Innocent Cha Eun-ae (Han Chae-young) did not like studying since she was a child, but had a passion for cooking. In a cooking competition, Eun-ae won the opportunity to study cooking in Italy. With the help of her childhood friend Jung Hyun-seong (Lee Tae-hwi), she smoothly left for abroad to pursue her dream without telling her parents. Hyun-seong, who didn't actually like cooking himself but learned it for Eun-ae, naturally became her protector.
On the other hand, Daeyeong Group heir Han Yi-jun (Cho Seung-jae) left his mother when he was five years old. After graduating from university, he unexpectedly learned about his birth mother's whereabouts and decided to go to Italy before enlisting to find his mother. En-ae and Yi-jun met during their journey after En-ae sought out the secret recipe for pasta to pass an exam. The two bickered all the way until they finally reached their destination, where the owner of the secret recipe that En-ae was looking for turned out to be Yi-jun's mother. Yi-jun was shocked and deeply hurt when his mother didn't recognize him, unaware of her own reasons. Yi-jun's mother agreed to teach the secret recipe to En-ae and asked En-ae to cook a dish of pasta for Yi-jun. After eating it, Yi-jun discovered that it was the taste of his long-missed mother, and the two naturally became intimate. The next morning, Hyun-seong appeared as "En-ae's lover," causing Yi-jun to leave in anger after being misled...
A heartbroken En-ae found out she was pregnant, returned to Korea, and gave birth alone. Six years later, Yi-jun, with his MBA degree, took over the restaurant "Italian" according to his father's wishes. Coincidentally unemployed, Eun-ae came to work at "Italian", and the two finally reunited six years later...