When it’s meant to be, love will always find a way. Watch these dramas where love beats all odds.

Fall in Love Again

Cha Soo Hyeon (Song Hye Kyo), the daughter of a powerful politician, was forced into a loveless arranged marriage by her family after graduating from university. After an unhappy divorce, she decides to travel abroad to find herself. During her journey, she meets Kim Jin Hyeok (Park Bo Gum), a free-spirited drifter working part-time jobs to fund his adventures. Despite their vastly different backgrounds, they form a close bond that blossoms into a romantic attraction. Can their love overcome societal pressures and personal struggles? This 2018 South Korean drama was directed by Park Shin Woo.

Encounter

🌈 My Rainbow, After A Storm ⛈

Parents force the breakup of two couples, but what happens to their lingering feelings years later? Li Tang (Jerry Yan) and Fu Fang Si (Maggie Jiang) were high school sweethearts, but the two end up breaking up due to pressures from Li Tang’s father and a misunderstanding. Li Tang eventually stands up to his father and leaves to start his own company. Years later, Fang Si is finally achieving her dreams as a fashion designer and dating Yin Hao Ran (Ron Ng). But their relationship gets complicated when Li Tang comes back into Fang Si’s life just as she is struggling professionally. Li Tang is now engaged to Cheng Xiang Nan (Viola Mi), a supermodel, who also happens to be Hao Ran’s ex-girlfriend. Xiang Nan was forced to break up with Hao Ran by her ambitious mother, but she has never gotten over her feelings for him. Will Li Tang and Fang Si now have the courage to listen to their own hearts? “My Best Ex-Boyfriend” is a 2015 Chinese drama series.

My Best Ex-Boyfriend

Gone with the Shirt Team

Fuji TV

As high school students, Tsumugi Aoba (Haruna Kawaguchi) and So Sakura (Ren Meguro) shared a keen interest in music. With their interests so similarly aligned, it was only natural for a friendship to blossom between them. Over time, that friendship developed into something deeper, a relationship that might have come to last a lifetime, if not for So’s sudden change of heart.

Calling their relationship off without any warning or reason, So not only broke Tsumugi’s heart, but his immediate disappearance afterward left her completely crushed. Eight years later, Tsumugi may occasionally wonder what happened to So but has, in all other ways, moved on with her life. Now living in Tokyo, Tsumugi works part-time at a large music store where she is free to completely immerse herself in the music she loves so dearly. Perfectly happy with her life, Tsumugi might have eventually forgotten about So completely, if fate hadn’t decided their paths needed to cross once again.

Noticing So at work one day, Tsumugi musters up the courage to approach him, only to find that in the eight years since they last spoke, he has almost completely lost his hearing. With sparks of their old flame beginning to reignite within her heart, will Tsumugi find a way to solidify her place in So’s now-silent world?

A story of fate and second chances, “Silent” is a 2022 Japanese romance drama directed by Hiroki Kazama.

Silent

The Sound of Love Team

Tu Xiao Ning (Zhang Jia Ning) is a lobby manager at a bank, striving to complete her probationary period. Her parents set her up on a blind date, where she unexpectedly meets her middle school classmate, Ji Yu Heng (Wei Zhe Ming). Later, they run into each other again, and Yu Heng's mother mistakenly assumes they are dating. Motivated by their families' wishes, Xiao Ning and Yu Heng pretend to date and eventually marry. However, Xiao Ning soon discovers that Yu Heng is a manager at the same bank and is now her superior. They must keep their relationship a secret, but will it survive this twist of fate? "You Are My Secret" is a 2024 Chinese romantic drama directed by Jin Xiong Hao, based on the novel "Hiding Marriage at the Office" by Qing An.

You Are My Secret

💼Hush-Shush... Love💘

Go Mi Ran (Won Jin Ah) is a young jobseeker who is told she will be given around US$ 4,200 if she takes part in a cryogenic freezing program. She is told that she will be frozen for just 24 hours and then leave with her money.

Also being frozen is Ma Dong Chan (Ji Chang Wook), a popular entertainment TV producer who is cold as ice when it comes to working – but tends to get hot and passionate when it comes to affairs of the heart.

But instead of waking up a day later, the duo awakes from cryogenic slumber to find they have slept through 20 years. All the people Mi Ran and Dong Chan once knew have aged by 20 years, but their own bodies and memories have not changed at all.

Life 20 years in the future is not easy – and things are made harder for the duo when they discover that should their body temperatures rise above 33 degrees Celsius, they will die.

When Mi Ran and Dong Chan begin developing feelings for each other, temperatures start to rise…spawning all sorts of dramatic consequences.

Will the duo fight back the heat of a potentially fatal romance? And will they discover the mysterious reason why they were frozen for two decades – and the role of the enigmatic Dr. Hwang, the shady figure behind the freezing project?

