Dramas where the SML should have gotten the girl

SML = Second Male Lead (or even someone else in some cases!)

ms_mj Aug 21, 2020
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  • Cheese in the Trap

    1. Cheese in the Trap

    Korean Drama - 2016, 16 episodes
    7.4
    2,490 points by 25 voters
    Having returned to college after a year long break due to her family's poor background, Hong Seol, a hardworking over-achiever, inadvertently gets on the wrong side of her senior, Yoo Jung, who's ...more
  • Who Are You: School 2015

    2. Who Are You: School 2015

    Korean Drama - 2015, 16 episodes
    8.2
    1,691 points by 17 voters
    Sekang High School is the most prestigious private high school in Seoul's Gangnam District, and Go Eun Byul is the most popular girl there. Meanwhile, her identical twin Lee Eun Bi is ...more
  • Boys over Flowers

    3. Boys over Flowers

    Korean Drama - 2009, 25 episodes
    7.5
    1,387 points by 14 voters
    Geum Jan Di comes from a poor family who owns a dry-cleaning shop. One day, she visits Shinhwa High School, a prestigious school for the wealthy, and saves a student trying to ...more
  • Save Me

    4. Save Me

    Korean Drama - 2017, 16 episodes
    8.5
    794 points by 8 voters
    Following the failure of her father's business, Sang Mi and her family move to Muji-gun, where they have no friends or relatives. There she meets four young men, Han Sang Hwan, Seok ...more
  • A Love So Beautiful

    5. A Love So Beautiful

    Chinese Drama - 2017, 23 episodes
    8.3
    693 points by 7 voters
    It starts off with high school classmates Chen Xiao Xi and Jiang Chen who are also neighbors. Xiao Xi, a cheerful girl who doesn't study much, is expressive about her admiration towards ...more
  • Cinderella and the Four Knights

    6. Cinderella and the Four Knights

    Korean Drama - 2016, 16 episodes
    7.8
    590 points by 6 voters
    Eun Ha Won is in her third year of high school and dreams of becoming a teacher. Unattached from her father, stepmother, and stepsister and poorly treated by them, Ha Won still ...more
  • Well-Intended Love

    7. Well-Intended Love

    Chinese Drama - 2019, 20 episodes
    7.5
    488 points by 5 voters
    Needing assistance with her treatment, a third-rate actress with leukemia becomes involved with a CEO. In order to receive a bone marrow transplant quickly in order to continue her career, Xia Lin ...more
  • The King: Eternal Monarch

    8. The King: Eternal Monarch

    Korean Drama - 2020, 16 episodes
    8.1
    399 points by 4 voters
    Lee Gon is the third Korean emperor of his generation. His citizens regard him as the perfect leader. But behind this flawless appearance, hides a deep wound. When he was eight years ...more
  • Reply 1988

    9. Reply 1988

    Korean Drama - 2015, 20 episodes
    9.1
    397 points by 4 voters
    Five childhood friends, who all live in the same Ssangmundong neighborhood of Seoul, lean on each other to survive their challenging teen years and set a path for their futures. Sung Deok ...more
  • Jealousy Incarnate

    10. Jealousy Incarnate

    Korean Drama - 2016, 24 episodes
    8.1
    396 points by 4 voters
    Lee Hwa Shin is a handsome anchor with notable journalistic talent, a well-to-do family and commendable education. He is also as fierce a competitor as one will find in the world of ...more
  • Meteor Garden

    11. Meteor Garden

    Chinese Drama - 2018, 50 episodes
    7.9
    197 points by 2 voters
    Shan Cai, an 18-year-old girl from a struggling family, is accepted into the country's most prestigious school, where she meets F4, an exclusive group of the wealthiest and most handsome boys—Dao Ming ...more
  • Backstreet Rookie

    12. Backstreet Rookie

    Korean Drama - 2020, 16 episodes
    7.6
    194 points by 2 voters
    Jung Saet Byul is a 22-year-old, beautiful four-dimensional girl with amazing fighting skills, loves her friends, family, and retro fashion. Although boys are lining up to date her, she only looks at ...more
  • Extraordinary You

    13. Extraordinary You

    Korean Drama - 2019, 32 episodes
    8.3
    194 points by 2 voters
    What would you do if you found out that you were, in fact, a character in a comic? And an extra character on top of that? Change the course of the story, ...more
  • Strong Woman Do Bong Soon

    14. Strong Woman Do Bong Soon

    Korean Drama - 2017, 16 episodes
    8.7
    192 points by 2 voters
    Do Bong Soon is a petite, unemployed woman who is honest and kind. She appears little and sweet on the outside, but she is in fact very, very strong. For generations in ...more
  • My Robot Boyfriend

    15. My Robot Boyfriend

    Chinese Drama - 2019, 42 episodes
    7.4
    100 points by 1 voters
    While on a trip to Bingchuan, medical student Lin Mo Bai gets into a serious accident. To save him, his scientist father gives him mechanical enhancements. Lin Mo Bai becomes half-human and ...more
  • Here to Heart

    16. Here to Heart

    Chinese Drama - 2018, 48 episodes
    7.6
    100 points by 1 voters
    This is a tale of enduring love, one that even a painful breakup couldn't extinguish. Over a decade has passed, yet their wounded hearts remain unhealed. Despite finding new partners, they're haunted ...more
  • Born Again

    17. Born Again

    Korean Drama - 2020, 32 episodes
    7.3
    99 points by 1 voters
    Life, death and second chances take center stage in this story about three people whose intertwined destinies travel through space and time with haunting results. It’s the 1980s and Detective Cha Hyung ...more
  • Who Are You

    18. Who Are You

    Thai Drama - 2020, 18 episodes
    8.3
    99 points by 1 voters
    After enduring vicious bullying, an orphaned student, Mind, attempts to take her life in hopes of escaping her problems. Miraculously, she survives with memory loss and wakes up with a new life ...more
  • A Poem a Day

    19. A Poem a Day

    Korean Drama - 2018, 16 episodes
    7.8
    99 points by 1 voters
    The story of lives of people who work at the hospital like physical therapists, rehabilitation therapists, radiologists, nurses, medical trainees and more. Ye Jae Wook works as a physical therapist and also ...more
  • Oh! My Emperor

    20. Oh! My Emperor

    Chinese Drama - 2018, 21 episodes
    7.7
    99 points by 1 voters
    Luo Fei Fei, a 21st-century doctor, was unexpectedly transported to the mysterious ancient nation of Huang Dao, the kingdom of the Zodiac. By chance, it happened to be the monarch rotation system ...more
  • The Whirlwind Girl

    21. The Whirlwind Girl

    Chinese Drama - 2015, 32 episodes
    7.8
    96 points by 1 voters
    10 years ago in the town of An Yang, the origin of Yuan Wu Dao martial arts, world champion Qu Xiang Nan was accused of doping and his prestigious title was stripped. ...more

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