Kim Mi Gyeong had her life turned upside down when she found out her fiance was engaged to another woman and she was fired from her job at Wonhan Retail. Nursing a broken heart, she escapes to the countryside and becomes a researcher at a potato lab. For the past several years, she has put her all into the lab and their mission to grown quality potatoes.  But when their small lab is taken over by her former employer, Mi Gyeong finds the past sneaking into her peaceful life. And when a new director, So Baek Ho, shows up with the mission of cutting costs, Mi Gyeong finds her job and her pride on the line.

But when Baek Ho rents out a room at the guest house she lives in, it is impossible to avoid him.  And she soon discovers that the stiff, serious director she sees in the office is not the only side of Baek Ho. As they work together to improve the company, their relationship quickly begins to blur between professional and personal. But any future they have may be jeopardized when Mi Gyeong finds out that Baek Ho may have played a part in her heartbreak 6 years ago.

Kim Mi Gyeong is hard-working and energetic.  Her role at the lab involves jumping in wherever there is a need, and working hard to find solutions. Although at first she appears to be an employee who is easily replaceable, since she has no unique skills, it is her fiery spirit that has held their team together over the years. Lee Sun Bin has a natural comedic timing and handles this kind of slapstick humor well.  I enjoyed her in this role.

So Baek Ho started as a scholarship recipient with the Yoon family before working his way up to his present role as Wonhan Retail’s innovation director. For years he has handled the company’s difficult tasks and lay-offs. So he is not happy to learn that he is being sent into the countryside, by Gi Se, who sees him as competition, to reorganize a small potato lab.

Baek Ho takes a room at the local guest house before he finds out the owner is the brother of the first person he intends to fire. Neither he nor Mi Gyeong is happy with the situation, but they agree to try to keep their professional life separate from what happens at home. And they soon find themselves working together as they make a plan to save the lab and ensure its profitablility. But just as the couple start to fall in love, Baek Ho finds out that he unknowingly caused the events 6 years ago that had brought her so much pain.  And he isn’t sure he can forgive himself.

Baek Ho has had to work his way up from the bottom and he has adopted a cold, distant professionalism that has allowed him to make difficult decisions without letting his emotions interfere.  But in his personal life, Baek Ho is not the unfeeling monster he pretends.  And when he finds he hurt Mi Gyeong, he begins to reevaluate how his disregard may hurt innocent people.  This is Kim Tae Oh’s first role back since his military service, and I was thrilled to have him back on my screen.  He is swoon-worthy in this role and I think he played it perfectly.