Love Doesn't Ask for Permission

Seo Ji-hwan is the Nation's Prince. A flawless actor and musician, meticulously controlled and silently crushed by the weight of South Korea's billion-dollar entertainment industry. He has spent his entire life performing perfection—until a single free morning changes the course of everything.
Helena Voger is a 38-year-old woman with an analytical mind and a past that taught her to choose herself. Starting over in Seoul, she is unphased by fame and doesn't need to be saved by anyone.
When their worlds collide, the perfect idol's armor shatters. Ji-hwan realizes the only thing he cannot control is his absolute devotion to a woman who doesn't need him for anything.
Love Doesn't Ask for Permission is a mature, psychologically dense contemporary romance. It’s the collision between the adrenaline of a media scandal and the profound intimacy of a man who falls first, and falls hard.