#왕은 사랑한다

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Asian dramas and my favorite types of characters

There are my favorite types of characters as a list. A villain with a fatal weakness

Drama: The Scholar Who Walks the Night /밤을 걷는 선비 Character: Gwi Screentime: Secondary Gwi is an ancient vampire and a master of puppets (and Joseon's king is the main of them). He is merciless, invincible and scheming all the drama long, until he accidentally kills a girl, who was his hostage and recalcitrant puppet from her childhood on and was the only one who could scold him and deny him. Nothing about it is said directly in the drama, but after her death he goes insane, kills all of his puppets and this way causes his own death. So, I suppose, she was his only weakness, and I like this type of a personal drama for a villain. Punch-Clock Villain / the Dragon

Drama: 100 Days My Prince /백일의 낭군님 Character: Moo-yeon Screentime: Secondary Moo-yeon works as an assassin for the killer of his father, who is constantly threatening him with the life of his sister. Moo-yeon is a man of a very ill fate: his family was accused of a treason and executed, his sister became a fugitive, he was forced to sell his conscience for his and sister's lives and, as a cherry on the top of this cake, fell in love with the daughter of his captor. And died trying to save her... His story is sooooo sad, but it makes me feel for this character fully. Also, he is the king of whump because the half of the drama he is injured and suffers from his wounds. The whole sad story of this guy is analyzed by me here, here and here.

Drama: The King Loves /왕은 사랑한다 Character: Moo-suk Screentime: Minor Koreans, obviously, like this type of characters, too, so there is another Dragon of the main villain, Moo-suk. In his free from dirty deeds time he h̶e̶l̶p̶s̶ ̶o̶l̶d̶ ̶l̶a̶d̶i̶e̶s̶ ̶c̶r̶o̶s̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶r̶o̶a̶d̶ literally saves cute children and restores self-confidence of young ladies. And then he falls in love, rethinks his life and dies from the hand of his master. Predictable and sad. Still a memorable guy, though. 50 shades of a Byronic Hero

Drama: The Wolf / 狼殿下 Character: Chu Youwen Screentime: Main A Mowgli boy was adopted by a wicked emperor, brought up like a cruel beast and was forced to do some dirty stuff for the emperor. He is mysterious, severe and you never know what's on his mind. As a true Byronic hero. He is some kind of Dragon, too, but it's a Chinese drama and he is a main hero in it, that's why he doesn't really do anything bad during the series. His soul is kind and his heart is pure, but he hides it from his love and deals with all of his problems on his own. It's the reason why all of this drama is a masochistic tango between him and his love. Whump lovers will be happy, too, because he is constantly in chains, pierced by arrows like a hedgehog or works as a slave in mines. As any other Dragon, he has a BE.

Drama: Lost You Forever /长相思 第一季 Character: Xiang Liu Screentime: Secondary A mysterious demon general, whose name makes everyone shake in fear. A former demon slave, who is true to his word enough to fight for his benefactor even if he knows crystal clearly that it's hopeless and he and his army will die in the end. A man who has huge problems with expression of his emotions in a socially approved way. Edward Cullen of Chinese dramaland. He is enigmatic, with thick vibes of a bad guy, yet very loyal to his benefactor as well as his love and very selfless. Because of this loyalty he will die and the love of his life will never-ever find out about anything he has done for her during the story.

Drama: My Journey to You /云之羽 Character: Gong Shangjue Screentime: Secondary A guy was through trauma in his childhood and it made him look intimidating and unfeeling. A tsundere is born! He coped with his trauma by taking extra responsibilities for everything and everyone and turned to be a walking killing machine instead of a man. But an enemy assassin comes to his life and teaches him how to be a human once more. It's a painful experience, but it`s necessary in order to grow up as a character and is beautifully fulfilled. It was a great joy to know that he survives at the end of the story, it's a rare thing for this type of characters, so even if there is season 2 someday, I will not watch it in order not to spoil my impression of the first one. I wrote about him detailed here, here, here and here.

