Peninsula diplomat: My second life with a top celebrity

Chapter 75 The Woman Outside the Door

Kim Da-hyun rested her head on the car window, watching the scenery on the empty street recede into the distance, her thoughts tracing back to that hotel in Indonesia.

She, Minatozaki Sana, and Mina probably met Jung Do-hoon around the same time.

Why did Minatozaki Sana and Jung Do-hoon's relationship develop so quickly? What exactly happened between them? Wasn't Minatozaki Sana supposed to introduce Hwang Ye-ji to Jung Do-hoon?

Is it possible that because Kim Da-hyun couldn't get Jung Do-hoon to have dinner with her, Minatozaki Sana starved herself to the point of having low blood sugar and being hospitalized?

That shouldn't be the case...

The taxi stopped outside a small but well-maintained hospital. Kim Da-hyun pushed open the door and was then taken aback.

"Dohoon, the scribe?" Kim Da-hyun was stunned.

"It's Dahyun." He smiled. "What a coincidence, I just managed to hail this taxi too."

The point isn't that the two people just happened to hail the same car, okay?

Kim Da-hyun frowned slightly, stepped forward, and looked up at him.

Why are you here?

"I'm the one who brought Sana to the hospital, didn't Mina tell you?" Jung Do-hoon looked at her in confusion.

Didn't Mina tell Kim Da-hyun everything she knew? Why wouldn't Kim Da-hyun know she was there?

So... when Kim Da-hyun invited him to dinner in her own name, he was too busy.

He suddenly became available as soon as Sana Minatozaki got into trouble, right?

"Oh, I was in a bit of a rush when I answered the phone, so I might not have heard the key information."

Kim Da-hyun lowered her eyes silently and brushed a stray hair from her forehead. She suddenly felt as if she had been excluded from a certain circle by Minatozaki Sana and Mina, and the center of that circle was the man in front of her.

I feel like I've been abandoned.

It's a shame she cared so much about Minatozaki Sana.

Jung Do-hoon could clearly sense the sudden drop in the woman's aura, but when she looked up again, she had already composed herself and managed a forced smile at him.

"Then I'll go in and visit Sana first?"

"Okay, I'll be going now." He waved, and just as he opened the car door, he turned back and called out to Kim Da-hyun, "Da-hyun-ssi!"

"Huh? What's wrong?" Kim Da-hyun stopped and turned back.

"It's nothing. When you asked me to dinner, I did have to talk to officials from the Busan city government. We can meet again next time if there's a chance."

Language, in a sense, is the cheapest form of comfort, a fact that Jeong Do-hoon, as a diplomat, understood well.

He could sense the slight sense of disappointment Kim Da-hyun felt after being "treated differently." In any case, it was just a polite remark, and if it made the other person feel better, Jung Do-hoon didn't mind saying a few more polite words.

"I didn't really care about it!" Kim Da-hyun quickly waved her hand, glanced at the back of the car, and then looked away. "Well... if there's a chance, I'll treat you to dinner again?"

"Okay, let's make time again sometime."

She watched Zheng Daoxun leave, her previously slouching shoulders lifting slightly.

Perhaps Jung Do-hoon was just putting on an act to make himself feel better? But there's no denying that Kim Da-hyun enjoyed it.

At least as a diplomat, he would care about her feelings.

But what if it's not just polite talk?

Kim Da-hyun pursed her lips and only dragged herself out of the ward after the ride-hailing car disappeared from sight.

A faint light shone through the door.

"If Jung Do-hoon hadn't answered your call, should we be waiting for you outside the ICU now?" Mina's voice came through the phone.

"It's not that serious!"

"Do you know what happens if someone faints due to low blood sugar and no one treats them? Irreversible brain damage, even life-threatening situations. What if someone with pre-existing brain conditions gets injured again?"

"You're the one who's not thinking straight!" Sana Minatozaki retorted, seemingly angry but actually weakly, "I deliberately made myself faint from hunger so that Jung Do-hoon would have no choice but to come looking for me."

"But why? Just because of your unrealistic precognitive dreams, you're convinced you'll end up with him? I could say I dreamt I was with him too." Mina sighed softly. "If you had that kind of intelligence, would you have done something like that during dinner tonight?"

"I was just acting on emotion... Having a brain but not using it is different from having no brain at all, okay?"

"Go ahead and try to defend yourself."

Outside the ward door, Kim Da-hyun slightly widened her eyes.

What kind of precognitive dream is this? How could Sana Minatozaki actually make herself faint from hunger, forcing Jung Do-hoon to show up?

Also, since Minatozaki Sana and Mina had already arranged to have dinner with Jung Do-hoon, why did she still ask me to send him a message alone?

This hospital room door seemed to divide the world into two halves, light and darkness. Kim Da-hyun stood in the dark corridor, her fingers on the doorknob, not pushing the door open for a long time.

She remembered that morning when she delivered a shirt to Sana Minatozaki, when she too was blocked from the truth by a door.

Perhaps Kim Da-hyun should find some time to talk to Jung Do-hoon about what exactly happened.

dong dong.

There was a knock on the door, the conversation inside stopped, and Kim Da-hyun pushed the door open and walked in sideways:

"Sana unnie, how are you now?"

"Da-hyun?" Minatozaki Sana blinked, looking at Mina with a guilty conscience, while the latter crossed her arms and looked like it was none of her business.

Sana Minatozaki hesitated for a moment before continuing, "I'm much better. Thank you so much for coming to visit me in the middle of the night."

"Unnie, why are you being so formal?" Kim Da-hyun took the fruit out of her bag. "These are apples I bought at the convenience store, here you go."

Mina could sense the barely perceptible unease on Dahyun's face.

Could it be that she really ran into Jung Do-hoon on the road?

A person who would go to great lengths for their friends, running around doing everything for them, only to find out in the end that their friends have been keeping many things from them—this feeling is no different from being betrayed.

She should have told Kim Da-hyun the whole truth, but why, for some inexplicable reason, did she not tell her the whole story of what happened tonight? Explaining it now is like locking the barn door after the horse has bolted.

Perhaps... she was just too tired at the time and didn't want to explain so much? After all, if Sana Minatozaki had sought her help earlier, Dahyun wouldn't have had a chance.

Moreover, when Kim Da-hyun called, she was only concerned about Sana Minatozaki's situation. Why did she have to bring up Jung Do-hoon so many times?

She was the one who was forced into everything tonight. Her stepping forward to explain made it seem as if Mina was the one pulling strings behind the scenes.

With this mindset, Mina remained silent—Sana Minato would always explain.

"Dahyun..." Minatozaki Sana caught the apple, took a small bite, and didn't know how to start the conversation.

"What's wrong?" Kim Da-hyun looked bewildered.

"It's nothing! The apples are quite sweet." Minatozaki Sana shook her head.

Perhaps Kim Da-hyun is unaware of the situation? She just asked Mina, and Mina only told Kim Da-hyun about Minatozaki Sana's hospitalization, without mentioning Jung Do-hoon.

That idiot...

Some things need to be said to your face, otherwise the misunderstanding will only grow bigger.

Minami glanced at Sana Minatozaki with a sly look, then suddenly said, "You can still eat apples? Wasn't the porridge that Secretary Dohoon bought for you enough?"

After Mina finished speaking, the other two women, who were clearly preoccupied, exchanged a glance but remained silent.