Lee Sang-yi and Han Ji-hyun Spice Up Our Love in spin-off

10 September 26, 2024September 26, 2024

Lee Sang-yi and Han Ji-hyun Spice Up Our Love in spin-off

by tccolb

New stills and a teaser have come out for TVING’s upcoming Spice Up Our Love, with No Gain No Love’s Lee Sang-yi and Han Ji-hyun stepping up from second leads to main characters in this short-but-fun fantasy spin-off.

For context, the teaser begins by re-introducing our romance novelist Nam Ja-yeon (Han Ji-hyun) and re-visiting her near-accident with Bok Gyu-hyun (Lee Sang-yi) in No Gain No Love, when he had tried to apologize for his mean online comments. After blacking out, though, Ja-yeon is shocked to wake up inside the fictional world of her latest novel, inhabiting the body of her heroine.

However, Ja-yeon is further horrified to see that her male lead looks nothing like his namesake Lee Yoo-jin (Three Bold Siblings). Unable to accept that her precious character Kang Ha-joon (also Lee Sang-yi) has taken on Gyu-hyun’s form, Ja-yeon tries to rebel against her own lusty script. But this just leads Ha-joon to become hilariously distraught and he takes her to the hospital, thinking that his lover is unwell.

Our heroine then tries a different tactic, theorizing that she could trigger the story’s end if she plays out the final steamy chapter. Determined and robed, thus begins their bedroom tussle and when Ja-yeon wakes up still in fiction, she goes in for another sultry round. Desperate to find a way back to reality, Ja-yeon even tries to force a character death. But the teaser closes on Ha-joon’s epic save as Ja-yeon curses the male lead trope.

Directed by PD Jung Hoon with scripts by Jo Min-jung, production for the spin-off also had the original series writer Kim Hye-young (Her Private Life) in a creator role. Premiering on the heels of No Gain No Love’s finale, TVING’s Spice Up Our Love will be releasing its two episodes on October 3 and will be streaming internationally on Amazon Prime.

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1 kay4625

September 26, 2024 at 7:16 PM

This looks just as crazy as No Gain No Love. Just, you know, spicier. And I, for one, am totally here for it.

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2 vienibenmio

September 26, 2024 at 7:47 PM

As everyone who's seen my fanwall knows, I am ridiculously excited for this. But I'm wondering how it will fit into the story, like is it a fun AU, will it take place entirely in Ja-yeon's head, or will there be some "real life" implications for their NGNL characters? Also, it's kind of interesting that a girl with no real life sexual experience will have to act out this stuff. Usually in otomeisekai stories it's the opposite

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3 panshel

September 26, 2024 at 8:00 PM

We can get a bean for this, right? It's only two episodes, and I can give it to No Gain No Love.

I just hope Ha-joon is not Gyu-hyun's secretary in this web novel. #SaveHa-joon

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4 jillian

September 26, 2024 at 8:03 PM

I have not seen NGNL but weirdly enough looking forward to their story. I wonder how the fictional and real world be resolved

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5 🌸 Seeker 🌸

September 27, 2024 at 3:03 AM

It does look like a fun take. Maybe more dramas will have a spin-off for their secondary leads. After all more romance is always welcome.

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6 sal

September 27, 2024 at 3:25 AM

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Sifimoyo

September 27, 2024 at 4:37 AM

"R-rated smut"??? Really? I hardly think these two characters from the original drama are going to produce porn! And I've watched a large number of Korean and Chinese dramas precisely because we are spared the sort of commonplace revelation of physical parts which SHOULDbe kept private and which dominate in your average Western "romance". Not a single such bit revealed! But then, I suppose it depends on what you consider to be "smut".

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7 Dylan [JooJoo couple, fighting!]

September 27, 2024 at 5:23 AM

I was really hoping this would be a drama about them as a couple in the "real world", or at least have "real world" consequences after the end of the main drama. but alas, i'll take what scraps we can get with these two.

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vienibenmio

September 27, 2024 at 5:50 AM

That's how I'm feeling. I am a little annoyed with how this was initially described when the news about it was first released in August or whenever because it made me think we were getting a legit full drama with them. I think "special episode" would have been a lot better descriptor than "spinoff," even if the leads technically aren't the same.

It is possible we'll get some real world consequences, they just won't take up a large portion of time. Either way, I'm trying to temper my expectations.