You think you know someone, but then they surprise you. Watch these shows where the characters’ hidden identities keep you on your toes!

Hidden Identity

To outside observers, it looks like metal-worker Baek Hee Sung (Lee Joon Gi) and homicide detective Cha Ji Won (Moon Chae Won) have a perfect life: they’re happily married with a beautiful young daughter. But Hee Sung is hiding secrets from his family… and when Ji Won is dispatched to a puzzling and violent new case, she learns that her husband is somehow implicated. As she investigates, she begins to discover that the man she loves may not be who she thinks he is. Could he have taken on a secret identity? And if he is lying about his real identity, what other skeletons could be lurking in the family closet? This 2020 South Korean drama series was directed by Kim Cheol Kyu.

Flower of Evil

✨🌹The Flowers Team 🌹✨

The kingdom of Joseon is plagued by disorder, with violent political uprisings breaking out, and a power struggle surrounding the ruthless King Lee Hun (Yeo Jin Goo).

To avoid assassination attempts on the king's life, a clown named Ha Sun (Yeo Jin Goo), who happens to look exactly like the king, is brought to the palace to act as his double. As Ha Sun takes the throne and tricks the court into believing he truly is the king, he begins to fall for the beautiful Queen Yoo So Woon (Lee Se Young).

This series is an adaptation of the movie “Gwanghae: The Man Who Became King” (also known as “Masquerade”), starring Lee Byung Hun and Han Hyo Joo.

“The Crowned Clown” is a 2019 Korean drama series directed by Kim Hee Won.

The Crowned Clown

THE ON FIRE PENGUINS TEAM 🔥🐧

KBS02

Life, death, and second chances take center stage where three people whose intertwined destinies travel through space and time with haunting results. It's the 1980s, and Detective Cha Hyung Bin has devoted his life to criminal justice and his heart to Ha Eun, a bookshop owner suffering from heart disease who keeps her illness a secret. But Hyung Bin isn't the only one pining after Ha Eun: serial killer Ji Chul has also fallen in love with her. Their lives collide with tragic results, but 30 years later, they're reincarnated, and fate brings them together again. The more time passes, the more their new lives become tangled in the devastating web of history.

Born Again

Reborn Love

A Crown Prince Jung Hyeon is close to the noble scholar Sung Yeol. Unfortunately, their relationship had been cursed by the evil of Gwi, a vampire that quenches his thirst for lust through the consumption of royal ladies' blood. Centuries later, Sung Yeol bumps into a traitor that dresses up as a man and turns her into his very own bookseller. This time, he's out to find the unfinished business of his closest ally against the wrath of Gwi. He is joined by Ho Jin, Soo Hyang, and Yang Sun in his fight. They face heartbreaks, betrayals, and a lot of bloodsheds.

The Scholar Who Walks the Night

The Hot BloodSuckers Team

iQiyi

As Chinese military forces fight back against the invading Imperial Japanese army, the government conscripts young men to defend the country. Xie Xiang (Bai Lu) urgently wants to join the battle, fueled by her hatred of injustice. There’s just one problem… she’s a woman! Refusing to let that stop her, she cuts her hair short and assumes her brother’s identity, eventually getting drafted into an elite military academy in Shanghai and befriending other recruits, including the quarrelsome rich kid Gu Yan Zheng (Xu Kai) and the more introverted Shen Jun San (Li Cheng Bin). Xie Xiang wants to keep her true identity a secret, but when both Yan Zheng and Jun San start to fall for her, the challenge becomes increasingly difficult. Will the comrades-in-arms survive the bitter ravages of love and war? This 2019 Chinese period drama was directed by Hue Kai Dong.

Arsenal Military Academy

The All Guns Blazing Team

A hard-hitting detective who fearlessly dives into his work, Seo Do Won (Yoon Shi Yoon) is relentless when it comes to bringing criminals to justice. Willing to take on any case, no matter how hard, Do Won has made a name for himself as a man who gets the job done. But when the woman he loves becomes the latest victim of a serial killer, his world completely changes. Literally.

Mysteriously able to move between parallel universes, Do Won now lives in both worlds as a man who must pay for the sins of his father in one, and as a man forced to live a precarious life because of those sins in the other. As if the duality of his life wasn’t hard enough to deal with, he soon learns that his deceased love may be gone in one world, but she’s very much alive in the other. Vowing to track down her killer in one universe, while simultaneously trying to protect her in the other, Do Won is quick to acknowledge this is not something he can do alone.&nbsp;

Seeking the help of his colleagues in both universes, Do Won asks Han Seo Kyung (Kyung Soo Jin), an honest, yet reserved prosecutor with a big heart in one world, and a cold and emotionless detective in the other, to help him out. Together with Lee Jung Min (Shin So Yul), a tenacious member of the scientific investigation unit, they’ll do whatever it takes to track down the killer in one world and protect his love in the other. But will their efforts in either universe really be enough?

A suspenseful thriller with a sci-fi twist, “Train” is a 2020 mystery romance drama directed by Ryu Seung Jin.&nbsp;

Train

The Time Detectives

A young woman who enters the royal palace with an agenda encounters kindness and opportunity.

