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Friendly Rivalry

Liu — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 14:37:53 +0000

Woo Seul Ki grew up in an orphanage out in a province. She moves to Seoul and enrolls in Chaehwa High School, which is a school for the top 1% students in South Korea. Woo Seul Ki doesn't get along with the other students. A student named Yoo Je Yi approaches her and they become friends.

Yoo Je Yi is the most powerful student in the school. She has a high IQ, comes from a wealthy family background, and is attractive physically. She has lived as the envy of other people since she was born and she is aware of her superiority. She is also cunning enough to know how to take advantage of her position. She shows special interest in transfer student Woo Seul Ki. They soon develop a dangerous relationship between friendship and obsession.

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Thicha

Mak — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 06:26:19 +0000

A young girl flees from her homeland to start over with her mother. But when a crime ring ruins her life, she adopts a new identity to take revenge.

(Source: Netflix)

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Fighting for Love

Dargom Bes — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 02:46:20 +0000

The story follows A Mai, a female general of the founding era of the Southern Xia dynasty, who discards her feminine attire and dons battle armor, enduring hardships to become a legendary female warrior. A Mai, the daughter of the Duke of Jingguo in Southern Xia, witnesses her entire family being killed by her childhood friend Chen Qi. Years later, A Mai, now a young woman, disguises herself as a man and roams the martial world, seeking revenge against Chen Qi.

Through a series of coincidences, A Mai saves Shang Yi Zhi, the son of the Grand Princess, and subsequently helps him escape from dangerous situations multiple times, intertwining their destinies. As war breaks out, A Mai sheds her feminine attire and joins the military, becoming an infantry soldier. With her exceptional military talents, she achieves remarkable feats and rises to the rank of General Mai. Alongside this, she assists Shang Yi Zhi, who is hunted and faces difficulties, in finding his true self and accomplishing great deeds.

On the battlefield, A Mai repeatedly clashes with General Chang Yu Qing from the enemy forces. Despite their confrontations, they unintentionally go through life-and-death situations together, developing a mutual understanding and respect. However, faced with the brutality of war, A Mai willingly sets aside personal attachments and uses her youth and fervor to defend her army.

(Source: iQiyi)

~~ Adapted from the novel "A Mai Cong Jun" (阿麦从军 ) by Xian Cheng (鲜橙).

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A Shop for Killers

Liu — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 18:27:45 +0000

Shortly after entering college, Jian receives a call from local police informing her of her uncle’s “suicide”. Her carer, since the death of her parents, uncle Jeong Jin Man, had always been quiet and mysterious but never suicidal.

But before Jian has a chance to think, her life is turned upside down by a flurry of gunfire, murder drones and more, as a medley of highly skilled assassins inexplicably turns their focus to killing her. Pinned down in her uncle’s home, Jian will be forced to revisit some of the bizarre training her uncle gave her throughout her formative years if she hopes to survive long enough to discover what is going on.

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Finland Papa

Liu — Tue, 02 May 2023 03:51:00 +0000

A healing drama about people in need of emotional support who gather around a cafe named “Finland Papa”. It is managed by a faceless owner who falls in love with a woman in her twenties who works at the cafe, mending her own inner wounds.

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Agency

Liu — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 14:24:38 +0000

An office drama depicting a woman who became the first female executive in her group to make her career beyond her first to the highest position. In the background of an advertising agency, it contains realistic stories of the daily lives of those who live a life like war and behind the scenes in the industry.

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Delicacies Destiny

Dargom Bes — Mon, 16 May 2022 10:18:19 +0000

The young cook Ling Xiao Xiao was determined to become the "first royal chef in the world", and began to succeed in this dream when she won the appreciation of the prince Zhu Shou Kui and was employed in the delicacy room. Facing multiple challenges from King Jin, Concubine Li, and the Queen, Ling Xiao Xiao, with the help of the prince, resolved the crisis time and time again by virtue of her superb cooking skills and kindness, winning the confidence of the palace people, as well as the love of prince Zhu Shou Kui. However, as the future crown princess, the emperor forbade her to approach the kitchen. After a difficult decision, Ling Xiao Xiao ultimately chose not to give up her dreams and left the palace to open a restaurant and continued to be a cook. But what would the prince choose, duty and family or the love of his life?

(Source: Douban)

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Woman of 9.9 Billion

Zel dris — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 03:39:05 +0000

Jung Seo Yeon grew up with an abusive father. Then she escaped to begin again with an affectionate and loving man; unfortunately that chapter in her life was brief. And as she struggles to find happiness, she incurs 9.9 Billion won ($9 million USD) which is enough to fund her "fights against the world."

Meanwhile, the ex-detective Kang Tae Woo searches for the truth behind his younger sibling’s death.

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Doom at Your Service

Liu — Mon, 10 May 2021 18:36:26 +0000

Tak Dong Kyung has been working hard ever since her parents passed away. Her life seemed more stable after working as an web novel editor for 6 years, but then she gets diagnosed with a brain cancer. She blames her unlucky life and wishes to curse everything to disappear, which unintentionally calls Myeol Mang, a messenger between humans and gods, to appear. He says that he can grant her wishes. As her last hope, she makes a contract with Myeol Mang for a hundred days to live how she wants, risking her everything.

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L.U.C.A.: The Beginning

Liu — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 06:59:44 +0000

“LUCA” is based on Charles Darwin’s proposition that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors. (LUCA stands for “last universal common ancestor.”)

Ji Oh, who rarely reveals his emotions to others, has a special power and a secret but doesn’t know who he really is. He is chased by mysterious figures while he tries to find answers to numerous questions that surround him.

Gu Reum is a detective whose parents disappeared when she was a young child. When she decides on a course of action, she won’t change no matter what. Gu Reum chases after the truth behind her parents’ disappearance. She meets Ji Oh and her life changes.

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