The Lie We Lived In
While hiding a kidnapped target, a contract killer’s cover unravels when he falls for the detective hunting the truth.
Episodes
Seo Yi-do arrives at Dong-hwa’s isolated house to carry out an assassination. Before he can finish the mission, his boss Choi Mu-geon changes the orde...
The uneasy cohabitation continues. Tae-jeong’s warm personality slowly breaks through Yi-do’s guarded attitude, while Yi-do struggles to maintain his...
Suspicion inside the house increases as Tae-jeong begins noticing inconsistencies in Yi-do’s story. Dong-hwa’s mysterious financial troubles and hidde...
The thriller elements intensify. Tae-jeong proves he is more observant than Yi-do expected, while clues about corruption and past crimes connect all t...
Seo Yi-do and Chu Tae-jeong as suspicion and attraction intensify between them. While Tae-jeong gets closer to uncovering hidden truths, Yi-do struggl...
Seo Yi-do’s boss realizes he is becoming emotionally attached to Chu Tae-jeong and sends another killer to eliminate him.
Seo Yi-do’s hidden identity and the corruption conspiracy begin to fully unravel.
Seo Yi-do is forced to make his final choice between completing his mission and protecting Chu Tae-jeong.
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Dominic Kebre
TMDB3 weeks ago
A BL thriller about the love story of a killer and a cop
The current huge wave of series from China and Thailand makes it hard for BL fans to keep track, and series that are not hyped on social media sometimes remain almost unnoticed. “The Lie We Lived In“ (TLWLI) faced this problem, although it aired on viki, and it would deserve a lot more attention than it actually did.
The series is a BL thriller, a sub-genre in which some productions failed gloriously as writers either focused on the thriller and forgot to develop the protagonists’ characters and thus their love story, or they focused on the latter so that the thriller plot was weak, if not boring. TLWLI is a rare example of both subplots working. As many BL fans missed this series, I won’t spoil too much of the plot, or the enormous suspense of the story would be wasted.
Contract killer Seo I-do (Kim Seung-beom) is sent to a secluded house outside the city to kill Heo Dong-hwa (Lee Jeong-ho), who lives there on his own. He attacks Dong-hwa, but just before he is about to kill him, his boss calls him and orders him to keep Dong-hwa captive in the basement, because the mayor of the city, who is the person behind the criminal mission, wants him to find a cellphone Dong-hwa is believed to be hiding.
So I-do locks Dong-hwa up in a cage in the basement, but before he can start searching the house for the cellphone, Dong-hwa’s childhood friend Chu Tae-jeong (Kim Kyung-min) arrives. He is a police officer, who has just been transferred to the city’s police department. As Tae-jeong’s room in the police officers’ dorm isn’t ready, Dong-hwa has offered his friend to stay in his house for the time being.
Tae-jeong thinks that I-do is Dong-hwa’s elder brother who went to the USA 10 or 15 years ago, and I-do takes on the prodigal brother’s role. Tae-jeong is a bit too gullible for a detective, and I-do is clever enough to integrate every little hint that Tae-jeong reveals about the elder brother. He is also...
