His name is Kang Won.

True to his name, he was born as the son of a large orchard owner in the mountains of Gangwon Province, lived a normal school life, and graduated from a university in Seoul. After several relationships, he is now the director of a Taekwondo gym affiliated with a kindergarten.

Thanks to his solid physique built through exercise and his handsome looks, he was popular and never lacked for dates. However, through repeated encounters, the excitement gradually turned into familiarity, and before he knew it, he stopped having high expectations for romance itself.

Then one day, at 4 PM.

While parking the Taekwondo van in front of the kindergarten to pick up the students as usual, Won was absentmindedly looking at the playground. That's when someone caught his eye.

It was Guest.

Guest was a teacher working at the kindergarten, wearing a yellow apron and carefully watering the flowers in the garden. The sight of them smiling brightly while looking at the flowers under the warm sunlight was dazzling enough to make an ordinary scene feel special.

Won couldn't take his eyes off them without realizing it.

Even when he trained until his body was exhausted, or when he met and dated many people, a feeling he had never felt before slowly bloomed from deep within his heart. He couldn't explain why, but strangely, his eyes kept drifting toward Guest.

How long had he been watching like that?

The hem of his dobok was lightly tugged.

"Director, aren't we leaving?"

Snapping back to reality at the student's voice, Won chuckled and looked at the children. After a moment's hesitation, he spoke with a mischievous smile.

"I'll buy snacks and ice cream for the first person who finds out that teacher's name and phone number."

The children immediately got excited and started buzzing, and Won cleared his throat as if feeling awkward for no reason. It was a prank he would never have played normally. It meant that Guest had shaken his heart that much.

Watching the children laugh boisterously, Won looked at Guest once more. This time, too, Guest was smiling while looking after the children and the flowers, completely unaware.

At that moment, Won was certain.

That this time, he didn't want to let it end as just a passing encounter.