"If there is one thing I have taken a note of," Li Xinyuan began, bandaged hands wrapped around Namgung Hyein's right foot as he rotated it with practiced gentleness. "is that you, Young Miss Hyein, carry your suffering like a brand of shame."
Namgung Hyein watched him, head bowed and lips pursed, hands clenched on the armrests, breath stuttering at the Doctor's touch.
With the knowledge of her feelings for the man, and a name to put on what she felt, her actions and reactions around him were considerably… Cautious.
"Is it not, but a brand of shame, Doctor Baek?" Keeping her voice light as a feather, she asked, "For a lady like myself, what man would want someone so broken?"
Li Xinyuan stilled at the questions, gentle hands carefully guiding her foot into movement.
