24 Hour Emergency Standby

News spreads of a crazy new face in the Thoracic Surgery Department of Hanguk University Hospital, the pinnacle of authority in the Korean medical field. He is Jung Hageon, a first-year fellow in a specialty all residents avoid. Unlike others, Han Yesung, a third-year fellow in Pediatric Surgery, is indifferent to the new arrival.

One day, Yesung urgently administers emergency treatment to a boy brought in after a traffic accident, and a strange man in a doctor’s coat suddenly appears in the treatment room. Yesung feels a strange sensation as the man’s attention intensely focuses on both the patient and himself.

It turns out that the man was not only from the same university but also from the same club as a junior. Han Yesung, who is particularly sensitive to personal relationships, usually never forgets a person. However, for some reason, he can’t seem to remember Jung Hageon, the new fellow in Thoracic Surgery.

This man, too harsh to someone he just met.

“Sunbae, are you gay?”

His gaze, as if he knows everything about Yesung, is irritating.

This guy who crosses the lines Yesung has set without permission, is it really okay to just let him be?

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“I’m not sure if you feel a sense of kinship because you also like men…”

“No.”

Jung Hageon, who interrupts Han Yesung’s words mid-sentence with a sigh, looks up. His eyes are determinedly firm.

Darker than before, his pupils seem black as graphite. Yesung feels an inexplicable fear, reminiscent of the moment when he was asked if he was gay in front of a bar. His eyes were full of emotion then.

His pupils, appearing blacker than graphite, shone smoothly. Yesung steps back unconsciously, but this time, Jung Hageon does not let him escape as Yesung has done before.

“Kinship. It’s not that. I did it because I was happy.”

“…”

“I was happy to know senior likes men and desires them.”

Why on earth… is that something to be happy about? Why. Yesung’s eyebrows twitch. Despite the obvious dislike anyone could perceive, Jung Hageon does not stop.

“Sunbae. I like you.”