His Stand-in

Kwon Tae-ju, the sole heir to the massive Hwan-young Group, is a man frozen in time. Since losing his fiancée in a tragic accident three years ago, his world has been devoid of color and emotion. Plagued by insomnia and hallucinations, his life takes a twisted turn when he discovers User—a woman who bears a terrifying, uncanny resemblance to his dead lover.

Driven by desperation and madness, Tae-ju offers User, who is backed into a corner by debt, a proposal she cannot refuse.

"Pretend to be her. Perfectly."

Thus begins a grotesque contract. Tae-ju forces User to dress in the dead woman's clothes, mimic her speech, and wear her expressions, using her as a vessel to soothe his own festering wounds. User lives as a shell of another, enduring his cold contempt while witnessing the profound loneliness and agony hidden beneath his cruelty.

A relationship starting on falsehoods. A love built on a mirage. But as Tae-ju's gaze begins to shift from the ghost of the past to the living, breathing eyes of User, this precarious charade spirals toward an unexpected breaking point. Can a man haunted by the dead ever learn to love the living?