[2023] Recapping the Year

A one-liner recap of recaps to tie up the year.  

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What is this?

• A compilation of one-liners for all 2023 posts on this blog 
• Contributors: cynlynn, FanFanX and Potato Chip + inspiration from commenters. 
• It's posted before the holidays for anyone needing dramas to binge. 
• Also, can you guess 'em all just by its description? 
• Hey! Share your one-liners, too ;) 

Contemporary

1. A city girl meets the village’s most "handsome grass”.
2. A man so lethal with ties, seeks revenge.
3. A doctor loves his ex-wife again but he's got a kid who's not hers. 
4. A Tai Chi girl becomes a CEO’s assistant. 
5. A son travels back in time to help his mother pursue her future husband.
6. A (non-mute) military man reunites with his first love after a decade. 
7. A tennis player keeps his opponents at l'oeuf, and his jiejie with love.
8. A cross in timeline brings two men with the same esports dream together. 
9. A banker marries a craftsman within a week of their first meeting. 
10. A single mother and a heart-attacked-throb CEO in a second chance romance.
11. A rope + eight boys = lit.
12. A secretary in love with her CEO boss' heart.
13. A high school girl calls this boy "stupid", and then they fall in love.
14. A single mother is duped into marrying a CEO single father.
15. An inspiring man.
16. A crush on my gege's best bro. 
17. A meddlesome middle-aged romcom. 
18. A cohabitation between an awkward scriptwriter and a psychologist.
19. A shy doctor who broke up with her firefighter boyfriend wants him back in their dysfunctional relationship.
20. An idol falls in love with his fangirl.
21. A sports shooter pursues a young producer.
22. A VA falls in love with a CEO jiejie.
23. A bad boy attracts a girl from a broken family.
24. A courtship between masters of flirts. 
25. A family's bond is more than blood.
26. A shameless outcast beating all outcasts.
27. An angsty melodrama, reuniting lovers after a car accident. 
28. A friendly customer service rep creates trouble for a CEO.
29. A stubborn girl in pursuit of education (over boys?). 
30. A firefighter saves dancer, they find love on a reality TV show. 
31. A housewife befriends her husband's mistress as she returns to the workforce.
32. A serial murderer is killing humanoids.
33. A derpy cutie navigates between his hardboiled ex-girlfriend and his sunny-side-up auntie.
34. A forced marriage between ex-lovers spies.
35. A race car driver in fast pursuit of a slow and nerdy engineer jiejie.
36. A reporter seduces a CEO for revenge because of a niece error. 
37. A slice of life with girls back at home with their green flags.
38. A hot tempered cop goes undercover to find his mother.
39. A bold lawyer lives better after her divorce. 
40. A CEO/prodcuer domineeringly pursues and groves to the scriptwriter he rejected. 
41. A VA doctor seduces a musician with his low husky voice and delicious recipes. 
42. A rich girl falls on hard times and learns how to live and love. 
43. A poor rich girl, cheated; falls into parallel world, meets strong guy, no 'fizz.
44. A vet who's divorced falls in love with a florist who has a boyfriend. 

Costume

1. A ginseng has forgotten her wuxia harem. 
2. A nobleman with not so noblemen uncover the secrets of the past. 
3. A girl needs to find a man with a mole to keep her alive.
4. A socially inept genius avenges his father with numbers.
5. A forbidden love between a master and his disciple. 
6. A pair of twin princesses get on the wrong carriage to marry the right groom.
7. A strange disease renders a female constable useless, but touching a hot man gives her life.
8. A fake feeble lady meets her match in a fake cold crown prince.
9. A mean girl falls off a cliff and forgets her marquis husband.
10. A rogue becomes a hero with his horseback buddy.
11. A weak genius (with swifty feet) avenges his father.
12. A girl with a broken heart healing a broken dragon in a wholesome xianxia.
13. A Phoenix falls in love with a god who keeps killing her. 
14. A lady, who's so intelligent, is forced to marry an overindulged brat.
15. A flirty princess wants revenge on the prince's family. 
16. An historian has four chances to time travel to his beloved "evil queen".
17. A werewolf kidnaps a princess. 
18. A superior swordsman masquerading as a doctor, cooking nasty food, while solving wuxia cases.
19. A reverse-harem with men who just cannot be with our girl.
20. A prince becomes the shifu of the girl who is his curse.
21. A gang of six spies outsmarting everyone (except their fathers).
22. A War God and a Cloud fall in love seven times. 
23. A pair of female assassins marry a pair of princes. 
24. A triple-threat-wuxia-trio (no power, no money, and no brain) takes revenge.
25. A tyrant king wants his son dead.
26. A widow and her four daughters suddenly have new occupants at home.
27. A constable solves a serial murder.
28. A girl plays a video game transmigrates to a farming family who fight more than farm. 
29. A scheming 2FL is reborn and only wants to be an NPC except she has become the FL of her harem.
30. A man tries to avoid his fate of turning into a demon. 
31. An evil queen is reborn and rediscovers her neglected villain-qin-teacher. 
32. A power couple fighting and flirting every day.
33. A legendary assassin of her kingdom and a top secret agent of his kingdom will make babies.
34. A weak-weak couple in a xianxia littered with fowls. 
35. A pretend fiancé falls in love with his spoiled intended, who really hates him. 

Minis

1. An underwear designer meets her middle school crush again 
2. A bride’s revenge with minimal exposure of Mr. Abs’ abs. 
3. A woman is married to a man with many secrets.
4. A singer seeks revenge on her husband with the help of his son.
5. An amnesiac woman keeps falling in love with the man she hates.
6. A girl ends up on a dating show with her high school crush.
7. A devilish general in love with his doctor wife who is more keen on killing him.
8. A rich girl falls in love with her bodyguard.
9. A face-swapped painter and a general get married and soon realize they're already deeply in love.
10. A 27yo girl is 17 again and redos her first love. 

Korean Dramas

1. An attorney hates her new top star client.
2. A man returns to his 18-year-old life and discovers what he's lost sight of.
3. A chef meets her childhood crush who became a dispirited surgeon.
4. A man wakes up in a Queen's body and tries to flee from her suddenly intrigued husband. 
5. A woman seeks revenge on her high school bullies.
6. A "real doctor" story no longer set in a small humble hospital. 
7. A seriously injured prosecutor returns home to be cared for by his bad mother.
8. A woman revives her dormant medical career.
9. A pair of boxers (humans) embroiled in a knife fight with loan sharks.
10. An untroubled drifter becomes entangled with a woman who brings him chaos.
11. A woman wakes up after an accident and marries her sister's crush.