Boss, It's My First Time Being Your Resident - Chapter 1

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Episode 54. Day 1

“What does that mean?”

A brief silence fell between them.

“I’m going! I need to get to the Shelter soon…….”

A Gang, whose lips trembled helplessly, finally let loose the tears she’d been holding back with such effort.

She spun around as if to flee, but hadn’t made it more than a few steps before her shoulder was caught.

Tae Heon turned her back to face him.

“Because of me?”

Determined to get an answer, Tae Heon tilted his head down to meet A Gang’s eyes.

“Senior, you shouldn’t be doing this to me, should you?”

Words she’d been too afraid to ask, terrified of being hurt.
But today—today she had to ask him.

The higher the floor you climb to, the harder the impact when you fall.
Drop from the first floor and you hurt just that much. Drop from the tenth, and the damage runs ten floors deep.

How many floors had her heart climbed toward Tae Heon?

Before she rose any higher, she needed to stop—swallow the bitter medicine, as they say.

“Senior, is announcer Cha Yu Joo…… your girlfriend?”
“Why would you want to know that?”
“I want to.”

Because I need to decide whether to stop now or keep going.

“My answer is—”

Tae Heon pulled A Gang’s waist firmly against him.

That moment.

“Mm—!”

In that instant of unguarded surprise, his warm breath overlaid her lips.

A Gang’s arms, stiffening in shock, were held firmly by him as he pulled her even closer into his embrace.
Heat surged without hesitation through the gap of her parted lips.

When she trembled slightly, his lips lifted away for a moment, barely touching.
At that precarious distance, hovering between contact and separation, his low voice descended against her lips.

“Can you breathe now?”

A Gang slowly opened the eyes she’d squeezed shut.

There, inches away, he gazed down at her with deep eyes still warm from the kiss.

The distance was impossibly close.

……

Understanding that silence was consent, Tae Heon’s head tilted at an angle.

Without pausing for breath, he deepened the angle and drew her lips in without restraint.

Between lips locked seamlessly together, a soft texture brushed against her without warning.

Startled, her hands gripped his back so fiercely her knuckles went white. Her heart felt like it would burst.

Tae Heon paid no mind, tilting deeper, exploring territory entirely new to her.

A sensation she’d never felt before in her life.
It was soft.
Sweet and fragrant.
And utterly foreign.

Each time her legs weakened and she began to tip backward, he steadied her waist with his strong arms.

The fragrant scent of soap seeped into her senses.
That same scent she’d first caught in the forest, that first day.

All the misunderstandings and hurt, the guesses and prejudices that had scrambled her mind until now—they melted like lies alongside his warmth, leaving not a trace.

As if they’d never existed at all.

“I felt it first.”

Drawing his lips away slowly, Tae Heon brushed his thumb gently across her lower lip as he spoke.

“……What?”
“The breathlessness. I felt it first, before you did.”
……

Tae Heon gently swept back the disheveled hair from A Gang’s dazed face.

“Does that answer your question?”

A Gang, unfamiliar with the lingering soreness of her own lips, gingerly bit them before tentatively touching them with her fingertips as she asked.

“Since when?”
“That’s a secret.”

The afternoon light on the Riverbank remained the same as moments before.
Yet it seemed to shimmer as if a filter had been laid over everything.

Color bled into what had been a grayscale world, transforming it into something entirely different.

***

Evening had fallen, and a soft blue dusk was settling over everything.

“Senior, thank you so much for today! I’ll get out here and walk from the Neighborhood Alley entrance.”

Tae Heon pulled up to the mouth of the Neighborhood Alley and retrieved the Dog Carrier from the back seat, setting it down on the ground.

Inside the large carrier, the dog A Gang had adopted wagged its tail eagerly, shaking its stocky frame in a way that belied its size.

“You’re going to carry that huge dog alone?”
“Yes! I’m strong!”
“I’m walking you to your front door. Don’t be stubborn.”
“It’s the house right back there.”

A Gang gestured hurriedly into the alley, offering a hasty excuse.

“You got your parents’ permission, right?”
“Oh…… Yes! Of course.”
“If—just in case—you need temporary shelter, tell me. Call me. I’ll help.”
“Thank you.”
“Get some rest. I’ll see you in the morning. Well, early morning, actually.”

