MR. Jeon, The Heart Bandit | L.K Adaptation

Chapter 195: Side Story 1

Beep-beep-beep-beep----

The monitors gradually flatlined.

"Darling!" A woman was wailing nearby with both her knees on the floor.

At the same time, Jin remained unaffected as he issued another order. "Transfusion".

Then, he put one palm over another open the men's chest, pumping it rhythmically and repetitively.

Jin did that for some time but there was no reaction on the monitors, and so he took a defibrillator and adjusted it to high voltage and pumped the man's chest again the man's body lifted with the burst of electric current, before slamming heavily back into bed.

In the end, the man couldn't be saved.

Jin bowed once and stepped out, and the onlookers cleared a path for him.

However, he was a few steps away when he turned around to Jisoo. He was about to pull her hand when he saw that his own hands were full of blood, and could only put his hand over her shoulder.

Jisoo had simply blanked out from what she saw.

"Girl's shouldn't be seeing something so bloody".

Her face was pale white. That was the first time she had ever seen a sight so gory.

Jin himself was pungent with the scent of blood, and she heaved a few times.

He smiled as he led her to his office.

He washed his hands with cold water, and then soaked his lab coat in the water.

Looking at him, Jisoo asked, "Are you sad watching a patient die?"

"I am" Jin replied calmly as he leaned over the basin. " Just as I am aware that the chance of rescuing a patient whose jugular ruptures is almost zero, but I would still try it....It is my hope to save every life".

Jisoo was curious. "How did that happen?"

"Suicide".

"Suicide?" Jisoo was shocked. "Even that' too brutal...."

Jin's lips curled but did not really smile. "This is the neurology wing. There are many people here who aren't in their right minds, so I'm a little used to it".

Jisoo's face went pale. "Then my father...."

Jin's face changed but he said nothing.

****

In the following month, Jisoo had stayed in the hospital to care for Kim Chang Wan as best as she could but his condition was not improving.

Still, there was a change between her and Jin.

His attitude to her now was neither cold nor warm. Either way, it was a little better than 'patient's family' but not really 'friends'.

Jisoo would talk to Jin afterwards, who would advise her as if she had experienced it all herself. "All men are jerks. The more proactive you are, the less he cares for you". 

Jungkook who was helping her daughter with some scribbling looked up. "I'm a jerk?"

"....Not you, darling".

"So, I'm not a man?" Jungkook narrowed his eyes dangerously. "Very well. I'll have you learn what being a man is all about tonight".

"...."

Couldn't he just say that he wanted to get some action, and not nitpick or beat around the bush?

****

Kim Chang Wan's condition never improved even on the day he was discharged.

Jisoo thought then that he would be like that for the rest of his life perhaps it was punishment from the heavens.

After they reached home, Kim Chang Wan started to throw a fit about wanting to go outside to play like a child, and let him run about the district while she tidied her house.

That was when her door was kicked down with a bang, startling Jisoo.

Five huge pudgy men entered. Their leader had a scar from a blade on his face, and he asked when he saw Jisoo. "Are you Kim Chang Wan's daughter?"

She was stepping back in fear. "Who....are you?"

The men looked at each other and laughed. "Kim Chang Wan owed us money and he sold you off to us".

"Sold?" Jisoo was left in disbelief. "My father's out of his mind, how could he...."

No way....

Even before Jisoo could react, the scarred man had promptly pulled her hair and pressed her face down on the sofa, and impatiently tore her pants off.

Jisoo was struggling as hard as she could when she saw Kim Chang Wan staring from outside the door.

"Father! Father, help me!" She yelled as if finding a savior.

But Kim Chang Wan's eyes had changed from its mindlessness before to one devoid of emotion.

He turned and left.

Jisoo's whole body stiffened as her tears rained. She finally realized that Kim Chang Wan faking his mental disability, and even sole her off to those men as collateral.

She gritted her teeth, and could not stop her bursting hate to kill him.

How could he be so heartless? She was his daughter!