Asian Drama

Adapted from the web novel "Suan Zhi" (酸枳) by Xiao Ke Bu Cai (小可不才).

The drama follows the lives of seven boys navigating their school years and personal growth, each grappling with family obligations, loss, poverty, abandonment, violence, and rejection.

After an unwanted return to Songju-si, Kim Hwan meets six boys. As an outsider and the son of Kim Chang Jun, the boys sometimes find him suspicious and misunderstand his actions, leading to conflicts. Despite these initial difficulties, they eventually become friends. It seemed awkward at first, but over time, they grow closer and open their hearts. They travel and play together, sharing their problems to help each other heal. Realizing they all have similar family issues, they become even closer. Hwan confronts his own feelings by staying with the other boys. As he spends time with them, he starts to like Songju-si and genuinely wishes for these days to continue forever.

However, Chang Jun notices the other boys and considers them useless, insisting that Hwan stay away from them. Hwan, who has always lived an obedient life, raises his voice for the first time and confronts his emotions.

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Adapted from the webtoon "Save Me". The series is inspired by BU (BTS Universe). It expands on the storyline fans have seen throughout BTS' music videos and Save Me webtoon.

Episodes: 12

Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.

Content Rating: G - All Ages

On the day she married the second prince Xie Yu Heng, Su Ying Ying, the daughter of the Su family, the chief assistant of the loyal cabinet, was led by Xie Yu Heng to kill the whole family on the grounds that the chief assistant of Su was collaborating with the enemy and treason. Xie Yu Heng also became the crown prince. position. Three years later, Su Ying Ying returned with the intention of clearing her father's wrongdoing and investigating the case of collaborating with the enemy and treason. She joined forces with the seventh prince Xie Yi An and disguised herself as Xie Yi An's maid Su Ying. The two started with the counterfeit banknote case and found that the case was related to Su Shoufu and Xie Yu Heng, so they investigated in depth. The two also went from being at odds with each other at the beginning. They worked together and approached the people involved in the counterfeit banknote case regardless of the danger. They got closer to the truth step by step, and thus exposed Xie Yu Heng's conspiracy to seek power and usurp the throne. It turned out that Xie Yu Heng was not In order to fight for the royal power, he manufactured counterfeit banknotes to amass wealth, bribed officials and cultivated a killer organization "Suzaku Pavilion" to eradicate dissidents. Because Su Shoufu found out that Xie Yuheng was the mastermind of the counterfeit banknote case before his death, Xie Yu Heng ordered his life Stealing Su's official seal and forging documents indicating that Su was collaborating with the enemy to frame Su.

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Episodes: 24

Duration: 10 min.

The God of War, Wen Ye, died in battle on the eve of his wedding, and a nationwide mourning was held. The bride-to-be was the legitimate daughter of the Shen family. But Mrs. Shen was reluctant to let her daughter become a widow and feared the criticism that would come with a broken engagement. Thus, she found her estranged illegitimate daughter, Shen Ke Yi, who had been living in seclusion, and forced her to take her daughter's place in marriage. Due to a mistaken war report, Wen Ye returned victorious, and Shen Ke Yi, who had married into the Wang family, became the true princess. However, she and the prince developed a complex and spirited relationship, and during their journey, they ignited the sparks of love. After facing numerous challenges, they eventually understood the true essence of love and protection. In the end, they chose to be together, not seeking wealth and prosperity but only desiring a few moments of leisure that belonged to the two of them alone.

Two forensic scientists with an unexpected connection partner up to solve murder cases. Layer by layer, they shed light on the truth as they speak for the dead and punish the guilty. Because of family issues, Gu Chu had to quit school and was only able to return several years later. For her graduation internship, she crosses paths with Lu Bei Chen, the chief of the forensic science center.

Lu Bei Chen is the older twin of Gu Chu's late boyfriend, which leaves Gu Chu with conflicting feelings. Meanwhile, Lu Bei Chen still has unsettled grief over his brother's death that he pins on Gu Chu. As they work together, Lu Bei Chen and Gu Chu realize that they can start over, but the misunderstandings between their two families start to come between them.

Tupe and Tien are twins who are the exact opposite. Tien is carefree and a total playboy–or so he seems. Tupe, however, is a stern guy who is a workaholic and doesn’t care for any romance. So when Tien meets Krachao at a beauty pageant, it was like love at first sight–or so he thought. Tien’s mother got very worried and asked Tupe to fly back from Switzerland to deal with his little brother. Meanwhile, his father doesn’t really care and totally stays indifferent.

Krachao didn’t exactly care for Tien thinking that he was just some drunk loser that she would never meet again. Plus, she didn’t have the time to deal with him anyway since she has a drunkard as a mother and her father left to be with some other woman issues to deal with! Krachao’s mother keeps on pressuring her into finding a rich husband so that they’d be rich, hoping that Krachao’s father would come back to them. Krachao caves in and decides to go to work where Meegrob is working when she found out that the family have a single son!