Wei Ying Luo (Wu Jin Yan) enters the royal court of Hong Li, Qianlong Emperor (Nie Yuan), to uncover the truth behind her sister’s tragic death. She suspects the imperial guard Fucha Fu Heng (Xu Kai) and tries to get close to his sister, Empress Fucha Rong Yin (Qin Lan). Ying Luo manages to transfer to Changchun Palace to work as a maid. There, Ying Luo is mentored by the kind Rong Yin, who teaches Ying Luo to read and write, and she also falls in love with Fu Heng.

Through a series of events, Ying Luo becomes the Emperor’s concubine, Consort Ling. Alongside other concubines like Consort Xian (Charmaine Sheh), can Ying Luo put her personal agenda aside to serve the Emperor?

“Story of Yanxi Palace” is a 2018 Chinese drama series directed by Hui Kai Dong and Wen De Guang. Based on the novel Yan Xi Gong Lüe by Zhou Mo, the drama won Best Television Series at the 5th Hengdian Film and TV Festival of China.

Story of Yanxi Palace

The gentle Empress Team

Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Dae Woong dreams of becoming an action movie star. He goes to a temple to pursue this dream, where he releases a nine-tailed fox trapped in a painting for 500 years. Even though she has collected the life force of 100 men for youth and eternal life, the nine-tailed fox does not intend to steal Dae Woong\u2019s energy, yet ends up losing her orb to him due to an accident. To reclaim it, she sticks close by, learning that if Dae Woong bears the orb inside for 100 days, she can become a human being. With her life in peril and sweet strife while living together, can the nine-tailed fox actually become human?

My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho

Team Gumiho

Tae Pyung was born with the ability to see how one will die and what will happen to them right before death when he looks them in the eye. He sees the vision about his death too. However, the ability of him doesn't work on Joon Young, who is a detective at the Violent Crimes Department of Central Police Station. Since her father died when she was little, Joon Young kept a scar on her heart and never relied on anyone. However, as she gets to know about Tae Pyung, she wants to heal Tae Pyung's wounds, and at the same time, she wants her scar to be cured. Meanwhile, Tae Pyung finds it strange as he cannot see the vision about Joon Young's death only. He soon gets filled with fear, and finally, he's faced with the truth that he couldn't discover.

The Game: Towards Zero

The Fearless Team

Tencent TV

They are both chosen in their own ways to protect their people and the country.
 
Ning Que (Chen Fei Yu) is the only survivor of General Lin Guang Yuan’s regime, which came under a calculated and brutal attack of another dangerous general. Ning Que manages to escape to Du City with his maid, Sang Sang (Song Yi Ren), and joins the best martial arts academy there.

When Sang Sang becomes ill with a mysterious illness, Ning Que takes her to a doctor, only to discover that Sang Sang is the reincarnation of Yong Ye, a mysterious and powerful being that is prophesied to bring about chaos.

With evil forces now trying to get their hands on Sang Sang to channel her power, Ning Que must put his life on the line to save Sang Sang and his people.

“Ever Night” is a 2018-2019 Chinese drama series directed by Yang Yang. It is based on the novel Jiang Ye by Mao Ni.

Ever Night

The Ever Night Team

Tencent, Mango TV

Aspiring screenwriter Chen Xiao Qian (Zhao Lu Si) is struggling to get her TV series off the ground. The male lead is kicking up a fuss about her script, leading her to worry that the series will never reach viewers’ screens. Suddenly, she is dragged into the pages of her own screenplay, where she becomes the Third Princess, a lowly minor character with a terrible reputation... and a drastically short lifespan! Fortunately, she knows that her killer will be Prince Han Shuo (Ding Yu Xi) and Xiao Qian uses her “insider knowledge” to rewrite the character’s fate to ensure she survives. Can she cheat death and reverse her TV show’s fortunes? And could this messy situation inadvertently lead her to love? This 2020 Chinese drama was based on a novel by Popsicles and was directed by Cha Chuen Yee.

The Romance of Tiger and Rose

Oh Soo (Zo In Sung) has always lost the people he has loved. His parents died when he was young, and his first love also died, leaving him a cold-hearted man who turns to a life of high-stakes gambling and womanizing to get the things he wants in life. The conartist makes a sport out of targeting rich women, and when he meets Oh Young (Song Hye Kyo), a wealthy heiress, he believes he has stumbled upon his best female prey yet. But Oh Young is a blind, untrusting woman who also has lost everything she has loved. Her parents divorced when she was young, and she became estranged from her mother and older brother. Then her father dies, leaving her the sole heir to a large corporation. Can two people who have both given up on love find it in each other? “That Winter, The Wind Blows” is a 2013 South Korean drama series written by No Hee Kyung and directed by Kim Kyu Tae, who worked together on the 2008 drama “Worlds Within.” The new drama is based on the 2002 Japanese drama “I Don’t Need Love, Summer,” which was adapted into a 2006 South Korean film “Love Me Not.”

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