History Series / MoonLovers

[[caption-width-right:350:''If we had met in another world and at another time, I was thinking how great that would have been'']]

''Moon Lovers'' (달의 연인 - 보보경심 려, ''Dar-ui yeon-in - Bobogyeongsim ryeo'', also known as ''Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo'')is a 2016 Korean adaptation of the 2011 Chinese drama ''Series/ScarletHeart''. The story follows a 25 year old woman, Go Ha Jin, who drowns after saving a little kid and who wakes up in the body of 16 year old Hae Soo in the times of Goryeo. After some consideration, she decides to live as Hae Soo, trying to start over.

Also known as Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo

It's a 2016 Korean adaptation of the 2011 Chinese drama, ''Series/ScarletHeart''. The story follows a 25 year old woman, Go Ha Jin, who drowns after saving a little kid and who wakes up in the body of 16 year old Hae Soo in the times of Goryeo. After some consideration, she decides to live as Hae Soo, trying to start over.

!! Moon Lovers contains examples of:

* [[spoiler: AnyoneCanDie: Yeap, by the end Hae Soo passes away and half of the princes have been killed along with several other relevant characters]]

It's a 2016 Korean adaptation of the 2011 Chinese Drama, ''Bu Bu Jing Xin'' or ''Scarlet Heart''. The story follows a 25 year old woman, Go Ha Jin, who drowns after saving a little kid and who wakes up in the body of 16 year old Hae Soo in the times of Goryeo. After some consideration, she decides to live as Hae Soo, trying to start over.

* YourCheatingHeart: This is mainly between [[spoiler: Hae Soo and Wook]], though it's more in the emotional sense and it was actually encouraged by his wife.

* AbusiveParents: Wang So was a victim of it, [[spoiler: and later continued the vicious cycle being a horrible father to his own children ]]

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* IllGirl: Several of the female characters, namely[[spoiler: Lady Hae, Court Lady Oh and Hae Soo]], suffer some kind of ailment that influence greatly their decisions.

* GoodScarsEvilScars: PlayedWith. While at that time it wasn't rare for a person to have scars on their bodies, especially if they were warriors, Wang So was ostracized because of the scar on his face and he actively tried to hide it away, afraid of other people's reaction. There's also the fact that while in a man it wouldn't be considered strange, [[DoubleStandard if a woman had a scar then she would probably be cast aside]], this is best exemplified when [[spoiler: Hae Soo scars herself in a desperate attempt to avoid an arranged marriage with King Taejo, because it was believed that a future queen should not have any on her body, even though the King admits that he himself has several on his body.]]

%%* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething

%%* YourCheatingHeart

* GoodScarsEvilScars: PlayedWith. While at that time it wasn't rare for a person to have scars on their bodies, especially if they were warriors, Wang So was ostracized because of the scar on his face and he actively tried to hide it away, afraid of other people's reaction. There's also the fact that a while in a man it wouldn't be strange, [[DoubleStandard if a woman had a scar then she would probably be cast aside]], this is best exemplified when [[spoiler: Hae Soo scars herself in a desperate attempt to avoid an arranged marriage with King Taejo (who had his fair share of scars after leading several military campaigns), seeing as a women who has any sort of scar on her body would automatically be considered unfit to be queen.]]

%%* GoodScarsEvilScars

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Several of the characters were more than willing to sacrifice their happiness (and even their lives) to protect their loved ones, this refers mainly to[[spoiler: Lady Hae and Court Lady Oh]] who gave up everything.

%%* AnyoneCanDie
* AmbitionIsEvil: A lot of the heartbreak that occurs in the drama takes place partly in thanks to the greed of several characters that had little to no consideration of the damage they could cause to others on their quest for power, such as Yo, Queen Yoo, Won, [[spoiler: Wook, Yeon Hwa and So]] who all end up regretting something in the end.

* BettyAndVeronica: Hae Soo and Yeon-Hwa, respectively for So's Archie.

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Several of the characters were more than willing to sacrifice their happiness (and even their lives) to protect their loved ones, this refers mainly to[[spoiler: Lady Hae and Court Lady Oh]] who gave up everything in their lives.

* CrapsackWorld: The setting is Goryeo in the 10th century so you can be damn sure that a lot of the characters will suffer from the views and constrictions of the era.

%%* IllGirl: [[spoiler: Lady Hae, Court Lady Oh and Hae Soo]]
* LoveDodecahedron: Oh ''Dear Lord''. [[spoiler: Let's see, the 4th, 8th, 10th and 14th princes were all in love with Hae Soo. The 8th prince was the only one she loved back at the beginning, however, he was married to her beloved cousin, Lady Hae, [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth who was actually supportive of their relationship because she was dying.]] In turn, the 13th prince had been in love with Lady Hae but could do nothing because he was of a lower status and she truly loved her husband. Meanwhile, the 8th prince's sister, Yeon Hwa, was courted by the 3rd prince but she was more interested in the 4th prince, with whom Hae Soo will later fall in love. Then, the 10th prince had to marry Soon Deok, the General's daughter, who had been in love with him since childhood but he was still a bit heartbroken over the fact that Hae Soo always saw him as a brother and nothing else. ''[[OverlyLongGag Finally]]'', after the 8th prince fell in disgrace with the 3rd dying and 4th having to marry Yeon Hwa as a political move, the 14th prince marries Hae Soo but even though he loved her and she cared for him greatly, she never stopped loving the 4th prince so, even though he "won" her hand, he never had her heart]] In short, it was a ''[[UnderStatement mess]]''.

