The Guide

“Director, I’m in love with you.”

Cha Jiwon, the director of Gallery Hoedam.

Blessed with brilliant talent and striking good looks, he appears flawless to the outside world. But he holds a secret ability: he can see spirits and banish them by painting them.

One day, after exorcising a spirit haunting people through a painting, Jiwon is forcibly dragged to Jungcheon—the realm of the afterlife—for banishing the dead without proper protocol.

There, in the land where departed souls face judgment, he meets its master: Ga-on.

At first, it was sheer competitiveness—a lingering curiosity toward a transcendent entity who wouldn’t even spare him a glance. It was a sentiment too complex to call mere defiance, but he had no other way to describe it.

Yeah, that’s how it began… So why does she look so beautiful to him now?

Bound by a thousand-year mandate judging souls, Ga-on has spent her entire existence in solitude, with only thirty years remaining of her term. Into a life so sheltered she has never even tasted a simple iced Americano, Cha Jiwon—the first man to show her gentle, exclusive warmth—begins to seep into her heart.

Together, they judge and deliver the souls of the dead.

In the end, will they be able to save each other?