The Tale of the Goddess of Mercy

Synopsis

Kang Min-seok, the youngest kitchen staff member at the high-end Black Hundred Restaurant, finds his ordinary life completely upended. While assisting with food styling at a broadcasting station, he is unexpectedly asked out by designer Yoon Ji-ho, who strikingly resembles Min-seok’s celebrity crush. Min-seok, completely mesmerized, agrees to a meal. However, he is soon swept up in Ji-ho's strange power, leading to a confusing night spent in a hotel.The next morning, the bewildering Ji-ho demands that Min-seok "return the Jeong-gi (vital energy) you stole." Fleeing Ji-ho in a panic, Min-seok is then suddenly assaulted by his own restaurant owner and close ten-year-friend, Hee-gong.Min-seok quickly learns the shocking truth: Ji-ho and Hee-gong are both millennium-old Yokai (Korean mythological spirits/demons). They need the vital energy Min-seok carries within him to achieve their ultimate goal: ascension to become Dragons.Caught between two powerful, supernatural beings who are after his essence, Min-seok must navigate a terrifying new reality where his life, and his Jeong-gi, are on the line.