Drama: Princess Agents / 特工皇妃楚乔传 Character: Yan Xun Screentime: Secondary It's the transformation story, too, like a previous one, but this time it's transformation from an ordinary man to a villain. Prince Yan Xun is a hostage colony prince in a metropolis empire, but he enjoys a noble life along with other nobility youth. The society around him is awful, each of these noble youths is a psycho who appreciate human hunt and so on, but cheerful and easy-going Yan Xun doesn't think their bloodthirstiness could turn against him. When relationship between the metropolis and the colony become tense, though, Yan Xun's friends of yesterday are happy to drink his blood. He loses his whole family and, insanely longing for revenge, slowly turns to one of those monsters himself.

Drama: A Journey to Love / 一念关山 Character: Li Tongguang Screentime: Minor This guy has got a very realistic personality and background: he is a bastard who was deprived of mother's love since he was a child. The first circumstance made him power-hungry, scheming and outwardly emotionless, the second one made him longing for mother's love on insanely level. So he is invincible outwardly, but turns into a teary mess when it's about his female tutor, who is a mother figure for him. The contrast between these two personalities is enormous and makes this character very alive and interesting. During the drama he will not cope with his Oedipus complex but circumstances will solve this problem for him.

A pure-hearted hero

Drama: Creation of the Gods Ⅰ / 封神三部曲 Character: Ji Fa Screentime: Main It's maybe strange to find this type of characters in the list of my favorite types, but morality and selflessness of a character is very important for me, too. This story is some kind of King Arthur's legend, but in a Chinese way. The emperor is bewitched by a demon and is bringing the kingdom to it's downfall, the Gods are here to find the savior with the help of a magic scroll that can be opened only by a true king. Ji Fa, a hero of this story, doesn't care about scrolls, but his heart is loyal to his kingdom and to his family (in this very order). He genuinely wants to help his friend-prince to be a king his kingdom deserves and, despite awful things that were done to him and his family, doesn`t harden his soul and betray his ideals. And, I suppose, although he isn't aware of this, he IS the future King Arthur of China. Interesting character decisions

Drama: The Legends/招摇 Characters: Jiang Wu Screentime: Minor This character is something like a rival of the male lead. He is a xinmo - an inner demon of some other character and represents the darkest features of a human's soul. He is a ruthless killer, a dark sorcerer without conscience, but what was very unique, being literary the worst part of a human personality, he values his assistants a lot and genuinely cares for them. A villain is usually a lone wolf. He doesn't trust anyone and doesn't value anyone, his loneliness is usually his weakness and a key to his downfall. So I was pleasantly surprised that sometimes a villain is capable of building healthy relationships with his subordinates.

Drama: Sh**ting Stars / 별똥별 Characters: Do Soo-hyuk Screentime: Minor

This guy truly surprised me. Firstly, he is supposed to be something like a third wheel in relationships of the main couple, but he just calmly got a refusal from the female lead, said "OK" and, absolutely relaxed, proceeded to live his life further. It's something unbelievable for me, because I used to see the insanity caused by an unrequited love to be the plot engine of a lot of dramas. Secondly, he is well-written as a character, straightforward, principled and has tsundere-ish or Byronic vibes - all the character features that I like =) Part 3 will be about other interesting types of relationship, mostly between men.

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The King Loves (2017) | Nobody Knows (2020)

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The King Loves. 왕은 사랑한다. 7.6/10

About a princess who goes into hiding and a prince and his best friend fall for her.

I love that they talk not as formally as most historical dramas. This seems more in tune with real life.

Seeing people look at the one they love makes my heart melt like fuck.

I hate people who blackmail. People cannot have more power than someone else.

