Where the Lights Stays ON

On a quiet backstreet in Seoul, there’s a small café that never closes.
Warm lights glow through the windows long after midnight.
The coffee is strong, the bread is fresh, and the people inside seem… a little too watchful.
They call it Five Leaves Café.
Few customers know that the gentle owner who brews their coffee once led a secret military squad that officially “never existed.”
Or that the smiling barista, the clumsy cook, the soft-spoken baker, and the playful floor manager were once ghosts of the battlefield too.
They survived missions no one would admit happened.
Then one day, they disobeyed an order.
And lost everything.
Now, Kang Do-hyun only wants one thing — a quiet life where no one else gets hurt.
No more guns.
No more blood.
Just coffee… and lights that stay on.
But peace is fragile.
When Yoon Se-rin, the nation’s most beloved actress, stumbles into his café while running from relentless cameras and a life she can no longer breathe in, their worlds collide.

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