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"Stick to the manual. No variables."
To Seo Jun-hyuk, the youngest Executive Vice President of a top-tier conglomerate, life was nothing more than a perfectly controlled Excel sheet. Living under his father's suffocating shadow, he had erased his own colors until all that remained was a dry, desolate 'gray.'
On a suffocating Monday night, Jun-hyuk breaks his own rules for the first time and turns the steering wheel toward an unknown destination: an old, weathered bar at the end of a narrow alley called 'Whiskey Over the Rocks.'
There, instead of the premium whiskey he usually demands, a bartender named Kang Min-woo offers him something entirely different: a plate of 'failed cookies' and a glass of golden spirits as sweet as honey.
"I messed up the temperature and these cookies turned out pretty ugly. But give them a try. They're surprisingly sweet for a failure."
In a world that demands perfection, Min-woo is the only variable that tells him it's okay to be a mess-and that even a 'ruined' life can be unexpectedly sweet.