Romance Is a Bonus Book

January 26, 2019

Kang Dan-yi (Lee Na-young), a former advertising copywriter who gave up her career for marriage, is now divorced, broke, and struggling to find work in her late 30s. She lies on her CV to get a job at Gyoroo Publishing.

January 26, 2019

Cha Eun-ho (Lee Jong-suk) discovers his new employee is his childhood friend Dan-yi — the woman he has loved for years — and must decide what to do with that knowledge.

February 2, 2019

Gyoroo Publishing's world — its editors, its authors, its competitive dynamics — is established. The Starfield Library sequence.

February 2, 2019

Dan-yi's genuine professional ability — the copywriting talent she buried during her marriage — reasserts itself at work.

February 9, 2019

A walk along the Gyeongui Line Forest Park. The drama's most purely romantic location, used for their most honest conversations.

February 9, 2019

Eun-ho's feelings for Dan-yi, suppressed across years of watching her love someone else, are becoming impossible to manage.

February 16, 2019

A manuscript crisis at Gyoroo Publishing tests both their professional relationship and their personal one.

February 16, 2019

Dan-yi and Eun-ho at their midpoint — both circling the truth that the drama's audience can see clearly.

February 23, 2019

A difficult author's visit to the publishing house forces Dan-yi and Eun-ho to work as a genuine team.

February 23, 2019

A sequence in the Starfield Library — the drama's most visually spectacular location. Dan-yi among the books she has loved her entire life.

March 2, 2019

Eun-ho's feelings are at the point of declaration. Dan-yi's response is not yet clear.

March 2, 2019

Dan-yi decides who she is and what she wants — professionally and personally — independent of her history.

March 9, 2019

Dan-yi and Eun-ho's relationship acknowledged. The publishing world continues around them.

March 9, 2019

A professional complication that tests their relationship.

March 16, 2019

The drama's resolution centres on a book — fitting for a drama that treated its literary setting with unusual care.

March 16, 2019

The finale. Lee Jong-suk's last Korean drama before military service. A warm, literary romance that took its publishing setting seriously.