Love Made of Ginkgo Leaves {The Unspeakable Secret} - Love made possible by ginkgo leaves

...tututututu.

간호사

Patient Park Da-bin, please go into the examination room.

간호사

Patient?

박다빈

Oh yes.. sorry..

Before I could even begin to feel fear, a house-sized machine was thrust before me. As I took the X-ray, my hands began to tremble involuntarily.

의사

Patient, please don't shake your hands. They're shaking.

박다빈

Oh, sorry!

의사

Hey, patient... don't shake your hands... how many times should I do this now... it's hard for us too...

박다빈

sorry..

Before I knew it, I heard a nervous voice, piercing through the air waves. When I came to, my hands were trembling violently again. I kept breaking out in a cold sweat.

의사

Patient...should I just tie your hands?

박다빈

Yes.. yes tie it up..

The assistants, as if they'd been waiting, tightly wrapped my hands. The pain was so intense it made my blood rush to my skin, but I just bit my lip. Two more scans later, and the grueling examination was over. The assistants roughly tore the tape off and, chattering away, left one by one. The patient was left alone in the examination room.

박다빈

Ah. It hurts

The tape stuck to my hands felt unpleasantly sticky. Sadness, anger, and many other emotions were tangled in a complex and subtle emotional line.

Shoooooooo-

I scrubbed until the backs of my hands felt like they were falling off. It wasn't the dirty feeling, but the feeling of emptiness that washed away. I stood there for a while like that at the sink. A nurse at the next sink glanced at me, spoke briefly, and left.

간호사

Please pay.

간호사

It's 1,934,000 won. The guardian will pay the bill, right?

박다빈

Yes?..Exactly..

The shocking price left me speechless. What might be an astronomical amount of wood or water to me, to someone else—at least my husband—wouldn't even be worth a month's water bill.

박다빈

I'll come to pay the bill in a day or two, so just take half.

박다빈

I'll send it around then.

간호사

all right-

승완선배

hello?

박다빈

Senior...

승완선배

Yeah, Dabin, you said you were sick. Are you feeling better?

박다빈

Yes. I was discharged from the hospital today.

승완선배

I heard you were outside, so go inside and rest. Where's your husband?

박다빈

Where did you go because you had work to do?

박다빈

senior..

박다빈

Yoon Tae-hyun... Yoon Tae-hyun...

승완선배

Why? Why, what's going on now?!

박다빈

I have something to tell you when we meet... I think he's going to study abroad.

승완선배

Studying abroad out of the blue? More importantly, why did he want to meet up with her?

승완선배

Don't worry, don't go out! Why would you go out? You have a husband.

박다빈

Because of this incident... I'm so sorry for making you suffer so much...

승완선배

You like it, don't you?

박다빈

Yes... a lot.

승완선배

You said it wouldn't happen again. What should I do? Then.

박다빈

Senior, I'm just planning to go to school starting tomorrow.

승완선배

Why?!! You're sick, so why don't you get some rest?!!

박다빈

This and that... Senior, I think I should hang up now. I'm home now.

승완선배

Oh yeah, please take a break-

..tututututu..

배진영

Are you here? Why are you so late when you're sick?

Bae Jin-young was smiling brightly. Unusually for my current situation, he looked so peaceful and happy. I didn't want to make things any more difficult for him.

박다빈

I came walking...so I'm a little late.

배진영

Why are you walking? I've prepared dinner for you. Come quickly and eat.

A delicious aroma wafted out the door. The scent of ginseng and glutinous rice mixed together, stimulating my olfactory and salivary glands. The savory chicken broth blended strangely with the sweet scent of jujubes.

박다빈

Hey, did you make samgyetang?

배진영

uh.

박다빈

How did you do that difficult thing?!

(You have to put your hand in the chicken ttk to do that..)

배진영

Living alone and not going to school, there's nothing to do but cook three meals a day. I'm a master of eating alone.

박다빈

omg.

배진영

Come in and eat! Hurry up!

박다빈

I ate a lot and was full!

박다빈

It's a real twist on charm. It's also incredibly cool when a man is good at cooking.

배진영

Let's definitely go register our marriage tomorrow.

박다빈

Oh, I get it lol That damn marriage registration lol

박다빈

Oh right, you said you had something to say.

배진영

Oh, uh...

I didn't notice that he was awkwardly turning his head.

박다빈

Should I make some coffee?

배진영

What does a sick person keep doing? Rest.

박다빈

You got some food, right? Espresso?

배진영

..espresso.

박다빈

Pick- I'm going to drink.

Happiness. It's a happiness that doesn't come often to me. After today ends, another storm will rage, and Bae Jin-young and I... Bae Jin-young wishes for happiness. But it seems like I'm interfering in Bae Jin-young's life, destroying his peace one by one. At some point, it's like the couple became bodyguards.

So I don't want to ruin Bae Jin-young's happiness any longer. Even if it hurts me a little.

배진영

...Let's come to the study for a moment.

박다빈

Okay? Okay..

박다빈

Long time no see. Beauty and the Beast Study.

배진영

What is that again?

박다빈

Why, there's that huge study from Beauty and the Beast.

배진영

It's not that much.

박다빈

Seriously! That's all I'm saying!

Bae Jin-young gently grabbed my cheek and stretched it out.

배진영

It's so cute I could die.

박다빈

//_//

While I was absentmindedly staring, Bae Jin-young came holding a thick roll of parchment.

박다빈

Huh? This!

배진영

At that time... I was sorry.

Bae Jin-young unrolled a scroll in the center of the study. Reflecting the lantern light, the scroll gave off a dreamy glow, as if it were emitting its own light.

배진영

..this is my trust.

박다빈

uh?

Human women. If they do not marry men, they will never be loved, and anyone who loves them will be cursed. The human girls and boys of destiny will also live in suffering.