Both are historical dramas with a princess FL. Both MLs have suffered trauma and loss, and find their strength and healing in their love of the FL. Both dramas have surprising and unexpected happy endings of both MLs faking their deaths after a severe injury, and the FL going off with them to live a quiet life, despite being loosely based on tragic historical events.
University student K is an ordinary young woman, but, one day, she finds herself in her favorite romance novel set during historical times. She has now become the minor character Cha Seon Chaek. She is the daughter of a wealthy noble family and her dream is to have a peaceful and normal life. Cha Seon Chaek, while possessed by K, then spends one night with Lee Beon, the lead male character in the novel.
He comes from a royal lineage and is favored by the King. Lee Beon has a cold-blooded personality and is gifted with an attractive appearance and outstanding martial arts skills. He has also experienced a heartbreaking past. Somehow, Lee Beon and Cha Seon Chaek happen to meet and talk. Lee Beon is consoled by her about his heartbreaking past. They spend the night together. Soon, Cha Seon Chaek tries to connect Lee Beon to Cho Eun Ae, who is the lead female character in the novel. According to the novel, Lee Beon and Jo Eun Ae are supposed to fall in love, but, due to the appearance of Cha Seon Chaek, Cho Eun Ae's fate has changed. No matter how hard Cha Seon Chaek tries, Lee Beon’s love always finds its way back to her.
Other people around them include Jung Su Gyeom and Do Hwa Sun. Jung Su Gyeom is a young officer from a prestigious family. He is Lee Beon’s only friend. Do Hwa Sun is an ambitious woman whose life goal is to marry Lee Beon and become a member of the royal family.
He comes from a royal lineage and is favored by the King. Lee Beon has a cold-blooded personality and is gifted with an attractive appearance and outstanding martial arts skills. He has also experienced a heartbreaking past. Somehow, Lee Beon and Cha Seon Chaek happen to meet and talk. Lee Beon is consoled by her about his heartbreaking past. They spend the night together. Soon, Cha Seon Chaek tries to connect Lee Beon to Cho Eun Ae, who is the lead female character in the novel. According to the novel, Lee Beon and Jo Eun Ae are supposed to fall in love, but, due to the appearance of Cha Seon Chaek, Cho Eun Ae's fate has changed. No matter how hard Cha Seon Chaek tries, Lee Beon’s love always finds its way back to her.
Other people around them include Jung Su Gyeom and Do Hwa Sun. Jung Su Gyeom is a young officer from a prestigious family. He is Lee Beon’s only friend. Do Hwa Sun is an ambitious woman whose life goal is to marry Lee Beon and become a member of the royal family.
Lee Heon is the king of Joseon. 7 years ago, when he was a crown prince, his beloved wife died. To this day, he has not been able to get over her death. For the past 7 years, the royal family and government members have tried to get King Lee Heon remarried without success. The nation has also implemented a geumhonryung edict, which is a ban on all single women marrying during this time when the king has not married. People are furious over the marriage ban. One day, King Lee Heon hears of a woman named Ye So Rang, who claims the spirit of the king's late wife exists within the royal palace. Meanwhile, Ye So Rang is a swindler and claims to interpret marital harmony signs. She is arrested and jailed where Officer Lee Shin Won works. To get out of her predicament, she pretends to be possessed by a spirit in front of Lee Shin Won. During her ruse, she mentions that the spirit of King Lee Heon's late wife exists within the royal palace. She is then brought in front of the king and he asks her if she can really see his late wife's spirit. To survive, Ye So Rang acts like her body is possessed by the king's late wife. Ye So Rang's lies get bigger and more audacious.
Yu Jin was raised within the desert tribes of Xiong Nu, although her foster father is a Han. Under certain circumstances, she was forced to flee to Chang'an, the then capital of the Early Han Dynasty, changing her name to Jin Yu along the way. Along her journey, she first meets the calm and kind Mo Xun (aka Jiu Ye, ninth master) and later the handsome, cold general Wei Wu Ji. Jin Yu falls for one of them but is rejected. Will she untangle her love knot? Who will she choose in the end?
Quiet and gentle, Min Jae Yi is everything a good daughter of a prominent family should be. Engaged to the son of the Second State Councillor, Jae Yi knows that the only way to bring herself and her family honor is to accept her fate, which she does with grace and charm. Devoting herself to learning everything she needs to know to become a good wife and mother, Jae Yi dutifully prepares for the future. Sadly, destiny has other plans for her future. Four days before her wedding, Jae Yi’s family is murdered. With no one else to blame for the unexpected tragedy, Jae Yi soon finds herself the object of baseless and horrifying accusations. Blamed for the death of her family, Jae Yi might not have had much of a future at all, if fate hadn’t decided to intervene. Bringing the lonely crown prince, Lee Hwan into her life at just the right moment, Jae Yi is saved from a dismal fate, but her salvation comes at a price. Plagued by a mysterious curse, Lee Hwan agrees to help Jae Yi, but only if she agrees to help him break his curse in return. Unable to refuse such an offer, Jae Yi agrees to the prince’s terms, setting them both on an unexpected path toward love. But what chance does their love have of surviving when one of them is a former murder suspect and the other is a cursed prince?
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.
