Netflix has released new stills for Take Charge of My Heart, offering an early look at the pairing of Chae Soo-bin and Kim Young-kwang before the romantic comedy arrives worldwide. The photographs highlight forced closeness, corporate polish, and the first hints that other people are about to crowd the leads. They also signal that the series will treat an unusual medical bond as the start of a much messier entanglement.
Take Charge of My Heart follows a conglomerate heir whose artificial heart is losing power and a drama writer whose body generates electricity after she was struck by lightning as a child. The series is based on the web novel of the same title and turns that premise into a romantic comedy about need, touch, and timing. As the two collide, a private medical crisis becomes the engine of both comedy and attraction.
The latest images show how ordinary routines change for Baek Ho-rang (Kim Young-kwang) and Na Bo-bae (Chae Soo-bin) once their lives lock together. A man who has built his days around calm and control is thrown off course when the battery in his artificial heart begins to fail. The only person who can restore that charge is Na Bo-bae, whose body can produce an electric current no device can match.
Baek Ho-rang is a third-generation heir who runs resorts for TS Group and presents himself as a precise executive who rarely wastes a move. That reputation hides a single vulnerability: an artificial heart whose remaining power now threatens both his health and his claim on the family business. Succession pressure inside the company makes the failing battery more than a medical problem, because any public weakness could cost him the future he has been trained to inherit.
The pair eventually agree to a three-month “charging contract” shaped by what each of them cannot get anywhere else. He needs regular contact to keep his heart working until a follow-up surgery, and she needs someone who does not recoil when her skin carries a charge. The deal turns proximity into a schedule, forcing two cautious people to share space long enough for other feelings to take hold.
One still shows Baek Ho-rang holding Na Bo-bae close while he checks his pulse, treating the embrace like a reading as much as a gesture of comfort. In another, a drowsy Na Bo-bae keeps hold of his hand, an unguarded moment that now doubles as the thing keeping him alive. The frames leave open how their bond will change once touch is no longer optional and every day depends on contact.
Ji Eun-ho (Cha Woo-min) arrives as a high-profile star working across films, dramas, and variety shows. Offstage he is Na Bo-bae’s most devoted admirer, a man who has eyes only for the writer even as her private life grows more complicated. His loyalty becomes a third current in the story once the charging arrangement pulls her into daily contact with another man.
Choi Do-yoon (Jeong Jae-kwang) takes shape as the agitator inside TS Group, a cousin who treats family access as permission to stir trouble. He nurses a peculiar rivalry with Baek Ho-rang and keeps needling him in rooms where composure is supposed to be an asset. That habit turns board meetings and family gatherings into another test of the heir’s control, and of the secret contract he is trying to keep intact.
Han Seol-hee (Shin Do-hyun) heads Hanlim Planning and is drawn as a woman who decides what she wants and then moves to claim it. Her interest settles on Baek Ho-rang, which places her directly across from the arrangement already binding him to Na Bo-bae. The role is built to function as another variable in a relationship that was never meant to stay simple.
Yoon Jae-ho (Heo Dong-won) serves as the chief secretary who stays nearest to Baek Ho-rang through meetings, travel, and private emergencies. The job gives him a close view of the failing heart, the charging sessions, and the people circling his boss. Because he is paid to keep that world running, he is also the person most likely to notice when it starts to spark.
Yeom Min-gyu (Yang Hyun-min) is the director who assigns single writer Na Bo-bae the job of delivering a steamy adult romance before her contract runs out. Jo Seo-jung (Kim Ah-young) plays the best friend who already knows every secret Na Bo-bae has tried to hide, including the current she cannot fully control. Gong Min-jung makes a special appearance as older sister Na Ji-hye, a former national taekwondo gold medalist whose presence adds family force to the writer’s newly chaotic life.
Take Charge of My Heart premieres on Netflix on October 9, 2026, arriving as a global drop rather than a weekly broadcast. That date puts the three-month contract, the rival claims on both leads, and the failing artificial heart in front of subscribers at the same time. The new stills now read like the opening pages of a countdown that ends when the series goes live.
Sources: Naver and Netflix
