Still from 'Melancholia'. Courtesy of iQiyi.
iQiyi is set to premiere K-drama and original Chinese drama series this November.
Korean dramas
Melancholia Premieres 11 November
Starring Lee Do-Hyun (18 Again) and Im Soo-Jung, Melancholia follows Ji Yoon-soo, a math teacher (played by Im Soo-Jung) of a prestigious high school who helps Baek Seung-Yoo (played by Lee Do-Hyun), a problematic student with math potential top his class. The teacher-student relationship scandal causes Yoon-Soo to lose her job. 4 years later, they meet again as adults to reveal the corruption in school and to recover her reputation.
Happiness Premieres 6 November
Set in the near future, a newly-constructed high-rise apartment building in the big city is occupied by residents from diverse backgrounds, with the rich that occupy the higher floors, and the poor that can only afford renting the apartments. A new infectious disease breaks out, and the high-rise apartments are sealed off. The residents struggle to survive, while stricken with fear and distrust of others.
IDOL: The Coup iQiyi Original and Exclusive | Premieres 8 November
Starring EXID’s Ahn Hee-Yeon, Kwak Si-Yang, Kim Min-Kyu, IDOL: The Coup revolves around a passé idol group struggling to find success to avoid being disbanded. It follows the group members giving up on their dreams as they grow through their failures and take courageous steps towards their new goals in life.
Secret Royal Inspector JoyPremieres 9 November
Set in the Joseon dynasty, Secret Royal Inspector Joy is a comedic, historical period drama that centers around an intelligent but lazy secret agent played by Ok Taecyeon, and a woman, played by Kim Hye-Yoon, whose beliefs are way ahead of her times and she seeks to get out of her unhappy marriage to search for her happiness.
Let Me Be Your KnightiQiyi Exclusive | Premieres 7 November
Yoon Tae-In (Lee Jun-Young) is the leader of idol group Luna. He suffers from sleep walking and to cure his ailment secretly, he commissions a doctor to live in with him and his group members. The ‘doctor’ is In Yoon-Joo (Jung In-Sun) who is fact a tour guide.
Chinese Originals
A Camellia Romance iQiyi Original and Exclusive | Premieres on 10 November
In this historical romance, the largest tea merchant would like to marry the only daughter of a fabrics store Xu Chunchun (played by Li Mo) to his only son Zhou Junjue (played by Guo Zifan).In order to run away from her stepmom and start her own business, Xu agrees to the marriage. Annoyed by all the rules in a rich family after marriage, Xu wants to get divorced as soon as possible, but Zhou is not planning to let her go, after love at first sight.
My HeartiQiyi Original | Premieres 15 NovemberSet in a fictional world where everyone has spiritual powers, Lu Qingqing (played by Cheng Xiao), a girl with no spiritual powers but full of vitality, tries hard to improve her cultivation, but no matter what she does, she is still relegated as a loser. Until one day, she meets the Tsundere prince Nangong Yixin (played by Jason Koo), an arrogant playboy who is actually wise and warm-hearted on the inside, and fins a way to increase her powers.
Special LadyiQiyi Original and Exclusive | Premieres on 25 NovemberThe odd one out in the Song family of intellectuals, third daughter Song Zhu (played by Xiao Yan), rebels against arranged marriages in pursuit of true love. Meanwhile, the black-bellied Xiao Yu (played by Zhai Zilu) hides his identity to study at the academy. Watch how love blossomed between Song Zhu and Xiao Yu, who disliked each other when they first met.
Be My PrincessiQiyi Original and Exclusive | Premieres on 30 NovemberMing Wei (played by Zhou Jieqiong) is a part-time translator who loves acting. She was unexpectedly selected to be the female lead of award winning actor Mu Tingzhou’s (played by Xu Zhengxi) upcoming drama. There she enacts the love story between a princess and a master in Ming Dynasty with Mu . After an accident which caused Mu to lose his memories, he only remembers Ming who he protected dearly as the princess in the drama. In order to help Mu recover his memories, Ming starts taking care of his life, and they gradually fall in love. After Mu regains his memories, he returned to being the award winning actor he was, and seem to move further away from Ming’s life. However, Mu found the bits and pieces of his life with Ming and the two of them finally express their feelings for each other and penned down a romantic love story.
