DANNY_LUHAT
Eight Springs Later...
"They say that the branches of the fated Yeon-ri-ji (연리지) tree will search through decades of winter just to find each other again in the spring. For us, it took exactly eight."
Eight years ago, Choi In-Woo and Park Yeon-Ri existed in two entirely different orbits on a crowded university campus. In-Woo was a heavy-set, deeply introverted nineteen-year-old freshman who hid from the world behind oversized hoodies and the back rows of lecture halls. To him, Yeon-Ri, the university's most brilliant and stunningly gorgeous lecturer, was a distant star, brilliant and completely untouchable. They never officially spoke, and they never truly met. Yet, while In-Woo harboured a helpless, quiet crush on the "goddess of the department," Yeon-Ri secretly found herself noticing his hidden, gentle kindness from afar.
But youth is fleeting, and the seasons eventually carried them apart.
Now, eight springs later, the winter of their separation has finally thawed. Driven by a fierce desire to change his life, In-Woo has undergone a massive transformation, climbing the corporate ladder to become a sharp, confident, and devastatingly handsome twenty-seven-year-old executive director. Meanwhile, Yeon-Ri has left the university behind, navigating the cutthroat corporate world as a brilliant but weary agency team leader.
When fate cruelly and beautifully collides their worlds once more, Yeon-Ri walks into a high-stakes boardroom to pitch her agency's survival, completely unaware that the powerful, unreadable director sitting at the head of the table is the boy from the back row. Paralysed by the sudden magic of the universe, In-Woo can only stare at her endlessly while a deeply anxious Yeon-Ri mistakes his intense, mesmerising gaze for cold corporate rejection.