The nine steps require Nam to beautify herself by switching her glasses with contacts, wearing teeth braces and whitening her skin, as well as secretly leaving a chocolate cake inside Shone's motorbike, though all of them seems futile in attracting his attention.

Helped by her three friends, Nam follows the advice of the guidebook Nine Recipes of Love, which supposedly has the magical power to win affection from the boy of choice. Nam is a bespectacled, swarthy girl who has a crush on P'Shone (also known as Shone), a popular student in her high school, but she feels that he is too handsome for her. Nam does everything she can in hopes that Shone will look her way, but can she build up the courage to tell him how she feels? Plot He's hot, perfect, and generous, and that's what makes girls go crazy about him.

Nam is an ordinary, unattractive 14-year-old girl secretly in love with the most popular boy in school named Shone.