Cheat on Me If You Can
2020 South Korean mystery comedy television series
Cheat on Me If You Can (Korean: 바람피면 죽는다) is a South Korean television series starring Cho Yeo-jeong, Go Jun, Yeonwoo, Kim Young-dae and Kim Ye-won. The series directed by Kim Hyung-seok and written by Lee Seong-min follows an unconventional and intense story about Kang Yeo-joo, a novelist who wrote a memorandum to her husband Han Woo-sung, a divorce lawyer, stating, "If You Cheat, You Die". It aired on KBS2 from December 2, 2020 to January 28, 2021 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:30 (KST).
Synopsis
A comical mystery thriller between a divorce lawyer and his wife, a criminal novelist who only thinks about how to kill people. She wrote a memorandum stating, "If you cheat, you die".
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Cho Yeo-jeong as Kang Yeo-joo, author of a few best-selling mystery novels, known for her writing style. She usually ends her stories by finishing off her immoral male characters for being unfaithful. So she is dubbed the "Praying Mantis".
Ko Jun as Han Woo-sung, husband of Yeo-joo, a divorce lawyer who is passionate and emotionally involved with his job.
Kim Young-dae as Cha Soo-ho, a part-time worker at a convenience store, who is actually an agent of the National Intelligence Service.
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