to go back to my statement of not having enough morally grey wlw ladies in asian dramas - i just recently started Couple of Mirrors and it's a cold-hearted assassin and a kind writer / socialite who found out her husband and best friend were having an affair getting together set in like 1920s / 1930s Shanghai???
kyung yi throwing k full-force onto that table in episode 9. that's it.
AU idea where Yi-kyung is part of the Korean royal family, and upon the untimely death of her parents, she is taken in by her child-less aunt, the Queen (who wants to make her crown-princess).
But behind the facade of the beloved, fashionable and cheerful princess, she has horrible anger issues and has killed enough people to know she likes the feel of it.
Kyung-yi is her bodyguard, who has to keep her from killing, but never able to go the public in fear of destroying the royal family's image, losing her job, her life and perhaps her loved ones.
sometimes i'm really baffled at the amount of queer-coding and or explicitly queer representation this year's dramas (and by extension 2020 and 2019) had???
i do think Korea is getting there (albeit slowly) and I'm really stoked for 2022