Take Charge of My Heart

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Take Charge of My Heart

나를 충전해줘 (Nareul Chungjeonhaejwo) · 2026 · South Korea

WriterSong You-chae

DirectorPark Soo-won

Episodes10 eps · ~70 min each

Where to Watch✅ Netflix

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Binge Time11h 40m

AiredOct 9, 2026

GenreRomance · Comedy · Fantasy

Content Rating15+

Netflix

Contract RomanceSci-Fi Rom-ComChaebol HeirElectric PowersWebnovel Adaptation

Everything that matters, at a glance.

A chaebol heir running on empty and the human power bank he can’t stop falling for.

Kim Young-kwang

Baek Ho-rang

Lead

Chae Soo-bin

Na Bo-bae

Lead

Cha Woo-min

Ji Eun-ho

Supporting

Jeong Jae-kwang

Choi Do-yun

Supporting

Shin Do-hyun

Han Seol-hui

Supporting

Minho

I-hyeok

Supporting

Noh Jeong-hwan

Si-hun

Supporting

Oh Hee-jun

Ma Hee-chan

Supporting

JAEJAE

Talk Show MC

Supporting

Ha Dong-jun

Heo Ji-hwan

Supporting

Jang Ui-don

Resort Manager

Supporting

Seong Yeo-jin

Resort Executive 1

Supporting

Light-touch recaps to keep you oriented, episode by episode.

EP 01

The Only Safe Touch

Oct 9, 2026

Na Bo-bae is a struggling writer whose body carries a charge, which makes ordinary contact with other people a risk she has learned to plan around. Then she bumps into Baek Ho-rang and discovers he is the first person her sparks do not affect. The meeting is an accident, and the episode plays it as one, but it hands both of them a fact they cannot unlearn: for her, this is the first touch in years that does not end in a shock.

EP 02

An Offer She Can’t Refuse

Oct 9, 2026

Ho-rang works out that Bo-bae’s strange powers could solve his heart-battery problem, and he wastes no time acting on it. He goes to her with an offer designed to be impossible to turn down. For Bo-bae, who has spent years avoiding contact, the pitch turns the thing she hides into the thing he needs, and it comes from the one person her sparks have never hurt.

EP 03

Roommates on the Record

Oct 9, 2026

Ho-rang and Bo-bae become roommates and make things official, which turns the offer from last episode into a living arrangement with a signature on it. Under their contract, the first date comes quickly, and it exists for a practical reason: Bo-bae needs romance research for her writing. Two people who started as a battery and a charger now have to act like a couple in public, and neither has rehearsed it.

EP 04

The Assistant’s Surprise

Oct 9, 2026

Bo-bae ends up as Ho-rang’s personal assistant, a job title that folds the contract into his daily schedule and puts her at his side for the awkward parts of his life. One of those is a tense birthday lunch with his family. Afterward, Ho-rang is moved by a simple surprise from Bo-bae, a small gesture that reaches him in a way the formal arrangement between them was never designed to.

EP 05

A Proposal He Waves Off

Oct 9, 2026

Han Seol-hee arrives with a marriage proposal for Ho-rang, and he does not bother to soften his answer: he has no interest. The refusal is blunt, and it lands in a story where his contract with Bo-bae already occupies the space a fiancee would fill. Meanwhile Ji Eun-ho starts working his way closer to Bo-bae, an approach that puts a second suitor in the frame just as Ho-rang’s own position gets harder to explain.

EP 06

Jealous Sparks

Oct 9, 2026

Bo-bae shows what she can do on the page, and the writing earns her real credit. Watching her and Eun-ho settle into an easy bond up close is harder for Ho-rang than he expected, and the jealousy it sets off is the first thing in the arrangement he cannot schedule or sign away. Eun-ho reads the opening and makes a bold move, which pushes the triangle from background tension into something Bo-bae will have to answer.

EP 07

Keeping Her Distance

Oct 9, 2026

Bo-bae pulls away from Ho-rang. She has already put one person she cares about at risk, and the fear of doing it again turns the contract she signed into a reason to stay out of his reach. On the other side of the story, Do-yoon and Seol-hee’s schemes finally come to a head, so the pressure Ho-rang has been dodging arrives at the exact moment Bo-bae decides to step back.

EP 08

The Empty Announcement

Oct 9, 2026

Bo-bae and Ho-rang finally start dating, and for a short stretch the arrangement that began as a contract reads like an actual relationship. Then comes the day of his succession announcement, the event everything in his life has been building toward. Bo-bae is nowhere to be found when it starts, and her absence leaves Ho-rang standing in front of the biggest moment of his career without the one person he wanted beside him.

EP 09

Just in Time

Oct 9, 2026

Ho-rang collapses, and for a stretch the question is whether he survives it. Bo-bae arrives in the nick of time, which is the first moment her power is used to save him instead of to serve the contract. The rescue costs her something, because soon after she learns a dangerous truth about her powers, a discovery that changes what being close to him means for both of them.

EP 10

Without the Spark

Oct 9, 2026

Bo-bae learns that her powers may be gone, and the discovery forces a question the contract never had to answer: what is she, and what is she to Ho-rang, if the thing that brought them together is no longer there? The finale turns on whether the two of them were ever only a battery and a charger, and it leaves the show’s opening question about a happy ending to be settled by what they choose without the spark.

Full spoilers from this point — what happened, and why.

What actually happened The finale pays off the premise literally. Ho-rang collapses during his succession announcement, his artificial heart fails, and Bo-bae spends everything she has to restart it. The cost is the one the show has been circling since episode one: her electrical power burns out for good. Ho-rang is then given a permanent medical solution for his heart, which removes the reason the two were ever bound together.

Do they end up together? Yes. With the power gone and the heart fixed, nothing is left of the original deal, no battery to charge and no contract to renew, and they still end the series as a couple. The show spends its last stretch separating the two (Bo-bae retreats to her parents’ house after being told her touch could stop his new heart) so that the reunion has to rest on something other than need.

What the lost spark means Her shocks were never only a plot device. They were the one thing that kept Bo-bae at a distance from everyone, and the one thing that made her useful to Ho-rang. Losing them takes away both the handicap and the leverage, and the finale uses a closing touch between the two of them to ask whether anything remains once the gimmick is gone.

A note on the last scene Recaps of the final scene do not agree on whether a spark returns, or on exactly where it takes place, so we are not committing to one version here. What every account shares is the outcome: the couple stays together, and the electricity is no longer what holds them together.

The KDW verdict It is a tidy, low-risk ending for a rom-com built on a gimmick: the gimmick is spent, the leads keep each other, and no one has to explain the science. Viewers who wanted the show to treat its premise as more than a device may find the exit a little too convenient, but it delivers the answer the title asked for.