Boss, It's My First Time Being Your Resident - Chapter 20

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Episode 20. Sticky Rice Cake

There were only a handful of campuses like this scattered across the country.
Just another unremarkable university backdrop, nothing more.

Agang drew a short breath.
A momentary sense of déjà vu flickered across his mind, but he quickly shook it off.

Only then did he startle at himself, transfixed on the screen, and hurriedly opened the comments section.

[Is this a drama set? Is the visuals real?]
[I’m stationing myself in front of the Trauma Center from today on. I’ll break a leg if I have to.]
[Big brother, I can clean the hospital for free. Send me a DM.]
[Wow…… This guy’s face is narrative, and his eyes are pure plausibility. He’s definitely either a bastard son of a chaebol or a scion of a family with blood on their hands—no other way those eyes could look like that.]
[ㄴ You got instinct? At least 222—full dark hero energy.]

The comments section was teeming with all manner of thirsty remarks.
After scrolling through for a while, Agang finally couldn’t help himself and spit out the juice he’d been holding in his mouth in a spray.

See, they’re all fooled.

“Don’t you think Ha Taeheon secretly enjoys this popularity?”

Agang posed the question to Sodam with conviction.

“Come on, no way.”
“But it really was strange just now? He definitely knows he’s good-looking—probably better than anyone. Right now it’s all poker face. If you read through the comments one by one, he’s probably enjoying them on the inside.”
“Um, I don’t think Ha Taeheon is really that type of char……acter?”
“See, you don’t know him that well anyway. You said he insisted on doing the interview himself, didn’t you?”

As if he didn’t want to hear any more of it, Agang slapped his phone flat on the table.

“He’s not a junior—he’s a guest. Stay out of trouble and keep quiet until he leaves.”
“Senior…….”
“Whether he becomes a guest or an unwelcome visitor remains to be seen.”

Ha Taeheon’s retreating figure, cold warning hanging in the air, kept flickering through Agang’s mind.

Phew. Agang’s hands clenched into tight fists without his noticing.

“Sodam, if you were in this situation, I think you’d be angry. What would you do?”
“What do you mean?”
“Well, say you saved someone. You saved them from beasts in the mountains, you saved them from getting lost, you even saved them right before they froze to death.”
“Yeah yeah, you saved them a lot. So what?”
“But then that person doesn’t thank you—instead, they call 112 on you and you end up facing a police investigation. What would you do?”
“What?!”

In that moment, Sodam’s momentum—she’d been working through a massive rib bone with practiced ease—shifted entirely.

The sound of cartilage crunching between her teeth rang out savagely.

“I’d chase right after them, grab them by the hair, and release them back into the mountains! Beat them to death!”
“Really, that far?”
“That goes way beyond saving a drowned man who then asks for your wallet. This is different.”

Sodam wiped the broth from her mouth with a tissue and continued, her voice heated.

“Having a report filed against you leaves a record—how inconvenient would that be? That person would have every right to feel wronged. Even a bow wouldn’t be enough thanks, let alone a report. That ungrateful bastard!”
“……B, bastard?”
“People like that need to be taught a proper lesson so they never do it again! Because of people like them, nobody can help each other freely anymore. They’re the main culprits making the world so harsh!”

For a moment, Agang’s pupils shook violently. It felt like a direct hit to a tender spot.

“But why are you asking? Did someone report you?”
“Oh, no, that’s not it.”

Actually, it’s a variation of a past exam question, Sodam…….
I’m the one who reported him. Ha Taeheon is the one who was reported.

Agang bit down hard on his lip.

“If something like that ever happens to you, tell me! I’ll go pluck out every hair on their head!”

Sodam pushed her poodle-like bangs back and raised her voice, clearly fired up.

The way she gripped the rib bone and bristled reminded him of a loyal dog growling to protect its master.

Should I apologize……?

Agang’s conflict deepened as he stared at Sodam.

Barely eating, Agang hurriedly returned his tray and left the cafeteria with quick, determined strides, as if he’d made a decision.

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“Hey, you there! Can you help me find my way?”

An elderly woman stopped Agang as he crossed the first-floor Lobby.

“They said the New Building inpatient rooms are this way, but I’m completely lost. I keep thinking this place is that place and that place is this place, you know?”
“Oh, the New Building? This is the Old Building. If you go back down this hallway and turn right, you’ll see the elevator right away. The New Building entrance is across from there.”

Agang pointed out the directions with his finger and explained kindly, and the elderly woman who’d been listening adjusted her bundle and showed signs of hesitation.

“Back this way and then right? Aw, this old head won’t cooperate. I’ll forget as soon as I turn around.”
“Ah, I’ll go with you. I was heading that way anyway.”
“Goodness, you must be busy, but if you don’t mind going with me, I’m much obliged.”