Six in the morning.
A few hours from now, they’d see each other again at the Hospital—so why did the words keep flowing, drawn out by an inexplicable reluctance?

They were exchanging quiet laughs when—

“Senior!”

At her hesitant voice, Tae Heon, who’d already half-grasped the door handle, turned back to look at her.

“What is it?”

Are we officially together starting today?

Whether they were just flirting, actually dating, or simply passing flames that would cool—

This undefined relationship, wearing no clear label, made her heart feel like it was burning away piece by piece.

Between her and Tae Heon, there still existed a blank space—nothing written there.

Why did he always hold back from defining things?
She hated this kind of ambiguity in their connection.

After staring at Tae Heon’s eyes for a long moment, her lips barely moving, A Gang finally exhaled a long breath.

The heat lingering on her lips was so vivid. Her mouth still tingled this much.

What had that kiss meant?
With her mind now blank as white paper, she couldn’t think of anything at all.

“What’s wrong?”
“Oh, no. I’ll see you tomorrow! You should go first, senior!”
“No, you go first.”
“No! I actually like watching backs.”
“What? Who in this world likes watching someone’s back?”
“Me.”

Because I want you to know that whenever you turn around, I’ll be here in this spot, waiting.

Watching A Gang’s face as she gazed at him with sincere eyes, Tae Heon finally understood and nodded, then climbed into the car.

“All right. Get inside safely.”

Just as Tae Heon was closing the door, he seemed to remember something and straightened up again.

“Right. You have my number, don’t you?”
“Oh, it’s in the staff contact file. It should come up if you search. Now where did I put that Excel file…….”

As A Gang frantically dug through her Mobile Phone, Tae Heon’s brow furrowed.

“What? Excel? You haven’t saved it yet? Save it right now. This instant.”
“Our 1st Year Residents Group Chat can tell me right away…….”
“A Gang.”

Tae Heon pressed his temples as if exasperated.

“You’re about to ask the group chat for my number? Seriously, you.”

He stepped closer to A Gang and snatched her Mobile Phone, entering his number without hesitation.

When the phone was placed back in her hands, A Gang’s eyes froze on four characters on the screen.
The saved name was short and straightforward.

[Tae Heon Oppa 010-3859-****]

“……S-Senior?”
“Get inside. See you tomorrow.”
“Oh, no wait. That’s not…… What’s with the ‘oppa’?”
“I’m not your younger brother, am I?”
“That’s true, but…….”

Tae Heon gave a short laugh and climbed into the car.

Watching his car disappear into the distance, A Gang clutched her Mobile Phone to her chest. His warmth still seemed to linger on the screen.

Not even the cold evening air could cool the heat burning in her cheeks.

Whew.
A Gang let out a long breath and slowly closed her eyes, then opened them again.

It had been a long day.

The moment Tae Heon’s car disappeared beyond the main street, a large sedan that had been waiting quietly in the shadows of the Neighborhood Alley pulled silently up in front of her and stopped.

Moon Joo, who stepped out immediately, lifted the carrier without a word and loaded it into the back seat.

“Manager, thank you for coming to pick me up.”
“Let’s go. The boss is waiting.”

***

The Family Home, visited after so long, remained as neat and quiet as always.

In one corner of the garage, the Incense Wood Bonsai that Grandfather cherished and various sculptures stood in their places without a trace of disorder.

“A Gang! Are you really my daughter?”

Mother, who had come all the way down to the underground garage to greet her, seized A Gang’s wrist the moment the door to the Mansion opened.

“Mom…….”
“How could you not even call? I don’t care if you hate me visiting your workplace, but I’m hurt! Your mother is the only family you have in this world!”

Tears streamed down Mother’s face as she poured out her grievances the moment she saw A Gang.

A Gang bit her lip gently.

Though her mother’s appearance was refined and dignified beyond compare, A Gang knew the truth.

She knew her mother was tender and kind, a girl at heart—and that her daughter was all she had.

“When I think about my girl sleeping in that tiny On-Call Room, taking a Shrimp Sleep, my chest feels so tight I can’t sleep at dawn!”

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