Rose Cafe Romance

Cha Kwon-woo, the third-generation heir to a powerful conglomerate, heads to the countryside to purchase Milky Way Café, a tiny tearoom stubbornly occupying the center of a planned luxury resort site. But then the unexpected happens. For years, he’d suffered from chronic insomnia, surviving on sleeping pills. Yet the moment he catches the faint scent of the cheap laundry soap used by Jang-mi, the café owner’s daughter, he falls fast asleep. “Is it because of this woman?” Kwon-woo needs to buy the land, but he also needs to sleep. So he moves into the abandoned house next door to the café. By day, he and Jang-mi bicker over the café’s air-conditioning electricity bill. By night, the tension between them quietly builds as he steals glances at her doing yoga in leggings over the garden wall. Then, one night, a power outage leaves them drenched in sweat and drawn irresistibly to each other’s warmth. They cross a line neither of them can take back. The bliss they experience proves impossible to resist, becoming an addictive temptation, and every hidden corner of the café gradually turns into a secret meeting place for the two of them. From Kwon-woo’s dramatic dash across the sports festival with Jang-mi swept up in his arms, to a heated incident behind the storage shed, and even threats from a gangster broker, one thing becomes clear: This tough, fearless country café girl has completely stolen the heart of an arrogant city heir in a sizzling, skin-close romance that neither of them can escape.