Prosecutor Kang Heesin, who clawed his way to the side of a chaebol family’s youngest daughter in order to cut himself free from his sewer-like past.
One day, he visits a host bar to question a witness —
— and slams the back of some arrogant man’s head mercilessly against a table, unleashing a torrent of verbal abuse.
“You think I’m a joke because I’m playing nice with some piece of trash who sells his body in a room salon?”
But on the very day he believed his perfect rise in status was finally within reach,
Heesin goes to greet his future in-laws — and comes face to face with that shameless man again, his mind going blank.
“What was it you said back then? That you’d strip me down to my underwear and shake me out?”
“I apologized! I told you it was a misunderstanding!”
The man whose face he’d ground into a table — is Im Gyeong, his fiancée’s half-brother.
Heesin struggles desperately to smooth over that fatally damaging misunderstanding and keep his distance,
but Im Gyeong keeps showing up, shoving his shameless face into his life and offering help he never once asked for.
“Well? Do you like the gift?”
“I’m still thinking. About what exactly your gift is supposed to mean.”
Heesin tries to sharpen himself against Im Gyeong’s sticky, unreadable gaze —
but all that comes back is a dizzying provocation:
“Stop staring. Even if you’re a man, looking at me like that is going to get a rise out of me.”
The perfect plan toward success begins to crumble helplessly at the hands of this unwanted intruder.
