Chronicles of the Lazy Sovereign Novel - Chapter 100

Chapter 100

Glug, glug, glug.

In the darkness of the falling night, Jin Ye-ran was sitting alone, filling her glass of wine. Although she did not enjoy drinking, on nights like this she could not keep her sanity without alcohol.

Looking at the cold wine filling his glass, Jin Ye-ran let a deep sigh escape.

“…what a scene.”

Wei Yan-ho found himself nodding unconsciously as he watched Jin Ye-ran drinking alone under the moonlight.

A beauty under the moon…

Even Wei Yan-ho, who could be said to have almost no interest in others, could not help but recognize that scene as beautiful.

But now was not the time to admire that beauty.

“Drinking just ruins the stomach.”

Wei Yan-ho approached by dragging his feet and sat in front of Jin Ye-ran. Although Jin Ye-ran looked at him with a glance, he did not stop him from sitting down.

“Can you pour me a cup?”

When Wei Yan-ho sought a cup, Jin Ye-ran silently handed him the cup next to her.

Glug, glug, glug.

When Wei Yan-ho took the cup, Jin Ye-ran lifted the bottle of wine and filled it for him.

“Drinking is only poisonous.”

“Right now, looking at your face is no more poisonous”

You can’t see my face.

“What a Wei Yan-ho-style solution!”

Jin Ye-ran bowed his head deeply.

“I’m sorry.”

“What?”

“Even knowing that young Master Wei has done a lot for me, I could not control my momentary anger and said those things. I thought I would apologize, but I was too brazen to come to see you.”

“Don’t worry about it.”

“How can I not worry about it?”

Jin Ye-ran looked at Wei Yan-ho with somewhat stunned eyes. His face, slightly reddened by alcohol, made his beauty shine even brighter.

“It’s not easy.”

“What isn’t it?”

Jin Ye-ran seemed to think for a moment before continuing.

“Following the teachings of my predecessors is already difficult, but the real difficulty is knowing that So-ah’s words are not wrong either. I was perhaps just being stubborn.”

“Mmm…”

“No, I was definitely being stubborn. By saying that a doctor should be like this, I imposed on So-ah my idealistic view of the path of medicine. The truth is that my father only asked me to raise So-ah to be an excellent doctor and that he would rebuild the Sacred Hand Hall. But it seemed that I myself had decided that he should be that “excellent doctor.”

“Mmm.”

Wei Yan-ho did not hide his expression, which indicated that difficult conversations were his least favorite. Seeing that face, Jin Ye-ran could not help but laugh.

“I’m sorry, this story has nothing to do with young Master Wei…”

“In fact.”

“Yes?”

Wei Yan-ho looked silently at Jin Ye-ran.

When his eyes crossed and time passed, Jin Ye-ran, unable to withstand discomfort, blushed and slowly turned his head.

“I really don’t understand what you’re worried about.”

“Excuse me?”

Jin Ye-ran bowed his head slightly.

It was probably not such a difficult story. Considering that the Wei Yan-ho he had seen so far could be lazy, but not stupid, his current statement did not mean that he could not understand Jin Ye-ran’s words.

Then?

“My teacher used to say… mmm, this seems to have become my motto lately… Anyway, that old man said that if you want something, you have to get it yourself.”

“…”

That old man was spiteful and extremely annoying, but at least he was someone who never said inappropriate things. To be precise, he said only the right thing, but those right things were things that you didn’t want to hear, which made him twice as annoying…

Just as Jin Ye-ran was disconcerted when he suddenly heard gossip about someone he didn’t know, Wei Yan-ho brought up the subject of his tangent.

“Finally, if what that old man said was largely true, then the saying that if you want to accomplish something, you must do it yourself is so. Most people tend to expect others to accomplish what they themselves want, but it is the thirsty one who digs the well.”

“Then you’re saying…”

Jin Ye-ran composed his voice.

“Should I do it myself?”

“Yes.”

Wei Yan-ho nodded without hesitation.

“Isn’t that something you want yourself?”

“Young Master Wei, So-ah is the legitimate heir to the Sacred Hand Hall.”

“I think this is the first time I have heard that only the legitimate heir has the right to revive a family.”

“I’m a woman.”

“I think it’s also the first time I’ve heard that only men can revive a family, especially in the case of a medical family.”

She could not hide her confused expression from the words of Wei Yan-ho.

‘Me directly?’

She had believed that her mission was to turn Jin So-ah into an excellent doctor. She had never thought of doing anything instead of him.

“Me?”

The confused Jin Ye-ran asked over and over again.

Wei Yan-ho remained blank and did not answer. He knew that the question sought confirmation, but who could answer it was not Wei Yan-ho, but Jin Ye-ran himself.

“I could do it?”

“No one knows.”

Wei Yan-ho spoke honestly.

“But from what I have seen, the ideal doctor Miss Jin wants differs from the policy of the Sacred Hand Hall and the path So-ah wants to follow. If you impose that on others, no doubt problems will arise.”

“Ah…”

“And I think Miss Jin is connecting two different things.”

“What do you mean by that?”

Wei Yan-ho hit with his finger the glass of wine that was in front of him. “The wine that contained it waved.”

“Creating So-ah as an excellent doctor and rebuilding the Sacred Hand Hall are clearly different issues, but you seem to think they should be done together.”

