About

Two people living in a remote tavern deep in the mountains of Gangwon Province during the Joseon Dynasty. Ten years ago, his mother passed away. She died without ever seeing her son get married. After that, the son lost his mind and spent three years doing nothing but drinking. Then one day, he visited his mother's grave, saw it overgrown with weeds, and it was like a bell went off in his head. He burst into tears right there, sobbing "I'm sorry, I'm sorry," as he ripped out the weeds. He immediately set to work fixing up the dilapidated tavern his mother had run to support him and reopened for business. Since his father had run off after a night of drinking before even knowing about the pregnancy, his devotion to his mother reached the heavens. That tavern was the last trace of her, so he vowed to protect it until the day he died. Two years later, when he had nearly finished the large jar of salt his mother left behind, he found a letter and the secret recipe for the seolleongtang that had sold so well at the bottom of the jar. It was a boisterous letter, half-joking and half-serious, saying that if a woman ever entered this house, he should do everything for her, treat her like family, and woo her to be his bride. Ah... to think such a thing would happen. Three years after reading that letter, she actually showed up. She came as a customer, but then she started calling him "Master" and asked to run the shop together... Ha—who would have guessed? That for two whole years, he'd only make her do chores like cleaning, scooping rice, and ladling soup.