So for the past few days I have been looking
for a good drama, book or basically anything with a possessive guy.
And most list either tell us the same thing or
are rather old.
So where do I start?
Hero description: He has to be an asshole in
every sense of the word.
Manipulative, controlling and possessive.
So let’s get to it.
Chinese drama
1. Sealed with a kiss
Story
summary:
This is a
story about the complicated life of Tong Xue, a young interior designer with a
hidden secret life, living as an outcast mistress of Mo Shao Qian, a successful
businessman who accommodated her with luxury living, showered her with
expensive gifts, but also tortured her in a brutally battled love.
She always
feared him, wishing and planning for the day, when she escapes away from his
empowering claws. However the moment he finally released her, it was too late
for her to run free.
Personal
opinion: It was absolutely amazing. From start to finish. The forced kisses,
MSQ is amazing watching him change was great.
2. Love means never forgetting
Story
Summary:
She first met him when the blooming lotus flower was falling,
only to have to part ways.
Years later, when they reunited, Li Zhong Mou had
all but forgotten of Wu Tong's existence, leaving her forlorn, except the only
thing he wants now from her is the guardianship to their son. 7 years long
years together, can they fix their broken relationship?
This drama is based off the novel by Lian Bai Se.
Personal opinion: If you watched meteor garden this is a
must. It is like seeing a grown up Dao Ming Si that never met Shancai.
Korean
Story
summary:
Having returned to college after a year long
break, due to her family's poor background, Hong Sul, a hard-working
over-achiever, inadvertently got on the wrong side of Yoo Jung, her senior who
is athletic, good looking, gets good grades and has a kind personality, but
also a hidden dark side. From then on her life took a turn for the worse and
Sul was almost certain it was all Yoo Jung's doing. So why is he
suddenly acting so friendly a year later?
Personal opinion: You don’t get a guy darker than Yoo jung.
He is so handsome.
Story
Summary:
"High End Crush" is a romantic comedy
depicting the heartfelt and pure love story by a man with everything in his
hands, who falls in love for the first time in his life with a woman, who has
been living in completely opposite circumstances from his. ~~ High End Crush is
a Chinese-Korean web drama.
Personal opinion: It is not rather exceptional
but it is a good pass time he is rather cute.
Story Summary:
Kang Hoon is a CEO of world's largest company
D.O.L's Korean branch. One day, he is kidnapped and dramatically escapes from
the bad guys but he bleeds so much that he blackouts in front of one animal
hospital. Yoon Seo, a veterinarian, finds him and cures him.
Personal
Opinion: The main leads look amazing together.
5. Story Summary:
When a total eclipse of the sun took place, a
21st century woman, Go Ha Jin is transported back in time to the Goryeo Dynasty
of Korea. She wakes up in the body of 16-year-old Hae Soo and got trapped in
the conflicts and struggles between the ruling princes. She then falls in love
with the 4th Prince Wang So, who hides his face behind a mask and is given the
derogatorylabel "dog-wolf" by others, making other people
tremble with fear. ~~ Based on Chinese novel “Bu Bu Jing Xin” by Tong Hua.
Personal Opinion: Unfinished but amazing.
6. Oh my ghost
Bong-sun, a timid young woman, is possessed by
the ghost of a lustful virgin. She has zero self-confidence, and because of her
extreme shyness, she doesn’t have any close friends. At the restaurant where
she works as an assistant, she’s not particularly good at anything, and mostly
just gets yelled at a lot. Her grandmother was a shaman so from a young age
she’s been able to occasionally see ghosts, though it’s not until she meets
the lascivious ghost that she gets possessed totally.
Sun-woo is a conceited star chef who’s overflowing
with confidence in his food and his skills. Bong-sun harbors a secret crush on
him, though he doesn't take much notice of her for two reasons: because he’s
always surrounded by women and because he’s hung up on an old flame. But then
one day, Bong-sun starts acting differently, shedding her mousy personality,
and ends up constantly on Sun-woo’s mind
Personal opinion: I loved this show.
7. Madam antonie
Ko Hye Rim is a famous fortune-teller. She is
known as "Madame Antoine" and insists that she is spiritually
connected to Marie Antoinette, but that part is a lie. She can see through
people and read their minds using "cold reading" as a technique (a
set of techniques used by mentalists, psychics, fortune-tellers, mediums and
illusionists to imply that the reader knows much more about the person than the
reader actually does). She dreams of having love in a romantic film. Hye Rim then
takes part in a psychological test project conducted by psychotherapist Choi
Soo Hyun . His goal is to prove that true love does not exist. Coincidentally,
the name for his psychological treatment center is Madame Antoine.
Personal Opinion: I never finished it.
8. Master sun
Joo Joong Won is the stingy and greedy CEO of
Kingdom, a conglomerate that includes a major department store and hotel. He
meets the gloomy Tae Gong Shil, who started seeing ghosts after an accident.
Their lives take a new turn as they work together to deal with the terror and
sadness brought about by the spirits, while delving into a kidnapping incident
in Joong Won's past. And unknowingly, they fell in love with each other.
Personal Opinion: So ji sub was amazing.
Taiwanese
Murphy’s Law states “anything that can go
wrong, will go wrong.” Guan Xiao Tong is known as the “love guru” of the Meet
and Match Online Dating Company, able to solve anybody’s relationship issues.
