Name That Drama: Steadily amping up the difficulty level

by HeadsNo2

 
As always, feel free to email us your questions and requests for future Name That Drama installments.
 

1. This one seems tough to narrow down, what with the rich/poor dynamic
   

   It’s an old drama that I saw a snippet of. I believe it’s a story of a poor boy and a rich girl. The part that I saw was when the OTP were teenagers/young adults.

   The scene I remember: The male lead was invited to the female lead’s house for a party. His mom stayed up all night beforehand to make snacks/desserts for him to bring to the party. When he came to the party I think he saw the female lead, because he was embarrassed, and he just left early. He ate his mom’s dessert by himself while crying and later told her that everyone liked her snacks.

    

2. Name Those Two Chinese Dramas
   

   Hello Beanies,

   I have two Chinese dramas that I need help figuring out. I remember watching this drama on the television when I was in elementary school. Perhaps during 2002-2006-ish.

   The first drama is kind of vague, but maybe someone does know. It’s kinda like sageuk, but the Chinese version, because I remember the elaborate hair and the not-modern-clothing.

   The scene I vividly remember till now (based on my little kid memory) is a scene where they give the hero a riddle to solve. He was given a soccer-sized rock(?), maybe smaller, and a thread. The rock has a little route inside of it. Like the ant’s house. And the riddle is that he needs to get the thread to reach from one end to another. And a woman (the heroine?) helps him solve it by tying the thread on an ant and letting the ant find the way out of the rock. The rock might also have been made of jade. I’m kinda blurry regarding this.

   The second drama is also a Chinese sageuk, because I remember so many scenes in the forest. Somebody is very sick because he/she was poisoned and they need to find a man with a flower on his head because he knows the cure. Thats all I remember. Thank you for your help!

    

3. Name That Movie or Drama
   

   So there’s this movie or drama which is probably from the early 2000s, but I don’t remember since I was really young. It was about the relationship between a housekeeper and a guest.

   One scene I remember is him pretending to have lost his watch, leading her to search all day in the trash for it. Although he didn’t mean it, she was obviously unhappy about it. Please help me, I do want to finish that movie.

    

4. Whistle-blow the name of this one
   

   Hi,

   I hope you can help me out with this. Been watching a couple of dramas lately, and they always seem to involve whistleblowing. This reminded me of a drama — it was either a drama that I watched (recently), or read in the news, or read the synopsis. It’s about a guy (the chief or section head) who was the whistleblower for the company. However, he ended up staying in the company (instead of leaving or getting fired) and ended up always getting pushed around by a higher-up because of his whistleblowing.

   This has been bothering me for the past few weeks and I hope that you can help me find this drama.

    

5. They just keep getting vaguer
   

   Hello Beanies,

   Actually, my description is very vague. This is not even something I have watched either. I came across the summary of this drama when surfing the net, but I couldn’t find it again.

   The heroine used to be an idol. However, she lost her popularity and then started working part time. The hero is now a popular star. They used to date earlier, as I remember. But now he is kind of bullying her.

   This is what I can remember. I’m not even sure if this is a combination of two or three dramas. Thank you.

    

6. Name That Trailer
   

   I saw two trailers (at different times) of this drama. I think it was like a Facebook post of a “Coming Soon” or something. In the first trailer, the lead heroine is angry and shouting at a guy in the office. Other people clear off when the guy (who may have been the lead) kisses the woman. She runs away and goes down some stairs, and the guy follows her.

   In the other trailer, the lead heroine goes to the hospital where her mom is waiting for her with the doctor. They argue about the lead’s age and maybe his single status. When another doctor passes them by, he bows to the mother and talks about something, and it becomes clear that the mom called the heroine to meet with this doctor with the intention of setting them up. She gets angry… and then I don’t remember. This is not a Korean drama. It is Chinese, I think. And pretty recent. It could also be Taiwanese.

   Sorry if the details are all messed up. I have been looking for this drama for a few months now. Beanies, please help me!

    

Thanks for playing, everyone — till next time!

 
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