“…”

“So-ah, being an excellent doctor is one thing. The Sacred Hand Hall doesn’t have to be rebuilt by So-ah. You’re still obsessed with So-ah because you think he alone has the right to rebuild it.”

Jin Ye-ran’s eyes wavered.

Wei Yan-ho spoke honestly.

“I am a lazy person who can’t even think about the affairs of others. But one thing I know: my affairs are something I have to attend to myself. If you want to rebuild the Sacred Hand Hall, you shouldn’t leave it to So-ah, but do it yourself, miss. Especially if you want to make the Sacred Hand Hall the ideal medical room.”

Jin Ye-ran looked at Wei Yan-ho without saying anything.

“What’s going on?”

“…Young Master Wei is a strange person.”

“I hear that often.”

“You’re really weird, really.”

Jin Ye-ran, who silently watched Wei Yan-ho, looked up to observe the moon floating in the sky. The moon, half hidden by the clouds, brightened the dark night.

“I could do it?”

“No one knows, but what’s safe is…”

Wei Yan-ho picked up the cup in front of him.

“People who don’t move, people who don’t try, people who just think, can’t accomplish anything.”

“Self-pity?”

“Who knows.”

Wei Yan-ho smiled slightly.

“I’m a very satisfied person living like this. I don’t want to achieve anything and I don’t think about what I should do, but I think I’m happier than Miss Jin right now.”

“…”

“Because I do what I want, even though I have to do things I don’t want because of my fucking master.”

“That teacher of yours must be a wonderful person, making young Master Wei move.”

Wei Yan-ho looked at the sky in silence.

– Be happy.

He seemed to see his master’s face smiling softly.

“Maybe.”

Jin Ye-ran looked silently at Wei Yan-ho.

Although it was usually difficult to notice because of his carefree expression, there was a touch of nostalgia in Wei Yan-ho’s eyes.

“Young Master Wei is truly a unique person.”

“I hear that often too.”

“Young Master Wei is right. If I want to do something, I must do it with my own hands. Maybe I expected So-ah to follow a path too difficult for me. That’s not right.”

Jin Ye-ran’s voice trembled slightly.

“Could I… do it right?”

“I told you, nobody knows.”

“Even so, please tell me I can do it right.”

To Jin Ye-ran, who spoke as if he wanted to get rid of his anxiety, Wei Yan-ho gave him the best answer he could.

“Work hard in proportion to your anxiety.”

“…”

“To feel anxiety is natural. We are all anxious. But there are people who relieve their anxiety simply by being anxious, and people who strive proportionally to their anxiety. Those who work hard are not necessarily successful, but most hardworking people become better than before.”

“Is that so?”

“In fact, I know Miss Jin has worked hard so far, but the direction of that effort was wrong. Now she just needs to strive in a more appropriate direction.”

Wei Yan-ho would be the least suitable person for such words.

Jin Ye-ran would also have let those words in one ear and out the other if the usual Wei Yan-ho had said them.

But strangely enough, the current Wei Yan-ho felt reliable.

‘Now that I think about it…’

Everything changed after this person showed up.

The Sacred Hand Hall, which was in poverty, managed to escape debt, and Jin So-ah set out on his own path and declared the rebirth of the Sacred Hand Hall. And he was now even showing him the way to Jin Ye-ran.

‘Strange person.’

What a strange person!

The moon looked at the two people calmly and benevolently.

***

“…Isn’t this a good thing?”

“Well?”

Sa-ga, the Historian, mocked the words of Gwang-gu Shin-gae.

“What is the most successful medical clinic on the central plains right now?”

“Of course it’s the Sacred Hand Hall!”

“What else?”

“Excuse me?”

“In addition to the Sacred Hand Hall, where else?”

– Well, the White Tunic Medical Gate, right?

“Well?”

Gwang-gu Shin-gae had a bitter smile.

“How is the relationship between those two?”

“Come on, you ask about everything. Mr Shin-gae, who doesn’t know that the Sacred Hand Hall and the Medical White Tunic Gate are bitter enemies who fight and fight for everything?”

“Well, staunch enemies, staunch enemies.”

Gwang-gu Shin-gae snapped his tongue.

“After that day, Miss Jin changed her mind and changed the name of the Unnamed Medical Clinic in order not to forget her unwavering compassion for the patients.”

“No way?”

“That’s right. The predecessor of the White Tunic Medical Door was the Unnamed Medical Clinic. Thanks to the visit of Wei Yan-ho, both the Sacred Hand Hall and the White Tunic Medical Door emerged in Hubei.”

Sa-ga’s eyes trembled.

“The Sacred Hand Hall was famous for its power, which would not be exaggerated to consider it the most important medical institution in the Central Plains. The White Tunic Medical Gate was famous for being called the “Door of Medical Rectitude” for treating its patients with the utmost dedication. They were medical institutions with such different natures and directions that they could not be mixed like water and fire.”

Not long ago, there was even a situation in which affiliated doctors attacked each other with acupuncture needles: one could say that they had the worst possible relationship.

But those two medical institutions come from the same root!

“Let brothers become enemies happen in an instant.”

Gwang-gu Shin-gae’s tongue snap seemed naughty. Sa-ga groaned and shook his head.