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Kang Ma-ru, a bright medical student, is devoted to his slightly older neighbor Han Jae-hee, a TV reporter. When she picks a wealthy CEO and a comfortable life over him, the betrayal changes him completely. Years later, working as a bartender, he crosses paths with Seo Eun-gi, a guarded chaebol heiress being groomed to run her father's company.
In an alternate 2018 where Korea is still an empire, cheerful musical actress Oh Sunny marries the emperor. She is soon pulled into palace power struggles and a mysterious murder, and she joins forces with Na Wang-shik, an imperial bodyguard who took the job to avenge his mother.
Kang Min-ho is a ruthless corporate raider at an investment firm, driven by revenge against the uncle who betrayed his father and ruined his family. After a heart attack, he survives thanks to a heart transplant and finds himself turning gentler and warmer, even as he keeps chasing revenge and crosses paths with Soon-jung, whose father once worked for his.
After seeing his mother murdered by the gangster Mao, Lee Soo-hyun is taken in by NIS agent Kang Jung-ho's family and grows up to become an agent alongside Jung-ho's son Min-ki. When a mission stirs up his childhood trauma and his hunger for revenge gets him fired, he is offered a chance to go undercover inside Mao's gang.
Bong Seon-hwa grows up in hard circumstances but stays strong and upbeat, sharing a long relationship with neighborhood friend Moon Sang-hyeok. When greed leads to a tragedy that costs her family everything, she vows revenge and takes on a new identity, Sharon, to win back what was taken from her.
Woo-joo's life falls apart when she discovers her father was unfaithful. After his death, his mistress forces her out of the family home. Woo-joo sets out to get even, but she finds herself falling for Dong-jin, the mistress's son.
Kang Pil-joo is admired inside the Cheong-A Group, where he has loyally served the founding family since his teens while hiding his true identity as part of a plan to avenge his own family. His scheme involves getting Na Mo-hyun to fall for the group's young heir, Jang Boo-cheon, but he finds himself drawn to her free spirit instead.
Kang Bok-gu is a talented K-1 fighter who never tries to win because he wants no fame. Out of guilt toward Han Da-jung, who was scarred saving him from a fire, he plans to stay with her for life though he does not love her. When his older brother collapses after hearing his ex-girlfriend, actress Cha Eun-suk, is engaged, Bok-gu blames her and swears revenge.
Gun-wook loses everything in a single night when the wealthy Hong family takes him in as President Hong's illegitimate son, then throws him onto the streets once they realize they were wrong. Years later he returns to bring down the Hongs and their Haeshin corporation piece by piece, using the family's children as pawns, until he meets the sharp and ambitious Jae-in.
Chun Hae-joo grows up in deep poverty in Ulsan, unaware of the secrets surrounding her real parents. At school she grows close to Park Chang-hui, a butler's son facing his own hardships, and meets Kang San, the cheerful heir to a rival shipping group, against the backdrop of Korea's shipbuilding boom.
Born into a poor family, Oh Wan-soo becomes a world-class golfer and marries Kim Yong-kook, heir to the Hwain Group, partly to pay off her mother's debts, then learns of his affair. Over a decade later, as a goodwill ambassador in Manila, she narrowly survives a terrorist attack thanks to Seo Do-yoon, who then becomes her bodyguard.
Han Yi-soo's father, chauffeur to the family that owns Gaya Hotel Group, is killed after backing out of taking the blame for a hit-and-run caused by the family's son. When high schooler Yi-soo digs for the truth, he barely survives an attempt on his life and vanishes. Twelve years later he returns under a new Japanese-Korean identity, while his first love, Jo Hae-woo, has become a prosecutor.
Yeon Wol conceals who she really is and becomes an assassin to avenge her family. Sent to kill the king, she falls into a trap laid by an unknown hand and wakes the next day with no memory of her past, only to be named the crown prince's concubine.
Kang Eun-ki becomes Queen of Joseon, but she and King Lee Kyung are attacked by assassins during their wedding parade. As her father faces a treason charge, her secret twin sister, Kang Eun-bo, enters the palace contest to choose a new queen under a false name, determined to uncover who planned the attack on her sister.
Eun Ah-ri-young is a successful TV drama writer still consumed by hatred for her father, who left the family for another woman. She carefully plots her revenge, writing a script drawn from his affair and casting his unsuspecting actress wife, Shim Soo-jung, as the blind mother, while scheming to win her half-sister's fiancé, Lee Joo-wang.
