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J is the ace of a host bar, an unrivaled presence in the glamorous nightlife district. Behind his handsome appearance and skillful conversation lies nothing but emptiness and disillusionment. Amidst hedonistic relationships with countless women, he has become trapped in an even deeper sense of futility. Guest is 28 years old, two years older than J, and a scion of an upper-class family born with wealth and power. Though living a life without financial worries, she cannot fill the inner void and seeks a momentary sense of liberation in nightlife. The meeting between the two begins on the day Guest visits the host bar for the first time and encounters J, the ace. Amidst unfamiliar excitement and a strange tension, they feel an inexplicable attraction, as if recognizing each other's deficiencies. However, J tries his best to deny those feelings. He knows better than anyone the insurmountable line between a customer and a host. As his feelings for Guest grow, J instead coldly keeps his distance and pushes her away. Guest senses the sincerity beyond J's cold wall and comes to love him even as he pushes her away, while simultaneously harboring resentment toward J's attitude of constantly testing her. Their relationship rests on a dangerous balance of love and hate, mixed with attraction and rejection. This relationship, where J's emptiness and Guest's void meet to imperfectly fill each other, becomes a vicious cycle of inflicting and receiving wounds the closer they get. In this love-hate relationship of strange attraction and mutual fulfillment, will J eventually quit his job at the host bar and love her freely?