The three main and Dan are all so good looking and so good hearted. Each character reminds me of myself, but when thinking about different choices to take in my one sided love. I don’t know if this one sided love is just coinciding with my life, but when Crown Prince wonders if he is better off without her or better off with, but hurting..idk too but I think being with your love is better. Soo In is also so admirable in his loyalty. Dan’s purity brings me joy. Yoona’s character does well in realizing people’s feelings for her.

The king’s assistant person bothers me.

Loyalty is wild. Love is wild.

I felt so hard for the Crown Prince just as I did for him in Misaeng.

Memorable Quotes: “How could one just give a portion of one’s heart?“ “Memories.” “What’s the point in something like that?” “To remember them as you live life, and open them up from time to time. When life gets hard, and so when you need something to rely on.” ‘Memories remain for that purpose.” “Even if you want to give them your heart, staying beside someone who does not wish to take it, day after day, until your heart begins to dry out bit by bit.”

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왕은 사랑한다 / The King In Love | Episode 13-14: Wang Rin

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SURPRISE!!!!!

Well well well… I know this is old news but lately I got so busy that I rarely open my sns, and imagined my surprised today when I saw what Jonghyun said on his latest interview 😍

Oh em geeee!!! I would never ever in my wildest imagination expected Hong Jong Hyun to said something like this. WHY ? Because when once I was a Jjongah shipper, I waited for him to say something like this abt his partner like for years but that’s time never come. So now when I ship him with Yoona I try so hard to limited my expectation and delution bcs I know he is so private (so does Yoona) abt his life, So I’m really happy to see his interview this time. Is it just me or did it really feel like a confession ? Hjh is a honest and sincere person, he wouldn’t say something if he didnt really mean it, I’m sure every words that come out of his mouth he thought it deeply before bcs that’s the way he is.

“My ideal type? It’s Yoona”

damn ! He said that without hesitation peopleeee… And I think he never said who is his ideal type before or maybe never said it outright, correct me if I’m wrong please 😍😍😍

“When I was filming "The King Loves”, I had a hard time because I couldn’t understand some of directions of our producer. I messed up everything. By the way, Yoona sent me a long text message and tried to cheer me up. I never talked to her about the matter between the producer and myself, but she sent me a long text message after she happened to hear our conversation. I slept wonderfully that night thanks to Yoona"

And I cant blame him bcs Yoona is just so kind and perfect.. cheer him up when he feel down by sent him a long message that made him slept so WONDERFULLY that night😉

“Im Si Wan, Yoona and I stuck together all the time while filming The King Loves. Like Wang Rin in the drama, I looked after, and looked out for Yoona [in real life]. Nonetheless, many people still commented “You are a lot sweeter than I thought.’ Actually, I too didn’t know I had such a sweet side to me either.”

“And these days, I’m trying to play a leading role in our gathering because of Yoona. I’m not that kind of character, but she said I have to do it because Lim Siwan can’t do such a role any more.”

Like people says, great partner always bring out the best in you 💕 and I’m glad that now he knew he has a sweet side. And apparently Jonghyun often drove yoona home (I forgot where I read this but I swear it’s there), so that’s why yoong said in her interview that Jonghyun is best driver 😎

⛵⛵⛵⛵ Let’s sailing 🛳️🛳️🛳️🛳️

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The King Loves - Wang Rin (Hong Jong Hyun) Appreciation Post

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miss them both, another great sageuk drama...

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The King Loves/왕은 사랑한다, Episode 5 (Episodes 9-10)

“She’s my woman.

“My woman was captured and dragged here...

”And bleeding...

“What man wouldn’t interfere?”

Yeah, this is one of (many) defining moments where I’m, like, “Welp, I’ve got it bad.”

If I didn’t know any better, I’d thought that Hong Jong Hyun as the main male lead, not Im Siwan.

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The King Loves (왕은 사랑한다)

Episode 5 (14/14)

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박영운. Graphite pencils 4H, F, 3B, 6B/paper A4

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That moment...I will never forget it

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squishy face rin

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— The King in Love

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The King Loves - Eun San (Yoona) Appreciation Post