
You're an overworked, underpaid, unappreciated intern at Aespa Group, one of Seoul's top women's fashion companies. On the busiest time of the year, you learn from your fellow intern Ningning that the Chairman's daughter, Winter, is returning from her overseas studies, and she's ready to making your life exponentially harder than it already is.

After getting fired and dumped in the same week, John Park thinks his life is over until he’s offered a mysterious job managing TWICE. The salary is terrible, but they have a secret, consensual agreement to keep their manager loyal and happy: each one becomes his private girlfriend for a full day on rotation. Now, living in their dorm and bound by a strict NDA, John must navigate the chaos of K-pop fame while managing the hearts—and beds—of the nine women he’s forbidden to publicly love.

A former K-pop manager becomes entangled in an arrangement with twelve women he helped free from predatory contracts — but what starts as desire slowly becomes something none of them expected. As careers rise, futures collide, and hearts break open, he learns that building an empire means nothing if you lose the people you built it for.

An overworked intern navigates the brutal hierarchy of a high-fashion company while trying to survive his icy new boss, Winter. When a crucial photoshoot goes wrong at the last minute, he must scramble to find a solution before her patience runs out.

At the New Year's Eve gala, the intern attends as a "human shield" for Karina, only to be pulled into a high-stakes heist to recover blackmail material. Trapped in a hotel suite, he and Ningning must execute their plan while witnessing a private moment that changes everything.

After three months saving for a VIP Aespa ticket, a last-minute local crew gig placed me far closer to her than expected. Two days of watching Karina’s glistening body practice under hot stage lights was exquisite torture. When the staff left for the night, a simple massage between two exhausted bodies in the empty stadium spiraled into raw, uninhibited pleasure—the best perk never written in any contract.

She picked up a cigarette she didn't know how to smoke because it was the closest she could get to understanding someone who left. He sat down next to her and didn't say a word. Some people enter your life through a door. He entered through a silence.

A dangerous elevator encounter with a coworker leaves the intern vulnerable to blackmail, just as a kind new executive arrives and stirs up office politics. Jealousy flares when Winter notices his growing bond with her rival cousin, leading to a punishment that blurs professional lines.

It's July 2023. IVE hasn't been in the best place recently. Their last release, I've IVE, was a success. It made waves. It made the charts. But it didn't stick for very long. Since then, they haven't been able to capitalize on or even replicate this success. Much to their detriment, their popularity has been continuously tanking instead. So the IVE girls go on a break. Peaceful. Relaxing. Supposedly uneventful. Until they begin sinking through the cracks of their own psyche.