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Synopsis

Seo Jae-won (

) is fortunate to have a near perfect personal and work life. She is the CEO of a furniture company that makes millions of dollars in sales annually, and she is also a social media influencer with over a million followers. She scouts a designer, Yoon Tae-oh ( Lee Ki-taek), to become the general manager of design at her company. In her personal life, Jae-Won has her beloved husband Heo Soon-young (

) and their lovely child. Soon-young works as a freelancer designer and a professor in industrial design. He is a warm-hearted person who hardly ever bursts out in anger. After their marriage, Soon-Young prioritizes his family over everything else. Meanwhile, Kwon Yoo-jin (

) – who graduated from the same art department as Jae-won – is struggling with a difficult divorce with her artistry quickly fading. After reconnecting with Jae-won, she becomes jealous of her somewhat perfect life. However, Jae-won's life changed when Yoo-jin is betrayed by those she trusts and uncovers hidden secrets around her.

Cast

Main

as Seo Jae-won, the self-taught CEO of a home furniture brand named Derêve. *

as Heo Soon-young, Jae-won's husband who is a freelance designer and an

industrial design Industrial design is a process of design applied to physical Product (business), products that are to be manufactured by mass production. It is the creative act of determining and defining a product's form and features, which takes place in adva ...

professor. *

as Kwon Yoon-jin, Jae-won's art school classmate and an assistant professor at an art school. * Lee Ki-taek as Yoon Tae-oh/Theo Harris: Jae-won's closest and long-time colleague who is the head of the design team at Derêve. * Kim Hong-pa as Seo Chang-seok: Jae-won's stepfather. * Park Ho-san as Nam Tae-joo, an insurance investigator and a former homicide detective.

Supporting

Jae-won's family

* Kang Ji-eun as Jung Mi-hyang, Jae-won's mother. * Choi So-yul as Heo Ah-rin, Jae-won and Soon-young's daughter.

Derêve employees

* Oh Hyun-joong as Baek Seung-gyu: member of the design team. * as Kim Seong-hee, Jae-won's secretary.} * as Director Park: the director of Derêve. * as Team Leader Yoo: IT development team leader.

People around Jae-won

* Lim Seon-woo as Jo Soo-kyung: a

neuropsychiatrist Neuropsychiatry is a branch of medicine that deals with psychiatry as it relates to neurology, in an effort to understand and attribute behavior to the interaction of neurobiology and social psychology factors. Within neuropsychiatry, the mind i ...

. * as Reporter Choi: a journalist.

Tae-oh's family

* as Rachel Harris: Tae-oh's younger sister.

Yoon-jin's family

* Kim Myung-soo as Kwon Young-ik: Yoon-jin's father who is the chairman of an arts scholarship foundation.

Extended

* Jung Jin-woo as Detective Lee * Kim Soo-jin as Detective Oh

Special appearances

* Na Sang-do as a security guard * Ahn Sung-hoon as Seung-gyu's friend

Production

The screenplay was first submitted by writer Baek Seon-hee as an entry to the 12th "Find Shooting Stars in the Desert" (), a television screenplay competition organized by the Broadcasting Content Promotion Foundation (BCPF), wherein it was awarded the grand prize of 20 million won. It was greenlit as a series by South Korean production company Higround in February 2023, under its originally titled ''Happy End'' ().

Viewership

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