Daytime

* All backgrounds and settings in the work are fictional, and the names of people and companies are unrelated to reality. * The dialects used in this novel are fictional creations that mix languages from various regions and do not represent any specific region. Jeong Iwon lived running a guesthouse, Haeun-dang, in an old house overlooking the sea. When the debt his father left behind was tied to Haeun-dang, putting him in a crisis of selling it off for less than its value, he met Cha Seok-ju, a man who came to his house. "Are you alone?" "...Pardon?" "I'm talking about this guesthouse. I'm asking if you run this business by yourself." At first, he thought it was a fleeting encounter, "It...