It tells both the heart-fluttering love story and fierce obsession of a King with two opposite personalities and an assassin girl who wants to kill him but ends up falling in love with him.

Crown Prince Sajo Hyun is an intellectual character who uses his innate artistic sense to work as a fashion designer at a downtown boutique while hiding his identity of crown prince. He has a wound deep down in his heart from his childhood due to his oppressive father Sajo Seung. Sajo Hyun’s other personality Ak Hee is a charming character who can easily seduce others, but he is cursed to feel extreme pain when he makes physical touch with others.

Yeon Wol lives a life full of twists and turns, going from an assassin to concubine. Yeon Wol is the royal descendant of the fallen Yeon Dynasty and the only daughter of Yeon Poong Hak. Yeon Wol hides her identity and becomes assassin Gye Ra to avenge her family. While trying to assassinate the king, she falls into a trap set by an unknown person and wakes up the next day with no memory of her past.
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Both these dramas have a lot of similarities. Basically, they are both sad historical /romantic drama from the Joseon era.
Recommended by AlexC
Star crossed lovers who cannot be together due to reasons beyond their control. The kings secretly plot to disrupt the plans of crafty prime ministers who have exalted them to their royal positions and who hold all the de facto power.
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The guy feels gay when they loved withvthe same gender without them knowing that they loved is truly a girl. I like how the girl hides their true identity .
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During the Joseon Dynasty, a young woman named Hong Chun Ki is a painter – a true rarity in Joseon Korea, where Confucian values dictate that such pursuits are unsuitable for a woman. She was born blind but somehow managed to acquire a sense of vision. And now she has been accepted to the most prestigious art college in the land. One day, she meets Ha Ram, an astrologer whose fate is the polar opposite of her own: Although he was born sighted, he lost his vision in a childhood accident. Regardless, he is also in possession of an astounding talent that allows him to read the future by tracing the movement of the sky at night despite the fact that he is blind. The duo is sucked into the machinations of the royal court, particularly those involving two princes, the free-spirited Prince Yang Myung and the cruel, scheming Prince Joo Hyang – a man who longs to become the next Joseon king.
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Cross-dressing FL or ML, historical setting. ML loves the other regardless of gender.
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Recommended by emeraldarrows
Both feature swoon-worth Joseon romance between a "prince" and a palace official, strong female lead and beautiful aesthetics. We also get some gripping palace politics going on.
Recommended by BingerWatcher
Both dramas feature:
- A strong FL that must take on the role of a son against their choice to protect the one's they love.
- A love triangle with at least one ML ready to risk it all for the FL.
- ML that fall in love at first sight, and become protective of the FL.
- Unrequited love
- A stubborn grandfather set in their ways that a daughter is not as precious and strong as a son.
- Family disputes
- Misunderstandings
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