%%* SiblingRivalry
%%* SiblingTeam

%%* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth:[[spoiler: Lady Hae, Court Lady Oh and Soon Deok]]

* [[spoiler:DownerEnding: Very much. By the end only 4 of the 8 princes are alive and the friction between the ones that survived has separated them almost completely, Hae Soo passed away shortly after giving birth in secret, So is all alone as a king not trusting his wife, Yeon Hwa, or their child and in the present Ha Jin had managed to get back on her feet after a year in a coma only to end up remembering her life as Hae Soo during a museum exhibition about that era and crying brokenhearted over the fact that she abandoned Wang So and they couldn't be together]]

%%* TheEvilPrince: A few of them qualify.

%%* AmbitionIsEvil
%%* ArrangedMarriage
%%* BettyAndVeronica: Hae Soo and Yeon-Hwa, respectively

%%* BroodingBoyGentleGirl

%%* CrapsackWorld

* LoveDodecahedron: Oh ''Dear Lord''. [[spoiler: Let's see, the 4th, 8th, 10th and 14th princes were all in love with Hae Soo. The 8th prince was the only one she loved back at the beginning, however, he was married to her beloved cousin, Lady Hae, [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth who was actually supportive of their relationship because she was dying.]] In turn, the 13th prince had been in love with Lady Hae but could do nothing because he was of a lower status and she truly loved her husband. Meanwhile, the 8th prince's sister, Yeon Hwa, was courted by the 3rd prince but she was more interested in the 4th prince, with whom Hae Soo will later fall in love. Then, the 10th prince had to marry Soon Deok, the General's daughter, who had been in love with him since childhood but he was still a bit heartbroken over the fact that Hae Soo always saw him as a brother and nothing else. [[OverlyLongGag ''Finally'']], after the 8th prince fell in disgrace with the 3rd dying and 4th having to marry Yeon Hwa as a political move, the 14th prince marries Hae Soo but even though he loved her and she cared for him greatly, she never stopped loving the 4th prince so, even though he "won" her hand, he never had her heart]] In short, it was a [[UnderStatement''mess'']].

* LoveDodecahedron: Oh ''Dear Lord''. [[spoiler: Let's see, the 4th, 8th, 10th and 14th princes were all in love with Hae Soo. The 8th prince was the only one she loved back at the beginning, however, he was married to her beloved cousin, Lady Hae, [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth who was actually supportive of their relationship because she was dying.]] In turn, the 13th prince had been in love with Lady Hae but could do nothing because he was of a lower status and she truly loved her husband. Meanwhile, the 8th prince's sister, Yeon Hwa, was courted by the 3rd prince but she was more interested in the 4th prince, with whom Hae Soo will later fall in love. Finally, the 10th prince had to marry Soon Deok, the General's daughter, who had been in love with him since childhood but he was still a bit heartbroken over the fact that Hae Soo always saw him as a brother and nothing else.]] In short, it was a mess.

** NarniaTime: [[spoiler: While Ha Jin lived as Hae Soo for almost 20 years, in the present she was in a coma following her accident for only a year]]
** OurTimeTravelIsDifferent: [[spoiler: There's no clear explanation about how or why Ha Jin's soul traveled to the past and entered the body of Hae Soo, but it's implied that they both "died" roughly at the same time in similar circumstances]]
** SelfFulfillingProphecy: [[spoiler: Heartbreakingly so. Hae Soo knows of the painful end some of the princes will have, including the one who will cause it, and while she tries to prevent it, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero she ends up setting in motion the events that would lead to that tragedy]]]]

* [[spoiler: StarCrossedLovers: Not only the case of Hae Soo and Wang So, but also that of Baek Ah and Woo Hee and of King Taejo with Court Lady Oh]]

** [[spoiler: NarniaTime: While Ha Jin lived as Hae Soo for almost 20 years, in the present she was in a coma following her accident for only a year]]
** [[spoiler: OurTimeTravelIsDifferent: There's no clear explanation about how or why Ha Jin's soul traveled to the past and entered the body of Hae Soo, but it's implied that they both "died" roughly at the same time in similar circumstances]]
** [[spoiler: SelfFulfillingProphecy: Heartbreakingly so. Hae Soo knows of the painful end some of the princes will have, including the one who will cause it, and while she tries to prevent it, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero she ends up setting in motion the events that would lead to that tragedy]]]]

* AlternateHistory
* AnyoneCanDie
* AmbitionIsEvil
* ArrangedMarriage
* BettyAndVeronica: Hae Soo and Yeon-Hwa, respectively

* BroodingBoyGentleGirl
* CastFullOfPrettyBoys
* CrapsackWorld

* TheEvilPrince: A few of them qualify.

* GoodScarsEvilScars
* IllGirl: [[spoiler: Lady Hae, Court Lady Oh and Hae Soo]]

* LoveWillLeadYouBack

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething

* SiblingRivalry
* SiblingTeam

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth:[[spoiler: Lady Hae, Court Lady Oh and Soon Deok]]

* YourCheatingHeart
* YouCantFightFate

* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: The leading man is Lee Joon Gi, need I say more?

Also known as Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo

It's a 2016 Korean adaptation of the 2011 Chinese Drama, ''Bu Bu Jing Xi'' or ''Scarlet Heart''. The story follows a 25 year old woman, Go Ha Jin, who drowns after saving a little kid and who wakes up in the body of 16 year old Hae Soo in the times of Goryeo. After some consideration, she decides to live as Hae Soo, trying to start over.

* YourCheatingHeart

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth:[[spoiler: Lady Hae, Court Lady Oh, Wang Eun and Soon Deok]]

* ChildAbuse: Wang So was a victim of it, and later continued the vicious cycle being a horrible father to his own children.