The Tea Seller and the Shoe Seller Got Married [Showbiz]

[A tea seller who just wants to lie flat × a semi-retired shoe seller]

Song Zhiyin, the youngest daughter of the tea-trading Song family, defied her family’s objections and resolutely took out a million-yuan loan to study in Korea.

In 2020, Song Zhiyin graduated from university. With only a year left before her loan came due, the pandemic and strict controls left her stuck in her rented apartment, watching time slowly tick away.

In the end, Song Jingyin, the current head of the Song family’s bank and the son of its former head, hired Song Zhiyin to manage distribution in Korea for Shouyinzha, paying off her debt with her work.

To protect her credit standing within the Song family business, Song Zhiyin fought hard for her rights and opened a little tea shop in Seoul called Yinchai.

For the first thirty years of his life, Kwon Jiyong had lived amid noise and revelry, surrounded by cameras and adoring eyes. After temporarily stepping away from the stage and taking off the dazzling GD persona, all he wanted was to escape the chaos and spend some quiet time as an ordinary person, KWON JIYONG.

So he fell in love with cycling, sitting quietly in meditation, and slowly brewing a pot of tea as he listened to the wind, the rain, and his own heart.

Away from the eyes of the public, he was no longer a shining superstar onstage. He was simply an ordinary person longing for a peaceful life.

Song Zhiyin, a lazy tea seller who only wanted to lie flat and retire, had spent years following the rules before finally rebelling. She met Kwon Jiyong, once the face of rebellion for a decade, who now just wanted to live a quiet, steady life.

No fame, no adoration, just a cup of tea, a moment of peace, and a tenderness left undisturbed.

A little scene:

On October 27, 2023, when another baseless scandal swept him up in its baseless storm, Kwon Jiyong immediately issued a statement through his lawyer.

He looked at the statement, which had been pinned to the top of the page less than five minutes after it went out. He didn’t need to guess what people would say beneath it.

He let out a long sigh, but the boulder lodged in his chest stayed right where it was, neither rising nor sinking, firmly stuck.

Just as Kwon Jiyong thought he was about to be crushed by it, a notification popped up on his phone.

[Little Liar: It’s going to rain. Jiyong oppa, come watch the first autumn rain of the year with me~]

A final note:

1. The story starts in 2020. The heroine was born in 1996, and there’s an eight-year age gap.

2. The heroine just wants to lie flat, but she still has a proper social conscience and sense of responsibility.

3. The author isn’t a tea scholar. The relevant information comes from books and the internet.

4. This story is very, very slow-burn.

(Blurb written at 1 a.m. on February 26, 2026.)

Theme: By middle age, happiness is having someone understand your silence and stay with you as you listen to the wind and rain, savoring the years one slow cup of tea at a time.