Boss, It's My First Time Being Your Resident - Chapter 26

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Episode 26. Expert? Or Quack?

“Adoption?”

Agang’s sudden confession made Sodam’s eyes widen.
Sodam wiped the spicy sauce from her lips with a tissue and asked again.

“You were adopted?”
“Yeah. My parents had given up hope, so I was born like a gift,” he said.

Agang smiled, trying hard to sound indifferent.

“So you’re a precious late-born child, then? That explains it, you pure thing.”

As if everything suddenly made sense, Sodam nodded repeatedly, understanding why he’d always been so pristinely uncomplicated.

“Come on, drink! Drink!”

Sodam had been bothered by the tears glistening in Agang’s eyes, so she picked up the beer glass he’d been fidgeting with and forced it into his hand.

“Crying over something like that.”
“Sodam, I thought there wasn’t a single person in the world who hated me. But I guess it’s the opposite.”

There are barely any people who actually like me.
Like Ha Taeheon…

Agang murmured quietly, staring at the whipped cream dissolving bit by bit in his glass.

“What do you mean? Who could possibly hate our sweet Agang?”

Agang took a troubled sip of his beer.

As the alcohol entered his body for the first time and spread rapidly through his veins, both his cheeks bloomed a soft pink.

“He… seems to hate me. Gets angry, treats me coldly. It wasn’t like that at first, but somewhere along the way, everything changed.”

The vivid image of Ha Taeheon’s cold hand snatching the syringe away when he’d tried to grab a central line for a patient came flooding back.

That wasn’t all.

He’d warned him not to advertise his shoddy skills, told him not to even smell like tangerines while practicing Sucho.
He’d said since he was just a guest, not even a junior, he should go sit quietly in the corner of the station.

And yet he’d blocked him from standing in front of the broadcast cameras,
but then deliberately assigned him the Sucho for the most ferocious-looking gangster patient when they came pouring in.

He’d even flatly refused when asked to be there while he apologized to the patient…

From the moment Agang arrived at the Trauma Center, Ha Taeheon had never once treated him like a junior.

What could he have done wrong?
No matter how much he thought about it, he couldn’t find an answer.

A deep sigh escaped through his teeth without him meaning to.

“So is he a woman or a man? This person who changed?”

Hmm…
Was Ha Taeheon a woman?

After thinking seriously for a moment, Agang spoke up.

“He’s not a woman. He’s a man… definitely a man.”
“What’s with that wishy-washy answer? You’ve got a prospective romantic partner!”
“No, it’s not like that!”
“Listen, that’s the typical move prospective partners make. They change their whole personality in an instant.”

Sodam sucked on the chicken feet, spat out the bone, and shifted her seat while lowering her voice.

“Did you give him any hope?”
“Hope? What kind of hope?”
“You know, did you make him expect something?”
“Expect what?”
“Argh! This is so frustrating!”

Sodam clicked her tongue and tapped the front dish with her chopsticks.

“Did you pass up a chance to sleep with him?”
“…What?”

Agang’s eyes were still confused.
Impatient, Sodam chugged her beer and set down the empty glass with a clink.

“That guy’s being difficult because you wouldn’t sleep with him!”

Sodam’s voice rang out like an echo through the bar as if she couldn’t hold back any longer.

The raucous noise of the bar seemed to mute like magic.

It was a completely unexpected answer.

“……”

Flustered, Agang grabbed the beer in front of him to hide his flushed face.
The cold liquid slid down his throat into his stomach, but he had no idea why his entire body was growing warmer and warmer.

“Why are you so shocked? I’m right, aren’t I? You had a good chance and didn’t take it, right?”

…A good chance?

Images of his intense first meeting with Ha Taeheon flashed across Agang’s mind like a panorama.

That night in the mountains when he was on the verge of freezing to death.
It was true that Ha Taeheon had held him through the night, sharing his body heat while he trembled.
But that was clearly a rescue operation.

Absolutely not.

…Is that why he’s angry?

