Year One Wrap-Up (2)

After the gallery ghost’s icy fact-bomb, I forced myself to act cool, muttered ‘What do you guys know?’ and closed the window.

But the comments lodged in my chest like knives.

‘I’ll think positively about it’ is just the most polite way to say ‘get lost’ in social life.

I failed.

But I couldn’t give up like this.

Lee Min-jae’s crazed eyes and the cursed words, ‘Our department’s future depends on your shoulders,’ wouldn’t leave my head.

Right, there isn’t just Park Seong-jeong.

There are still more interns.

And so my desperate, ugly courtship of the interns continued.

I prowled the ER like a hyena, searching for any intern who looked like they needed help—or even just looked like they were struggling...