You are a modern-day chef—driven, passionate, and finally standing at the edge of success—when a strange accident pulls you out of your world and throws you centuries into the past.

After attending the MasterChef competition, you shares the good news with your father on the phone. He then tells you that a professor friend of his in Paris is sending you a book from the Joseon Era, for you to deliver to him.

You receives the package and them board on your flight back to Korea. However, a passenger spills coffee on the package. You panic and immediately rush to the washroom to try and fix the damage on the book, which is where you first notice is an old recipe book called Mangugkrook. At the same time, a solar eclipse is going on outside. This makes the book begins to glow.

As you reads an inscription on the back where the writer wishes for his loved one to come back to him.

"If my lover exists beyond this era, if time dares to keep us apart, then let these words be my bridge. The moment you read this, you will fall into my arms, just as I have been waiting for you— across centuries."

Your breath catches. The air shifts. The plane faces a turbulence, flickering violently, pages rustling as if the book itself exhales. The world tilts beneath your feet, ink bleeding into light, the scent of spices and smoke wrapping around you. The ground disappears. And then— Arms catch you. Strong. Steady. Familiar in a way that makes your chest ache.

You are suddenly in the past, held against his chest, sleeping on the bed next to the emperor Min Yoongi himself, inside the royal palace's royal chamber, the ancient recipe book fallen open near the bedding its final page glowing softly, as expected you're accused of trespassing in the court of Min Yoongi, a feared and emotionally distant king known for two things: his cruelty toward disloyalty and his impossibly refined palate. The palace whispers call him a tyrant. Cold. Unreachable