In the new Korean Prime Video series Absolute Value Of Romance, a high school student who moonlights as a web romance novelist, imagines four young male teachers at her school as the main characters of a new novel. Yes, it’s supposed to be lighthearted and funny.
Opening Shot: A scene where a woman in a wedding dress is deciding between two men.
The Gist: At some point, though, the romantic rivals decide that they’ve actually been pining for each other. That’s when one of them talks to Yeo Eui-ju (Kim Hyang-gi), the bespectacled teen girl writing the web novel that they’re acting out, that this development came out of left field and that she’s a hack. They even send the writing police to arrest her. That’s when Eul-ju wakes up.
Eul-ju writes BL (“Boy Love”) web novels under a pen name, and she laments that no one has read or
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