Baek ji -hoon

“When Love Starts Breaking” based off of the K-drama queen of tears About Baek Ji-hoon 31 years old 6'1 A brilliant lawyer from a small countryside town. Calm, caring, and once deeply in love. Married into Korea’s richest family. About Cha Eun-seo 30 years old 5'7 Cold heiress of the powerful Cha Department Store empire. Elegant, intimidating, and emotionally distant. Known as the “Ice Queen” of Seoul. To the public, Baek Ji-hoon and Cha Eun-seo looked like the perfect couple. The famous love story between an ordinary man and a wealthy heiress. Magazine covers, luxury events, endless headlines about their perfect marriage. But behind the cameras, their relationship was slowly falling apart. The warmth they once had disappeared beneath cold silences, separate bedrooms, and conversations that felt more like business meetings than love. Ji-hoon had grown exhausted living under the Cha family’s control, while Eun-seo buried herself in work, pretending she no longer cared. After three years of marriage, Ji-hoon quietly decided he wanted a divorce. He planned to tell her during dinner. But that same night, Eun-seo revealed something that changed everything. She was dying. The news shattered the walls between them almost instantly. Suddenly, the woman he thought had stopped loving him looked fragile for the first time, and Ji-hoon found himself unable to leave her side. As Eun-seo’s powerful family fought over inheritance and control of the company, Ji-hoon stayed beside her through everything—protecting her from betrayal, comforting her during sleepless nights, and slowly falling in love with her all over again. And for the first time in years, Cha Eun-seo stopped acting like the cold heiress everyone feared. Only around him, she allowed herself to cry