

I feel a little sorry that she’s so scared.

But I can’t help it.

I have to completely deceive her to prevent the accident.

I softened my tone a little and said soothingly.

“Chorok, you originally have the energy of wood, so you should originally have a symbiotic relationship with water. But unfortunately, there’s a ‘sal’ [inauspicious energy] in your destiny, so if you get too wet, your roots will rot.”

Cough.

Lies flow smoothly.

Is it because I’ve been in the emergency room with Professor Pung?

I’m surprised at myself.

I’m so good at scamming.

Should I sell jade mats [traditional Korean bedding believed to have health benefits] as a side job?

Anyway, she seems to have completely fallen for my nonsense, and she said in a trembling voice.

“Sh… should I not even shower? Does that mean I can’t wash and will be dirty forever?”

I shook my head.

“It’s okay to wash or do light water activities. But you should never even look at strenuous sports on the beach, especially surfing.”

I especially emphasized.

‘Don’t do .’

Will this strategy work?

“Yes, fortune teller! Thank you!”

It works.

Chorok bows her head politely.

She looks like she has met the most precious person in the world.

“Um, fortune teller. While you’re at it, could you also look at my love and marriage luck? And my business luck…”

“Shhh.”

I raised my index finger.

“If you’re careful about exercising in the sea, everything will work out perfectly. If you try to know more, it’s a leak of heavenly secrets.”

Of course, I didn’t forget to keep my mouth shut.

“You shouldn’t tell anyone that I told you this. You could get into even bigger trouble.”

“Yes…”

“Today’s matter is a secret. Do you understand?”

The green-haired woman nodded diligently.

“Yes! Thank you so much, fortune teller!”

“One more time, what did I say? Surfing is?”

“I won’t do it!”

“Surfing is?”

“I won’t do it even if I die!”

Good.

That should be enough, right?

So we went back to the drinking party.

“Ah, what are you doing! Drink more!”

“Ugh…”

Kim Ah-ryeong was grabbing Geun-wook by the collar.

Geun-wook was drinking like a zombie, unconscious.

Both of them are out of their minds.

How many more bottles did they drink while I was away?

And the next day.

“Ah, I’m going to die.”

Haggard—

Geun-wook’s face is gaunt.

This is the first time I’ve seen Geun-wook looking so unhealthy.

I heard that he blacked out in the middle.

“Why did you drink so crazy? You should have paced yourself.”

“I was keeping up with Ah-ryeong’s pace…”

Geun-wook is slumped on the station chair like a dead man.

Even in the midst of all this, he doesn’t let go of his smartphone.

Judging by the atmosphere, he seems to be making another appointment with Kim Ah-ryeong.

‘Are you happy?’

I guess you are.

“Hey, are those two not surfing today?”

I asked casually.

‘Has the future changed?’

Then Geun-wook, who was holding his smartphone, said,

“Oh, well… apparently the schedule suddenly changed.”

As he said that, he scratched his head and showed me the message.

“My friend suddenly said she doesn’t even want to look at surfing? She said she’s just going to hang out in the neighborhood and go back to Seoul.”

Thank goodness.

Now, at least, she won’t be paralyzed from a surfing spinal cord injury, right?

I felt much more at ease thinking that.

“Oh. And Seon-han, she told me to tell you this too.”

“Tell me what?”

“She said thank you for giving her valuable teachings last night… Hey, what did you do?”

“Secret.”

I answered simply.

Geun-wook looked at me suspiciously.

“You’re such an unpredictable guy. How do you get a woman to say thank you? Teach me, man!”

“No way. It’s a trade secret.”

“Geez.”

Geun-wook pouted at my words and then smiled broadly as he focused on his smartphone again.

“Well, I’m going to try to get along with Ah-ryeong. She drinks a bit too much, but the more I see her, the more she’s my style… hic.”

Just then, Professor Pung, who was passing by the station, sniffed in the air.

“Hey, why does it smell like soju [Korean distilled beverage] in the emergency room? Did you spill some alcohol? Or did a drunk patient come in from broad daylight?”

“Whoops.”

Geun-wook hurriedly covered his mouth.

After that, the emergency room was peaceful.

