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Jaerim is an unpopular, not-so attractive HS student who gets bullied. He traverses his complicated HS life sticking to his values while also often butting heads with Yuri who is one of the popular guys in school. He seems nice to everyone but Jaerim because Yuri hates ugly people. However, as they interact more, things start changing between them.
● One-sided hate coming from Yuri to Jaerim at first out of nowhere. Cos of that, Jaerim starts hating Yuri too.
Momoki comes back home to the countryside where he is forced to become the wife of Chikage. Both of them did not want this marriage but it's the only way to save the village from an age-old curse by a forsaken couple from long past. They're also the only two people from the village that are marriageable/single.
• Mutual dislike because they both obvs didn't want to get married.
Akira works at a host club and used to be the top 2 until his coworker Kaito surpassed him. Aside from the princely Kaito surpassing him, he's also pissed that Kaito keeps getting requested by the girls he likes and during performances, Kaito likes to fondle Akira. However, Akira will soon know more about the Kaito outside of his princely image at the club that will change his mind about him.
• One-Sided Rivalry
Jaeyoung is a temporary bodyguard for a Hollywood celeb (Eddie) he doesn't know but his sis is a fan of. After work finished, he asked for Eddie's autograph, but Eddie talked shit in English to his face. Jaeyoung understands, so he confronts Eddie before walking out. This incident made Eddie interested in Jaeyoung, so he hires him to be his bodyguard for 3 months in America where he has to deal with Eddie's stalker, but also a budding romance.
• One-sided hate from Jaeyoung
A bartender named Jay is constantly fighting with the bar's deliveryman, Victor, who is the nephew of the bar owner.
• Hate to Love
• Mutual Dislike
Yajima has had a rival firefighter since his academy days named Torikai. They are both equally good at their training but they keep competing with each other so they keep getting penalized by the instructor that they both admire (and the reason they both became a firefighter). After a night of drinking with coworkers, Yajima had to stay at Torikai's place where one thing led to another and they end up having sex after they provoked each other.
• Rivals to Lovers
Che Qiu Yuan was bullied back in elementary school when he confessed to the school diva so he lost weight and decided to glow up in college so that he can have everyone's attention. Just when he thought he will finally be the most popular guy in his uni, he meets Wen Chen Xi who has everything. One day, he finds out that Wen Chen Xi is a super narcissist who thinks that Qui Yuan is in love with him after Qui Yuan said he looked like an angel when he was super drunk.
• One-Sided Rivalry from Uke
Seo Hyunsoo is an introverted, workaholic lead designer for a company that's always bickering with Baek Youngchan, the extroverted, energetic leader for the Planning team, about project deliverables. He ends up not liking Younchan even more after he heard him j&*kin it in the restroom (but he thinks he was having $eX) during a company team dinner. However, the sexual tension between them over time is making his hold on his dislike looser and looser.
• One-sided Dislike from Seo Hyunsoo
Youngjun Kwak was a talented baseball player until he got diagnosed with depression, which impacted his playing skills leading to a decline in his career. Eventually, he meets Hyun Choi, a gifted & skilled baseball player, which ignites his inferiority complex even further, despite Hyun being a huge fan of him w/c he can't accept nor believe.
• One-sided rivalry/dislike from Youngjun
Mochizuki Tsubaki, the Omega captain of the Judo club, and Ishio Ryuuji, the Alpha captain of the Karate club, are always at each other's throats over gym usage. One day, Mochizuki saw how flustered Ishio was when he saw him changing clothes, so, as a revenge tactic, he started being flirtatious with him and it started working a little too well for both of them.
● Mutual Rivalry
Never Understand