Dr. Shin Seonhan: The Doctor Who Sees The Future [EN]: Chapter 231

#Extra Story 13. A Report on the Correlation Between the Heart and Love (5)

“Hehe.”

“You happy?”

“Hehehe.”

“I said, are you happy, you punk?”

Thoracic Surgery resident room.

Ma Dongseop clicked his tongue.

Before his eyes, Ahn Gyeongshik was glued to his smartphone all day, giggling.

He seemed to be enjoying the bliss of early love, not even glancing this way.

“Ugh, it’s sickening to death. I helped, but I didn’t expect him to be this happy…….”

Late summer.

Love was on fire.

Ahn Gyeongshik was head over heels in love, completely oblivious to everything else.

* * *

A place to date in the hospital?

There are plenty.

It’s a place where people live, so how could there not be a place for young lovers to find some privacy?

Especially in the dark of night.

[Gyeongshik] Ssu, what r u doin?_?

[Sujeong] I was waiting for you in my room!_!

[Gyeongshik] Should we meet in front of the OB/GYN [Obstetrics and Gynecology] outpatient clinic on the 2nd floor?

[Sujeong] Sounds good 🙂

OB/GYN outpatient clinic on the 2nd floor of the main building.

It’s right there when you come up the escalator, and the layout is a bit different from other outpatient areas.

Usually, most outpatient clinics are locked in the evening, and the doors to the outpatient clinics are also closed.

However, this place was designed to connect directly to the escalator, so you could walk through the hallway-style outpatient clinic even at night.

That means—

A dark, moderately dim space.

“Oppa!” [Korean term for ‘older brother’ used by females to address older males, often used romantically]

“Yeah, Sujeong. You were here first!”

“Was surgery hard today? Did you not get scolded much today?”

“Of course. Today’s surgery…….”

Kim Sujeong, who still uses honorifics because they haven’t been dating for long.

Looking at her, Ahn Gyeongshik can’t help but smile like a baby.

The two of them were meeting in empty places in the hospital like this on days when their off days didn’t overlap.

Today, Kim Sujeong, who is off, was waiting in the intern’s dorm until Ahn Gyeongshik’s surgery was over.

“The intern dorm was a mess today!”

“Huh? Why?”

“You know Dr. Cheon Sayeon from OB/GYN, right?”

“Yeah, I know her.”

“There was an intern who was getting chewed out by that doctor.”

“Yeah, yeah.”

“That intern couldn’t take it anymore today and apparently talked back to Dr. Cheon Sayeon. So they had a big argument.”

“Yeah, yeah.”

“And then they packed their bags, saying they couldn’t do this dirty intern work anymore, and everyone was trying to stop them, it was a mess.”

“Yeah, yeah.”

“They went all the way to the front of the intern dorm with their suitcase and came back…… Oppa, are you listening to me? Your hands are going to get worn out.”
Ahn Gyeongshik was caressing her hands and awkwardly put them down.

One o’clock in the morning.

Their conversation continues in this place where only quiet darkness is laid.

How could they have held back when they had so much to say?

They were talking without realizing how much time was passing when they heard footsteps in the hallway across from the outpatient clinic.

Tap, tap—

“Hap!”

“Heop!”

The two stopped talking and looked at the source of the sound.

The silhouette of someone wearing a backpack and leaving work at this late hour is familiar.

Holding his breath, Ahn Gyeongshik whispers.

“Is that Professor Heo Seongjin from NS (Neurosurgery)?”

“I think so. Wow, he’s leaving work at this hour…….”

“Neurosurgery has so many emergency surgeries…….”

The two quietly closed their mouths until the sound of footsteps disappeared.

The surroundings became quiet again, and the moment Kim Sujeong, who had been looking in the direction where the footsteps disappeared, turned her head again.

There’s something big in front of her.

It was Ahn Gyeongshik’s face.

“Oh, you scared me.”

“Why?”

“Why are you so close, Oppa?”

“Just because.”

“Oh, geez…….”

Ahn Gyeongshik’s glasses shine thinly in the darkness.

With their faces facing each other with a narrow space of one finger’s width, the two remain motionless for a few seconds.

