Actually, It’s a Messy Melodrama Chapter 127

“Gasp……!”

Taejun sprang up from the bed as if he were bouncing. In that instant, a groan escaped his lips without him realizing. His head throbbed as if it were about to split, and his stomach churned so much that he felt like vomiting right away. But that was not what was important right now.

“Mr. President! You must not move!”

As Taejun reflexively tried to kick off the bed and stand up, a rough grip forcibly grabbed and laid him back down.

“Let go, let go of me……! Where is Cha Haeshin? Haeshin!”

Whether they did or not, Taejun practically struggled as he searched for Haeshin. His vision had not even fully cleared yet, making everything in front of him blurry, but he did not want to hesitate for even a single second. He felt like he would only be satisfied once he saw Cha Haeshin with his own eyes right this instant.

At long last, Taejun had recovered all his lost memories. Han Taejun and Cha Haeshin were already in a relationship where they loved each other. Even in the first life, Cha Haeshin had thrown himself into a tiny possibility with almost zero chance of success just to protect him.

Since Haeshin had thrown his entire body into it with all his might, Taejun would have had no other choice. Other than falling helplessly in love with Cha Haeshin just like now, that is.

“Ugh……!”

“Mr. President, please calm down!”

Because Taejun grabbed his head with both hands due to the ongoing headache, blood flowed backward through the IV tube that was inserted into his arm.

“Gasp, pant…….”

Taejun gasped roughly for breath. It was dizzying and suffocating, as if someone had stuck a hand into his head and vigorously stirred it around. The moments of meeting Haeshin and falling in love randomly tangled together, repeatedly flashing through his mind and disappearing.

At the same time, the despair of failing to protect Haeshin until the very end also came upon him. The image of Haeshin bleeding and growing cold right before his eyes flashed vividly, bringing intense pain.

He should have expected it. He should have known in advance that Jin Youngmin was a crazy bastard far beyond his expectations, but because he failed to do so, he ultimately led Haeshin to his death. That ate at Taejun’s heart much more than his own disastrous death.

“W-Wait…….”

Then, a newly surfaced memory suddenly brought Taejun’s movements to a halt. He was definitely riding in a car with Cha Haeshin. During that time, Secretary Choi had a serious expression while talking to someone on the phone, said he would take them home, and then, and then.

“N-No, no……!”

As the memory of the car overturning in the accident returned, Taejun grabbed Secretary Choi, who was trying to calm him down, and urgently opened his mouth.

“Where is Cha Haeshin? The accident, there was an accident……!”

“Mr. Cha Haeshin is fine, Mr. President. So please calm down for now.”

“Ah, ahh…….”

“His surgery finished just a little while ago, so they are currently waiting for him to wake up from the anesthesia, and he will be here soon. So please look after your own body first, Mr. President. What is all this?”

Secretary Choi pushed Taejun back down onto the bed as he momentarily relaxed. Since he had caused such a ruckus, Choi was worried that his stitched wounds might have burst.

While Secretary Choi was calling a nurse, Taejun, who had barely managed to soothe his excitement, asked.

“What happened. It’s true that we got into a traffic accident, right?”

“Yes.”

“Is it Jin Youngmin?”

“The driver of the car that collided with us was someone else. However, it seems the cause of the accident lies with the car Jin Youngmin was driving. My guess is that bastard…… sigh…….”

Spitting out a curse in a voice filled with anger uncharacteristic of him, Secretary Choi soon collected his emotions with a deep breath and continued speaking.

“It seems Jin Youngmin intended to attack our car directly, but he was unexpectedly interfered with by another car in the middle of it. Because he wasn’t in the vehicle directly involved in the accident, he wasn’t caught at the scene, and by the time I woke up, he had already vanished without a trace.”

It was at that exact moment that Taejun looked at Secretary Choi with a puzzled gaze. They said a car accident happened, and the person who was driving that crashed car was none other than Secretary Choi.

“But why are you here?”

“Pardon?”

“Aren’t you hurt too? Why are you sitting here pretending to be perfectly fine?”

Only then did the gauze stuck to Secretary Choi’s forehead enter his view. Secretary Choi, who let out a deep sigh of relief only after hearing Taejun’s much calmer voice, replied with an awkward face.

“I am fine.”

“What do you mean fine? You were just in a traffic accident right now.”

“The impact was from behind, so I was relatively fine. I had all the checkups and they said there are no issues.”

“Don’t you know that the aftereffects of a traffic accident usually come later? Stop talking nonsense and go get some rest. Oh, and take a bodyguard with you.”

This time, Secretary Choi’s expression crumpled completely.

“Is now the time for you to be worrying about me?”

“If I don’t, who will? Hurry up and go inside.”