“Melting Me Softly” is a 2019 South Korean drama series produced by Shin Woo Cheol.

Melting Me Softly

Years ago, misunderstanding and misfortune drove young lovers Min Hui (Wang Yu Wen) and Xin Qi (Wang Zi Qi) to part on bad terms. In their time apart, Min Hui has become a tech hotshot, while Xin Qi made a name for himself in the business world. When “fate” reunites them at a business event, they begin to talk, and Xin Qi learns that Min Hui has been hiding a very big secret… Will they resolve past mistakes – and maybe rekindle their romance? This 2023 Chinese drama series was based on a novel by Shi Ding Rou and directed by Ding Ying Zhou.

The Love You Give Me

OMG I suddenly have a SON

KBS02

Black Knight is a love story between a woman who is waiting for the love of her life and a man who is willing to do anything to protect his love. The story spans over two hundred years. Moon Soo Ho is a businessman with a pure heart, but he never shows his true colors to anyone except for Jung Hae Ra, a travel agent who has never traveled abroad. Soo Ho and Hae Ra grew up like siblings in Hae Ra's house, but they got separated later. They meet each other after they grow up and love approaches them as if it were fate. Will their love survive despite all the faltering events?

Black Knight

Music school receptionist Asuka Yukihira (Alice Hirose) attends her high school reunion and reconnects with Haruto Mizuno (Gordon Maeda), her old crush. To her delight, she discovers Haruto has also harbored feelings for her all these years. They begin to date, eager to make up for lost time and resolve past misunderstandings. However, tragedy strikes when Haruto is hospitalized and falls into a coma. Asuka remains steadfastly by his side, reflecting on their past while grappling with an uncertain future. Will Haruto recover, allowing them to reclaim the love they almost lost, or is it already too late? This 2024 Japanese drama series was directed by Yuichiro Hirakawa.

366 Days

🏮 A Year And A Day 🌞

Ji Xing (Tan Song Yun) has worked diligently for a top IT firm for the past three years but struggles to stand out in a fiercely competitive corporate world. Frustrated, she decides to quit and launch her own company. She soon attracts the support of a powerful mentor and investor, CEO Han Ting (Xu Kai). With his backing, her entrepreneurial journey begins to gain momentum. As they collaborate closely, their professional relationship starts to deepen, and unexpected romantic sparks fly. This 2024 Chinese drama series was based on a novel by Jiu Yue Xi and was directed by Chen Chang.

As Beautiful as You

✨Brighter Than Stars Team✨

One unexpected choice can change everything about your life.

Cha Joo Hyuk (Ji Sung) works at a bank and has been married to Seo Woo Jin (Han Ji Min) for five years. When a strange incident happens one day, Joo Hyuk makes a decision that impacts his life and those around him in unexpected ways. Suddenly, the life he had with Woo Jin and his best friend, Yoon Joong Hoo (Jang Seung Jo), are gone and he is leading a very different life.

How will his first love, Lee Hee Won (Kang Han Na), factor into his new life? And will it be possible to get his old life back?

“Familiar Wife” is a 2018 South Korean drama series directed by Lee Sang Yeob.

Familiar Wife

Familiar Team

JTBC

Cellist Hae Won (Park Min Young) is warm-hearted but has closed the door to love after a number of unhappy experiences.

She lives in the capital but has grown tired of big city life – so one day decides to return to her hometown, a small village in the countryside, far away from the hustle and bustle of Seoul.

Returning to the countryside helps her regain some inner peace, but when she meets small, independent bookstore owner Eun Seop (Seo Kang Joon), her life – and outlook on love – begin to change bit by bit.

Eun Seop lives his life at a much slower pace than most of the people Hae Won knew in Seoul. Little by little, the two find themselves attracted to one another...

Will Hae Won find room for a little intimacy in her life? Can she learn to trust Eun Seop? And can the pair find love in the idyllic South Korean countryside?

“I'll Go to You When the Weather Is Nice” is a 2020 Viki Original drama series directed by Han Ji Seung.

I'll Go to You When the Weather is Nice

The warm-hearted team

In her final year of high school, Lee Hong Ju (Kim So Hyun) fell head over heels in love. But this first brush with love ended in heartbreak. Ever since, she has been deeply skeptical when it comes to everything love-related. A decade later, she has become an animation producer when fate reunites her with her former crush, Hu Yeong (Chae Jong Hyeop), in a cafe. He has returned to South Korea from the United States, and is now a 29-year-old financial planner. They are both hit by a wave of emotions. Could a fresh chance at romance be in the cards? Or has too much water passed under the bridge? This 2024 South Korean drama series was based on a webtoon by Nam Ji Eun and Kim In Ho and was directed by Song Hyun Wook.

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