Chapter 7: First Day, First Impression

In Cold Blood

It’s a Thursday, her 14th day of work, and Mina is already overwhelmed by the amount of workload and how hectic life as a doctor is. It must be the Thursday blues, if there is such a thing. All that occupied Mina’s life up till now was her never-ending slots of surgery inspection rounds and the reading of files of the patients there. At least, today is finally the day when she will no longer be led by Dahyun, and she can take advantage of the opportunity to read up Chou Yi’s files from the hospital’s database. Or more like, give Sana access to the system so she can dig up some ‘dirt’. Perks of being a high-ranked doctor in the hospital, Mina thought.

As usual, Mina is driving her Audi and looking for a space in the parking lot in the hospital in the morning. When she finally found a slot in the distance after what felt like several minutes, she heaved a sigh of relief. It is a blessing for the employees who work there to find a vacant slot in such a short time. After all, AceAid is a huuuuge hospital, with hundreds, if not thousands of medical staff and patients.

“Finally…” Mina muttered to herself. But luck must be playing with her, as a Lightning Blue Lamborghini zoomed passed her car and immediately went for the empty spot.

“F***, who the hell just did that!”

Mina was about to get out of her car and cuss at whoever who was that ‘stole’ her slot, when she saw a tall, tanned lady walked out of the car, as if the carpark just became her runway. The girl even had the cheeks to turn to Mina who was having an expression that is a mix of anger and judgement and gave her a small salute with a wink.

Well, that’s it; Mina felt her blood boiling, like you can literally cook a sunny side up on her, except that Mina isn’t feeling sunny at all!

After Mina’s long adventure of looking for another parking slot, she finally arrived at the ER department. As Mina walked in, she huffed making the hair on her forehead to fly slightly. “Good Morning, Sunshine!” Dahyun screamed jumping in front of Mina. Mina narrowed her eyes at the girl and shot back: “Call me sunshine again, I’ll burn your pretty @ss off!”

“Ohhh… Fiesty Pengu reporting for work??” Nayeon teased, and Mina just slump her shoulders even more.

“Hey, don’t be so upset, it’s only the start of the day!” Jeongyeon said, and Chaeyoung passed a sandwich to Mina. “Here have a Peanut Butter and Jam sandwich!”

Mina took it with an awkward smile and passed it to Nayeon at the side who is eyeing at the sandwich. “No thanks, I don’t fancy peanut butter.” Thanking Mina quickly, Nayeon immediately took a bite of the sandwich while the No-Jam bros just snickers creepily.

“Hey, I thought this was supposed to be a Peanut Butter and Jam sandwich? Why is there only peanut butter?” Nayeon said to the two with a frown.

“Well… That’s because,” Chaeyoung said while trying hard to hold in her laughter. “We’ve got No Jam!!” Jeongyeon continued while pointing a finger gun at Chaeng, which they later high fived at their ‘successful’ prank.

Nayeon rolled her eyes and immediately shouted back “Yah! Yoo Jeongyeon! Son Chaeyoung! Get back here you little sh!ts!”

Seeing Nayeon chasing after them, Chaeyoung quickly stopped in her tracks, causing Nayeon to bump into her, with a lopsided grin she said “You know you love me”. That caused Nayeon to blush while looking down on the ground, but happiness was short-lived as Chaeng quickly continued announcing “Hey tomato, you should look at your face! Guys, Nayeon-unnie is blushing!!” Nayeon immediately shot up with fire in her eyes. With that, everyone else is saying a little prayer for the little cub… (You guys should too, 1 like 1 prayer…)

Chuckling at the moment, Mina’s anger soothed a little.

“Oh yea, Mina, you will be taking some interns under you from today since you’re already a professional surgeon.” Dahyun stated, with a smile on her face.

“What?! Why haven’t I heard that before?” Mina replied, slightly nervous that she will have to teach new interns when she herself isn’t particularly skilled. Note that she’s a killer, not a healer. Sh!t, I screwed up big time, Mina thought to herself. The only decent skills she had were just simple (not) bullet removing and wound stitching, since The Trinity has to learn these ‘basic’ survival skills for their missions.

“Don’t worry, you wouldn’t be doing it alone. Most of the time, there will only be 1 intern following you.” Dahyun replied, giving Mina a reassuring smile.

Even with Dahyun’s reassuring reply, Mina couldn’t help but worry. What if, she screwed up and her identity got exposed? No, she thought, as she shook of that depressing thought. I will definitely pull this off. I’m Myoui Mina, what can I not do? She thought again, this time with a smile on her face.

 

“Hey dad, so who’s my supposed mentor?” Tzuyu asked nonchalantly while taking a rest on the couch in Chou Yi’s office, conveniently putting up both her legs onto the coffee table in front.

“Come one, get up and stop lazing around. I bet the other interns have already reached and are waiting at the main lobby.” Chou Yi replied while picking up his grey blazer, motioning Tzuyu to follow him.

When they have reached the lobby, they see 4 other interns that have gathered. Chou Yi greeted the rest quickly, welcoming them to join the team and hoping to see them around. Chou Yi thereafter asked one of the staff at the reception counter to bring them to the Emergency Department to find their mentors.

On their way there, Tzuyu learnt that they were all from different schools. Amongst them are Kim Yongsun, Jung Eunha, Cha Hakyeon and Im Siwan. They were also informed that they will be interning individually for the hospital believes in nurturing the best doctors for their patients, and this also better aids the interns in their learning process.

The interns were brought around the hospital on a tour, such that they could memorise the map of the hospital. However, most of them already memorised it, as the competition for a job at AceAid is tough. In order to get to intern under such a prestigious hospital, they did all that they can. Well, except you know who, ‘cause her father literally owns the building. Lastly, they stopped by the entrance of the doctors’ office, and the moment has come: to meet their mentors.

“Guys, the interns are here!” Nayeon shouted from her desk while packing up the files of the interns, before passing them to the respective mentoring doctors. Jeongyeon (general surgeon) got Siwan, Chaeyoung (general surgeon) got Hakyeon, Sowon (psychologist) got Eunha, Moonbyul (consultant doctor) got Yongsun, and Mina (cardiothoracic surgeon) got Tzuyu.

“Okay guys, read them up on your way and good luck!” Nayeon finishes off, sending the team of doctors and surgeons to pick up their interns.

“Great. Just great…” Mina muttered to herself before exiting the office.

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PastelAlleys #1
Chapter 25: uwu i love this! but i wonder what happened to jihyo since she's like a sister to mina already :( and i really love their bond
minasunset #2
Chapter 25: i love it
TwiceForever9 #3
Chapter 1: Hey, can I ask something? Your story is so great! Can I translate it? Thank you and have a good day ^^
krina_love
#4
Chapter 25: yaaay i love the ending fair and logical! *perfect* (*^▽^*)
krina_love
#5
Chapter 24: i hope she won't talk about mina
krina_love
#6
Chapter 23: no mina don't killl tzuyu
krina_love
#7
Chapter 21: i'm right hihihihi
krina_love
#8
Chapter 20: i knew it tzuyu will take the bullet...let's see if i'm right
krina_love
#9
Chapter 19: this is so intense yet sweet (mitzu interactions)