Black Sheep

Romance Guide

▪ Setting/Genre: Modern Romance

▪ Keywords: Modern setting, cohabitation, reunion, first love, age-gap couple, misunderstandings, power imbalance, physical attraction → emotional attachment, fated love, possessiveness/monopoly/jealousy, love-hate relationship, tsundere male lead, capable male lead, chaebol male lead, highly skilled male lead, obsessive male lead, wounded male lead, sharp-tongued male lead, cold male lead, indifferent male lead, arrogant male lead, regretful male lead, ordinary female lead, gentle female lead, wounded female lead, unrequited love, strong-willed yet delicate, emotional angst

▪ Male Lead:
Cha Jeongun – Abandoned 22 years ago by his biological mother, Kang Seonju. Now the head of the Strategic Planning Division at Jaehan Construction, he is a cold and relentless workaholic. After Seonju’s death, he reunites with Hyejun, who asks him to take her in for three months. He agrees and brings her into his home.

▪ Female Lead:
Yoo Hyejun – Orphaned at a young age, she was taken in by Kang Seonju and raised in an archery dojo. A beauty with an elegant yet delicate aura.She is bold, responsible, and resilient. After Seonju passes, she decides to leave the dojo—only to find her thoughts drifting to Cha Jeongun, the man she had only glimpsed in fragments while secretly reading Seonju’s notebook.

▪ When to Read: When you want to see two people, lost and wounded in their own ways, building a place of belonging together.

▪ Quote to Relate to: “You know… I think I’ve always been curious about him.”

Synopsis:

“Hello. My name is Yoo Hyejun. Kang Seonju passed away this morning.”

The death notice of Kang Seonju, his estranged biological mother, reaches Cha Jeongun after more than a decade of severed ties.
He only arrives at the funeral home just before the burial—where he meets Yoo Hyejun.

The girl his mother abandoned him for.
The one she chose to take in and raise instead.

He thinks that will be the end of it.
But the girl shamelessly appears before him once again.

“Please let me stay here for three months. I really have nowhere else to go.”

She’s someone he has no reason to keep close.
Someone he doesn’t even want to see.

“And why exactly does that have anything to do with me?”
“Because now, you’re my guardian.”

Seonju is gone. That leaves only you.

Unable to turn her away, he reluctantly allows her to stay.
Thus begins their strange cohabitation.

Somewhere along the way, without them even realizing it, their emotions start to intertwine.

“Don’t go. I don’t want to be alone.”