Agang smiled as if it were nothing and naturally took the heavy bundle and cloth bag from the woman’s hands.

“Hospitals are big and confusing, aren’t they? I still get lost every day. Ha ha.”

Matching his pace to the elderly woman’s slow gait, Agang playfully teased to ease her embarrassment.

“Here’s the New Building. Inpatient rooms start from the eighth floor.”

Upon arriving at the entrance, Agang pushed open the glass door and held it so the woman could pass through comfortably.

“Goodness, thank you. You’re so kind and such a good person—I just can’t let you go like this. I made these rice cakes for my son, but here, have one! I steamed them this morning, so they’re nice and soft.”
“No, really, it’s okay, thank you!”
“Come on now, hurry, ah, here!”
“Ah, ma’am, I’m actually right now…… Mmph!”

There was no time to refuse.

The elderly woman pulled out a sticky rice cake the size of a baby’s fist from her bundle and nimbly popped it straight into Agang’s mouth.

“Well then, I’m off. See you again next time!”

With a large sticky rice cake suddenly filling his mouth, Agang’s cheeks puffed out like a squirrel’s.
The elderly woman watched his expression with satisfaction and then quickly disappeared from sight.

Agang didn’t even manage a proper goodbye before he began chewing the sticky rice cake.
The thick, glutinous mass caught in his throat and his breath suddenly caught.

“This is ridiculous.”

Ha Taeheon looked down at Agang—his face covered in white sticky rice flour, coughing and sputtering—with an expression of utter disdain.

“Ugh, ugh.”

Why was this sticky rice cake so large?

Though Agang tried hard to swallow quickly, the more he tried, the more stubbornly the cake stuck to his throat.

“Se, senior!”

Agang pounded his chest urgently and grabbed Ha Taeheon’s sleeve with desperate eyes pleading that he had something to say.

“I’m a busy person. Let go.”

Ha Taeheon peeled away Agang’s fingers one by one from where they gripped his sleeve, speaking coldly.

“Don’t you know that when a patient hears about someone eating rice cake in the hospital, they say the patient gains weight?”

Ha Taeheon’s brow furrowed sharply as he stood askew, clicking his tongue dismissively. His expression blended scorn with bewilderment.

“There’s a reason seniors tell you not to do these things.”
“Ugh, ugh ugh!”

In that instant, Agang’s face flushed as if he’d just heard the most vulgar thing in the world.
Ha Taeheon raised one eyebrow and looked down at him, utterly incredulous.

“Y, you mean…… the patient g, gains weight? In the h, hospital?”

Cough-cough.

The moment Agang’s shock-stricken face opened wide.

A fit of coughing erupted, and the sticky rice flour filling his mouth sprayed out into the air like white smoke.

“What? Go study Korean again.”

Whatever he was imagining.
Ha Taeheon, his eyes full of disgust, distanced himself from Agang and brushed the flour from his sleeve.

Agang finally managed to swallow the rice cake and, sensing Ha Taeheon’s mood, quietly turned away.
He needed to check on his phone whether what Ha Taeheon said was true.

Was there some meaning I didn’t know?

[Gain weight: to be sufficient in quantity.]

Ah…….

The moment the meaning appeared in bold letters on the green dictionary screen, embarrassment crept all the way up to his nape, and Ha Taeheon turned and delivered a cutting blow.

“Instead of thinking weird thoughts, how about you look at your major textbooks? With that level of reading comprehension, you’ll gain enough weight to fail the Board certification exam.”

What?
He was the one who said it in a weird way first!

Agang wiped away the remaining white flour from his mouth with his sleeve and spoke up.

“Senior! I reported you to the police on that mountain because I genuinely thought you were someone who’d just been released from pris—from being a gangster!”

But all that came back was cold silence.

“I reported you because I really thought you’d just gotten out of prison…… as a th, thug!”

Why was his pace so fast?

Agang, seemingly paying no attention, widened his stride as he hurried after Ha Taeheon, who was crossing the hall with long steps, and continued speaking.

“I saw on the news that people who just get released have short hair like yours, and well, since that’s the case……”

His silent, retreating back seemed particularly cold today.

“Senior, are you avoiding me? Or is it because I’m from a different school that you don’t want to treat me as a junior?”
“….”

As he continued to maintain silence, Agang threw down his final card.

“Ha Taeheon! I want to learn properly! Please teach me!”

Then Ha Taeheon stopped dead in his tracks. His gaze turned toward the Trauma Center entrance.

For a moment, a strange tension descended over the entire hospital.

“Real gangsters just showed up.”

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