After He Zhi Yu, a beautiful model, leaves Ji Jia Wei, he is heartbroken but
his father tries to convince him to move on. Jia Wei proposes a joint-company
matchmaking event between the dating company and the divorce agency. There, Jia
Wei meets Xiao Tong, and the two get off on the wrong foot and they soon
delight in tormenting each other. Meanwhile, a famous chef, Xiang Zi Yan, gets
to know Xiao Tong and begins to develop feelings for her.
Personal Opinion: This drama is cute.
Japanese
Sakuraba Junko, an English language school
teacher, has had no boyfriend even before her 29th birthday and dreams of
working in New York. But one day, she encounters a handsome monk in the worst
moment when she attends a funeral service at a temple. Because of numbness in
her legs, she grabs the altar and ends up emptying the ash from burning incense
on him while he is chanting the sutra. Although a rueful Junko
thinks they will probably not meet again, she is deceived by her family and
made to go for a matchmaking session. The other party is none other than that
monk, Hoshikawa Takane.
Personal opinion: I love this monk. He is so adorable
2. Happi mari
Takanashi Chiwa is an office lady who works
part-time at a club because she is in debt. One day, she gets into a quarrel
with a wealthy and handsome customer who came to the club and is fired. The
next day, a depressed Chiwa is summoned by her boss and finds the rude man from
the day before down there. His name is Mamiya Hokuto. Hokuto suddenly proposes
a contract marriage with Chiaki. Although she is initially resistant to the idea, she
has no choice but to accept. The two of them overcome all sorts of troubles and
become a real couple.
Personal opinion: Male leads handsome af.
Yoshikawa Nao stays behind to live by herself
when her parents leave to inherit her grandpa's farm in the country. On the day
she moves into her new apartment, she discovers that it was rented also to
Uehara Hisashi; a cute, super-cool, popular guy from her school. Not only did
their housing agency unexpectedly close down, the landlord of the apartment
tells them that they had to pay more for their apartment than they had
expected. With no money and no home to return to, Nao and Hisashi decide to
live together as flatmates
Personal Opinion: If you watched It started with a kiss this
is very similar, even LDK.
9-year-old Hyuga Toru is a wealthy man. He
first started to run an internet website from his small room and his hobby
began to make a lot of money. Nowadays, he doesn't like to socialize and if
somebody comes to him he suspects that they may want his money.
Sawaki Chihiro attends a job fair and by an
unexpected occurrence begins to work for Toru. Chihiro soon realizes that Toru
isn't so bad. There's pureness in him and also a good deal of
loneliness. She then begins to have feelings for him.
Personal opinion: Male lead is very handsome. For people who
have watched Mr robot imagine Eliot rich and in love. Love this show.
1. Nohra
Norah's biological father is a dancer, but he
was framed by a bad judge because that judge wanted his girlfriend/wife. Her
father was framed and was sent to prison. The judge later took Norah's mother
to live as his wife, but she was treated like a slave/servant. Years later
after Norah grew up, she learned to love dancing especially the Manorah dance.
She still does not know the truth that the judge is not her daddy.
Her mother and she did not live a happy life.
Personal Opinion: Uncompleted but looks promising.
Indian
1. Iss pyaar ko kya naam doon
The serial begins in Lucknow,
where Khushi Kumari Gupta meets Arnav Singh Raizada when she falls over him in
a public rampwalk show. Rumours arise, and soon Khushi and her sister Payal
move to their paternal aunt's house in Delhi where the Raizadas live.
Arnav is a stern business tycoon
and has been living with his maternal family consisting of his beloved sister
Anjali, and her infidel husband Shyam, uncle Manohar, aunt Manorama, cousin
Aakash and his grandmother Devyani, after his mother's suicide. Khushi, on the
other hand, is a chirpy girl from a lower middle class nuclear family. They
come across each other on several occasions, and after many initial fights,
start warming up to each other.
The antagonist in their story is
Arnav's brother in-law, Shyam, who wishes to marry Khushi. Misunderstanding,
Arnav marries Khushi in turn, to save his sister's marriage, during Aakash and
Payal's wedding. Shyam is later exposed by the duo, who finally confess their
love to each other, marry and live happily ever after.
Personal Opinion: ARS is so hot.
'Madhubala' is the story of Madhubala portrayed
by Drashti Dhami who was born on a film set. While working as a beautician to
fund her family she encounters Bollywood superstar Rishab Kundra (RK) portrayed
by Vivian Dsena.
Personal Opinion: He is snarky rude,
possessive, manipulative and controlling. RK is amazing.
This story
is rather similar to Iss pyaar ko kya naam doon.
Personal
Opinion: The chemistry is amazing.
Zoya Farooqui, an orphaned NRI, travels to Bhopal in search of her biological
father. During her endeavor, she resides with the family of wealthy businessman
Asad Ahmed Khan. Initially, the two despise each other; Zoya is good-hearted
yet modern and fun-loving, which irks Asad, who is traditional and ill-tempered.
Personal Opinion: Season 1 and 2 has a lot of
possessive momemts.
5.
Ek thi raja
ek thi rani
Focus’s on
a poor girl who falls inlove with a prince.
Personal
Opinion: The second season was amazing. The male lead Sarrtaj Gil killed it. He
was possessive vengeful and just all round breath taking to watch.