Ahn Gyeongshik’s face approaches Kim Sujeong by 1 millimeter at a time.

The moment their own history is about to be recorded in front of the OB/GYN outpatient clinic.

“Ahem.”

“Ahem.”

Startled!

The two jump up from their spots.

Ma Dongseop and Sin Seonhan, who happened to be passing by in the hallway, were staring blankly at them in their surgical gowns.

There must have been footsteps, but they didn’t notice this time because they were so focused.

Ma Dongseop scratched his head.

“Oh, well, what is it. I’m on my way back after surgery…… Be careful because a bunch of people will be passing by in a bit.”

“…….”

“Fighting~” [A Korean expression of encouragement, like ‘You can do it!’]

What is he fighting for?

Ma Dongseop playfully clenched his fist and cheered for the two of them before going his way.

Sin Seonhan followed behind him, giving Ahn Gyeongshik a subtle smile and clenching his fist.

“Fighting.”

“…….”

Ahn Gyeongshik and Kim Sujeong’s faces turned as red as tomatoes.

A place to date in the hospital?

Of course, it wasn’t that there weren’t any…… but there was no place that was 100 percent safe.

It seemed like they would have to find another place next time.

* * *

2 a.m.

It’s late at night, but the surgery room hallway at Yeonguk University Hospital is brightly lit.

Out of a total of 28 surgery rooms in the main building, emergency surgeries were in full swing in 9 of them.

And there are a man and a woman walking stealthily into an empty surgery room.

“Oppa, do you remember everything? I’m supposed to receive the handover from the intern this month…….”

“I rotated through Urology too. Don’t worry, Oppa will hand it over well.”

Ahn Gyeongshik said he would hand over the surgery room and took Kim Sujeong to the Urology surgery room.

Fortunately, there were no emergency surgeries in Urology, and the two headed to room number 7, where Urology surgeries are mainly held.

Zhiing—

The door to room number 7 opened.

Unlike the bright surgery room hallway, room number 7 was filled with pitch-black darkness.

“Let’s see, where’s the light switch here. I wonder if it’s around here.”

Click—

When Ahn Gyeongshik turned on the light, the inside of the surgery room could be seen in every corner.

The empty surgery room was cleaned neatly, and an empty bed was placed alone in the middle of the surgery room.

As the two entered the surgery room, the door closed again.

Silence fills the space, which is not even a few square feet.

Only their thin surgical gowns are tickling their bodies between them.

Ahn Gyeongshik feels a ticklish feeling and heads to the corner of the surgery room.

“Sujeong, wait here for a second. I think they put the positioner [instruments for holding surgical postures] here?”

When Ahn Gyeongshik opened the drawer in the corner of the surgery room, various surgical instruments and positioners appeared.

“They always keep it in this drawer, so you can find it here.”

Ahn Gyeongshik picks up the positioner and explains this and that to Kim Sujeong.

“You hold it like this and insert it on this side of the bed.”

“Ah, like this?”

“Yeah, that’s right. You know ‘counterclockwise’, right?”

“Counterclockwise?”

“It’s a word we use to say it loosens when you turn it counterclockwise, you might get confused if you do it in a hurry in front of the professor…….”

“Aha.”

For several minutes, Ahn Gyeongshik teaches Kim Sujeong about the patient’s surgical posture required for urological surgery and how to use the positioner [instruments for holding surgical postures], which must be used to achieve that posture.

“You’ll be able to do well starting next week, right?”

“I understand it right away when I listen to Oppa’s explanation?”

“Right? You did well to come with me, right?”

“Oppa seems the coolest when he’s teaching me things.”

“Hehe.”

“Shall we go out now?”

Kim Sujeong turns off the surgery room light and is about to put her foot on the automatic door to leave the surgery room.

Suddenly.

Ahn Gyeongshik suddenly grabs Kim Sujeong’s hand.

“Huh?”

Kim Sujeong looks into Ahn Gyeongshik’s eyes, and the two people’s eyes meet in the darkness.

“Why did you come so close again, Oppa?”

“Just because…….”

“Oh, geez. Really…….”

Only the light coming through the long, thin rectangular glass in the surgery room door is illuminating the two.

Ahn Gyeongshik approaches Kim Sujeong.