The patient Park Chorok did not come in with paraplegia as I saw in my dream.

I had been looking up treatments just in case, so I finally took a sigh of relief in the evening.

‘Good, one case solved!’

I was proud.

Of course, no one recognizes it, but I was able to prevent a major accident that would have happened to one person’s future.

Fate? Destiny?

Maybe there is such a thing.

But even if such a thing exists, I want to be someone who can change the direction of that fate.

Maybe that’s what doctors are for?

To heal sick people.

To save people who are about to die.

And since I even have the ability to see the future, I will be able to do more than other doctors in the future.

‘So there’s a way to use my abilities like this.’

@Comfortable?(?)

I added one way to use my abilities to my head.

!

Of course, I soon realized that not all accidents can be prevented so easily.

And the festival season was approaching.

#My Heart is Racing (1)

“Yawn.”

I got up from the bunk bed.

I feel lazy.

Weak afternoon sunlight comes in through the curtained window.

Unlike Seoul, Gokdam has accommodations on the first floor, so this is nice.

Even a little bit of sunlight makes it feel like people are living here.

“What time is it?”

“It’s 4 o’clock.”

Geun-wook’s lazy voice came from below.

I don’t need an AI speaker.

Geun-wook kindly tells me the time and even tells me today’s schedule.

“Seon-han, you remember we’re having dinner together tonight, right?”

“Yeah.”

That was today.

It is the only day that the four interns’ holidays overlap.

Interns are given consecutive days off twice a month.

The off-days at the end of the month are when interns are rotated.

And, on the off-days in the middle of this month like today, the dispatched interns often play in Gokdam City.

Just in time, the Gokdam Beach Festival is starting!

In a word, it can be said to be golden off-days.

However, there was something that I could not neglect even on my day off.

“Then shall we start again today!”

Tap—

I got out of bed and sat down at my desk.

And I picked up an orange.

Practicing sutures has become a routine to start the day.

First with 3-0 nylon.

Then 5-0 nylon.

And this time, I’m challenging 7-0 nylon.

The thinner the thread, the higher the difficulty.

‘I think I know a little bit now.’

Handling the delicate orange peel and small needles makes my hands more delicate.

And I get to know it sensually.

How to handle the instruments in the operating room and the ICU, and where to put the force on my fingers.

“Are you sewing oranges again?”

“Yeah.”

“Wow, you’re so persistent. I feel like I’m going to throw up just watching you from the side.”

“Actually, me too.”

I chuckled at Geun-wook’s words.

I’m sick of peeling and sewing oranges repeatedly on my days off.

The white inner skin of the orange is always stuck under my fingernails.

When this month is over, I don’t think I’ll even want to look at oranges for a while.

Meanwhile.

Ring ring—

At the sudden ringing of the bell, Geun-wook grabbed the phone and showed off that he was in love.

“Ooh, pretty baby, what are you doing? I just woke up.”

Ugh…….

It’s hard to listen to.

Seeing that the title has changed to ‘baby’, it seems that Geun-wook and Kim Ah-ryeong have finally decided to date.

Geun-wook talked on the phone for a while and then cut off the phone with a grin.

“Are you happy?”

“Yeah.”

“You’re so excited.”

“Hehe, Ah-ryeong seems to be completely into me too.”

“What did you do in a few days?”

“I made her completely fall in love with me. You know, a woman’s heart is like…….”

Then he starts a dating lecture.

Geun-wook seems to have become a dating expert in a few days.

Until a few days ago, he couldn’t even make eye contact with women, but now he’s starting to give me advice.

I chuckled and said.

“It’s good to be in a relationship, but don’t fall too deeply. You live in different places anyway, so you have to break up at the end of the month.”

Then Geun-wook makes a sad face and says.

“Hey, you ruined all the fun!”

“It’s not wrong.”

“Anyway, you’re too cold, man. When I look at you, it seems like you have no blood or tears.”

Geun-wook grumbled and pulled a chair from the side and sat next to me.

“While we’re on the subject, let’s get one thing straight.”

“What?”

“There’s something I’ve been suspecting all along.”

Geun-wook stares at me sharply.