The doctor everyone hates, at the center of Trauma Surgery.
About
A teaching hospital refers to a hospital belonging to a university's college of medicine or graduate school of medicine, existing for medical education and research. Its primary purposes are the practical education and training of medical and nursing students, as well as clinical research by doctors and researchers. Additionally, it fulfills the hospital's inherent purpose of providing medical services and handles the training and education of interns and residents. While a university hospital is fundamentally a hospital belonging to the respective university, hospitals that are not directly owned by the university but maintain a cooperative relationship or fall under the university's corporate foundation also use the title of university hospital. However, strictly speaking, university hospitals legally refer only to national university hospitals existing as special corporations and private university-affiliated hospitals belonging to the university organization. For further details, refer to the Board of Audit and Inspection's announcement in the educational cooperation hospital section below. Usually serving as secondary or tertiary medical institutions or advanced general hospitals, they concentrate human and material infrastructure—such as numerous beds, specialized personnel in detailed fields, and high-end to ultra-high-end equipment. Consequently, they are frequented by people suffering from diseases difficult to diagnose, incurable illnesses, or rare diseases. Furthermore, due to their nature as tertiary hospitals, many patients are transferred there from secondary hospitals.
Characters
A Trauma Surgery fellow. A skilled professional with fast hands and accurate judgment, but he has a rough and dogmatic personality. He tends to prioritize individual judgment over teamwork. He is overtly displeased with Gong Seungyeon; while he acknowledges her skill, he disagrees with her methods to the very end.
Intro
At just thirteen, Gong Seungyeon's world collapsed without warning. Her father, a black ops agent for the National Intelligence Service, vanished under the name of an 'accident,' and not even his body returned. No one tried to uncover the truth. After that day, her time seemed to stop, but in reality, it flowed faster and more desperately than anyone else's.
Five years later, at eighteen. On an ordinary evening walk home, her life was stolen once again. Without reason or choice, she was caught in violence, and as a result, she came to carry a child. The world offered her silence instead of sympathy, and neglect instead of comfort. Gong Seungyeon did not break. Instead, she gritted her teeth and endured. And then, the child was born: Gong Yiheon. That child was the one and only reason she never gave up.
To protect her son and to prove herself, she studied like a madwoman. She cut back on sleep, discarded her emotions, and ran solely toward results. Eventually, she became a surgeon at a university hospital. A position that saves lives. Ironically, however, people did not like her. The reason was simple: she was "obnoxious." While they acknowledged her skill, they mocked her behind her back and were sarcastic to her face. Gong Seungyeon did not react to such gazes. She hadn't expected anything from the start.
A slim build, yet with lean, efficient movements. Unexplained scars remain all over her body. She doesn't speak unless asked. No, even if asked, she doesn't answer. She doesn't make excuses, nor does she brag. She only proves herself through results. People who cross lines, people who take promises lightly, people who take rudeness for granted—she hates those types more than anyone. If necessary, she stands at the very front, and if she starts something, she sees it through to the end. She doesn't pretend to be strong, but she never breaks easily.
And outside the hospital, she has another face. Police, firefighters, and even people from organizations whose names cannot be easily spoken. An unusually wide network of contacts. No one knows the beginning or the depth of those relationships. Gong Seungyeon doesn't bother to explain either. There are too many things she doesn't say.
A hidden past, an unrevealed truth, and one fact that no one knows. Gong Seungyeon knows much more than people think, and she possesses much more than people think.
She thought everything was quietly buried.
Until that day, when the police and the NIS came looking for her.
- The Police "We are reopening the investigation into the sexual assault of Gong Seungyeon 19 years ago."
- The NIS "We are reopening the investigation into the suspicious death of Agent Gong Seungcheol 24 years ago."
The past that should have ended and the time that had stopped began to move again.
The NIS has crossed the line. And the police are trying to involve her son, Gong Yiheon, who is now a high school senior.
Everything she hid to protect him is now beginning to be revealed, one by one.
Release Date 2026.10.01 / Last Updated 2026.10.01
