Playing Blind While I Bled for Him의 모든 챕터: 챕터 1 - 챕터 10

For the past three years, I told William that it was my fault for not placing the cup on the desk properly whenever he broke one.I kept vigil by his bedside till dawn broke whenever he woke up in the middle of the night from pain, blocking the sun from stinging his eyes the next day.It turned out that, from William's perspective, I was treating him like an invalid.Nancy rose to her feet, dabbing the corner of her eyes."If you have to blame anyone, you can blame me for letting it slip, Julia," she said. "I can leave. I don't want the two of you to fight because of me."She turned to leave, but her knees suddenly buckled.William caught her before she could fall.I slowly averted my gaze as I looked at his hands, asking, "How long have you been lying to me, William?"He looked at me, his hands still holding Nancy.It was only when she set down the cup that William spoke. "Six months ago."Six months ago, William had told me that his eyes were in their worst condition yet. S

Nancy began coughing up blood in the middle of the night.All of the lights in the courtyard were lit up.The elders of the Yore family, Edward, and Olivia surrounded Nancy as she lay on the bed.I saw "Balms for Blindness" open on the table when they summoned me to her room. One of the pages had been circled with red ink.Edward wiped his forehead and said, "The medicine that Ms. Jennings took didn't match the prescription. She wouldn't have vomited blood if the dosage hadn't been changed."William's mother, Isabella Wright, looked at me and said, "The book belongs to you, Julia. Please explain yourself."I walked over to the table and placed my finger next to the circle of red ink, saying, "Three and a half scoops were changed to seven scoops."I looked up before continuing, "Interrogate Nancy's personal maid."Nancy pressed a hand to her mouth as she lay on the bed. "I know that you dislike me, Julia, but Holly would never do such a thing."She gripped the edge of the bed a

I was on a cargo ship that was heading south when I regained consciousness.The boatwoman informed me that I had been unconscious for two days."You're quite lucky that you managed to grab onto a withered tree under the cliff, miss. You would have been swept away by the river a long time ago if you didn't."I raised my hand and brushed my fingers against my hair.The emerald hairpin had snapped, and I had left my bloody shirt under the cliff.Julia Camerson had died that night.I changed my name to Carmen Juleson.A snowstorm had blocked off the mountain path when the boat reached the south border. The dilapidated church on the outskirts of the city was packed with blind children and injured soldiers.I set up a medical tent at the church and treated their eyes.Someone asked me where I came from."The north," I said."Do you have any family left?""No," I answered as I prepared the medicine.…Meanwhile, in the north, nobody in Yore Manor dared to raise their voice when

One rainy day, I heard a set of footsteps stop outside the door when I was testing a child's sensitivity toward light and securing a veil around his eyes.I looked up and saw William standing in the rain.His clothes hung loosely on his frame. Rain dripped from the tips of his hair and soaked into his collar.William stood outside the door and didn't come in. He didn't call out to me either. He simply stood rooted to the spot and watched me wrap the veil around the child's eyes."Who's that, Dr. Juleson?" the child asked.I washed my hands and answered, "A patient."William's mouth fell open, but he swallowed the words that were on the tip of his tongue.I approached the entrance of the clinic."Are you here for a diagnosis, Mr. Yore? Or are you here to catch your wife who ran away from you?" I asked.William tightened his grip around a torn page. "Julia…""There's no Julia here," I said while looking at him. "There's only Carmen Juleson.""I understand," he mumbled in a low

A snowstorm swept through the border that winter, blocking the mountain paths.Many villages in the mountains were trapped. My eye medicines couldn't be delivered to them.William stood outside the door as my apprentices and I packed the medicines. Snow piled up on his shoulders, but he didn't bother to brush it off."I'll deliver the medicines," he said.My hands paused over the bags of medicine."The mountain path is treacherous," I said."I know my way around snowy paths," he said. "You led me through them many times in the past."I fell silent for a moment before offering a cane to him, saying, "You'll have to traverse the path by yourself if you can see.""I will," he said, taking the cane from me.…My face was battered by snow as we hiked up the mountain.I led the way and didn't help William.Several stretches of the path were buried under piling snow.William had already slipped on the path twice. He braced his hands against the ground and pushed himself back up t