And you guess it, Tupe and Tien are the owners of the Rachinee Orchid Farm, the best and most well-known orchid farm in Thailand. A little mishap occurred that caused Tupe to believe that Krachao is a terrible woman. He tries in every way to get in between Krachao and Tupe in order to protect his little brother.

Actor Hu Jun plays a single dad to his only daughter played by Gina Jin. The modern drama explores the relationships between various types of parental figures as Hu Jun learns the dos and donts of being a dad. Beside a hormonal daughter, he also has to deal with his own stubborn mother and a potential love interest in his life. (Source: AVirtualVoyage)

Two years have passed since white collar worker Jiang Yi Yi and her first love Chu Tian Qi broke up. Even though Yi Yi pretends to not be affected anymore, she still can’t forget him. Then she meets the trainee guardian Fang Mu Ye from the Guardian Tribe, with whom she ends up living together. Mu Ye’s supernatural powers add a lot of fun to Yi Yi’s life, making her gradually forgetTian Qi and focus on her dream of becoming an inventor again. The two become a bickering couple, however, a crazy scientist, who’s looking for a study object, appears.

Minami Hiromi is an FBI agent visiting Japan from the US for a limited time. Minami lost his sight due to an accident in the past and he is called the "last man" in the FBI, referring him as the last trump card to end a case with his strong sense of analysis, smell, and touch. Godo Shintaro has been assigned to attend to Minami. From a family that has served as the Commissioner of the National Police Agency for generations, Godo has an extraordinary sense of justice and is willing to go any lengths to catch the criminals. Minami, who is always ready to ask for help, and Godo, who has never trusted anyone except himself, become a duo and work together to solve cases.

A story of pure love between the son of a man who runs a ship repair factory beset with financial troubles and the well-bred daughter of a national jewelry chain store owner. The backdrop of the story is Yokohama.

If you feel you have lost the purity of your soul by watching stories about womanizers seducing impudent women, or by carrying out calculated maneuvers in your own love life, here is a story for you. A boy and a girl from highly different social backgrounds meet and fall in love. Their love, of course, faces a lot of obstacles. The setting is in Yokohama, a modern port city known for its romantic atmosphere. Hiroto Kanzaki (Kazuya Kamenashi) works hard every day and night for the survival of a small ship repair factory (inherited from his father) as well as the survival of his mother and younger brother, who are suffering from health problems. Living such an underprivileged life, Hiroto has forgotten how to smile. In contrast to him, Nao (Haruka Ayase) is the daughter of a popular jewelry shop owner in a fashionable street in Yokohama. She attends a prestigious exclusive women's college and grew up cheerful and blessed with affluent love. From the moment Hiroto meets her, his closed mind slowly opens up to Nao, who is so innocent that she utters whatever she thinks. Their three close friends, who are also 20 year old's, play an important role in their developing relationship.

The scriptwriter is Eriko Kitagawa, who earned the nickname "The Goddess of Love Stories." This classic love story enables those who are in the same generation to feel empathy, or be envious of the characters' lives; and the rest, who were once 20 years old's, to reminisce about their own "Love of My Life."

A bank, that the Korean government holds equity in, is on the verge of bankruptcy. The country is worried that they will soon face another financial criss similar to what happened in 1997. People in the Financial Services Commission struggle to prevent another similar incident.

Chae Yi Heon is a chief in the Economic Policy Bureau at the Financial Services Commission. He does his best as an economic bureaucrat. His father is the best economist in South Korea, but Chae Yi-Hun hides the identity of his father.

Heo Jae is the chairman of the Financial Services Commission. He is an ambitious man. He experienced the Korean Financial Crisis in 1997. At that time, he became disillusioned with the powerless Korean financial infrastructure. His objective is to improve the country's financial infrastructure at any cost.

Lee Hye Joon begins work at the International Finance Bureau of Ministry of Economy and Finance. During the Korean Financial Crisis, she was a kid and her family struggled through that time. She dreams of owning a building.

It’s a story about a servant girl who is in love and obsesses about Khun Luang. She is the servant girl of CheunKlin who is the daughter of a high ranked soldier and Paeng believes that she is his daughter too since CheunKlin's father slept with her mother who is also a servant but that is never clarified. Khun Luang meets CheunKlin and falls in love instantly then they are married etc. Paeng gets angry and thinks CheunKlin tries to take everything from her so she uses black magic to get Khun Luang to fall in love with her and it works. In the story CheunKlin's mom is very imortant because she is the protector of her present day great great grandchildren. She later locked Paeng up for using black magic on her daughter’s husband and hired someone to put a magic/holy cloth over the door to lock Paeng and her black magic in a small house not too far from their main house. Now in the present time, Khun Luang and CheunKlin are reborn as Samon and Rampa. They are married with two kids. They come back to Thailand to live in their family's old house in which now CheunKlin's mom in past is Samon's great grandmother. Her corpse remains in the house and the Paeng's spirit has become a strong and vengeful ghost but is still trapped in the house. So she tries to first lure the children into the small house but she fails. Then Paeng tries to lure Samon to remove the cloth from the door and set her free. He does eventually remove the cloth and now the evil spirit is free and sets out to destroy the family.