Shows Like The King's Affection

A king falls in love with a shaman who unknowingly resembles his first love, sparking dangerous memories.

Both are built around love that crosses a line society drew and the price they pay for it. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.

In Joseon Korea, a legendary female painter blessed with the ability to see demons and a brilliant blind scholar connected to an ancient evil are drawn together by fate, prophecy, …

Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.

Crown Prince Yi Geon has been raised in perfect isolation, groomed to become a ruler who leads with reason, not feeling — until a woman from outside the palace walls crashes into h…

Both are built around love that crosses a line society drew and the price they pay for it. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.

A tyrant king, threatened by conspirators, secretly replaces himself with a peasant clown who looks exactly like him. As the clown impersonates the king and begins to genuinely gov…

Like The King's Affection, it leans hard into forbidden romance. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.

A fierce Goguryeo princess raised as an assassin infiltrates enemy territory disguised as a commoner — and finds unexpected peace with a humble general's son who wants nothing to d…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.

In the Joseon dynasty, a nobleman encounters Hongrang — a gisaeng (courtesan artist) whose intelligence and dignity defy every boundary the era draws. Their love is impossible by e…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.

A modern woman is transported to the Goryeo Dynasty and gets entangled with warring princes.

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.

Miyo Saimori, abused and stripped of her inheritance by her stepfamily, is married off to Kiyoka Kudou — a cold military commander rumored to be so cruel that every previous fiancé…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.

A noblewoman disguised as a male bookseller discovers that a powerful vampire scholar has been protecting the Joseon dynasty from an evil vampire lord for over 120 years. To end th…

Like The King's Affection, it leans hard into gender disguise. The emotional territory — duty and forbidden love — is the same. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.

A young woman disguised as a eunuch becomes the Crown Prince's attendant, leading to a forbidden romance.

Like The King's Affection, it leans hard into gender disguise. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.