Boss, It's My First Time Being Your Resident - Chapter 5

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Episode 5. How Not to Fear the Tiger

“…….”

In that instant, as though her true feelings had been discovered, a rush of heat flooded up the back of A Gang’s neck.

How many women could stand before a man sculpted with divine craftsmanship and not find him to their taste?

“Do I look like a man to you?”
“Oh, no! Not at all! You’re really not my type!”
“Tit for Tat, then. So stop looking at me with that strange expression. Lie down.”
“Yes…….”
“We’ll follow the manual.”

A Gang curled her body into a ball and lay on her side. She squeezed her eyes shut to avoid his gaze.

Tit for Tat?
Why did those words—suggesting they were just the same—lodge so stubbornly in her chest for no reason?

Despite her grip on the blanket’s edge being so tight, the man swept it away in one motion.

In an instant, his large frame pressed against her back.

He brought his body flush against hers with calm certainty. As though it meant nothing to him. With perfect composure.

All her nerves converged on the back of her body, as if every cell had rushed there.

The cold wind, and the scorching warmth of his chest at 36.5 degrees that held it back.

It was warm. And soft.

Solid as a stone wall at her back, firm and reassuring.

The bitter wind cut through the threadbare blanket, yet in that very danger she felt a strange languor stealing over her.

Like the peculiar comfort of watching the rain from inside a warm room with coffee in hand during a downpour.

Perhaps he pitied her trembling, cold hands and feet—he wrapped his arm around her shoulders and drew her even closer.

As if to say, don’t misunderstand.
As if to say, this is all only to prevent heat loss.

His words seemed truthful, for her body grew strangely warm.

Heat crawled all the way down her spine—yet why did her body continue to tremble?

“Still cold? Why are you shaking like this?”
“Oh, no.”

The sensation of bare skin against bare skin was so unfamiliar she had to swallow hard.

Her heart hammered as though it had lost all function.

It was her first time.

The first time seeing another person’s naked body—not a Cadaver for anatomical study, but someone real.

And certainly the first time feeling this close contact with another’s flesh.

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Tae Heon’s arm, uncertain where to rest, hung in the air for a long moment before finally drawing the woman’s neck deeper into his embrace.

Her back was small and delicate.

He was somewhat surprised by how soft her skin felt against his bare chest, but still—this was only an emergency measure against freezing to death in a critical situation.

That is to say, a rescue action. Warming the body with body heat. Survival.

Skin to Skin.
A universal survival technique documented in emergency medicine textbooks.

He’d never conducted such a difficult rescue in his life.
But with no emergency supplies available in this situation, body heat was the best tool he had.

“You know you can’t fall asleep now, right?”
“Yes…….”
“Keep talking to me.”

Perhaps because their hearts lay against each other at the same point.

Her heartbeat reached his skin quite loudly. But why did that rhythm seem to grow louder with each passing moment?

“You seem used to this.”

The woman’s words came suddenly.

“Undressing like this.”
“What else would I be used to?”
“I’m the same! We’re just sharing body heat for a moment, right? Like how people share housing now, and cars, and office space. We’re temporarily lending each other our bodies.”

“Nothing significant?”
“Yes! We’re in a crisis situation right now. We could freeze to death.”
“So.”
“So that’s why my heart is racing. Don’t get the wrong idea!”

It was clear she was deeply confused about something.

That is, unless he were a eunuch.

Afraid of revealing her panic, A Gang offered up a clumsy excuse.

She continued to speak words that made no sense, contradicting herself.

“We agreed to share body heat, not the meaning of my Tattoo.”
“I feel like I’ve seen it somewhere before. If you’re going to ink something on your body, it must mean something deep, and I got curious…….”

“When you spend a long time in a narrow, sealed space, that’s what happens.”

“About six, seven years? Barely any sunlight.”
“Seven years…… Was there some reason……?”

What kind of hands were these? What work did they do?

“When nails are long, sensation dulls. Trimming them short is a habit—occupational hazard.”

“Saws? Hammers……?”

“Ha ha! Right! That makes perfect sense!”

“To wash away some sins.”
“Sins?”
“Shouldn’t I try to live a new life now?”

Our temple welcomes everyone—street thugs wielding blades, judges holding law books, all kinds.”

At that very moment, A Gang recalled the monk’s words.

She couldn’t understand why her heart rate spiked into an impossible crescendo.

Was it the cold? Or was it the unfamiliar man holding her in his arms?

Or was it the suspicion that this man had just been released from seven years in a prison cell as a member of the criminal underworld?

But one thing was certain:
She had to make it through the night in the arms of this rough, dangerous man.

Safe and sound.

Y-you’re in the underworld?

A poker face.
She needed a poker face.

Stay composed, Ju A Gang.
You have to be steady.

The only way to survive in a tiger’s den is not to fear the tiger.

Tonight, she resolved to become a fearless pup before a great beast.

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“Did you work for an organization?”
“An organization? What organization are you talking about?”
“The kind that exists in the underworld……!”

A Gang swallowed hard, and Tae Heon let out a hollow laugh.

“Oh! I’m not trying to be prejudiced! You’ve already paid your debt to society! I have a fairly open mind! Ha ha!”
“…….”

Open mind? Pfft.

Tae Heon’s expression was somewhere between amusement and exasperation.

She truly was a strange woman.

A narrow space, surgical instruments, a series of emergency procedures…….

Wouldn’t any sensible person think of a surgeon in an operating room?

Yet she’d jumped to the conclusion of a gangster.

Her unexpected reaction was refreshing, and Tae Heon felt the urge to keep playing along.

There was something oddly captivating about watching her fail to hide her alarm while pretending to be composed.

“So now you think I’m a freshly released thug?”

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