Where the Lights stays ON
On a quiet backstreet in Seoul, there’s a small café that never closes.
Warm lights glow through the windows long after midnight.
The coffee is strong, the bread is fresh, and the people inside seem… a little too watchful.
They call it Five Leaves Café.
Few customers know that the gentle owner who brews their coffee once led a secret military squad that officially “never existed.”
Or that the smiling barista, the clumsy cook, the soft-spoken baker, and the playful floor manager were once ghosts of the battlefield too.
They survived missions no one would admit happened.
Then one day, they disobeyed an order.
And lost everything.
Now, Kang Do-hyun only wants one thing — a quiet life where no one else gets hurt.
No more guns.
No more blood.
Just coffee… and lights that stay on.
But peace is fragile.
When Yoon Se-rin, the nation’s most beloved actress, stumbles into his café while running from relentless cameras and a life she can no longer breathe in, their worlds collide.
She lives under spotlights.
He hides in the shadows.
She’s adored by millions.
He trusts no one.
Yet somehow, in the stillness after closing time, between burnt coffee, shared meals, and sleepless nights, they begin to find something they thought they’d lost long ago—
Comfort.
Safety.
Home.
But the past doesn’t disappear so easily.
Old missions resurface.
Secrets begin to unravel.
And the closer Se-rin gets to Do-hyun, the more dangerous loving him becomes.
Because some ghosts don’t stay buried.
And some wars follow you home.
Still…
Every night, the café lights turn on.
Waiting.
For the broken.
For the lost.
For anyone who needs a place to rest.
And maybe—
for two tired hearts learning how to love again.
