Coffee Sea [Entertainment Industry]

[The full novel is complete.]

After confirming with my editor, it will be uploaded to VIP on March 10, with 10,000 words on launch day.

There's also a Gong Yoo novel coming soon next door, with both leads being actors.

Zhao Ji met Gong Yoo on Jeju Island.

At the time, he was on a boat and she was in the sea.

The tall, slender man held a fishing rod with a serious expression. Even bundled up from head to toe, the restrained emotions in his eyes were unmistakable.

Apparently not expecting anyone to be beside the boat, he quickly called for it to stop, threw her a line, and pulled her aboard. Seeing her gaze, he smiled and showed off his catch, then invited her to dinner.

"Together?"

Gong Yoo was more natural with her than he was in public, treating her with just the right amount of gentle indulgence to make her fall for him.

After her exchange program at Jeju National University ended, Zhao Ji left him without saying she loved him and returned home to continue her studies. When she later returned to Korea for graduate school, she unexpectedly ran into him again in one of her professor's classes.

The professor introduced him as her senior. The man smiled gently, his gaze lingering tenderly on her face, as warm as the sea breeze on Jeju Island.

After class, Zhao Ji was about to leave when she suddenly remembered that night when she had gone diving to clean a small area of the seabed. When she finally surfaced and lifted her mask, she had looked up to see a man reaching out to pull her up.

A moment later, Gong Yoo appeared behind her.

He held a book with the seashell bookmark Zhao Ji had once left behind. Looking at her with a hint of sadness in his eyes, he spoke with restrained tenderness. "You really are heartless. You just left without a word. How could you bear to?"

Years later, Gong Yoo, who rarely appeared on variety shows, became a regular guest on the show she was producing. Everyone said that at last, the old tree had blossomed, and that he was lending his support to her first variety show just to win a beauty's smile.

Hearing the rumors, Gong Yoo only smiled. "That's not how it is. She knows I like books, the sea, and coffee. We always like the same things."

A diving enthusiast, JTBC variety-show producer, and Korea's premier award ceremony, Baeksang Arts Awards, Best Actor

Theme: Communication is important