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Love in Contract

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The concept of Contract marriage is not new in K-drama. You will find many dramas based on this theme where a couple will enter into a contract marriage, eventually fall in love and at the end take marriage vows with full heart.  Going beyond this typical storyline, the main female lead, Choi Sang-eun, is into a profession of providing "Single Life Support". She was raised to become a perfect bride and is using these skills to the fullest in her profession. She helps people in attending to social events, family functions and poses as a perfect wife. She agrees to become a perfect wife for a limited period of time. So far she has married and divorced 12 times. She lives with Woo Kwang-nam who is one of her ex-husbands and is gay. She develops great camaraderie with him. The life goes on smoothly till she meets Jung Ji-ho and Kang Hae-Jin.  Jung Ji-ho is a judge in a family court. He is lonely kind of person recovering from divorce with zero social skills. He is in ...

My Girlfriend is an Alien Season 2

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The season 2 of the Chinese drama "My Girlfriend is an Alien" is as entertaining as Season 1. Season 2 has 2 additional characters to add more spice: Xiao Bu and Jiang Shiyi.  Season 1 had ended with blissful wedding of Fang Leng and Xiao Qui. Season 2 starts with kidnapping of Xiao Qui during her wedding. Her hometown planet Capetown disapproves of the wedding between humans and Capetownian and abduct Xiao Qui. They consider the human harmones to be a big danger to Capetown. They remove all the memories of love  from Xiao Qui's mind and brainwash her to believe that the earthlings are quite selfish and Fang Leng had deceived her. He married her with selfish motives in mind. However, Xiao Qui always cherished her memories with Fang Leng and stored them safely in her sapphire ring before brain washing.  Now the "Xiao Qui" who hates Fang Leng is the perfect person to go back to the earth with a mission of collecting the "dangerous harmone element...