Who's the Love Interest?
dramas where the lead's love interest isn't immediately clear (at least to me) / dramas where the person I think is the 2nd lead is actually the 1st lead
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1. Perdi Você Para Sempre — 1ª Temporada
Chinese Drama - 2023, 39 episodes
all 3 of these men feel like the ML of their own drama and I could not for the life of me figure out where this was going
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2. Academia de Ótimos Homens
Thai Drama - 2019, 8 episodes
so hype when I realized the one I liked was the lead
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3. Itaewon Class
Korean Drama - 2020, 16 episodes
so hype when I realized the one I liked was the lead again
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4. Amor melhor que Imortalidade
Chinese Drama - 2019, 40 episodes
so hype when I realized the one I liked was the lead once more
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5. Queen of Reversals
Korean Drama - 2010, 31 episodes
okay this one I watched BECAUSE I knew they had rewritten it while it was airing to change the lead
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6. Palácio: A Fechadura do Coração de Jade
Chinese Drama - 2011, 39 episodes
most of this list was a pleasant surprise, this one was the opposite; I was CONVINCED Mickey He was the ML and APPALLED to discover he was not
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7. A Última Imperatriz
Korean Drama - 2018, 52 episodes
this one was complicated; love an evil husband who falls for his wife, love a bodyguard romance; ...that ending tho :|
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8. Doce Proposta
Korean Drama - 2001, 16 episodes
FL & 2FL both had meetcutes with the ML, and the 2FL was way more interesting
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9. Xi Qian Hua
Chinese Drama - 2023, 30 episodes
I technically knew who the ML was from the beginning but he barely got screen time, the 2ML got so much screen time in the first half and the 3RD ML so much in the back half, I didn't know what to make of it
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10. A Última Cinderela
Japanese Drama - 2013, 11 episodes
mildly surprised but pretty neutral about this one
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11. Bpai Hai Teung Duang Dao
Thai Drama - 2020, 24 episodes
the only reason I watched to the end was to see if the couples were going to swap