Lead Tries to Kill (or Actually Kills) Other Lead
Chinese fantasy / wuxia / historical romance dramas where one of the leads tries to kill the other at some point. Or both leads try to kill each other.
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1. Até o Fim da Lua
Chinese Drama - 2023, 40 episodes
A version of the ML kills the FL's entire sect, including her adoptive father, and tries to kill her too. She is tasked with going back in time before the ML's ascension to destroy his evil bone and kill him. She must keep him alive until she is able to destroy his evil bone. Eventually she does nearly succeed in doing so.
The ML threatens to kill the FL a few times and nearly does so a few times.
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2. The Song of Glory
Chinese Drama - 2020, 53 episodes
FL tries to kill ML not realizing that he (the Crown Prince / Regent) is the "Merchant" / Fourth Brother she met outside the palace. She succeeds in stabbing him.
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3. As Lendas
Chinese Drama - 2019, 56 episodes
FL saves the ML's life in the beginning. Later, she believes he betrayed her and tries to kill him several times, but is not successful.
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4. Ye Ye Xiang Jian Bu Shi Jun
Chinese Drama - 2023, 24 episodes
FL is tasked with assassinating the ML and tries to kill him several times. None of her attempts cause the ML serious harm.
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5. O Romance do Tigre e da Rosa
Chinese Drama - 2020, 24 episodes
The FL ends up taking the place of a character she wrote for a TV drama who who kidnapped the ML in order to marry him. The ML tries to poison the FL via poisoned wine on their wedding night to avoid the marriage and carry on with his plan to marry the character's sister. He tries to poison her again (via poisoned wine... again) in order to get the character's mother to reveal the location of rare medicine.
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6. Alquimia das Almas
Korean Drama - 2022, 20 episodes
The FL plans to kill the ML shortly after meeting him, but doesn't / isn't able to follow through. Then she gives him lethal poison (but hopes that he lives) in order to get something they both want. Ultimately the villain controls her and makes her kill the ML against her will.
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7. Agentes da Princesa
Chinese Drama - 2017, 67 episodes
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8. A Mulher do Rei
Chinese Drama - 2017, 48 episodes
The ML essentially holds the FL hostage in a forced engagement / marriage and the FL initially considers trying to kill the ML. At the end of the drama the leads also clash.
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9. Amor entre Fada e Demônio
Chinese Drama - 2022, 36 episodes
ML initially wants to kill or maim the FL because she is a fairy / immortal (his enemy), but cannot because of a curse / connection situation whereby any harm done to the FL is done to the ML.
The FL later kills herself to save the ML and 100,000 of his soldiers. After she is revived, she plans to die again in order to save the world from an evil god but the ML intervenes so that his body traps the evil god and the FL must kill the ML (instead of sacrificing herself) in order to eradicate the evil god once and for all.
On a separate note, the FL also doses the ML's wine with non-lethal substances on three occasions.
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10. A vingança da criada
Chinese Drama - 2022, 30 episodes
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11. Ashes of Love
Chinese Drama - 2018, 63 episodes
The FL kills the ML (by stabbing him in the back) for killing her family members.
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12. Dra. Atraente
Chinese Drama - 2020, 28 episodes
The FL saves the ML's life, but later finds out he is responsible for her parents' deaths and stabs him.
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13. Uma Odisseia Oriental
Chinese Drama - 2018, 50 episodes
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14. My Dear Destiny
Chinese Drama - 2023, 24 episodes
FL is tricked into thinking she needs to kill the ML for revenge
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15. O Retorno do Abismo
Chinese Drama - 2023, 40 episodes
The ML tries to take his heart-protecting scale from the FL (knowing she would die without it) but he doesn't have enough power.
The ML stabs the FL in the heart three different times knowing it will not kill her. After the first time, the FL tries to kill the ML with a rock.
The FL is possessed by the villain's dark magic, which compels her to kill the ML. She resists it, but not completely.