WLW Vibes / Queerbaiting
Dramas with intense chemistry, subtext, innuendo or queercoding between two female characters that doesn't build up to a canon queer relationship.
Or dramas where a female lead dresses as a man and another FL character falls for her, but the FL ends up with the ML.
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1. Doctors
Korean Drama - 2016, 20 episodes
FL and her best friend. FL even asks her if she's a lesbian, and they end up living together after high school.
I so badly wanted them to end up together.
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2. Twenty-Five Twenty-One
Korean Drama - 2022, 16 episodes
FL and her idol / rival / best friend.
I'm sure someone's written some great AU fic where the drama begins with Kim Min-chae and her two moms.
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3. Search: WWW
Korean Drama - 2019, 16 episodes
Bed sharing and intense queer innuendo.
"Let's sleep here together... I won't do anything but hold your hand."
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4. Kiss Scene in Yeonnamdong
Korean Drama - 2019, 12 episodes
FL is trying to track down the person she shared her first kiss with, and the ML's girlfriend (now ex) is one of her prime suspects.
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5. Because This Is My First Life
Korean Drama - 2017, 16 episodes
FL's scene with the ML's ex has all the hallmarks used to demonstrate attraction (slo mo, lighting, music) and the FL questions herself.
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6. In Another Life
Chinese Movie - 2023
It's super, super strongly implied that they are a couple. But we don't get a kiss, a confession, or something else that makes it explicit and not just implied.
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7. Dream High
Korean Drama - 2011, 16 episodes
Slowburn friends. Hand holding. Cheek kisses.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" "You're pretty."
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8. Jealousy Incarnate
Korean Drama - 2016, 24 episodes
Two secondary, middle-aged female characters. They literally sleep in the same bed and I really thought they were going to be an official canon couple.
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9. Into the Ring
Korean Drama - 2020, 32 episodes
Two secondary characters (Han Bi and Judo Girl) had such a good set up but no pay off <.<
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10. She Was Pretty
Korean Drama - 2015, 16 episodes
FL lives with her best friend and they call each other wifey.
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11. Age of Youth
Korean Drama - 2016, 12 episodes
I haven't watched this drama. I've just been victimized by this gifset: https://prncediana.tumblr.com/post/172041916562/i-hate-you-i-hate-you-too and the knowledge that they're not a canon couple.
They even kiss???
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12. The King's Affection
Korean Drama - 2021, 20 episodes
The FL dresses as a man and marries a woman. The Queen has a crush on the FL and even leans in for a kiss while the FL is asleep, but the FL wakes up.
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13. My Unicorn Girl
Chinese Drama - 2020, 24 episodes
FL does figure skating and hockey. Gets recruited to a university hockey team and has to dress as a man. Has insane chemistry with a senior female student on her university's figure skating team. They fake date one point.
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14. Bromance
Taiwanese Drama - 2015, 18 episodes
FL dresses as a man. ML's sister falls for her.
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15. Sungkyunkwan Scandal
Korean Drama - 2010, 20 episodes
FL dresses as a man. The most popular gisaeng falls for her.