“Just be honest with me. Your sister will listen to anything!”
“It’s not like that… we did spend a night together, but it was just a night.”
“You spent a night together but it was just a night? So you mean you just held hands all night?”
“Well, it wasn’t just holding hands. He… held me too.”

As Agang stammered out his confession, slightly tipsy, Sodam’s expression shifted to utter exasperation.

“But seriously, it was really just to rescue me! It was so cold that night. That’s why he held me to keep me from dying. It wasn’t anything romantic, absolutely not!”
“A rescue? What are you talking about? You really don’t understand men at all, do you?”

Sodam crunched on puffed rice and looked at Agang with a pitying gaze.

“Listen carefully! In that kind of situation, a man always expects something. In his head, he’s already gone all the way with you, you know? But you’ve been acting clueless like you are now. Right?”
“…I guess.”

Agang looked down at his glass with his face deeply flushed. The beer, now half-gone, rippled as if reflecting his confusion.

Why did his vision keep getting blurry?

Over the golden liquid in his glass, Ha Taeheon’s cold gaze, his chiseled nose, and those irritatingly beautiful lips that only spoke harsh words came into sharp focus.

“Men get absolutely furious when they have expectations and can’t fulfill them. That guy’s slowly getting angry seeing you every time you meet.”

Angry?
Every time Ha Taeheon sees me?

Agang swallowed his beer.

“The more he sees you, the more anger boils up inside him.”
“……”
“Do you see him often?”

Sodam… that man is Ha Taeheon, the attending physician at the Trauma Center…
The words that couldn’t escape his lips dissolved on his tongue.

“Wait, is he someone from our hospital?”
“No, no! Am I insane? Why would I be meeting someone from our hospital?”

Agang panicked and waved his hands in denial. The intensity of his refusal made his already flushed face from the alcohol burn even brighter.

“When a man shows interest in a woman and harasses her, there are exactly two reasons. One is when he wants to sleep with her but couldn’t, and the other is when he wants to sleep with her but it looks like he never will. In short, it’s frustration.”
“Ah… yes, frustration…”

A long wave of realization washed over him.

“You’ve never even dated before?”
“…Yes.”
“Wow!!! You’re a complete virgin?”
“Y-yes, yeah…”
“My god! I’ve lost my mind, I really have. What kind of strange life have you been living? What world are you from? Did you come from another dimension?”
“……”
“Look, at my age I wouldn’t even talk to someone who’s never kissed before, but since you’re friends with that handsome Usub, I’ll make an exception and teach you a thing or two!”
“Th-thank you.”
“Your expert older sister will save you! Just trust me!”

Sodam downed the rest of her beer with a solemn expression and made a satisfied sound.

“So are you thinking of dating that guy or not?”

Agang, hazy from the alcohol, stared blankly for a long moment before his lips finally moved.

“…What? Date? Me and that… jerk?”

Agang’s tongue was already starting to slur.

“Absolutely not! Never!!”
“Then there’s only one way forward!”
“Wh-what way?”

Agang took another sip of beer, his eyes glistening from the alcohol, and stared intently at Sodam’s lips.

“A safe breakup! Distance yourself from his attention! Then you’ll be free. A relationship of absolute ‘nothing’ — no harassment, no obsession!”

A relationship of absolute nothing?
It was a confusing answer.

“First, go tell him you need to borrow money. That you’re on the verge of bankruptcy. Then he’ll run away on his own. He’ll vanish like smoke right in front of you.”
“Bank… bankrupt? That’s great!”

Agang mumbled incoherently and swayed, then his head suddenly drooped and he collapsed face-first onto the table.

“Hey! What? You’re going out already? How can you pass out on half a beer? Hey!!! Agang!!”

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[Hello, Ha Taeheon. This is Sodam, Agang’s peer and a first-year PS resident.]

After asking around for Taeheon’s number, Sodam sent an urgent text.

[Agang has to come in 4 hours from now… he’s going to get in trouble with the professor, so I’m texting you.]

Even as the text remained unanswered, Sodam kept typing.

[We’re at Bultteok and Buldakbal, the restaurant alley across from the hospital. Agang collapsed.]

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