Inside surgery room number 7, where there are no patients and no one is watching.

Kim Sujeong lowers her mask to her chin.

Her lips are visible.

Ahn Gyeongshik also takes off his mask and reveals his lips.

From the beginning, the handover was just an excuse, but now that this situation has come, he is nervous.

‘Is it a bit much to be intimate in the surgery room? No. I heard from a senior that history has been made in an empty surgery room before, so what…….’

Ahn Gyeongshik hesitates and then grips Kim Sujeong’s hand tightly again and tries to bring his face closer.

Zhiing—

“Hick!”

“Oh my!”

The surgery room door opened.

The two jump up from their spots.

Soon, two shadows that they had seen a lot appear.

It’s Ma Dongseop and Sin Seonhan.

“So, from next time, that patient will…… Oh, geez, you scared me. What are you doing here?”

An embarrassing situation.

Ahn Gyeongshik cleared his throat.

Next to him, intern Kim Sujeong raised her mask to her eyes. If it were possible, she wanted to hide even in the surgery room drawer.

“Oh, uh. I came to see the scope [surgical instrument used in laparoscopy/thoracoscopy] machine for a second……. Ahem. I should come back later. Have a good time.”

As Dongseop smiled slyly and made way, Seonhan smiled and said.

“Dr. Ahn Gyeongshik.”

“Yes…….”

“It’s not appropriate in the surgery room.”

“Yes…….”

Ahn Gyeongshik bowed his head.

As the two disappeared, Kim Sujeong hit Ahn Gyeongshik’s shoulder resentfully.

Still, it was a great relief that they were caught by people who wouldn’t spread rumors.

That dreamlike time passed by…….

Even this love, which was so hot, eventually came to a time when the temperature dropped.

* * *

[Gyeongshik] Ssu, should I take your call duty today? Don’t you have time to study? ㅠㅠ

[Sujeong] If rumors spread that Oppa took my call, I won’t be able to show my face in the intern dorm lol

[Gyeongshik] lol Okay

[Sujeong] I’ll contact you when I take a break from studying

After autumn passed.

Winter was approaching.

For her, an intern, the gateways of and were waiting. [Likely referring to important exams or evaluations]

Ahn Gyeongshik helped her diligently. If she failed, she wouldn’t be in the same hospital, and of course, they would grow apart.

[Gyeongshik] Fighting! You can do it!

Wanting to work in the same hospital, Ahn Gyeongshik helped in every way.

Eventually, Kim Sujeong was accepted into Neurology.

[Gyeongshik] Congratulations!

[Sujeong] Thank you, Oppa 🙂

[Gyeongshik] NR (Neurology) 1st year Kim Sujeong! Awesome! Hehehe

However, friction gradually arises between them, who thought it would only be good.

“Is it very hard?”

“Oh, but the seniors above help me a lot, so I slept a few more hours.”

Ahn Gyeongshik couldn’t go into the daily life of Neurology and help his girlfriend.

“Oh, okay, that’s a relief…….”

Meetings are reduced due to each other’s busy lives.

Even though they work in the same hospital, it’s not easy to see each other for a short time.

“I’ll wait until Ssu finishes work today!”

“I don’t know when I’ll finish, so go first.”

“No, I’ll wait until the end. Today is our anniversary…….”

As their working fields are different, the consensus is gradually decreasing.

“……You were able to come out today?”

“……Fortunately, Senior Gijun took care of me.”

“Oh, really? He must be a good person.”

“Yeah. The professors and nurses all like him. They like him a lot.”

“Ah…… Oh, okay. I see.”

Ahn Gyeongshik gradually becomes uncomfortable with the name of an unknown person appearing frequently in the conversation.

Apart from that, the communication between Sujeong and Ahn Gyeongshik is only gradually decreasing…….

[Gyeongshik] It’s cold

[Gyeongshik] Cover yourself well with a warm blanket

[Gyeongshik] Good night

The number 1 that is not erased [referring to an unread message].

The messages between the two of them are slowly disappearing.

Ahn Gyeongshik could also see that the gap between them was widening.

He wasn’t a fool either.

Ahn Gyeongshik sensed that his love would soon come to an end.