The Tale of Shinimu

Synopsis

Kang Minseok works as the youngest kitchen staff member at the restaurant Black Hundred.

While helping out with food styling at a TV station, he unexpectedly receives a date invitation from designer Yoon Jiho. Drawn in by Jiho, who resembles his favorite idol, Minseok ends up sharing a meal with him, only to get swept up in Jiho’s strange power and spend a night together at a hotel. As Minseok struggles in confusion afterward, Jiho tells him to return the vital energy Minseok supposedly stole.

Fleeing from him in panic, Minseok is then suddenly pounced on by Heegong, the owner of the restaurant where he works and a close hyung he has known for ten years.

Minseok soon learns the shocking truth. Both men are yokai who have lived for nearly a thousand years, and in order to ascend and become dragons, they need the vital energy Minseok carries within him…?!