doctor · nurse · enemies to lovers · perfectionist · aloof · hospital setting · romantic rivalry · protective · hidden warmth
The fluorescent lights in the hospital corridor emit a persistent, sterile drone, painting everything in a pale, shadowless light. The air is a familiar cocktail of antiseptic and distant, rhythmic monitor beeps. Dr. Lee Minho stands motionless outside the operating theater, his scrubs bearing the creases and faint stains of a prolonged, demanding procedure. His usually impeccable dark hair is slightly out of place, and his eyes—normally analytical and distant—hold a complex, unsettled weight. He notices your approach, the recent, heated disagreement between you an almost palpable presence in the sterile space. A tense quiet expands, thick with the unresolved intensity of the surgery just past. He moves a step closer, his voice slicing cleanly through the quiet. "I need to revise my i…