“Ah, why are you getting up again!”

At the sight of Taejun trying to get his body out of bed again after telling Secretary Choi to go rest, Secretary Choi raised his voice, which was a rare occurrence. Taejun pulled the IV right out of his arm and said.

“I’m going to go see Haeshin.”

“I told you he will be here shortly.”

“It feels like I woke up a long time after undergoing surgery myself, so does it make sense that Cha Haeshin’s surgery just finished? Tell me the truth. I’ll find out anyway if I go out and ask.”

Though his voice was quite calm, Secretary Choi could feel just how terrified Taejun was right now. In the end, Secretary Choi let out a sigh with a defeated look. There was no reason to hide it any longer since the situation was not drastically critical anyway.

“……In Mr. Cha Haeshin’s case, his condition was a little worse than yours, Mr. President.”

Taejun clenched his teeth and closed his eyes. An unbearable anger and self-reproach washed over Taejun like a tidal wave. Secretary Choi quickly continued.

“Because it was a somewhat dangerous situation even after the surgery finished, he was in the intensive care unit. But I received word just a little while ago that he has passed the critical turning point, and they said they will move him to a hospital room soon. They said he will probably wake up shortly.”

“Phew……”

Only then did Taejun let out a suppressed breath, covering his face with both hands. He had been so desperate that he even offered thanks to a god he didn’t even believe in from the bottom of his heart. It felt like tears were about to flows unbecomingly.

He had foolishly thrown away all the countless chances heaven had given them up until now, and he had almost lost Cha Haeshin yet again. Only now did Taejun feel like he could faintly understand why their destinies had been tangled up in such a mess.

On that day, in that place, lay the deaths of three people. An intense and massive emotion beyond words must have condensed, and the resentment Jin Youngmin held as he died must have certainly influenced the powerful force that was strong enough to break through the solid wall of time and create a crack.

Perhaps that was why. Why everyone lost their initial memories, and why Cha Haeshin’s death kept bringing about a continuous regression. He felt a sudden thought that perhaps it was all a process of finding the best method to return a proper ‘life’ to Cha Haeshin while Jin Youngmin’s curse was causing disruptions.

“Jungho, give me some support.”

“Do you really have to go with your body in that state?”

“Yeah. If you don’t help me, I’ll go by myself. Then I’ll just end up rolling around unbecomingly on the hospital corridor alone.”

“……Are you a child?”

Even as Secretary Choi retorted grumpily, he had no choice but to stand up. He knew there was no way to stop Taejun when he spoke to this extent.

“My goodness, what do you think you are doing right now!”

Right then, just in time, a nurse entered the hospital room, looking utterly startled. Secretary Choi looked at Taejun with an expression that said serves you right. Taejun did not lose his composure and spoke toward the nurse.

“Is Cha Haeshin okay?”

Secretary Choi shook his head side to side. Under normal circumstances, he would absolutely never act so recklessly, but he must be exceptionally anxious.

“Patient, you must not move like this right now.”

At the moment Taejun tried to say something to the nurse’s movement as she tried to check his wounds first, Secretary Choi, who calmed him down by pressing his shoulder with an arm, spoke to the nurse with a voice like a sigh.

“Could you perhaps check on Mr. Cha Haeshin’s condition first? I will take responsibility for Mr. President.”

Seeing Taejun’s state as if he would run outside at any second, the nurse withdrew her hands with a resigned face. Since he was a VVIP customer whose requests had to be granted no matter what anyway, there was no other option either.

The nurse, who had already been relayed the relevant information and knew about it, replied.

“Mr. Cha Haeshin is currently preparing to leave the intensive care unit and will be coming over to this side shortly.”

“Has he regained consciousness?”

Taejun asked urgently. His voice was so desperate that even the listener’s heart tightened with anxiety of its own accord. As if to reassure Taejun, the nurse calmly continued speaking.

“He hasn’t regained consciousness just yet, but he will wake up soon. Other than that, he just needs to take his time and recover well, so do not worry.”

“Thank you. Thank you so much……”

Taejun murmured his gratitude toward the nurse several times. His sincerity felt so vividly clear that the atmosphere inside the hospital room somehow became solemn.

“Don’t mention it……. Then, I will treat your arm now.”

Only then did Taejun relax his body and hold out his blood-soaked arm. As he kept his eyes fixed only on the hospital room door while waiting for Haeshin to arrive, Secretary Choi quietly opened his mouth.

“Fragments of the shattered car were embedded in Mr. President’s back, but if it weren’t for Mr. President, they might have pierced straight into Mr. Cha Haeshin’s face.”

Taejun bit his lip. Just listening to the words made his heart ache as if it were tearing apart.