In Episode 1, we meet , a hardworking "tomboy" who takes on multiple jobs to support her family. Through a series of hilarious misunderstandings, she encounters Choi Han-kyul , a wealthy, carefree bachelor under pressure from his grandmother to get married.
The episode’s genius is in forcing these two broken patches together. Han Kyul needs a “fake gay lover” to scare off the blind dates his grandmother arranges. Eun-chan needs money. The resulting contract is the show’s central patch: a deliberate, artificial seam between a rich man’s whim and a poor woman’s survival. Neither of them knows that this temporary mend will eventually restitch their entire emotional DNA. coffee prince ep 1 patched