After catching her boyfriend cheating on her during Christmas Eve, Sam-soon found herself jobless, loveless, and broke on a freezing Seoul night. That was when the universe — cruel and kind at once — led her to the doors of Bon Appétit, a fine dining restaurant owned by the handsome, arrogant, deeply wounded Hyun Jin-heon.
“Your job application,” he said. “From three years ago. You wrote in the ‘why do you want to work here’ section: ‘Because I want to make people happy through desserts, and because I think the boss is secretly lonely and needs someone to yell at him.’” After catching her boyfriend cheating on her during
Jin-heon stepped closer. “You were right. About the lonely part. And you’re the only person I want yelling at me for the rest of my life.” “From three years ago
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May Sima — a quiet, observant sous-chef — watched it all unfold from the corner of the kitchen. She was the one who understood Sam-soon the most. Sima had come from a small town, learned French pastry from online videos with bad translations, and now found herself translating more than recipes: she translated the silences between Sam-soon and Jin-heon, the longing neither would name.
“Why don’t you just tell him?” Sima asked one night, handing Sam-soon a warm madeleine.
“What’s that?” she asked.