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by Yosin, Hwiyeong, Ppui

Synopsis

Kang-hee grew up in a motel and couldn't wait to escape her small hometown and everyone in it — including her first love, Yeon-su, whom she left behind without looking back. After more than a decade of grinding her way up through failure and determination, she's finally built a career and a life she can be proud of. Then she hears through the grapevine that Yeon-su, the boy she always assumed would be waiting for her, is about to get married. She tells herself she's happy for him — and mostly means it — but she can't shake the need to see it for herself. As fate would have it, her next work assignment lands her right back in the small town she swore never to return to. Surrounded again by old classmates and neighbors, and caught between a first love who still seems to have feelings for her and her own stubborn heart, Kang-hee finds that both her love life and her sense of self are quietly, completely, being rebuilt from the ground up.